So as promised here is another chapter. I'm quite happy with this chapter and I hope you all enjoy it. I want to put out there I don't plan on writing any intimate scenes in this story but I do have a sequel planned and that will include some. Thanks K x

Elliot walked in from the bathroom with Lily wrapped warmly in a towel. He'd just finished bathing her for the first time with the help of his Grandma. He was quite impressed with how he coped, he wasn't drenched and he hadn't lost his patience when Lily screamed the whole way through. She definitely was not a water baby.

He made quick work of drying her off, paying attention to in-between her fingers and toes under his Grandma's instructions. He then put a clean diaper on her and a clean sleep suit. He picked her up off the bed and gave her a quick kiss on the head. He loved the way she smelt and wondered if all baby's smelt like this or if it was just his little girl.

Lily's bottle was made in record time and 20 minutes after getting her out of the bath Elliot was settled on the bed feeding Lily. He hummed to himself yet again, it had become a habit whenever he was having a quiet moment with Lily. He felt it soothed not only her but himself as well. He looked down at Lily and studied her. She was half asleep drinking her bottle so her small eyelashes lay against her cheeks. She had a very fine layer of blonde hair on her head. You couldn't notice it unless you really looked. Her tiny lips were wrapped around the nipple of the bottle, sucking eagerly away. In Elliot's opinion she had perfect lips. She had a very defined cupids bow giving her lips the overstated shape of pouted lips. But to Elliot they were perfect, and he couldn't wait for the day she would kiss him on the cheek and tell him she loved her Daddy. He also wondered what she would look like as she grew up. Deep down he hoped she would look like him as she grew up. Looking like Beth would just make it harder as she may ask where she got her brown hair from when her Daddy's was blonde, or why did she have a different colour eyes to her Daddy.

He noticed she had finished with her bottle so put it on the bed side cabinet and picked her up to sit on his lap slightly. He placed one hand under her chin gently and proceeded to wind her. She was a relatively easy baby to wind. She always gave up her wind quite quickly meaning Elliot didn't have to battle with her. Once she was winded her settled her into her Moses' basket and watched over her until he was sure she had drifted off to sleep. When he looked up at the clock he saw it was 8:10pm. He sighed to himself. He really didn't want to go and have pizza with Chloe but he knew he couldn't drop out, otherwise she keep pestering until he rescheduled.

He slipped into a white dress shirt over his dark jeans and put his black smart shoes. Regardless of whether or not he wanted to go he dressed smartly. He couldn't let his reputation be ruined. He squirted a small amount of aftershave on and picked up his wallet off the bedside cabinet. He slid it into his back pocket as he walked out of the room, but not before checking in on Lily to make sure she was still sleeping.

"Grams, I won't be too late. I'll be back for Lily's next feed so she shouldn't be a bother. Thanks for this." He smiled at her before walking out of the front door. He jumped into his truck and sighed as he started it up. He would much rather be lay in bed watching his daughter sleep right now rather than having to go on this date.

He pulled up at Chloe's house and honked his horn. He never bothered to go to her front door for fear of meeting one of her parent's. If he did then it would give off the message of wanting to start a relationship with Chloe, and he definitely did not want that. He didn't do relationships. The front door was pulled open and she came bouncing out, dressed in a flowery dress. She jumped in the truck and after a very energetic 'hi' gave him a kiss on the cheek. He grunted a greeting back before pulling away.

"The pizza here is absolutely to die for." Chloe squealed as they pulled up at a small diner not far from Chloe's house. They both got out of the truck and Chloe clasped hold of Elliot's hand, who loosely held hers back. He had a feeling he was really going to regret tonight but there was no turning back now. Elliot slid into one side of a booth and expected Chloe to get into the other, but she sat right next to him and pulled his arm around her.

"This is nice, I'm glad we did this." She beamed up at him.

"Me too." He smiled back although in his head he was bashing it against the table. They ordered their pizza and made small talk between sips of coke.

"So, I saw Jake today and told him I'd seen you. He wants to know why you haven't been out or haven't called him. Everyone's noticed you haven't been in school either. Where have you been?" She asked as she twirled her hair around her fingers trying to look innocent. Elliot's subconscious snickered. There was not one thing remotely innocent about Chloe. If her parents knew some of the things they had done in the back of his truck, they might just have a heart attack.

"Just a family problem. It'll be sorted soon but I don't know when I'll be back to school." 'If I ever am.' He thought to himself. He'd much rather stay at home and care for Lily than have to go back to school and leave her with someone else 5 days a week. Their pizza came and Elliot ate in silence whilst Chloe continued to talk. 'Has she always talked this much?' He thought to himself. Maybe she had but he had listened every other time. Tonight he had other things on his mind like if Lily was okay, but also what he was going to do about school.

After paying the bill they both got back into the truck. Elliot didn't even realise what he was doing but before he knew it they had pulled up to a car park just near a forest. He hadn't planned to come here, he did plan to take her straight home. This was the car park he always drove to after a date with Chloe to have a little 'fun' in the back seat. It must have been a natural instinct to drive here. He then noticed Chloe undoing her seatbelt and climbing over into the back seats.

"Come on then Stud. It's rude to keep a girl waiting." She winked at him. Elliot clicked his seatbelt out before stopping. What was he doing? He didn't plan this tonight, he wanted to get back to Lily as soon as possible. But then again... it had been 6 weeks since he was last with a girl. He stared out of the front window for a few minutes deciding.

"Elliot, come on." Chloe snapped at him. He groaned to himself as he pushed himself into the back seat. He pressed his lips to Chloe's in a passionate kiss whilst shouting at himself inside his head. He had no will power at all when it came to girls.

But maybe that wasn't such a bad thing as Chloe reached for his belt.