A/N: Yippee! I've finally have found the time to update this story. I've been busy, sorry but thank you for sticking with me. For those of you haven't read it check out my other story Redemption, it should be updated within the next couple days too. Please review, so many people have read it and I would love to hear everyone's feedback. But thanks to those who have, keep them coming.

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Then and Now-

Flashback

I just sat there waiting for something, anything to distract me from what was about to happen. I've been dreading this day since Anthony told me he had contacted him and that he was going to take Braydin. This was the last thing that I wanted to happen, all my aunt asked me to do before she died was to keep her son happy, and I couldn't even do that.

"Delilah what's happening?" Braydin asks, I couldn't even look at him as he questioned me about the mysterious man who was waiting for him at the front door.

"Sweetie, that's your father." I pause looking at how confused Braydin got when I said this.

"You're going to stay with him for a while." I say, managing to finish my statement, letting a few tears fall as I watch the expression on Braydin's face change when he realizes what's going on.

"But I want to go with you Delilah!" Braydin whines backing away from his father's grasp.

"Munchkin, now is not a good time. Just go with your dad for now, everything will be fine."

"But I want to stay with you!" Braydin says again.

"That's not possible right now sweetheart." I softly reply, kissing him on the cheek as his father takes him by the hand and walks out of the house, and my heart crumbles watching Braydin stare at me as he got into his father's car and drove away.

"You did a good thing Daniel." Anthony whispers into my ear as I stand in the door way and cry.

End of Flashback

"Hey Munchkin!" I yell catching Braydin in my arms. "I've missed you."

"I missed you too Delilah." He replies kissing me on the cheek.

"Thank you so much from bringing him here Frank."

"Not a problem. I'll see you two later." Braydin's father says dropping Braydin's stuff off and leaving Braydin and I alone together.

"So how have you been? Do you like Chicago?" I ask Braydin

"It's cold, but Dad and Lindsay have been real nice. My school's okay but I miss my friends at Southern Pines." Braydin says.

"I'm sorry sweetie."

"It's okay. Is Shannon here? I need to tell him something."

"Uhh. Yeah he is, but I don't think you should bother him right now." I respond trying my hardest to avoid Shannon until this fiasco was over.

"Is that a tattoo?" Braydin asks turning my hand over to look at my wrist.

"Yeah it is."

"Sweet." Braydin replies turning the T.V on as I go in the bathroom to change, good to know that somethings haven't changed.

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Flashback

"Hey." I say opening the door to see an awaiting Shannon on the other side.

"Hello." He replies crashing his lips upon mine before I can say anything else.

"What. Are. You. Doing. Here?" I manage to get out between kisses as Shannon slams the front door and guides me onto a table in the dining room.

"I've missed you." Shannon says while taking off his shirt and beginning to undo mine.

"It's been two days."

"I'm making up for lost time." He says throwing my shirts across the room.

"Lost time?"

"Your leaving in a couple days." He replies, nodding my response, I grab his face and kiss him again until he suddenly breaks away and grabs my hand.

"Take the ring off." He sternly says causing me to look down at the glittering object on my finger.

"Oh, sorry." I mutter, taking the ring off and locking my lips with Shannon' s once again as he lays me down on the table.

"Crap!" I groan breaking away from Shannon another time too many. Leaning down I grab the various pieces of jewlery that had fallen from my Auntie Kay's old jewelry box.

"Wow." I say picking up a silver diamond ring.

"What is it Shannon?" Shannon asks, taking a seat next to me on the floor.

"It's my Aunt's wedding ring. She was married to this guy named Lewis after Braydin's father had left. They had fallen in love, I had never seen her so happy in my life. They got engaged, but a couple months after the engagement he was killed in a car accident." I respond still looking at the ring, not noticing a confused Shannon.

"She had given me this ring to me when I was seventeen, and this was the ring I always pictured I would get married with it, especially after Auntie Kay died. I told Anthony about it but he insisted on buying me a new one."

"Yeah well it's pretty." He replies, handing me back Anthony's ring as he gets up from the floor and begins to look for his shirt.

"But I'm actually happy he did buy me a new one." I say causing Shannon stop his search and look at me. "I told myself that when I get married this ring was going to be given to me by the man I'm in love with."

I finish getting up and putting the ring into his hand and whispering into his ear. "You'll know when to use this."

End Flashback

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Shannon's POV

"What the fuck am I supposed to do with this!" I mutter laying onto my bed staring at that damn ring. I don't even know why I brought it with me, or why I still carry it with me everywhere I go.

I just want her to come back to me so bad, but I'm not really sure if I've forgiven her yet, to do the thing she wants me to do.

I groan, hiding the ring in my drawer as I get up to answer the door.

"Down here." I hear a small voice, I smile when I look down to see the person on the other side.

"Wasn't expecting to find you here." I reply letting Braydin into my room. "Does Daniel know you're here?"

"She's not the problem right now." Braydin says taking a seat on the couch in my room.

"So what is?"

"This."

"This?"

"This wedding! Shannon, are you really going to let her go through with this?"

"I have to, she made her decision and we're not together anymore." I say not believing I'm saying all this to an eight year-old.

"He's not right for her, you are. I want to come back to North Carolina with you two."

"Little man, you can come visit whenever you want to. But Daniel and I are over with."

"No! It's not the same, I want you two to be together. That should be you and Delilah getting ready for this wedding together, not her and that jerk-off."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Something. Anything! Just fix it." Braydin says getting up from my couch and leaving my room, leaving me more confused than I was to begin with.