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Chapter 4: A Day Full of Surprises

10:00 AM

That was the time Sean read on his alarm clock. He had just gotten out of the shower and was getting ready to go to Manny's to see her but more importantly to see Emma. Since the day he found out that he was coming back he couldn't wait to see her. He felt butterflies in his stomach whenever he thought of her. The great memories of them together replayed in his head as he got ready. Thirty minutes later, he was ready out the door.

Meanwhile over at Manny's, Manny was getting breakfast ready for Jayden. Craig was the in the living room playing on his guitar as he tried to come up with a new song. Emma went for a walk like she did everyday she had gotten back and Kelly had to go see his father for a couple of days.

"Hey baby, you ready for breakfast." Manny said as she kissed Jayden's head while he sat in his highchair playing with his toy blocks.

"Here you go, baby!" She said sweetly as she sat down in front of him and starting feeding him.

About ten minutes later, Manny heard the door bell ring. "Craig, can you get that?" She yelled as she continued feeding Jayden. Craig got up and went to open the door. "That must be your uncle Sean." She said sweetly as she watched Jayden eat.

"Sean, hey come on in. Manny is in the kitchen." He told him as he let in and closed the door behind them. Sean looked around Manny's new house as he followed Craig to the kitchen. He noticed photographs of Emma and Manny and a baby boy that he didn't recognized. He looked at one of the photographs of Manny and the baby boy and he noticed some similarities between them but didn't make much of it until he walked in to the kitchen and saw Manny feeding the same baby.

"Manny! How have you been?" Sean said as he walked over to her.

Manny turned around and smile. She got up and gave him a hug. "Sean, I am so happy you are back. We have missed you!" She said excitedly as she pulled away from the hug to look at him. "You look great!" She told him.

"Thanks, I miss you guys too." Sean said as he stared at the Jayden who was sitting in his highchair playing with his toy blocks and babbling. He smiled as he watched Jayden threw one of the blocks on to the floor and then started laughing.

"Manny, is he yours?" Sean asked. He was surprise that no one had told him.

"Yeah, he is my son. His name is Jayden." Manny said proudly as she rubbed Jayden's back and then bent down to grabbed the block that Jayden had thrown on the floor.

Sean continued to stare at Jayden.Jayden had brown eyes like his mother and short dark brown hair. The people that knew who is Jayden's father would always said that he looked exactly like his dad exact for his eyes. Jayden was wearing a shirt that read, "Mommy's little mechanic," which Manny had brought for him.

"Manny, who is the father?" Sean asked curiously as Jayden reminded him of someone but he couldn't figure it out. Sean looked at Craig and then at Jayden to see any similarities between them.

Manny got nervous when she heard him.

"It's…" Manny started to say but was cut off by Craig.

"I'm the father." Craig said as he came up from behind. Manny was startled. She had never heard Craig ever claim Jayden has his son. She made a mental note to ask him why he told Sean that Jayden was his son later on when it is just them to. Manny didn't say anything. She just looked down at the table.

"Congratulations on the baby boy. He is adorable." Sean said.

"Thanks, Sean. So how long you back for?" Manny asked as she tried to play off the awkwardness she felt at that moment. She got Jayden out of his high chair and started burping him.

"I'm...." Sean was about to say before he noticed who was standing in the kitchen. Emma stood there wide eye. She thought she was dreaming. It couldn't be, she thought. No that cannot be Sean in here, she tried to convince herself.

"Sean?" Emma said as she couldn't believe who was in the kitchen.

"Emma." Sean said as he looked at her. She looked even more beautiful, he thought. He went up to her and hugged her warmly. He could smell the vanilla scent of her hair spray that he loved. He didn't want to let go and then either did Emma. She could feel all her old feelings for him coming back as she was in his arms.

Manny watched happily as they hugged.

"When did you come back?" Emma asked as she pulled away slowly from the hug. She looked at him and saw that he was as handsome as he always was.

"I just came back yesterday." Sean told her.

"Did you know?" She asked Manny who looked on happily as she finished burping Jayden.

"Yeah. Surprise!" Manny said with a cheesy smile.

"Do you guys want to get something to eat?" Sean suggest as it had gotten silent for a couple of minutes.

"I think I'm going to have to pass. It looks like my little man is about to pass out. But you two should catch up. We can talk later." She said as she rubbed Jayden's back as he slowly started falling asleep on her shoulder.

"So what do you say, Em?" Sean asked shyly. He wasn't sure why he felt nervous being next to her but he was and so was Emma.

"Um. Yeah sure let's go." Emma said after a bit of hesitation.

