Hearing a blaring cry echo throughout her bedroom, Emily jolted up from her bed, her heart racing at the screaming sounds in her ear. "Oh my God," she breathed, looking down to the doll that had been laying on the pillow beside her head.

Aaron put a hand to his chest as he sat up on the couch. "Is he ok?"

"I don't know," the fifteen year old said, her eyes blurry from sleep as she moved to the middle of her bed and took the baby in her arms. "Get me a new diaper?"

The older teen rubbed his eyes, getting up from his makeshift bed and walking over to where they had stored the diapers before they went to bed just a few hours before.

Emily gave a hasty nod of the head before ripping the diaper from the football player's hands, never noticing his half naked body sitting beside her as she looked down the doll's diaper. "Stop crying," she growled gently, taking the cloth from the plastic toy and quickly putting on the dry one.

Aaron's eyes softened on the younger girl, watching her rock the baby against her and pat at his back to get him to stop crying. "Do you want me to take him?"

"I just want him to stop crying."

Taking the baby from the beautiful brunette at his side, Aaron set a hand to Emily's shoulder. "Calm down, ok? He'll quiet down in a few minutes, we just need to give it a little time."

Emily groaned, her hands running down her tired face. "Do you see what time it is? And this is the second time he's woken up already."

"Emily just go back to bed, ok? I can put him back to sleep for you."

She heard the compassion and heart in the older boy's voice, and Emily immediately felt tears enter her eyes. "No it's fine, I'll stay up with you," she sniffled. "I just haven't ever done something on such little sleep. It's barely been two hours, do you see that?"

Aaron smiled, moving closer to the brunette girl and wrapping a free arm around her shoulders. "You're just fine. Calm yourself down, take a deep breath and go back to bed." He showed her the already quieting baby and tried to get her to smile. "See? He's already doing better."

"Than me," she snorted, letting his arm wrap around her and his hand begin to caress her shoulder. She lied her head back, taking in a deep breath as she stared up at the ceiling. "Thank you, Aaron. If I had to do this by myself, I'd go absolutely crazy."

He cautiously set his chin atop the ambassador's daughter's head and smiled, noticing for the first time that she had kept her hair down for bed. He had never seen her like that: unkempt, but just barely so. "You're stronger than you let yourself believe."

Emily pursed her lips, holding air between her cheeks before letting it out in a huff. "You're ridiculous," she scoffed, wiggling out of his hold as gently as she could, as not to upset him by making him think that she didn't enjoy what he was doing. "Is there ever going to be a moment that you don't turn into a scene for the Hallmark channel?"

The football player gasped, setting a hand to his chest. "You watch that too?"

A laugh escaped the fifteen year old at the smirk she saw grow on his face, her dark eyes squinting as her face coiled up into a smile.

Aaron's eyes captured the beautiful face of the privileged girl, taking in the way her washed face sparkled in the moonlight that floated through the windows and how her laugh rung through his ears like a one hundred person symphony. He set the baby doll down on the bed and moved only an inch closer to the younger girl, letting his hand reach up and set a dark lock of hair behind her ear.

"Aaron?" she whispered, seeing the darkening look in the older boy's eyes.

"Can I kiss you?"

Emily could almost feel her heart stop in her chest, her eyes barely able to see Aaron's in the moonlit bedroom. Hearing the rumble in his voice made the hairs on her arms and neck stand up, and she had the immediate urge to smile. "Yes."

He barely bent down when Michael made a cooing sound, and Aaron's sleepy eyes watched the younger girl wave at the toy.

"Not now Michael, mommy's busy," she whispered, her hand cupping the football player's slightly stubbled cheek and letting him kiss her lips.