AN:
I think an explanation is needed. The first part of the second day this chapter includes happens before the last sentence of the Brooke section of this chapter that starts with Two hours... I felt I needed to say this to avoid confusion and prepare you before hand!
If you have seen this next section before, that's cause it's been used before in some chapters of my other stories:
Since starting this chapter, I have changed the operating system on my computer and as such has had to install the program I write in again and as this is a newer version of the old one, it does not behave the way I'm used to, the spellcheck feature for example doesn't work and because of that reason I don't know if everything is spelled the way it's supposed to be.
Don't own a thing, as always!
Things happen
Chapter three
Hope really didn't understand how easily Steffy had sneaked her way back into their lives again, she also couldn't believe that Liam so willingly let her push her way back in and how easily he had dismissed her just now.
"You seriously believe you can just dismiss me like that? I am your wife and I should have a say in our life!" Hope starts pushing stuff off his desk in frustration.
"Oh yeah? You should have a say in our life? What about my rights to have a say in our life before you put that ring on the mantle? What about my right to have a say in our wedding plans and not having to find out when I'm getting married during a press conference for your line at Forrester Creations? Had I known what was waiting for me when I proposed, I probably wouldn't have done it. Do you have any idea how I felt every time I tried to talk to you about our wedding and you said you were needed somewhere else?" Liam is starting to get really frustrated. "What about every time you decided that our love wasn't enough for you? Why wasn't our wedding in Puglia enough for you?"
"The way you so easily believes anything that comes through her mouth makes me believe that the only way for you to commit yourself to me is to sign the second set of papers."
"She left our house that morning not knowing that she was pregnant with my child, when she comes back to tell me that she's pregnant, she finds the two of us," he points between them "on mine and Steffy´s bed rolling around on her clothes making out. I knew it was wrong when it happened and I knew it was wrong long after it happened. I should have listened closely to what she said when she said she was staying in Paris for a while and then gone to see her. I should have fought for us."
Hope starts to tear up at the last few sentences.
"Yeah, but you didn't and you chose to marry me and share your happily ever after with me, so do that! Don't let her destroy us again!" Liam looks up from the papers he's been studying while talking to Hope.
"Why shouldn't I, you've done it so many times before and it hasn't always been Steffy that you've deemed the cause of us falling apart. Did you not hear what my father said? Your choices are what drove us apart the last time. I fought so hard for you, but you just couldn't wait to believe a man you've never even met before because you hate Steffy so much and therefore punished the both of us for something we hadn't even done. When are you going to realize that your choices are your choices just as mine are mine? I chose to walk away from Steffy and I´s relationship because I didn't hear that Steffy was only staying a limited time in Paris and believed that she was staying indefinitely. Steffy watched the two of us make out on her bed and she still had enough faith in our relationship to go to Paris anyway because she knew that our love was strong enough."
Liam places the pen in his hand on the desk as he's speaking.
"Oh please, she knew that once the lie was out there was no way you'd stay with her and you proved her right when you married me! Please stop saying that your relationship was anything other then a manipulation on her part!"
"Are you serious? You're the one who believed someone other than the man you were supposed to marry and you chose to not believe the supposed love of your life over a man you've never even met before! Had I actually listened to what Steffy said, I would've known that she wasn't leaving me by staying in Paris for a few months and I should have gone to Paris to be with her!" Liam starts working again. "You need to leave now and I will see you at home! Or not, that's totally your choice!"
"Are you threatening me right now?"
"No, I'm giving you a choice. Either you have enough faith in us even after everything I've said that would probably lead you to believe the opposite and go home or you simply don't have enough faith in us and you walk away from our marriage. Your choice! Now choose!"
~Things happen~
Bill Spencer walks through the front door of the house he shares with his wife and youngest son and what he sees is his wife walking around with their son on the floor holding him up by the arms and him taking a stroll around the living room furniture.
"Hello little guy! How are you doing?" When Will saw his father he started walking over to him and when he reached him put his hands up for Bill to pick him up.
"So, I hear you're becoming a grandfather." Katie has her fake smile on, the one specifically reserved for one Steffy Forrester.
"I am, and I'm pretty stoked actually." Bill smiles his typical 'I'm really happy about this.' smile.
"Well, it's pretty convenient for Steffy to return now with a baby on the way don't you think? Liam and Hope are finally married and here she comes to cause problems."
