"Phil… wait…" AJ said, running out the kitchen where Punk was walking out the door.
"What?" Punk said, looking at her.
"Don't leave." AJ shook her head.
"You said you wanted to be alone." Punk said.
"I know… you were meant to tell me, no AJ, I'm staying with you." AJ said, tears occasionally flowing.
"You screamed in my face to get out. Why would I stay with you?" Punk said.
"Just go then…" AJ said, watching Punk walk away out the door. She walked over and slammed the door shut, leaning her head against it as she started crying again.
Later that night…
Punk had tried his best to forget about AJ the full day, making himself busy. He tidied up the apartment which took him nearly 2 hours, as well as cleaning the bedrooms and buying some stuff for the kitchen, since today was his pay day.
He spent a long hour talking to Nick when he got home, listening to him talk all about his first day at school. Punk was glad he enjoyed it and he even told him he had met a few friends which Punk was glad about.
Nick of course fell asleep quite quickly and Punk put him into bed.
No matter how much he tried, he couldn't stop thinking about AJ. She was probably still crying in her apartment. He walked into the living room from putting Nick to bed and looked at Dean sitting on the couch.
"Rent money?" Punk said.
"Shit, sorry man. I… I forgot, I'll pay you back." Dean said.
"You've been saying that for the past year Dean." Punk rolled his eyes.
"Sorry man." Dean said.
"No Dean, I'm fed up paying for you. Not only do I have to look after Nick, but I'm starting having to look after you. Get your shit together, or you can move out." Punk said, taking his jacket and walking across the living room.
"Where you going?" Dean asked.
"Out." Punk said, walking out of the apartment. He walked down to an ice cream shop, buying a few tubs and walking to AJ's apartment.
He rang the buzzer and realised AJ wasn't answering. He looked up at the window, putting the ice cream down and taking a small stone, not big enough to smash the window.
He threw it up, hitting on her window as he watched her roll the blinds up and look down.
AJ just smiled at him standing with ice cream. She walked over and let him in.
Punk walked in the door and up to her apartment, seeing her standing at the door.
"Peace offering." Punk said, handing her a tub of ice cream.
AJ smiled at him and took the ice cream, letting him in.
"You're a bit wet." AJ laughed, walking into the living room with him following behind.
"It's raining outside." Punk said.
"Sorry, I've been ignoring everyone all night… here, let me take your jacket." AJ said, taking his jacket from him and hanging it on the radiator.
"I didn't know if Harli would be awake, so I got her some too." Punk said, passing AJ a smaller tub of ice cream.
"Thank you. She's in bed, but I'll give her it tomorrow." AJ smiled, Harli's own father couldn't even buy her ice cream.
"What are you watching?" Punk asked, looking at the TV and sitting down on the couch, making himself at home. He'd kill to have AJ's apartment, it had much more room in it, plus it felt warm and cozy, unlike his.
"Avengers…" AJ said, walking back from putting Harli's ice cream in the fridge.
"This is the one with all of them right?" Punk questioned.
"Yeah." AJ nodded, handing him a spoon and sitting down beside him.
"I didn't know you were an action movie type of chick." Punk said.
"Well, I am…" AJ smiled, "You don't like them?" AJ said.
"I do I do, just don't get time to watch any of them." Punk said.
"It's all I done when I was pregnant." AJ laughed.
Punk laughed to, feeling an awkward silence overcome them.
"So um… how's your cheek?" Punk asked.
"It's ok." AJ said.
"Sorry for walking out on you. I just… I thought you wanted to be alone." Punk said.
"It's fine. I didn't even know what I wanted. Probably best that you left." AJ nodded.
"Yeah… so Nick had his first day of school today…" Punk said.
"He did?" AJ smiled, "How did he say it was?" AJ asked.
Punk just smiled, she was far more interested in Nick than what Dean was.
"He said it was good. I had visions of him like, stabbing someone with a pencil, but I think it went ok." Punk smiled.
"Good. I dread the day Harli starts school." AJ said.
"Why?" Punk said.
"I don't know if you've noticed but she pretty much doesn't speak to anyone apart from me or Randy. She's too quiet." AJ said.
