December

So, April had taken her mother's advice and joined the choir in her second semester, but not alone. She dragged Megan along with her. They were currently getting ready for their winter show, the guys running through their song as the girls were sitting in the audience, talking. Megan was especially talkative since she had just found out what happened between April and Mike.

"How was it?"

April let out a happy sigh, thinking about it all over again. "It was amazing, Megan."

"I'm gone for one week." She complained.

"He's just so perfect." April sighed out. "We just…belong together."

Megan forgot about her frustration and just focused on her friend's happiness. "I am so happy for you." April gave her a happy smile. "Especially since I've been waiting for this to happen for four months."

April gave her a look, but managed a smile through it. "Girls," their choir director called in the loudest voice she could manage in the outdoor performing area. "You're on in five."

Megan and April stood together, moving the stage, April pulling her jacket closer to her, feeling the breeze pick up. "Why do we have to perform outside?" April complained.

"I heard it's gonna snow on the night of the concert."

"Lucky us." April spoke sarcastically as her phone buzzed.

She pulled it out, immediately smiling at who the message was from. "Is that your boyfriend?" Megan taunted.

April opened her mouth, about to say yes, but that's when she realized she didn't know what the title was for her and Mike. They were together, but they were also cheating on Leah. They were also keeping their relationship a secret. The only people who knew were her grandmother, Forbes and Megan. So, were they even technically together?

"So, what are you doing tonight?" Megan asked, tearing April out of her thoughts.

"Oh," Those insecurities were just still running through April's head, though. "I'm actually going out with Mike."

"Really?" Megan spoke in an interested voice. "Like on a real date?"

"Our first." April spoke, playing with her necklace.

"Well," Megan spoke, moving closer to her best friend. "I only have one bit of advice." April gave her a weird glance as Megan just continued with her smile. "Don't kiss him on the first date."

April shoved her forward as Megan advanced to the stage. "Shut up."

The cover was that April was spending the night at Megan's but really April and Mike were going to try this out. Mike was beyond ecstatic that they were going to spend the night out of the White House and go on a real date, but April was nervous. She kept thinking about what they were together. It was easy for Mike not to have any questions about it. It wasn't in his personality. He just followed his heart. April was more of a thinker, and lately, she was more of an over thinker. No matter how well they sugar coated what they were doing, they were still cheating, and deep down, even if April loved every second she had Mike, she felt guilty.

April had spent hours trying on different outfits and doing her make up different ways to find the perfect look. She had finally settled on a white, lacey dress and tan booties with the same make up she did for the Independence Day Ball. She thought it was perfectly fitting.

When she walked down the steps, Mike was there waiting for her. Her breath hitched in her throat when she saw him in his formal wear instead of the normal suit and tie. And he did it all for her. She had butterflies, and she didn't think she would be able to control them. She had already said goodbye to her mom and dad meaning her night belonged to Mike.

Mike met her at the bottom of the stairs, taking her hand and leading her out the front door. For the first time in a long time, April was starting to feel like a normal girl. Not the president's daughter, but a girl going on a date with the man she loved.

They weren't going in the normal limo or town car either, Mike drove. And it was good to sit in the front seat of a car again. The two laughed and talked on the way to the restaurant while listening to Elvis Castello, warming her heart until the warmth reached her entire body.

When they parked at the back of the restaurant, that's when she got confused. "What are we doing?" she asked Mike as he began undoing his seatbelt.

"Well, we can't go through the front." April's face fell a little, thinking back on how they were in secret. "Besides, I got us a private room in the back."

His door opened and shut while he hurried to her side of the car. "A private room?" She repeated to herself. Mike opened up her door, April smiling at him, trying to forget all about it as he helped her out of the car.

When they walked into the restaurant, they didn't see couples around also sharing a fancy night out. They didn't see business partners and old friends going out for drinks. The first thing they saw was the private room. April knew it was so no one would see them and she knew it was something they had to do, but at the same time, she didn't feel like a normal girl anymore.

Mike guided her to her seat, pouring her a glass of champagne. "Wow," she commented as he finished pouring her glass to the top. "Don't I feel fancy?"

Mike looked to her once he was back in his seat, giving her a bit of a smile. "This is really cheesy, isn't it?"

"A little." She laughed out.

"I just really want this night to be perfect." He explained shyly.

"Mike," she spoke, reaching out for his hands which he gave to her without hesitation. "I want you to know that I don't need a fancy dinner for a perfect night. I just need you."