"Oh, Steffy´s not here for Liam. She's here to let her baby have a relationship with it's father. Which is why she still hasn't been contact with him since she told him to get Hope out of his system and that she was staying in Paris for a few months." Bill dismisses Katie´s claim that Steffy is here to cause problems. "The only ones causing trouble between Hope and Liam right now are Hope, you and her mother. How about the three of you actually step back and see what happens? When I left the office Hope and Liam were screaming at each other and when I left Steffy, Thomas, Stephanie and Michala, Steffy was perfectly content with not having contacted Liam since."
"Of course she's here for Liam, why else would she be here?"
"To raise her baby in her home town? Get back to working at her family business? Steffy even sent Liam two sets of custody papers. One with shared custody and one where she gets full custody and he gets visitation rights, it's up to him now. She's got the support and finances to raise that baby on her own, she doesn't need Liam in anyway, her baby does though and that's why she's in LA, she'd probably be perfectly content to raise the baby in Paris, but she's choosing to raise it in LA so that Liam gets to be a father to his child."
"How kind of her!" Katie rolls her eyes.
"Well, what would you say if she hadn't told him at all, had the child in Paris and then come back in a few years with a five year old little child who looks like the perfect blend between the two of them?" He looks into her eyes and sees his answer. "Yeah, I thought so. Nothing Steffy does is ever good enough. Steffy could have stopped the wedding remember, but she chose not to so why don't you give her a little bit of credit?" Bill starts walking away. "Maybe you should just remember just which one of your niece and Steffy slept with a man married to someone else."
"Well, that's easy. Steffy did! She slept with you remember!" Katie smirks thinking she's right.
"Oh, trust me, Steffy and I tried so hard, but we never did. Your niece however slept with Liam while he was married to Steffy to 'take her power away' and she did it so badly she started popping pills in order to do it! As far as I know, the only married man that Steffy has ever slept with was her own husband." Bill walks out into the kitchen. He then peeks out the door. "Oh, by the way, Steffy asked how you and Will were doing , so I told her and she was happy that you're doing great!"
As she watches Bill walk to the kitchen with a stunned expression on her face, Bill crosses the threshold and goes to find himself some stuff to make a sandwich. As he's pottering about, Will starts yawning.
"Oh, is it time to go to bed maybe?" He places a kiss on the little boys forehead and then takes his son and the sandwich upstairs to put his son to bed.
~Things happen~
Some hours later it was nearing ten pm when Steffy emerged from the bedroom next time and what she saw on the couch makes her smile.
Michala and Thomas had started watching a movie, but had fallen asleep while watching it, so Steffy walked over, placed a blanket over them, took their shoes off and turned the television of. She then walked into the kitchen and took a glass from the dishwasher, filled it up with water, took her vitamins and then took the glass with her to place on the bed stand, then she walks into the storage room and looks around, she can already see it in her mind and she has a feeling of what Thomas will be doing, it would look so good with the furniture.
She goes back to her bedroom and lays down to fall asleep until she needs to use the toilet the next time.
~Things happen~
The next morning, there's a knock on the door to Steffy´s apartment and this causes Michala to jump from the couch. Disoriented, she looks around and then she looks down on the couch.
"Oh, right." She rubs the sleep from her eyes, checks the time, seeing it's only 7:50 am she's a little confused and then she goes to the door to check who's out there, she opens the door and the first thing that happens is that she gets slapped. "Seriously? What did I ever do to you?"
"I'm sorry, I thought this was Stephanie Forrester´s apartment."
"Well, it is and you really have some nerve slapping a pregnant woman if that's what you were after. Seriously, she's thirty seven weeks pregnant, ready to deliver at any time and you just thought you could assault her? What do you want with her anyway?" Michala puts on her best 'protecting my boss because you pissed me off'-look on her face.
"Well, she came back looking to cause trouble for my daughter and her husband."
"Oh, you're Brooke Logan. The woman who told her daughter to sleep with another woman´s husband to take away the wife´s 'power'. Seriously? You forced your daughter into a pill addiction because of it. Oh, and by the way, Steffy is not here for Liam for any other reason then to let him be near his kid while it's growing up. You really need to start supporting your daughter instead of slapping your son in law´s girlfriends assistant. Grow up, not everything is a competition!" Then Michala slams the door in Brooke´s face with a smirk on her lips. Brooke of course starts banging on the door to get Michala to open it again. That same banging is what wakes Thomas up, he gives a big yawn and then looks around the room.
