Remember Me?

Ch. 2

Juno was driving back home, her lunch with Vanessa was still in the forefront of her mind. She agreed to talk to Bleeker about Anthony. Somewhere deep inside Bleeker, Juno knew, he wanted to take care of his son, but now? He and Juno hadn't even been trying to have children lately. She made her mind think of anything else besides Vanessa and Anthony. She decided to focus on the road. But that didn't nessisarily work out too well. She couldn't help but think the worst at this moment. What if Bleeker didn't want Anthony? What was she supposed to do? That was all Vanessa wanted her to do and that was all she could do.

Juno made it back to her house, took a deep sigh and got out of her car.Bleeker was still at work. It was too late to call him, he'd be teaching his class right now. Fortunately he didn't have track practice today. Juno, never being able to cook whatsoever, decided to get Chinese takeout, Bleeker's favorite. She wasn't exactly sure how to tell him about Anthony. She figured just telling him about what happened would do, but she had never been this nervous.

To try to calm those nerves Juno sat at her desk which held her laptop that she did all of her writing from. She tried thinking of anything that she had an opinion on strong enough to write a report on. Of course, nothing came to mind.

"Alright Juno, think," she said to herself. It didn't work. Okay, little miss Leah, what are you up to? Juno needed to do something, talk to someone. And seeing as her husband was at work she didnt really know who else to talk to right now.

She picked up her phone and dialed the all too familiar number.

"Speak," Leah answered from the other side.

"Leah, you're not busy are you?" Juno asked.

"Juno?" Leah sounded confused.

"No it's Bob Marley. Yes it's me! Do you ever use your caller ID?" Juno asked somewhat annoyed at her friend. After all these years her friend still couldn't tell when it was her calling.

"Not when I want to annoy you. Haha I win!"

"You sound like a four year old, you know that?"

"So what's up?" Leah asked finally.

"I need to talk to you. Well, I just need to talk and Bleek's working and I have no clue. . . " she let her sentence trail off.

"June?"

"Yeah?"

"Just get over here."

Juno sat in Leah's appartment at her tiny dining table. She held a mug of coffee in her hands and took a breath.

"So tell me what's up? Is there trouble in paradise?" Leah poked.

"No, at least I don't think so, not yet. It's just. Okay so Vanessa called me earlier. She said it ws important, so I called her back and we met up for lunch. Leah, she's . . . she's, dying. And she wants me and Bleeker to adopt our son." Juno took a big sip from her coffee, yes, she know's drinking coffee in the middle of the day isn't the most healthy thing for her, but oh well.

"So what does Bleeker think? Or have you not told him yet?" Leah guessed.

"I just found out today. I'm going to get some takeout and tell him over dinner."

"Wow, romantic, chinese food," Leah laughed.

"Well, June, I think you should get to know the boy, so when he has to come live with you he already knows you and he's not afraid. I mean, he doesn't know that the woman who is raising him is dying, right? So let him get to know you guys. but I don't know, it just sounds like a good idea to me," Leah suggested.

"Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea." And with that Juno left.

Juno came home and found Bleeker sitting on the couch watching some pointless comedy.

"Oh, hey Juno. How was your day? Write any more reports?" He asked.

"Um, no not really, I couldn't get in the mind set, y'know? So what do you want from Ling Lings for dinner tonight?" Juno dialed the resturaunts number into her phone.

"Eh, whatever, I'm not in a picky mood tonight." Juno nodded her recognition and continued ordering.

"So, Bleek, how was your day?" Juno asked as she sat down.

"Pretty boring. Darren Drakes decided today was the day he wasn't going to wear his safety goggles, he doesn't have eyebrows anymore." Bleeker answered.

"Seriously? Why didn't anyone do that while we went to that school? Man! That would have been the most hilarious thing ever!" Juno laughed. They laughed at the poor sap who no longer has eyebrows until the delievery boy came to the door with their chinese food. Juno set up the food on the table and they sat down to eat.

"So Bleek. You will never guess who called me today. . . " Juno started.

"I don't know, who?"

"Vanessa."

"Vanessa! What did she want? Is there something wrong with, oh what's his name. . . um. . . "

"Anthony"

"Anthony! yes! Was there something wrong with Anthony?" he asked.

"No, but. . . I. . . Bleeker, Vanessa is. . . she's. . . alright, she only has a month to live. . . and. . . "

"What? What's going to happen to Anthony? Juno, do you think. .. . Maybe we should take him in?" Bleeker asked looking up from his fried rice at his wife.

"Oh, Bleek. That's. . . wow. . . Vanessa asked me to adopt him today. She wants us to take care of him. So, I guess you're cool with that then?" she stared at her husband in disbelief.

"Yeah I'm cool with it. Juno, I've always wanted to take care of our son. I think this is our chance to have our family."

"Right, well, I'll just call up Vanessa and figure out what to do next." Juno said reaching for her phone.

A/N: so what did you think? I guess I had it in my mind that what Juno went through when she was 16 made her mature faster, so even though she's only 24 in my story, she feels kind of motherly toward her son who she never got to know. And I always had it in my mind that Bleeker didn't really want Juno to give the baby up. Like when he asked Juno, "What are you going to do?" and she said "oh you know, I'd figure I'd just nip it in the bud before it gets worse. Are you cool with that?" To me it seemed like Bleeker wanted to keep it but didn't want to argue with Juno so he basically said yeah sure whatever you want. So to me, he would do whatever he could to care for his son now that he has a job and a house and a steady income.