Getting Back A Lost Love
Chapter Nine: Stop At A Hotel

Hey, guys, I know it's been a long time since I updated and I hope you will still read this. I'm sorry, but I've been busy with high school, which I just started. I get home at five and have to do homework, so I haven't had much time to write.

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I bounced up and down on the balls of my feet, making Jackie calm down a little.

I watched Kim as she cooed at Jackie. They were one of the best things I'd ever seen.

I touched Kim's hair, brushing it as she had with me as she gently took Jackie from my arms.

My eyes slowly traveled down to her naked legs (she was wearing a dress). I imagined those two strong legs wrapped around my waist—shut up, mind! I thought.

"Kim, I swear I won't let you or Jackie out of my sight for a while. I've already lost one too many Jackies."

XxX

JACK

"Kim, Jackie, wake up, girls, we're here," I said as I parked the car in a parking space.

I glanced back at my girls and sighed happily as they continued to sleep. I still couldn't believe they were here with me. My best friend and our angel.

"Girls," I said, but stopped myself when it sunk in that they were too tired to wake up. I stepped out of the car and opened Jacklynn's door.

I unbuckled Jackie from her seat and carefully placed her on my shoulder. I grabbed her pink bunny and our backpack, then closed the door. I went around and opened Kim's door.

"Kiiiim," I said and moved Jackie from one shoulder to my other in order for me to shake Kim's shoulders. "Wake up, Kim."

Her lashes fluttered a while later.

"We're here," I said.

She jumped up on her seat and asked me, "Are we in Seaford?"

"No, we aren't. We're near my family's house, but since it's too late to go over, we're stopping at a hotel."

"Oh. Okay," she said, her face showed her relief.

She looked around her, disoriented, while I stood at the door staring at her, mesmerized by her beauty. It shocked me to think of how beautiful she was, and how she seemed to compare to a brand new gift that I got to open every time I got a look at her. She looked a little older than that first time I got to see her wake up, and inside she probably was a different person, but the effect was the same-I thought she looked as beautiful as she ever could in the morning-or rather, when she woke up. I imagined the way she would look with a baby bump, slightly growing bigger and bigger in my head till she became the person who was sitting in front of me. I couldn't wait to see pictures of the last two years. I couldn't wait to see the impact I'd had on her body and how I'd marked her as mine and no one else's.

"Jaaaack?" Kim said and snapped her fingers in front of my face.

I blinked a few times before I got a grasp on reality.

"Are you okay, Jack?"

"Uh, yeah. Let's go."

XxX

After we got settled into our temporary hotel room, I took a shower while Kim watched Jackie, and vice versa. I was laying in one of the twin beds watching Jackie as she rolled over and opened her little brown eyes.

She blinked and looked around, then started crying. I sighed and sat up. I was so tired, why did she have to wake up now?

I picked her up and placed her on my lap.

"Momma! Momma!" she yelled, hiccupping.

"Shh," I said and pulled her close. I rubbed her back and kissed her forehead.

"Dada!" she said.

"What is it, my mockingbird-angel?"

"Momma...broom, broom...sleepy?" she said. She stopped crying and looked at me with wide, curious eyes.

"What?" I asked, astonished.

"Momma, broom, broom, bye bye sleepy?"

I looked at her shocked. Did she mean to ask if her mother was dead? How did she managed to connect the dots and be able to communicate it to me?

"No, no, baby, your momma's not bye bye sleepy. She's in the bathroom and she's alive. How about for now I just sing you our song? Huh, baby? Would you like that?"

I tickled her tummy slightly and kissed her cheeks and forehead. Jackie let out her little baby laughter in a series of squeals.

"We're all we got in this world

When it spins, when it swirls

When it whirls, when it twirls

There appear my two beautiful girls."

It's a good thing that Jackie had forgotten about what had been making her sad because I'd forgotten the rest of the song.

I continued to tickle her, only stopping when it was too much for her to handle.

I stopped and stared at her as she continued to laugh. She was so friggin' cute.

I kissed her cheek and closed my eyes, breathing in her sweet smell. Her body felt so warm against mine and I wished that I had been able to feel this connection since she'd come into the world.

I put my cheek against hers and stared at her straight on, slowly putting my face closer and closer to hers. I crossed my eyes, making her start giggling again.

I kissed her all over her face as she calmed down.

