I lay on the bed, relaxing a little as I watch Johnny looking at some papers. He sighs deeply, and I see him getting frustrated about something. I think about the amazing sex we had in the dance studio earlier, and bite my lip. He looks up at me and inhales deeply.

"You're okay?"
"No, Baby, I think something went wrong."
"Let me have a look."

He stands up and came to the bed. Upon sitting down he gives me the papers and I look at them. It is the schedule for the coming days. I have found his problem. I see double scheduled lessons. How did this happen?

"Who has been planning in the lessons?"
"Amanda and myself, why?"
"Have you been communicating with her? And using the same schedule?"
"I guess not."
"That's your problem, mister, you never communicate. You've been planning lessons on the same times as Amanda had."
"Shit."

This is typical Johnny. I have taught Amanda to always communicate with him. So, now I have to talk to her about this as well, but I will do it tomorrow. He looks at me and I see him being at a loss for what to do about this. I give him the schedules back and smile as I came to a solution, he looks at the schedules again.

"Just let Amanda teach the double planned lessons."
"But she's not ready for that yet."
"Well, let her do it in the same room, then you can watch her and help her where needed. She's going to need to learn it eventually."
"She's going to college, remember?"
"That's only in the evenings, and getting some experience from you would be really good for her."

I watch him thinking, and he takes his pen and starts to write. I bite my lip as I watch him. He looks so sexy right now. I know, I must be crazy right now, or is it my hormones? I see him sighing. He turns his head to look at me and sees my eyes. He lays his papers down and moves himself, so he lays down next to me. I smile as I give him a kiss.

"I'll figure it out tomorrow with Amanda."
"Hmm, you have something on your mind?"
"A lot."

I giggle a little and he kisses me. Then there is a knock on the door. We jump and Johnny gets off the bed. I look at the time. I nearly forgot about Jamie.

"I guess that's Jamie, are you ready for this?"
"I don't know."

I get off the bed and smile. I went to the door and open it. I see Jamie standing there with his hands in his pockets. I smile as I step aside.

"Come on in."

He steps inside and looks at me for a moment before he turns and sees his brother. I close the door and sit back down on the bed. Johnny stands there with his hands in his pockets. I watch them looking at each other, both not really sure how to start, or what to say. I can see Johnny is still careful. I need to break the tensions.

"You both want to sit down?"

They look at me and I nod at the chairs. Then they both look at each other again, and Johnny did the mature thing of letting Jamie sit down first. That is a nice step forward. Johnny gives his brother a beer and sits down on the other chair.

"So…"

I see Jamie shrug a little, he looks at me for support. I smile at him and give him an encouraging nod. I look at Johnny again who is still watching his brother. I will start this, otherwise they will still be staring at each other in an hour from now. I introduced them to each other.

"Johnny, meet your brother Jamie. Jamie, this is your big brother Johnny."
"I'm glad for this opportunity, brother."

Johnny starts to think while still having a careful eye on Jamie. Give it a moment, I am sure everything will be all right between the two of them. I see Johnny slowly putting his guard down. I start to smile.

"I heard that Baby has walked into you earlier today."
"Yes, and we talked."
"Is it true what our mother is doing to you?"

Jamie looks down and sighs deeply, he does not dare to look at Johnny. Johnny is watching him carefully. I just keep listening and watching them. I can see Johnny becoming curious about the reaction from Jamie when he asked the question. If Jamie was truly cold hearted he would not have reacted at all in first place, and he probably would have attacked us already.

"You didn't told her you would be coming here, did you?"

Jamie looks up at Johnny now and shakes his head.

"No, I don't want to do that anymore."
"Where is she now?"
"She's staying in a hotel nearby, she had send me to a motel to watch all of you."
"Did you told her anything?"
"Nothing much, just that you all have arrived here."

Johnny takes a beer for himself and drinks from it. Jamie is watching him. I lay myself down while I keep watching them. The tensions are slowly drifting away. I think I did something good. This feels right.

"Good because I don't know what I would do if you had informed her."

I watch how Jamie starts to cry this instantly. I quickly get off the bed and went to him. He looks at me as I kneel next to him and lay my hand on his arm. Johnny starts to frown as he watch his brother crying. He did not expected this reaction coming from such a big guy as Jamie. Jamie is taller, and more masculine than Johnny, I think he is at least twice the size of Johnny.

"I'm so sorry, brother, for everything I did."