"Hey, who's at the door?" He frowns in concern that Steffy would wake up because of all the noise.
"That would be your former stepmother. You know, the one you got stranded on an island with." Michala throws a big knowing smile his way.
"Why is she banging on the door?" He walks over to the door to his sisters bedroom and takes a look inside. Then he walks over into the kitchen to help Michala with breakfast. "And why is your cheek red?"
"Well, she's banging the door because I slammed it shut in her face because I know Steffy doesn't need this right now. The reason my cheek is red because the first thing Brooke did when I opened the door was slap me." Michala takes out a honey melon from the fridge and starts cutting the peel off to make squares of melon.
"Why would she slap you?" Thomas starts putting cut up bananas in a blender and pours some almond milk in with it as well as some spinach, protein powder, some spices, frozen raspberries, black berries and blue berries.
"Well, she wasn't going to slap me. She had someone else in mind for that." Michala can see Thomas face harden at the thought of his sister getting slapped while pregnant. "Don't worry, I told her some truths and then slammed the door in her face."
The banging had stopped, but they could still hear that there was someone on the other side.
"Seriously, open this door right now! I need to set Steffy straight that she can't have Liam because he's married now!" Thomas and Michala look at each other and then Thomas walks to the door and opens it.
As it's opening, Brooke takes the opportunity to get inside the apartment. Thomas however was anticipating this and so placed himself in the door opening. Michala walks over as well and blocks the space that isn't blocked by the dresser next to the door on the other side of Thomas.
"What about Steffy not having any contact with Liam since just after she left for Paris makes you say she's here for Liam? Do you really seriously believe that Liam would be married to Hope right now had he actually gone to talk to his girlfriend in Paris?" Thomas raises his eyebrows. "And what gives you the right to slap Michala here? And do not say you thought it was Steffy, because it's assault either way!"
As he's talking, Brooke´s face turns a lot of shades lighter then she normally is.
"Well, why else would she come now? She's had months to tell him before coming back to LA."
"Maybe because she's nearing the end of the pregnancy and going back to LA from Paris in a few weeks would've been to dangerous for both her and the baby. She wanted the baby born in the town where she grew up, she also wanted the baby to know it's father. The only ones causing trouble right now are you and Hope. Hope should have enough faith in her marriage that Steffy won't be a problem and you should have enough faith in your daughters feelings about her marriage that Steffy shouldn't be a problem when she hasn't even been in contact with Liam since she told him to get Hope out of his system. How does it feel knowing your daughter married a man that didn't even break up with his girlfriend before marrying your daughter? How does it feel knowing that the mere presence of Steffy in LA is causing so much trouble for Hope without Steffy even talking to anyone else other then Grandma, me, Michala, mom and Bill?" Thomas tilts his head with a questioning look on his face.
"My daughter married the love of her life, Steffy´s relationship wasn't worth a break up because there wasn't a relationship to begin with!" At this Thomas starts laughing.
"Are you serious? Steffy and Liam were living together and Steffy left LA six weeks pregnant. You know, Steffy´s relationships with Liam has lasted far longer then your daughters relationships with the same man. How exactly do you explain that?" Thomas doesn't wait for Brooke to answer. "Anyway, we've got to finish breakfast because Steffy will be hungry when she wakes up and she needs her energy. Goodbye!"
He then closes the door and goes back into the kitchen. Brooke keeps banging the door so Michala walks back over to the door and shouts through it.
"If you don't leave now, I'll call the police and have you arrested for assault and stalking!" As her respond to this, Brooke slams the door with both her hands.
"She won't have him! She'll never have him again!" Then she starts walking away, when she gets halfway to the elevator, Thomas opens the door again.
"The only ones who are saying that she wants him back are you Logan´s, Steffy made her intentions perfectly clear when she sent those two versions of custody papers to Liam yesterday. She has the support and financial stability to support the child on her own, she doesn't need Liam to raise this baby. The only reasons she's here in LA is because she wants the baby to know it's father and she wants to get back to Forrester Creations. Not a single thing she's doing right now has a single thing to do with your daughter and her marriage. If Hope isn't secure in her marriage, then she shouldn't have married Liam in the first place!" He then closes the door again and locks it.
