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Chapter 36;

AN HOUR LATER;

Cameron's POV;

Jeff wrapped me up in to his arms as Matt showed the police to the door after they had delivered the news, they had asked me a bunch of questions; contact details, next of kin that kind of questions that I had answered to the best of my ability.

Caving in to his solid, powerful embrace, I clung to him tightly as he gently ran his hand through my hair whispering softly in to my ear.

"I-I…I need to talk t-to CT…w-where is h-he?" I asked feeling the shock setting in.

"He's out back; I'll go get him honey!" Matt said sympathetically as he moved through the living room towards the kitchen.

"T-Thanks M-Mat-Mattitude," I said trying to get my head around what the police officers had just told me.

"Do you want me to stay beautiful?" Jeff asked ushering me in to the sofa and sitting next to me.

"I-I…I-I d-don't think I can do it if you're here babe…I'm sorry!"

"No sorry's remember," He whispered supportively as he kissed my forehead and slowly stood to his feet just as CT came rushing in to the living room from the kitchen.

"Mom what's wrong? Uncle Matt said you need to talk to me," He said stopping as Jeff ruffled his hair softly before heading out to the kitchen where Matt was making a noise of moving around.

"Yeah baby, I need to talk to you…come sit next to me," I said patting the space next to me, where Jeff had just been sat.

Turning my man smiled at me before disappearing out of view, leaving me alone with CT as I requested. Turning my attention to CT who was looking at me expectantly.

How was I meant to do this?

How would CT take it?

Taking a deep breath I reached for my son's hand and watched him closely as I prepared to deliver the news.

Jeff's POV;

Standing in the kitchen I watched Matt busying himself tidying up the breakfast bowls and mugs from his breakfast with CT.

Turning he looked at me as I listened from where I was stood. It wasn't that I wanted to intrude on the moment that Mother and son were having, I just wanted to make sure that Ron was ok. It had been a huge blow to her; I knew that; I had seen it in her eyes, and the way her body had all but crumbled.

"CT you know that Jeff's house burned down right?" She started her voice soft and even.

Flashes of my home burning, the smoke rising high in the air seemed to blink before my eyes taking me back 2 nights to when I had lost everything in one fell swoop.

"Yeah I know," CT replied sounding confused.

"Well the police found that there was someone inside the house…"

"Inside? But that would mean that…"

"They died yes," Ron said softly. "The only way they were able to ID the person was by dental records,"

"Do they know who it was? It wasn't someone we know was it?" CT asked as his voice shock.

"I am afraid it was baby…"

"Who?" He asked his Mom desperately as Matt stepped up next to me and listened with me.

"It was…Ste…it was your Dad baby," She said softly and instantly I could hear CT gasp and everything turned quiet.

Matt and I stood there for a few moments listening to the silence eclipse everything in the house.

"It's really over?" CT asked hopefully causing Matt and I to both smile.

"Yeah baby it's really over," Ron replied.

"Can I go back to school now?" CT asked being a typical 10 year old it was more important to be with his friends than grieve for his Dad.

"I…uhm I don't see why not!" Ron replied obviously unprepared for her son's reaction.

"Awesome! And does this mean that Jeff is really my Dad now?"

Matt chuckled softly as he placed his hand on my shoulder and moving back to cleaning up the kitchen leaving me stood here listening as Cameron stumbled over what the say to her boy.

I didn't want her stumbling like that, so I slowly stepped out from where I was stood and looked at CT wrapped up in his Mom's arms who was clinging to him tightly, her eyes shining with tears.

"If you'll have me big man," I said standing next to the sofa where they were sat.

"I want you to be my Dad; I wish you really were my Dad but now that he is really gone then I am more than happy to pretend that you are my Dad," CT looked up at me and removed himself from Ron's embrace and moved to me and hugged me so tight that I swore he crushed bone.

"Well I am more than happy to be kiddo; but would you mind if I talked to your Mom for a little bit?" I asked him as a thought popped in to my head.

