I guess I should tell you that Jake and Peyton had moved in together sorry I totally forgot to mention that. However, Jake had been sleeping on a cot in their room until they got married.

Chapter Two

Lucas unlocked the door to the apartment and walked in and Lucas could help but feel like he was walking in a museum. Everything was exactly the way Jake and Peyton had left it on Friday morning.
Jake's basketball bag was sitting next to the door and the morning dishes hadn't been put away yet.

Lucas carried a sleeping Jenny into what he assumed was her room. And from the looks of it was going to be the baby's room.

The room was yellow with a small white toddler bed in the corner and a wooden crib, painted with basketballs, across from it. Along the wall were drawing and painting obviously done by Peyton.
In the middle of the room there was an ottoman with Jake's guitar leaning on it.

Lucas laid the little girl down on her bed. And turned to the door of the master bedroom. He couldn't do it. Not yet.

He went into the front and laid on the ground with a blanket and pillow he had brought with him.

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"DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDY! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMY"

Lucas sat straight up. He hadn't been sleeping anyhow,but Jenny still had startled him.

"Daaaaaaaaaaddy,Mooooooooooooommy."

Lucas got up quickly and ran to Jenny.

"Hey, Jenny, girl, shhh. Don't cry!"

"Where's my mommy and my daddy, uncle Lucas."

"Ummm....Jenny come here."

The two year old reached up and Lucas took her to the window.

"You see all those stars Jenny?"

The little girl nodded.

"Well, everynow and then people who are really good get to go visit the stars. Someday we'll all get to visit the stars but we have to wait our turn."

"Come back?"

"Well, you see that the thing Jenny, people know how to go to the stars but they can't come back. But you know what? They can still see you and if you hold real still and be real quiet you can feel them send a hug."

"Really, uncle lucas?"

"Yeah, and you know what your mommy and daddy want you to do?" Lucas shifted the little girl back to the floor hoping she wouldn't notice the tear streaming down his eyes.
"Go back to bed."

"ALLLLLLLLLright." she sighed and climbed back into bed.

"uncle Lucas?" he heard as he turned to leave.

"Yeah,"

"Can my daddy and mommy hear me?"

"yeah."

"Okay, good night."

"Night, Jenny."

The next day Lucas didn't go back to school, tomorrow, not yet.

Instead he took Jenny to the hospital to see her brother.

"hello, Mr. Scott. We were just about to call you." The doctor met them at the entrance.

"Is something wrong?"

"No it seems the little boy is improving, we just might take him to the regular nursery later today. Would you like to see him in the nursery?"

"...Um.." He couldn't help but feel out of place being asked, "yeah, I guess."

"We'll just leave her here with the nurse and I'll show you the way."

Soon Lucas was sitting in a rocking chair in front of the incubator that held his best friends' little boy.

"Hey, I'm your Uncle Lucas. I'm not really your uncle ..well, it's a long story any how I'm going to look after you and your sister. Your mom and dad really wanted to be here, but I...I guess thing don't always work out the way we planned.
You get better in there okay? I know your parents would want it. I want to promise you something, that I will try my best and will do even better than that. You and your sister deserve so much more than what you given....You get strong okay, then the three of us can handle this together alright?"

"Mr. Scott?"

"Yes" He turned to see a nurse behind him.

"Do you have a name?"

"No, not really,"

"Did the parents have any names picked out?"

"They were debating over a few but they had never agreed"

"Well, the boy needs a name."

"Can I ask if you any suggestions?"

"Do you know the legend of the phoenix? The burning of the phoenix seems a bad thing but from that death comes life." And she just walked away.

"So she thinks Phoenix would be a good name."

the baby made a sudden movement from within the incubator.

So when the tiny little boy was moved into the regular nursery, the name card had changed as well.

Phoenix J. Matthias Jagielski