Stubborn Love

chapter: 3

   I woke up the next morning and went downstairs with James. As usual Chloe was still in bed. I put a bottle making for James and started grabbing things for breakfast. I decided that I was going to make scrambled eggs with bacon and toast. When the bottle was done I fed James before putting him in his play pen to play with his bears and toys. Then I began to cook breakfast. After I finished cooking I was walking towards the stairs to yell for Chloe but I saw her walking down the stairs.

   "Morning," we said to each other at the same time. We sat and ate without talking much. When we were done eating we cleaned up. As we were cleaning up the kitchen Chloe told me, "Go get ready to pick up mom and dad from the airport. I'll dress James today." I told her ok before going upstairs to change. I did my eye make-up a light brown with cat eye liner, and nude lipstick. I waterfall braided my hair. I put on purple and white galaxy skinny jeans with a light blue button down top that was long sleeves. I paired that with purple combat boots, a cross necklace, a ring that says 'Not All Who Wander Are Lost' and a blue purse. I looked in the mirror and I thought I looked good so I went downstairs where Chloe was waiting with a dressed James.

   James was wearing a grey t-shirt with white overalls on top with grey baby runners. He looked very cute, Chloe did a good job dressing him. Twenty minutes later Chloe came downstairs dressed in pink skinny jeans with a white lace long sleeve shirt, a pink purse, pink rose earrings, and white lace toms.  Her make-up was done naturally and she had pink lipstick on. She looked very pretty.

   When we were ready, we went to the car and I buckled James in before getting in the passenger seat. We drove to the airport just listening to music. When we got there James was asleep so I carried him instead of putting him in his buggy. We went to the place we were supposed to meet them and found a seat in the chairs that is there. Their plane doesn't land till 12:00 and it's only 11:25 now so we have a while to wait. To keep busy I put my headphones in to listen to music while I held James. Chloe was doing something on her phone, she wasn't bothering me so I don't really care what she was doing.

    At 12:30 or so I saw my parents walking towards us so I turned my music off and put my phone in my bag. I got up slowly making sure to not wake up James and walked towards them. "Hello how have my babies been?" my mom asked referring to me, James, and Chloe. "We are good," Chloe said. I nodded my head in agreement. My parents gave all three of us a hug well excluding James they just kissed his forehead, then we went to the car. I had to sit in the back with Chloe and James. Since his car seat is on one of the side seats I got stuck sitting in the middle. Which sucks balls if you ask me.

   At home Chloe helped my parents bring their bags inside. They were spending the day unpacking and settling in so it was going to be very boring. Later in the night my parents wanted to bring us out for dinner so all we had to do was sit around and wait. My parents came downstairs ready so they offered to watch James while Chloe and I got ready. My mom was going to dress James for me in the outfit I left out for him which is black and white stripped shirt with black jeans and black shoes.

   Chloe showed me her outfit before she let me get ready. She was wearing a pink floral dress with red flats, silver jewelry, and a silver purse. She put her hair in a high sock bun and left her make-up the same only changing her lip colour to red.

   I was wearing a dark blue button up jean shirt tucked into a cream coloured ruffled short skirt with a thick brown belt around my waist and brown heeled ankle boots. I left my hair and make-up the same except with pink lipstick. I used the same blue purse as earlier. Before I left upstairs I grabbed a brown leather jacket for me then went into James' room. In there I grabbed some diapers, a bottle and formula and a black jacket for him, and put that in my purse. I then went downstairs where we all went out to the car and left to The Boathouse for dinner.

   My parents made reservations so we were immediately seated. I sat on one side of the booth with James and Chloe and my parents sat on the other. Minutes after we were seated James started crying because he was hungry. I quickly made him his bottle and took him out of his car seat before feeding him. I was looking down at James so I didn't notice anyone walk up to our table until I heard, "Hello welcome to The Boathouse. Can I get you guys anything?" As soon as I heard that voice I recognized it. It sounded the same except it was deeper and manlier.

   I looked up and saw Josh standing there as our waiter. The moment we made eye contact his body noticeably tensed and he inhaled a sharp breathe. The smile he had on his face dropped for a second before he replaced it with a fake smile again. "So how about we start with drinks?" he said. I guess my parents and Chloe didn't recognize him because they didn't say anything and they ordered normally. I didn't say anything and I didn't hear that everyone had order. "What can I get you Grace?" Josh asked me. This time it was me that inhaled a sharp breathe. "I'll have a water please," I barely managed to get out. After I said that he nodded his head and walked away.

    "Do you know that boy?" my dad asked me. "That is Josh," I whispered out with tears in my eyes. "Ok," he said back to me. My mom was about to say something but Josh was back with our drinks. He gave them to us before asking what we wanted to eat. We all ordered and he walked away to put the order into the chef. The moment he walked away I excused myself to the bathroom to change James. After I changed him I washed my hands than stood in front of the mirror for a minute. While I was changing James a tear or two leaked from my eye so I had to make sure my make-up wasn't ruined.

   On my way back to the table I wasn't watching where I was going so I bumped into someone. I almost dropped James but the person I bumped into steadied me. "I'm so sorry," I said before looking up. When I looked up I saw it was Josh I had bumped into. "You really should watch where you are going Grace," he said to me in an icy tone. I honestly never thought he would talk to me like that. "I said I was sorry," I replied holding James to my chest tighter. He was about to say something rude I'm guessing but he stopped when James started talking in his baby talk.

   Josh's eyes immediately snapped to James. He stared at his then at me for a few second before he walked away. I stood in that spot for a few seconds before going back to the table. My parents and Chloe were asking me what was wrong but I just said nothing. When Josh brought us our food he ignored me and James. I wonder if he figured out James was his because I sure hope he didn't.

    After an agonizing slow dinner we finally made it home. I didn't want to stay downstairs because Chloe would try to talk to me about Josh so I went to bed. I brought James with me and got him ready for bed. He fell asleep quickly which is a good thing because I am in no mood to deal with a tired cranky baby. After I put him in bed I went to take a shower. After I was done I brushed my teeth and put my pajamas on. I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.

   I welcomed sleep because it meant I could forget everything for a while. Although I had a restless sleep because James was up every hour crying. Eventually I gave up with going to his room and I let him sleep in my bed. It didn't help much though. I had a really bad sleep on top of a terrible night.