A/N: Whee another chapter in less then twnety four hours. I'm good. Lol well not really. Thank you to Brittany2008 and TragicCure for the reviews.

TragicCure: I forgot to mention that she kept the ring. But there was a reason for that. You'll see next chapter. Sorry for the confustion.

Um I own nothing but my OCs and plot. Theres nothing I really want to say. Next chapter will be up tonight or tomorrow night. Updates will be less because I go back to school tomorrow and I have school the rest of the week. This should be fun. LOL. So enough with me talking heres chapter three.

Rediscovering Love

Chapter 3- The truth

Jessica's POV

I stood frozen staring into the set of dark brown eyes that had caused Bella to be here. I wanted to panic and run. I wanted to hide under my bed until he left. But something told me that I couldn't. I took another deep breath and let myself calm, just barely. I put on a sweet smile.

"How did you get in?" I asked but you could hear the underlying pissyness. Wow could I be any more rude to the father of my child. Maybe I could but I wasn't going to test it.

"Your mom let me in." He took a step closer. "It's really good to see you." He took another step closer to me and I felt trapped, like a doe in the head lights. For a moment I thought I could bolt. Suddenly I was in his arms crying. I didn't even know why I was hugging him. I guessed it was because I missed him so much and he wasn't mine any more. He belonged to someone else now.

I didn't expect his arms to circle around me and pull me closer so I gasped when they did. I felt another round of tears and took a deep breath willing them away for the time being. "You want to meet your daughter?" I asked pulling away from him and wiping my face. I wanted to be happy that he was here but I just couldn't. I didn't know why.

"Thats why I came over." He said. I walked around the table and to the sink to grab and wet wash cloth. I wiped off Bella's face and hands lifting her up so she didn't try to grab more fruit.

"Bella guess who's here to see you?" I said in a low sweet voice. It was as if she knew. Her face burst into a bright smile.

"Daddy." She squealed and turned to face him. Never in my life had I seen so many emotions filter across a mans face. Caleb was smiling at the beautiful girl I held in my arms and I wondered what he was thinking about.

"Caleb this is Isabella Simms." I said holding her out to him gently. He scooped her up a little nervously. He bounced her around until he found a comfortable position with her on his hip. She was tugging at his shirt and smiling. He grinned down and her and I felt the urge to leave the room. "Um...I'll be right back." I said and hurried from the room. It was when I hit the stairs that I turned around. Caleb had followed somewhat and saw the tears in my eyes and I rushed to my bedroom. I shut the door and locked it behind me and throw myself on my bed. I never should have came back here. I would have saved myself some heartache.

Annabell jumped on the bed and nuzzled my cheek. "Hey girl." I said ruffling her fur. She laid out beside me and I drug my fingers into her fur and laid my head on her neck. I felt myself being pulled under by sleep. Thats how it worked for me. Go on a crying jig and then sleep.

Caleb's POV

I didn't know what to do as I walked back to the kitchen after seeing Jessica with tears in her eyes. I didn't know why she was crying. I was in her kitchen with our baby in my arms so why wouldn't she be happy.

I thought for a moment as I looked to the little girl in my arms. She looked so much like me and Jessica combined. Her hair was brownish red but her eyes were all mine. Her nosed and lips were her momma's, there was no doubt about that. Then it hit him why Jessica was crying. She knew about Sarah. He shook his head and Bella frowned. He smiled again. "Hey Isabella. I'm your daddy." I said feeling soft all of a sudden. I didn't care if my three best friends were in the room. I was a father and had the right to be soft around this little girl.

"Daddy." She grinned and laid her head against my arm. She looked at me and I get why Reid said she was beautiful.

"She's gorgeous isn't she?" I heard Tyler's mom say behind me. I turned to face her.

"She is. I see so much of Jessica in her." I said juggling the babe in my arms. I never knew I would take to holding a baby but here I was doing it as if I had been doing it all my life. I wondered if all fathers knew how to do this their first time.

"She's says the same about you. It's because Bella here has your eyes." She said touching the baby's hair. I smiled knowing it was true. "You should go talk to her Caleb." She said and took Bella from me. I wasn't ready to let her go but she was starting to fall asleep.

"I know." I said letting go of the beautiful little girl. I sighed.

"I'm taking her to her room for her nap. If Jess asks thats were she'll be." The older women said and headed for the stairs. I sighed again and took a seat in one of the chairs. I put my head in my hands.

"You really need to go talk to her." Tyler ground out. There was no doubt that he was in protective older brother mood. He had always been like that when it came to me and Jessica. When he found out she was pregnant after she left he almost killed me. It was not funny.

"Why are you so pissy?" I asked regretting it almost instantly. I had been saying things that I shouldn't all day today and I couldn't figure out why.

