Michaela's POV

It had been a great couple of days since Jared and I had told everyone the great news. My dad always had faith that we would get to the place we're at right now. After we told him he whispered in my ear as he hugged me. He told me that he was right in telling me to go after Jared after I came back. Now the only thing that will make this week even better would be finding out we got the house, but I know that it might take another week or more until we find out if we did or not. I always tried to visit my mom whenever I had some free time and today was one of those days. I was excited yet sad. I wouldn't be able to tell her the news in person, but I know that she's listening. I walked to her tombstone and set down the flowers that I had picked up on the way.

"Hey mom. I miss you so much, especially right now. Jared and I got engaged. I know how much you would have loved to hear that I only wish that I could have said it to you in person. You were right, back in Jamaica, I should have just said yes to jared the first time. Had I said yes things may have been different, but I guess I'll never know. I finally found my happiness and I'm getting my life back which is all I've wanted since I came back. Not everything has been perfect, but I haven't let that get in the way of the happiness that I've gotten since getting back together with Jared. I know all you wanted for me was to be happy and as much as I seemed annoyed with your constant pushing towards getting married to Jared it really did help me realize that I couldn't let my past mistakes stop me from being happy with the one person who makes me feel like I deserve to be happy and that I am worthy enough to have him in my life even though I kept telling myself otherwise. I love you so much mom and I wish you were here right now." I took one last look at my mom's tombstone and then turned around and walked back to my car. I had a few more errands to run before I went home. My last errand was a trip to the grocery store. Even though none of us really cooked much in the apartment we somehow ran out of food. I need to go pick up a few things so we wouldn't starve and I also ran out of ice cream which is really important to me right now since I've been craving it everyday. I walked into the store and started picking up the things I needed and put them in the cart. As I turned into one of the aisles I came face to face with Lourdes. I hadn't seen her since the incident and I wasn't sure if I was ready to see her yet, but it was too late as I went to turn around and walk out of the aisle she looked up and noticed me.

"Michaela" she called after me I turned around and smiled at her.

"Hey Lourdes"

"It feels like I haven't seen you in forever. How have you been?"

"I've been good just a little busy with work that's all"

"Oh, well are you busy later maybe we could have lunch or something?" I didn't know what to say. Part of me missed having her around, but the other part of me was still hurt by what she did. I know I told her I forgave her, but sometimes things aren't easy to forget. I wanted to give her a second chance.

"Sure why not"

"That's great I'm almost done here maybe we could eat somewhere right after you finish"

"Yeah I just have a few more things to pick up and then I'll be done."

"Do you mind if I join you?"

"No, not at all" the only thing I had left to get is more whipped cream and more ice cream. We walked towards the refrigerator section trying to start up some small talk.

"So how's the baby?"

"She's great. She hasn't moved yet, but that's to be expected since I'm not that far along yet, but soon enough I will be able to feel her kick."

"You haven't had any problems?"

"Nope"

"That's amazing I know that this isn't a normal pregnancy so it's great to hear you haven't had any problems." We reached the whipped cream and I grabbed two big cans and then I walked to the ice cream and searched for the chocolate chip ice cream. Once I found it I opened the freezer door and grabbed four tubs. This should last me a little while so I won't have to come back and grab more. I totally forgot that Lourdes was following behind me; once I looked up she had a look of curiosity on her face.

"That's a lot of ice cream. You guys must really love it."

"That's actually just for me. Ben likes mint chocolate chip and I've kind of made sure these stay off limits to them." she was looking at me and I felt like I needed to explain so I didn't look like I was ice cream crazy. "The baby has been craving ice cream lately"

"Really how much ice cream do you eat a day?" motioning to the four tubs in the cart.

"Not much, somehow I only crave it in the middle of the night. I think Jared is hoping this craving goes away soon because I always either wake him up when I get up or I wake him up to get it for me." she gave me a small smile. I now realize that maybe I shouldn't have brought up Jared because now we're in an awkward silence, but it just slipped out. "Okay well this was the last of what I needed to get." I started walking towards the registers and paid for all my things. As I went to take my credit card out of my wallet I noticed that Lourdes was looking at my ring finger. I swiped my card and put it back in my wallet. I wanted to get out of there as quick as possible; you could cut the tension with a knife. "I need to go and drop these groceries off at home I'll text you when I'm finished and we can meet up somewhere"

"Yeah I need to head home too. I'll see you later." I gave her a quick smile and walked out of the store as fast as possible. I drove home and to my surprise Jared and Ben were both home too. I took out my phone and called Jared. It rang once and then he picked up.

"Hey what's up?"

"I'm downstairs and I went to the store to get groceries. I might need help getting all of this upstairs can you and Ben come down?"

