Chicago Police Department, New Years Eve Day…
"Jesse, what are doing tonight to bring in the New Year?" Aidan asked as they sat at their desk's going over their new case.
"I am going to go home and sleep." Jesse said never looking up.
"Come on, you have to do something."
"No, I don't."
"Come out with the guys tonight, you'll have fun."
"I don't think so, maybe some other night."
"Jesse you're coming out with the guys tonight; you might even find a little honey."
"I really don't feel like going out and I'm not looking for a 'honey'"
"One night, you go out with us tonight and I will never ask you again."
"Promise?"
"Yeah; so you're going out with us tonight?"
"Fine."
"Your old enough to drink right?" Aidan said with a laugh.
"Ha-ha-ha; yes, I'm old enough to drink."
They stopped talking and went back to work, looking over the file.
"Hey, Jesse we're going to visit your old town." Aidan said not looking up from the folder.
"What are you talking about now Aidan?" Jesse said looking up.
"Port Charles, we leave on Tuesday. Look at the last page."
"SHIT! I can't go there."
"Why? Don't you want to see all your old friends?"
"What friends. When I left no one was really happy with me. My partner slugged me, the commissioner wanted to kill me, and well yeah."
"Why?"
"Don't want to talk about it."
"Well, now you have to tell me, you hooked me."
"Fine, I'll give you the short version."
"Okay, from the beginning please."
"Alright. Undercover cop accused of shooting the DA."
"YOU SHOT THE DA!" Aidan said very loudly in shock.
"No, and could you say it a little louder I don't think the people in Africa heard you."
"Sorry, continue."
"Okay, so someone used my gun to shoot the DA…" Jesse continued to tell the whole story. Everyone in the station listened. Jesse told them everything but Maxie's name, he felt like it would be wrong to drag her into it, even though she was. He didn't feel that they needed to know her name. When He finished telling the entire story, everyone one looked at him with a look of shock on their face.
"So what's the girls name?" One of the officers asked.
"I rather not say, I own it to her not to tell everyone who she is."
"OH MY GOD! You still love her." Aidan said in a state of realization.
"Yes, I do, but she deserves so much better then me, so I can't go back and face her. She has more then likely moved on, me popping back up now would only bring all the pain back. I owe it to her, not to ever show my face in Port Charles again. He father was right when he told her I was not good enough for her." Jesse looked down at his desk as he spook.
"Well you are going to on Tuesday. I am sorry; hopefully you won't see her and vise-versa. We won't be that that long so you can just avoid the usual places she would be." Aidan Explained.
"Well I am sure he father is going tell her, he is the Commissioner, remember. And Lucky is like her big brother. This is really going to suck." Jesse got up from his desk and walked out of the station. He needed some fresh air.
3 hours later…
"Hey Jesse, you ready to go?" Aidan asked as he got up from his desk.
"Yeah, we can go." Jesse said reluctantly
Jesse, Aidan, and the other officers all left to go party.
PC Shopping Mall…
Lucky and Emily had to leave to go to work. Lucky got a call from Mac, saying it was urgent and he needed to get to the station ASAP. Emily got a call from Latisha, She had a family emergcy and asked if Emily could that the Boys for her. Liz and Maxie decided to stay at the Mall and so some more shopping for the baby.
"Maxie, you think you think you could watch Cam for a minute so I can go to the washroom." Liz asked as they approached the bathrooms.
"Of course." Maxie took the stroller from Liz. "We will be in the store right there." Maxie pointed to the Maternity shop right next to the bathrooms.
"Okay I would be that long." Liz said walking down the hall to the bathrooms.
"Well buddy, its just you and me." Maxie said ruffling Cams hair before she continued to the store. Maxie had really grown to love Cam; he was like a little cousin to her. She would watch him for Lucky and Liz, so they could go out once in a while and have some alone time. She couldn't wait for him and Maddie to grow up together.
"Da-ddy" Cam said as they walked through the store.
"Yeah Daddy; he's at work." Maxie smiled as she listened to Cam talk.
"Cute Baby… May I help you find anything?" A woman asked as Maxie looked at some shirts.
Maxie looked up to see a saleswomen standing in front of the stroller. "Um yeah I was wondering, well really I don't know what to look at. This is my first time being pregnant and well I'm totally confused."
"Okay, well are you looking for clothes that can be worn from now until you give birth, or for right now?" The Saleswoman asked politely.
"Um, from now till I give birth, and some for now. What's the difference actually?" Maxie was still confused.
"Why don't you come with me, I will explain the difference. Let's start with the clothes you can wear now. How many months are you, may I ask?" The Sales woman motioned Maxie toward the front of the store.
"I am 4 and a half months. I would really like cute clothes." Maxie said as she walked toward the front.
Just as Maxie and the Sales woman got to the font of the store Liz walked through the entrance. " Hey Maxie."
Oh, hey Liz, I was just getting help in finding the right clothes for myself." Maxie said pointing to the sales woman.
"Oh, that's good." Liz said smiling. "Hey baby, did you miss mommy." Liz said in a baby voice to Cam.
"Alright, so I was telling your friend here, that there is several types of clothes she could get. And I can see that you know what I mean, seeing as you have been pregnant before." The sales woman said nicely toward Liz.
"Yes I have and yes I do. I came with to help, but I have no idea where to start in this store, I've never been here." Liz said looking around the store.