"I have a right to. Thats my little sister up there crying because of you." Tyler shouted still sitting in his chair. He was looking at the table and I knew he was trying to control his anger.

"You don't know the hell she put me through as well Tyler." I said beating my fingers on the table. I was agitated just a little bit now. Mostly at myself for bring this stupid.

"The hell she put you through? Do you know the hell she had been through?" This time it wasn't Tyler but Reid that screamed. His eyes were black as night. Damn what the hell did I start?

"How do you know whats been going on with her?" Tyler asked looking to our blonde haired friend.

"When you left the room the other night to put Bella to bed, we talked. She gave me the run down on whats been going on with her. I mean she didn't tell me all the details which I'm sure you know baby boy, but she told me enough to get why she didn't contact us!" He shouted the last part at me.

I was confused. I didn't know anything had been going on with Jessica. I just assumed that she forgot about me and was living it up in San Fransisco. But I guess I was wrong, again. "Tyler can I barrow your Hummer?" Reid asked.

"Sure. Are you coming to Nicky's later?" He asked tossing the keys to Reid as he did.

"Yeah. I'll pick you up." Reid caught the keys. "Thanks dude." He said and turned to me. "You really need to talk to her." Was all he said as he left the room and I heard the front door slam. I knew he left, I knew he was pissed but why was he when this involved Jessica. It's not like Jessica was Reid's sister.

"I guess I should talk to her." I started to get up.

"That might not be the best idea right now." Pogue said looking at me. I could see concern on his face and I didn't know why they were all trying to protect Jessica. She's an adult in almost every since of the word.

"Why Pogue? Please tell me why. I have Reid blowing up at me, nothing really new there. Tyler wants to kill me, I can see it in his eyes, and now your telling me it may not be best to go talk to the love of my life!" I shouted and shut my mouth. I had not just said that, I hadn't. I looked to my friend's faces and I knew I had.

"Your seeing someone else and theres nothing you can do about it. It would be odd to just drop Sarah." Tyler said. It wasn't that he didn't want me to drop Sarah it was that he viewed it as wrong.

"I know that." I ran a hand through my hair. I was really on edge here and I didn't know what the hell I was going to do. I loved Sarah but I loved Jessica as well. I didn't know what was going on. This was to much for an eighteen year old to handle. "I need to talk to her even if I can't have her back." I said. I looked pointedly to Tyler. "And no one is going to stop me." I said. He nodded and I headed out of the kitchen and to the stairs.

I headed up remembering where her room was. I knocked, no answer. I sighed and twisted the door handle. It was locked. Great! My eyes flashed and I heard the click of the door unlocking it and I twisted the handle and slowly opened the door. I took a step in and saw her laying on the bed.

Her head was buried in the scruff of a very fluffy white dog. I smiled. The dog was new, but her curling up after crying wasn't. Every tear she had ever shed was either with me or her brother in this room. Sleeping was the only way to keep her from crying even more.

I walked a few more feet into the room shutting the door and I walked to the bed. I smiled down at her sleeping figure and then frowned. Tears, even in her sleep, were falling down her sun kissed cheeks. I remembered how pale her skin had been when we were younger. I remembered these tears. The only time she had ever cried in her sleep was when we had our first big fight. She only cried in her sleep if it was I that made her cry. I hated this.

I sat down next to her and ran a finger along the line of a dried tear. I shook my head. I was an idiot but there was nothing I could do now. She probably hated me. I looked to the snoring dog wondering if it would attack me if it woke. I heard a soft groan and Jessica rolled slightly away from the dog. One eye popped open and I saw pain in it. I bite back my own pain as I looked down at her.

"What do you want? And how the hell did you get in here?" She questioned. Her eyes now blazed with heat and anger and a little pain. She did hate me.

"Magic. Your door was locked. I just wanted to talk to you." I said with in a soft voice. I didn't know what to say or how to act. I didn't know if she wanted me here either.

"There's nothing to talk about Caleb. You moved on. Its time I do the same." She said wiping the stray tears from her eyes and the ones on her cheeks. I felt my heart skip a beat at her words. I hadn't really moved on but thats what she thought. "Are you going to say something or are you just going to stare at me like a fool." She hissed out at me. I also knew this tone as well.

"I don't know what to say damn it." I cursed running my hand through my hair again. I knew by now my hair was sticking up in all sorts of directions.

"Then you can leave because if you don't have anything to say the neither do I." She said pushing around me to get up. By now the dog was also up and eying me as if I was some kind of danger. Which to it I might have been. I stayed where I was sitting.

"Why didn't you call?" I asked. It wasn't the question I was going to start with but it was one that I had been planning on asking later.

