A/N: My thanks go to Neith4Weiss, Covenantgirl8689, hockeygrl125, and TragicCure for the reviews. I'm kind of running on empty here. I've been trying to upload this chapter as well as chapter 9 but it just wouldn't work until know and its three in the morning.
This chapter is not the best I have ever written but I wanted to try my hand in Tyler's POV because I am thinking about doing his and Amber's story. I mean the I have her in this story but I'm not giving much back ground to her. So I might be doing that. Also this story will becoming to an ending in about six to seven more chapters but there will be a sequal to this I promise. I mean this story is all about Jessica getting her love back and the sequal will be about her life with him. So yeah you get it. But there will be smut at the end of this story I promise. Next chapter is drama, some what. Ok on with the chapter.
Disclaimer: Come on really I've been writting these so long. I mean you know whats mine and whats not. Oh please Review!
Rediscovering Love
Chapter 8- Their point of view
Tyler's POV
I walked with Amber to the kitchen and sat down in the seat my mother told me to. Amber took the seat next to me and the others took their usual seats at the table. They were always here if we weren't at the others house. Everyone noticed Caleb's absence along with Jessica's. I didn't know where they were or why. It concerned me.
I knew that there was nothing going on between the two because of Sarah. I wished he would just drop Sarah and get back together with my sister for God sake. I mean we could all see how much damage having her back in town was doing to him since he couldn't hold her.
She always talked about him. She talked about him in her sleep, moaning for him. When that had happened I had shuddered. That had been disturbing. But she talked about him to Bella, told her he was an amazing man and would never be mean or hurt her. How he loved her and would be the best father in the world. I've heard her cry over him.
I remembered the phone calls when she had first moved away. She cried telling me she missed me and Caleb. She missed our friends and dad. Telling me how she wouldn't have left if it hadn't been the fact that it was her biological mother. I remembered after she made it to San Frasisco and told me that she was pregnant.
I had beaten Caleb to a bloody pulp because after she told me. I thought that was the real reason she left. Caleb had told me that it wasn't because of the pregnancy that she had left but really because of her mother. I felt like an ass after that. I still felt like an ass. My sister loved him, correction, she was still in love with him.
I wished Caleb would see that and just go back to her. Bella needed him as well. I know it would be hard for him to just jump back into her life but they could start all over. Which maybe they were.
We all saw the silent looks and touches they shared when Sarah wasn't here or the looks in both of their eyes. It was like nothing I had ever seen before. So much passion in my sisters eyes. When she first arrived here she was a mess. No emotion at all. She believe that her mother was abandoning her but in truth she wasn't. When she first started dating Caleb, hell even months before that, she became a totally different girl. She laughed and danced and sang. She played games and swam on a daily basis usually with me or Caleb. But when she finally fell in love with him we saw the true Jessica. She was sweet and caring, with the sass that let us all know she was fighter.
When she came back two weeks ago she was a mess and void of all emotion as she was when she was eleven years old. I guessed it had hurt her to know that Caleb had moved on. He had thought that that Jess had moved on as well and would never come back. You should have seen the look on his face the day at school I had told him she was back. His face was pure shock, we laughed.
When she first saw Caleb in our kitchen she paled and I thought she would have passed out. But she didn't. I had seen her strained look but she covered it with a smile that was so bright and fake it was amazing. When she met Sarah her eyes were murder and it made me want to laugh.
Now both she and Caleb were AWOL. I sighed. "Hey sorry about being late Aunt Karen. Jess was having trouble standing so I helped her upstairs. She's taking a cool bath to break her fever." Caleb finally came back and I watched him carefully as he sat down. There was something in his eyes. An emotion that I hadn't seen since before Jess left Ipswich.
He looked happy and almost in love again. There was regret writing on his face but the happiness out rode it. I wondered what they had talked about when they were upstairs. I knew I was doing the whole 'protective brother' thing when I thought this but you can't forget how you used to act. It was drilled into my head that I had to protect her.
"Thats ok Caleb. Thank you so much for helping her." My mother said setting a plate in front of him. My mother, like me, wanted to two to get back together. We wanted them to be happy again and laugh and smile like they had done when we were younger.
"Thanks." I said when a plate was set in front of me. I really had nothing to say. I was in my own world.
"Baby are you alright?" I felt her hand on my thigh before I heard her voice. I turned to look at her and I gave her a small smile.
