"Hey Uncle Jamie." Lux said walking into the bar followed by Baze. She plopped down on one of the bar stools.

"Hey kid. How are you?"

"Same, same."

"That's her answer for everything now a days." Baze said coming up from behind and sitting down next to his daughter.

"You busy this weekend?" Baze asked Jamie. Sometimes if the bar was going to be real busy he would help Jamie out while Lux was with a friend or hanging out upstairs in Jamie's loft.

"Yea, actually we have an event tomorrow night. K-100 that radio station is hosting an event here."

"Need any help?"

Lux sat back and listened to the conversation hoping her dad would help out this weekend so she could at least see what her mom looks like.

"Yea that would be great."

"Ok, Lux what about you. You gonna hang out with Tasha or hang out upstairs."

"Um, I think I'll just hang out upstairs."

"Alright. Math should be home so you can just beat him in Wii basketball again just for the fun of it." Jamie said wiping off the bar counter.

Lux laughed. Math was Baze and Jamie's high school friend. He was also a teacher at Lux's school. Lux and Baze stayed at the bar a little while longer and then headed home. They sat down on the couch and put in one of their favorite movies, "Dude, where's my car?". They were both sound asleep by the time it was over.

Lux sat up on the couch rubbing her eyes. Baze was sprawled out on the couch next to her. Lux looked at the clock and saw that it was 9:20 in the morning. She nudged her dad, "Dad, wake up. Dad." She said eagerly trying to wake hime up.

"What time is it?" Baze asked sitting up stretching. "It's 9:20, we got to go or we're going to miss it." She said grabbing his hand and pulling him up from the couch. She dragged him up the stairs and they departed to their rooms to get ready. Every saturday morning since Lux could remember they would go to McDonald's for breakfast. They knew it wasn't the nicest place but it was their tradition.

"Dad, let's go!" Lux called from the bottom of the stairs.

"I'm coming, I'm coming." Baze said walking down the stairs. They went out the door and out to the car. They made it just in time.

"You guys were almost late." Mary the woman behind the cash register said. Lux and Baze have known her for years. "The usual." Baze said to Mary.

Minutes later they were sitting at a booth. Lux eating pancakes and eggs. Baze eating sausage gravy and biscuits. "So you sure you want to tag along tonight?" Baze asked wiping his mouth.

"Yea,I'll just hang out upstairs with Math."

"I don't think Math is going to be there kiddo."

Lux set her fork down. "Oh well, I'll just watch movies all night. Tash is busy and I don't want to stay home alone tonight." She tried to come up with as many excuses as she possibly could.

Later that night they arrrived at the bar. "Hey." Lux said to Jamie as they walked in.

"There are some movies upstairs pick whatever you want."

"Ok, I'm going up." Lux said. Baze walked upto the bar as Lux walked away to the loft door.

"So what radio station is coming tonight?" He asked taking a seat and grabbing the beer Jamie had handed him.

"K-100. Some big time radio hosts I guess. Ryan Thomas and Cate Cassidy. The chicks name sounds familiar but I can't pin point it."

Baze about spit his beer out. "Cate Cassidy?" He asked.

"Yea, you know her?" Jamie asked interested in what his friend had to say.

"Yea I know her. Dude, it's Lux's mom." Baze said quietly hoping Lux wouldn't hear.

"Oh, that's why it sounded familiar."

"Yea. Don't say anything around Lux OK. She knows who she is I just don't want her to get any ideas." Baze said standing up and walking to the loft doors.

"I'm gonnna go check on Lux, I'll be back down in a few minutes." He said opening the door and climbing the stairs.

"Hey kiddo."

"Hey dad." Lux said from her spot on the couch. "Anyone down there yet?"

"Yea a few people. Just make sure you stay up here."

"OK. Don't pick up any hot chicks tonight." Lux said laughing.

" I wouldn't do that. You're the only girl I need in my life." He said kissing Lux on the forehead.

