Anna's House of Pancakes (AHOP)
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Story not beta read so all mistakes are mine.
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At Chuck's place…
"Sup bro." Devon says, giving Natty her breakfast.
"Good morning Devon, Natty."
"Where have you been?!"
The guys and Natty look at Ellie who has come out of her room.
"Well from the big grin on your brothers' face I'd say he took your advice and laid down some pipe." Devon says, giving Chuck an approving nod.
"A gentleman does not kiss and tell." Chuck says.
"Chuck you had sex with a woman you barely know?" Ellie says shocked.
"What did I just say? Look I had to take a shower and leave." Chuck says as he walks to his room.
"Now where are you going?" Ellie follows him.
"I am taking my girlfriend and her son out for breakfast."
"What?!" Ellie runs over to Chuck and hugs him. "You have a girlfriend! I'm so proud of you!"
"Sis, you're suffocating me."
Ellie let's go of Chuck. "I'll let you out for breakfast with her but for dinner you three are coming here tonight."
"I don't know. It seems a little short notice, do you really think you can have everything…never mind. I forgot who I was talking to. Okay sis I'll let Sarah know."
"Maybe her sis can come too."
"Why?" Chuck says curiously as they walk to his room.
"No reason. I just wanted to meet her." Ellie says innocently.
"You two aren't going to plot some evil plan to get us married, are you?"
"Would that be a bad thing?"
Ellie and Chuck stop in front of his bedroom.
"No. But I do think it's a little too early to be thinking about that. We've only been dating for 7 hours."
"Just invite them over for dinner." Ellie says, walking away.
"Fine."
Chuck takes a quick shower, dresses, and heads back to Sarah's.
Thankfully Carina and John have already left so Sarah is waiting for him outside with Travis.
They hop into Sarah's car, since it has Travis' car seat already in it and doesn't gulf down as much gas as Chuck's truck.
"So what did your sister say?" Chuck asks his new girlfriend.
"Well you know after the shock of seeing us half naked in bed together, I told her we were boyfriend/girlfriend. She's very happy for us. How about your sister?"
"Okay, so there was the shock of me not calling her to tell her where I was, then of her being told we had sex…"
"You told her we had sex?!"
"No, of course not. Her husband assumed that we did since I didn't come home last night."
"I just don't feel comfortable knowing that our sisters think we had sex."
They both recall what happen last night…
Sarah leads Chuck to her room. Chuck closes the door quietly as to not wake up Travis in the next room.
They start to taking off each others close and kiss in between each kiss.
Sarah falls on the bed, pulling Chuck down with her.
Chuck kisses her one last time before going back to his jeans and pulling out his wallet. He reaches into a pocket in the wallet and pulls out a piece of folded paper.
Sarah watches Chuck unfold the paper. "What is that?"
"An I.O.U. for a condom!" Chuck throws the paper. "I'm gunna kill you Morgan!"
Sarah lies back on her pillow and sighs. "Maybe we can do it without one."
"I don't know…I mean you are very vulnerable to getting pregnant and we've only been dating 5 minutes. I'd like to know the woman that will be baring my children a little more."
Sarah throws a pillow at Chuck. Chuck catches.
"So should I put my close back and leave?" Chuck asks.
"I guess."
Chuck starts to pick up his clothes. Sarah laughs.
"What?"
"Get in this bed right now."
"But we can't…"
"We can still make out."
"Great idea."
Chuck jumps under the covers with Sarah.
Back in present time…
Chuck parks the car in front of Anna's House of Pancakes. He walks to the other side of the car and opens the door for Sarah.
Sarah kisses him. "Thank you."
"You're welcome."
Chuck carries Travis into the restaurant, holding the door for Sarah.
The restaurant is steady bas it always is on a Monday morning.
"Chuck!" Katie, the hostess says very cheerfully as Chuck, Sarah, and Travis walk up to her.
"Hey Katie."
"Who are your friends?" She says smiling at Travis.
"My girlfriend Sarah and her son Travis."
"He's so cute!" Katie says playing with Travis.
"Thank you."
A short Asian woman with a belly walks out of the kitchen. "Chuckles!"
"Anna, fancy seeing you here."
"Oh Chuckles." Anna takes two menus from beside Katie. "Let me give you guys seated."
Anna leads them to a booth next to a window in the middle of the restaurant.
"So you must be the gorgeous blonde Sarah and son Travis." Anna says when they are seated and hands them their menus.
"Well I wouldn't say I was gorgeous."
"Chucky would." Anna messes up Chuck's hair.
Chuck hides his blush behind the open menu. "So um…I think we'll have the pancakes."
"I'm glad you gave my Chuckles another chance." Anna pulls Chuck into an embrace with Chuck's face next to Anna's belly.
"Well Chuck and I had a long talk early this morning and we decided to have a second first date."
"That's great. I'm glad you didn't listen to anything my idiot of a husband Morgan said."
