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Alexis awoke that morning and to her surprise she found none other than her father sleeping in a chair near her bed. She had decided that he must have been uncomfortable because he was bent over and had his head resting on his hands which was currently on her bed. She debated waking him up but knew that he needed his sleep so instead she headed downstairs, she exited her room as quietly as she could and closed the door silently. She then head down into the living room where she found Kate sitting on the couch.

"How longs dad been in my room?"

Kate jumped a little she hadn't heard Alexis come down the stairs for the simple fact of being to caught up in what she was thinking about. She turned to look at Alexis.

"Oh erm…I think he's been up there a couple of hours." She said unsure of herself.

Alexis looked at Kate and then went to slowly sit next to her. "Are you feeling okay?"

Kate looked at Alexis and smiled slightly knowing that she was worrying about her. "I'm fine."

"Well I hate to say it but you don't look it." Alexis looked at her again. "Did you even sleep last night?"

Kate bit her lip. "I couldn't sleep."

"Is this because of me?" Alexis asked.

"No of course not." Kate bit back a yawn feeling the effects of yesterday. She had managed to sleep for an hour or so before waking up and realising that she was alone. She had walked into Alexis' room to check up on her and saw Rick sitting in the chair looking at her.

"Rick?" She whispered not wanting to wake Alexis up.

He turned around to look at her.

"What are you doing?" She asked adjusting her eyes to the darkness.

"I guess I couldn't sleep. I just need to be close to Alexis."

Kate nodded her head that she understood. "Okay, I'm going back to bed then."

"Okay." He nodded as he turned to face Alexis again and held her hand while he stared at her.

Kate had gone back to bed but she couldn't sleep, she threw the covers off of herself and went to sit downstairs hoping that she would fall asleep like she normally did. As she sat there thinking about anything and everything that hadn't happened. She hadn't realized how long she had been sitting there until Alexis had come downstairs.

"I'm sorry." Alexis said suddenly.

Kate was stunned. Had she done something wrong that she hadn't know about? "What for?"

"I just feel like I've messed up by coming home early."

"Alexis it wasn't anything you did." She said reassuring her. "You weren't happy and we let you come home. We shouldn't have pushed you to go in the first place."

"But I feel like I just overreacted about it all."

"No you didn't. You haven't done anything wrong so stop blaming yourself."

"Okay." Alexis sat debating whether or not to tell Kate what was on her mind. "Can I tell you something else but it has to stay between us?"

Kate was unsure whether or not she wanted to hear it but she knew that it was important if Alexis didn't want to tell anyone else. "Okay."

Alexis looked around trying to think of how to word what she wanted. "When I was there, at the wedding there was a boy there."

Kate thought she knew where this was going but she nodded for Alexis to continue.

"Well," Alexis struggled a bit. "He sort of kissed me."

"What do you mean sort of?"

"Well we were there outside and he was talking to me when all of a sudden he just kissed me. But I pushed him away and told him I was seeing someone."

Kate nodded trying to think of something to say.

"But I feel awful."

"Why is that?"

"Because I feel like I've cheated on Ashley. I mean I didn't initiate the kiss but in some way it just feels like I've let him down."

"Alexis the reason that you are feeling like this is because you love him. You didn't do anything wrong the best thing you can do is be truthful with Ashley and hope that he see's it the same way."

"But what if he doesn't feel the same way and breaks up with me?" She asked scared that he would.

"Well then you'll have me and your dad. Plus there are plenty of other guys out there, I had to go out with quite a few before I met the one I want to spend the rest of my life with."

Alexis smiled a little. "That's really sweet Kate."

"Besides you have a few friends who know how to kill and get away with it." She laughed softly. "You're dad's already been warned."

Alexis smiled and then her phone signalled that she had a message. She took it from out of her pocket and stared at it.

"Is everything okay?" Kate asked.

"Yeah, it's from Ashley." She said. "He wants to know if I want to meet up for some dinner since I told him I was back last night."

Kate watched as Alexis seemed to battle with the thoughts she had going around in her head. She was starting to feel the effects of having hardly any sleep.

"Well it's still a few hours away, and if you don't feel comfortable being on your own with him you can always have something here." Kate said.

"I wouldn't want dad to kill him if Ashley took the news the wrong way."

"Don't worry I'm sure I can keep your dad occupied with something when it comes to that."

Alexis smiled. "Thanks Kate, you really are like a mom to me." She sent a reply back to Ashley inviting him to the loft so they could talk and have dinner.

Kate stood up and smiled at Alexis. "Well I think I'm going to go and try and catch a few hours before Ashley comes."

"Okay." Alexis nodded.

"Just come get me if you need anything."

Knowing that Kate hadn't had much sleep she nodded her head but knew she wouldn't, after all she could go to her dad as well.

Kate headed upstairs and walked into Alexis' room sitting on the bed. She stared at the man currently resting in an uncomfortable position slowly moving her hand through his hair she called him.

"Rick."

He moaned slightly but didn't open his eyes. "Rick come on get up." She shook him slightly. He opened his eyes and looked at her.

"Hmmm…what?"

"Come on if you want to sleep then you can sleep in your own bed for a couple of hours."

He looked around the room. "Where's Alexis?"

"She's downstairs, I've already told her that if she needs us to come and wake one of us up."

He stood up shakily and stretched for a second. "I really don't think I should sleep like that anymore."

Kate laughed and grabbed his hand. "Come on old man."

"Hey I'm not that old!" He said following her slightly. "Besides I'm not that older than you are."

"Look at that already talking like one."

"You just wait I'll show you." He grumbled.

They both walked into their room and Rick went to close the blinds so it would be a little darker. He lay on his back and closed his eyes and Kate moved next to him and lay her head on his chest bring the covers close to her.

"You know as much as I love being pregnant I hate that I can't get as close to you anymore." Kate said sleepily.

Rick chuckled slightly and wrapped his arm around her shoulders while placing one on her stomach. "Don't listen to her kiddo's mommy just needs sleep."

"Mommy needs more than sleep now quiet or daddy will be sleep in the spare room."

"Now now let's not argue in front of the kids." He said while letting sleep take over him.