Emily smiled as she watched Aaron with little Jack on his lap, versing an older gentleman in an intense game of poker. Her eyes sparkled when she saw young Jack reach across the table and lay his father's cards next to the deck, eagerly accepting the next two cards that the dealer gave him.

Jack looked over his shoulder and to his father, grinning just as wide as the man that he sat on. "Daddy is this good?"

Aaron gave a nod as he smiled to his son, pointing to one of the cards that Jack held in his small hands. "You're lucky you got this one, bud. It's gonna help."

The older gentleman across from the father and son pair shook his head, trying to keep his tough demeanor as the young boy smiled his way. "How much?"

Jack took a penny from his small pile and shoved it into the larger pile in the center of the table. "One!"

The older man's eyes smiled to the young boy and took a couple coins from his pot. "Alrighty son. I'll see you, and raise ya' three."

Jack's eyes widened before smiling to the man across from him, hearing his father's words being whispered into his ear. "Show me was you got!"

Aaron gave a laugh before tickling his son's sides. "What, not was."

"Oh, sorry mister!"

The older gentleman shook his head, smiling as he set down his cards. "Three of a kind, bud. Watcha' got?"

Jack quickly laid his cards down on the table, spreading them out so he could see each and every one. "I gots a 'A', a two, a three, a four and a five. And theys are all red!"

Emily grinned as she looked over to the blond in her boyfriend's lap. "You got a straight flush, honey!"

Aaron looked to the brunette woman beside him and gave a smirk. "And you know that how, exactly?"

"Don't think I am that much of a little princess, Aaron. My daddy and papa taught me poker when I was just a meer nine years old."

Aaron's eyes widened as he felt his son bounce on his lap. "Your father taught you poker?"

Emily gave a nod, her eyes narrowing. "Yes. Is that wrong?"

"No! That's not what I mea-"

Emily cut off the older man by setting her lips to his, giggling as she watched Jack drag his small pile of change towards his side of the table. "I was just joking, Aaron. Calm down."

The older man shook his head before pecking the brunette on her lips and cheeks. "You think you are just full of funny, don't you?"

The brunette winked. "Maybe a tad."

Jack jumped off of his father's lap, standing in front of Emily with his smile shining towards her. "Em'ly!"

Emily looked down to the young boy before her and laughed as he bounced in his spot in front of her, hearing the change in his now sagging pockets jingle with every step and jump he took. "What is it, Jack?"

He stepped back a few inches before holding out his hand, smiling up to the older woman with large eyes. "Would you wanna dance with me?"

Aaron watched with wide eyes as a grin broke out over the brunette's features and gave a nod before setting her delicate hand into his smaller one. "Jack, you are stealing my woman."

Emily dismissed the comment with a wave of the hand, smiling down to the young boy and standing from her seat. "I would love to dance with you, Mr. Jack." She let him lead her out into the crowd of passangers and listened to the music that floated into the air around them as Jack took both of her hands in his. "Do you know how to dance, Jack?"

The young boy looked up to the brunette and gave a shrug. "Kinda."

Emily gave a smile, giving a squeeze to his small hands as they started moving. "Well I do not really know how to dance. Maybe you could try and teach me how?"

Aaron watched his son with Emily out on the floor, smiling as he watched Emily bend down and try to twirl under his arm. This woman was so good with him. So good with everything.

"Aaron!"

The older man turned his head to see Emily's friend making his way over to him, and he gave a polite smile as the blond sat down beside him. "Hello there, Jack."

Jack smiled to the brunette man and nodded his head. "Hey. Hows your night goin'?"

"It's going just fine, thank you."

The younger man let out a snort before slapping his friend's boyfriend on the back. "You don't have to act so formal down here, Aaron. We're not a stuck up as Em's father."

Aaron tried for a smile as he nodded his head.

"So where's Em?"

He pointed out to the floor, smiling when he saw Emily with his son on her hip, twirling around near the stage in the center of the room. "Where's Rose?"

Jack smiled. "She just went to the bathroom."

Aaron nodded, watching intently as the younger man looked out to the floor where his girlfriend was. He watched as the blonde's eyes narrowed slightly as he gave a smile, and he looked back out to the floor where Emily and his son were waving over to him and the younger man.

He shook his head, ignoring the wide smile that spread across the younger man's face as he waved back to the pair. They're just friends, he reminded himself.

Just friends.