You got my heart, don't know how you did it
And I don't care who sees it babe
I don't wanna hide the way I feel when you're next to me

Every time I brought up the incident at dinner with Lucas on the drive over, he kept dodging the question. Either bringing up how happy he was and wants to go see his family now for Christmas, or how good the food was, or how it was so nice to see Jay and Jackie. This whole thing was fishy and before I knew it, we were at Haley's. I wasn't going to let this issue rest. The happiness of being with your family on a holiday, the same feeling that Lucas had, I started to feel the moment we walked into the house.

"You guys are here!" Haley practically screamed; she must have been really happy to see us.

"Yes we are, where is everybody?" I noticed that there was a lot of people there, most of them I didn't even recognize…it must have been Nathan's family.

"Nathan is with some of his cousins in the uhhh…basement I think. Luke, you are more than welcome to join them. I think his Mom has Bella, she just woke up from a nap. Tigger, come help me in the kitchen.

"Uhh, ok?" Haley practically pulled me into the kitchen, she must have had to talk to me about something. I could see it in her eyes, she was fuming. "What's up?" I asked once we were in decent ear shot away from everyone else.

"These people. it was only suppose to be small. Us three, his mom, and you guys."

"So who invited them then?" She just gave me a look and I immediately knew what that meant…Nate's mom. Yikes, this was not going to be good. "How?"

"She called Nate this morning complaining how I didn't invite the whole family and in the next breath just invited everyone. Nate didn't object. So when he got off the phone, I yelled at him for not only not talking to me about it, but how we don't have enough food for everyone. He didn't care and just offered to get more food while I started cooking what we had. To say the least…it's been a stressful morning." Before I can get my reply out, Lucas came up.

"Look who I found!" He sounded so happy, so I turned around and he had Bella in his arms. I loved the way they looked together. Luke was going to be a great dad someday. "Awww, there's my girl…come here." I grabbed her from Luke and she just curling into my shoulder, recognizing who it was. "I've missed you Bells." I just planted a kiss on her head and stared asking about what Haley cooked for dinner because other people started flooding into the kitchen, we could not finish our conversation.

Dessert came and went; it was somewhat peaceful. There was some tension there with certain ends of the table. Haley made a motion to get up to start clearing the table and finish the dinner dishes along with these dishes, but no one got up to follow her and help her. I was shocked, I knew that Nate's mom was mad at her, but I didn't think that everyone would act like that. I needed to help and show my support, essentially calm Haley down. So I got up and made my way to the kitchen with dishes in my hand. I put my dishes down and made my way over to Haley to give her a hug. I could tell this was eating her up on the inside.

"Thank you…I'm really trying here B. I don't know what else I can do." Tears started forming in her eyes.

"Hush, dessert was amazing. All that matters is that Bella had a great first Thanksgiving."

"You're right." She wiped her tears. We let go of each other and starting doing the dishes; realizing that the quicker we get done the quicker we could sit down, relax, and enjoy the holiday. We made a decent dent into the pile and had a nice system going…that was until Nate's mom, Deb, walked in with a very fussy Bella in her hands.

'Awww, what's the matter Bells, did you miss your favorite Aunt too much?" I said noticing her before Haley did. This did not sit very well with Deb.. I have no idea what her problem even is with me.

"No…" Haley chuckled. "it's just her bedtime. Do you mind doing it B?" I shook my head. "Thanks, Deb don't worry about it…Brooke is going to put her down…she knows the routine." That pushed her over the edge. Deb angrily gave me the baby and stomped off, probably to find Nathan and start screaming. This was not going to be good for Haley, I need to find Luke, he would hopefully act as some kind of a buffer. I found him in the living room talking to some older gentlemen. I waited for my chance to interrupt them and shifted the baby in my arms.

"Hey Luke, do you mind helping Haley with the dishes while I put this one down." I motioned to the whimpering baby. "Haley needs a buffer so uhhh tell her something funny."

"Ok." Lucas said his goodbyes to the man, and as I was walking up the stairs I could have sworn that I heard the man tell Lucas that we had a very beautiful daughter. That plastered a permanent smile on my face; despite whatever Lucas and I had to talk about, I could not wait to start a family together. Just as I made my way out of the room once Bella was down, I saw Lucas in the doorway and he startled me.

"What are you doing her? You're supposed to be helping Haley with the dishes and being a buffer?" I whispered.

"Relax." He said laughing. "I was until we finished and Nathan pulled her away. Mind telling me why I needed to act like a buffer."

"Ok." I grabbed his hand and started making our way to my "new" bedroom because I gave my old one to Bella since it was closer to Naley's bedroom. On our short walk I gave him the low down.

"What's this room?" Lucas asked as soon as we sat down on the bed, not really understanding what we were doing here.

"It's my room…incase I ever wanted to crash here for the night."

"Oh."

"Luke, we need to talk.." I started playing with the hem of my dress and running my fingers through my hair.

"Pretty Girl…talk…you're scaring me." He immediately said after I ran my fingers through my hair, recognizing it is a habit that I do when I get nervous. I took a deep breath before getting it all out.

"What was the Captain talking about when he asked you about leaving and interviewing? Are you leaving me? Going back overseas? Cause I've been trying to wrap by head around something and I just can't and I'm starting to freak out here.

"Come here.." he just wrapped his arms around me. "I'm sorry I scared you, but there's just nothing you need to worry about. He's just talking about this mission/task we are working on. I would never leave you or do any of those things you mentioned without consulting you first. You are my life now." He leaned in to give me a kiss and I just pulled him down until we were laying down flat. Needless to say, with all of my worrying aside we christened my bed. Interrupting our peacefulness was the screaming of Nathan and Haley down the hall and the eventual slamming of doors. I sat up groaning.

"You try and calm Haley down while I talk some sense into Nate?"

"Ya, I think that would be the best." I said, agreeing and realizing that if I go talk to him it would seem like we are all ambushing him.

"Ok…just promise me one thing…we won't be like that…"

"Never Broody." I pulled him closer and placed a gentle kiss on his cheek.