Juliet's P.O.V.
"Daddy I want the strawberry gummie's!" I smiled at the 8 year old boy who was kicking his legs gently against the shopping cart he was sitting in. I turned my head ever so slightly to see Logan standing on tip toes graabing a huge box of starwberry gummies. "Miss Juliet do you like my stickers?" I looked back down at Sammy and nodded smiling small.
"I think we should have gotten two carts." I shrugged as I gently started to push the cart and walked next to Logan who was looking down at the long list in his hand, scratching something off.
"No worries. I don't think i'm going to be getting a whole lot. I mean...I need a whole lot but..."
"Kendall usually helps because he has a weird picky eating habit?" I snorted as I laughed and nodded my head and he wrapped an arm around my back pulling me into him as he kissed my forehead. "How you doing sweety?"
"Oh besides the fact that my son was shot three days ago and my husband is seconds away from going on a ramapage or having a heart attack? I'm great." I closed my eyes as he chuckled over me and started to take control of the cart for me. "Do you know the night we brouhgt Max home Kendall and I..." I stopped and opened my eyes seeing Sammy preoccupied with his sticker book and turned to Logan who was smiling small at me. "It was the first night we were together. And in the biblical sense." He laughed loudly turning our cart around a corner and I shook my head. "How sick is it that it takes our child being shot to get us together?"
"How long has it been since you guys had sex?" I elbowed him hard nudging donw to his young son and he shook his head. "Too interested in the book. You don't have to tell me but I do know the last time you talked to me about your sexy time with Kendall was last year at that cabin we went to for 4th of July. So that's about 14 months? Impressive seeing as how hot you are but..."
"Our marriage counsler said sex isn't necessairly the answer. But she also said sex can be like a band-aid. It helps for a while but only when it's on." I paused and turned to Logan who was frowning looking at the huge aisle of cereal boxes. "From what I gather...while i loved every second of our wet, intense love making in our bathtub, it didn't change the fact that deep down inside my heart...i'm still hurt." We stopped completly and he turned to me giving me a very sad look. "Everytime he comes home late from work all i think about is that he was on top of some young, perky titted bimbo, and doesn't love me. No matter how many times he's said he's sorry and he loves me and he made a one time mistake, I can't get over it."
"So why did you stay with him?" My mouth parted open slowly and he turned to me shaking his head. "I have known Kendall for a very long time. He has done some really questionable things. Hurting you was one of the worst but that night he came to see James and I and told us what he did..." He paused and grabbed my hands squeezing gently. "I have never seen him so vunerable. You did a lot for his character. A lot of good. But one thing Kendall has never been good at is handling his emoitions when he starts feeling them. Take the fact that his son was shot and he was the one to find him. What has been his main focus? Trying to find the reasons why...wanting to go on a ramapge with my idiot husband. Instead he should be..."
"Staying home with me and Max." Logan nodded and started to walk us again pushing the cart from me. "God damn-it he's such an asshole sometimes. But I can't help loving him."
"Trust me, i get it. If James didn't have such a big cock I would have killed him already." I burst out laughing grabbing a few boxes of cereal just as my phone started ringing in my pocket. I pulled it out staring at Logan who was tickiling his sick son who was starting to feel better. I looked down and frowned seeing Max's smiling picture and quickly answered.
"Baby...you okay?" I heard soft talking from the background and Max sighed.
"I'm alright mom. Dad just wanted me to call. To check on you." I rolled my eyes walking slowly along next to the cart. "Where are you?"
"Costco with Logan and Sammy. If your dad wanted to check up on me why didn't he call himself?" As soon as I said it, i heard the crack of a baseball hitting a bat and I shook my head. "Can you pull him away for one second baby?" He quietly said sure and the voices I heard eailer got louder. I cleared my throat softly just as Kendall soft laugh came on the phone.
"Hi beautiful. Did your son rat me out?" I laughed grabbing a box of granoal bars and tossed them in the cart.
"Rat you out for what? DId you hurt yourself again trying to show off?" He laughed just as three other laughs started around him. "How is Max doing?"
"Fine. He's been sitting the whole time stuffing his face with nacho's and a coke." I smirked putting my free hand in my jean pocket bitting my bottom lip. "So I need to come clean with something." I stopped walking and felt my toes go numb. "I wanted to come to the batting cages today because Carlos had found some stuff out from work." I let out a soft sigh of relief but shook my head. "There was another small threat of someone attacking the huge Walmart passed dowtown today. We didnt know where until someone showed up with a bomb attached to his chest and two assult rifles on his arms."
"Jesus..." I looked over at Logan who was giving me a worried look but I shook him off.
"No one got hurt. Some uniformed cops were there grabbing some lunch. They were able to take him down, without him setting off his vest of fake bombs." I shook my head softly just as we turned down another asile. I casually grabbed a jar of peanut butter at the same time Logan did and i opened my mouth. Probably to read Kendall the riot act for lying to me. But I never got the chance. "Finding all of that out...while I sat at a bench at these batting cages with Max who has a bullet wound, made something click in my head." I stopped in front of a shelf full of a bunch of different jellies and he chuckled quietly. "I need to change somethings babe." I shut my eyes hard and gripped onto the shelf swallowing hard. "I need to start being here for you...for Max. For our family. I have sucked at it the past coupel of years and I'm sorry. I know...I know it's going to take some time to make it up to you guys but I'm going to start being that man you met and fell in love with. I'm going to start beign that dad to Max that he's always wanted me to be." I couldn't help the smile that spread across my face as I opened my eyes and felt a hand on my back. I turned to see Logan smiling at me gently rubbing my back. "I'm sorry about everything Jules. About what I've done. And I'm going to start to make it all up to you tonight as soon as our son goes to bed." I laughed loudly at this and turned to Logan who was grabbing two jars of strawberry jelly. "I am also going to take my captain's word and take the month off he gave me. Max wants me to go to physical therapy with him and..." He stopped talking and I faintly heard walking. "I'm going to literally fuck you in every corner of that house." I laughed again walking behind Logan and blushed.
