Jecker Story – Chapter 4 – Becker's POV

I stayed at Jess' for another hour or so then left, I have tomorrow off and I asked Jess to come to mine after work and I would make her dinner, the only problem is that I can't cook to save my life! On my way home and thought of the three dishes I could cook and none of them were good enough so I decided to phone my sister Lisa when I got home, she was an amazing cook and always cooked the Christmas dinner and the Sunday dinner when we had a family Sunday (every once in a while) the last one we had was when Jack my nephew was born two months ago, he was so adorable and my mind started to wonder about what mine and Jess' children would look like. Stop. No. We've only been together for a few hours I need to stop that train of thought right now it's stupid to be thinking of things like that at the moment.

When I got into my apartment I got straight on the phone to Lisa "Hello?" she questioned when she finally answered.

"Hey Lis it's me. I really need your help, I'm cooking dinner for someone tomorrow and before you ask no I'm not telling you any details we only got together today I don't want to jinx it by telling you, anyway you know how bad a cook I am I was just wondering what you thought might be the best thing to cook" I stated to her.

"OK, well are you free tomorrow?" she asked and I told her I was "OK I'll come round about 11am and have a look through your cupboards to see what you got then we will go shopping and get stuff and decide what you want to make OK?" she asked.

The next morning at dead on 11am my front door knocked and Lisa stood on the other side carrying Jack in his car seat I kissed her on the cheek and took the car seat off her and went into the living room with him and took him out to give him a cuddle "Hey" I said softly to him and rocked him softly.

"How haven't you got kids already you're great with them, do you want kids?" she asked me as she handed me his bottle to feed him before we left.

"Of course I do but I just have never found the right girl is all... anyway the job I'm in right now isn't a good job for parents so maybe I would have to leave but I've just been given another reason to stay there" I told her.

"Ah yes the mysterious new girlfriend, so she works with you too? What does she do? What does she look like? Is she smart? Is she pretty? How old is she? What personality has she got?" I didn't know which to answer first.

"Well, her name is Jess she's 20 and works with me, she is beautiful and smart and funny and loving and caring and just... perfect. You would love her but I'm worried because I'm a lot older then her and I don't want her to feel like she has to do something because it's what people my age do you know what I mean?" I questioned.

"Yeah I get you but if she's all those things then she won't care if you're older then her she will just like you for you... she seems really nice and I hope things work out for you because let's be honest you've had no luck in the romance department" she said and laughed "Jordan looked like a dog, Holly looked like a prostitute, Amy made Paris Hilton look like Einstein, Cara made you look feminine and yes I still think she's a secret lesbian, Ella was just... weird and Lola should have been on Jeremy Kyle" thanks for that Lisa.

"Well Jess isn't anything like them, she might be the one Lisa and I know we only got together yesterday but I've liked her for so long and I'm not ever gonna let her go if I can help it" I told her as Joshua finished his bottle so I burped him.

After looking through my cupboards Lisa decided that I needed to do some major grocery shopping apparently readymade meals wasn't good enough for Jess so Lisa drove to the nearest super market and started throwing all sorts of food and wine and other crap in my trolley and whilst she decided what I should have in my cupboards I pushed the trolley round with Jack in the chair I can't believe my little sister had made such a gorgeous baby he was going to be a little heart breaker when he was older I couldn't wait to have my own baby own baby with the woman of my dreams (Jess hopefully) he was just perfect, but he was smelly "Lisa I'm gonna go and change him" I told her and handed her the trolley.

I managed to find the baby changing and when I took his nappy off I nearly died how could something so small and cute make that mess and stink? Lisa owed me big time for all this phew that stinks, maybe having a baby can wait for a while I couldn't be smelling that everyday just yet "You Jack are stinky, what is your mum feeding you?" I told him, not that he understood what I was saying and he wasn't going to reply to me I picked him up and found Lisa at the checkout with way more groceries then I needed "Lisa what do you feed him?" I asked her she took Jack to give him a cuddle.

"I know it stinks doesn't it sorry, anyway I got you enough food to last you a week and I was thinking how about tonight you make Chicken Teriyaki with rice and peas with a glass of wine a couple candles, you can take her out on the balcony and look at the stars and kiss her... it will be so romantic" she said and smiled at me.

"You know this is my date not yours" I said and laughed at her.

"I'm just saying that it will be romantic to take her out on the balcony after a romantic candle lit dinner and kiss her she will love it, listen to me I know what girl's want and that will just make her fall madly in love with you" she stated as I paid the cashier.

We went back to mine and Lisa said she would stay for a while because she hadn't been out of the house much with Jack yet as it had been cold and she wanted to keep him warm and she wanted an adult to talk to, her husband Michael worked away a lot he was a lorry driver and was always driving all over the place and gone for days at a time but I was glad he had a job and was providing for my sister and nephew "You reckon you'll have any more?" I asked her as she put him down for a nap.

"I want another two but Michael only wants one more but I think I might be able to convince him to have another one... maybe" she said and sat on the sofa "I love Jack so much but I love it when he's asleep he just wares me out" she stated.

"Well I'll babysit for you, you know I will all you have to do is ask if you and Michael wanted to go away for the weekend I'll have him you know that" I told her "I'll get a travel cot and keep it here for when I babysit for the night, why don't you go to my room and go for a sleep for a little while you look knackered" she nodded and went off to my bedroom for a nap, I knew she was struggling bringing him up with Michael working away so much but she knew she could always ask me to watch him for a couple of hours of a night or whatever I didn't mind I love spending time with my nephew he's amazing and I'm his uncle this is what I am supposed to do I babysit, take him out, teach him sports, let him come and stay with me when he's a teenager because he's argued with his parents.

Jack woke up an hour or so later so I took him into the living room with me so that he didn't wake Lisa up she needed to catch up on her sleep "How about we go for a walk then when we get back your mum should be awake and we can start making dinner for Jess" I said to him and put him in his pushchair and left a note for her just in case she woke up and got worried;

Gone for a walk we should be back before you wake up but if we're not don't panic B&J

I put the note on the living room coffee table so she would see it when she woke up, I left my apartment and decided to take Jack for a walk at the park there was a little pond there with ducks and stuff it wasn't too far away and it was a nice day, as I walked through the park with him a few women smiled at me obviously thinking that I was a single dad to Jack I was waiting for someone to stop me just so I could say that I was his uncle it was weird having people treat me different because I had a child with me, someone let me go down the narrow path way first because I had him with me it was sweet but weird.

I sat down on a bench next to the pond and got him out of his pram and held him when a voice I recognised spoke to me "Something you want to tell me?" I turned around and seen Jess standing there smiling at me.

"Hey, this is my nephew Jack... have you finished work already?" I asked checking my watch and seeing the time was only 2:45pm she wasn't supposed to finish until 5pm so I instantly became worried about her maybe something was wrong.

"No I'm having my lunch break late I was really busy this morning, I was actually coming by to yours to see if you wanted me to bring me anything with me tonight" she told me and sat down next me to cooing at Jack "Can I hold him?" she asked and I nodded and handed him to her "Hello little one" she said to him and rocked him gently "I cannot wait to have my own kids, they are just so adorable" she stated.

"You're a natural" I stated she smiled at me and carried on rocking him and he eventually fell back asleep "See you're amazing, and to answer your question no you don't need to bring anything just you're amazing self I have everything when I take Jack back to my sister I'm going to start making dinner for tonight... she made me go grocery shopping because she didn't think I had enough food to make anything good" I told her.

"I hope you didn't go to too much trouble for tonight" she stated and I said no everything was fine.