"Mommy, can I still play?" Carter asked as he entered their apartment unit with his mom behind him. They just got home from spending afternoon in the park and visiting Ashley and Ted in Hanna's childhood home.
"Hmmn... You still have an hour before bedtime." Hanna said looking at her watch as she put down her purse in keys in the table near the door.
"So, can I still play?" Carter asked with an excited smile.
"40 minutes and after that you need to take a bath and get ready for bed." Hanna said.
"Okay," Carter said and with that he ran to his room.
Hanna walked to her working desk opening her laptop to arrange her schedule for the coming week. After few minutes, Carter came out of his room holding a box of Lego and action figures. He went to sit on the floor in the living room and spilled out the Legos on the carpet and started to build a mini city made up of Legos. He then, played with his action figures.
"Help! Help! I'm in danger!" Carter said imitating a scared voice holding a female action figure.
"Never fear, I'm here to save you." Carter said again imitating Superman's voice holding a Superman action figure on his other hand. "Shuuush..." he made a flying sound and move Superman to get the female action figure on top of the high tower he built made of Legos.
Hanna smiled and shook her head with his son's antics. She continued to work on her laptop while Carter played on the floor. Hanna glanced at her watch Carter still has 10 minutes to play. She stood up and went to his room to prepare his things that he will need in preparing for bedtime. She pulled out a blue pyjama pair with dinosaurs printed on it and she laid it in his bed. She grabbed his towel and his robe and went to the bathroom to fill the tub with warm water.
"Carter, times up. You need to take a bath and prepare for bed now." Hanna said with her hand on her hip, standing in the doorway of the bathroom.
"Can I have a late night?" Carter said.
"No, you have school tomorrow. Late night is for Fridays and Saturdays only. Clean up your mess before you come here." Hanna said in a motherly authoritative way.
"Okay," Carter said in a sad voice. He started to put back the Legos in its box and put the other toys in his toy box. When he's done cleaning up his toys he went to the bathroom to take a bath. Hanna helped him out taking a bath and getting dressed. When he's all done, Hanna tucked him in.
"Mommy, why do I don't have a Daddy?" Carter suddenly asked lying on his bed looking at Hanna. Hanna stopped pulling the blanket to Carter's body and went pale by her son's question.
"Uhm... He's..." Hanna stutters don't know what the right thing to say. "Why do you ask?" She manages to ask back.
"Because the guy I hit with the Frisbee asked me where my mom and dad is? I tell him that you are in the playground and I don't know what to tell about my dad." Carter rambled.
"Oh," Hanna said.
"Mommy, where is my Daddy?" Carter asked again.
"He went to a place far from here." Hanna managed to tell him finally.
"Is he coming back?" Carter asked again.
"I don't know." Hanna said.
"I wish he would come back." Carter said.
"Okay, Baby let's just talk in the morning close your eyes, hug Mr. Cuddle and go to sleep." Hanna said pulling a chair to Carter's bed side. She sat down and stroke Carter's hair while humming a lullaby. Carter closed his eyes tight and hugged his favorite Teddy Bear. Hanna hummed a lullaby till' Carter drift off to sleep. When he's already sleeping soundly, Hanna kissed his forehead and turned off his night lamp in his bedside table. Hanna then quietly head out of his room.
"I love you, Mommy." Carter murmured making Hanna turned towards him. Hanna watch him turned to the other side of the bed with his eyes closed.
Hanna smiled. "Love you too, Baby." she whispered before closing his bedroom door.
Hanna turned on the TV and plopped down on the couch. She flipped through channels and settle on a RomCom movie called 'The Switch'. Her eyes were glued on the TV screen but she can't pay much attention to it remembering Carter's question about his dad. She doesn't really want to lie to her son but that's what she think the best thing to do to protect him. Things are still complicated with her and Caleb and she wasn't that sure with him yet. There is still a possibility of him leaving and there is still a possibility that he won't really end things with Olivia and go on with marrying her. It is too risky if she let him know about their children it will be just fine if she's the only one that he will left heartbroken again. She can't risk Carter getting heartbroken it will break her heart even more.
