Chapter One
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James will be home soon, he and the guys have just finished an American tour. Me and AJ are sat waiting for him. It's past his bedtime but, I told him if he was good and ate all his dinner then he could stay up and wait for his uncle James to come home.
I saw lights reflect on the living room wall and then the sounds of a car engine coming up the driveway. 3 minutes later I heard the sounds of a key unlocking the door and footsteps.
'Katie, AJ. I'm home' James shouted as he walked in the front door. I smiled and jumped off the sofa. I grabbed AJ's hand and ran around the corner, straight to James at the front door.
'Uncle James' AJ ran straight up to him, James bent down and swooped him up and placed a kiss on his forehead. I love seeing them together. James was like the dad AJ never had. I asked him once why he was doing so much for me and the baby and he told me that apart from being my friend and he wanted to be in AJ's life, which seeing how he was so close to me, I had no problem at all with, he said he felt bad about OUR baby we never had, and helping me with this crazy one was his way of helping to make it up to me, but he was always so sweet with him.
'Hey babe' He smiled at me as he saw me coming around the corner.
'Hey, James how was the tour?' I asked as he placed a kiss on my cheek.
'It rocked, missed you and this little man though, speaking of which, why aren't you in bed?' he asked looking at AJ, who just smiled at him. James chuckled and grabbed my hand, while still holding AJ in one arm and led us back to the front room.
He put AJ back down on the floor and he ran over to the sofa to watch the rest of Ben 10, we were watching it before James came home.
'Can I talk to you in the kitchen, for a second babe?' he asked heading to the kitchen. I smiled and nodded at him, he smiled back and walked into the kitchen.
'AJ, I'll just be in the kitchen with uncle James, come and get us if you need us ok, honey' he smiled and nodded at me. 'Good boy'
I left the room and headed back down the corridor to the kitchen. As I walked in he had his head buried in the fridge, he grabbed out a bud for himself and a J2O for me. He closed the fridge door again and walked over to the cutlery draw searching for the bottle opener.
'Where's the bottle opener?' he asked. I walked over to the side and grabbed it. James set the bottles down in front of me, but he did so that his arms are either side of me and his hands were resting on the counter.
'I really missed you' he whispered in my ear. I smiled and turned around to face him. He moved his hands to rest on my waist.
'James, I've missed you too' I smiled at him. He moved his face in closer to mine but I pulled away just as he was about to kiss me. He backed away and sighed.
'James, I'm sorry, I still love you, you know that, but nothing can ever happen between us. For one, we're good friends and you have been there for me through everything. Before AJ, thought the pregnancy and labour, god, even now but I don't want to wreck our friendship. For the other, I don't want to confuse AJ, you know'
'Yeah, I understand, sorry' he looked down as if he was ashamed of himself. I walked over to him. I placed my hands on his face and looked him in the eyes.
'Don't be sorry.' He smiled at me. I dropped my hands and turned around again. I picked up the bottle opener and passed it to him. He opened the drinks and passed me mine.
'Thanks' I gave him a small smile as I took the drink and pulled myself up to sit on the counter in the middle of the kitchen. The silence was uncomfortable. James went and leaned against the fridge in front of me.
'So...why isn't AJ in bed?' he asked, I looked up and saw him smiling at me. I smiled back.
'Because he wanted to stay up and wait for you to come home' this brought a smile to his face. 'He missed you' he looked up at me and he chuckled 'Think we should put him to bed? It's way past his bedtime.' I asked. He nodded. I hopped down off the counter and started to walk out the room. James came up from behind and grabbed my hand, we walked back into the front room.
AJ was on the sofa, poor little guy, he was fast asleep, curled up in a ball, sucking his thumb. I turned off the TV, while James walked over to AJ.
'Hey, little buddy' he whispered as he picked AJ up and carried him over to the stairs. He woke up and wrapped his arms around James' neck, before falling asleep again.
I walked up the stairs in front of them and headed to AJ's bedroom. It was painted blue and green with his toys everywhere, he even had a toy guitar; Aaron had a few of them made to look exactly like Tom and Liam's signature one. I don't know why he would do that, maybe it was like a little reminder for him, even if he doesn't know about it. But AJ loves it.
James put him down in his bed and tucked him in. I grabbed Timmy, his teddy bear, Emily had him made of him especially, it had a little top on that had the Dragon'sFire logo on the front and Walker written on the back, Which was my last name, She gave it to him the day he was born.
After AJ and Timmy were all tucked up in bed, we headed over to his bedroom door, I left the room first, followed by James. We stood in the doorway watching him sleep for a few minutes. James bent down and plugged in AJ's little night light, he is afraid of the dark.
'Night sweetie' I whispered and blew him a kiss.
'Night little guy' James whispered. AJ turned over to face us, his eyes were closed so I thought he was sleeping we started to close the door,
'Night mommy, Night daddy' and he fell asleep again.
I looked up at James, and he just stared at me, with a wide smile on his face. He had NEVER called James daddy before. I shook my head and walked away. James closed the bedroom door but left it open a little so we could hear him, if he started crying or if he had a nightmare. I walked back down to the kitchen.
I sat down on the bar and put my head in my hands and sighed. A few minutes later, I heard James coming down the stairs headed towards the kitchen.
'Are you angry because he called me daddy?' I heard him ask from the other side of the kitchen.
'Yes, I am' I snapped at him. He seemed shocked by my reaction.
'What's wrong about it.' I was getting annoyed now.
'James, he's not your son, and you're not his daddy! He's...' I had to stop myself, I never liked saying who AJ's dad was, because I never told the truth, but the look on James' face right now was just pissing me off so much! 'I'm sorry, I really am but......' I was cut off mid-sentence by James.
'But what, hmm...? He doesn't even know that kid exists ok, and if he cared about you, he wouldn't have dumped you over the f*****g PHONE!' After he yelled at me, I got up and stormed out the room, I walked to the front room and sat on the sofa. I found myself smiling at all of AJ's toys that were all over the place.
James went upstairs and after a little while, he came back down. I heard him walk into the room. I looked up to see him holding 2 bags in either hand.
'What's going on?' I asked, confused. Was he kicking us out because of the argument we had?
'In the Morning, We're going on a little Holiday'
'Where are we going?'
'I think it's about time Tom knew he had a son'...
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