A few days passed, and noone had seen hide nor hair of Noelle and the baby. Randy thought that since he had one day left in vacation he would check up on his sister, and take her and his neice out for the day. Randy knocked on the door, and waited patiently for an answer.

Noelle answered and she had never looked so bad.

"Woah, what happened to you?" Randy asked as he entered her apartment.

"Jonie hasn't slept in 2 days, and I'm behind on work, and I'm so exhausted." Noelle flung herself on the couch, and put her arm over her face.

"Want me to take her for a while so you can sleep?"

"No. She's napping, I'm trying to find my bedroom floor, and then I'll take a break to catch up some work."

"Sis why don't you go to sleep? I'll watch Jonie."

"No it's okay. Maybe Jonelle and I will see you at dinner."

"Okay. I'll see you then at Dad, and Mom's."

Noelle nodded, and showed Randy to the door. He kissed her bye, and left to find something to do. Noelle went back in to her bedroom to get all her laundry picked up.

John stood outside Noelle door trying to get up the nerve to knock when Noelle just openned the door up on him. She had a bandana around her head, she was dressed in sweats, and she had a trash bag in her hands, but to John she never looked more beautiful.

"Hey." John said.

Noelle tucked a piece of hair behind her ear ."Hey."

John took the trash from her "I'll take that out for you."

"Thanks."

Noelle waited till he came back then let him into the apartment. "What's up?"

"I just wanted to check on you, and Jonie. Where is she?"

"She is in her playpen sleeping for once, and I'm trying to catch up on some stuff."

"Do you need some help?"

"No. I'm good."

John folowed her to the kitchen where she was making something to eat and he stopped her hand halfway to the stove. "Let me help you. I want to help you."

Noelle nodded. " I'm sorry I left you hangging the other night, I was confused with my feelings."

"It's okay. I've been there, but the only thing that has ever made sense to me was us. I want that back."

"Me too." Noelle said letting him in finally. "I miss you so much."

John wrapped her in a hug, and enjoyed the fact that she was in his arms when Jonelle started to cry. Noelle let out a sigh, but John stopped her.

"I got her." He kissed her on the lips, and then went to get his daughter.Noelle closed her eyes as she prayed that she wasn't making a mistake. She finished what she was doing in the kitchen then joined John in the livingroom when he was sitting with Jonelle feeding her a bottle. Noelle had to admit fatherhood did him some good.

"Since you have her, I'm gonna go lay down for a while.Is that okay?"

John looked at Jonelle "Tell mommy get out of here. We're busy."

Noelle smiled and went back to her bedroom. A few hours later she felt a nudge on her arm and when she openned her eyes she saw John smiling back at her.

"Hey." She whispered.

"Hey. Your mom called to see if you were still going over for dinner. She invited me along too. Is that okay with you?"

Noelle nodded with a smile. " Yeah. I just need to shower,and then we can go together if you want."

"Yeah. I just layed Jonie down for a nap so take your time. I told your mom you'd call her back when you woke up."

Noelle nodded, and after wipping her eyes she got up and went for the phone. She spoke to Jenna for a few, and then hung up.

"I told her we'd be over as soon as I got ready."

"I'll be here when your done." John said as he turned on the T.V.

Noelle hoped in the shower and let the water run over her body. Her feelings for John were coming back full force.As she washed her hair she thought back to their relationship before things went sour.

Noelle got dressed and dryed her hair then she , John, and Jonelle went to her parents house for dinner.

Randy was watching out the window for his sister when he saw John's suv pull into the driveway. He was a little surprised to see him there, he was even more surprised when Noelle got out with the baby.

Randy let them in then took off with his niece.

"Nice to see you too bro." Noelle said to thin air causing John to laugh. They headed into the family room where Bob, and Jenna were cooing over their granddaughter.

"Hi everyone, remember me. I'm the mommy."

Jenna smiled and gave Noelle a hug. "Hello dear. how are you?"

"I'm good now that I got to catch up on some sleep. Jonie got to spend the day with her daddy."

"hey I asked if I could have her earlier and you said no." Randy pouted.

Noelle shrugged " John wouldn't take no for an answer. I gave in."

"Well let's eat before dinner gets cold." Jenna said leading the way to the diningroom.

Everyone sat dpwn and strated up conversation while they ate.

"So John now that Jonelle is born are you gonna spend as much time with her as you can?" Bob asked.

"Every chance I get. I know I was a jerk to Noelle before, but I told her I wanna make up for that, and I'm not going anywhere."

Randy patted john on the back, the first real friend act they displayed to each other in months. noelle had to smile, right now it seemed like nothing happened and they were right where they were 9 months ago. She had to admit she missed this feeling.