ALL RIGHTS GO TO RACHEL CAINE!

Chapter twenty-five

Katie's POV

I was just about to leave the house to go meet Sam and Amelie, when Jason reached out and pulled me into his arms. "Jason…" I scolded him. He smiled and kissed me, then took my hand in his and led me out the door. "What are you doing?" I asked him. "Walking you there, like the gentlemen I am" I scoffed at his words trying to hold back laughter.

He looked at me with sad eyes, that made my mood change and I automatically pulled him into an embrace telling him how sorry I was; and that he was only thinking of me and my safety; and also that he was a gentlemen. He smiled at me with victory before locking the door and leading me down to common grounds.

Sam's POV

It had just gone 12 and I was sat in common grounds waiting for Katie and Amelie to arrive. I would have expected Amelie to be here on time, she sounded ecstatic on the phone, when I told her Katie wanted to talk to us. I was drinking my coffee slowly as I waited; Oliver came and had a short conversation with me before he had to go back to work.

I looked out the window to see Katie arriving with Jason. She hadn't said anything about Jason being here for the conversation, but to my surprise she just kissed him and told him goodbye before she came into common grounds and sat down across from me.

Oliver turned round and saw Katie and nodded to her, she nodded back to him. Was that some sort of secret coding? I wonder… I was pulled out of my trail of thought by Katie speaking. "I'm glad you could come" She said cheerfully before looking around. "And where is Amelie?" She questioned me still looking around for her. "I'm not sure of that myself" I replied honestly to her as I too started to look round for her.

Just as I was about to get my phone to call her she came through the doors and joined us at our table. She sat next to me and we both looked at Katie waiting for her to start the conversation. "Amelie, Sam. I know that I have been avoiding you lately, but can you really blame me?" We just both shook our heads, knowing full well that any child of Katie's age would most likely have reacted the same way.

"I wanted to know what you guys wanted to do about this" She asked us. Me and Amelie looked at each other, we had discussed this a few times with each other since we had told Katie. I nodded to Amelie and she nodded back, understanding that we should tell her what we had discussed.

"Katie, before we answer that, we wanted to give you our greatest apologies. We did not know that your father was abusive or a drunk for that matter. When we first met him and his wife, he seemed so in control and perfect for the responsibility of a child" She pleaded to Katie in the hope of forgiveness. Katie just smiled at us as a way of accepting our apology.

We both smiled back before Amelie carried on.

Katie POV

"Me and Sam where wondering if you would give us a try as your parents. I know that I haven't been there for you while growing up, whereas Sam has. So I would like to make up for that if it is ok with you of course" She told me kindly. I thought about it first. I wanted to make sure that I was ready for letting them into my life, I had a long think then I decided on an answer. I smiled at them and nodded my head, showing my acceptance of their request.

They both smiled brightly at me, before we got into a deep conversation to get to know each other better.

Jason's POV

I had just left Katie at common grounds, so I went into town to start getting stuff ready for the surprise I was doing for her. After everything, I thought that she deserved to have something good happen so I decided on surprising her. I walked over to the store and bought the things I needed to set up the room so that it looked romantic.

I was walking down to the only descent jewellery store in town, to go fetch the necklace I had ordered for Katie a few weeks ago. I walked in and went up to the counter and got the necklace. It was a gold chain with a heart locket on it. On the locket it said 'I love you, always' and I was planning on putting a picture in it; but I still hadn't decided what of yet.

By the time I had made it home it was 3 in the afternoon. So I got straight to work on setting up the place ready for tonight.