Mike stared at her for a moment before standing up abruptly. "Do you wanna go get a burger and some beers?"

"Please." She commented, taking his hand as he pulled her up. He began leading her out of the room, but April thought of something. "Hold on." She told him, hurrying back to the table.

She grabbed the champagne out of the cooler before hurrying back to him. "April," he called as she hurried past him.

"We already paid for it." She whispered while the two hurried back to the car before anyone could notice they were gone.

So Mike bought a six pack and two burgers and the two went back to Mike's house where they changed into something a lot more comfortable. Sweats and T-shirts. Leah was working the night shift so they didn't have to worry about her coming in any time soon. The two were just talking and eating and drinking. Nothing was off limits. They talked about the time in first grade when April got a concussion, leading to the moment she knew she wanted to be a nurse. They talked about Mike's drinking problem a while back and how he most definitely needed to cut back, leading to him joining the MI6 and eventually moving to America to be a secret service agent.

They also got to talking about Mike's marriage and when it exactly ended. It happened a little before he and April had first met, Mike was eating breakfast with her one morning and it was complete silence. That's when he realized they had nothing to talk about anymore. He lost interest in what she said, their lives just didn't mesh anymore. They had ended up kind of just using each other for sex or whatever they wanted at that moment. He really did try to make it work, but you can't just force yourself to fall back in love with someone. Mike opened all the way up to her.

After they were both feeling a little drunk, Mike took her into his room. April slowly slipped off her clothes first, Mike taking in every part of her body in that moment, even that little storm cloud tattoo. She was everything he had ever wanted and he knew that this would be different than it was with Leah. They laid on the bed, taking their time to make sure every bit of it could be as pleasurable as possible. It was passionate and slow, a lot different than the first time, but just as good. Maybe even better.

When it was done, Mike was still on top of April, just staring at her face, rubbing his thumb along her cheek in soft circles as April held onto his arm like if she let go, she would lose him. "I love you." She whispered as she looked at every little wrinkle on his face. She knew he hated them, but she loved every single one of them.

"I love you." He told her without hesitation before leaning down and placing a light kiss on her lips. "I really do." He whispered, planting another kiss on her lips, making her start laughing as he began to plant countless kisses on her lips.

"Mike!" April laughed out loudly, but stopped once they heard the door open.

April gave him a panicked look, knowing that if Leah caught her here it would not be pretty. April got off of Mike, not knowing what to do for a minute. She immediately pulled his T-shirt off the floor, put it on and ran into the closet. Almost immediately after she was secured in the room, the bedroom door opened. "Hey, baby." Leah called in a bland voice.

"Oh my gosh." April whispered, putting her hand to her mouth so her breathing wouldn't be heard.

"Hey, baby." Mike said right back. "What are you doing here?"

"I just came back to change out scrubs." She spoke, showing him the blood on them.

"What happened?" He asked as she went to their dresser and Mike's eyes moved to the closet nervously.

"Shot wound vic." April breathed heavily into her palms as they shook, never being more scared of anything in her life.

She began traveling to the laundry room to put her used scrubs in the washer, but April still couldn't move. "Mike," Leah called out as she walked back into their bedroom. "What are you doing already in bed?"

Mike shrugged, giving her a shy smile. "I had a long day."

"Well, I'm probably not gonna be home until seven in the morning."

"I'll be at work by then." Mike spoke with a shrug.

Leah climbed on the bed, moving toward his face. "Maybe we could have a repeat of the other night." That's when she kissed him, but they both knew there wasn't any passion in it. Not from April's view, though. She saw her boyfriend…if you could even call him that, kissing his wife, letting it sink in that no matter what she and Mike felt for each other, she would always be the mistress.

"I gotta get back to saving people." She spoke with a shrug.

"Duty calls." He spoke with a shrug before she moved in to give him a peck on the lips. With that, Leah grabbed her purse off the floor and made her way out of the house.

When April heard the door close, she jumped a little, feeling the shaking of the house wreak through her body. For a moment, she couldn't move. She was having an internal panic attack. Mike said he loved her, but he was still sleeping with Leah. Leah almost caught her fucking her husband on her own bed. All of April felt dirty after that, and all she could do was sit there and think about it.

April slowly got up from her spot and opened up the closet doors, seeing Mike putting his underwear and sweatpants back on. "April," he spoke slowly once he was done, starting to move towards her.

