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It was almost 7 and Lucy was finishing her makeup.A knot had started to form in her stomach.She had been waiting for this day since Krysten was born, but that still wouldn't make the nervousness go away.Minutes later she heard a knock on her door and when she opened the door Jeremey was standing there holding a dozen red roses.
"Awh Jeremey you didn't have to" Lucy said smiling as he handed her the roses.
"I wanted to" Jeremey said smiling the same smile that Lucy was in love with 5 years ago.
They headed to a local restaurant downtown and got to talking.Lucy thought she better get through all the normal catch up stuff first.
"So what have you been doing for the past five years?" Jeremey asked.
"Well I'm a dentist's assistent and I have the kids so that takes up all my time."
"That's good.That must be an interesting job working in health care?"
"Not at all" Lucy laughed. "I had to do something that could bring in the money and that didn't have a lot of years of school.I only had to go to school for 2 years and the money's enough to support us, well for now it is.So what do you do for a living?"
"I do different things.Carpentry, mining sometimes, electricians work.I've been working in New York.My parent's moved back here and they bought the farm back, the one we lived at before we moved.I was helping my brother Kyle out with his restaurant back in New York for a while too, still do sometimes when I have spare time."
"That sounds interesting.Guess you don't get bored at work always doing something different.I do the same thing everyday.It's not that bad, but wasn't what I really wanted to be." Lucy sighed.
Her and Jeremey talked a bit more about work before he mentioned her kids again.
" So, the father, where is he? If you don't mind me asking." Jeremey said.
"Well, Jake and Katelyn's father, my two youngest, I was with him for a bit and things seemed to be fine.We weren't married but were planning on getting married.Things just seemed to happen so fast though.First we had Jake and we were just getting used to living together, then I got pregnant with Katelyn.That's when started fighting and I started to get to know the real Chris.When Katelyn was 3 months old he left." Lucy explained.
"That must have been really hard."Jeremey said not knowing what to say.
"Yeah, now I'm a single mom.Haven't heard from him since."
"What about your oldest's father, Krysten was her name?"Jeremey questioned.
Lucy froze at the mention of this. "Welll" Lucy dragged out. "Uhm this is hard to say."
"What do you mean?" Jeremey asked not knowing what could be so hard about it.
"You remember how you moved away in highschool and we just thought it would be best not to keep in touch once you left because it would be hard on us?"
"Yah I remember.What are you getting at?" Jeremey asked even more confused.
"Well I've been trying to get in touch with you for the past five years because about a month after you left, I found out I was pregnant." Lucy said figuring this was all she needed to say for him to understand.There was a silence as Jeremey let it sink in.
"And your daughter Krysten would be five right?" Jeremey said making sure he understood what Lucy was saying.
"Yes" she answered quietly.
"Whoa" Jeremey said as he ran his hands through his hair.
The two talked about this all through dinner even though both of them weren't overly hungry anymore.Lucy offered to get a paternity test done so Jeremey would know for sure.Even though he believed her he agreed to it.Lucy knew of a place in L.A. where you could get paternity tests done.It was only 2 hours away and they decided it would be best to get the test done as soon as possible.They planned to drive down the following Saturday once Jeremey had finished what he had come to town for and Lucy had the weekend off.Lucy phoned her mom and wondered if it would be ok if the kids stayed the night so her and Jeremey could stay up late talking.Annie said it was no problem since the kids would be with her the next day while Lucy was at work.She thanked her mother and said goodnight to each of the kids on the phone.
After this her and Jeremey drove out to the duck pond which was deserted at this hour.It was dark by now.The moonlight shone down on the pond making a reflection.The sky was clear and many small, glittering stars were scattered across the sky.There was a silence between the two.Both not really knowing what to say.They both watched the ducks which weren't doing much but sitting there all in a pack.
"Sorry." Jeremey said after minutes had passed.
"About what?" Lucy questioned completely puzzled.
"For not being there these past five years.I feel so bad now that I haven't been here to take care of her.I swear if I knew I would have been here the whole time.I never would have left with my parents.I didn't want to in the first place I told them a million times I wanted to stay here with you but they kept telling me it was just a teenage romance and I would get over it." Jeremey confessed looking down.
"You didn't know.I know you would have been there if you knew.Let's not blame anyone it's not our faults.It's now that counts." Lucy told him. "Don't beat yourself up about it."
"I know it's not my fault but I can't get over it.I've missed five years of her life.The most important five.The first five.I missed her first words, the first time she walked, all those firsts.First day of school and just everything else in her life."
"Yah but there's going to be much more firsts in her life that you will be here for now.We can't change the past now, just be there for her in the future."
"I'll deffinitley be there in the future.No way am I missing anything more in her life."