"Oh Morgan's your husband?"
"Unfortunately, yes. One drunk night in Vegas and I'm married to a short bearded leprechaun. I'm kidding; he's a great guy when he's not drunk. He slept on the couch last night for what he did."
"I'm sorry for making you go find him in your condition." Chuck says, looking at Anna's belly.
"How far along are you?" Sarah asks.
"4 months but I can still kick Morgan's ass." Anna touches the ear piece in her ear. "We'll talk later, there's some commotion in the kitchen I need to resolve."
Anna leaves and is replaced by Katie who takes their order and leaves.
"So Chuckles?" Sarah says.
Chuck slides closer to Sarah and pulls her close. "It's just a nickname."
"Okay. So did you ever date Anna?"
"Why?"
"She just seemed a little too touchy with you."
"Jealous?" Chuck teases.
"No." Sarah says a little too quickly.
"You have nothing to be worried about. Morgan and I have known Anna since high school and she's always had eyes for Morgan and vice versa. Anna's like another big sister to me."
"Good."
Anna watches from the kitchen window as Chuck and Sarah sit very close together in the booth, talking.
Anna talks into her cell phone. "Ah Ellie they look so happy together."
Chuck teaches Travis how to color on his kid menu instead of eating the crayons.
"Let's just hope she isn't another Jill Robertson 'cause I'll kick her ass back to Slutville…Okay, see you tonight, Ellie." Anna hangs up and walks out with their food.
"So how's the happy family doing?" She asks as she sets the food on the table.
"Everything's great." Sarah answers.
"Don't worry about the bill it's on the house."
"Thanks Anna but no thanks. I'll pay for it."
"Chuck," Anna says very sternly.
"Anna you know how I feel about this."
"This is my restaurant, I am the boss."
"Yes but he is your boss. When it's on the house it means that he's paying for it."
"Fine, then I'll pay for it then."
"Don't do that."
"Charles Irving Bartowski I am trying to be nice right now! I am pregnant and very hormonal, not make me go crazy on you!"
"Just do what she says Chuck." Sarah says, resting her hand on Chucks.
"Okay." Chuck says.
"Great!" Anna says. "Thank you Sarah."
"I know what you're going through. I killed my pet fish with a knife when I was pregnant."
Sarah and Anna laugh. Chuck laugh nervously as he removes all silverware away from Sarah and Anna.
Minutes later…
"So who exactly were you two talking about? Who's Anna's boss?"
Chuck sighs nervously. "My father. He owns the House of Pancakes all over California. Anna owns part of this restaurant and got to name the restaurant after herself."
"SO your dad owns breakfast restaurants."
"He also owns SBGADGETS."
"Your dad's Stephen Bartowski?"
"Yep."
"Your dad is the leading electronic and game software designer and developer in the world."
"I know."
"Your dad is richer then my dad."
"Yep, my dad is pretty rich."
"So why are you fixing houses and living with your sister?"
"Like I said my dad's rich, not me. Can we talk about something else and not ruin the day?"
"Okay. I'm sorry, I…"
"You didn't know. It's a touchy subject for me. My father and I don't get along; we have different opinions about things, that's all."
"Okay, I won't ask you anything about it anymore."
"Thank you. So how do you like your pancakes, Travis?"
They look over at the small boy who has a piece of pancake stuck to his face.
"I'll go get him cleaned up." Chuck says, picking up the little boy from the high chair.
Sarah pulls Chuck down to her level and kisses him on the lips softly. "Thank You."
"Mommy! Mommy! Me!" Travis says wanting a kiss too.
"After you get cleaned, okay?"
Travis nods and slaps Chuck on the shoulder to hurry up and go.
"Be right back." Chuck says as they leave.
After Chuck and Travis are in the bathroom Anna walks out of the kitchen and sits with Sarah.
"Hi." Sarah says.
"Hey. I just wanted to tell you something while Chuck was away."
"Okay, what is it?"
"Chuck's a really good guy."
"He is." Sarah agrees.
"He's a nice guy even when people aren't nice to him. If there's a problem he makes it so the other person gets what they want, leaving him with nothing. Chuck's has his heart broken too many times that I've stop counting."
"Well I can guarantee you that I won't break his heart. I've been heartbroken as well and don't like the feeling. I never want to make Chuck feel that way."
A smile grew on Anna's face. "I know you'll treat my Chucky well."
Chuck and Travis walk out of the bathroom and see the women hugging.
"Hey, what's going on?" He asks.
"Oh nothing, I'm not going to kill her." Anna stands up and kisses Chuck on the cheek.
"Um…thank you?" He says, wondering what they were talking about while he was one.
Chuck, Sarah, Travis leave the restaurant. Anna waves bye as they get in the car.
"So what did you two talk about while I was gone?"
Sarah just smiles at Chuck and lays a reassuring hand over his.
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