Unfaithfully

Thnks Fr Th Mmrs

I'm gonna make you bend and break...

In the months following Christmas, Lacie and Patrick had taken their relationship slow. Well as slow as former lovers can really. He never pressured her. She never put demands on him. The rest of the guys had been really understanding when Patrick finally got Lacie to tell them about her past. They had decided that if Billie and Billie's mother were the only family Lacie had, then it stood to reason that they make her part of their little family. Not that she and the kids weren't already though.
It was April now. April 26th to be exact. Lacie wanted to do something special for Patrick's 35th birthday the next day, but she had no clue what she could do. Her phone started ringing.
"Hello?"
"Hey Lace. How's my favorite girl today?"
"Better now that you called me Trick. How are you doing?"
"Great now that I got to hear your voice."
Lacie giggled, "I swear Trick, you're smooth as silk when you want to be."
"Not trying to be smooth, just telling you the truth beautiful. Besides the actual point of my call is to see if you might want to take the kids to the park today."
"That sounds great! They need to burn off some of this energy they have today."
"Great! Well Declan and I will be there in about an hour."
"See you then." Lacie hung up her phone and sighed contentedly.
"What's with the sighing Lace?" Andy had come into the living room.
"Just sighing. Nothing special about it."
"Bull, I heard the love in that bitch." Andy joked.
"Ok fine, you got me. I think I may be ready to finally be in a relationship with Patrick."
"That's great! Why don't you talk to him about it? It'd be a great birthday present for him." Andy winked.
"You don't think he'd be a little upset that he didn't get to ask me himself?"
"You're a modern woman for fuck's sake! Ask him. Besides some of us guys really like it when a woman takes charge."
"Oh dear God I do not need to hear about your and Billie's sex life." Lacie laughed
Andy stuck his tongue out at Lacie and chuckled as he walked into the kitchen.
"Momma momma!" Prue ran in the living room yelling at Lacie.
"What baby girl?"
"Me and Max are bored."
"Well you won't be bored for too long. Patrick and Declan are coming over and we're all going to the park."
"YAAAAAAAAY! I'm gonna go tell Max!" Prue sprinted back into the bedroom her and her brother shared.

***45 Minutes Later***

The doorbell rang as Lacie was pulling on her shoes.
"I'll get it!" She yelled as she headed to the door. "Hey Patrick!"
Lacie looked down to Declan, "And how are you doing today lil D?"
Declan smiled, "I'm good. Let's go to the park!"
Lacie and Patrick smiled at the little boys enthusiasm. "Let me go get Prue and Max."
"I'll do it!" Declan exclaimed and ran into their bedroom.
Lacie looked at Patrick, "Hey, what do you have planned for your birthday tomorrow Stump?"
"Literally nothing. Planned on sitting at home eating cereal." He laughed.
"Well how about you and I have a quiet dinner alone at your place instead? I'll cook!"
Patrick smiled, "That sounds great. I'll call Elisa and see if she minds taking Declan for a bit."
"Or he could just stay here with Andy, the kids and I." Billie said as she walked into the living room.
"You sure you don't mind?" Patrick asked.
"Hell no. The kids love spending time together. It'll be fun."
"Thanks hag." Lacie smirked.
"Welcome bitch." Billie retorted.
Just then the kids all came running into the living room yelling.
"Looks like that's our cue to get these kids to the park." Patrick said.

***10 Minutes Later***

The kids were running around in the playground area of the park while Patrick and Lacie sat on a bench talking. She was telling him the story of her first ever try at baking brownies.
"So I didn't have any eggs, but I had always heard that you could substitute some extra oil in their place. Well I didn't know how much, so I took a chance and added an extra tablespoon per egg."
"Oh God. Let me guess they were terrible."
"They were quite honestly the worst brownies in existence," Lacie laughed, "it was like they were burnt and under-cooked all at once! And God were they oily!"
They laughed for a few minutes, and slowly fell into a comfortable silence.
"So Lacie, I've been wanting to ask you something for a little while now."
"What do you want to know Trick?"
"You said Caleb had denied the paternity of the twins right?"
"He did. Told me that there was no way they were his since I was a whore."
Patrick flinched at the word whore, "Well why didn't you make him take a paternity test? Hell why didn't you turn him in for statutory rape for that matter?"
Lacie sighed, "I decided that if he wanted nothing to do with them, then I would do everything I could to make sure he didn't; and as for the turning him in thing, I was still in love with him. I hoped for a long time that he would come to his senses, but of course he never did."
"That makes sense. I guess it was for the best since you've done a fantastic job so far."
"Thanks. They're great kids, so it hasn't been too hard. Billie has been an invaluable help to me since the beginning."
Patrick was about to say something when he saw Lacie's body language shift and her face drain of all color.
"What's wrong Lace?" Patrick asked concerned.
"It-it's Caleb." She pointed to a tall blonde man standing next to a shorter pregnant woman that Patrick could only assume was his girlfriend or wife.
"Do we need to get the kids and leave?"
Lacie straightened her back, "No. I'm going to go do something that I should have done long ago." She stood up and marched over to the much taller man. Patrick jogged behind her.
"Caleb! How have you been?" Lacie asked politely.
He turned around and started scowling the second he recognized her, "I thought I told you to never contact me again you crazy bitch!"
"Hey! You don't use language like that around ladies and children!" Patrick warned him.
Caleb smirked, "Lookie here, little loser Lacie has herself a tiny loser boyfriend. What are you gonna do about my language midget?"
Lacie seethed, "First off, you don't talk to Patrick like that. Secondly, I came over here to see if you had ever changed your mind and decided to actually acknowledge your children."
"What in the hell are you talking about you psycho? You know damn good and well that your little brats aren't mine."
"And you know damn good and well that you knocked me up when I was FIFTEEN and you were TWENTY-THREE! I've never asked anything of you. I've always hoped that you would make the right decision and take responsibility for your children; but I guess being an adult is still something you have yet to fully embrace. I should've pushed a paternity test on you years ago, but now I fully realize that I'd rather you not have anything to do with them!" Lacie looked at the young woman next to Caleb and pointed at her very pregnant form, "I sure hope for your sake that he will actually acknowledge yours."
The woman paled. She grabbed Caleb's arm and pulled him away from Lacie and out of the park. Patrick gently touched Lacie's shoulder which made her jump slightly.
"Are you ok Lace?"
She pulled him into a hug, "I'm fine. How are you? Caleb had no right to insult you like he did."
Patrick chuckled, "I've been called worse things than midget, loser and tiny."
"It's still not right."
Before he could say anything more, all three kids ran up to them. Declan spoke up first, "Daddy! Can I spend the night with Prue and Max?"
"Don't you think you should be asking Lacie instead of me?"
Declan, Prue and Max all looked at Lacie expectantly, "Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease?" All three of them chorused.
Lacie couldn't help but smile, "Sure." She looked at Patrick, "Why don't you stay too? We could stay up all night and watch movies."
He smiled, "I like that idea."