"Yeah. I'm fine Am don't worry about me. Just thinking about somethings is all." I said letting my left hand cover hers on my leg. She was always worrisome thinking she had done something wrong.
"You sure?" She asked again. By now everyone at the table was aware that we were talking.
"Yes Amber I'm fine." I tried to hide that annoyance in my voice. She smiled and went back to her food.
About forty five minutes later we were done and I was tired. I had home work to do and I really didn't want to get in trouble for not doing it. I stood from the table and led the others upstairs to my room. Somewhere I lost Amber. I didn't know where she had gone. "Hey where did Amber go?" I asked no one in particular. Someone must have seen her and would answer.
"She headed towards your sister's room." Pogue spoke up while everyone else had shrugged. Caleb hadn't even been paying attention. He was staring down the hall to Jessica's room.
"Oh." Was all I said. I wondered why my girlfriend would head to my sisters room. What could they have to talk about. They barely just met. I shrugged it really wasn't my business but I really wanted to know.
"I wonder what they are talking about." Caleb spoke what I had just been thinking. He had a way of doing that.
"Probably girl stuff." Reid said. Pogue laughed and wrapped his arms tighter around Kate. I laughed as well trying not to seem to concerned.
"Yeah, your probably right." Caleb said but his eyes held the same look mine did. I turned back around and continued to my room. Everyone followed. We spread out. I was doing homework at the desk in the corner of the room iPod blaring to drown out the DVD that everyone else was watching. I concentrated on my math more then anything else because that was the class I had the hardest time no matter how much Caleb or Pogue tried to help me. I just didn't get it.
Amber came in a little while later with a bright smile on her face. She gave me a kiss on the cheek and hopped on to the bed and curled up next to Kate to watch whatever movie they had put on this time. I smiled and went on to do the last of my history homework. Before I knew it the sun was setting and Bella was crying as my friends left for the night.
Amber's POV
All throughout dinner Tyler had seemed so distant. It was as if he was on auto pilot. He didn't even enter our conversation. I mean he does this kind of thing a lot but this time his mind must have been somewhere else. I wondered if he was thinking about his sister and Caleb. I mean it wouldn't be the first time.
I remember trying to get his attention by touching his leg and asking him whats wrong. He told me nothing which in his language means everything. Kind of like when a guy asks a girl whats wrong her answer is always nothing but in truth there is. Thats how Tyler was.
After dinner we headed for him room like we always did. But this time when no one was watching I headed towards Jessica's room. I had met Jessica a days back but we really never talked or got to know one another. She was after all my boyfriend's sister.
I knocked on her door and heard a soft bark come from her dog and opened the door. She wasn't there. I figured she was still in the bathroom. I stood in the door way wondering what I should do. I mean I didn't want to invade her space or anything. "Jessica?" I called hoping she could hear me.
"Yes?" He voice rang clear from the bathroom.
"It's Amber." I answered coming into the room. Her mammoth of a dog came bounding at me and began to lick my hand. I heard foot steps in the bathroom and assumed she was out of the tub.
"Hey Amber. I'll be right out." Her voice was still clear but I could hear the weakness in it as well. Being sick really sucked.
"Ok." I answered and sat on her bed. The room looked totally different then what I would have though her room would look like. Her personality was so sweet and down to Earth. She tended to be loud and just as rough as the boys as well. Her room on the other had was subtle and sweet like a teenagers should be. It wasn't loud like mine or Tyler's. The walls were painted a soft green with dark green trim. Her bed, which I sat on, was a soft brown Earth tone. It was nice to a see a room so down to Earth and not over the top.
The room was littered with pictures of her daughter and ones of herself and her friends. The one that sat on her nightstand stood out the most. It was a picture of her and Bella most likely a few days after the girl was born. Jessica looked so happy to be holding the sweet child in her arms but if you took a good look at her eyes there was something there, a hint of sadness very few would notice. But I did as I leaned it to see the picture clearly.
"That was taken when Bella was a week old. They kept me in the hospital for longer then normal because I was young and had a difficult time delivering. It pissed me off but hey it was a nice stay." Jessica said from behind me. I turned sharply to see her standing in the doorway of the bathroom. She was towel drying the edges of her strawberry blonde hair.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to be intrusive." I said blushing. I hated when this happened.
"Your not trust me." She came slowly across the room. I noticed just how pale she was and how sick she truly looked.
