AN: I know I usually update on Wednesdays but im bored so here's chapter four. Aria's visiting and Haleb have a chat. Xxx
The next morning Hanna finished brushing her teeth and put the brush back into the pot. She accidentally knocked it over making a loud noise. When she picked it up she headed back into the hall and herd little cries coming from Ava's room. She slowly opened the door to see Ava sat up in her little bed crying.
"I'm sorry baby, did the noise wake you up?" Ham asked scooping up the two year old in her arms.
Ava nodded tiredly as Hanna checked the time on her phone. It was half eight on a Sunday which meant that Caleb wouldn't be up for a while and she really had to get going if she wanted a full day at the spa with Aria so she quietly walked back to her and Caleb's bedroom. He was still asleep so she just placed Ava down next to him. He instantly wrapped his arm around her little body pulling her closer to him. He placed a kiss on her little forehead as she snuggled into his warm chest.
"I'll be back later." She whispered, placing a kiss on her daughters head before heading out the door.
She took one last look at them both cuddling in bed peacefully before she left.
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"Hanna!" Aria called as Hanna entered the spa.
"Hey Aria." She smiled as the small brunette engulfed her in a hug.
"It's been so long since we've done something together." Aria smiled as she lead Hanna up to the room.
"I know. How did you get this free anyway?" Hanna asked looking round the expensive spa.
"I won it."
"So you came all the way out to New York?"
Aria looked down guiltily. "Well I've been working on New York for the past week. I would of called you sooner but I was really busy."
"Don't worry about it. It's just nice to be together again." Hanna smiled.
"So… how is my favourite little niece?" Aria asked excitedly.
Hanna chuckled. "She's good."
"And Caleb?"
Hanna lowered her gaze. Caleb. Well he's gonna get locked up but apart from that he's great. She thought.
"Have you and Caleb broke up?" Aria asked, sensing Hanna's mood change.
"No… I don't know." She replied as her eyes started welling with tears.
Aria pulled her in for a hug. "What happened?"
Hanna took a long shaky breath and explained everything to Aria. "He helped one of his friends from when he was in foster care, that one I told you about that told me about Caleb sleeping with all those girls when he was younger."
"The one that was there when you got hit by that car?" Aria asked.
Hanna nodded and carried on. "He needed money so he asked Caleb to hack into some company and he said yes and then he was arrested on my birthday and he's lost his job."
"Wait, so he could go to prison for it? How long?" Aria asked shocked.
Hanna shrugged.
"Why did he do it?" Aria asked.
"I don't know. But now he's got no job and we're gonna loose everything." She sobbed.
Aria had no idea how to comfort her. "If you need money, I can lend you some?" She offered.
Hanna shook her head. "No. We'll be okay."
"So… are you still together… or…"
Hanna shrugged. "I don't know. I know he's sorry and I can see it in his eyes every time he looks at me but I can't forget what he's done. I love him so much but I'm scared that he'll do something like this again. I just don't know…" She cried.
All Aria could do was hug her.
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Back at the apartment Caleb was playing with Ava after feeding her breakfast.
"You wer dis." Ava giggled as she handed Caleb a plastic crown.
"Really?" He asked.
She nodded her head and pulled it out of his hand to put it on top of his head.
"And mommy." Ava said.
"Mommys out with Aria." Caleb explained. "It's just me and you today princess."
Ava nodded and started sitting her dollies next to Caleb in a circle. She stopped when she noticed that she didn't have a crown left for herself so walked over to Caleb and stood on his knees.
Caleb thought she was giving him a hug until she reached up for the crown.
"Are you stealing my crown?" He asked tickling her tummuy.
She giggled and nodded. Caleb started tickling her even more and then lifted her into the air before she could grab the crown. She was laughing really hard now and Caleb was laughing too seeing his daughter so happy. He finally lowered her enough so she could pull the plastic shiny crown of his head.
"Pwetty?" She asked as he set her down on the floor.
"Gorgeous." He smiled back.
She turned her attention back to her dollies.
A few minutes later there was a knock at the door.
Caleb got up and made his way to the door.
"Lee?"
"Hey Caleb, I wanted to talk. Can I come in?" The young man asked.
Caleb nodded and let him in, closing the door behind him. Ava looked up when she herd a different voice but quickly turned her attention back to her toys. Caleb looked at Lee waiting for him to explain.
"They arrested me yesterday and I wanted to come and warn you." Lee said.
"It's too late. They got me on Friday." He replied coldly.
