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Jenny's P.O.V

Sunday

Me and Marshall have agreed that he'll come and spend some time with Tyler before I drive him to my mom, as he really wants to spend some time with Tyler before we go to New York. That's probably what I like the most about Marshall; he pays attention to my son and he's so interested in him.

Marshall has just texted me that he's on his way so I do a little touch up on my makeup and make sure that my outfit is okay. Tyler plays with his trucks in the living room so I have a little me time for a few minutes.

I walk back into the living room where Tyler sits on the floor playing.

"Marshall is on his way." I say to Tyler and he looks up to meet my eyes.

"I wanna show him my trucks." He says.

"And I'm sure that he thinks they're so cool." I smile.

"Do you think he brought some comic books?" He asks as Marshall mostly brings them. Marshall has a big interest in comic books and he's totally won Tyler over by that. Tyler thinks comic books are so cool, it's probably because super heroes were something him and Kyle had together and he by that can relate. Kyle wasn't interested in comic books like that but he liked super heroes.

"I don't know baby." I say softly.

"I hope he does." He smile. I wonder what Kyle is thinking looking down at us. I haven't spoken much to him lately, only small comments but nothing deep. It's like I'm afraid to talk to him, oh god.. I know it sounds so crazy but I feel like if I have a deeper conversation with him then I'd feel like I hurt him. I still feel that I'm cheating but I know I'm not, I know I deserve this and that I deserve happiness but I wonder what Kyle would think about me dating a type like Marshall? To be honest then Marshall isn't my type at all. He's good looking but he's way of speaking is always something that I've been against and now.. now I'm acting like a school girl whenever he talks. His Detroit accent and his many slangs in his language is so sexy. I can't explain it. I don't even get irritated when he curses a lot, just as long he doesn't do it around Tyler which I know that he'll never do.

20 minutes later it rings on the door and Tyler immediately gets up.

"May I open the door mommy?" He asks.

"Of course." I say and he runs out to the door and I follow him slowly. Tyler opens the door and Marshall looks at little surprised that it's Tyler opening the door and not me.

"Yo little man." He chuckles and lays the comic books on the sideboard before he lifts Tyler up. "How's it going?" But Tyler turns his head to look at me.

"See mommy, he brought them." Tyler says excited and Marshall looks a little confused.

"Tyler hoped you would bring the comic books." I tell him.

"Sure." Marshall says. "I thought we could look in them together." And Tyler nods excited. "But can I just say hi to your mom first?" Tyler again nods and Marshall puts him down. Marshall walks over to me and gives me a tight hug as we can't kiss in front of Tyler. It's weird not to kiss him mostly because I really want to.

"Hi." I say softly.

"Hi." He says and then he turns back to Tyler.

"Lets sit down on the couch." Marshall suggests.

"But I want you to see my trucks." Tyler says and walk over to them.

"Are those yours?" Marshall says excited and Tyler nods. "They're so cool." Marshall now sits down on the floor and looks at the trucks together with Tyler. Tyler tells Marshall about the trucks and all the cool things they can do. I just stand here looking at them, I get so many butterflies from looking at this because it appears more and more to me that I'm in love with Marshall and that I could look at this every day.

Afterwards they sit down on the couch where I join them, me and Tyler are sitting on each side of Marshall paying very much attention to what he tells us. Marshall has Tyler's fully attention as he thinks it's the most coolest thing in the world. This doesn't interest me that much but I like to listen to the sound of Marshall's voice.

"I have to pee." Tyler suddenly says and runs off to the bathroom. Marshall turns his head and look at me, his smile is just everything.

"Can I get a kiss?" He smirks and I giggle.

"A short one." I say and kiss him.

"It's sweet of you to act like you're interested in this." Marshall says smiling.

"I don't care what we do, as long as we are together." I say. "I just like the sound of your voice."

"Is that so?" He smirks flirtatious.

"Yes." I say and look down because I get so shy when he flirts with me so upfront.

"I can't believe that you still get so shy around me Jenny." He chuckles.

"Stop teasing me." I say. I don't know when this shyness is gonna stop but it's weird, because I haven't got shy around a guy since I met Kyle back then. I just thought it was a thing I did because I was so young but apparently not.

"I'm not teasing you." He chuckles. "I'm just saying that you don't need to be this shy around me man."

"I can't help it." I say and meet his eyes again. Tyler now comes running back into the living room sitting down on the couch eager to go on with the comic books. "Did you remember to wash your hands?" I ask Tyler as I think it went a little too fast. Tyler now looks at me and I know he hasn't washed his hands because I didn't hear the water.

"No." he says and get down from the couch again to run out and wash his hands.

"At least he's honest." Marshall laughs. Tyler is very honest and that's how I've raised him.

"Yes." I laugh too.

Tyler comes back and sits down next to Marshall again and he goes on. We sit there for probably two hours looking through comic books and listening to Marshall. I think I'm just as caught up in Marshall's comic books as Tyler is, just for another reason.

"Are you coming with us when I have to go home to grandma?" Tyler suddenly asks taking me by surprise but I just wait for Marshall's answer. I actually wouldn't mind if he went with us but it's totally up to him. Marshall now looks at me and I know he wants me to say something but I don't.

"If your mom thinks it's cool." Marshall takes me by surprise because I didn't thought he was ready for this. We haven't even put a title on us and when are we gonna do that? When is it the right time? When do you really know that you should put a title on it? I just don't hope he feels pressured to do this.

"If you want." I say.

"Yeah, sure." Marshall says and I'm really nervous that he thinks that he must do this for Tyler or because I want. I don't wanna rush anything and I especially don't wanna be pushy.

Hi guys! It took me a little longer to update and I'm sorry about that :) I hope you liked the chapter though. Do you think Marshall said yes because he really wants to go with them or just to please Tyler? Comment and vote please :)