"How are you?" The question came from my mouth before I knew that I had thought it. I blushed. I bet she was tired of hearing that question.
"Not so good. But I'll live. I lived through childbirth." She chuckled. "So what is it that you wanted?" She asked kindly. I hoped I wasn't bugging her.
"I just wanted to talk. I mean I haven't had the chance to get to know you." I answered as she climbed into the bed. She propped the pillows up and the dog came up and sat next to her. I turned my body so I was cross legged looking at her.
"I know I was thinking the same thing in the living room. Ty likes to keep you to himself I see." She grinned and some color returned to her face. I smiled.
"Yeah. He's protective. Pogue says he's never seen that side of Tyler before." I blushed. Tyler was so protective over me just like he was over Jessica.
"Oh they have seen it just not with another girl. He used to be my protector until Caleb cut him loose." She smiled again. It was the same smile she always got when she talked about Caleb.
"You really love him don't you?" I asked. This time I knew what I was asking.
"Yeah I do." She answered but her voice was sad this time. "But fate is working against us right now. Damn Sarah." She mumbled the last part but I heard it none the less. I hated Sarah personally. When I first moved here I started to hang with the guys like she did and we became friends. Then she started to think I had a thing for Caleb and became all rude and mean and bitchy.
"Don't worry I don't like the girl either." I said petting the leg of the dog. Her tail thumped happily. I giggled.
"Why is that?" She asked petting the dog as well.
"We moved here six months ago. But I came from the South where ever rich kids went to a public because private schools were few and far between and my parents weren't going to ship me off to some boarding school. She came from a Boston public. We talked at the bonfire thing before the start of school because my room was next to Kate's and Sarah is Kate's roommate. She was nice and all then. But after a few weeks after the whole incident, yes I know what you and your brother are, Sarah became a bitch. I would hang with the guys and she began to think I liked Caleb. She never cared to ask if I was seeing anyone. If she had she would have found out by that time I was dating Tyler. We never acted like a couple until right before the Chase thing because we were to shy. But Sarah just thought I wanted Caleb and she blew up at me and became a bitch. I don't like her that much any more." That was the whole story in a nut shell.
"Wow. Interesting." Jessica laughed. "So you don't talk to her right?" She asked.
"No why?" I wondered why she asked that.
"Oh I wanted to know what she says about me is all." Jessica waved her hand in the air. "So how are you liking Spencer? Different from public?" She asked me and I smiled.
"I love it here. I mean the classes are a lot harder but thats it. I mean in the public school I went to they made us were uniforms and everything so this isn't much of a change for me. The class room set up is though." I answered. I smiled at her.
"I know nothing about public schools. I've been to a private school all my life. When I was out west with my biological mother I was home schooled and on my way home for three grueling months I took night classes at one of the local colleges when I could. But I like private schools. Sure they are strict but you have more freedom because it gives you the opportunity to live in a dorm." She explained. She had grown up with money so why in God's name would she had to of gone to night school. Its none of my business so I didn't ask.
"I want to get into a good college and Spencer seemed like a good choice. Plus my parents wanted to move somewhere up North." I shrugged. Jessica yawned.
"Sorry 'bout that." She said covering her mouth. "Guess I'm worn out." She said smiling.
"I'll let you be then. See you tomorrow after school?" I asked hopeful.
"Sure I could use some company after the day spent with my mother and daughter. Tell the boys I said night." She said as I stood. I smiled.
"Sure thing. Get some rest." I said and she nodded. I left the room closing the door silently. I headed towards Tyler's room. I couldn't believe how scared I had been to meet Jessica. I should have known she was just as sweet as Tyler but of course I was the type of person to always see the negative and think the worst of things.
I smiled as I walked into the room. Pogue and Kate were on the bed, Reid was of course on the floor arguing with Caleb over something. I didn't ask. Tyler was at his desk working on homework. I smiled and walked to him. I kissed his cheek and earned a smile. I smiled back and walked to the bed. I curled up behind Kate and began to watch the movie. I don't remember what exactly we had been watching because I began to fall asleep.
Bella was crying when we left and I heard Jessica sigh from her room. I knew the crying had woken her up and she wasn't thrilled about it. But I heard movement and the slamming of the bathroom door. That girl was not doing good. I walked down the hall following Kate like I always did. Tyler's mom came up the stairs and headed to the baby's room while we left the house.