Chapter 12: Surprises

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Jayme pulled into the driveway of the house and cautiously walked up the stairs to Dan's house. A soft knock on the door had her gnawing on her nails, a Latin woman answered the door.

"May I help you?" she asked politely.

"I'm Dan Scott's daughter, Jayme, I wondered if I could see him if it's a convenient time," Jayme asked.

"Sure," the housekeeper admitted her into the foyer. She walked off to get Dan.

A few minutes later, Dan walked into the foyer. "Jayme?" he looked at her, his eyes wary.

"I'm so sorry to come down here unannounced, I just thought it would be best," Jayme waited for his response.

Dan stood there for a minute and then walked away, looking over his shoulder, "Will you join me for dinner?"

"Sure," Jayme tentatively followed him.

"I'm sorry about before, it's just that I got nervous and I had to leave to be by myself and deal with my problems," she tried to explain.

"Jayme, it's okay, you don't need to explain, things happen for a reason." Dan said cryptically.

Jayme nodded and replied to Dan's response to tell him of her life for the last six years, over dinner she told him about moving to California and living with a friend and staying there and then going to UCLA and getting her degree in English Literature. She told him about her new job as an elementary teacher at Gray Point Academy.

"That's great, where are you going to stay?" Dan asked.

"I'm going to find an apartment in Gray Point, somewhere, I'm going to head out to a hotel after dinner and stay there for the night." Jayme smiled at him.

"Why don't you stay here, there's no one else here except for me and it gets lonely in this big house," Dan offered.

"I don't want to impose," Jayme said.

"It wouldn't be an imposition, it would be my pleasure and then I could get know my only daughter," Dan replied.

"Okay," Jayme smiled at him. "I'll have to phone the moving company to redirect my stuff, I'm going to go into town for awhile and get some stuff, if you don't mind," Jayme asked.

"No, go ahead, there's a spare key by the refrigerator, you can let yourself in with that," Dan said.

"I'm going to go up to bed and watch TV," he said after the dinner plates had been cleared away.

"Thanks again," Jayme leaned down to kiss him on the cheek.

Dan watched her walk away and for the first time in awhile, felt happy about something.

Jayme drove into town in her black Celica, as soon as she'd made enough money, she'd bought a Celica, she loved those kind of cars.

Pulling up to a parking spot in front of Karen's Café, she got out and walked inside the café.

Karen stood behind the counter, talking to Peyton and Lucas who were on stools at the counter.

Jayme walked up behind Lucas, put her hands over his eyes, "Guess who?"

Lucas felt her hands, the calluses, yet a feminine arch to them, "Jayme is that you?"

"How'd you know?" Jayme fell back in surprise.

"You're the only girl with basketball calluses." Lucas laughed at her shocked face.

"Are you back?" he smiled.

"Yeah, I'm staying with Dan, I've got a job as a teacher at Gray Point Academy," she told them.

Peyton laughed and hugged her and Karen hugged her as well. She stood there, telling them about her life and then her voice froze as someone entered the café.

Sebastian.

Six years had fulfilled the promise of him becoming a handsome man, dark wavy cocoa hair, sexy green eyes and a lean physique that made her salivate.

Suddenly conscious of herself, she brushed a hand over her creased outfit and stared at him, wondering how to approach him.

More soon.