Ben came into corporate wearing a brand new button down shirt and a navy blue Armani tie. By the way he was dressed you'd hardly believe that he just got kicked out of college. He looked so good in fact that you could even say his high school friends would hardly even recognized him. He was looking well…he was looking pretty corporate.

He rode the elevator to the fifth floor. The same floor that housed the marketing department of his father's chain butcher shops. The mail trolley was sitting by the elevator when the door opened. Ben casually stopped to scroll through the manila envelopes and plucked out half a dozen from the sorted piles. He walked straight into the cubicle where his favorite intern was working.

"Hey there, I picked these up for your boss" Ben said tossing the envelops he was holding down on the desk in front of what in his mind was one of the most prettiest girl he has ever laid his own eyes on.

"Oh great thanks, I'll make sure to go through them and have them sorted in the appropriate boxes" The girl replied trying to make a positive impression on the bosses son.

Ben paused before responding back, but finally he spoke, trying his best to sound as casual as possible.

"So you going to the team build dinner Friday night or what?"

"Yah of course, I wouldn't miss it. Besides I heard these things were really fun. Different from what most people would think a team build event would be" The girl replied back. She too was trying to be as casual as possible. As if she was talking to another intern and not the owner of the company. I mean it was his son but still, it was basically the same thing.

"Absolutely, the marketing department really know how to organize these things so they're usually pretty rad and everyone ends up having a good time. Anyway glad to know, so I guess I'll see you there. How you getting there?"

"Well I'm hoping to get a ride with Sam the other intern, we live in the same building but last I heard might not be able to make it, so if anything I could always cab it"

"You can tag along with me. I mean my dad pretty much dumped a whole bunch of work on me, one of his strategies for trying to keep me out of trouble so I'm gonna go straight there after work, but I can swing by your place on my way over"

"Yah? I mean, I don't want to trouble…"

"Oh please, it won't be any trouble at all"

" Okay great that sounds good then, I'll write down my address for you before I leave Friday?"

"Sounds good, anyways I better get to the board room. I have to sit in and take notes on some boring meeting the vp's are having. Fun" Ben said sarcastically

The girl chuckled a little and gave a small wave goodbye as Ben who was repeating "keep it together" in his head like some mantra, casually walked away and waited till he knew he was out of sight, before pumping his fist in the air.

Amy drove the very familiar route from her mom's house to Ricky's apartment. She was feeling really happy and was singing along with the song on the radio. Ricky was going to pick John up from the campus daycare and then head home to meet Amy there. Ricky offered to just pick her up but for some reason she felt like driving. She hasn't done anything for herself for the last three weeks since she got home from the hospital. It feels like everyone was running around trying to accommodate for her and it was starting to annoy her. Though she wasn't exactly sure why. She knew they were all just trying to help. But she was fine, she has been for weeks. She was getting restless and gratefulness has now turned into annoyance. She needed to get out. Just be out on her own doing things or she was going to explode. Finally she convinced her mom that she was fine and went out early in the morning to do errands on her own. She drove herself to the campus for her 1pm meeting with the department adviser about going back to classes again. It was arranged so that she was excused from having to go to actual classes, so long as she kept up with the readings on the course syllabus and kept on top of the assignments. Most of her professors were pretty good about accommodating her, keeping regular communications with her through email. After meeting with the adviser, she had exactly the right amount of time she needed to go home, shower and get ready before having to head over to Ricky's to meet him and John.

Things with Ricky were going pretty well too. The three of them have been spending a lot of time together since the day they both took John out for ice cream. It was nice knowing that they could still do things as a family even though they weren't officially a couple any more. The night she ended it, her greatest fear was that things would just fall apart between them and they would turn out to be that stereotypical split family that always fought over custody. She was really glad it never came to that.

They've managed to figure out a pretty good schedule for John that worked for the both of them. Though these past few weeks had been an exception since she's been off school and therefore was able to have John at her mom's place with her for the majority of the time. However, since the day when they both took John out for the ice cream, the three of them have been spending more and more time together. Ricky would stop by after school to visit with John and sometimes the three of them would go to the park. On the days Ricky had a late class, they would take a long walk around Amy's neighborhood. It was during one of these walks that Ricky told her that he was no longer with Clementine. The moment had been awkward. It came out of nowhere. They had just turned around to get back to the house, when out of no where Ricky just blurted it out. She didn't say anything for a long time after that. Almost like she was trying to take it in and analyze in her head what Ricky was trying to say to her. Finally when they were only a few houses away from her house, Amy said the only thing she could think off "that's too bad, sorry to hear that". And that was that.

Amy pulled her car into the parking lot of the butcher shop. She drove around to the back and parked her car in the same spot she used to park it when she was living in the apartment above it with Ricky. She noticed that Ricky's car was also already parked in it's usual parking spot which meant that they were probably already home. She walked through the side door, half expecting to see the usual trio, that where usually there whenever she walked into the shop during working hours. Instead, she saw an unfamiliar girl working behind the counter. She had almost forgotten that Bunny had taken another position at one of the other location, which led to Ricky getting promoted to manager. She knew Ben was in and out, but only really worked at the butcher shop locations when he was most needed. Now he was spending a lot of his time at the head office. She had seen Ben a few times since the day he told her about the intern. At first she thought that Ben was just chasing this new girl and warned him about messing with his dad's trust again and corporate was a very very dangerous place to do it. But after talking to him a few times, it seems that he was actually legitimately busy getting some real work done there, and what's weird was that he seems to be happy about it, which means that he actually like what he's doing. Amy warned him about getting too comfortable and even made a point to tell him that she hoped he wouldn't end up to be your typical rich kid that skipped college all together and went straight to the workforce.

The girl behind her asked if she needed any help. Amy was about to reply and tell her she was on her way up to see Ricky when she heard John's voice. "Mommy" he gleefully yet wrapping his arms around her just below her waist.

"Ready?" Ricky asked following right behind John.

"Yup. I did a lot of running around today but got lots of stuff done. Now I just can't wait to get out and have fun. I don't ever remember the last time I've been out for fun on a Friday night"

Ricky and Amy had discussed taking John to see the new animated movie. Ricky had checked the schedule earlier that morning before he and John left for school. The show wasn't till 7:30 and they had a few hours to kill till then. John had been talking about the arcade place. The kids in daycare must have all been talking about it. He and Amy use to take him there when he was still a toddler but they haven't gotten back since then.

"The movie doesn't start till 7:30. What do you think about taking John to eat n play and ordering a pizza from there" Ricky suggested. He also knew that Amy use to love going there.

"OMG yah. I haven't been there in ages" Amy exclaimed

"Ok then that settles it" Ricky said, taking John's hand and the three of them headed out off the butcher shop, towards Ricky's car.