"Just the corners?" He laughed back at me and I shook my head. "I love you Kendall. And you have no idea how long I have been waiting to hear that from you."
"I love you too baby girl. And I mean it. Things are going to change." I nodded and stopped walking seeing Logan talking with someone I didn't know.
"I guess I'll just see you at home. I'll have Logan drop me off with the groceries." I heard him answer me but seeing Logan laughing it up with a rather attactive, young looking guy made me loose focus on my husband. "Love you babe. Talk to you later." He said it back and I hung up quick. I slipped my phone in my jacket pocket and walked up to them slwoly. The man saw me first and smilied big putting out both his arms like he was going to hug me.
"This must be Juliet!" I frowned looking at Logan who was blushing and smiling. He cleared his throat and nodded turning to me.
"Jules this is one of the new interns at the hospital, Sean." I smiled small and extended my hand. He took it, shaking it softly. "Believe it or not his first day was the shooting."
"Yeah lucky me." I forwned and pulled my hand back quick as soon as he said it and i swallowed hard. "Oh no...I don't mean anything by it. I know your son was one of the victims. I just know i would have never had a better chance to learn as much as I did that day." I could only nod as I turned my back to him and gave Logan a pleading look. Logan swallowed hard and cleared his throat.
"Well we have to get going Sean. Great seeing you, and I'll see you when I get back from my vacation."
"You too Logan. I cannot wait to learn everything I can from you." I turned to start walking and gave Sean a small smile. Before we walked away he gently grabbed my uper arm, just a little to hard for my taste and squeezed it, without Logan noticing. "Nice meeting you Juliet." I looked up at his face and yanked out of his grasp walking back into Logan. Before I could say anything about it, Sean sauntered off pushing his shopping cart, whistiling low. And just like that he was gone and Logan started talking to Sammy as if nothing even happened.
We finished our shopping, eventually grabbing another cart for all of my stuff, and left the store an hour after talking with Kendall. It was raining hard when we left and by the time we got to my house, it was a full on storm. Luckily Kendall's car was in the driveway and so was Carlos's. As soon as Logan parked on the street, the front door of the hosue opened and three guys, literally each holding a beer, came walking out. No coat, no sweater...just plain short sleeve shirts and stupid grins on thier faces. However seeing James walking beside Kendall reminded me of my encounter with Sean and before he got to the trunk of Logan's car I grabbed his forearm. "Can I talk to you a minute?" He nodded putting his free hand in his jean pocket and I sighed out looking to the back of the car. Logan was laughing with Carlos and Kendall and lightly shoved him to the side arms already full of groceries.
"Daddy!" The back door we were beside pushed open and James quickly reached in and grabbed Sammy who was looking pale again but happy to see his dad.
"Hi buddy!" James set him on his hip and because of the storm I gently grabbed James and pulled him to the garage. I put in our code for the door and waked inside with them, turning to James. "What's going on pretty lady?" I sighed out and leaned against Kendall's work bench.
"Do you know any of the new interns at the hospital yet?" He frowned and adjusted Sammy on his hip leaning against the hood of my car shaking his head.
"No. I don't usually meet them until abotu two weeks into thier program. But because of our vacation I didn't even know we had new ones yet." I nodded and put my hands into the pockets of my jeans looking away from him. "Why? This is a weird conversation Jules. Even for you." I smiled at him and shrugged.
"I don't know. Logan ran inot one today. Cute, tall, young looking guy. He seemed...I don't know. Weird?" He snorted and after putting his beer down beside him on my car her rubbed his sons back. "Also as we were leaving he grabbed my arm kind of rough and squeezed it." He stopped moving and I shurgged. "Don't say a God damn word to Logan either but this kid was looking weird at him. Like he was devouring him or something." James rolled his eyes and looked straight ahead at the wall in my garage sighing out.
"I am going to assume he wont tell me a word of it either. But now that I know, i'm going to watch out for him." I nodded and started to stand myself back up just as a pair of fotosteps came into the garage. I turned to Kendall who was actually pretty soaking wet. I shook my head seeing his sculpted chest and a few abs being exposed through the thin white shirt and let him walk into me.
"Thanks for all the help with all those groceries guys." He kissed my forhead and I laughed wrapping an arm wound his waist.
"Sorry man...Jules was just telling me about..." I gave James a pleading look and shook my head softly. We locked eyes. "Telling me about how Sammy had started to feel better but he's looking a little sick again. She was gonna grab me a bottle of water for him, for the trip back home." I nodded quick and walked to the small fridge under some cupboards and grabbed a water bottle. I gently handed it to James and he smirked putting Sammy further up on his body sighing out. "Well from what Kendall was saying it's about to get really fucking gross in this house so were gonna go." I hit Kendall's stomach as he smirked but flipped off his best friend. James said goodbye to us and walked out of the garage. I turned my whole attention to Kendall who was sitting on the edge of his bench arms crossed over his chest. He gave me a stupid look and I shook my head.
"So." He laughed looking down and I started to take tiny steps towards him. "What corner should we start in?"