"Oh I feel so special." She said smiling showing her cute dimples. "Alright, I got to get back down there. Behave." He said ruffling her hair and walking away back downstairs to the bar. Lux waited only half an hour more before she opened the loft door. She could hear tons of people in the bar and she could here someone over the mic.

"How ya doing Portland! I'm Cate, but most of you out there already know that. Ryan, you out there?" She said scanning the crowd. Ryan then climbed up onto the stage.

"Hello Portland!" He yelled into the microphone. "How you all doing out there?" The crowd cheered.

"Alright let's get started. It's called Drink and Date people. Go up to the bar garb a few drinks and mingle a little. It can't hurt ya can it? No! So get drinking and get dating!" Cate said and hopped off the stage. She walked to the bar and waited for the bartender that was facing the other way to turn around.

"What can I get ya?" Baze asked turning around and stopped when he saw it was Cate standing there.

"Baze" Cate said.

"Cate." He said looking into her dark brown eyes. He handed her a shot glass filled with tequila and walked away to the next customer. Cate swallowed her drink. "Hey, Baze can we talk?" She asked walking down the bar to where he was standing.

"We don't have anything to talk about Cate." Baze said walking off. Cate got this confused look on her face and then walked back into the crowd to find Ryan. A little while later Cate returned to the bar and waited for Baze. Lux came down the stairs and up to Jamie.

Cate watched the young girl who she felt like looked familiar. "Hey Uncle Jamie, have you seen my dad?" She asked scanning the crowd.

"No I haven't but if he catched you down here, he is gonna be mad. You better get back up there."

"OK thanks." She said turning around and running right into Baze. "Lux, you're supposed to be upstairs. Go now." He said sternly pointing to the stairs.

"But dad." She whined. He looked at her and she knew she better be getting back upstairs. As soon as Cate heard the young girl say dad to Baze it hit walked up to him and pulled him away by the arm. "We need to talk now." She said looking him in his dark brown eyes. "Cate-" He said before being interrupted by Ryan over the mic. "Cate we need you up here."He said motioning for her to come up. She looked at Baze and then walked away back to the stage.

Cate was up on stage for all but a few minutes and kept her eyes on Baze the whole time. After doing what she had to do she made her way to where Baze was standing. He saw her coming and manuvered his way through the crowd to the loft stairs and quickly climbed them. Cate walked over to the stairs and slipped up them to try to follow Baze.

"Baze we need to talk." She said knocking on the already opened door. She walked in and looked around. It looked like a college dorm room.

"Cate. I can't talk, not now." He said. Looking behind him for Lux.

"We need to talk about it sometime." She said staring into his beautiful brown eyes.

"What? How I got you pregnant in high school and you gave up the baby without telling me. No I don't think we have anything to talk about."

"Dad." Lux said walking up behind him. Cate looked around Baze and stared at the girl.

"Lux." He said rubbing his temples. "Lux, this is your-"

"Mom, I know. Can we go now?" She asked wanting to get out of there fast.

"Yea, let's go. Bye Cate." He said as he followed Lux out the back door. Cate was left standing there in shock. Lux didn't even care who she was. But why would she, Cate had given her up. She wiped away a single tear that was forming at her eyes and walked back downstairs.

Baze and Lux were in the car on their way home. "Lux, I'm sorry."

"It's OK." She said continuing to look out the window.

"You wanna talk about it?"

"No, I just want to go home and go to bed." Baze nodded and kept driving. They arrived home and Lux went straight up to her room. It was an eventful night for Baze as well so he went to bed. Not 10 mintues after Baze had gotten in bed, his bedroom door slowly opened.

Lux crept over to the empty side of his bed and climbed in.

"What are you doing?" He asked making Lux jump.

"You scared me. I thought you were sleeping." Lux said sliding down into the bed and getting comfortable under the blankets.

"No. You OK?"

"Yea I'm fine. I just didn't want to sleep alone tonight." She said.

Baze drew her close to him and they fell into a deep sleep. Both had Cate on their minds.

ok hope you liked it! Hopefully another update comes soon!