"Sure! Can I go back outside to play with Lucas?" CT asked looking at his Mom expectantly.

"Sure baby…don't go too far," Ron told him as I took the seat where he had been sat moments earlier.

Nodding his head he raced off out of the house, happy and carefree which hadn't been something that he had been able to be with Steven lurking in the shadows. My eyes landed on my girl; my Marvel t-shirt drowning her frame and the skin tight faded and ripped jeans accenting her long legs; her dark hair pulled in to a messy bun with strands hanging out of it her beautiful face devoid of make up; hands down she was still the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.

"What did you want to talk to me about then?" She asked me resting her hand on my leg and looking deep in to my eyes.

"I was just thinking…me and you…"

"Yes?" She asked suspiciously as her eyes watched me closely.

"What we have…?"

"Are you trying to tell me that you don't want me…?"

"What? No! No way baby; I love you more than I ever did; that was never…is never going to be a question ok?" I pressed firmly and she nodded her head. "What I am trying to say is that…this is forever right?"

"For me yeah," She admitted nodding her head.

"Me too and I was thinking that what if…I mean say no if you don't think that this is a good idea," I started as the front doorbell rang again. "God damn it,"

"I'll get it!" Matt said moving through to the hallway and pulling the door open to reveal Amber and Shifty stood waiting to be let in.

"We'll talk about this later ok?" I whispered as her brother and best friend came rushing in to the living room.

We had told Matt to tell them to just stay away yesterday because we needed to get our heads straight after what had happened. It wasn't that we wanted to push them away but we needed time to assess what had happened and what we were going to do.

It had been harder when we hadn't known who had caused the fire but when the police officers told us that the dead body had been Steven they had said that he had, had a Molotov cocktail bottle in his hands and it had been a safe bet that he had caused the fire.

So now we knew who had done it and why, it was that little bit easier to deal with especially for me knowing that it hadn't been someone close to me or a fan that had gotten in to the house. I glanced up as Shannon and Shane came crashing through the front door behind Amber and Shifty. Great there would be no time to talk to Cameron until later.

Amber's POV;

Seeing my best friend sat on the sofa with her man, I felt the relief wash over me; she was ok, they were both ok…both looked tired but at least they were still alive, I dreaded to think what would have happened had they stayed at Jeff's as planned that night.

I made to go to her but Shannon and Shane beat me to the post and bombarded both Jeff and Cameron in to a tight death defying hug that had my friends laughing as they struggled to remove themselves from the embrace from both huge men.

"Thank God you're ok," Shan said kissing Cameron on the head. "Oh hey Jeff," He smiled devilishly causing Cameron to laugh and it seemed that she was calmer and more relaxed than she had been in weeks.

"Funny reject!" Jeff chuckled as he flipped his friend the bird.

"Hey ouch! I'm hurt," Shannon said squeezing in between the 2 of them and wrapping his arm around Cameron who fell in to his embrace while looking at me and smiling.

Shifty wrapped his arm around my neck and kissed my head softly before disappearing in to the kitchen with Shane to talk to Matt probably to find out how they were really doing.

Shannon reached his hand for me and pulled me down on to his lap so that I was facing my best friend, then he turned his attention to Jeff and engaged him in conversation leaving me to talk to my friend.

"How you holding up sweetie?" I asked reaching for her hand and giving her an extra squeeze as she smiled at me.

"I'm good…really good! I have something that I need to talk to you about though," She said removing herself from Shannon's embrace and standing up.

"You're leaving us!?" Shannon asked looking up as I stood to my feet.

"Mmhmm! I need to talk to Amber," Cameron said leaning down and kissing his cheek. "Will that keep you going?"

"Awe damn it Skittles you got some major competition on your hands," Shannon smiled at his friend who slapped his arm and groaned as Cameron turned her attention to her man and kissed him fully on the lips. "I want one of those!" Shannon complained.

I swear my friend could cheer up the most depressed person on the planet; he was full of energy and he seemed to just get more and more full of life every time I saw him.

