A/N: the good news about my speech class this semester is we get a lot of study hall time! the bad news is that's so we can work on out speeches at home. But still less homework means more fan fiction! But I still can't promise quick updates.

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"So when's this guy going to be here?" Oliver asked as he leaned back in his chair and put his foot up on the small circular table. The sound of the ocean filled the air as they sat out on the patio of a small Italian bistro.

"Soon." Jake commented as he sat back and put his arm around Miley and looked over the ocean through his ooklies.

"So he was a bully? And you stood up to him and now you two are friends?" Lilly asked.

"Yep." Jake answered. Silence fell between the four for a bit. The roar of the ocean was heard.

Soon the giggly of a small child was heard. "Faster daddy!" he shouted. The four looked in the direction of the noise and saw a tall man, probably about 6'3", with short brown hair running towards them with a small boy on top his shoulders. The man ran up to the table and stopped and put the boy down. "That was fun!" the young one commented. "You're pretty!" he commented to Lilly.

"C!" Jake exclaimed and got to embrace his buddy.

"Hey Jake!" he returned.

"That's Lilly Truesscott, Oliver Oaken and my fiancé Miley Stewart." Jake said as he carefully introduced them to his friend.

"It's very nice to meet you all of you." He replied as he studied each of them through his oval frameless glasses. "This little rambunctious monkey is my son Jason."

"Ooo ooo ooo!" Jason replied imitating a monkey as he sat at the table eating a roll that the waiter had brought to the table earlier.

"So, Clearance, Jake tells us that you're an attorney?" Lilly asked.

"Yes, I am." He replied. "I, as you could say, help out the underdog, the little guy."

"He helps me out on my homework!" Jason answered.

Everyone let out a silent laugh. Jason was just to unbelievably cute!

"I am John Clod, and I will be your waiter." A man came to the table and said with a French accent.

"What's a French waiter doing working at an Italian restaurant?" Lilly wondered out loud.

"One who can't get work in a French restaurant!" He responded angrily. "Now may I take your order?" Everyone placed their orders and talked leisurely over lunch.

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Back at Jakes apartment he and Miley sat quietly on the couch. "He's finally down." Clearance said as he entered the room, now wearing a cotton white shirt and a pair of blue jeans with the shirt tucked in and hiking boots.

"He sure has a lot of energy for a kindergartener." Miley said as Clearance sat down on the adjacent couch.

"Tell me about it." He answered as he laid his head back and rubbed a hand over his face and eyes.

"Clearance, there's something that's been on my mind since Jason answered he phone a few weeks ago. You don't have to answer it if your not comfortable with it, but what happen to Jason's mother?" Jake asked.

Clearance let out a long sigh. "My wife died shortly after Jason was born. The pregnancy was hard on her and for a while the doctors thought that the baby wouldn't make it or if he did he would have some disorders, mentally ill being one and the most likely. Well the time came for her to have Jason. Everything ran smooth for about three fourths of the delivery but then something went wrong and it was unseen. Jason was born perfectly healthy and had no disorders, and still doesn't, but two days later my wife passed." Clearance fell quiet along with Jake and Miley. Jake was shocked! He knew that Clearance had been married, he was the best man at the wedding! But for some reason he thought that the marriage ended in a divorce. "But that's enough about me, what have you been doing lately zombie man?" he asked.

"I finished college about two years ago and now am an assistant camera man on the show Life: Define It." He answered.

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A/N: yes I am ending it there! I'll hopefully update this weekend if I can figure out where I want this to go but that's what math class is for! jk. Please review!