Johnny looks at me and I nudge my head. I see him standing up and looking back at Jamie, who looks up at his brother. Johnny beckons Jamie to stand up, who quickly stands up. I stand straight as well. They look at each other, Johnny can see the regret on Jamie's face and in his eyes. He inhales deeply and moves himself closer to his brother.

"Come here."

I feel so proud of my man right now. I watch them hugging tightly. Johnny looks at me and I give him a nod as I smile. He starts to smile and hugs his brother a little tighter. A hug is good, it shows that they accept each other, and that they want peace. Johnny let his brother go and looks at his face.

"How old are you, brother?"
"I'm twenty-one now, and you?"
"I'll be twenty-five next week on Wednesday."
"Has mom ever loved you?"

The question took Johnny a little by surprise and he had to think about how to answer it. He sits back down as he thinks about his childhood. He had thought about it many times, especially in the last month, and he has talked to his father about it a lot as well, but the fact of the matter is that he does not really remembers any good times with his mother, only with his father.

"I don't think she has ever loved me."
"But you knew her when you were little."
"I don't have happy memories with her at all. I tried to remember any, and I talked to dad about it, but he told me that she was most often away. I only have good memories with dad."

Johnny is frowning deeply as he thinks about Jamie's age, something does not add up. There is only an age gap of four years between him and his brother. Ron told him that he thinks that Jamie is born during the period his mother was in New Mexico for a year, but that should have been when he was twelve according to Jamie's age, and Johnny knows that his mother was in New Mexico when he was fifteen. I see his confusion growing.

"I wish I had a family."

We look at Jamie who is looking at his brother. Johnny takes a deep breath, and by a miracle, he starts to smile, from the moment he discovered about Jamie's existence, he has always wished to get to know his half-brother. I know that because he had told me that some time ago. Maybe now it is the time for them to get to know each other.

"If you're true to your word of what you said to Baby, then you're my family, you're my brother."
"You mean that?"
"Of course, I've always wanted a brother or sister, when I discovered about you, I was thrilled, I wanted to meet you. But then I discovered the note and the poison and that's why I left."
"I didn't know mom had even put that in my pocket to begin with, not that I could read the note anyway, but the poison was obvious."
"Were you planning on doing it?"
"No, why would I poison you?"
"Why did you punched my father on his face two weeks ago?"
"Because mom ordered me to do so. She always kept saying that if I didn't follow her directions, she would throw me out of the apartment, cut off the allowance she's giving me and break off all contact. I don't want to be homeless and alone again."

I smile as I extend my hands to both of them. They look at each other and then back at me. If no one else is going to unite them, then I will, because they deserve to have a family and to know each other. They take my hands. I see them starting to smile. Jamie's smile is not as cute as Johnny's, but you can see they are related. I giggle a little.

"Let's be family, because family is important and together we're stronger."

Then my stomach starts to rumble very loud. I giggle about it and let their hands go, laying my hands on my belly.

"I guess the baby is hungry."

Johnny chuckles and leans in to give me a kiss. I watch him taking his phone.

"I'm going to call Billy if he wants to bring us some. You want some too, brother?"
"You don't mind?"
"Of course not. Chicken and rice, you like that?"
"I never had that before."
"Oh, goodie, you're going to love that. Come, sit with me."

I take him with me to the bed and sit down. He sits down next to me as he keeps looking at me. Johnny is on the phone with Billy while he keeps watching us. I giggle a little as I tell him about when I was a baby.

"Get dad as well, I want him to meet my brother."

I look at Johnny when he said that. He smiles at me, and I give him a nod. I look back at Jamie, I can see he is getting a little anxious. I take his hand and he inhales deeply.

"Brother? Cuz, are you telling me that your half-brother is with you right now?"
"Yes, he is, and I want my family to meet him."
"Aren't you scared that he would hurt Baby?"
"He's not going to hurt Baby, it was her idea to invite him here."
"Okay, if you say so, I'll get you the food and your father. We'll be there in about half an hour."
"Okay, thanks, cuz, see you soon."
"See ya."

Johnny ends the call and lays his phone on the table. He watches us and starts to smile again. I am animating Jamie a little. He has quite the sense of humor I tell you. He is not as handsome as Johnny, but his eyes are his eye-catcher, so to speak. He has ash-blonde hair. I think Johnny is sexier, but that is just my taste. He chuckles about a joke and looks at Johnny.

"Baby told me you didn't go to school."

Jamie inhales deeply and nods. I can see he feels embarrassed about that.

"Do you want to learn how to read and write?"
"I would love to. I feel like a failure next to everyone because everyone went to school except me."
"Well, Baby wants to offer you to go to school to learn, but besides that, if you like, I can help you too. Then we can spent some time together."

