Chapter 5
Nina unlocks the door to her apartment. She walks in, and Carter runs for his room, and Eddie runs for the kitchen. She laughs and walks into Carter's room. She hands him his hoodie. "You need to take a bath, Carter. You haven't had one since yesterday."
Carter nods. "I will right now, mommy. Can we watch a movie after I get done?"
Eddie opens a can of Pepsi and smiles. "I'm down with that," he says, leaning on the wall.
Nina laughs and nods. "Okay, boys. We'll watch a movie."
Carter smiles and cheers. "Yay!" He pulls on Nina's hand. "Let's pick it out first!"
Eddie's phone rings. He read the caller ID. Unknown, he thinks. Who could that be!? He smiles at Nina and Carter. "I need to answer this. I'll help you pick it out in a minute." He walks into the kitchen and sits on a bar-stool. He answers his still ringing phone. "Hello?"
"Eddie? Is that you?"
Eddie's eyes widen, and he spits his Pepsi all over the floor. "Patricia!?"
"Yeah. How are you?"
Eddie's brow furrows. "Patricia, what do you want?"
"Nothing!"
Eddie laughs cockily. "I know that you want something! An ex-girlfriend can't call her ex-boyfriend and ask how they are after seven years! What do you want!?"
Eddie hears Patricia sigh, so he gets his wallet out of his pocket and lays it on the bar. She probably wants some money.
"Fine. I need Ben's number."
Eddie spits his Pepsi out again. "Why do you need Ben's number!?"
"Calm down! He and Piper got into a fight the other night, and he left. Piper was so pissed off, so she threw her phone into the wall. When she turned back on, his number wasn't in her contacts, so she needs it."
"Eddie!" Nina screams. "Hurry up!"
"Was that Nina screaming at you!?"
Eddie laughs. "Um, yeah. Why? Are you jealous, Patricia?"
"No! Are you two married now or something?"
Eddie chuckles to himself. She is so jealous. "Yeah. We even have a six-year-old son."
Patricia scoffs on the other line. "Whatever. Just give me Ben's number."
Eddie tells Patricia Ben's number. "Do you need anything else, jealous ex-girlfriend?"
"No! Goodbye, Eddie."
Eddie spots an air-horn on top of Nina's refrigerator. He smirks and blows it into his phone. "Shit!" he hears Patricia scream. "Bye, jealous ex-girlfriend!"
Nina walks into the kitchen. She sees the air-horn in Eddie's hand and the Pepsi in the floor. "What did you do in here, Eddie!?"
Eddie wipes tears off of his face. "Patricia called me and tried to play the nice card. She said that she wanted Ben's, an old friend of mine's, number, but I don't think that she did. Anyway, she heard you screaming at me and got really jealous. I told her that we were married and that we had a son. Then, I got the air-horn, blew it into the phone, and hung up."
Nina laughs. "Do you wanna watch We Bought a Zoo or Finding Nemo?"
Eddie looks at Nina like she's stupid. "Finding Nemo! Duh!"
Nina laughs at him.
Eddie crosses his arms. "What!? I'm a sucker for the classic Disney movies!"
Nina shakes her head in amusement. "Eddie, you're almost twenty-six, and you act like you're two sometimes."
"I do not!"
"Yes, you do," Carter says while walking into the kitchen.
Nina high-fives Carter and ruffles his wet hair. "Ha."
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Carter groans. Him, Nina, and Eddie just got through watching Finding Nemo, and he's really hungry. "Mommy, I'm hungry!"
Eddie nods in agreement. "Me, too."
Nina sighs. What did she sign herself up for? She laughs. "Wanna go eat at Hubert's?"
Eddie grins. "I love Hubert's!"
Carter grins, too. "Me, too! Let's go!"
Nina looks at Carter with her eyebrows raised. "You need to get dressed, Carter. You can't go shirtless and barefoot."
Carter runs to his room to get dressed.
Eddie sighs. "I need to get dressed, too, but my bags are so far away, and I'm so comfortable."
Nina hits Eddie playfully on the arm and gets up. "Stop so lazy and get up, Eddie. I didn't pay you to slack off at my house."
Eddie throws his hands up in the air. "You don't pay me at all, Nins!"
Nina laughs and shrugs. "That's not my problem."