~Things happen~
About half an hour later, Steffy starts stirring which gives Michala the go a head to start the blender to make the smoothies complete and she knows that the sound will wake Steffy up completely.
Five minutes later, Steffy emerges from her bedroom dressed in a similar outfit as last night, but in a t-shirt instead of the tank top.
"G'mornin'! How are you doing? Did you enjoy the movie?" She looks so tired.
"Good morning boss!"
"Morning sis!"
Both Michala and Thomas look at each other.
"We're good and what we saw of the movie was good. It's tiring to ride a train all day and then carry a bunch of suit cases off said train and into a car, go to the grocery store..." Michala starts but Steffy cuts her off.
"Yeah, I know! It's exhausting!" Steffy sits down at the table and moans.
"So, are we going to get the paint before or after the delivery comes?"
"They said that it would be delivered before noon so I say we get the paint after." Michala comes over with a glass of smoothie for Steffy and she practically gulps it down, two and a half minutes after Michala put the glass down full, Steffy does the same with the glass empty.
"You want some more there?" Steffy looks up at Michala and nods her head. Michala and Thomas look at each other and Michala points at him, indicating that he's letting Steffy have his smoothie.
Thomas just shrugs his shoulder and puts the platter with melon cubes in front of his sister and watches her eat piece after piece.
Michala turns on the coffee maker and when it's done she hands Thomas a cup. The second glass of smoothie goes down at a gentler pace then the first one.
"I have to go to the bathroom. This little one is making me uncomfortable. I'm going to lay down afterward and read a book or something, maybe take a nap. Come check on me when the delivery guys comes!"
"Will do!"
~Things happen~
When Bill Spencer wakes up that morning, there's a joy in his heart that he hasn't felt in years. He's not entirely sure why, but more then likely it has to do with the baby resting in his sons former girlfriends belly. The moment he thinks about said baby´s father his heart sinks. Bill was so disappointed in his son and the way he had handled Steffy leaving for Paris. He turns over to his wife and looks at her for a few minutes. He was also annoyed with his wife because you could tell from the start that Steffy had been a much better match for Liam over the fairytale demanding Logan-princess that runs the moment things doesn't go the way she wants them to.
Now that Steffy had let go of her love for Liam, there was no way he'd get to have Steffy in the family other then the mother of his grandchild. Come to think about it, Steffy hadn't said if it was a boy or a girl and there had been no indications as to wether or not she knew what gender the baby was.
Either way, Liam had a big decision to make. Bill hated the fact that Liam wouldn't be living with the child at all times, but he also knew that it was probably better then the baby having to be in Hope´s care. He still agreed with Taylor that it wouldn't be a good idea to have the baby living with Liam and Hope. Who knows what Hope could do to that baby if her jealousy got to big a hold on her. No, it was probably best for the baby if Liam signed the second set of papers. They could revist the custody situation at a later point when the child is a little bit older and not as dependant on Steffy for everything in a few years time. Yes, this was a good idea and he was going to talk to Liam about it.
He nods his head and then gets out of bed to start his day.
~Things happen~
An hour or so he comes down to the kitchen and takes his first cup of coffee, then he fills up his to go-cup and leaves the house to go to work. Across town his son is doing the exact same thing.
Half an hour later, they both enter the parking lot of Spencer Publications and Bill can see that Liam is not happy.
"Hey! What's wrong?" Liam´s head whips up hearing his fathers voice.
"Shouldn't you already be sitting behind the desk in your office?" Liam snaps.
"Well, yes, probably, but I took a few extra minutes to spend some time with my son before coming to work today so I am a little late. But that's not what I was talking about. Why are you so mad?"
Liam just glares at his father and then stomps off to get to work. Bill raises in eyebrows in confusion and then tilts his head. He then takes off after his son and meets the concerned faces of his employees on his way, he just shrugs his shoulders as a respons to the question in their eyes.
When he gets to the floor his office is on, he decides to let Liam cool off and then come to him rather then him hounding his son for answers.
~Things happen~
When Brooke Logan wakes up that morning, something in her house feels different, she doesn't really know why, but she gets her answer when she comes down to make breakfast.
She walks down the stairs and sees atleast 4 suitcases of stuff and she recognizes them as the ones her daughter had moved her stuff to Liam´s place in after they had packed up all of Steffy´s stuff and moved it to the apartment.
