Affair
by: moonlightbear
chapter 6 NY NY NY
author's notes: since i started this fic i was slightly confused on the ages... but i figured it out... this takes place after CBTD2, that's why Charlie doesn't live at home(he's up in lake winneka), why lorraine hasn't been in the picture(because she's in NYCoh hey i can bring her in now since they're so close, lol not even thinking haha)... BTW tannersville and hunter are cute little towns, and prime ski areas(hunter mtn.) my dad lives up there and i love it! although... i've only been there once(3 week long visit) during the summer shruggs
baker family kids ages:
nora-- 25
charlie-- 21
lorraine-- 18
henry-- 15
sara-- 14
jake--13
mark-- 12
kim&jessica--11
mike--9
nigel&kyle--8
now let us start the newest chapter!--------------------
"Mom?"
"Good morning dear, did I wake you?"
"No the coffee did... Can I?"
"Of course, did you sleep well?"
"Not quite..."
"Thinking too much?"
"Yeah... I mean what do I do? There's so many things... Momma what do I do?"
"I can't tell you, sweetie." She replied sitting next to her daughter, wrapping an arm around her. "Its your life, I can't tell you what to do, Katey. But I can help," She said with a twinkle in her eye, making Kate smile.
"Thanks."
"So what's step one?" She asked Kate.
"Well... I need to talk to Charlie and Jake..."
"Good, now... Step two?"
"Um... I haven't gotten that far..."
"There should be something..." Kate shrugged. "What about their father?"
"You mean Tom? What about him?"
"Not Tom dear, their other father." She replied pointedly.
"Oh... I don't know..." Kate said with uncertainty. "Should I tell Jake and Charlie about him; or should I try to find him; or... oh, wow, mom, that's some step." Kate finished with a frown.
"Yes that is dear, so lets start on a smaller one... What about you and Jake, Charlie will soon go back to Winnecka. Of course, you can stay here if you'd like, and Jake can't be out of school for long either..."
"I don't know where else to go, so I'm staying here. We'll have to enroll Jake at the Jr. Sr. high here next week or so, but oh my, he hates new schools."
"I know honey, he'll get used to it."
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--knock knock--
"Boys?" Kate called as she entered. Jake and Charlie were still sound asleep, Jake was curled up on himself near the top of his bed, and Charlie laid scrawled out. Kate hated to wake them but grandma was cooking breakfast and she wanted to talk to them about everything before they went down stairs. "Jake, Charlie, Wake up i want to talk to you both." She said shaking them both abit. Jake mumbled something unintellegable and pulled his blanket over his head; and Charlie gave an almighty yawn.
Being the first to recover, Charlie asked, "What about?"
"Everything, so it might be alittle long."
"I don't want to hear, I wanna go home." Jake said, muffled by the blanket still over his head.
"Well you're going to young man." Kate replied pointedly.
"Hey!" Jake exclaimed as the blanket was removed.
"And we can't go home..." She said a little softer. "Just hear me out."
Jake sat up, arms folded over his chest, and he stared at his mother as if saying 'you want to talk then talk.'
Kate sighed, "I've told you that my older sister/ best friend passed away in a car accident when I was eight years old. When she died a part of me died too, you can ask your grandmother. I wished I had the family we had, back then; the family your father had; someone to always play with, to be there." Jake's stare had softened and a confused look took its place, what did this have to do with her cheating on dad/Tom. "I made friends with imaginary people, and they became my only friends. As I grew older my imaginary friends disappeared, as most do with age, and I became very lonely. That's when I started to write, I wrote short stories. It wasn't until 7th grade til one of my teacher saw my writing and I was soon part of the school news paper. Eventhough I wrote great it didn't mean I'd become friends with anyone in there... In a small town everyone knows everything about everyone... And they still thought of me as the imaginary friends girl... or something... It was the first day of 9th grade for me, homeroom, Mrs. Sanders class. He just moved here from Seattle, WA." Kate's eyes lite up as she spoke. "He sat in front of me, and when he turned to introduce himself, his smile was great."
"Just his smile, mom? There were no words?" Charlie smirked, and Kate blushed having been caught, and Jake look mad again.
"What he said was great too..." She laughed nervously. "At lunch I was sitting alone, as usual, and he came over and asked if he could join me. We talked alot, and continued to talk all day. After hanging out for a week or so, we agreed we'd only be friends, and we stayed friends all through our high school days. The night of our graduation we made a pact/ a promise; We would meet once a year on that first day we met, Sept. 6, to hang out or whatever. To keep in touch. The first year we met, we got drunk and it happened, I woke up in his bed. The second year we swore it wouldn't happen again and it did... It happened every year..."
"You just couldn't help it?" Jake said in a disgested sort of way. "If that's the case why didn't you just marry him?"
"Because Jake I could live without him, I can't live with out Tom though."
"Then go back and beg!" Jake exclaimed.
"Do you know how much I've hurt him--"
"Do you know how much you've hurt me!"
"Jake? JAKE!" Kate yelled, calling for her son who had run down the stairs, and then there was the slam of the front door.
"I'll Catch up to him" Charlie said before leaving his mother's side.
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Author's notes: please please please review! and thank you for all the reviews i do have... this story may go anyway it wants so be prepared...
things to come: Jake going to school-- finding their biological dad-- phone called school to school-- and more of the baker clan in evanston-------