Lexi opened her eyes slowly. Everyone was sat around her. Daniel was in his car seat between her mum and dad. Ethan was having an intense discussion with… god her aunt Missy was here! And her nana too! She yawned and blinked.

"So your finally awake?" Ethan asked grinning. He smiled but there were dark circles beneath his eyes. He looked tired.

She nodded. "How long?" her voice was scratchy.

"3 days." her dad told her.

"3 days what the anaesthesiologist give me horse tranquiliser?"

"No you woke up on your on after a few hours but you had a bad reaction and they put you under deeper. We've been so worried. You were delirious and was asking why there were evil clowns in here around you. You screamed and fought!" Danny shook his head. His eyes distressed.

"Wow really. I'm sorry!"

"We're just happy your back to normal!" her dad said

"And we're not evil clowns. Well except for Ethan but he can't help how he looks!" Missy quipped.

"Hey I look tired you look like a clown with or without make up and without being tired too!"

"O Ethan you crack me up really!"

He smiled along with everyone else.

"Hello Missy. Nana."

"Hey baby." Missy said.

"Bet I'm a mess huh?"

"Still better looking than your dad!" Missy told her cheekily.

Everyone chuckled.

"How'd you feel Lex?" her mum asked.

"Sick. The usual. Tired. The usual heavy lethargic bleh! I'll stop there coz I don't like to complain!" she smiled.

"You not complain?" Ethan exclaimed.

"Hey!" Lexi said.

Lexi looked at everyone in the room. Saw the relief in their faces that she was finally awake. She'd hadn't even dreamed. Just had been in a black void.

"Ok I waited long enough where's this present you promised me Ethan?"

Everyone looked at him and he looked embarrassed.

"Um. Well I have it but it was….it's sorta embarrassing." he felt uncomfortable.

"It's ok Eth son. C'mon we'll leave them alone. Look at the poor boy!" Mrs Elliott said.

"No way I wanna see it. I told him to think outside the box!" Missy said looking at Ethan intently.

"Melissa!" Mrs Elliott warned.

"Yes mother!" she muttered under her breath.

"Don't you forget it either!" Mrs Elliott said smiling.

Everyone got up and left the room. He pulled a box from his pocket. He looked up and saw Missy peeking from the side of the window. Suddenly her head was pulled from view and they heard Mrs Elliott's voice. Dragging Missy away.

Lexi and Ethan laughed, "I love Missy. I wish I'd been around when they were kids they must have been so much fun. So insane." He'd never admit it but he'd had a little crush on Missy when he'd first met her. She was just this funny amazing gorgeous woman. Of course he was like 13 at the time but he'd still got tongue tied around her. It had quickly faded though as he got to know the girl in front of him. He looked at her. "Have I told you lately I love you?"

She smiled. "No actually."

"Well Alexis I love every inch of you and I can't wait to get you home."

"And my prezzie." she looked. "Missy isn't around so your safe!"

He handed her the box. She opened it. There was a plain gold bracelet inside. She smiled.

"Aw Ethan you shouldn't have!"

"Ah but honey there is more!" he handed her a satin pouch. "I said there'd be something for every day."

She opened it and poured the contents on the table. 5 pieces of gold lay. A heart, a sun, a moon, a rocking horse and a four leaf clover.

"Awwww Ethan you are so unbelievably cute! You got me a charm bracelet?"

"Not very unique I know!"

"Aw Ethan its great! I love it. I'm looking forward to see what charms you've got me too!"

"Your incredibly special to me you know. You mean the whole world to me. I love you more than anything else!" he admitted.

"I know you do, you didn't have to go and waste your money buying me a charm bracelet to prove it!"

"I didn't waste my money."

"Well you bought it didn't you?"

"Nope." he said and swirled a pattern on the back of her hand with his finger.

"Well how…" she was confused.

"It was my mothers. Her mothers before her so be careful it's abit old."