"I thought you said she wasn't coming home." April started, her voice dead and bland like a zombie. "You said we had the whole night, the whole place to ourselves and nothing would happen."

"I didn't think she was going to come home to change her scrubs." He spoke, trying to reason with her. She simply shook her head at him, still looking dead. "Look, baby – "

"That's what you called Leah." April spoke with the shake of the head and a soft voice, looking down after that. Mike didn't know what to say to her, but he felt like his throat was swelling up. Like he wasn't able to breath. "This whole night, you have been trying to hide me like I'm something dirty you don't want to be seen with."

"You know we can't be seen together, April. You knew what this was from the start."

"God!" April screamed out, finally getting loud for the first time. "What do you even call me? Your girlfriend? Your mistress?" Mike tried to step forward, but she just shook her head at him, looking him right in the eye. "You're still sleeping with Leah, aren't you?" Mike just looked at her. He didn't want to lie, but he also didn't want to tell the truth, so he decided to remain silent. "Oh, fucking rich."

"April," Mike spoke, finding it hard to talk again as she looked around the room for her things. "You don't know what it's like to be married."

"You're right," she spoke as she sat on the bed to put her sweatpants back on. "I don't."

"You have to have sex every now and then." He sat down right next to her after her pants were on, and all April could do was look at him. "That's what you have to do as a married couple, even if you know the passion's gone. It's just a physical activity."

"That's the thing, Mike!" She yelled, standing up. "How do I not know that I'm just a physical activity if you can just do it anytime you want with Leah?" Mike opened his mouth again, but April wasn't done. "You said you loved me! You said I was different than Leah and you had been out of love with her for a long, long time!"

"I do love you!" Mike shouted, actually raising his voice at her, but April was going to raise it right back.

"Is that all I ever was to you?! A physical activity?!"

"No!" Mike was getting mad now. Mad that she would actually say that about him and how he felt about her. "Never!"

"Was I just some quest for you to defeat?"

"What?!" He had no idea where she had gotten that from.

"'Yeah,'" she spoke, mimicking his accent as best as she could. "'Let me just screw the president's daughter and we'll call it a grand time.'"

"Okay," Mike spoke, trying to calm himself down. "Now you're acting crazy."

"Am I really, though?" She spoke as calm as she could, shrugging a little bit. "Wouldn't you ask the same things if the roles were reversed?"

He was quiet, but April couldn't stop these tears she had been holding in for the entire fight. "I don't think I can do this, Mike."

He looked up at her, eyes wide at what she had said. "April – "

"We tried it." She said with a shrug as she began to back out of the room. "And it just didn't work, so I'm leaving, Mike."

April began to walk out of the room and down the hall to the front door. "April!" Mike called after her. He wasn't even mad anymore, he was just scared of her walking out like this. He ran past her, putting himself in front of the door. "April, just take a minute to think about this."

April bit her lip, knowing that no matter how she felt about him, no matter the fact that she loved him with all of her heart, she couldn't be with Mike. "Maybe we'll work out again another time." She told him in a hoarse voice before pushing him out of the way and walking out of his house.

She began down the first few steps, but she honestly couldn't take it. She sat down, throwing her face in her hands and crying out. She sat there for a few minutes, letting it all out before pulling out her phone and dialing Megan's number.

So, Megan gave her a ride back home in the morning and that entire day, Mike and April avoided each other. They just found it easier that way. The next few days were some of the hardest of their life. It was like they had went backwards in their relationship with an additional ten pounds weighing them down. April wasn't eating. She could hardly sleep. Her mother noticed that Megan was coming over a lot more than usual and Mike was especially quiet.

It was the night of the choir concert and everyone in the house was getting ready. No matter what happened, Mike was still on April's security detail, so while she was getting ready, Mike was standing outside her door.

Maggie walked up to him with a bit of a smile. "Ma'am," he told her with a nod.

"Hey, Mike."

Mike looked to the door a little awkwardly before turning back to the First Lady. "Do you want to go in and talk to April?"

"No." She told him, smiling just a little brighter at the fact that she was finally going to be able to talk to Mike about something that had been swimming in her mind since July. "I really want to talk to you."

"About what?" he asked as he looked around the space they were in, wondering what on earth they were going to talk about outside of April's bedroom door.

