'When you're ready to go, and your hearts in left in doubt'

"So mister hot shot, tell me a little bit more about yourself…" I nonchalantly asked Lucas while we were out at a restaurant later on that night.

"Ok, so question for question?"

"Sure, so why did you join the army?"

"Uhhh, I guess because I always knew that I wanted to protect the things I love and the army was the best way to encompass everything. And after giving up basketball, I missed the companionship of a team and this helped fill the void. Where do you see yourself in ten years?"

"Hopefully, fingers crossed, married with kids." I realized that after I said this, that it may scare him away because he didn't want kids or believe in marriage or what not. "And owning my own clothing boutique; a chain store in different cities, but not too big were it would take away from my family."

"You must really love that."

"Well, why do you say that?"

"Because your face just lit up when you were talking about your dreams and aspirations." That caused me to blush, big time. "Alright, so question me up." I said giggling.

"Does having only one sibling want to make you have a large or small family?"

"It depends on what you define small and large. I mean, yes to a point I wish I had another brother to play with growing up and things like that, but don't get me wrong, I love Lily."

"She's four right?"

"Ya, born just before I left for my first tour. So I guess you could say I want a big family, I just want my kids to have siblings to grow up with and have close bonds. Like a brotherly or sisterly love, if that makes any sense."

I quickly gulped down my water, "That makes total sense because I guess that's what I want to…two boys and two girls…so they get along and have a companion.'

"Exactly, I take it that you got that mentality from being an only child?"

"You know if I answer that question that counts as your question…." Obviously flirting with him.

"Ya, sooo…" Lucas said smirking, "I think that I should get a free pass on that one."

"Alright then, yes I am an only child."

"You said that you wanted to own your own boutique, what you planning on doing now to reach that goal now that you graduated?"

"I'm gonna take a year off from school, work more, and try to straighten my head out. And then pursue it more. You said you were very close with your family, tell me about them.."

"Straighten your head out?"

"Your supposed to answer my question first their mister." I politefully scolded him, causing Lucas to laugh.

"Fine, we are very close. My dad, Keith, is one of my best friends. I never remember a time when I can't go and talk to him about anything. He owns an auto shop, and I would come in after school, we would fix the cars and I would tell him about my day. My mom, Karen, owns her own café. It's tiny, nothing fancy really. She's so nice, you wouldn't believe it. And I'm just not saying it because she's my mother. Last but not least, Lily. She's a ball of energy and just bounces from one thing to the next. If you're just watching her, it may seem funny. But if your playing with her while she's doing that, it can be some what tiresome. And to save you a question, " he winked at me "my mom found out she was pregnant with me the end of her senior year…hence the big gap between me and Lily. So now, what do you mean by straighten your head out?"

"I think we've done enough questions for one night there Broody, you wanna get outta here?" I knew that I wasn't ready to tell him all about my past I guess you could call it the previous relationship I was in; hopefully that was a quick enough change of subject for him to be able to drop the whole thing. It wasn't that I was ashamed of what happened. The whole thing just hurt so much, and it still hurts; I'm just not ready for people to hear what happened because I'm afraid of their reaction, especially with someone I am starting to care about a lot. The car ride back to my place was silent, but it was a comfortable silence. Lucas was driving with one hand and holding my hand with the other; I was looking out the window, happy with where my life was right now. Before I knew it, he pulled up in front of my house. And being the gentleman that Lucas always is, he opened my car door and walked me to the front door.

"Well, I had fun tonight." I quickly blurted out, not really sure if he was mad I shut him out earlier.

"We always have fun together Pretty Girl." He moved a lone strand of hair out of my face. "And I just want you to know that I'm not mad or hurt or whatever that you didn't answer my question from before. I just want you to know that I'm always here to talk, whenever you need me; even if you need to bounce ideas off of me. I don't want you to take too long to straighten it out because I can see how your affected by it and I'm truly worried about you."

"Thank you for your concern Luke, and you just being here with me; us going out like this, really helps. You help me so much, more than you know. I will always be grateful for that. Goodnight Broody."

"Goodnight Pretty Girl." We both said before moving in for such a romantic good night kiss. I walked inside and was still memorized by the feelings I have for him and what that kiss means. I stood there in a trance for a while, before moving upstairs to the bedroom to put on some sweats. While I was in the bathroom washing my face. I heard my phone going off. Thinking it was probably Luke saying he got home ok, I really didn't rush to answer it. When I was all done, I casually walked over to the night stand were it was and listened to the voicemail, instantly smiling thinking about the sweet words Lucas was going to say to me; it wasn't Luke and they weren't any type of nice words I would want to hear ever.


Hey guys, finally got my computer back, which means more writing. Thanks for the reviews last time and enjoy this chapter, another should be up by the end of the week.