A.N.: This chapter is dedicated to Acidic-Lover for being the first reviewer to my last chapter. I was kind of upset with the amount of reviews I got though. I thought I would get more. Oh well. And I would like to specifically thank Acidic-Lover, Anywien, heidigirl, and nikki007 for being the only people to have reviewed to both my chapters.
Acidic-Lover: It's okay; you had to be reading very carefully for it. Thanks so much.
Anywien: Thanks so much for the review and I will try to update this as well as Loose Ends as fast as I can. I promise.
heidigirl: Rob. Yes Rob. I don't know when Rob goodness will happen, but whatever.
nikki007: You'll find out why she left Rob. It will be soon, I can't guarantee a time, but soon enough. And I thought that if they wanted to be really good friends that they should have nicknames for each other. It was sort of hard to find some, but eventually I picked those.
Someday
It's A Plane Day
Two Days Later
We had about four hours until our flight took off to Indiana. At that specific moment I was in my room doing the finishing touches of packing our suitcases. By 'our' I mean Kat's and mine. We were supposed to be leaving for the airport now considering it takes about an hour to get there and a few hours through security. I of course was holding everyone up.
Over the last two days all I could think about was seeing everyone that I hadn't seen again. I heard my bedroom door open and then close silently. "Jay, are you sure you're up to this? I could always go alone you know."
I turned to her and looked her in the eyes and said forcefully, "Nina, I'm fine." I took a deep breath before I said more to myself then her, "I can do this."
Nina reached down and took Kat from the playpen on the side of my bed before she told me, "It's time to go then. We need to leave now. I'll send Sleepy up for your bags." She left the room to find her stepbrother.
He came in a few minutes later. It's too bad that he's hot. I mean I only had the eyes for one guy for a few years now, but that didn't mean I couldn't look at hot guys. Actually, both Jake and Brad had a crush on me when I first came to Carmel. Jake kind of got over those crushes after they found out I was pregnant though. Evidently he can't handle responsibility. Actually, if it weren't for Kat, I wouldn't be able to handle any kind of responsibility either. But Brad, well, he's another story altogether.
"Are these them?" He was gesturing towards the bags resting on my newly made bed.
I nodded before following him downstairs to the living room.
"There you are. We've been waiting for you for a half an hour." Andy had a joking tone as he said this. I could tell he wasn't angry about having to wait for me though.
I sighed, "Let's just go."
We were all piling into two of the cars. We had so many bags and there was nine of us. Cee Cee and Adam McTavish were coming with us so they could drive the cars back to the house later. Yes, Cee Cee and Adam got married. When I moved to Carmel they were sweethearts and eventually got married about two years after graduation. They had a wedding on the beach at sunset on New Years' Day. It was so sweet.
Well, anyway, I wasn't going in the car with the others. I left Kat in the trusty hands of Nina and Jesse while I rode on my bike. That's right, I finally did get a bike. I decided that it probably wasn't the best idea to ride a bike when I was pregnant with Kat, so after she was old enough to not need me every second of the day I bought one. I even went to a shop and asked one of the guys there to tune it for me and let me tell you, that thing sounded like a kitten purring.
I started my bike before I turned back to the guys and said, "Okay, whose turn is it this time?"
"It's mine." Brad said. Nina's stepbrothers wanted to take turns riding on my bike, but there was no way in hell I was leaving my bike in the hands of those boys. So, Jesse being the smart ass that he is suggested that I give them rides on my bike instead of them riding alone. Now the only time they wanted to go anywhere with me was when I told them they could come with me.
That started an argument really quickly though.
Jesse got in the middle of it and broke it up. He had Kat in his arms and he got in the middle of the three arguing men who looked about to fight with each other. I admit I was amused at the sight, but their head on head bickering almost always amuses me. They can be worse than little girls; I swear it. Jesse having Kat wasn't all that big of a deal because everyone knew that Jesse was almost as much of Kat's father as I was her mother. Jesse and me would never ever think of each other that kind of way, but he loved Kat as much as a father loved a daughter, and I wasn't about to take that away. At least, until he had a kid of his own some day.
I ended up having David on the back of the bike for an hour. I have to say that it was better than having Brad though. Brad always ends up reaching a little higher than I would like if you know what I mean when he has his arms around my waist. And where I said that Jake got over his little crush, Brad really didn't. Alas where the other story came in. Let's just say that he wasn't the smartest fish in the sea.
I had already given warning to the airport saying that I was bringing my bike on us with the flight. There was no way I was going to Indiana without it.
The plane seated three people in each row, so we had Kat sit next to the window with me in between her and Nina. In front of us, Jesse was sitting in front of Nina while David sat in front of me, and Jake next to him. Brad, Helen, and Andy were sitting in front of them. (A.N.: Is that confusing at all? It helps if you try to draw it.) When the little light saying we could undo our seatbelts went off I put Kat in my lap and was playing with her. I had to move where Kat was sitting before though because Nina wanted to sit next to her husband. I didn't mind considering all I was doing was cooing over my precious baby.
We arrived in Indiana at about 4:30. We still had about a forty-five minute ride into my hometown. I was on my bike, this time with Jake on the back and was leading the van with everyone else towards my old house and hometown as well as all the people I had left behind.
On the way to get some food we made a little pit stop.
A.N.: Okay, so I did a little cliffy. I'm sorry it took me so long to update. And I really need some ideas for this story or I might have to stop it before it's done. And do you think I could get any more than four reviews for this chapter? I'm not saying I didn't appreciate them, I'm just asking for more. And just so you know, I'm not updating Loose Ends until I get two more reviews. I want 100 reviews before I update that story.