Caleb was sitting on his living room watching a basketball game on TV while drinking beer and eating pizza. It was a typical night for him as a bachelor. What happened with him and Hanna this afternoon keeps playing back on his head and he loved it how she looks disappointed when he pulled away quickly when she's just starting to respond. He loved it how she keeps denying it through her words but she evidently wanted him through her actions. He smiled widely thinking of Hanna. Then and Now, Hanna still can make his heart skip a beat and took his breath away just by thinking of her. She amazes him and it amazed him how his feelings for her never fades or changed but gets stronger and deeper even more despite of the years they spent apart from each other. He can't wait for Olivia to come home so he can make everything right for Hanna. He can't wait to be with her and he can't wait to have her in his arms each and every waking day.
He got snapped out of his train of thought when he heard his phone ringing loudly on the coffee table. He picked it up and looked at the screen. It's Olivia calling him. He can end things on the phone but that's not the right thing to do, it will even ruin his gentleman credibility.
"Hey," He said upon answering the phone.
"Hi, Babe." Olivia said. "How are you? I missed you already, it really sucks that I don't get to spend the whole day with you." she said sweetly.
"I'm fine." Caleb simply said.
"How was your day?" Olivia said.
"Good, just spent the whole day working not much exciting." He said.
"I'm already in the hotel, we're going to present the proposal tomorrow morning and the evaluation if we got the account or not will be on Tuesday and I'll be home by Wednesday." Olivia said.
"Good, I would really like to talk to you when you get back." Caleb said.
"Talk about what?" Olivia curiously asked.
"I'll tell you when you get back, okay?" Caleb said.
"Okay, I'll just call you again tomorrow. Bye." Olivia said expecting Caleb will say I love you first before she hung up.
"Bye." Caleb simply said the three words never came.
"I love you." Olivia tried again.
"Okay, Bye." Caleb just simply said and hung up.
Olivia closed her phone knowing something is wrong. Caleb has been distant to her the past few days. She doesn't want to think about it but it worries her a lot.
"Good Morning, Lace." Hanna greeted Lacey upon entering the glass door of the wedding boutique.
"Good morning, Ms. Marin." Lacey greeted cheerfully.
Hanna walked through the hall to her office. "Good morning, Spence." Hanna greeted her best friend as she passed by her office.
"Morning, Han." Spencer said waving at her.
"Can I ask you a favor?" Hanna asked standing by the door frame.
"What is it?" Spencer asked.
"Can you take over with my schedule this afternoon, it's just one appointment." Hanna said.
"Is it for Caleb's wedding? I just saw a venue tour scheduled for today." Spencer said.
"You got it right." Hanna said nodding.
"Han, you know you have to face him sooner or later." Spencer said.
"I just can't, as much as possible I really want to avoid him. I keep losing and he's always winning every time." Hanna said.
"You should know that this is Caleb, you can't stop him from fighting for you knowing that he still loves you." Spencer said looking into Hanna's blue eyes.
"How do you know that he will fight for me? He still loves me, yes, I heard it clearly coming out of his mouth but still it doesn't change the fact that he's still tied to the other girl and I am planning their wedding, by the way." Hanna said putting her hand on his hip.
"This is Caleb he would go to the ends of the world for you. He keeps fighting for you all of the time even you pushed him away. And because of that, I am always Team Haleb, all the way!" Spencer said even raising her fist to the air.
"Can you switch ship and go for Team Penna?" Hanna said sarcastically.
Spencer laughed. "No, don't get me wrong I like Penn but I know Caleb will always be the one who can make you completely happy and I know you know that too." Spencer said.
"Please just go to the appointment with him I can't deal with him right now." Hanna said.
"No, no, no, no," Spencer said while shaking her head.
"Hmp... Fine, I think I can resist him and just act professionally." Hanna said crossing her arms into her chest.
"That's my girl, now go shoo!" Spencer said shooing her.
"You know what, I love you but I hate you right now. I thought you're gonna be on my side always, I thought were Team Spannna." Hanna said about to walk out the door.
"You'll thank me later and I love you too." Spencer said.
"Yeah, right." Hanna said walking out of her best friend's office, heading to her own office.
Olivia was sitting in the cafe of the five-star hotel where she is currently staying reviewing her proposal on her laptop for almost the 5th time that morning.
"Care if I join you?" a male voice asked. She looked up and saw Penn looking gorgeous in his suit.
"Penn, what are you doing here?" Olivia asked.
"Business trip, it's funny how my Uncle just hire me and put me on a business trip right away." Penn said smiling. "Do you mind if I seat with you?" Penn asked gesturing the chair placed opposite to hers.