"Hope! Are you here?" She starts searching for her daughter, turns around and goes upstairs again, checks RJ´s room, Hope´s old room and then Bridget and Rick´s rooms. But Hope´s not there. "Maybe I'm seeing stuff."
She turns back towards the staircase and walks down again. No, the suitcases are still there, so she goes into the kitchen and finds her daughter sitting at the breakfast table with her head in her arms on top of the table sleeping. She walks over and caresses her daughters cheek in order to wake her up.
The moment Hope opens her eyes, tears starts falling.
"Hey, what's wrong?"
"He threw me out. Steffy comes back, sends him custody papers and he throws me out. Why couldn't she just stay away?"
"I'll be back in a little while." Brooke turns around, goes upstairs, changes out of her lounge clothes and goes over to Steffy´s place.
Two hours later, she's back at her own house seething with anger. Brooke slams the door to her car shut and then walks up the driveway. Into her house and then over to the kitchen to talk to her daughter. She's not there however and then she realizes that she didn't see the suitcases on her way in and so she realizes that Hope has moved them upstairs.
She walks upstairs and over to the door of her daughters room. She leans against the doorframe and watches her daughter place her stuff back into the drawers and the closet.
"So, I just came back from Steffy´s place. Apparently she hasn't been in contact with Liam since just after she went to Paris months ago. What did you mean when you said Liam threw you out?" Hope is taken by surprise and turns around in shock.
"He told me to get out. I told him yesterday that he needed to sign the set of papers that gave Steffy full custody or I was leaving him for good. He said I needed to give him time to decide and during said time I could either be at home with him or leave. So I stayed. Then this morning I left."
"When did he tell you to get out?"
"He told me to get out or stay. So I got out. If he couldn't give me what I wanted, I wasn't going to stay while he decided wether or not he was going to give Steffy the chance to sneak her way into his life through the baby."
"But Hope, he gave you the choice to either show that you have enough faith in the strength of your marriage or that you don't. You just showed him that you don't. Besides, no matter what, Steffy is already in his life because of the baby, now I didn't see Steffy while at Steffy´s place, but I saw Thomas and this random girl I've never seen before and Thomas said something that made me think."
"And what's that? That Steffy is not here for Liam? Of course she is, there's no other reason for her to be here."
"He said that if you don't feel secure enough in your marriage, you shouldn't have married Liam at all and that the only people causing trouble to your and Liam´s marriage is you, me and Katie. Steffy hasn't even talked to Liam in how many months? Yes, I believe that some part of her is here for Liam, but we both know that if she wanted Liam for herself, she would've delivered those custody papers to him herself."
"So? She knows she could never keep him if I'm around so she's taking the easy way out."
"How long did it take Liam to finally commit to you after Steffy left?" Hope is shaken to the core with that comment.
~Things happen~
Around noon, Michala goes to check on Steffy and finds her half sitting on the bed with a book by Nora Roberts on her belly and her glasses laying strangely over her face.
"Steffy!"She starts caressing Steffy´s cheek and finds that Steffy starts stirring and stretches as well as she can.
"Hey! Are they here?"
"They just left an hour or so ago. They had everything with them when they came and Thomas could sign for it. We didn't see a need to wake you up since he could do that. He showed them your drivers license and his and I showed them mine. It was perfectly alright to do so. They moved the stuff into the nursery and we decided to not open the boxes until the painting was done. I came to wake you up so we could go get the paint." Michala smiles.
"Oh, let me just change clothes and we'll go after that." Steffy starts moving out of the bed and then she looks up at Michala, who's started to walk out of the room. "We need to measure the walls to get the right amount of paint."
Michala just shakes her head.
"Thomas has already done that. He's also drawn up a few sketches for the mural." She then turns around and walks out through the doorway.
Steffy walks over to her closet, takes out a knee length dress, a jean jacket and a pair of flip flops to put on as her outfit of the day and then she walks out into the livingroom and then they leave.
~Things happen~
It took almost four hours for Liam to cool down, but he was thankfull towards his father that he had stayed away and not preassured him into saying what was wrong. He gets upp from his desk chair, leaves his office and then walks across the hall to his fathers office.
He knocks on the door and hears his father tell him to come in.
"Hi!" He greets his father shyly.
"Oh, you've cooled down now I suppose?" He can see that Liam isn't as tense anymore. "So, what's wrong?"