"Oh no Ethan I can't take it! It's like a family heirloom." she pushed it back towards him.

"Lex you ARE my family!"

"But you should give it to your wife one day!"

He raised his eyebrows. "If we'd been older I wouldn't be giving you a charm bracelet. There's something else of my mum's that belongs to you. And when we're older and ready and if we're still together of course I'll give it to you. We'll get married and have a houseful of kids and live happily ever after as the story goes." he smiled at her in his adorable crooked grin.

She smiled back. "You see that happening."

"That's what I want to happen. I can't imagine my life without you in it! And I imagined it when you were really ill and no one thought you were gonna pull through. So I imagined our life to keep me sane!"

"Go on then how many kids we got?"

"Three, two boys and a girl. Ethan Daniel, Daisy Alice and Kieran Lee. There's a year between each of them coz you couldn't keep your hands off me!" he grinned.

"And what do they look like?"

"Well Ethan looks like you, well your dad actually. And Daisy looks like me and baby Kieran looks like both of us. Stunning kids by the way! I know I'm only 16 and probably freaking you out but like I say I was thinking to the future to take my mind off your illness. And I thought what if we do stay together? What if we do get married? What if we do have kids? And it just sorta flew through my head. Your mum and dad were really supportive of us and stuff. It was really nice. Mind you the kids didn't come along till much later. It wasn't like a shotgun wedding!"

"I can't wait till I'm better and can get you alone!" she whispered.

He shook his head. "I know where this is going!"

"All I'm saying is when I'm better me and you are gonna spend a lot of time kissing et cetera et cetera!"

"Well I look forward to the kissing but the rest no!" he told her.

"What, why?"

"Coz I am 16 and you aren't! and just because your 16 isn't a reason just to do it either! I lost my head around you but I want more than a physical relationship with you. I want a proper relationship than means nothing beyond kisses for 8-12 months." he said seriously.

Lexi's jaw dropped.

"At least!" he added.

"But why? We've already…"

"I don't care Miss Trevanion. You are not stealing away my innocence like that!" he joked.

"ME steal your innocence, yeah right!"

She was sorta right actually.

"On that subject I'm glad we had our first time together." Lexi told him.

He winced.

"Ethan what is it?"

He shook his head. "Nothing!"

"Ethan!" she repeated.

"Well you see Lex. That sorta." he paused. "Wasn't my first time." he said softly.

"WHAT? When? Who?"

"Remember I had just turned 15 and that 17 year old took an unnatural shine to me. We went out once." he went quiet allowing her to make the inevitable conclusions.

"And you let me believe…" she gasped. Hurt.

"Lex you never asked."

"You were 15. How was I supposed to know? As far as I was concerned we had no secrets. I told you everything Ethan. How could you let me believe that huh?" she spat at him angrily.

"See this is the cost of telling the truth! Hysterical females screaming at you!"

She sat up. "Don't call me hysterical!" she was breathing heavily,. "And I'm not screaming at you!"

"Well you look hysterical. So you weren't my first does it matter?"

"It mattered to me!" she yelled.

"God and woman wonder why men keep secrets!" he muttered.

"What so you have more secrets!"

"NO!" he yelled. "I'm getting out of here you shouldn't lose your temper like this!"

"You should have told me Ethan." she said calmly.

"I did." he replied.

"Yeah after the fact. Didn't it cross your mind to tell me before?"

"Well Lexi I didn't plan to sleep with you did I?"

The door opened and the family walked in. Danny's face was murderous. "Did I hear right?" he asked coldly.

Ethan stood up straighter. "Yes you did!"

Lexi held her face in her hands.

"Do you wanna step outside?" Danny asked angrily.

"Fine!" Ethan replied walking outside. "Goodbye Lexi!"

Alice grabbed Danny's wrist. He pulled it away and followed Ethan.

"Mum watch Daniel please." Alice then hurried after Danny and Ethan.

A/N :O :O :O :O danny on the war path never a good thing. what will happen? keep reading x