"No, not at all." Olivia said gesturing for him to seat down.
"So, how was Caleb?" Penn asked trying to start a conversation.
"He's fine he's going to take care of our wedding stuff right now while I'm here." Olivia said.
"I kinda envy him." Penn commented.
"Why?" Olivia curiously asked.
"The girl he wanted to marry said yes to him." Penn simply said sounding broken.
"Why? What happened with you and Hanna?" Olivia asked closing her laptop shut.
"I proposed the other night." Penn started sighing. "She didn't exactly say no but she ran away from me. I'm so stupid and I messed it up scaring her away."
"I'm sorry to hear that," Olivia said sympathetically.
"I should have known better. She has commitment issues when we met because of some douche bag who cheated on her." Penn said in a verge of tears.
"So, you two broke up?" Olivia asked.
"Not exactly, but she's not answering my calls and it worries me," Penn said.
"Caleb and I felt like falling apart and I'm kinda regretting saying yes to him knowing that he's not really completely over his ex." Olivia confessed.
"Oh, but you still continuing the planning of your wedding," Penn said.
"Yes but when I called him last night he seem pretty distant and he told me that we have to talk when I get home." Olivia said unsure of spilling out her emotions with Penn but it feels great at the same time letting go of her burdens.
"Maybe it was what they called wedding jitters kind of thing." Penn said trying to cheer her up.
"Maybe, I don't know." Olivia said.
They went silent for a while till' Olivia's boss walked up to them.
"Looks like you two already knew each other." Samuel Ford said.
"Uncle Sam," Penn greeted standing up.
"Mr. Ford," Olivia greeted the business man. "He's your Uncle?" Olivia asked Penn.
"Yes," Penn simply said.
"Great, I don't have to introduce the two of you." The 50 year old man said.
"He's your boss?" Penn asked and Olivia just nodded.
"I just have to say. Olivia, Penn will accompany us throughout this trip for him to be familiarized with the nature and culture of our business. I am counting on you to look after him. And Penn, don't give this beautiful lady a hard time." Mr. Ford told them.
"Yes Uncle," Penn said looking like a little kid promising to follow what he is told. Olivia smiled looking at Penn.
"Yes, Sir. I think your nephew you here would be easy to handle." Olivia said tapping Penn's shoulder. Olivia and Penn's eyes met and they just looked at each other smiling and on that moment, their issues with their significant others have been forgotten.
Hanna was walking on the beach by the lake, strolling around the Lake Resort where she is going to meet Caleb for planning his wedding. She scrolled through the possible designs for the aisle in her iPad choosing the perfect spot where should they put the aisle. She was interrupted by Caleb's loud voice.
"Do we have to still do this?" Caleb said loudly walking towards her.
"Great, you're finally here Mr. Rivers. We can get down to business. Where would you want to put the aisle?" She said in a professional tone.
"Don't Mr. Rivers me, Princess." Caleb said when he's finally in front of her. It makes Hanna's heart skip a beat looking at him and hearing her old nickname fell out of his lips. "Do we still need to do this?" Caleb repeated his question from earlier.
"Of course, we're planning your wedding and it needs to be great because I'm the one planning it. So, please cooperate with me Mr. Rivers." Hanna said.
"We don't have to do this because I'm calling off the wedding anyway." Caleb said.
"Well, you're paying me and this is my job." Hanna said turning on her heel to walk away from him. Caleb caught her elbow and turned her around so she was facing him.
"I don't want to plan my wedding anymore and I know you don't want to plan it anymore either and you are hurting inside knowing I was tied to marry someone." Caleb said looking straight in to her eyes. Hanna looked down not wanting to meet his eyes again, knowing that if she stay looking at him she would spilled out the truth and tell him everything he says was true.
"Hey, look at me." Caleb said tilting her head up so she would look at him. "I already told you that I would make all of this right, for us. Please, don't fight me even for a just a moment don't fight me, don't fight your feelings for me." Caleb pleaded looking into her blue eyes.
"Caleb, I don't know how you're seeing this but these is cheating. I haven't exactly end up things with Penn and you don't break up or call off the wedding with Olivia yet. This is all wrong. I don't want to cheat and I don't want to be cheated with." Hanna said turning away from him again. Caleb ran in front of her stopping her from walking away.