"Oh…I didn't know. What did they say?"
"I got bail and they said they'd get in contact about the court dates." Caleb sighed.
"How did Hanna take it?" Lee asked.
"You mean how did she take me being arrested on her birthday?" Caleb said raising his voice slightly and making Ava look up to see why her daddy was angry.
"Look Caleb, I get that your pissed-" Lee began but was cut off.
"Pissed! You promised me I wouldn't get caught. I can not go down for this Lee, I have a kid and a girlfriend." Caleb shouted.
"I know that Caleb and I swear to god I wouldn't have got you involved if I would have know we would get caught but that's why I'm here. You have Ava and Hanna and you need to stay with them." Lee replied calmly. "When you get pulled into court you can blame it all on me. Say you didn't know you were breaking the law or something."
"They're not gonna believe that." Caleb said.
"Well then tell them that I made you. Tell them I threatened Ava and you had to protect her."
Caleb sighed, it was tempting to blame everything on Lee. After all he was the one that pulled him into this, he didn't force him to though.
"I can't do that." Caleb replied more calmly.
"Why not?"
"Because it fair on you. I can't let go be put away for me."
"Yes you can Caleb. We made lots of stupid mistakes when we were younger and did some illegal stuff and you put all that behind you and I dragged you back into it. You have a daughter now so you need to be the dad we both never had and stay out of prison. We both know what it feels like to grow up without parents and you can't let that happen to her." Lee begged him, looking over at Ava who was happily playing.
Caleb also looked down at her. She was so precious to him that he could never imagine leaving her. She looked up at him with furrowed eyebrows.
Caleb quickly smiled down at her and she smiled back up. Her little dimples she gets from her mommy coming through as her brown orbs shone. She was so perfect.
"Just think about it Caleb, please?" Lee said making his way back to the door.
"Okay." Caleb nodded before Lee left.
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Hanna and Aria were relaxing in the jacuzzi at the spa.
"Do you want more kids?" Aria asked out of the blue.
"What?" Hanna asked not hearing her correctly.
"Are you and Caleb gonna have more kids?" She asked again.
"I don't know. Why?" Hanna asked.
Aria shrugged. "I was just wondering."
"We're only twenty and as much as I hate saying it we never meant to have Ava. She was an accident, the best accident we ever made but we're not planning on having anymore kids right now." Hanna said.
Aria nodded. "I always thought you would be the first one to get pregnant." She said not realising how it could be taken.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Hanna asked, clearly offended.
"I didn't mean it like that. It's just that you was the first one of us to loose their virginity, apart from Ali. I just always though you'd have kids first." Aria explained.
Hanna was still a bit annoyed but shrugged it off. "I don't even know if I trust Caleb again and we're definitely not ready for another baby."
"If you want my advise, Caleb is the best thing that ever happened to you Han and I'm pretty sure your the best thing that has ever happened to him and everyone makes mistakes. Caleb was just looking out for his friend like you would do for me or the others and he didn't mean to hurt you." Aria said.
Hanna just nodded taking in everything she had said. It was true, Caleb really was the best thing to happen to her.
"Have you spoken to the others lately?" Aria asked.
"They texted on my birthday but apart from that no. Have you?"
"Not really, I was thinking we should do something together soon." Aria suggested.
"Yeah, Id like that." Hanna smiled.
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Later that evening Hanna and Aria walked through the door of Hanna and Caleb's apartment to find Caleb and Ava asleep on the sofa. Ava was sat on Caleb's knee with a white towel wrapped around her. Her head was leaning against his chest and her mouth was half open as she was sleeping.
"That has to be the cutest thing I've ever seen." Aria whispered.
Hanna smiled at them and took a picture on her phone before softly waking Caleb.
He groaned and rubbed his eyes as he came around.
"Oh, Hi Aria." He smiled tiredly.
"Hey. I'm just stopping by to use the bathroom and see Ava." She explained.
"You can stay for dinner if you want." Caleb offered.
"My flight in an hour so I have to get off but thanks for the offer." She replied.
Ava started to stir from her sleep.
"Hey Avie." Hanna cooed rubbing her daughters cheek as she came around from her short nap.
The little girl smiled when she saw her mommy and leant forward for a hug.
Hanna pulled her naked body close to her as she engulfed her in a hug.
"You've got no clothes on." She said, tickling her bare tummy and making Ava giggle as well.
"Me av bath." She replied looking back at Caleb. He nodded and handed Hanna her pyjamas so she could get dressed.
