Amelia’s POV

When my eyes met with Alex’s my entire body freezes over. What do I do? I can’t exactly avoid this, my kids are inside...

“Mil?” he asked softly as though he can’t believe that it’s actually me. I don’t know what to do. The last thing I was expecting was to see Alex. Why isn’t he in Baltimore? What is he doing here? Does that mean the rest of the guys are here? What the hell am I supposed to do? Suddenly I felt a hand rest gently on my shoulder which pulled me away from my thoughts. I look up at Jaime, hoping for help but I knew this was something that I had to do on my own.

“Hey Lex” I say softly, still struggling to find my voice. The shock, worry and relief faded from his face and were replaced with anger. Now I was even more lost for what to do. I had never seen Alex mad especially directed towards me. I instinctively take a step back; trying to escape his fuming gaze.

Alex begins to storm towards me but I am distracted by the movement behind him. Coming barrelling around the corner was what looked like a small bear. I brace myself as it pushes past Alex and dives for me but it does nothing to halt the power behind the beast. I hit the ground with a thud but all I can do is laugh as the German Shepherd attacks my face and neck with kisses. I immediately wrap my arms around him and cuddle him. I had missed Simba so much and had always regretted not speaking past Jaime’s and taking him.

“I missed you too bubba!” I cooed to him as I scratched his ears. I push myself up into a sitting position and he cuddles as close to me as possible while whining for more attention making me laugh even more.

I look up to Jaime to find that I had a bit of an audience. I immediately stop laughing and am frozen from the intense gazes that were upon me. Feeling extremely vulnerable sitting on the ground as I was, I pull myself off the ground and brush down my now dirty dress not caring that it was new and now probably had a dirt stain o the back. I fiddle with it and I know I’m just stalling meeting their gaze but I can’t help it. I hate having all of this attention so focused on me.

I hear people get shoved out of the way and I look up just in time to be engulfed in a pair of heavily tattooed arms. To my surprise, Mike was the first to break from his surprise and now I was tightly wrapped in his arms with no sign of him ever letting me go.

“I missed you Mil.” He sounded like he was about to cry “You’re my sister! Why did you leave me?”

With tears forming in my own eyes I throw my arms around him and bury my face in his chest. “I’m so sorry Mikey. I didn’t want to leave you. I just- I didn’t know what to do” I say into his chest.

“You should have told me. I would have kept him away if you really wanted me to. I wouldn’t have even told him where you went if you didn’t want me to. But you should have told me! I didn’t want to lose you” he buried his face into my neck and he was definitely crying now.

“I’m sorry” I murmured over and over into his chest as the tears began to over flow my eyes. I hadn’t realised how badly I had hurt him. Mike and I were close from the moment we met; yea we spent ninety percent of our time trying to piss each other off but I really did think of him as my brother. Especially after all the drama just before I left. He immediately came after me after I left the house and he took me in. Then every day after that he would come home and make me dinner knowing that I wouldn’t bother making any myself, he introduced me to real Mexican food and teased me because I can’t handle spice. I missed him so much more than I expected to. I missed having someone I could annoy without worrying about them getting genuinely mad; I missed having piggy back rides all the time. I just missed him. I missed all of them. I abandoned my family but leaving them. Because I really did- I really do consider them to be my family. How the hell did I leave them?

After a while he pulled away and smiled down at me with red eyes from crying. “I love you Mil. Never leave again okay?”

I smile back at him “Okay”

I get ushered inside by everyone and forced to sit in the centre of the couch with everyone focused on me. The all looked so happy, so relieved and it made me feel so bad for leaving them without a word. I looked around at all their happy faces but my eyes met with some that still held anger. Alex. I really need to talk to him at some point but I can’t with everyone else around. Not when he is so obviously angry.

“What have you been doing for the past four years?” Tony asks eagerly. He seemed to have forgiven me immediately to my delight. I don’t know what I would do if Tony was mad at me.

“Well I’m still at the same job and I’ve been spending most of my time looking after Casey and Cale. I go back to Australia twice a year and yea...” I say.

“They are the coolest kids I’ve ever met!” mike states

“Is that so?” I ask with a small chuckle

“Yea! Cale loves turtles!” Tony exclaimed

“And Tattoos” Mike added

“Yea they’re good kids.” I smile.

We chat for a while until the guys had asked all the questions they could think of. Everyone but Alex. I really need to talk to him... I wait until the guys begin to chat amongst themselves; it takes a while but eventually they get onto a topic that I know I won’t be involved in. I stand up slowly, immediately catching the eye of Alex. Just before I can motion for him to follow me a hand wraps around my wrist. I look down to meet Jaime’s worried gaze and I smile reassuringly. Reluctantly he releases his hold and lets me walk away. As I walk I look back over to Alex and nod my head towards the door, motioning for him to follow. Without waiting to see his reaction I walk out of the room and head up the stairs. I automatically go into Jaime’s from, from habit I think, but the second I see the kids on the bed I smile and back out of the room quietly; straight into Alex’s chest. Slowly I turn around and look up to his face which was still filled with anger. Resisting the urge to flinch away from him I stand my ground.

“How could you do it Mil? How could you run off like that?!” He yelled

“I was pregnant! I thought he hated me! I couldn’t stand him forcing himself into my life just because I had his children in my stomach”

“But you didn’t have to cut me out! I’m your best friend, you could have told me” despite the anger and the fact he was yelling I couldn’t help but notice that he used the present tense.

“I was scared that you’d tell him. That you feel obliged to let him know he was a father. And don’t lie. You know you would.” He grabbed my wrists and shoved me backwards into the wall.

“I’m your best friend.” He said holding me firmly against the wall “You should have trusted me”

“I do trust you Lex; I always have. But I also know you well enough that you wouldn’t let Jaime live on without letting him know that he was a father. You’re too kind for that” I say, staring him in the eyes as I spoke; trying my hardest to calm him down. I wasn’t scared that he was going to hurt me or anything. I trusted him and knew he would never do that; no matter how angry he became.

Alex stared into my eyes for a long time and I could see them begin to soften. I could see the anger fad out of them and be filled with sadness and relief. I was so happy to see that he wasn’t pissed anymore that I wasn’t prepared for what happened next.

Before I knew it his lips where firmly on mine and his arms were wrapped tightly around my body. Even though I knew that I shouldn’t I couldn’t help but return the kiss. I wrap my arms around his neck and pull him harder against me; my lips moving against his.

Things were getting very heated very quickly. But as if we both suddenly realised what was happening we broke apart; me bracing myself against the wall with one hand covering my mouth whilst Alex had jumped back to the other side of the hallway. Both of us looking incredibly shocked at what had passed between us.

“Lex...” is the only thing I can bring myself to say.

Notes

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