Maggie looked around for a moment, gathering what all she was going to say. "I'm not a hundred percent sure what's going on right now, but I do have an idea." Mike turned his head to the side, wondering if she knew about him and April. "My daughter is very complex, a lot like her father, but if you show her quite simply what you feel for her, she'll stick by your side through everything."

Mike stood there for a moment, looking at Maggie who wore a bright smile. "Are you saying you know – "

She shrugged and began to back off, hurrying down the stairs as Mike just continued to stand there, dumbfounded. April's ear was to the door, hearing everything her mother had said. She put a hand to her mouth, trying to keep herself from crying and laughing at the same time. Did everyone in the world ship her and Mike?

April and Megan stood back stage, wearing their winter coats with how cold it was outside as they boys were performing their song. "It wouldn't have killed her to have the concert indoors after finding out it was going to snow?" Megan complained as she shivered.

April, she wasn't really cold. She didn't feel a lot since her and Mike broke up, now being one time she was thankful for that. "April?"

They both turned around, seeing Mike walk up to the two. April's mouth dropped slightly, shocked that he was even talking to her. She hadn't heard his voice in so long and it was like music to her ears. "I'll give you two a minute." Megan spoke, keeping her eyes on her best friend until she got next to Mike. That's when she stared him down which Mike found kind of terrifying.

Once Megan was gone, all they could do was look at each other. There was so much they wanted to say, but they didn't know how to say it. "April," Mike spoke, moving toward her, closing the space between them, April just looking up at him, reminding Mike why he fell in love with her. "Look, I shouldn't have continued to have sex with Leah, that's a mistake that I will do anything to fix, but I can't have us apart like this." April didn't know what to say to him. "And I got these." He gave April folded up papers, April starting to unfold and look at them. "They're divorce papers." April gave him a shocked face, not expecting that from him at all. "I'm giving them to Leah when we get back from Camp David."

April bit her lip, looking down slightly, not sure what to say to him or about any of this. "It's gonna be messy and we might get our heart's broken along the way, but if that even means a second with you, I'm taking it. And yeah," Mike spoke with a laugh as April was watching him in wonderment. "This love is probably gonna lead to the biggest scar I've ever had. It's probably gonna lead to tragedy and tears, but I love you and that's something that's never gonna change for as long as my wasted heart keeps beating." April smiled as she watched him, knowing in that moment, he was completely forgiven and she didn't want anyone else by her side. "So, I've got one question for you…. Are you ready for the ride of your fucking life?"

April couldn't wait anymore. She got on her toes, giving him the best kiss she could as the dreaded snow began to fall, but April and Mike were completely warm. The snow melted the second it touched the two's lips, April smiling into the kiss as the flakes dissolved around them. The two had never been happier.

As they kissed, Ben had made it backstage to give April flowers, but then he saw April and Mike. Part of him was glad because they had this obvious tension between the two, but the other part of him didn't know what to say about all of this. He was watching his little girl making out with the best worker he ever had. As the two pulled away from each other, Ben hurried off with his guards trailing him, going back to his seat with Maggie and Conner. Maggie saw the flowers still in Ben's had, furrowing her eyebrows at that. "Why didn't you give April the flowers?"

Ben sighed, still confused at what he saw. "April was tied up at the moment."

After the concert, April and Mike went to go find the family, Maggie meeting her daughter in a large hug. "Oh, honey, you wonderful."

"I was in the back." She told her in an obvious voice.

"Can we go eat now?" Conner complained.

"Oh, please," April spoke, looking to her father, finally having the attitude to eat again. "I'm starving."

Ben smiled at his daughter, pulling out the flowers for her from behind his back. April gasped, taking them from him. "They're beautiful." She boasted before looking back to her father. "Now can we go get something to eat?"

"Smart ass." Ben complained as he put his arm around her.

Mike took a moment to watch that family. He honestly didn't care if coming out in a relationship with April was going to ruin his professional career. He was just happy to have April and for the first time since this relationship had started, everything was going their way. But Camp David was going to be the end of their good luck streak.

Mrs. HappyAnarchy: I know! Finally! And Grandmother was a hoot to write. I'm hoping we'll be able to see some more of her. I'm glad you liked "six inches" I thought it was funny. And as you can see in this chapter, everyone kind of knows, but is too polite to say anything. I hope you liked it!

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Okay so the next chapter is going to be the accident which I'm excited to write, but also sad because I love Maggie. I hope you have all enjoyed this chapter and make sure you drink a lot of water before reading the next few chapters because you may cry. Love ya!