"So not going to happen," Cam smiled as she moved away from her man and friend leading me in to the kitchen where Matt, Shane and Shifty were stood talking about wrestling, which I instantly recognized wasn't what they had been talking about really. "Wow you guys are smooth," Cam giggled softly turning on the kettle.

"What?" Matt asked innocently.

"I know that you guys were talking about what has happened,"

"Cam we have much better things to talk about than you," Shifty ribbed his little sister as he reached for her and pulled her close; kissing her head softly.

Ever since we had gotten together, the things I had been feeling for my best friends brother had seemed to just intensify to the point where I felt like I was constantly distracted and there seemed to be nothing I could do to stop it from happening.

Even when Leland and I had first gotten together; it hadn't been as passionate or as intense as it was with Seth. My eyes moved over his frame and could feel my hunger for him building to the point where I felt my face flush with heat.

As if he sensed it he looked at me and smiled brightly causing my insides to turn to goo, my knees to turn wobbly and my heart to race off at twice it's normal speed.

Cameron made us coffee and led me out on to the balcony where the hot tub was situated right at the patio doors, which she closed and handed me a cigarette.

"Steven is dead!" She blurted out.

"WHAT? How do you know that?" I asked lighting up and watching her closely; that would certainly explain her calm and collected posture.

"He uhm…he was the one who started the fire and he didn't make it out!"

"Wow! Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy huh?" I couldn't stop the venom seeping in to my voice.

That psycho had made my best friends life hell for most of her life and now that he wasn't a problem anymore I couldn't be happier for her. After all that he had done, all the things that he had done to her, she deserved the peace that it would now afford.

"You're preaching to the choir honey," She laughed softly as she sipped at her coffee and took a seat on the chairs that Matt had set out here around a large dining like table. "But enough of me and my drama; how are things with you and my big brother?"

"Never been better…I wanted to talk to you actually,"

"About?" She asked resting her feet on a free chair as I took the one next to her and leaned back staring out in to the woods that encompassed the property where CT was playing with Lucas. "You're not getting bored of him already are you?" She giggled and it was good to hear that sound again.

"What? No are you kidding me?" I giggled softly turning to look at her and smiled. "I just wanted to ask what it was like with you and Jeff when you first got together."

"What do you mean?" She asked confused.

"Well I mean with Shifty I feel like I am being completely consumed by what I am feeling for him…it's intense and it's more passionate than it 'ever' was with Leland,"

"Yeah that's what it was like with Jeff and I; hell it's still like that with us! It's just so consuming that you feel like you're loosing yourself completely but in a good way you know what I mean?"

"That's it exactly, I feel like I can't breathe when he isn't near me, its like he has this power over me…"

"The best I can figure is that; that is how you know they are the right one you know what I mean?"

"I think so! I mean it hasn't exactly been long…"

"But when it's right; it's right and there is nothing that you can do to fight it hon; I mean sure you can try and you can deny it all you want but you can't make the feeling go away…at least that was how it was for me," She admitted sipping at her drink again as she flicked her cigarette in to the ashtray that Matt had placed out here.

"I guess you're right! But seriously you're ok with us being together right?"

"Why wouldn't I be? Honey I think that you are probably the best thing that has ever happened to my brother and I know that you guys are going to be together for a long time…hell anyone just needs to look at you to know that you are meant to be,"

"Thanks honey; that means a lot that we have your blessing, I mean I know how much Shifty cares about what you think,"

It was true, my man had explained how close he and Cameron had been growing up and that he now had her back in his life he wanted to get that relationship back on track.

"Well I care about what he thinks of me too, it's just the way we are you know?"

I went to reply when the patio doors opened and the guys came piling out on to the decking; their presence piercing through the quiet and calm that Cameron and I had been enjoying by sitting out here.

My eyes found him almost automatically and I felt the familiar jolt of weakness raking through me as he moved towards me and sat down on to my lap and kissed me softly earning retching noises from the others as Jeff moved to Cameron and wrapped her up in to his arms.

I really don't think that life could get much better than this moment right now.

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