Aaron was resting upon the head bored working on a file with Emily asleep next to him. Last night was Ruth's first night in her room and needless to say, they took full advantage of having their room to them selfs again. Aaron was working on a file when he heard Ruth from down the hall. He climbed out of bed slipping into his pajama pants walking down the hallway.

"Hello, Mija. How did you sleep." Aaron asked walking into the nursery on sitting up in her crib smiling at him. "What do you say are you hungry. " he asked picking her up before walking downstairs putting her into her high chair. He grabbed a jar of banana baby food pulling a chair in front of her starting to feed her small amounts at a time. He was almost done feeding Ruth he heard Emily coming down the stairs

"Good morning my loves," Emily said walking into the kitchen giving Aaron a kiss and then ruth on her forehead. She opened the fridge pulling out the eggs. "Do you want some eggs," Emily asked s she cracked some into the bowl.

"I wish I could but I need to get ready for work. I spot out a spot in my schedule to come home to put her to bed. So as long as there is no national crisis I'll be home for dinner." Aaron said standing up putting a spoon in the sink.

"Ok that sounds amazing," Emily says with a smile while he gives her a kiss before walking upstairs. Emily grabbed some sausage out of the fridge putting them in the pan and placed another pan next to it with her eggs in it.

"I will call you when I have a break I will see you tonight," Aaron said giving Emily a kiss on the side of her head before giving on with a kiss on the top of her head and rushing out the door. Emily finished making her breakfast before sitting next to ruth in her highchair.

"So what do we have on the schedule today little ruth." sitting down taking a bite of sausage

"Baba," she said stretching out her arms smiling. Emily started giggling Emily finished eating her breakfast and picked ruth up bringing her to the floor. She reached the toy horse on the floor when emilys phone started ringing.

"Hello?" she said standing up as she started pacing the living room.

"Emily it's me." the man on the other side of the phone

"Da- dave what do you want I made it very clear I wasn't interested in talking to you," Emily said as she stopped paceing in shock

"I know-i know I just thought I would try one more time I really want to be in your life be able to b a father a father in law and grandfather." she heard dave say on the other side of the phone

"Well then maybe you should have been a father during my life in order to do that" Emily said as her voice cracked.

"Can we at least start small maybe lunch." dave said with hope. Emily took a minute to think.

"I can do lunch today but it will only be me ruth will not be there," Emily said very firmly.

"Thank you Emily I will see you there." dave said before Emily hung up wiping a tear off her cheek. She looked down at ruth who was looking up at her sad.

"Ready to play baby," Emily said smiling sitting down her who instantly smiled back. Emily played with her for about an hour before putting her down for a nap before getting in the shower. She knew she would have to tell Aaron but right now she just wanted to get through this to see if it was even worth it. She started curling her hair and got dressed when the nanny arrived. Emily told her that there was a bottle of the formula of milk in the fridge for when ruth woke up. She entered the restaurant and saw a dave sitting at a table.

"Emily it is good to see you." dave said going in for a hug which Emily dodged by sitting down. "Right so how is ruth," he asked sitting down.

"She's good but can we not talk about her," Emily said sternly

"Yeah yeah so I just wanted too let you know I was hurt when you told me you didn't want me at your wedding." dave said looking down at the menu

"Huh you were hurt I wonder if that felt any worse then having your father leave," Emily said sarcastically.

"Do you known how it feels to watch your daughter walked down the aisle by her boss."

"No but I know who it feels to be walked down the aisle by my boss," Emily said getting mad. "You know what this was a bad idea. I am going to go home to my daughter and I think you should lose my number," she said standing up walking out of the restaurant when she reached the car Aaron started calling her. "Aaron hey what's up," she said answering the phone climbing into the back seat of the car.

"Hey babe where are you," she asked causing emilys heart rate to speed up

"Umm, I had a meeting." Emily lied.

"A lunch meeting. The nanny said you were going to lunch" Aaron said slightly confused.

"Wait you're at home," Emily asked as her heart rate started speeding up.

"Yeah babe what is wrong. Where are you really."

"um .. I just went out for lunch so I will see you when I get home," Emily said trying to get out of the phone call.

"Yeah I actually have to get back but ill see you at dinner I love you," he said

"Love you too," Emily said before handing up. Afterword she barred her face in her hands. She hated lying to Aaron she never kept anything from im for so long when she got home ruth was sitting in the living room playing with toys. She let the nanny go before changing the channel to the news and sitting down with ruth on the floor. The rest of the day seemed to fly by when she started cooking Aaron walked in.

"Hey, babe how was your day," Emily asked the guilt of lying still in her stomach

"It was good are you going to tell me where you really went today," Aaron said frustrated next to her

"Um, I had lunch with my father." Emily looked down at the pan of veggies in front of her.

"Why did you do that," he said in a huff.

"Because he called and asked me too so I went but you dont have to worry about it all he wanted to talk about was how he was hurt that he didn't get to walk me down the aisle," Emily said grabbing plates and dishing out dinner.

"Why didn't you tell me you were going," Aaron asked

"Because I wanted to see what would happen," Emily said pureeing the vegges for ruth before walking to the table to sit down. They ate in silence the whole time before Aaron offered to put ruth to bed himself since he had not been home in a while. Emily got in the shower while he put her to bed while she was getting ready for Aaron to walk into the bathroom.

"Em, what's going on I thought you said you didn't want your father to be in your life." Aaron aid confused

"I don't Aaron," Emily whispered

"Then why did you go to lunch with him today!" Aaron said raising his voice

"Because Aaron you have no idea what it feels like to not have a have your mom and dad and Nadia and your whole family. I had to have my boss walk me down the aisle. Do you know how it feels to for a girl to not be able to have her father walk down the aisle no you dont so im sorry for trying to give him a second shot." Emily said raising her voice as she started crying Aaron as going to say something when ruth started crying in her room.

"Go get her I need to sleep," Emily whispered walking into the bedroom. Aaron took a deep breath before walking out of the bedroom. Emily was almost falling asleep when she felt Aaron climb into bed and kiss her shoulder.

"I'm sorry em. I didn't want to make you feel bad I just dont want to see you hurt" Aaron whispered.

"I just thought something had changed but once again he didn't want me all he said was that he was hurt," Emily said rolling into Aaron's chest.

"I am so sorry em but you are better without him and I will do whatever I can do to make you know that I will never hurt you or Ruth," Aaron said giving her a kiss on the top of her head.

"I know I love you and Im sorry for lying to you," she said giving him a kiss

"I love you too and I get to why you lied but I need you to know that you dont have too ok".