1Sean sat in the livingroom of the apartment with Derek by his side, both with chocolate milk. Sean held his in a glass, and Derek in his sippy cup, which had a blue lid, and Pooh Bear on the side of it. Derek leaned his head against him and yawned as he rubbed his eyes. Sean looked down at him and smiled a bit. Now he just had to figure out where they where going to sleep. There was only one bed in the house, and that was Jays. Sean slept on the pullout bed from the couch.
"I guess you're sleeping with me buddy." he said with a sigh as he stood up from the couch. He reached his arms out picked Derek up as he saw his son reach his arms up for him. After picking up Derek he grabbed his glass up off the end table. Moving it to sitting onto of the t.v. so he wouldn't risk knocking it over when he pulled the bed out. "Here sit right here ok?" he asked Derek as he sat him in the floor a few feet away, where he could still see the T.V. , Derek just nodded his head and stuck his thumb in his mouth.
Sean looked down at him. Not sure if that was something he was supposed to do or not, but he figured it couldn't hurt anything at the time being. He moved the cushions off the couch, and then pulled out the bed. He already had the sheets on there. He kept them on there, washed them once a week. He put the cushions to the side out of the way, before going and grabbing the two pillows out of the linen closet where he stored them.
He placed the pillows on the bed then looked at Derek. "Do you need to go to the bathroom buddy?" he asked making sure he had that covered. So they didn't have any 'accidents' during the night. Derek nodded his head and stood up. Waiting for his daddy to show him where the bathroom was. Sean grabbed his hand and led him down the narrow hallway to the bathroom.
Derek walked in and then looked back at Sean. "Me can do it!" he said seriously, but the expression his face made Sean laugh. He just nodded his head and pulled the door shut. "Ok, just come out when you're done." he said, leaving the door open it tended to stick a little bit and he didn't want Derek panic, or be scared. He wanted his son's first night to be perfect. Even though Emma already partially shot that idea.
"Hey Jay!" he yelled, he stood and waited for a response. He heard footsteps coming through the kitchen and then stopping on the other side of the pullout bed. "What?" he asked. His usual annoyed but helpful tone in his voice. "I need you to watch him when he comes out of the bathroom so I can go change clothes." Sean said, jay just nodded and plopped down in the chair in the livingroom waiting to see the kid come out of the bathroom.
Sean walked around Jay to get to his room. Sean kept all of his clothes stored in there because it was the only place he could keep a dresser. He searched through the dresser aimlessly. Not really looking for any certain thing. Just to have something to do to keep his mind off of everything. He was so furious with Emma for walking out like she did, even though he was wrong for what he did she still shouldn't have just walked out
He grabbed a pair of sleep pants, laying them on Jays bed. And then undressing himself quickly. Sliding off his jeans and then pulling his t-shirt over his head. Letting the feel of the air conditioned apartment, come over him. It was so nice to be home, and being able to go to bed. Especially after a day like today. He rubbed his eye's and then pulled on the sleep pants.
He walked back out into the livingroom to see Jay sitting in the chair looking at Derek shaking his head. Sean walked over and sat on the side of the bed, grabbing Derek's diaper bag and searching through it for his pajama's, finding them and then looking over at him. "Come on buddy lets get you changed." Derek just looked at him with his head cocked to the side a bit before laying down his cup on the bed, and crawling across the bed to Sean.
"Come on Buddy lets get ready for bed." He said with a smile as he carefully removed his son's t-shirt and jeans from the day, and put on his dark and light green striped pajama's for the night. They where a sleeper so it took Sean a moment to figure out how to work it but he did. After getting the sleeper on Derek he kissed him on the forehead, "Come on, lets lay down." he said. Derek climbed up into the bed and laid down, grabbing his sippy cup and drinking out of it a little, then laying his head down on the pillow still having his eyes locked on the television, his eyelids getting heavy, Sean could tell he would be out soon.
Sean lay down beside him, and stretched his arm about above his head, wanting him to feel secure. He turned his head and then looked over at Jay, who was still sitting there watching his son and him. "What's up?" Sean asked with a raised eyebrow. It was odd for Jay to not be on the phone, or gone. It was still early, it was only eight thirty. Sean would usually just now be eating dinner, and getting ready to chill out for the rest of the night. But it was different now, and he knew it had to be. He could remember what it was like when he was in Wasaga, he had kept Derek with him a few times, mostly on the weekends.
Jay just looked at him and shook his head a bit. "I just don't get it..." he said seriously shaking his head a bit. "Why take him?" he pulled his hat from his head and moved it around in his hands a bit, seeming like he was inspecting it. He could see that Sean loved the boy, that was obvious. But, he couldn't see why anyone at the age of seventeen would want to take in a child, a toddler. Someone that changed your whole life. He just couldn't understand it.
Sean looked back at Derek, who was now completely asleep. Sean then turned his attention back to Jay and let out a sigh. "It's hard to explain." he ran a hand through his hair and then sat up from the bed resting his feet on the ground, and then placing his elbows on his knee's. "Me and Joey, we've been friends for ages...since third grade probably..." he then looked back to Derek as he talked. "I loved Emma...but I went out to Wasaga Beach for a little while that first Summer...and Joey was there..." he let out a sigh. Shaking his head a bit before placing his head in his hands.
"Joeys just has this personality, one that everyone remembers no matter how long you've known her." He looked up at Jay, taking his head out of his hands. "We didn't mean for it to happen, but it did, and I got the call about two months later saying she was pregnant." he swallowed hard before taking a sip of his own chocolate milk. "I was there the day he was born. But after that I didn't see him again till he was a year old. I saw pictures, and I talked to Joey on the phone but that was it."
Jay looked at him, "Is that why you said you couldn't come back?" he remembered when they had to take the trip to Wasaga Beach for Sean. It had been a good year ago now. But he had never thought there was a reason like this behind everything. "It was part of it." Sean said in all honesty. There where plenty of factors as far as that went. But Derek had definitely been part of it. Sean let out a heavy sigh before looking at Jay then to Derek and then to the floor. "I know I love Emma, But I can't believe how she acted today." he said quietly. Still not being able to completely grasp how she could think about everything like that.
"You cheated on her two years ago, well three years ago. And she just found out about it. And you wonder why she's upset?" he asked sarcastically."I mean it's not rocket science kiddo." He said with a slight snicker. Sean just shook his head. "You don't understand it though. He's my son. She can't expect me to choose her over my son!" he almost snapped. Then let out a sigh. "I'll talk to her tomorrow, I just need some sleep right now." He said quietly and honestly before laying back in bed, and grabbing the remote flipping off the tv. "I'll see you in the morning." Jay just nodded his head. "Night Cameron." he said simply before standing from the chair, and walking back into his room.