"I came home yesterday evening and Hope was there, with her bags packed threatening me that unless I sign the second set of custody papers, she was leaving for good. So I said that I needed to think about it and if she wanted to stay or leave for the time it takes me to decide that was her choice, she didn't take it well and went into the guestbedroom and stayed there last night. Then when I woke up this morning, she's gone. I told her yesterday that she either needed to have faith in us and go home or she could leave. I thought that since she went home yesterday, she decided to have faith in us. Looks to me like she doesn't."
"What else was said? Is there anyway she could have misunderstood?" Bill tapps his pen on the desk.
"There's no way she could've misunderstood. She had a choice to make as do I. She feels as though her choice is dependant on my choice and it shouldn't be." Bill nods. "She either wants this marriage because of the love we share or she wanted it because it would mean she beat Steffy at something and I'm starting to believe it's the second and maybe she's now realizing that building a relationship on her wanting to win something really isn't a good foundation for a relationship."
"Here's the thing. I've been thinking about this. I really think you should sign the second set of papers and have a stipulation that the arrangement can be changed in the future to shared custody. I really don't think Steffy would say no to you wanting to spend time with your child and that's what's going to make this possible. That baby will need Steffy for everything and your life is in to much chaos at the moment that that little baby will not have any stability while with you. In a few years time, you can increase the time you spend with the baby and discuss the custody situation then. This way you and Hope can work out your issues and you can spend time with the baby, but the baby will always have a stable place where it's safe. I really don't think that the baby would be safe around Hope..." Liam starts objecting and Bill puts his hand up to stop him. "... if Hope was in charge of caring for the child while you leave for a short period of time because of Hope´s jealousy towards Steffy and the fact that Hope will not be giving you your first child and this is also Steffy´s child. The two of you got married not knowing the whole story and you need to make it work. For better or for worse you said in your vows and you need to remember this."
"But I should have a say in my childs life."
"Did your girlfriend have a say in you marrying another woman? Was she even told?" Liam looks down in shame. "That's what I thought. Steffy could have chosen to stay in Paris and not told you about the baby at all and then come back years from now with a five year old. How do you think Hope, her mother and aunts would've reacted then? You need to give Steffy and that baby what they need. Steffy will not keep you out of the decision making progress, you know that's not who she is. She also won't keep you from the child, I really don't think that there would be any problem to re-evaluate the custody-thing in the future. But for right now, I believe that giving Steffy full custody is for the good of the baby. It will also give you the chance to work on your marriage and find out if that really is what you want."
"I just don't know what to do."
"Tell me. If you do sign the shared custody papers, do you believe that the baby would be safe with Hope for a short period of time if, say, you and Hope had argued just before you left." Liam shakes his head. "If you sign the papers giving Steffy full custody, do you believe that Steffy would take the child and leave and you never getting to see the baby?" Liam shakes his head. "Which one of the womens situations do you trust the most? Hope with the baby or Steffy not leaving?"
"Steffy taking the baby and leaving would never happen. She wouldn't do that to me no matter how angry or hurt she was with me. I trust Hope, I really do, but Steffy is such a big trigger for her that I don't know if I could trust her with the baby." There's such sadness in Liam´s eyes that Bill almost grows soft.
"Putting your trust in Steffy is your best bet from my point of view. You need to do the best for all of the people involved and right now, giving Steffy full custody is the best you can do. Unless you divorce Hope, marry Steffy and bring that baby into the world in a marriage, however, Steffy doesn't want you so that would probably be difficult and the baby is due in three weeks or so."
Liam knows his father is right in what he's saying and he knows that he really can trust Steffy to not leave once the custody thing is over with. There's so much tying Steffy to LA that he just doesn't feel like she'd just leave for good. She could leave for Paris to visit her mother and father, or for New York to visit Bridget for a while, but she would always come back to LA.
"I'm going to go talk to Steffy I think about the custody in the future business."
"Yeah, I think you should. Talk to Justin and have him draw up an altered version of the second set of papers and bring it with you!" Bill dismisses his son and sends him on his way.
~Things happen~
In Paris it's almost time for the clock to strike midnight and as such, Taylor turns in her sleep into the man laying next to her and both of them give a content sigh as she melts into his arms as she's done hundreds of times before.
~Things happen~
AN:
Ooooh, cliffhanger! Who do you think that man is?