…

Sean and Emma decided to go to the Dot to get catch up as well as get something to eat.

"So, how was the army?" Emma asked as they sat down.

"Hey, Emma! What would guys like to drink?" Holly J asked as she came to the table to give them the menu.

"Hey, Holly J! I will have water." Emma said.

"Coke please." Sean said politely.

"Ok, I will be back with your drinks." Holly J said.

"The army was a life changing experience." Sean told her.

Holly J had come back to give them their drinks and to take their order. After she had left it got silent between the two of them neither one knowing what to say.

"Sean, I have a boyfriend." Emma said got of the blue. She didn't want to give him false hope and at the same time she didn't want get sucked back into all their drama. She had just gotten over him and she had found someone that made her happy.

"I know. I meet him yesterday." Sean informed her.

"What? Where?" Emma asked surprised but at the same time a bit nervous.

"Yesterday, I was here with Jay and Spinner when Craig and Kelly came over and sat with us." Sean told her.

"That must have been interesting. Ex-boyfriend talking to current boyfriends." Emma said with a chuckle. Even Sean started laughing.

"Yeah, you can definitely say that. Jay and Craig got into a fight over Manny." Sean told her. He looked at her face. "Not surprising?" He asked.

"Not really. I kind of figured that would happen when they saw each other. I had a feeling that Jay wasn't over Manny. He was so in love with her." Emma said as their food arrived.

"I never expected Jay and Manny to be together. I couldn't believe it when you told me in the letters."

"Yeah I couldn't believe it either when she told me that they were going out. But like I told you, Jay was really in love with her and so was Manny. They just fall in love and then got fake engaged and then got engaged for real." Emma informed him.

"Wow. You miss a lot in one year. Who would have thought Jay Hogart would ever fall in love?" Sean told her.

"Exactly, he actually changed into a good guy and he treated her very well until he chose to lie to her and break and enter into a pawn shop to get his ring back. Typical Jay."

"I heard Craig say something about that. What is that all about?"

"Basically the ring was his mother's who passed away when he was younger and he give it to Manny who sold it to the pawn broker so she could get tickets to go to Malta to visit his parent which turned out didn't live there and then he stole the ring back because it was the only thing he had from his mother. He told her a lie about how he got it back but she found out and dumped him and yeah that basically it." She said with a chuckle. She was tired of telling the same story over and over again.

"Wow," was all Sean could say.

After it had gone silent for a couple of minutes, Sean decided to speak up.

"So Jayden, huh. Why didn't you two ever tell me about him?" Sean asked her.

"Umm. I guessed we wanted it to be a surprise." Emma told him. She didn't know what to say. The real reason they didn't tell him was because they were worried that he would tell Jay if he knew.

"So how old is Jayden?" Sean asked.

"He is six months now. Isn't he adorable? I love him." Emma said proudly.

"Yeah he is. He looks like Manny." He said.

"Did Craig mention anything about Jayden while all of you guys talked?" Emma said curiously.

Sean raised an eyebrow, "No. why?" he asked.

"No reason." She said in a calm voice as she looked at anything that wasn't Sean's face. If there was one thing Emma was bad at, it was lying to Sean and Manny.

"No, there is a reason because you cannot look at my face. Tell me!" He demanded.

"There is no reason!" She said as she looked at him.

"You do know you are horrible at lying to me." He said with a laugh.

"Fine, I will tell you but you have to promise me you will not tell anyone. And I mean no one." She said. She knew Manny was going to kill her but she couldn't keep anything way from Sean.

"Promise." He said as he moved closer to the table.

She took a deep breath. "Fine it is about Jayden."

She looked over that Sean and noticed that he had a look on his face that knew what she was going to say.

"Craig isn't Jayden's father?" Sean asked. He had the feeling that he was right because he remember the looked on Manny's face when Craig said that Jayden was his son. It was if she was surprised that Craig had said that. When Emma just nodded her head, he had a pretty good idea of who could be the father.

"That means that Jay is his father?" He asked apprehensively.

Emma simply just nodded as she watched his reaction. Now it was all making sense to him. He understood why Spinner had cutoff Kelly at the Dot yesterday and why Manny looked uncomfortable when Craig told him that he was Jayden's father and why they didn't mention anything about Jayden in the letters.

"Sean, you have to promise me you will not tell anyone especially Jay." Emma begged.

Sean stared at her with disbelief.

"But he is the father." He said.

