Why has my laptop decided that it hates me? Why isn't it working properly? :(

7.

Once we're seated in the food court, Leah asks us all what we'd like to eat.

Seth shouts out, "Burgers and chocolate milk, Mommy!"

Leah nods. "Okay Seth. What about you Masen?" she turns to him. "What would you like? Or do you want to have the same as Seth?"

Masen shrugs. "Chicken nuggets and strawberry milk", he says. "Please."

Leah smiles at him and then proceeds in asking me and Jacob. I try to give her fifty bucks so that she can pay for the food but she doesn't take it from me. She doesn't hear or maybe she pretends not to hear my protests and moves along to order.

Our food arrives with ten minutes and we begin to eat. The two boys eat quickly, almost as if they haven't been fed in ages and then they ask us for permission to go to the play area which is in the middle of all the various food stalls.

They leave and I start, "So… what hap-?"

Leah stops me from continuing and gets right to the point. "Masen was chasing after a man, Edward. And by chasing, I mean he was running as fast as those tiny legs of his could take him."

"What?" I ask in confusion. "Why would he do that?" Rosalie, Emmett and I have repeatedly told the kid on numerous occasions to not talk to strangers and most especially not 'chase' after them.

She shakes her head. "That man… you should've seen him! He looked exactly like Emmett. He had the same height, built and hair. The only thing was that he wasn't Em."

"Masen started screaming when she saw that dude's face", adds Jacob. "He said something along the lines of: 'You not my daddy! I want my daddy!' That was when I went over and caught hold of him before anything else happened."

Leah's eyes are intently focused on where Seth and Masen are playing but her attention is focused on me and her husband.

"How is he coping?" she asks. "How are you coping?"

"I dunno", I mumble. "I dunno Lee. It hasn't been that bad so far but I keep on getting the feeling that I'll screw up somehow. I just don't know how to handle this shit!"

Jacob looks deep in thought. He takes a loud slurp of his soda before speaking. "You're doing perfectly fine given your situation, man. You haven't screwed up so far and you're not gonna."

The thing about Leah and Jacob is that they're good people. Leah is the guidance councilor at Forks High and she was the one who fully supported and guided Rosalie when she got pregnant in tenth grade. Leah's been there in that situation seeing that she had Seth when she was in her senior year.

Her situation caused a lot of gossip and scandal since she was only eighteen while her baby's father was twenty seven. Yes, Jacob (who prefers to be called Jake) is nine years older than her and besides that, their relationship was a secret 'cause both their dads were best friends and wouldn't have approved.

But the age difference didn't matter to either of them and a week after their son's second birthday, they got married and they're still together and happy.

Jake was also kind enough to offer Emmett a job at his garage down at La Push: Black's Auto even though Em was too young. A couple of months after Masen was born, Emmett came over to talk to me one night. He said that he appreciated the fact that I wanted to look after his son because I was Rosalie's older brother but it wasn't my responsibility.

Sigh. I would have posted this earlier but my computer (shakes head in despair) wasn't cooperating.

Chapter 8 is almost done so I'll post it soon.

What are your thoughts on this?