Hello, Louisiana

For the next two days Dallas had convinced Zacky to let her and Juliet go to Bon Temps.

Finally the day of the trip had arrived. Dallas was in Juliet's room getting her ready while Zacky was in the parking lot putting their suitcases into the car for the drive to LAX. Dallas hated flying, but Zacky insisted. She was terrified, she'd much rather drive all the way to Louisiana then fly in an airplane with her newborn.

"I really wish you'd come with me. It'll look bad for me showing up with a baby on my hip alone."Dallas pouted her lip out.

"Babe, you'll be fine. I'll be out there in a couple weeks, the guys and I have a few gigs and I'm pretty sure some important people will be in the audience." He grabbed her face in his hands and kissed her.

Dallas had called her parents a few days before to let them know she was coming home for good. Zacky thought it was for a visit, but she planned to stay. She was fed up with California, she couldn't stand it anymore. She didn't have any friends there, all her friends and family were in Bon Temps, the people she grew up around, the people she had been friends with practically her whole life.

Her parents had cleaned out her old room and the guest room in their big old house, which would've been considered a mansion back in the Civil War days, and made a little nursery for Juliet.

"Are you excited honey? You're gonna get to see grandma and grandpa again! And see all mommy's old friends!" Dallas said excitedly to her daughter.

The plane engines started and Juliet giggled happily. She looked out the window while in Dallas' lap and Dallas wrapped her arms protectively around her tiny frame and closed her eyes and counted to ten as the plane took off the runway and into the air.

Later on Dallas got her iPod out with the double cord and put the old fashioned headphones on Juliet's ears and the newer ones in hers and played Big and Rich for her. Juliet wiggled her bottom in her lap and clapped her hands and giggled some more.

"There she is! There's my baby girl and my granbaby!" Dallas' mother smiled at her from the gate at the Shreveport airport.

"Hey mama!" Dallas ran to her with Juliet in her arms. She took Juliet out of her arms and handed her to Dallas' dad then hugged Dallas. Her dad handed Juliet to her mom and then hugged Dallas.

"Where's Zachary?" Her dad asked.

"He's gonna come down in a coupl'a weeks. I haven't exactly told him I'm not going back to California." Dallas replied as they headed to the baggage claim.

"He's not gonna take it very well, will he?" He asked.

"Prob'ly not. But if it's what I want for Juliet, then he'll move down here. Then there's also the guys…"

"The guys?" Her mom asked while holding Juliet.

"His band. They're trying to make it big."

Dallas' dad rolled his eyes, "Of course. Tattooed 'punk rock' boys and they're screaming music."

"Daddy! That's the father of my child you're making fun of!" Dallas smacked his arm.

He chuckled, "I know sweetheart. I just wanted better things for you; I didn't expect my daughter to be a mother at twenty and unmarried. We both thought you were gonna go to that art school in New York."

"Well daddy, I met the man I want to marry and he swept me off my feet. I didn't get pregnant on purpose, but I'm glad I did. Juliet's the best thing that's happened to me." She took her from her mom's arms and hugged her close and kissed her forehead.

"Well, well, well, look whose back home!" JB du Rone yelled. He was still working on Dallas' parents in-ground pool they started building.

"Hey JB!" Dallas laughed as he jumped out of the hole and hugged her.

"Long time no see, Dal!" He laughed and picked her up and spun her around.

"JB du Rone you put me down right now!" Dallas yelled as she heard Juliet laughing with her mom from the porch.

It felt good to be back home, for good.

Now she just wished she could get up the courage to tell Zacky she was home for good.

Three days of unpacking all of her and Juliet's things was all it took, then a few more days to go see all her old friends and show them she had a baby on her hip.

"Oh my!" Aimee, Dallas' old best friend from high school, said when she saw Juliet. "She looks just like…Zacky. But she has your eyes!" She picked her up and held her.

"Is it hard to take care of her since you're so young?" She asked.

"I've got Zacky." Dallas replied.

Aimee gasped, "You should get your old job back at Merlotte's! With me!"

"I can't work at a bar with a baby! I have to have certain hours."

"So? I'm sure Sam will let ya come back to work, and he'll probably let you pick your hours."

Sure enough, Sam gave her back her old job. She worked afternoons on weekdays, and nights on the weekend. She knew it didn't seem fair, but she needed to make money somehow and she wasn't about to argue with Sam since he re-hired her.

"That daughter of yours looks just like you." Sam said as she was cleaning the glasses at the bar.

"Ya think? Everyone says she looks just like Zacky."

"How is he?"

"He's…okay. Ever since we left for California he's been trying to make it to the 'big time' with his band. It's hardly enough to pay the bills, so I came back."

"I'm not gonna say 'I told you so' because I'm not that mean." He sighed, "But didn't you know what you were getting yourself into? I mean, that night you two first met, couldn't you just tell?"

"Now Sam don't chide her on who she fell in love with. I think it's romantic, personally." Aimee said as she passed by going to one of her tables.

Sam snorted, "Yeah. Love. At least the guy's human, I'll give ya that."

Dallas shot him a look.

"Sorry." He said and walked back into his office and shut the door behind him.

"Oh don't mind him, Honey. He's just been real stressed out lately. As to why, I don't know. But you just focus on being happy." Aimee smiled.

Dallas smiled back at her with her confidence back in place and straightened out her white shirt and black shorts. "Thanks Aimee."

"Hey, want to—well, never mind." She said.

"What?" Dallas asked.

"I was gonna ask if you wanted to go do somethin' tonight but I forgot about Julie."

"My parents have been practically demanding I go out and have some fun this past week and a half. I bet they'd be glad to watch her for at least one night."