Chapter 8!

I'm afraid I need to take my words back and say that this story might get longer than 15 chapters.

MIGHT!

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With Clarissa at his side, Michael took the word. "Well, uhm, we have news too."

"You're not pregnant, right?" Sara immediately asked.

"Uhm, no." Her sister answered with a frown. "For your information, Michael and I haven't been together like that yet but even if we had been, I think it'd be a bit early to tell."

"Yet?" Lincoln asked with a smirk.

"Yet?" Clarissa repeated with a frown, not knowing what he meant.

"You said we hadn't been together yet." The, now, tattooless man said. "I didn't know you had plans but if you do, by all means, please do share."

Clarissa rolled her eyes. "Whatever. Like I was saying, no I'm not pregnant. But I had a meeting with my councellor today and she gave me some great news. Because I'm going back to Loyola, my old school, they still have my records and my credits. If I focus on my classes of Engineering and Math and drop the others, I'd be able to graduate within the next 10 months if I take on summer school as well."

"She might graduate next fall." Michael anounced.

"What?!" Sara asked, excited for her sister. "That's amazing! Truly!"

Lincoln laughed and picked up his sister in law, twirling her around before putting her down next to his brother again. "I'm proud of you, little one. I am sure you can do it. But what about after college? Are you going to continue dance classes or are you solely going to focus on Engineering?"

"Well, that's the part where I come in." Michael said. "I did say we have news as well. I'm going to start the process of opening our own firm."

"How are you going to do that? I imagine it being quite expensive and we have not enough money I imagine."

"But I do." Clarissa interrupted her brother in law. "Father left me and Sara an even part of his fortune. The rest is in a trust fund for Linc to go to college. It's enough to cover the full cost."

Lincoln nodded while Clarissa caught the saddened look on her sisters face. "He's burried in the old family tumb. Guess being the Governor gave him the privilege of getting his body burried there. Blake is at the cemetry now, he would let you go in."

"It's the middle of the day, you can just go. Not?" Lincoln asked.

LJ shook his head. "No, not the old Tancredi family tumb."

Lincoln looked at his son. "What do you mean?"

"The old tumb is in the restricted part of the cemetry, behind the gates. We could go to the cemetry and we'd be fine but the restricted part is... well, it's restricted. You can't go there." Clarissa explained, looking at her brother in law. "But with Blake being there now, you could go to his grave. He would let us, he knows what it is like not to be able to say goodbye to someone you love."

"I- yeah, I think I'll go." Sara said, turning to the door.

"Not alone." Lincoln and Clarissa both said.

Twenty minutes before school let out, LJ and his uncle's girlfriend were sitting in a car, waiting for her son to leave school. "So, I meant it when I said we would be continuing our conversation. I will repeat my question once more, what do you think of becoming a big brother?"

"I will repeat my answer once more, I honestly have no idea." LJ sighed. "You know, it's just... Dad, he's having a kid with another woman. A woman he so clearly loves, while I am only the son of Lisa Rix, a woman he didn't mean to knock up. What if he doesn't love me anymore when the child comes?"

"LJ..." She tried.

"No, I know... I am 16, I should know better than to think such things and yet I do." He sighed, looking at the clock. 15 more minutes.

"Is there something else you're afraid of?"

"Sara." He confessed. "I love your sister, Clarissa. I do. I'm not in love with her, if that's what you're thinking but the way I love her scares me. It's so close to how I used to love my mother. Am I replacing her? Would she be okay with me doing that?"

"I can't answer that, I never knew your mother. Maybe you could visit her grave and tell her what's going on? You know, include her in your life, making sure she knows what's going on in her son's life. That way you won't really be replacing her, which you can't by the way. There is no way that you could replace your mother and you know Sara's not trying to do that either but I get your fear." Clarissa adviced.

"I know, it's one of the reasons I lo- Clarissa, isn't that Léon?" He asked, both of them sitting up.

"Yes, it is. Call Michael, he's close by."

"He's at the cemetry with you- Fine, I'm calling him." He said, taking out his phone just as Clarissa got out of the car. "Clari- What are- Uncle Mike, -"

Clarissa walked over to her old friend. "Léon, what do you want?"

"Well, I just wanted to enjoy a show yesterday but imagine my surprise when I see my old friend. A girl I'd been with nearly 7 years ago with a 6 year old kid." He said,with his ever present spanish accent.

LJ joined her side. "Hey man, why don't you just leave?"

"Hey man, why don't you stay out of it?" Léon asked, stepping closer to the teenager.

Clarissa got in between. "Show some respect."

"What? To him? Why would I do that? I hardly know this little punk." The spanish said.

The mother rolled her eyes. "Does it matter? Just go, I don't want to see you. You ruined my life, I suggest you walk before I do the same to you."

"You, ruin my life? Doubtful. What do you say, babe, we get together again? I could do it like I did last time." He suggested, taking a step closer to her.

"What do you think, ass, of getting out of my face?" She asked, glaring at him. "What are you going to do, Léon? You going to drug me again? Rape me?"

"I never heard no."

"Oh, you heard no quite some times. You just don't understand it." Her glare grew colder. "Go away, now."

"Is he mine?" He asked, through his teeth.

"He's mine." A voice came from behind them, letting her sigh in relief.