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After an amazing lunch at Hubert's, Eddie, Nina, and Carter decided to get ice-cream at the small parlor across the street. Everything was all fine and dandy, until Patricia, her kids, and her husband showed up. Eddie spots them by the door and elbows Nina sharply in the side. "Look!" he whispers, pointing to Patricia and her family walking in.
Nina's eyes widen. "What are we going to do!? We're not married!"
Eddie picks Carter up out of his chair and drops him between him and Nina in their booth. He slides his ice-cream across the table and lays a five dollar bill beside it. "Listen, Carter. Do you see the man, the lady, and little boy and girl that just walked in?"
Carter looks around until he sees them standing by the door. "Yeah!"
Eddie smiles and nods. "Good. Listen, the woman is my ex-girlfriend. We don't like each other that much. The man is her new husband, and the girl and boy are kids. You need to act like I'm your daddy and that your mommy and I have been married for awhile." He hands the five dollar bill to him. "Can you do that?"
Carter looks at the money and smiles. He nods at Eddie and puts the money in his pocket. He hugs Eddie. "Daddy!" he says.
Eddie laughs. "Perfect."
Nina smiles at her boys and laughs.
Eddie notices Patricia's husband glance in his direction. He looks the other way quickly. When her husband turns around, he does, too. He watches her husband whisper something in her ear, and glance in his direction. He starts to walks toward them. Eddie curses to himself. He didn't think that he would notice them that fast!
Patricia's husband smiles at Eddie and holds his hand out. "Hey, you're Eddie, right?"
Eddie nods and shakes his hand slowly. He smiles. "And you're Brent?"
Patricia's husband, Brent, nods. "Yeah!" He shoots a friendly smile at Nina and, she smiles back. "Who's you're girl, Eddie?"
Eddie laughs and smiles. He actually likes Brent and Patricia kids. He just doesn't like her that much. "That's my wife, Nina. And this little man," he puts his arm around Carter, "is my son, Carter."
Patricia hugs Nina and glares at Eddie. "Hey, guys!"
A little boy pulls on Nina's pant leg. He looks just like Patricia, except he has Brent's hair color. He waves at Nina. "Hey."
Nina laughs and smiles at him. "Hey."
The boy smiles at her. "I'm Max."
A little girl pops up beside Max. "And I'm Isabelle, Max's twin sister! I'm four-years-old, too!"
Brent laughs and picks Isabelle up. "Isabelle isn't shy, as you can see, but Max is just a little bit."
Patricia glances at Nina and Eddie. "So, you two are married, and you have Carter?"
Eddie smiles and nods. "Yeah, Patricia. Just like I told you over the phone."
Patricia glares at Eddie. "How long have you two been married?"
Eddie laughs. "Five years."
"When's your anniversary?"
"January 25th."
"What does Carter call you two?"
Eddie gets in Patricia's face. He's going to win this. "Mommy and daddy."
"How did you feel when you found out that Nina was pregnant?"
"Ecstatic."
Patricia scoffs and gets up. "I'll be in the car with Max, Brent." She stomps away.
Brent sighs. "I'm sorry, guys. I would explain how she is, but, sadly, you already know."
Nina smiles. "It's okay. We're kind of used to it." She pauses for a second. "Why did you even marry her, anyway?"
Brent sighs and sits down in front of Nina and Eddie. "Go with mommy, Isabelle." He turns to Nina and Eddie. "I don't know. I loved Patricia acts when I met her for the first time, but now it's annoying. I would divorce her, but the kids are so young. I'll have to wait until they have their own lives or something."
Carter nods. "I don't like her, either."
Eddie laughs. "Call me when you divorce her, man. I wanna hear the story." Eddie writes his number on a napkin and hands it to Brent. "Let's hang out sometime, but don't let Patricia find out. She'll flip out."
Brent nods and puts the napkin in his pocket. "I'll call you sometime, dude." He sees Patricia glaring at him from outside. "I gotta go, guys. But it was nice meeting you!"
Nina smiles and waves at Brent. "Bye!"
Eddie laughs when Brent leaves. "How could someone that nice be married to someone so mean?"
Carter shrugs. "I don't know."
Hey, guys! I hope you liked this chapter! By the way, I'm thinking about adding the first Neddie kiss in the next chapter! I'll probably end this story pretty soon, too! Please continue to review, follow, and favorite, guys! Thanks! (:
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