A/N: Wow! I really should spell and grammar check these things! Anyways, I'm really mad because I was just typing up this humungous Authors Note, and I accidentally hit the wrong button, and it went back to the previous page and I lost all my writing! GRR! Anyway, do you guys want me to keep doing sneak peeks? I've got one more up my sleeve, but I can always do more if you want me to :) WARNING: This chapter is like a massive AWW fest; well it was for me :)

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Chapter 21: Just coming to find you

Jo made her way back into the living room and sat down on the couch, putting her head in her hands and sighing.

"What's the matter?" Stephanie asked, sitting down beside her.

"I just put Lacey to bed, and she started calling out for Kendall, and I had to tell her he wasn't there, and—"

"And you miss him?" Stephanie guessed.

"Yes!" Jo burst out "Oh, God, I love him so much, I can't take being away from him anymore! I miss him so much, Stephanie!" she cried, tears stinging her eyes again.

"Then, go and tell him," Stephanie said, smiling.

"Now?" Jo asked "But it's 8.00!"

"So?" Stephanie asked.

"You're right! I've gotta go!" Jo got up, rubbing at her eyes roughly, and made her way quickly out the door. "Thanks, Stephie!" she called as she shut the door behind her.

Jo walked the familiar path to 2J quickly, but as she stepped out of the elevator and on to the second floor, she slowed down; what if Kendall didn't want to talk to her? What if he told her to take her stuff and leave? What if he wanted to keep Lacey and have nothing to do with Jo? What if—? Jo stopped as she collided with something hard, and she assumed it was the apartment door, but she looked up from, her shoes to see that it was—

"Kendall," she said breathlessly, looking into his deep green eyes that she's fallen in love with, what felt like yesterday, that were now filled with hurt and confusion and, Jo's heart did a backflip; love.

"Hey," he said, smiling at her "I was just—"

"Coming to find you," Jo finished in a soft voice.

"Yeah," he breathed.

"Me too," she smiled; so far, so good.

"Cool," he said awkwardly, the smile still on his face. There was a pause while Jo looked down at her finger nails.

"Listen, I've—"

"Got something to tell you," Kendall finished "yeah, me too."

"You go," Jo said.

"No, you go,"

"Uh, OK," Jo said as she looked down at her fingers again, suddenly nervous. "Um,"

"You wanna sit down?" Kendall asked, and Jo nodded, relieved for the extra time, and they both sat against the wall opposite Kendall's apartment.

"OK, well first, I want to apologize—"Jo began

"You don't have to,"

"Yes, I do," Jo insisted "because what I said was awful, I overreacted, and it wasn't true, because I do want to marry you, Kendall, someday, it's just that so much has happened in the last year and a half, I just really need things to stay the same for a while. I do love you, more than anything, and I love Lacey, too, and I want us to be a family one day, but I just need to feel like things are normal right now, please don't be mad." she didn't know why she said that, she knew Kendall wouldn't be mad at her, but it slipped out anyway.

"Why on earth would I be mad?" Kendall asked, and Jo looked away from him, embarrassed. She felt him gently push her chin with the back of his fingers so she was facing him, and he spoke, "I should be the one apologizing! I should have explained myself better before I asked you, all I said was since we have Lacey, and I let you think that I meant just because we were parents!"

"I shouldn't have—"

"You had every right to think that!" he told her earnestly "I should have told you that that wasn't what I meant! Jo, you've given up so much since you found out about Lacey, and I wanted you to know that I'm not going anywhere, and that you weren't ever going to lose me, or Lacey."

"You've given things up, too," Jo attempted, but Kendall scoffed.

"Like what? One song on one tour? You've lost practically everything, and you're not going to lose us, Jo, I promise. I want us to be a proper family one day, and I know you're not ready now, but if you decide that you are, just let me know, and I will be."

"Thanks," she said softly, resting her head on his shoulder.

"No problem," Kendall smiled, taking her hand in both of his own and playing with her fingers.

"That's where Lacey gets it from," Jo chuckled, watching him gently bend and move her fingers.

"It's fun," he said, smiling.

"Small things," Jo mused jokingly, and she felt Kendall jab her fingernail into the pad of her thumb.

"Ow!"

"You deserved that one," he chuckled.

"Kendall," Jo asked after a few moments of silence, looking up at him.

"Yeah?"

"That ring was really beautiful; you didn't get rid of it, did you?" Jo asked carefully, hiding the nervousness in her voice.

"No way," Kendall smiled "you know how much that thing cost me?" he joked, and Jo elbowed him in the stomach.

"That didn't even hurt!" he coughed "Can't get past my rock-hard abs!" he smiled, and Jo giggled, but then she sighed.

"Kendall?"

"Hmm?" he asked, his eyes closed.

"Are we in love again?" she asked in a small voice.

"You stopped loving me?" he looked down at her, and she shook her head, nestling into the spot between his head and his neck, where her head fitted perfectly.

"No," she whispered, closing her eye.

"Me neither," he replied, doing the same and leaning his head against the wall.

A/N: Ready? One, two, three...AWWW! :P Well, I thought it was cute :) this took me about 4 hours to type up, and I don't even know why, anyways, sorry about that, but I planned to spend like the whole weekend working on each of my fanfics, but I took forever to do this one so, yeah, next time, k? :)