"Please, can you close your eyes for a moment and imagine what would be our life together." Caleb said pleading with her again.
"Don't you realize how hard this is? I love you but I couldn't, I missed you so much in that 6 long years that we were apart even I thought that you cheated on me, I couldn't hate you. I keep hoping that you will turn up in my front door begging for me to take you back." Hanna said with tears started to fall out of her eyes. "I keep thinking of the reasons why you would do such thing as cheating. I keep asking, what is wrong with me?" she continued through her sobs.
"I'm sorry. I should've come for you. I should've come back earlier. I actually did come back four years ago but I was too late, you already left to study in Paris." Caleb said with tears spilling out of his eyes one by one.
"You did?" Hanna asked looking up to him.
"When all the mess in Ravenswood is over, when we get Miranda to move on, I came back immediately for you hoping that you would still be there waiting but I'm wrong. You left for Paris and I have no choice but to live my life." Caleb said.
"I'm so sorry, I didn't know. I really thought you wouldn't come back." Hanna said sincerely.
"Two years is long enough, I should've thought you would give up waiting for me." Caleb said.
"I'm so sorry..." Hanna said again looking down shaking her head feeling guilty. Caleb tilted her head so he can look at her blue eyes.
"It's okay," Caleb said wiping her tears with the pad of his thumb. "Stop crying now," He commanded.
"I really am sorry, I should wait for you but I didn't." Hanna said sincerely looking straight into his brown orbs.
"Shhh... It's not your fault." Caleb said cutting her off putting his pointer finger across her lips. Hanna stopped sobbing looking into his eyes.
"I missed you, Hanna Marin. I missed touching you, I missed everything about you, I missed being with you-" Caleb didn't get a chance to talk again with Hanna's lips crashing on his. She wrapped her arms around his neck dropping her iPad into the sandy ground where they are standing. Caleb willingly responded to her kiss slipping his arms around her waist pulling her to him much closer. She slid her tongue into his mouth and their tongues fight for dominance. Hanna's fingers roamed around his hair driving him crazy, one of his hands went to her bare thigh inside the skirt of her dress while his other arm is securely wrapped around her back. Caleb's fingers wandered in the inside of her thighs and hooked in her panties feeling her already damp insides. He thrust one finger slowly inside and pulled back to add another finger and thrust inside of her wanting to feel her. Hanna hugged Caleb tightly by the neck and wrapped her legs up to his waist wanting him closer. Caleb carried Hanna to a nearest empty cabin he could find. He managed to open the door of the cabin and closed it shut not bothering to pull away from Hanna. They stumbled to the bedroom and he placed Hanna on the bed moving his lips from her mouth to his neck while continuing to thrust his fingers inside of her.
"Caleb..." Hanna moaned panting pulling Caleb's shirt up so she can touch and feel his warmth through her palms.
"I want you, Hanna... I need you..." Caleb said huskily through her neck. Hanna pulled his shirt over his head and Caleb do the same with her dress. Their lips once again meet when their clothes are out of the way. They managed to take off everything leaving them both naked. Hanna rolled them over so he was on top him and she started to kiss his neck, shoulder, collarbone down to his chest, her hands roamed around his body till' her fingers met his fully erect member. She wrapped her fingers around it massaging it.
"Damn, Hanna stopped... I need you now." Caleb said and with that he rolled them over again so he was on top.
"Hanna, I want you... I need you but I needed to know if that's what you want too." Caleb said looking straight into her blue eyes.
Hanna nodded. "I need you too." she said following her heart this time, face the consequences later on.
Caleb took that as his cue to crash his lips to hers once again as he slowly entered her. Hanna's nails digging through his back as she moaned through his mouth. Caleb let her adjust before they picked up a pace. They moved through an unspoken rhythm showing passion and love to one another. It seems like the best thing that ever happened with the both of them after their six long years apart. They moaned each others name as they reached the peak of their climaxes. Caleb kissed her passionately one last time before he collapsed beside her panting hard. Caleb looked at the gorgeous blonde beauty lying beside him, she was breathing hard her hair was a mess and there are droplets of sweats formed in her forehead and neck. He kissed her cheek and intertwined his hand to hers.
"I love you, Hanna Marin." he said smiling. Hanna looked at him and smiled, snuggling closer to his side. Caleb hugged her closer and kissed the top of her head before they both drift off to sleep feeling completely happy just lying there in each others arms.
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