Two + One = Family

Chapter One

I was just laying in my bed thinking about my late husband Nate. It's hard to believe that he really is gone sometimes, but I need to get back to the real world. Be there for my son who doesn't really know what happened to his father. I was interrupted by a knock on my door. I looked up and saw my best friend Clair.

"Get up, get dressed! We are going clubbing. You have been cooped up in this room for almost two full months! You need to move on and get back into the real world! Starting tomorrow you will get Jake and bring him back home and be the best mom I know you can be!" Clair pretty much screamed at me.

"Okay." I said getting up off the bed and heading to get a shower.

"Really, that's all it took to get you out of bed? " She said with disbelief.

"Yeah, I was thinking that I need to get a life. "

An hour later I was wearing dark blue skinny jeans, hot pink tank top and pink converse. My light brown hair was down and wavy. Clair was wearing a tight short black dress with black heels. Her blonde hair styled perfect for her short length. She tried to get me into a dress like hers but I'm a mom, I can't be wearing stuff like that!

We walked into the club heading straight to the bar, I got a coke and Clair got some kind of drink. We were listening to the music and I was swaying my hips to the beat when some guy came up to Clair. I tuned out their conversation and looked around the club there was people drunk and acting crazy and people dancing. I saw couples having fun. I miss that so much someone holding me keeping my company and just being with someone that you love.

"Hey Alex are you okay?" Clair asked

"Yeah but it's harder than I thought it would be. " I said being honest with her.

"It will get better I promise and there is a total hottie checking you out." Clair whispered to me.

" Did you really say total hottie? " I said laughing at her attempt to make me laugh.

"Out of everything I just said that's the only thing you get? Did you not hear the part about a hot guy checking you out? " Clair whispered yelled!

"Why would he be checking me out when I look like this and your standing there looking like that?" I said pointing out how hot she is and how not hot I'm not.

"What are you talking about? You look hot and his friend is looking at me so I think we should go talk to them. " Clair said pulling my arm.

"This is not a good idea Clair. I don't think I'm ready to replace Nate. "

"Your not replacing him and sooner or later you need to realize that you need to be happy too. Jake is going to need a male role model to look up to and you never know if the right guy is in front of you or not if you don't get to know people. " I looked at her with a smile.

"I guess your right. Let's go." I said walking with Clair. The guy looking at her has brown hair with blonde in it, the other guy was tall with short brown hair.

"Hey guys!" Clair said being her cool self as usual.

"Hi how are you beautiful girls doing tonight? " The one with brown hair asked and his British accent standing out the most to me.

"We are good just enjoying sometime out of the house. "Clair said looking at me.

"I'm Nathan and this is my friend Luke. " The blonde one said and I'm taking a shot in the dark that he is Irish.

"I'm Clair and this is my best friend Alex."

"Hi."I said looking down.

"Clair would you like to dance with me? "Nathan said taking her hand.

"Sure." They took off leaving me with Luke. He is really cute and I hate to say this but I'm going to try and give him a chance.

"Do you want to take a seat?" Luke asked I sat down and looked at my hands feeling my shyness take over.

"How long have you and Clair been friends? "

"For almost eight years now. How long have you and Nathan been friends? "

"For three years. We have three other friends we met at the same time."

"How old are you? " I asked

"I'm twenty, how old are you? "

"I'm twenty two. Where are you from? Cause I know you're not from here."

"I live in the UK. Have you always lived here? "

"I'm from Kansas but I moved here a few years back. "

"What brought you to Arizona? "

"Well my husband's family lives here and we wanted to be closer to them. I don't even know why I'm still here to tell you the truth. " I said tearing up.

"What do you mean? "

"My husband passed away almost three months ago and this is the first time I have really been out of the house. "

"I'm sorry to hear that. " Luke says placing his hand on top of mine.

"It's life everything happens for a reason. Do you want to get something to eat, so we can hear each other better? " I asked looking into his eyes.

"Yeah let's go tell Nathan and Clair that I will take you home. " Luke said standing up. We walked over to the two.

"I'm going to take Alex home after we get a bite to eat. I'll see you back at the hotel?"

"Okay, just make sure she's home in the morning cause we have to pick someone up." Clair said looking at me smiling.

"Bye, you two have fun. "I said following Liam to the door.

We sat at a small diner in the back talking about almost everything that we have been through.

"Tell me something I don't know about you yet?"Luke said smiling.

"Well I have a son his name is Jake and he will be three in November. " I said looking down hoping this won't change anything between us.

"Really I can't wait to meet him."

"Well you can meet him anytime. "I said smiling. "Now tell me something I don't know about you."

"Do you know who I am?"

"Your Luke am I suppose to know who you are? " I asked trying to figure out where he was going with this.

"Have you ever heard of Falling Stars? "

"It sounds familiar."

"It's a band that me and Nathan are in with our other three friends. "

"Oh, I have only heard one song and I can't even tell you the name of it. I never really have time to do anything cause I was working or taking care of Jake. "

"It's fine. It's actually nice to meet someone who doesn't know me. Where do you work? "

"it's use to work at the hospital but since Nate died I kind of lost my job cause I wouldn't leave my room." I said looking down.

We talked for another hour or so.

"What are you doing tomorrow? " Luke asked.

"I'm going to pick up my son. Would you like to go with me? "

"How about I come over after you pick him up and we can go have lunch. "Luke said placing his hand on top of mine.

Luke dropped me off around ten and I got ready for bed. It's time I make up the three months I missed with my son.

Luke is going to meet him tomorrow and I'm actually glad that I went with Clair. Maybe Luke can be the one that helps me and be there for Jake and me.