"Yeah we'll be right there" I waited a few minutes sitting on the edge of the trunk. I saw the elevator door open. They each grabbed the heavier bags and left me with the lighter ones, typical.

"You guys do know I'm not fragile right, just pregnant. I can handle carrying a few heavy bags"

"Trust me Mick we know that, but we're still going to continue taking care of you anyways, right Jared?"

"That's right" I hit them both lightly on the back of their heads.

"I'm not a damsel in distress I can take care of myself." I told them laughing a little. We got the bags upstairs and started putting everything away. Jared and Ben were in the middle of their small talk when I spoke up.

"I saw Lourdes today." They both stopped talking and looked at me patiently waiting for me to continue talking. " While I was at the grocery store I ran into her in one of the aisles"

"Did you guys talk?" Ben asked me

"Yeah we did, but it was awkward. It honestly felt a little forced. She asked me to eat lunch with her today."

"Are you going to go?" Jared asked

"Yeah I am. Lets just hope it won't be as awkward." He gave me a look and I knew what he wanted to know. "Yeah I think she saw it. I was trying to take out my card to pay and I looked up and saw her looking at it. Which is why I practically ran out of there; it got even more awkward than it already was" He gave me a small comforting smile. "I should probably text her to see where we're going" I quickly texted her and turned to Ben. "Are there any leads on who the mole is?"

"No we still don't have anything."

"Maybe we should plant false information with each passenger. We'll tell each one something different. The person who is talking to the major is going to tell her and then we'll know who it is; depending on what we hear back or how she retaliates with that information we can find out who the mole is."

"That's a good idea and I think it could work. We just need to come up with false information and we're in business" My phone rang at first I thought it was just a text until it started ringing again. I looked at my screen and answered the phone.

"Hey Lourdes"

"Hey so I just finished here. Did you have any place in mind that you wanted to go?"

"No, none at all I'm fine going where ever you want"

"Okay well I know this little cafe that we can go to"

"That sounds great. Send me the address and I'll head right over"

"Okay I'll see you there" she hung up the phone; a minute later my phone rang again, just with a text message this time.

"I should probably head out let me know what you come up with."

"I will goodluck"

"Thanks" I motioned for Jared to follow me to the door.

"If I text you help. Call me and pull me out of there a soon as possible"

"Do you think it will got that badly?"

"No, well I don't know it was really awkward between us earlier, so please do me that favor"

"Don't worry I will." I kissed him and then reluctantly pulled away a minute later.

"I love you"

"I love you too. Goodluck."

"Thanks hopefully this won't end badly"

"Don't worry it won't. You should probably go your kind of stalling now."

"Yeah I'll see you later" He gave me one last quick kiss and closed the door. Lourdes was waiting for me outside the cafe when I got there.

"Hey sorry I'm a little late there was an accident on my way here and there was traffic everywhere."

"Don't worry about it haven't been waiting here long."

"Good let's head inside" we walked in and thankfully it didn't seem very busy today. I've been here before and I know that it can get pretty busy.

"So you and Jared are engaged now?" she asked after we ordered our food. She got straight to the point which I didn't think she would do.

"Yeah we are"

"Well I guess congratulations are in order. I'm happy for you guys I mean it. I know that my actions recently haven't looked as if I am, but I promise I'm telling the truth." Something about the way she said that made me believe her.

"I believe you and thank you"

"Your welcome. So have you guys made any plans on when you're getting married?"

"Yeah we decided that we were going to wait until after Evie is born that way she can be a part of the ceremony."

"That's adorable. Are you excited to have your daughter?"

"Yeah I am, we both are. I keep saying that I'm ready to go through labor, but Grace has been telling me stories and I'm not so sure anymore."

"You'll do great you're a strong person I know that you'll be able to push through the pain until you get to the hospital"

"Thanks"

"Are you planning on having a baby shower?"

"I don't know yet actually. When I went to visit grace the other day we were talking about it, but I never made a decision on whether or not I was throwing one. I still have a lot of time before i have to make a decision. Enough talk about me how have things been going with you?''

"Everything is great. I've been keeping myself busy with work, so I haven't really done much lately" she gave me the look that signaled for us to talk about something else.

"I went to see my mom today"

"Really?"

"Yeah I've been visiting whenever I have free time"

"You must really be missing her right now?"

"Yeah I am. I wish she was here to give me advice she was always good at that."

"Yeah she was. Do you remember how many times me, you and Evie got lectured by her, everytime we did something wrong?"

"We got lectured so many times we never knew how to stay out of trouble" I said laughing.

"We really didn't; ever since we were in middle school we would always find a way to get into trouble"

"Yeah we did, but you have to admit Evie was the most rebellious out of the three of us"

"Oh trust me I don't disagree. The majority of the times we got in trouble were because of her, but I wouldn't change anything for the world"

"Neither would I. She was a free spirit and it rubbed off a little on the both of us."