"Do you want to swap children? Nick doesn't stop talking." Punk laughed, "She'll be fine. Maybe you should start putting her around other kids now, let her get used to it." Punk said.
"Yeah, maybe I should." AJ smiled, thinking of an idea.
"What?" Punk said, looking at her smiling.
"You should bring Nick round one night." AJ said.
"He's two years older than her, and he's a boy." Punk laughed.
"So, he could be like a big brother to her." AJ said, realising how that came out. "Sorry I didn't mean it like…"
"It's fine." Punk laughed, "He possibly might break her, but if it's the risk you want to take, sure." Punk said.
"It's a date then." AJ smiled, "Well not for us… not for them either…" AJ said, she just should keep her mouth closed, she thought.
"Is it a date for them or us? I'm confused." Punk said, making fun of AJ's panicking.
"Shut up." AJ chuckled, pushing Punk.
"You seriously have a panicking issue." Punk laughed.
"No I don't." AJ said, folding her arms.
"You do." Punk said, taking a spoonful of ice cream and missing his mouth pouring it down his top.
"You missed your mouth, as big as it is." AJ laughed.
"Shh." Punk said, trying to wipe the ice cream from his top.
"Here, give me it and I'll give it a rinse under the sink." AJ said, standing up and putting her hand out for Punk to give her his top.
"Yes, boss." Punk said, stripping his shirt off and watching AJ's jaw drop.
"What?" Punk laughed.
"I didn't know they were on your chest as well…" AJ said, taking his t-shirt from him. He was so manly, she was struggling to keep her cool.
"You do now." Punk winked.
"Right… I think I forgot math." AJ mumbled, walking away into the kitchen.
Punk just chuckled, his eyes going back to the TV as he heard the water running from the kitchen. A few minutes later AJ emerged from the kitchen.
"I think you'll need to let it dry, you know… before you put it back on." AJ said.
"You're just saying that so you can stare at my chest." Punk said, winding her up.
"No I'm not." AJ said.
"Ok then." Punk said, watching her walk over to the empty radiator, placing the top over it.
She sat back down, not as close to him as what she was before he took his shirt off and they both went silent, all that could be heard was the TV.
"It must have hurt…" AJ turned round to him, breaking the silence.
"The tattoo's?" Punk said.
"Yeah…" AJ said.
"It did." Punk nodded, "Some worse than others." He said.
"What is this one for?" AJ asked, pointing to one on his elbow.
"The web? Eh… well my lucky number is 13, so that's on my elbow, the web is just sort of, surrounding it I guess." Punk smiled, she seemed so interested.
"What's this date here? Wait… that's Harli's birthday." AJ said, noticing the date on Punks wrist.
"Nick's birthday." Punk said.
"They have the same birthday?" AJ said, "That's adorable." She said, "What about this one?" She said, pointing to the one across his stomach.
"You do know you can touch it right, like I'm not infected." He laughed.
"Shut up and tell me what this says…" AJ said.
"Straight edge. Don't drink, smoke, or do drugs." Punk said.
"So you're a clean man." AJ said, "What about the knuckles?" AJ said.
"Well, you got drug free like this…" Punk said, putting his knuckles out in a line, "And when you do this…" He said, folding his hands together, "You get romance." Punk said.
"Romance huh?" AJ smiled at him, "Not a bone in my body believes you could be romantic…" AJ laughed.
"Well your bones better start believing then." Punk laughed.
"No gimmicks needed…" AJ said, looking at his hand, "I'm not a big tattoo lover, but this…" AJ said, waving her hand in front of Punks chest and arms, "This is pretty nice." She smiled.
"Well… I'm glad you like it. I better get going, it's getting pretty late." Punk said, standing up and walking over to the radiator to put his still damp shirt on.
"So, when's this play date going to happen?" AJ asked, watching him put his t-shirt back on and his jacket.
"I'm free tomorrow night." Punk said.
"I'll see you tomorrow night then." AJ smiled, walking Punk out.
"Goodnight April." Punk smiled, kissing her cheek and walking away out the apartment and downstairs to the bottom floor, walking out into the pouring rain again.
AJ melted as she shut the door, did he really have to kiss her cheek, it just made her want to turn around and his him on the lips. She walked back into the living room, clearing up the ice cream tubs and switching everything off.
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