-Two-
After Julie did all of her shopping, buying the TV's and all the stuff for the TV's, and then she went back home. Julie was still in shock that she seen Michael, but there was nothing she could do about it. He was there. She figures that she'll just ignore him and that he deserved that slap in the face, because he hurt her long ago.
She was struggling, trying to carry the TV's out of the back of the car. She gave up and grabbed the bags instead. A few minutes later, a guy jogged up to her and said "Hey... do you need help with that?"
Julie turned around and saw the cutest guy she's ever seen. He was tall, with short hair, and hazel eyes. She smiled and said "Yes, I do... thank you."
He held out his hand and said "I'm Jake... I live next door."
She shook it and said "I'm Julie... I moved in, last night."
"It's nice to meet you and welcome to the neighborhood."
"Thank you." she let go of his hand. "It's nice meeting you too."
He clapped his hands and said "Let's get started." he went behind the back of the Durango and his jaw dropped. "You got... four plasma TV's?"
"Yeah... I wanted to start everything off with brand new things."
"That's cool."
"They're pretty big boxes... are you gonna need help?"
"It's okay... I got this." he smirked.
She laughed and said "Alrighty then."
Jake was able to carry Riley's TV, Gwen's TV, and the TV for Julie's room. He had a little trouble with the '52 inch for the family room.
He smiled at Julie and said "I'll be right back. I need some assisstance." she nodded, then he walked over to his house and two minutes later, him and another guy came outside walking over to Julie's car. "Julie, this is my brother, Justin... Justin, this is our new neighbor, Julie."
They shook hands and Julie said "Nice to meet you."
Justin smirked, then said "Likewise."
Jake glared at Justin and said "Come on, Justin... give me a hand with this."
It took the guys about ten minutes to get the TV in the family room. After they set it down and carefully took it out of the box, Justin said "I gotta get going."
"Thank you, Justin." Julie smiled.
"It's no problem. See ya." then Justin walked out of the house.
"So." Jake started. "How did you want your TV's?"
"On the wall... hopefully, if you're able to help me with that too."
"Yeah." Jake started looking through the bags that had the things to hook up the TV's. "I think we'll need to get the attachments to hook up the TV's."
"I thought I bought everything."
"You did... we just need a few more things."
"Oh... okay, let's go." Julie checked on Riley and Gwen, then her and Jake walked out of the house, got in her car, and she drove off. "So... Mr. Jake, tell me about yourself."
He chuckled, then said "Okay, let's see." he paused to think. "I was born in Texas, moved here when I was fifteen with my parents and Justin. I own my own auto shop, fixing cars. My father passed away four years ago."
"Oh... I'm sorry."
"Thank you... and now I stay at home with my mom, Justin, Justin's wife: Shelley, and my niece: Hannah. I have a husky named: Pepper and I don't have a girlfriend." he smiled at her.
She blushed and said "Cool."
"So, Miss Julie... what's your story?"
"Well, I was born and raised in Long Beach, California up until I was nine, then we moved to North Carolina. After that of my junior year of high school, we moved to San Diego... me, my parents, and my older brother Matt. I had this boyfriend and we dated for a year, then I found him cheating on me with the girl I hated most in the world. We broke up, he took off, and I ended up pregnant. So, we moved back to North Carolina and here I am now, in Miami... mostly because of my job."
"I'm sorry to hear that about your boyfriend... I gotta say this, but he's an idiot. You're beautiful."
"Thank you."
"I just don't see how he done that to you." Julie nodded. "So, how old is your child?"
"She is ten years old, her name is Riley, and her father has no idea about her."
"Can I ask why?"
"When we broke up, I had no clue where he went. He changed all of his numbers and I didn't know how to get a hold of him. But, I was like four weeks or so at the time of the break up. I didn't even know I was pregnant, I found out a few months later."
"Oh... I see. I'm sorry to hear about that."
"It's okay." Julie smiled, but she couldn't stop thinking about her encounter with Michael. She just wanted to block that from her memory and move on. A few minutes later, she pulled up to a Best Buy. They got out of the car, walked inside, then went straight to the TV section.