"Yeah it did. The memories, it makes me want to go back to a time that was much easier."

"Tell me about it. We had so much fun back then we were so carefree."

"Do you remember when Evie got us to sneak out of the house for the first time?"

"How can I forget, all of us got in trouble by our parents when we tried to sneak back into my house."

"If only you hadn't tripped trying to get in through the window"

"That night might have actually been a success"

"Yeah I remember having a bruise on my leg for a week after that. You fell on the both of us pretty hard"

"I still don't know how my foot got stuck on that windowsill"

"We were grounded for weeks after that"

"The most boring weeks of my life. How about when she got us lost in a sketchy part of the city?"

"I remember that. I'm grateful we didn't encounter any creeps that night"

"We were already scared as it was, imagine if we actually saw someone or something. We would have passed out from fear on the spot."

"Evie was a brave person more than we were at the time"

"Yeah she was" We spent the rest of lunch reminiscing over the past. By the time we had to head home I didn't want it to end. On my drive home I was pleasantly surprised that we got past the awkwardness and actually enjoyed each other's company. That was something I didn't think we would be able to achieve when I first arrived at the cafe. We left with a promise that we would do it again when we had free time. I opened the door to the apartment and was met with darkness. I always hated that the sun went down earlier in the winter; it always made the days shorter. I saw that the tv was on in the living room. I thought that whoever was watching was awake to my surprise I found Ben sleeping on the couch. I silently walked to my bedroom only to find the same situation. Jared was fast asleep on our bed. I debated on whether to wake him up and let him know I'm here or to let him sleep. In the end I decided to let him sleep. I went into the kitchen and grabbed a bowl and a spoon I took out the ice cream that I bought today and put some in the bowl. I ate my ice cream while I went on my phone. Fifteen minutes later I finally finished and I put my cleaned bowl in the cabinet. I went back into my bedroom Jared was still sleeping. I sat down in front of him and just looked at how peaceful he looks. I reached over to gently touch his hair. After a few minutes he started to stir and his eyes opened.

"Hey did you just get home?"

"No I got home twenty minutes ago"

"Oh okay"

"You looked so peaceful I didn't want to disturb your sleep"

"How was it?"

"Better than I expected actually"

"How so?"

"Well we actually got passed the awkward silence and actually talked to each other without it feeling like it was forced"

"Really?"

"Yeah she surprised me though. The first thing she brought up after we sat down and ordered was our engagement. She said she's happy for us and she congratulated us."

"That was thoughtful"

"Yeah it was. We talked about her life for a little bit, but it looked like she didn't want to talk about herself so we changed the subject to my mother and how we used to get in trouble a lot back in the day"

"It sounds like you enjoyed yourself?"

"Yeah I did by the end I didn't want to go home. I wanted to stay there and keep talking"

"See I told you it was going to be fine"

"I know" our heads turned when we heard a noise coming from the kitchen. "I guess Ben woke up too. Come on lets see how he's doing with the plan." We walked out of the room and went to the kitchen. He was trying to clean up the mess he made when he dropped his bowl of cereal.

"Looks like sleeping beauty finally decided to wake up" I joked around Jared was laughing behind me and so was Ben.

"Usually it's hard for me to fall asleep on the couch, but I must have been really tired today." He threw out the paper towels he used to clean up the mess and refilled the bowl with more cereal.

"How's the plan going?"

"Great actually. I created false information for every passenger now we only have to give it to them."

"What are some that you came up with?"

"For Autumn we're going to mention that we finally figured out a way to jog the memories of all the passengers that woke up already. We're going to say that we'll use that to find out what happened with each and everyone of them. The major wont like that, especially because these passengers were listening to everything their kidnappers said. She won't be happy if information about her operation gets out. She'll try and do something to stop us. With Paul we're going to tell him that our connection has gotten stronger with each other. If he's the mole she'll find out and will stop at nothing to find us which means we'll have to move to a different location to keep the passengers safe."

"That's good"

"If it weren't for your idea we wouldn't have a well thought out plan right now. Hopefully this works and we'll be able to tell who the mole is."

"What happens once we have the person's identity?"

"That I haven't thought of yet"

"You could question them. See how much they know about the major hopefully that will give you guys an edge over the major." Jared's idea was good let's hope the mole is easy to trick into talking.

"You have a good point jared. Ok now we have a plan to find out who the mole is and what to do after we find out. Now the only thing we have to do is get it done." Ben said. The next day we went to the beach house after work and got our plan started we made sure to release the information to each passenger while they were alone and while they were close by us; close enough to listen in on our conversation. Once we were away from everyone I finally spoke.

"And now we wait." we all looked at each other with nervous expressions.