Chapter 22
The next morning, Steve, Cath and Jay went out for a run. Steve and Jay running had started to turn into a thing, but Cath joining them was a new thing. She normally preferred to swim as her morning exercise, but that morning she had felt the need to run. She felt a little bit intrusive running with Steve and Jay; it had been there way to get to know each other. But when she had told them she needed to run they had both agreed.
When they finally got back Cath knew that although she always thought herself to have great fitness, running with them to proved to her that swimming by herself or running by herself was the far better option than going running with them again.
They all got back and got showered and dressed before making a start on breakfast. Jay left Cath and Steve in the kitchen to prepare breakfast. Although Steve and Cath loved spending time with their kids, but getting to spend little times like this together were nice too.
"Jay can you go and wake the girls up." Cath called through to Jay who was watching the TV in the other room.
A couple of minutes later Jay came back down the stairs, and walked into the kitchen.
"They said they would be down in about 10 minutes." Jay said. Waking them up hadn't been easy, with all of them throwing pillows at him and telling him to get out. When they finally calmed down and listened to Jay they had all got out of bed. "And Shannon said thank you for letting her stay and making breakfast but she has to go as she is flying out to see her dad later."
"Oh okay, well more for us." Steve said.
"Speaking of more food, I believe you better get booking a spa trip." Cath said stopping what she was doing and turning around to look at Steve.
"I was hoping you would have forgotten about that." Steve said.
"Me forget about you paying for a day out." Cath said.
"What did I miss?" Jay asked.
"Well me and Steve had a bet on to see if we would or wouldn't eat all of the food, if we did and ran out, Steve would pay for, me, Chelsea and Evie to go to a spa and if we had too much, I would pay for you and Steve to go to a football stadium for a game and a tour." Cath explained.
"I knew we should have left some food." Jay said taking his seat at the table.
About 10 minutes later Chelsea and Evie appeared, they both looked tired and Cath could tell that waking them up would probably lead to Chelsea getting moody within a short amount of time.
"Shannon said bi and she had to go, and she will see you in a few weeks when she gets back from her dads." Chelsea said as they all took their seats at the table.
"You two back two work tomorrow?" Jay asked, it was nice to have his mom back but he missed having his friends over when he and Chelsea had to house to themselves, he liked how they could spend all day in the garden and not got told to keep the noise down, it also allowed him the time to spend by himself when his house was quite and it wasn't full with people.
"I am but shouldn't be gone all day, I have a briefing early so will hopefully be home early so we can carry on with Evie's room." Cath replied.
"I am meant to be off to sort out the rest of the house, unless we catch a case." Steve explained. He had managed to get the Governor to give him two days off to move house, but the third day had been with the condition that if he was needed it would no longer be his day off. He had started to like the odd day off as they were starting to become more frequent with moving in with Cath and Evie coming to live with him.
"You three got anything nice planned?" Cath asked.
"Me and Evie are going to sort out more of her room and I think me and Jordon are going for lunch." Chelsea replied.
"I think I am going to head out to the beach later and do nothing tomorrow." Jay said.
Once breakfast was over and the kids had done the washing up, the kids had decided that rather than spending the day in the house they would go and meet up with some friends at the beach. Evie had gone with them after Chelsea and Jay had talked about having a 10 year old with them but Chelsea didn't want to leave her with nothing to do. She knew that until Evie had gone to school she didn't really know anyone on the Island and with Grace away in England she only really knew them and Steve and Cath.
"Well I am thinking that since we have the house to ourselves and it has been a while we could make use it." Cath said.
As soon as the words left Cath's mouth, Steve put down the work he was doing, stood up and picked her up to carry her upstairs. Steve doesn't waste any time in getting Cath lying down on the bed and starting to undress her.
A couple of hours later...
Steve and Cath had spent the first part of the day making love and lying in bed together. Once they realised the time and that the kids could be back soon they quickly got out of bed and went back downstairs to finish the work they had both started earlier that day.
"I can't believe you kissed her and then walked away." Chelsea said as all three of the kids walked through the door.
"Well I'm sorry it's not up to your standards, you told me to do something and then I did and then sort of froze." Jay argued back.
"What happened?" Cath asked walking into the living room from the kitchen.
"Well, we were at the beach and just sitting down by the sea, then we saw Ellie, then we were all telling him that he had to do something, because they both know they like each other but never want to do anything about it. So we told him now was the time, so he walked up to her, kissed her and then I think he froze and she didn't know what they say so he walked off, we followed and that is why we are now home." Chelsea explained.
"You walked off without saying anything?" Cath asked. "You can't just walk up to a girl and kiss her then walk off." Cath carried on. She thought her kids had been brought up with some manners and kissing a girl and then walking off didn't make good manners.
"Well if it's any conciliation I had Molly speak to her once we left and me, you Molly, George and Jordon are going out for dinner with her tonight." Chelsea butted it. She had text her Molly as soon as they left asking her too, but only just got the reply. Chelsea's guess was that Ellie took a lot of persuading to go out with them, they didn't really know each other very well and asking her anyway would be a little weird, but even more so now that Jay had just kissed her and walked away.
"WHAT?" Jay almost shouted at Chelsea, his face showing his feeling of anger and shock.
"You couldn't just leave it like how it was. At least now you can talk to her and not be alone to make it less awkward." Chelsea said. "Meeting them at Nando's at 5.30." Chelsea carried on when Jay didn't say anything and made her way upstairs.