They spent an hour in there. Julie bought more things besides the attachments for the TV's. She bought a couple DVD players, a PS3, games, DVD's, and a Canon camera with a 4GB memory card. After that, her and Jake went back to her house, so Jake could hook up all the TV's.
A few hours later, Jake hooked up the TV for Julie's room and the TV for the family room. Julie was just going to have Riley and Gwen's TV sit in the dressers. When he was done, him and Julie were sitting in the family room talking and getting to know each other. All of a sudden there was a knock on her door. She got up to answer it and saw a woman with a little girl.
"Hi... is Jake here?" Julie nodded and smiled. "I'm Shelley, Jake's sister-in-law."
"Hello... I'm Julie."
"This is my daughter, Hannah."
"It's nice to meet you... come in. Jake was helping me fix my TV's." Shelley and Hannah followed Julie into the family room.
Jake looked up, Hannah ran up to him, and said "Uncle Jay."
He sat her in his lap and said "Hey... Hannah-Banana, what are you up to?"
"Daddy sent us."
"Yeah, Jake... Justin told me to tell you that we're going to meet your grandparents for dinner in a few minutes."
"Okay, thanks, Shell."
A few minutes later, Riley came out of her room in tears. Julie walked up to her and said "Baby... what's wrong?"
"Mommy."
"Are you okay?" Riley shook her head, then Julie touched her forehead. "Oh my God... you're burning up."
Seconds later, Gwen came out of her room and said "Well... hello everyone."
"Oh... This is my daughter Riley and her nanny Gwen... Girls, this is our neighbors Jake, his sister-n-law: Shelley, and her daughter: Hannah."
"It's nice to meet you." Shelley said with a smile.
"Nice meeting you too." said Gwen. She looked over at Riley. "What's wrong, Sweetie."
"She's burning up, hang on a sec." Julie went to grab the thermometer, then put it in Riley's mouth. Thirty seconds later, Julie looked at it.
"Is she okay?" asked Shelley.
"Her temp is 105.5. I have to take her to the emergency room. Gwen, could you grab her blanket and Cuddles?"
"Yeah." then Gwen went into Riley's room.
"There is an emergency room about ten minutes away." Shelley started. "After you get out of the neighborhood, take a left and stay on the road. It will be on the northwest corner."
"Thank you." Julie grabbed her purse and her keys. "Thank you, so much for helping me Jake."
"It's no problem. I'll come back a little later and see how Riley is doing."
"Okay... sure." Julie nodded.
Gwen came out with the stuff for Riley, then everyone walked outside.
"Hey... maybe we can have a barbecue, this weekend." suggested Shelley.
"That would be cool." said Julie as she was carrying Riley to the car, since she had no shoes on. Seconds later, Riley threw up all over Julie's chest and started to cry. "Baby... it's okay." Julie opened the car. "A barbecue would be perfect." Shelley and Jake nodded. "Gwen could you go in the house and grab me a new change of clothes."
"I'm on it." then Gwen went back in the house.
"Get better, Riley."
"I'll try... thank you, Shelley." Riley said in a whiny voice.
Julie put Riley in the back seat, gave her a plastic bag, and said "I'm sorry for cutting this short."
"Julie, it's okay... take care of Riley." Jake said with a smile.
Seconds later, Gwen came out of the house with an outfit, and said "It was nice meeting you."
"Nice meeting you too." Shelley smiled. Then her, Hannah, and Jake walked over to their house.
"Can you drive, Gwen?" asked Julie.
"Yeah." Julie gave Gwen the keys. Gwen got in the car, put the clothes in the passenger seat, then drove off to the emergency room.
Riley was still crying, because she felt bad for throwing up on her mom. Julie was trying to calm her down. "Hang on, Baby Girl... we'll get there as soon as possible."
Riley nodded in Julie's chest and said "Okay, Mommy." then she closed her eyes, trying to not think about throwing up on her mommy.