I watched season 7 and 8 for the nth time hahahaha... hope you like this.

When you're gone

Chapter 5

Calleigh and Eric left the house after lunch. Their trip to the lab is driving Calleigh insane, she doesn't know how to deal with Eric. She's trying to block the thought of staying with him in one room. How restless it would be for her. When she glance at Eric she saw a familiar grin on his lips.

"What are smiling at?" She tried to snap at him.

His grin grew wider. "Nothing, I'm just excited of doing some stuff with Miguel."

Calleigh turned her head to the window and kept quiet. She tried to ignore Eric.

When they reached the lab Calleigh climb out of the car and left Eric. She reached for her phone and called Natalia. "Hey, Nat. You're here at the lab? Breakroom 'kay, I'll be there." She turned her phone off and walks to the breakroom to find Natalia and Ryan.

"Hey guys." She greeted the two.

Ryan waved at Calleigh. "Hi, Cal! Thought you won't be coming to work today."

"Funny, Ry." giving him a sarcastic smile. "Ryan, do you mind leaving me and Natalia alone? Oh if you see Eric on your way out make sure he won't come here."

Ryan left the room. A very confused Natalia looked at her. "What's going on Calleigh?"

Calleigh sat on a chair beside Natalia. "Oh dear, I'm losing it! Miguel thought that we lived together with his father. So now Eric's staying with us."

"Oh... So what's the problem now? You have guest room."

"That's the thing, Nat. Miguel thought that me and Eric's still together and he asked Eric to put his things in my room!"

Natalia chuckles. "So you and Eric's staying in one room alone. That's interesting!" She teases Calleigh.

"I'm not comfortable with this, Nat. Me and Eric agreed that we'll keep our relationship as friends. I don't think staying in one room with him is a good idea."

"We both know that Eric won't do anything unless you wanted it too."

Calleigh shrugged at what Natalia said. "Yeah, he's a gentleman, but I don't know. Maybe I just worry too much."

"Well, Cal goodluck for tonight!" Natalia continued to tease her.

After the shift Eric waited for Calleigh and they walked out of the lab together. They stopped at a pizza parlor to buy some take out. When they reached Calleigh's house they saw Miguel sitting on the couch watching cartoon.

When Miguel saw his parents comes in he stood up and run to his mother. Calleigh lifted Miguel and gave him a quick kiss on his cheek. After receiving kiss from his mother he tried to reach for Eric who is holding a box of pizza in his hand another bag of take out on another. Calleigh puts Miguel down and took the food from him. When Eric's hands are empty he lifted Miguel and carried him to the couch.

"What are you watching, chiquito?" Eric asked his son.

"Handy Manny. Dad, do you speak spanish?"

"Claro que si. Do you?" Eric can see the interest in his son's eyes.

Miguel shakes his head. "No, but I heard mommy and Regina talks spanish. I understand a little bit. I know that Papi is Daddy. Can I call you Papi?"

"Por supuesto, of course. I'll teach you slowly if you want." Eric smiled at the idea of him, teaching his son spanish.

Calleigh entered the living room with pizza and grilled chicken on her hands. She put the food on the coffee table in front of them. "Miguel, time to eat honey." The she turned to Eric. "Do you mind taking the drinks, I left it on the dining table."

Eric grab the drinks from the dining room and bring it to the living room.
He sat beside Calleigh and whispers to her ears. "Cal, thank you for letting me stay here and be part of Miguel's life."

Calleigh smiled at Eric. "You're welcome."

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After dinner Eric helped Calleigh to clean up the living room. Few minutes later Calleigh and Miguel heads to Miguel's room. It's almost his bed time and she have to clean him up. After cleaning Miguel, Calleigh asked Eric to come to Miguel's room as Miguel's lokking for his father so he can say goodnight.

When they're sure that Miguel asleep, Calleigh walked out of the room and let Eric turn off the light. She entered her room and she can feel Eric behind her. She turned around only to find Eric not just behind her, he's just few inches away and almost kissing him.

She cleared her throat as she tried to speak. But before she could say anything Eric lowered his face and reached for her lips. She accepted him just like before. She let him kiss her. She felt her body left the ground as Eric carried her to her bed.

They we're both panting when the kiss ended.

"I'm, uh... Uh..." She knows her face is beet red at the moment. She dares not look at him. She stood up and without looking at him she walks to the bathroom. She closed the door and leaned at the back of the door. They shouldn't have done that. Now She doesn't know how to face him.

After few minutes she came out of the bathroom and found Eric sleeping on the bed, she's not sure if he's pretending to be asleep. She walks over to the bed and lay down on her side of the bed. She closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Calleigh felt like she's in a haze, it's so magical that she felt peaceful. It felt comfortable and warm. She feel's like her head is resting on warm pillow, she can feel the movement of the pillow, it rise up and goes down. Then she realized it's not a pillow, she fluttered her eyes. She found out that she resting her head into Eric's chest. He was hugging her tight as if she would run away from him.

She closed her eyes once again and think of what to do, she knows that if she move she would wake Eric up. But she has to get up, she has to prepare something for breakfast. Miguel's going to school today and they all can't afford to be late. Slowly she tried to take Eric's arm around her waist, she managed to move Eric's arms. Slowly she tries to put it on her pillows. Even before she can put Eric's arms down she was surprised when he talks with his eyes closed.

"Where are you going, querida?"

She just froze in front of him.

TBC

Sorry for leaving the story like this, I'll try to make it better on my next update. CIAO!