Chapter 2 Are you Serious?

I awoke to a nice, warm morning. Evan who was sleeping peacefully, mumbled in his sleep when I got out of the bed. He absolutely loved the fact that he was in Waffle Town, he already knew about his father and wanted to read about him. When Angela got Luna's book for the townspeople, she read it. It turned out that Gill wasn't just Gill. He was Mayor Gill. Hamilton had retired and moved to the Sunshine Islands, with one of his buddies, Taro. Anissa and Jin had gotten married and had a son called Van, Maya and Chase got married and had a daughter called Dakota, Phoebe and Calvin had got married and had a boy called Heath, Julius and Candace got married and had a daughter called Angie (which Angela had some suspicions that Candace named her after herself) and Toby and Renee got married and had a child called Matt.

When she closed the book, there was a knock on her front door. She looked at her calendar, as an instinct and saw that it was Van's birthday. She cautiously opened the door, not to find Hamilton there, but Gill instead.

"Hello, Angela."

"Hello Gill, how may I help you?"

"I'm here to tell you one thing and to ask you about another." He said, looking at her face, which had just changed expressions.

"MUM! Where's breakfast?" Angela heard all of the sudden, Gill flinched at the volume of the voice.

"Gill, please give me a minute. Actually, would you like to come in?" she asked as nicely as possible, even though her body was denying her access to her 'nice' voice.

"Sure." He said, with that emotionless face of his. She went inside, quickly cooked breakfast for Evan then sat on the couch, where Gill was sitting.

"So, what did you want?"

"Well, I'm here to tell you about Van's birthday and I'm going to need you to fill out Evan's citizenship paper." He said.

"Fine, pass them to me now. I'll fill them now." She said. She filled out the forms, one question after another. The forms hadn't changed in a long time, so it was pretty easy for her. When she stumbled along the parent names, she thought. Immediately she wrote her name as his mother but she thought, was it worth it? Well, she couldn't lie, so she wrote his father's name in anyways. When she was finished, she gave the forms to Gill, who nodded and left.

Gill POV –

Once I had left Angela's place, I walked straight to the town hall. I couldn't sleep or anything last night, or rather this morning, due to those words that Luna had told me. Then it hit me. The citizenship form required the parent's name. She would've definitely written Evan's father's name on it. I sprinted to the town hall, ran into my office, shut the door, sat down and got the files out to read.

Name: Evan

DOB: Winter 5

Mother: Angela

Father: …Gill…

Favourite Food: Tomato Soup

Favourite Colour: Red

I read it, and placed it on my desk….wait. Hang on, the father was written in as…me? I'm Evan's father? And why did she write it down slowly, with a few dots in front and behind it? I pulled another sheet of paper out and saw a note. It was from a long time ago.

Dear Gill,

I hope I haven't angered you too far, but I'm still leaving. Well…..the only reason why I'm writing this and not telling you is because I'll be gone by the time you read this. Ok, here I go…

I'm pregnant. It's yours.

I love you,

Angela.

I sat there stunned. I started to cry. I didn't now what the hell to do, since…well I had a son. I knew she had reasons, but why didn't she tell me in person? All these random thoughts were going through my mind but the first one was to go see Angela. I left my paperwork, told Elli I was taking a break and ran straight to Angela's. I knocked on the door, only to find the Evan had opened the door.

"Hello, Mayor. How may I help you?"

"Have...you seen…your mother?" I said, panting.

"She's in the reading room, come in."

"Thanks…Evan." It didn't come out right, but I couldn't call him 'son' out of the blue. I walked to the reading room and knocked on the door. I heard a muted 'come in' and went inside. The moment I walked inside, Angela had turned pale. This wasn't what I wanted. I walked, or rather ran, straight to Angela and hugged her tightly. I had missed her for the past 5 years. I let go and took a good look of her face.

"Do…you..h-hate…umm..err..me?" she said, actually whispered to me.

"Of course not. I'm just not happy at the fact you didn't tell me that I'm Evan's father, but I can let it slide." I said, smiling. She nodded and pulled my face to hers and she immediately closed the gap, this was something I missed for about 5 years.

"You know how long I've wanted to do that for?" she said.

"Probably 5 years, I guess" I said sarcastically. She laughed.

"Well, what am I supposed to do now?" I said to no one in particular.

"Be a father to Evan, inviting him to your place and things." She said, quite simply.

"Fine. Does he know?"

"No, You can tell him." She said, while a smirk was forming on her mouth.

"Fine." I walked out of the room and went to find Evan. I stumbled upon a room, which was decorated in wall paper that looked like bookshelves. The furniture in his room, which I had never been into before, was quite regal. I thought, thought and thought some more. Then something hit me, yet again. This was my personality. I have these things in my room. Anyways, I went inside to find Evan, sitting there, writing something. I tip-toed in.

"You know, Mayor, you're really horrible at tip-toeing." He said out of the blue, without looking up. Must have gotten that from his mother, I thought, slightly shocked.

"Then I presume you know why I'm here?"

"Actually, I've been too interested in reading this book, so please tell me what's going on." He said, finally looking up from his book.

"Well, have you wondered who your father is?"

"Actually, no."

"Well, umm…err…"

"Yes?" I heard the impatience in his voice. Yup, he's definitely mine, I thought.

"Imyourfather" I said, really fast, nervous that he would argue or something.

"WHAT!" he shouted, his face turning red.