"Princess, I don't think I've ever told you this before, but you're Daddy's little angel and Daddy loves you so so much. I love you more than anything in this world, you hear me, baby?"

After a while of Jackie being awakened, Kim walked into our hotel room. She was dressed in sweats and a loose T-shirt.

She hesitated before saying, "I didn't know you rapped."

She raised her eyebrows at me.

I looked down at Jackie, embarrassed, and said, "I really don't, but I'd do anything for my angel."

Jackie turned around in my arms and yelled, "Momma!"

Kim laughed and took her from my arms. I instantly missed Jackie's warmth.

"Yeah, baby," Kim said, "look at you, sweetie, you're getting so big."

"Hi, Momma!" Jackie yelled and giggled.

Kim and Jackie continued to talk back and forth as I got lost in my thoughts.

How was it that I'd have the opportunity to wake up to that every morning and I had not gone after her? If I had known, I would have gone after her. Heck, I still should have gone after her, even if she hadn't been pregnant with my baby. I should have known she'd go to Tennessee and gone after her, searching every square inch of the state if I had to in order to find her. I shook my head and concentrated on the two wonderful people in front of me. Even if I didn't deserve the chance to be here with them, I wouldn't waste a single second I had with either of them.

"Jack, are you okay?" Kim asked me.

I rubbed my eyes and said, "Yeah, I'm just tired."

Jackie's little head was now lying in Kim's shoulder. Kim was rocking her back and forth a little.

I blinked a couple times and remembered something super important.

"Oh, crap!" I whispered.

"What's up?" Kim asked me.

"I forgot to get Jackie some more formula. We're screwed!" I whispered-yelled, freaking out.

I can't believe I forgot to get my daughter food. I was trying my best to be the best father she could ever ask for, and somehow succeeding, and then something like this happens. How could I?

Kim rolled her eyes and continued rocking Jackie back and forth.

"Why are you so calm about this?" I asked her. "Why aren't you freaking out too?"

"I fed her while you were in the bathroom. She'll be fine even if we don't get her formula for a while."

I looked at her confused.

"Jack, really? There's a reason women have breast and I can assure you it's not for s-e-x."

I blushed and looked away, then when Kim was too engrossed in her thoughts, sneaked peeks at her.

"Do I have something in my face?" she asked me.

I shook my head.

"Then why are you staring?"

I was staring? Should I…no, maybe I shouldn't. I tried to clear my head.

"It's just that…I don't know. I can't believe you're here, with my baby nonetheless, and every time I look at you, you seem to just grow more beautiful than the last time, and I can only imagine how good you looked with Jackie inside you."

"Thanks," she said, "and I don't think you would have liked being around me when I was pregnant. All the guys I met were pretty much disgusted by the fact that I was pregnant, and when they weren't, they just wanted sex."

I became furious, but tried not to show it. They just wanted her just for sex? That is so not cool, especially when it was my baby who could have gotten infected with their disease.

"I wouldn't have done that," I said. "You would have still been my best friend no matter what. I would have been there for you and Jackie, and I wish I could have been there when you were pregnant. I…I wish I could have been there for you."

I bet you looked pretty damn sexy pregnant, I wanted to say, but it felt inappropriate to say that.

"I-" Kim started to say, but was interrupted by Jackie's wailing.

"Dada! Dada!"

Kim turned Jackie around to face me. Jackie reached out her tiny arms toward me.

Kim handed her to me with a look of hurt on her face.

Once Jackie was in my arms she started screaming, "Momma!"

She was screaming our names back and forth until we were both sitting side by side and holding her at the same time.

"Okay, if she continues doing this all night we are never going to get some sleep," Kim said.

"How about we put the beds together and let her sleep in the middle so that she's in between us? Maybe that'll make her happy."

Kim hesitated before saying, "Okay."

We put Jackie on the floor and dragged the beds together, then went to sleep after we'd both kissed Jackie's forehead goodnight.

XxX

Thanks for reading and I don't think I answered somebody's-a guest's-question, and I feel pretty rude, so here's a shout-out, Lala land (Guest). You asked me in a review which Kickin' It character was my favorite. To be honest, I love all of my Kickin' It people equally, though, if I were to chose, I would say that I love Jack and Kim a little more than the rest, but only because of what they have, that special relationship. I honestly envy it a little. Anyhow, I apologize for getting back to you like three or four months later, and thank you so much for reading and reviewing :)…if you're still here…

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