"When you got out, you either need to ask her out or you need to apologise for kissing her." Cath said, "Now I suggest that you go and get changed, but I don't think you are going to go out dressed like that." Cath said, kissing her son on the check.
A couple of hours later...
"I had a look early and after our bet I have booked you two and Chelsea into a spa day for Saturday." Steve said, as he, Cath and Evie sat eating dinner.
"Wow that was quick, normally it takes about a week, for you to do something like that and you have booked it for 2 days?" Cath asked.
"Well I promised you that it would happen." Steve replied.
"I'm not complaining, but why for this Saturday?" Cath asked, getting a little suspicious.
"I thought I would do it quickly to make sure I am not in your debt for longer." Steve replied, once he said it he realised how stupid it was, he had been in debt to Cath for many years, after asking her for all the favours and never finding enough time, when they were both on land to repay her.
"You're always in my debt. Now I definitely know there is something else going on." Cath said.
"Fine, there is a good football game on this weekend and me and Danny have got tickets for us and Jay to go and watch it, so I thought if I booked you to go to the spa, then we could definitely make it to the football game." Steve replied.
It is going to be good isn't it Evie?" Cath said.
"Yeah it will be good." Evie replied.
"You excited for school?" Cath asked, it was getting close to all of the kids going back to school in about 2 weeks and they hadn't really talked about school.
"Yeah, I am looking forward to it." Evie replied, truth be told she wasn't looking forward to it for a while but once she had talked to Chelsea and Jay and a few of their friends earlier that day she had gotten used to the idea.
"We will need to go shopping soon." Cath said. "New school clothes has to be one of Chelsea's favourite times of the year."
"Well I think that will be a girls day." Steve said, he had gotten to know Chelsea and he now knew that going shopping with Chelsea was something he didn't want to experience. He would rather go back out a SEAL mission because it would have to be easier.
"Nope, we can all go. All 5 of us it will be a good day." Cath said with a smile. She hadn't really thought about if she would drag Steve around with them but was enjoying teasing him about it.
Once all of the washing up was done and the kitchen was tidied, Cath, Steve and Evie all sat down on the sofa starting to watch a film.
They were half way through the film when they heard people walking up the front drive of the house. Steve got up to have a look out the window – he was still a little bit worried about his run in with Wo Fat a couple of weeks ago – but he saw it was Chelsea and Jordon. He walked back to the sofa taking his seat back in the middle.
"Chelsea's home, but I can't see Jay." Steve said once he was nested back in between Cath and Evie.
"Let me guess Jordon walked her home?" Cath asked. She didn't have a problem with Jordon, he seemed like a nice kid, but what she did have the problem with was him dating her 14 year old daughter. She had started going out with her ex – husband around that age and look where she ended up, a teenage mother, she really didn't want her daughter ending up in the same boat.
"Yeah they are outside saying 'goodbye'." Steve said.
"I will open the door." Cath said getting up off the sofa, she stood up and walked to the door, opened it and saw her daughter kissing Jordon. She just stood there till they both felt her presence.
"Well I will call you tomorrow." Jordon said kissing her once more on the cheek before walking away from the house.
"Where's Jay?" Cath asked, it was getting late, and it was getting to both Chelsea and Jay's curfew. Since she had put the rules in place both her kids have been good at following them.
"He and Ellie may have decided to go out, and then he told her he would walk her home." Chelsea said with a smile on her face.
"Right okay." Cath said. "We are watching Ghost if you want to join us."
"No thanks, I think I am going to go for a bath and then bed." Chelsea said.
"Okay goodnight. By the way me, you and Evie are going to spa on Saturday." Cath said giving her daughter a kiss on the cheek.
"Okay, night." Chelsea said walking away up the stairs.
"Why are we watching this film?" Steve asked. All of the films they had to watch, why did it have to be Ghost, a girly film that he would never watch.
"Because it is a good film, and you were out voted." Evie replied. They had ended up voting on the film, after Steve had tried to get them to watch some action film that Cath and Evie would never enjoy. After taking the vote Steve realised that this was probably how things were going to be with only 2 boys and 3 girls in the house.
It wasn't much longer until Jay walked in, smiling and seeming pleased with himself.
"I hear things went well with you and Ellie." Cath said.
"Chelsea?" Jay asked, he already knew the answer, because she was the only person who would have told her, but he wished she hadn't because they only really said they were going out once to see how things went.
"Yeah she told us. I hear things went well then." Steve said, half turning around so that he was half facing Jay but trying not to disturb Evie who was asleep using his arm as a pillow.
"Yeah, I am taking her out tomorrow and we are going to see how things are going." Jay said. "Anyway I am going to bed. I will see you later. Goodnight."
"I think I am going to head up to bed." Cath said.
"I will be right up I will just get Evie." Steve said.
Cath walked up the stairs and went to check of Chelsea, finding her lying on top of her bed covers fast asleep. Cath carefully moved Chelsea to go under the covers, and waited for Steve to bring Evie up. When Steve came up he placed Evie next to Chelsea on the bed, before Cath came and took her shoes off and covered her with the other half of the quilt. They both gave their kids a kiss on the head before leaving the room.
"I will just go and say goodnight to Jay." Cath said, walking down the hall way towards her sons' room.
Steve went into their room and started to get ready for bed.
"All the kids are in bed and asleep, I am thinking that we should have a repeat of earlier." Cath said, joining Steve on the bed pulling Steve close.
I am sorry for it taking so long to update and this chapter is so short, I should hopefully update this soon. Please review