"Okay well that's why I'm here, so lets start over here. Now this is the clothes you would where until you gave birth, the pants have this front so it stretches as you grow. These are the best type of pants to get, that why you wont have to go every week to get new pants." The sales woman explained.
"Oh they are cute, but how do I know what size to get." Maxie held a pair up and looked at them.
"Well the sizing works like your normal pants, I'd say you're a size 2, so you look and find a size too and those are what you want to get. Unless of course you want to go a size bigger, because some people put some weight on in other places beside their stomach area." The Saleswoman told Maxie.
"I am a size 2, you're good. I think I will have to try a 2 and a 3 on though, to be sure. Now do these type of pants only come in Jeans?" Maxie was excited to be buying Maternity clothes.
"No, these type of pants come in all types, Jean, corduroy, dress pants, we also sell sweet pants and skirts..." The Sales woman listed all the type of pants and bottoms they carried.
Maxie, Liz, and the Salesman, went through the whole store finding clothes. By the time Maxie was ready to try on she had an overflowing dressing room worth of clothes to try on. Maxie tried everything on and with the help of Liz ended up buying $500 worth of clothes. She bought 7 pairs of pants, 3 skirts, 15 different tops, 4 dresses, and 2 pairs of pajamas. When Maxie finally finished in the store, she was starving.
"Well Liz, I think I'm set till the baby comes. What do you think?" Maxie said with a slight laugh.
"I would say so, you really do love shopping don't you?" Laughed Liz, she could stop her self from laughing.
"I love shopping, but all that shopping and trying on had mad me very, very hungry. Do you want to stop and get some food?" Maxie said as her stomach growled.
"That's sounds like a good Idea, watching you do all that shopping and watching try on all that clothes has made me hungry." Liz agreed.
The 2 of them and Cam decided to go to Fridays, since it was connected to the mall. They decided a sit down restaurant would be better. That way they could regain the energy they had burned. Liz called Emily as they walked toward Friday's to see if she wanted to meet them there for dinner. She then called Lucky to see if he was done at work yet.
"Okay Maxie, Em and Lucky are both going to meet us here, I figured by the time we actually got a table they would be here. Emily going to bring the boys if that's alright with you." Liz said after hanging up the phone with Lucky.
"Okay great, and of course, I love Morgan and Michael. Hey, would you mind if I called Georgie and invited her?" Maxie asked Liz.
"No, of course invite her, and see if she wants to bring Dillon. It's always more fun with more people." Liz smiled as she thought of how much fun she had with Maxie. Liz was glad to have become such great friends with Maxie.
"Alright all call her now before we go in." Maxie took her phone out and called Georgie.
"Okay Liz, They are both coming, and Lulu is coming to, I guess She just got into town today, and Dillon and Georgie have been showing her around. Is that alright with you?" Maxie explained to Liz.
"Are you kidding me, Lulu is my sister in-law, of course I want her to come. I haven't seen her since my wedding in October." Liz had a big smile on here face.
"Okay good, so that makes a total of, lets see… 3, 6, 7, 8, that makes it 10 people. Well 8 and 2 height chairs." Maxie said with a laugh again.
"Yup, and in just a few months if we do this again, it will be 8 and 3 height chairs and a infant seat." Liz said with a smile as she motioned toward Maxie's belly.
"Yes, you are right, I can't wait for Maddie to be born, I want to meet her so badly." Maxie put her hands on her stomach to fell her baby. "Oh, she moved. Quick, feel." Maxie put Liz's hand on her belly.
"Oh, she is moving, wow, is that the first time you felt her move?" Liz couldn't help but smile.
"Yes it is, Oh My God, this is the first time I've felt her move, I will always remember this, but lets go get our name in, I am starving." Maxie said with a little laugh.
Liz and Maxie got off the bench they were sitting on, Liz grabbed all the bags, she didn't want Maxie's to put stain on her and the baby, and Maxie pushed the stroller. They went and put their name in and then waited for the other's to arrive. They had been given a pager so they decided to go back and sit on a bench since it was very crowded and there were no seats in the restaurant.
15 minutes later…
"Hey Dillon, Georgie, Emily, Lucky, Lulu, Michael, Morgan, we are over here." Liz had noticed them all come in at once.
"Wow, you all got here at the same time. That is weird how that happened." Maxie said turning and seeing them all walking toward her and Liz.
"Oh it was planed. I picked up Em and the boys and then Georgie called to make sure it was 0okay if the three of them came, so we met on the parking lot so we would be together." Lucky said kissing Maxie and Liz hello.
"Oh I get it. Well I am happy you all came. I love being with family and Friends, specially on special days." Maxie got up and hugged everyone hello.
"Wow Maxie, you really are pregnant, I didn't believe Georgie, when she told me, I want to wish you the best of luck." Lulu said when she saw Maxie get up.
"Thanks Lulu, yes Im pregnant, and I couldn't be more happy about it." Maxie gave Lulu another hug. Although she said she couldn't be happier there was one thing she could think of that would make her the happiest person alive.
Excalibur Bar, Chicago…
Jesse Sat at the bar sipping his Amsted light as he watched his co-workers make fools of them selves. They had only been at the bar for an hour and already they were all drunk. Well every one but Jesse, he was still on his first Beer. He was not in the partying mood but Aidan had bugged him about coming until he finally gave in. All Jesse could think about was how terrible it was going to be going back to Port Charles on Tuesday. Jesse decided he didn't want to hang with the guys anymore, so when they were all busy doing shots he ducked out.