Author's Note: I hope you guys all enjoy this chapter. It's very short but I needed the whole awkward moment between them to pass before we start continuing the rest of the story. Please don't forget to review. And as you may have seen that I have changed my name recently. Decided to have a change. =D

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Disclaimer: The characters in this story do not belong to me. Both Holly and Alana don't belong to me either as they belong to the story owner before me called Emily007. This story line is not mine and belongs to emily007 who was the first writer of this story before it was adopted by sammycullen111.

Chapter 12

Paul's POV

"Wait" Sam said. "She just said it. Out of the blue"

"Yep" I said as I drank the last drop out of my eighth beer in the past twenty minutes.

"I bet that would have been awkward" Emily said as she walked out of the kitchen and sat down next to Sam. I groaned and leant back onto the back of their couch.

"You should have seen her face" I said. "She looked like she wanted to run a mile when Holly said that"

"She was probably just surprised" Emily said.

"Yeah right, she's probably packing as we speak" I said as I crushed the can of beer and threw it onto the floor causing Emily to glare at me. She sighed before standing up, knowing that I had no intention of going to pick up my crushed can on her nice and clean floor.

"She won't be packing" Emily said. "You need to have a little bit of faith in yourself, Paul"

"Can one of you two go and pick Holly up" I said. "I don't even want to know what Alana's thinking at the moment"

"No Paul" Emily said firmly. "You need to go down there and set everything straight"

"But what if she rejects me" I said.

"Dude, she's your imprint" Sam said. "She's not allowed to reject you"

"Sam, don't make it sound as though she doesn't have a choice to be or not to be with Paul" Emily said. I smirked as I watched Emily scold her husband.

"I should get going if I want to get there on time" I mumbled hoping one of them would feel sorry for me and not make me go down there. Nope. Nobody even said a word. They just watched as I jumped into my truck and drove as slow as possible to the kindergarten. I was extremely nervous knowing that our relationship could possibly be ruined by only a few small words from a little girl's mouth.

I hoped out of the car and waited for Holly to come out of the Kindergarten. She skipped out with Alana holding her hand happily. They were laughing and talking to each other as though they were mother and daughter.

I blinked and suddenly became very confused on whether last night had actually happened or whether it was all just a horrible dream.

"Hey" I said to Alana and Holly. Holly attached herself to my legs and looked up at me with her big, brown eyes. "How was kindy?"

"I made you a picture, Pauly" Holly squealed as she ripped out a neatly folder piece of paper which had what looked like three people standing there holding hands. I looked at it carefully and saw that it was me on the right hand side and Alana on the left along with Holly in the middle holding our hands.

I gulped and looked up to see Alana standing there looking just as awkward as I was feeling. When we made eye contact we both awkwardly laughed and then we looked away once again.

"Look, I just wanted to make sure were cool" I said. "I'm sorry for what happened last night, though. I had no idea that she was going to say that"

Alana smiled and looked down at Holly who was trying to stuff her picture back into her bag.

"Don't worry about it" Alana said. "To be honest with you. I kind of think of her as a daughter as well"

"You do" I said dumbly. I couldn't help but let my mouth drop open in shock. She smiled and nodded.

"I know I shouldn't be feeling like that towards a student" She said. "But she just resembles me so much as a child that it's hard not to"

I smiled and nodded. Alana bent down and helped Holly place her picture into her bag without it getting ripped before standing up to face me again. Holly had noticed out tension and had decided to jump into the car.

"So, where do we go from here?" I asked. Alana pursed her lips and shrugged.

"I guess we could always start where we left off before the little incident" She giggled. I shrugged and nodded.

"Sounds good to me" I chuckled. I cleared my throat and saw that everyone had left the parking lot and that it was just us standing there. I leant in for a kiss, and then leant back not knowing if it would be too soon to start it up.

Alana smiled and stepped forward and placed a soft kiss on my lips before stepping back. My lips were tingling at the sensation and my insides seemed to be doing cartwheels in my stomach. I nodded my head and slowly walked over to the drivers side.

As I jumped in; I looked back to see if Alana was still there. But found her standing underneath the shelter as it was starting to drizzle. I backed out of the park and told Holly to wave to Alana who was waving right back at us.

As we pulled out of the driveway Holly decided that it would be a good time to start singing.

"Pauly and Miss Daniel's sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G" She sang. "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage"

I groaned and turned the radio up really loud hoping like hell that it would drown out the embarrassing song she was repeating over and over again about Alana and I.