Once she was in her pink pyjamas Aria held out her hands for a hug. Ava smiled and ran over to her auntie Aria for some cuddles.
"Your so cute." Aria cooed. "An I have a present for you." She said walking over to her bag with Ava still in her arms.
She pulled out some chocolate shaped like princess crowns.
"I saw this the other day and thought of you."
"What do you say?" Caleb asked Ava.
"Ta-ta." She replied taking the chocolates.
"Your welcome." Aria smiled putting her down. She could definitely sense the tension between Hanna and Caleb. He was desperately trying to catch her eye and she was doing all she could not to look at him even though she knew he was looking at her.
"I'm just gonna use the bathroom." She said making her way down the hall.
Caleb tried to speak but was interrupted by Ava handing him her chocolates. "Do you want me to open them, princess?" He asked. She nodded and climbed on to his knee as he opened the chocolate.
When Aria came back out Hanna was in the kitchen so she picked up her bags and phone.
"I'm gonna head off now Han." She called.
Hanna came back to give her a hug.
"Come back and visit soon." She told her.
"Yeah, we'll arrange something with the others." Aria smiled as they pulled away.
"Bye-bye Ava." She said waving at the two year old that was currently stuffing chocolates in to her mouth. She flashed a chocolatey smile and waved bye.
"Bye Caleb." Aria smiled still laughing at Ava.
"Bye. Have a good flight."
Once Aria was gone Hanna made her way back into the kitchen and Caleb followed with Ava in his arms.
"I though we could just get take out for dinner. Ava's already had hers so…" Caleb suggested.
Hanna turned around and smiled at him. "Sounds good. Can we order later though, I'm not that hungry yet?"
"Yeah that's fine." Caleb nodded and looked back at Ava.
"I think your gonna need another bath." He said trying to wipe her chocolate cover face.
"No." She said skating her head. They had been getting a lot of 'no' lately.
"Well it's time for bed." Caleb said looking at the time on his phone.
"Nooo." She started crying and buried her face in Caleb's white t-shirt.
"Why doesn't mommy put you to bed tonight." Caleb said looking up at Hanna. Hanna smiled and peeled Ava away from Caleb and into her owns arms.
"I've barley seen you today. Come on let's get into bed and we can read a book." She said carrying Ava to her bedroom.
Caleb stayed in the kitchen and cleaned some dishes from lunch before getting a beer out of the fridge and sitting down on the sofa. Hanna finally got Ava to sleep and made her way out to the living room. She saw Caleb on the sofa and sat next to him.
"Lee came by today." Caleb said before Hanna had the chance to speak.
"What did he say?" She asked.
"He told me to blame it on him and say that he blackmailed me into hacking for him."
"Oh, are you gonna?"
Caleb shrugged. "I don't know. They might not even believe me and I cant let him take all the blame, I chose to help him and I should pay for it." He said leaning forward and resting his head in his hands.
"What about us? We need you Caleb." Hanna said, her voice cracking slightly.
He looked up at her and saw how vulnerable she looked and his heart broke when she cried because of him. He pulled her into his chest and for the first time since he had been arrested she didn't push him away. Instead she cried into his chest and he wrapped his arms around her. After a few minutes of crying she pulled away. "I cant do this without you."
"What?" He asked softly, tucking a piece of hair behind her ear.
"I cant look after Ava on my own. I wont be able to manage and s-she'll get put into care and-" She started getting herself worked up.
"Hanna stop. I promise that's not gonna happen, okay. The only way someone is going to take Ava away from us is to take her from my dead arms. My parents left me and im not about to do the same to my daughter." He said wiping the tears away from her cheeks.
"But what if you go to prison?"
Caleb sighed and looked straight into her eyes, he knew she just needed to be reassured that everything would be fine. "Then youll bring her to see me every week and we'll talk on the phone everyday and i'll never stop telling her how much I love her. But I promise Hanna im not just gonna walk away." He said pulling her in for another hug.
"Can we order dinner now, im starving." She asked when they pulled away.
He nodded and pressed a soft but meaningful kiss onto her lips.
AN: So Haleb made up. I hope you liked it and there's still some stuff they need to talk about but at least their talking now. And I hoped you like Aria's little visit. The other girls will be visiting in a few chapters and I was wondering if you want Toby to visit aswell, I can fit him in if you want.
Todays question is ...
Who did you think -A was before 6x10?
I was convinced it was Wren and Cece was redcoat and Mellissa black veil.
