CHAPTER 2

Patricia's POV

We hopped in the car at about 7:45. I had put Luna down for bed already when we left just to make sure she wouldn't be any trouble for Eddie's dad.

"I'm so excited for you to meet everyone," I glanced over my right shoulder to look at Eddie. I've been trying to convince him that we should go out with them one of these days, and tonight was the first night he actually agreed.

There was a spot on the street about a block from the pub. Eddie pulled our car into parallel park as I texted Elizabeth to tell her we were there. I had on my favorite black boots and a grey dress with my leather jacket. I don't care how old I may be, I will always love this jacket.

"Don't you think that dress is a little risqué."

"Eddie, I can wear what I want. Yes I may be a mum but I'm not dead. Let me live a little."

"Alright. Just save some of that for me."

I rolled my eyes at his comment.

I opened the car door and met him on the sidewalk to head into the pub. Holding on to Eddie's arm, we walked in and Lizzie motioned over to me.

"I'm so glad you could make it," she said through her thick London accent. She gave me a hug as I sat down next to her. Eddie stood behind me, a little uncomfortable.

"You remember Eddie," I uttered.

"Of course. How could I forget." She replied as she went in to hug him. "This is Paige and James, they were in our Literature class last semester."

"Oh yeah." I waved to them.

"And this is Mark and Drew." She motioned to 2 other guys standing across from me. We all began talking about the usual stuff, which professors we hated, latest football games, jobs, and just normal uni kid gossip.

"Eddie, what are you doing right now?" Paige asked, trying to include him more in the conversation, which I appreciated.

"I'm working with 2 historians here in Liverpool. One of them is a curator at a museum here in town and another has an antique shop but goes back and forth to Egypt a lot."

We then got on the topic of vacations. I brought up my trip to the US. I hadn't realized, but that was my last vacation. As a kid, we traveled all over the globe since my parents worked in parliament.

"So how long have you guys been together?" James asked Eddie and I.

"Umm.. let's see. We had been together for about a year and a half when Luna was born. So about two and half years," I replied.

"Who's Luna?" Paige looked at me confused.

"Oh, our daughter." Eddie responded.

That comment usually gets weird looks. I don't hide the fact that I'm a mum, I just don't bring it up all the time. At school, I'm just a normal student, I don't want to draw more attention to myself. Just then, Elizabeth, Drew, and Mark come back to our table with our drinks.

"What did I miss?" Elizabeth scootched next to me in the booth.

"Nothing," I said, grabbing my Diet Coke from her hand. Eddie and I have never been the drinking type. We generally stick to soda.

It was about 10:00 when I checked my phone to look at the time. By this time it was just Eddie, Elizabeth and I at our booth. I leaned over to excuse myself to go to use the toilets.

I went over to use the loo at the back of the pub. By this time the guys we had come with were on their 3rd round of drinks. That was definitely not my favorite part of Uni. I popped out of the loo and quite literally ran into Drew.

"Sorry about that." I said trying not to show how annoyed I really was.

"What do you say we get out of here, just the two of us?" Drew asked, slurring his words.

"Um, no thanks," I didn't know how to reply to this sudden advance. He took a step towards me and I countered his advance by taking a step back. He then closed the distance I had created and brushed my hair behind my ear and touched my hip.

"Your boyfriend doesn't need to know,"

Just then, Eddie came from the other side of the room. He was always somehow able to sense when I was in distress.

"What are you doing?!" he yelled over to Drew.

"Nothing, you should tell your girlfriend to leave me alone. She was the one who came on to me."

"Like I'm gonna believe that." He spatted back with that thick American accent. He protectively put his arm around my shoulder as we walked back to say goodbye to Elizabeth.

"Hey I think we're gonna get going, I hate to have Eric look after Luna. She's our responsibility ." Reaching for my coat I gave a hug to Elizabeth. She understood why I hated staying out too late.

I grabbed onto Eddie's arm as we headed out the door, resting my head on his shoulder. When we got outside of the pub Eddie looked down at me.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine can we just get home."

We shuffled to the car in silence.

"What did he say to you?" Eddie asked as I shut the car door to sit down.

"He asked if I wanted to get out of there and that you didn't have to know. He pushed my hair behind my ear and touched my hip but that was it." I glanced out the window as I was recounting what just happened.

"I'm sorry I didn't go over there sooner." He rested his hand on my thigh.

"I can take care of myself Doofus." I retorted

"I know…" he knew that he would get in trouble one way or another if he tried to finish that sentence.

When we pulled into the driveway I noticed that all of the lights were off except Eric's room's. I'm guessing he decided to take an early night. Stepping through the doorway, I put my purse on the coat stand and took my boots off one at a time. Eddie then grabbed my waist and lifted me up as I flew in a circle around him. When he set me down, he twirled me around to face him.

"What are you doing?" I smiled.

"Something I've been wanting to do all night." And with that his lips fell onto mine with a sense of urgency. I met him with the same amount of desire, all I wanted to do was get this night out of my head.

"Ahem." We both broke our kiss and turned around to notice Eric standing in the kitchen with a bag of tea.

"Hey dad. How was your evening." I laughed a little bit, my face was a bright red.

"I'm gonna go check on Luna, I'll see you guys in the morning. Good night." I responded to this embarrassing endeavor.

"I'm gonna go too, I'm SUPER tired." I heard Eddie say from behind me. Then, there were quick footsteps behind me and I felt him grab on to my butt for a second as he ran in ahead of me up the stairs. As I stepped into our room, I closed the door as quickly as I could. Within seconds, my grey dress, I started the evening in, was on the floor with the rest of our clothes.