Shawn was in the second day of his recovery. Alexandria was at work. Sam had been up for about twenty minutes. He was sitting on the living room couch. Shawn came downstairs with his notepad and pencil.

"Good morning." Sam said.

Good morning. Shawn wrote. I'm hungry.

"Do you can you can try solid food yet?" He shook his head no. "Want some of the Jello your mom made?" He nodded his head yes.

As Shawn was sitting at the kitchen table eating his Jello Sam was making himself an omelet. His back was to Shawn. Shawn wrote something down on his notepad and tapped his foot him the ground to get Sam's attention. Sam turned around. Shawn held up the notepad. It read.

That smells really good.

"When you're feeling better I'll make you one."

Sam and Shawn watched TV then played on the PS5. They were in Shawn's room.

I think I have a fever Sam. Shawn wrote.

Sam felt his head. "You're warm." "The doctor said it might happen." "Your mom told me where everything was in case." He went and got the thermometer and Tylenol. "I don't know how to work a thermometer like this." "I've only ever used the ones you put under your tongue." He was trying to turn it on. "How do you work this damn thing?" Shawn laughed and pointed to the button. "Oh." He turned it on and put it in Shawn's ear. "101.2." Sam gave him the medicine.

"Ow!" He said as he swallowed.

I think I'm gonna take nap. Shawn wrote.

"Ok, that's a good idea." "Get some rest."

Will you stay with me until I fall asleep?

"Yes." Shawn got into bed. Sam sat on the edge of it.

I'm glad you're here. I like you being here like this.

"I like it to." Shawn was out within ten minutes.

As Sam was walking down the stairs he was texting Alexandria. It read.

Shawn has a fever 101.2 but don't worry, he's fine. I gave him medicine and he's taking a nap. – Sam

When Sam reached the bottom of the stairs and came face to face with Diana.

"You." She said in disbelief and disgust. "What are you doing here?"

"Taking care my son." "You know, the son I didn't get to meet and missed twelve years of his life." "All because of you and Henry." "The son who thought I abandoned him and his mother because of the two of you." "The son you refused to let Lexie tell me about." "And why?" "All because I didn't come from money."

"Like you would've been there anyway."

"Oh I think you know I would've." "That's why you didn't want her to tell me." "You knew we would be together." "You knew I would've asked her to marry me, and you couldn't have that." "You know that if you hadn't taken her from me, we'd be married right now." "You partly won, we're not together and she doesn't love me anymore." "You'll never keep me away from my son again."

"I want to see Shawn."

"He's sleeping. He shut the door in her face.

Alexandria was about to go on her lunch break. She'd just saw Sam's text. She was about to text him back when the phone rang.

"Hello?" She said.

"Why in the hell is Sam at your house?" Diana said angrily. "I read your Facebook posts about Shawn and came to see him." "Sam answered the door."

"He is helping me take care of our son."

"He was very rude to me."

"What do you expect mom?" "You kept him from him his son." "You made me keep him from his son." "You lied to Shawn and said Sam left us."

"He shut the door in my face."

"Good you deserved it." Alexandria hung up on her.

Alexandria dialed Sam's number.

"Hello?" He said.

"I just hung up on my mom." Alexandria said. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah."

"I'm sorry."

"For what?"

"That you had to go through that."

Later that night Alexandria, Sam and Shawn were all in the living room. Shawn wrote on his notepad and showed it to Alexandria. It read.

Let's show Sam the Christmas video.

Alexandria pulled up the digital video of Shawn's first Christmas on the TV. In the video Shawn was seven months old.

"You look just like my baby pictures." He said looking at Shawn.

"Shawn was just starting to crawl around this time." Alexandria said. "He starts crawling in the video."

It got to the part where Shawn started to crawl.

"Aw, that is so cute." Sam said.

Later that night Sam was going up to bed. Alexandria was in her room with the door slightly open. She was talking to Caleb on the phone.

"I love you Caleb." Sam heard Alexandria say as he walked by.

Even though he knew he had no right to feel that way, it hurt Sam a little when she said that.