Kerry and James glanced at each other nervously before answering the question.
"Luke, that isn't possible, your Mum would have to want me to have custody and that isn't going to happen." James said soothingly.
"She would, she doesn't want me, I'm just a big mistake to her." Luke answered quietly.
"I'm sure that isn't tru-"
"-It is, I swear!" Luke exclaimed.
James paused before thinking about what he was going to do next.
"Have you got her number?"
"Yeah, on my phone" Luke replied, getting his mobile out of his pocket.
He passed the phone to James who quickly found the number and decided to use it before he could change his mind.
"Hello?"
"Hello Lois, it's me James Adams, can we talk?"
"James? Is it really you?"
"Yeah it is, and we have some talking to do"
"James, I... how the hell did you get my number?"
"Your son gave it to me."
"What?"
"You heard me, the son that I new nothing about is here and wants to live with me."
"What? That can't be right, how would Luke get to you?"
"I'll explain it when you come over ."
"I don't really have the tim-"
"Then make time, cos you've got some serious explaining to do."
"But-"
"I'll get Luke to text you my address and I'll expect you in 2 hours." James snapped, ending the call. He took a big breath and looked at the photographs around the room. One was of James cradling Sam and Gwen and he was grinning happily, the picture was taken when he thought Kerry wasn't watching. Another photo was of him and Kerry on their honeymoon, smiling in her summer dress over the sunny beach and the vast blue ocean. They had been so happy over the last few years. The sun on the crimson and white wallpaper made the room bright and dazzling.
Then he went into the living room and noticed that Luke and Sam were playing on Luke's XBOX happily talking about football and school. He leaned on the doorway smiling, maybe this could work after all?
2 hours later and there was a knock on the door. James and Luke answered it cautiously, when James opened the door he saw a young women who looked so worn out and deflated that he didn't recognise her, she was like a shell of herself.
"Can I come in?" Lois asked politely. James nodded and lead the way into the living room.
"Luke?" Lois said to get his attention.
"Hi Mum" Luke answered, still playing on the XBOX with deep concentration.
"How did you get here Luke?"
"I found James on the internet then had a look on Google Maps to find a way to get here."
"Why did you lie to me?"
Luke shrugged, "You always lie to me."
"That is not true!"
"- ok lets not get hasty, do you want to come into the kitchen, Lois?" James suggested. Lois nodded and followed James into the kitchen. James put the kettle on then leaned against the counter with a quizzing look on his face.
"So, do you want to tell me what happened from the beginning?"
"Well, I realised I was pregnant after a few weeks you went, I couldn't contact you in anyway, I couldn't find you on Facebook or Twitter and I called you on the phone number that you gave me but you never picked up, you completely vanished ," she gave a hard look at James before continuing, "My Mum wasn't happy to say the least, she was going to kick me out at first, but then she decided against it, luckily, so I had the baby, went back to school and got a job as a sales women in Topshop , then worked my way up, and now I'm deputy manager. My Mum helped loads with money and stuff like that for Luke, but now I can pay my own way, which is good." She said confidently.
She paused before she returned James's quizzing look and asking "So, where did you go?
"My Aunty had just divorced her husband and my Grandad was ill so we moved to London." James lied.
"You still could of-"
"Look, Lois" James poured the boiling water into the two mugs, "I'm sorry that you had to go through that and that I wasn't there, really I am, I'll never be able to show the amount of guilt I feel right now, but I think we need to look to the future here."
"In what way?" Lois asked, she now looked interested
Two years and 6 months later
"LUKE! Get down here now!" James shouted up the stairs. The music from Luke's room was turned up louder and there was no response coming from upstairs.
"LUKE IF YOU DONT COME DOWN RIGHT NOW SO HELP ME GOD I WILL COME UP THERE MYSELF!" The music was turned off and after some shuffling from upstairs James could hear Luke run down the stairs. He stopped at the bottom of the stairs when he saw James was waiting for him.
"What is it?" He asked impatiently.
"I've just had a call from your school, why did you skip your detention with Miss Greener?"
Luke shrugged " I didn't want to spend another hour with her"
"Luke, you can't just skip detention, if you do this again you could be suspended!"
"It'll be a couple days off won't it?"
"Luke, this isn't funny, you are to go to Miss Greener and you will apologise to her tomorrow, and you will do that Detention otherwise I will cancel your to tickets to see Green Day , got it?"
Luke rolled his eyes but nodded in agreement, then ran back upstairs to listen to his music.
"Oh and turn the music down!" James called up, knowing it was useless. He sighed and went into the kitchen to find Kerry cutting some vegetables for tea.
"What was that about?" She asked.
"Luke skipped a detention"
Kerry tutted. " Doesn't he ever learn?"
"Unfortunately not."James sighed.