"I couldn't call Caleb. I would have loved to if I could have." She growled out and ran her hand this time through her hair. The strawberry blonde hair fell back around her face when she let it go. "I wanted to. I couldn't though. Every cent I had went to keep me and Bella alive. I could even afford to us a pay phone." Her voice was raised. I didn't know what she was talking about.

"What do you mean? Your mother is loaded." I said. I was just plain confused.

"I lost everything I had when my mother left. Her husband cleaned her out and threatened her lawyer that if he told me he would be dead. I lost everything Caleb!" She shouted. She went to her door and locked it. She didn't want anyone in the room other then me and her. This was going to be a blow out.

"I didn't know!" I shouted back. I never yelled unless it was directed at Reid or Tyler for messing with there powers. I never rose my voice with Jessica.

"I know you didn't know because I couldn't tell you. I would have loved to tell you damn it. You think that I liked not talking to you every night? I loved hearing your voice." She cried. This time there were no tears just anger.

"What happened exactly?" I asked hoping she would tell me the truth.

"I left you and went home Ok." She started sitting on the black leather sofa that was in her room. She stretched out and I stayed where I was on the bed. Her dog was now licking my arm. "Oh thats Annabell. Don't worry about her. She's harmless. Somewhat." She said and I nodded. The dog nudged me. I pet her and she rolled over.

"Well lets see I went home to my biological mother. I learned she had married a supposedly nice man a year before she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. You can see the shock I was in but I excepted it. The man was nice to start with. He took me to my doctors appointments when my mother had chemo and when my car wouldn't start. Then when I was eight months pregnant he began to get mean to my mother. He started beating her. I tried to stop him and he almost hurt me. I thank God for these powers. Thats how I kept him away from me and my mom. But my mom got pissed, told me that it was her life and she would live it how she wanted to until she died. I had Bella and I remember when she wouldn't stop crying. Rob went off. He started shouting and yelling and threatening my baby. My mom blew up and he beat her again. I kept Bella and myself away from him. About seven months ago my mother slipped into a coma. That was when her lawyer told me about the changed will."

She stood and began to pace. "Everything was supposed to go to me and my Bella. But the bastard changed it so that he had everything. A month later my mother died. I lost all my money from my mother but little did he know that my mother had been giving me money in secret. I fought tooth and nail in a civil court to get the will to be changed back. Rob said that my mother changed it not him. That I was an undeserving child that didn't care about her mother, I just wanted to money because I was a whore and had a child at the age of sixteen." A tear slipped from her eye.

"The judge believed it and I got nothing. After three months of fighting I got nothing. The bastard kicked me out of the house letting me take my clothes and Bella's stuff. I kept my car because my dad bought it for me before I left Ipswich. I lost my phone because my mom paid for it. I had no money because I had to pay court fees and my lawyer. I had enough to get me gas to make it two states east for California. I stopped and had to get a job at a diner to make money. I lived in a hotel and Bella had a nice babysitter. The girl was my age and worked the shift before I did. I watched her daughter and Bella when I wasn't working and she watched Bella and her daughter when I was working. We took classes online and night classes together when we could. We were both in the same type of situation. Her mother kicked her out for getting pregnant. When we made enough money the four of us left the small town.

"In the next town that I made it to when I ran out of money I took up a job and as waitress, as did Mika. We took opposite shifts for the sake of our children. She decided to take up living there since she began dating a guy there. She gave me her number and told me to call her when I could. We lived together for over a month in a half.

"I made enough money to get me farther towards home. I traveled like that on and off for another month, working and taking night and online classes. I made it maybe four hundred mails from here. I stopped and worked. A week before I came home I quite working because DCF was starting to snoop around. I feared they would take Bella from me. I called Reid. I didn't want to call you or Tyler because I was afraid. Pogue I figured was with Kate. So Reid was the best. I talked with him and he told me about you and Sarah. I had enough money by that point to get home. Here I am. Just a mess." She said with a shaky laugh. "So you happy now? You know why I didn't call. Now leave." She said sitting herself on the sofa once more.

"Are you coming to Nicky's tonight with your brother?" I asked heading for the door. I unlocked it and began to open it and I looked at her.

"I don't know Caleb." She said closing her eyes.

"Well if you do go I'll see you later if not I'll see you at school Monday." I said and left. I shut her door. Damn was I an idiot. But I wasn't just going to drop Sarah. I cared for them both. Damnit I was screwed.

I'm not trying to make her sound whiny. Her past is in the past and she knows it as does Caleb, now he does. But it played a roll in making Caleb realize he screwed up as much as she had. Hehe in the next chapter Jessica meets Sarah. Dun Dun Dun...How will they interact. Hehe only I know! Evil laugh

Clears throat Sorry about that. Oh and Sorry if Jessica's reaction to Caleb is a little odd. But well its how I wanted to write it. Please Reveiw!