My Bad boy Neighbour (Editing/reconstructing)

🔻Chapter 20 - Love?🔻

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**Jace's pov**

Today was odd, Jamie avoided me all day. Yet hung out with these two kids that I have seen around school.

Every time I approached her, she always walked away without a glance my way. Later on my way home, I saw her practically running home.

Walking into my own house, I slammed the door just as I felt a pressure hit my legs and I felt a smile come onto my face.

"Daddy! Daddy! Look what I dwew yow!" Alicia yelled, excitement clear in her voice.

Grabbing my hand, she dragged me further into the house, as I attempted to throw off my bag and kick off my shoes.

"Looky-looky!" She says, thrusting a piece of paper my way.

"Wow! Well done squirt!" I praise, bending down to her height and scruffing up her hair with my free hand. "So who are they?"

"Well that's you." She says, pointing to the man in the yellow shirt. "That's me." She then points to the little girl with pigtails and pink dress.

"And that?" I ask, pointing to the lady with brown hair.

"That-that's Myw mommy." She said looking down.

"Mummy?" I ask.

She patted me on the shoulder, as someone knocked on the door. "I'll tell yow later." With that she ran off back into the kitchen, where I suspect my mum was.

Going to the door, I saw all 4 of the boys waiting outside.

"Yo. Why you all hear?" I ask, confused.

"Well we think you've done something to Jamie as she's avoided us all day." Tommy says, as Tio glares at me.

"Woah I haven't done anything!" I defend. "She's been avoiding me too."

"Well she's only ever really had an interest in you soo... We blame you." Cameron shrugs.

"Well I haven't done anything and so you can not blame me. So how about we go down into the basement and watch some football?" I ask, changing the subject.

"Yeah go on then." They said and we all headed down.

60 minutes later, the game was just finishing when Alicia came stampeding into the room - as naked as the day she was born - with my mum chasing after her with a towel.

"Daddy! Daddy! Hewp me!" She screeched jumping on the couch and hiding behind me.

Glaring at the boys they all looked away, taking the towel from my tired mums hands, I wrapped my daughter in it.

"Go to bed mum." I say gently. "You look tired, get some sleep." She nods and retreats upstairs, after giving me Alicia's pjs.

Putting her paw patrol nightie on, I laid her head on my legs and hers on Cameron's, as I played with her hair.

Soon she was asleep just as we started watching, an avengers movie. Half way through however, someone knocked on the door.

Slowly moving Alicia fully onto Cameron's lap, I headed up stairs only to find that it was raining heavily outside.

Opening the door, I did not expect to find a soaking wet Jamie with red eyes, - like she'd been crying - stood in her pjs consisting of blue short-shorts and a black cropped top with a jacket on top.

"Jamie! Get inside it's freezing!" I exclaim, pulling her shaking figure into my warm one.

Wrapping my arms tightly around her, I shut the door with my foot. As she slowly moved her arms around me.

"I'm sorry I wasn't with you today." I hear her mumble into my chest.

"It's ok. You go sit in the main room and I'll go make you a warm cup of chocolate?" I ask, feeling her nod.

So we went into the separate rooms, me the kitchen and her the sitting room. After making the drink, I walk into the room and give her the drink pulling a blanket off the back of the couch and putting it around her shoulders.

I then turned and walked over to the fire and lighting it. Turning back to Jamie, I slowly made my way over to her and sat next to her.

"What's going on, Jamie." I say in a hushed voice.

"I-it's my mum. She's got cancer and knows what happened." Instantly I know she means her anorexia.

"Oh Jamie. Do you want to talk about it?" I ask, only for her to take a sip of her drink, whilst shaking her head softly.

"Can-can you just hold me?" She whispers.

Instead of answering, I pulled her close setting her drink down on the coffee table and held her into my side.

"You know I've know you for awhile now." She says, sleepily. "And today I realised something."

"What did you realise sugarplum?" I whisper, so I don't wake her.

"Can you call me baby sometimes, just to switch it up a tad?" I chuckled at her, smiling.

"Of course..." I pause. "Baby."

She grins tiredly, up at me. "Oh and I realised I'm going to grow up and marry you and we'll be in love with children of our own."

"You want to marry me? Have children? And we'd be in love?" I ask stunned.

"Yes. But you only need to love me back." She began drifting off. "Because I'm already in love with you..."

And then she was asleep.

"You love me?" I whisper, hoping she's still awake enough to answer me. But I only received silence.

Love?

Before I could think anymore about it anymore. I took Jamie upstairs and placed her in my bed - taking off her jacket and placing it on my desk chair - and once she looked comfy, I put on my own pjs.

On my way downstairs, I saw the boys come upstairs and met Cameron in the middle and taking Alicia from his arms. Knowing he had a spare key, I just let him lock the door when he left and took Alicia up to bed.

Just as I tucked her in, she whispered a quiet daddy.

"What angel?" I say, crouching down so I was level with her.

"You love her." She whispers.

"I love who?"

"Jamie. My mummy..."

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