Jamie stands up from the bed and grabs Johnny into a hug. Johnny chuckles a little and pats his brother on his back. I smile as I watch them, it is good to see that they both want to be brothers.

"Thank you, brother, I would like that very much."
"I got a job offer for you."

Jamie looks at me and became curious. Johnny came to me and gave me a sweet kiss. I think he is thankful that I have done this, even though he first was hotheaded and stubborn, and not liking it that I pushed him. I smile at him as I take his hand and look back at Jamie.

"Is it something I can do?"
"Yes, I think you're very capable of doing this, but I also need to talk to Johnny's father if he wants to accept you to be at his company."
"You mean I will work there?"
"As well yes, you will be working on a few locations."
"What will the job be?"
"Janitor."
"What does that mean?"
"It basically means that you will repair things like lamps, chairs and stuff like that."
"Will I get paid for doing that?"
"You will get a monthly paycheck, it will be really good money."
"What are the other locations?"

He has a lot of questions. I can tell you that much. But I think that is a good thing, because it shows that he is not as dumb as he first comes across. Johnny is smiling at his brother. He can see the eagerness but also the cautiousness.

"My office in town, and you'll be coming with me to the events that I organize, there you'll be helping with building up things."

I look at Johnny and see his eyes. If I hire Jamie, then he will be around us most of the time, which is good, because this way they can bond, and his mother cannot try to come any closer and try to talk to him. I want to protect Jamie from his mother, she is a very bad influence.

"You'll be around us most of the times, would you like that?"
"I would love that."
"Good, so that means that you'll be soon my employee."
"You're going to be my boss?"
"Yes."

Jamie looks at Johnny who nods at his brother with a smile.

"Your girlfriend is amazing, brother."
"She's the best."

I giggle about them and hug them both. They smile as they hug me back.

"I do want one thing in return from you, just one thing."
"What thing?"
"I want you to talk to my lawyer and tell him everything of what your mother is planning on doing."
"Will I be punished when I do that? Mom said I will be punished if I tell anyone."
"No, I'll make sure you won't get punished, don't worry."
"Will she go to prison?"
"Probably, yes."

Jamie looks down, we watch him thinking, processing all this information, deciding on what he needs to do. I guess it is a hard decision to make, then I see him nod and looking back up. The determination on his face is real. I can see he wants to be on our side.

"She deserves to go to prison, but I'm scared."
"Don't worry, brother, I'll protect you."
"Will you do that?"
"I will, mom deserves to go to prison, she has made our lives a living hell. I can see what she's doing to you."
"I thought I loved her, until she told me what I needed to do to Baby when your father wouldn't give her what she wants. I don't like that. I don't want to do that. I never wanted to hurt anyone."
"I believe you, brother."

Jamie hugs his brother again. I smile and inhale deeply. I know he has not exactly told me what he must do, but I do not want to know about it. I am already getting scared by thinking about it, I know I will get nightmares when he would tell me.

"I don't dare to go back to the motel, mom will call me there and find me there. She will punish me when she discovered this."

Johnny looks at me, and I think quickly about a solution to this.

"Don't you have a phone or something?"
"No, I don't know how to use a phone, I just know how to answer it. The numbers are confusing me."
"Penny's old cabin is empty."
"What do you mean, Baby?"

I look at Johnny, that just came into my head. Amanda is staying with Lisa, so she is not using Penny's old cabin. We have not told Max about it, so Max does not know. Since the cabin falls under our contract this year, we can let Jamie stay in it, this way his mother has no clue about his whereabouts, she cannot reach him, and he is close to us. The free time we have here will be a good opportunity for them to bond and to get to know each other.

"Well, the cabin actually would be for Amanda, but she's staying with Lisa. We haven't told Max about the cabin being empty, so I figure that Jamie can stay in there. He will be close to us, and your mother won't know where he will be."

I see Johnny's smile getting bigger and he looks at his brother who is a little confused. I can see Jamie's confusion as well.

"Do you want to stay here at the resort with us?"
"Yes, but I cannot pay for this."
"You don't have to, we have a cabin for you, you just have to promise us that you won't tell mom that you're staying here."
"I promise, I would love to be closer to you, brother."
"Me too, brother, we'll be going to the motel later to get your stuff."

Jamie nods and smiles widely about that. He hugs Johnny again. I can see he loves to hug, but maybe that is because he never really got much affection in his life. Nevertheless, it is good to see they both want the same thing.