Ryan's POV. Not exactly the conversation I had in my mind but this is what my fingers typed.

Chapter 12

"How do you know you're in love?" Kelsey's voice came from behind me. I had just shuffled my way into the kitchen to make some coffee when she walked in behind me. It had taken me over three hours to fall asleep after the talk I had with Taylor. Which meant I only had thirty minutes to sleep before I had to get up. Needless to say I had slept through the alarm clock and was woken up by Millie coming into the room to ask Taylor about something.

Her question hadn't registered in my mind right away, not until I was pouring the coffee into the mug.

"What did you ask me?" I turned around to see Kelsey standing at the island stuffing cereal into her mouth.

"I have this friend, she thinks she's in love and she asked me…but I have no idea so I'm asking you." She looked up at me. I could tell she was lying through her teeth. Kelsey couldn't lie. She was terrible at it, especially the way she shifted uncomfortably in front of me.

"A friend, huh?" I ran a hand through my hair. "What's this 'friends' name?"

"Oh, her name? Uhm…her name is…Kelly." I snorted when she stumbled on her words. If that wasn't obvious.

"You're not in love. It's just…I don't know what it is, but it's not love." I told her nervously. "Shouldn't you be getting ready for school?" I figured that was a good enough excuse to cut the 'love' conversation short. I can barely handle her dating this guy, but love?

"I knew I shouldn't have asked you." She huffed throwing her hands in the air.

"Then why did you ask me?"

"Because, if I asked Mom then she'd get all excited and start talking all about…her experiences with love and I wanted to avoid that…" She looked down.

"I'm sure she'd be better at this then me." I told her.

"Are you that freaked out about me and Jason?" She questioned.

I nodded, "Completely freaked out." She rolled her eyes at me before putting sporting a huge grin on her face.

"He's a great guy, and honestly, Daddy I think it is love…"

"It can't be. You're too young." That made her grin disappear. She was her mother's daughter in every way, especially how she seemed to shoot daggers at me with her glare. "Talk to your Mom. She'll handle this better, I'll just end up saying something wrong." I threw my hands up in defeat.

"How did you know you were in love with Mom, when you first married her." She softened her face.

What was I supposed to tell her? I wasn't even sure how I knew then or how I even know now.

"I…" I started but Taylor walked into the kitchen. "Look it's your mom." I said a little loudly hoping that this would be a better approach at dropping this conversation with Kelsey.

"What's going on?" Taylor looked at both of us suspiciously.

"Nothing, coffee?" I handed a mug over to her.

"I was just asking Daddy here how he knew he was in love with you."

Great.

"I asked him the same thing when we first got married, he said he didn't know. I'm pretty sure he still doesn't." Taylor smirked.

"Kelsey thinks she's in love." I pointed over at my daughter like I was a child. Taylor's eyes widened. "See, my exact reaction."

"Love?!" Taylor asked excitedly. Maybe Kelsey was right, Taylor would get excited about this. "How do you know?"

"She doesn't know, she's not in love. This conversations over." I placed my cup on the counter before looking over at my ex-wife and then at our daughter.

"You can't even describe how much you love mom so how would you know?" Kelsey raised her voice again.

"We'll talk about this later, if you don't hurry up you'll be late for school." Taylor rushed her out of the kitchen then turned to me. "I will handle this." She placed her hand on my chest.

"You'll just encourage her, I will handle this. She doesn't know what she's talking about, i'll make sure i explain that to her. Maybe I should talk to this guy..."

"And you'll just upset her." Taylor looked up at me. "Where's Jory and Millie? They should be getting ready to leave, too." She pulled her hand away. Then we heard both of the girls yelling bye. "Never mind."

"I have to get to work, we'll talk about this tonight." I kissed her forehead.

"Talk about what? How Kelsey's in love?" She grinned.

"She's not in love."