Title: The Kids Aren't Alright

One shot Title: Afternoon Delight

Summary: Jay and Alex: Couple or not?

Rated: T over all; very light T this time

Author's Note: The lives of the graduating classes of 2006 and 2007, three to eleven years into the future.

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

July 20, 2009

Alex Nunez was a lesbian, she liked girls. Or at least, that's what she told people. It's what she told herself. It was what she thought to be true. It was true.

Though, it didn't explain the weird power Jay Hogart seemed to have over her. All Jay had to do was catch her at the right moment and... BAM! She ended up sleeping with him. It was kind of like 'friends with benefits', only less romantic and dramatic, and more confusing.

Every once in a while, Alex would sleep with Jay. They dated other people and according to Jay, it didn't matter. Yet, Alex was sure it did matter. On some deeper level, what they were doing mattered. It was right and it wasn't right. It made total sense and it was crazy.

Whenever she'd try and bring it up, Jay would just shrug and say: "It's cool, Alex."

It wasn't cool, not really. If anything, it was just really confusing.

Jay had matured a bit, grown kinder. But, he still kissed the same. Still knew where to touch her.

It was really confusing.

It just got even more confusing as the years went by. Until on hot summer day, when Alex bought herself a pregnancy test, which happened to come out positive. Alex freaked. Jay offered marriage. Sean Cameron suggested they were both insane.

Two hours, one pizza, and several threats later, Alex and Jay decided to raise the baby together- as friends without the benefits that had gotten them into trouble in the first place.

On January 15, 2010, Alex and Jay welcomed a baby boy, Jason Alexander Hogart. Jay, Alex, the baby, were going to be a family. Even if they were a little odd, they were still a warm and caring family unit. Alex called them: 'The new kind of family'. Jay called them: 'Way more normal than half the families in town.' Sean just called them crazy, but a good kind of crazy.

They did all agree on one thing, Alex and Jay's family worked for them. They cared about one another and loved their son. That was really all that mattered.