--Four--

Kate walked back in from the kitchen and said "Okay… I ordered like six large pizza's."

"Geez, are you feeding an army?" said Pogue laughing.

"No… but you boys are heffers and you eat everything."

"That is true." said Sarah.

"You girls eat just as much as we do." said Tyler.

"Name one time." said Peyton.

"Um…" he was thinking, then shrugged his shoulders. "I got nothing."

"That's what I thought." Peyton laughed giving him a hug.

"Bella… can I talk to you for a second?" asked Reid.

"Yeah, sure." she said.

He grabbed her hand and lead her into the bathroom he was in with Lily previously. They walked in and he shut the door behind him.

"Lily knows."

"She knows what?"

"She knows your name is Carly and she knows I am her dad."

"What?"

"While I was in here with her, putting on her bandaid we were talking. She told me Chuck told her all the lies he told you and that he wasn't her dad… I was. And when I confirmed it, she was calling me daddy."

"Seriously? Why didn't she say anything to me?"

"I don't know, she kinda looked a little scared when she told me. But do you know how happy I was to hear those words coming from my little girls mouth?" She smiled and gave him a hug. "Don't tell Lily. It's supposed to be our secret. I want her to be able to trust me."

"I won't say anything, don't worry."

During the hug, Reid started gliding his lips on Carly's neck teasing her making her get goose bumps.

"I missed you so much, Bella."

"I missed you too, Reid,"

Then he started kissing her. She immediately gave in, missing those lips she loved so much. After ten minutes of some heated over due making out, Reid's phone went off.

"Not now!" he groaned.

He flipped it open to read a text from Tyler "Nicole is here looking for you."

Reid rolled his eyes, put his phone in his pocket, and said " Nicole is here… we're going to finish this later." he gave her one more kiss. "to be continued."

She laughed and he walked out of the bathroom into the den. Carly waited about five minutes before she walked out there. When she did, she sat down next to Tyler, leaning her head on his shoulder.

Nicole was glaring at Carly and said "Okay… who exactly are you?"

"She's my sister." said Tyler.

"Oh… I didn't know you had a sister." she paused. "So, I take it from the stuff you were saying earlier, you and Reid were together?"

"Yeah… eight years ago, but that's ancient history… I was just shocked is all, that he moved on."

"Oh." Nicole nodded but didn't feel convinced.

A little bit later, Carly was looking at Reid from across the room, listening to Nicole talk about more of the wedding plans and seeing how Reid looked like he'd rather stab himself in the eye with a butter knife.

As Reid took a drink of water, Carly sent him a thought "If everybody was gone… I'd come over there, rip your clothes off, and jump your bones on that couch, right now."

Once Reid heard that he spit out his water all over the place, kind of choking while everyone was looking at him funny.

Carly was smiling at him and said "You okay, Reid?"

He flashed her his sexiest smirk, nodded, and giggled.

Ten minutes later, the pizza came by. Pogue paid the delivery guy and took the pizza's into the kitchen, yelling "Come and eat!"

"Let me grab my children." said Carly going up the stairs.

Nicole whispered to Sarah "She has kids? How old are they?"

"Twins and they are seven." Sarah smiled at her and Nicole nodded.

Everyone went into the kitchen, except for Reid. He ran up to Carly and he caught her by surprise by pulling her into his room pinning her against his door.

He started kissing her all over her lips and neck, then said "Bella… I don't know how I am going to be able to keep my hands off of you."

He slid his hands down her sides grabbing her butt and lifting her to his waist wrapping her legs around him.

"Is there a way to Use to stop time for an hour?" she asked.

"An hour? Pfft... Baby, I'll need all night."

She giggled, then continued kissing him digging her nails into his chest and back, making Reid moan.

A few minutes there was a knock on his door. "Hey Reid… can I talk to you before I go see my parents?"

"It's Nicole." he whispered in Carly's ear. "I'll be right there." he rolled his eyes, then whispered in Carly's ear again. "Go in my closet. There's a door leading to the room I think Lily is in."

She nodded then teased him by gliding her lips and tongue from his earlob, to his neck, tracing her tongue around his lips, and into his mouth. He was sucking on her tongue and they kissed one last time before Carly ran into his closet.

He grabbed his phone holding onto it, he opened the door, and said "Yeah?"

"Who were you talking to?" Nicole asked walking in.

"I had to call my mom." he put his phone back in his pocket.

Carly decided she was going to stand in there and listen to their conversation.

"Are you okay?"

"Um… yeah Nicole, I'm fine."

"Oh… you just seem a little tense that your old girlfriend came back."

"No… I am not tense. Like she said we're ancient history... But I'm not going to lie, I am glad she is doing okay because she just up and left with no explanation." he stretched the truth a little.

"Oh… where is she?"

"In the next room with her daughter."

"Is there a possibility that her kids are yours?"

"Nicole… Carly left eight years ago… they are seven, you do the math."

"Do you love me?"

"What?"

"Reid, do you love me?"

"Of course, I do." he said looking away.

"Then if you love me the way you say you do… would you stay away from her?"

"What?!" Carly thought to herself, wanting to knock her lights out.

"Look Nicole… regardless of our past history, she's still one of my best friends. Me, her, and the guys have this like… special bond that will you will never understand."

"Why can't I be included?"

"Because Nicole… you just can't."

There was a moment of silence, then she blurted out "I'm pregnant."

"What?" Reid played it off, acting surprised and Carly wanted to laugh.

"Yeah… we're having a baby." she said giving him a hug.

The sound of all of that just made Reid want to hurl, but he said "That's great, Nicole."

"Come on, lets go tell everybody… then I have to go."

She grabbed his hands pulling him downstairs as Carly walked thru the secret door into the other room, which had Lily asleep in the bed. Carly was laughing so hard that, she woke Lily up.

"What's so funny, Mommy?"

"Oh nothing… just something I heard that made me laugh. Aunt Kate ordered some pizza."

"Yummy."

"Can I talk to you about something first?"

"Yes, Mommy."

"What do you think about Mommy's friend Reid?"

"He's cool… he fixed my cut when I didn't even ask him to and he's nice to me."

"Uh-huh… So what do you think about Daddy?"

"Um… he's okay, he is my Daddy." she looked away.

"You sure?"

"Yeah."

Carly could tell that there was more to this story, she said "Okay, then."

Jacob walked in the room and said "I'm hungry Mom."

"Well Sir… you are in luck because your Aunt Kate ordered pizza."

"Awesome." he said.

Then all three of them walked down to the kitchen, Carly saw no Nicole, laughed to herself then sat down.