Cold Water

Chapter 3

May 11th 2016:

We arrived home and it was lunch time. I walked into the house with the girls. Justin was with Pattie probably pleading for her to change her mind. I had the girls get ready for lunch as I prepared there meals. The girls washed there hands and got into there booster chairs. I served them there sandwiches and carrot sticks and they began to eat. I heard a knock at the door and I assumed that it was Justin and he had failed to change his mother's mind. I opened the door and let him in. I held the door for him and the girls ran up to show me that they had finished so I took them to there room for nap time. I walked down to see Justin sitting on the couch on the phone. He turned around and looked at me. I couldn't help but chuckle at his hair. It was all messy and sticking up. He looked like a pissed off peacock. "Where do I sleep?" He asked standing up. "You can take my room I'll sleep on the couch." I said pointing upstairs to the room. "Do you need any help?" I asked trying to be nice. "Yes please." He said running up the stairs leaving me with his huge suit case. I rolled my eyes and tried to tug it I got half way up and lost my grip and it tumbled down the stairs. In my defence I swear it weighs like three tons. As i finally got it up stairs I opened the door to see Justin looking at the picture of me in the hospital after I had the twins. "What are you doing?" I asked. He looked up at me. "Why didn't you tell me?" He said and I swallowed hard. "You said I was a mistake. I just didn't want them to hate themselves as much as I hate myself. They were never a mistake to me." I said pulling out the note he left me that night. He read over it and sighed. "I was really young and dumb. I didn't mean that. I was so scared to lose you as a friend but I lost you anyways." He said stractching the back of his neck. "I couldn't give out my number but I wrote to you constantly but you never wrote back." He said walking closer to me. "My parents kicked me out when they found out I was pregnant I never got any of the letters." I said sitting on the bed. He sat next to me looking at me. "I was in love with you." I said chuckling wiping the tears off my face. "Really?" He asked his voice cracking. "Yeah. Since like 6th grade." I said laughing to myself. "But it's good that we both moved on! Your mom said you and Selena are getting married. I'm so happy for you." I said patting his knee. "Yeah.. So you've moved on? You're seeing someone?" He asked sniffing. "I'm dating yeah but not serious dating." I said standing up and walking to the bathroom and I put my pajamas on. "Its only 12:45. Why pajamas?" He asked. "I've always put pajamas on if I'm just at home. I'm not going out." I said throwing my clothes in the basket in the bathroom. He chuckled and stood in the door frame "You and your pajamas." He said walking behind me as I walked down stairs. "I love you." He said behind me and I spinned around in shock.