"I know and I tell her almost every day to tell him but she doesn't listen." Emma said. She looked over at Sean and saw that he was deep in his thoughts. "Sean, are you listening to me?" She asked

"I have an idea on how we can get her to tell him." Sean said.

"Tell me." Emma said eagerly.

….

After spending practically the whole afternoon together, Sean and Emma arrived at Manny's at around 5 pm.

"Hey Manny." Emma said softly as they walked into the living room where Jayden was asleep in Manny's arms.

"Hey, how was your day?" Manny asked as Emma and Sean sat down on the couch.

"I think it went great." Sean said as he looked over at Emma who was blushing.

"It looks like the little guy is sound asleep." Sean said as he looked over at Jayden.

"Yeah, he just passed out a couple of minutes ago." She said softly.

"Manny, I will take Jayden to his crib. You can catch up with Sean." Emma said as she got up and walked over to Manny.

"Ok." Manny said.

"Tell him the truth about Jayden." Emma whisper into Manny's ear as Manny handed Jayden over to Emma. Sean waited until Emma entered the room so he could ask Manny.

"So… ok I just have to ask Manny, is Craig really his father?" Sean asked as he sat on the couch with her.

Manny looked at him debating whether or not to tell him the truth. He was Jay's best friend so he will probably tell him but part of her felt that she could trust me. They had gotten to know each other over the past couples of years and she felt he was a trustworthy person.

"Yeah, Craig is the father. Why?" Manny reassured him.

"So why did you looked surprised when Craig said Jayden was his son?" Sean asked. Being with Emma for all those years he got to know Manny better and he could tell something was up.

Manny looked him in the face. "Yeah, Craig is his father. What did Emma tell you?" Manny asked.

"Come on, Manny. I thought we are good friends. I told you I still have feeling for Emma in those letters I wrote to you" He said.

"We are and she told you didn't she?" Manny asked. She was a bit upset with Emma at the moment because Emma had promise she wouldn't tell anyone.

"Maybe. So I will ask you again. Is Craig really his father?" Sean asked.

"No." Manny said as she hung her head.

"Jay is the father?" Sean asked.

"Yeah." Was all Manny could say.

"I am guessing he doesn't know because he never mentions Jayden before." Sean said surprised that Manny would have keep something this big a secret from Jay.

Manny just nodded as she looked away from him. Manny knew what was Sean was going to say next. It happened with Spinner, Jane, Emma, her parents and now Sean. The whole "you need to tell him. He is the father," speech.

"Manny, you have to tell him. Jayden is his son and he should know that." Sean argued.

"I am going to tell him, Sean. I just haven't seen him to tell him. Just please don't tell him. I should be the one to tell him when I am ready" Manny asked of him. She knew she was wrong for not telling Jay about his son but she just didn't know how.

"I don't know Manny, Jayden is his son. Plus Jay is my best friend, how do you want to keep a secret like this from him? Will you promise me you will tell him next time you see him?" Sean asked. Now he was regretting he even asked them if Jay was the father. How am I going to keep a big secret like this from him? Sean thought.

"Ok I promise you I will tell him next time I see him. But promise me you won't tell him?"Manny asked nervous.

Sean looked at her as he was torn on what to do. Part of him agreed that she should be the one to tell and the other part of him told him that Jay was his best friend and that he need to know as soon as possible about his son.

Luckily for Sean, Emma had just come back.

"So?" Emma asked as she sat on the other couch in the living room.

"I told him but you already had told him, right?" Manny said angrily as she continued looking at him trying to read what way he was leaning towards.

"Yeah, I am sorry, Manny. Are you mad at me?" Emma asked.

"Depends if Sean promises me that he is not going to tell Jay or any one for that matter?" She said sternly.

"Manny, I was telling Emma that you two should come over to the apartment tomorrow." Sean said as he tried to change the subject.

"Only if you promise me you won't tell him." Manny propositioned.

"Ok." Sean said as convincing as he could because he wasn't sure if he could keep the secret for that long.

"Well, I have to go but I hope to see both of you tomorrow." He said as he got up for the couch.

"Ok, bye Sean." Both the girl said at the same time. He gave them each a hug and then left. As he walked towards his car, he couldn't stop thinking about what he had just learned. I have to tell him. He is my best friend. But I promise Manny that I wouldn't tell him.

Once Sean got to his car, he pulled out his phone and decided to dial Jay's number.

"Cameron, what's up?" Jay said as he picked up his phone.

Sean took in a deep breath. "Hey man, do…."

Will Sean tell him? What do Sean and Emma have planned? And finally the moment you all are have been waiting for in next chapter: Jay and Manny finally see each other after a year.

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