Chapter 23

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"How was doing your project with Riley yesterday?" I ask Lucas as we are walking up to my apartment.

"It wasn't bad. How was your writing session with Farkle?" He asks.

"Mine wasn't bad either" I say and open the door.

Avery comes running up to the door "Mommy! Daddy!" She says. She loves when we come home together.

"Hi Avery" I say and pick her up. I give her and hug then hand her to Lucas.

"Hi Emily" I say.

"Hi" She says back.

"I'll see you tomorrow" I say.

"See you tomorrow" She says and grabs her purse from the coat rack. "No making baby number two while your home alone" She says. That has been her joke since she started babysitting Avery. She knows we aren't having another baby anytime soon. We aren't even dating.

She leaves and me and Lucas sit on the couch. Avery sits and plays on the floor.

"Can we talk about us?" He asks. "You have been avoiding this conversation for a month now" He says.

"I know I have and it's because I wanted to be a hundred percent sure of everything" I say.

"Of what?" He asks.

"Just listen" I say. "Lucas, no matter what our label was at the time we have been boyfriend and girlfriend since the day Avery was conceived. Whether we were actually boyfriend and girlfriend or friends with a baby, friends with benefits or just friends we have always been together. Now I am ready. I am so ready to be your girlfriend and later on your wife that I can't even put it into words" I say.

"I'm ready too but we said we would never talk about that friends with benefits phase" He says.

"Just shut up and kiss me" I say and pull him by the collar of the shirt and crash our lips together. We kiss for a couple seconds.

"Ew" Avery says. I smile and pull away.

"I love you Lucas" I say.

"I love you too" He says.

It was quiet for a couple minutes. The only sounds were coming from ones of Avery's toys.

"What do you want to do in the future?" I ask

"What do you mean?" He asks.

"Like after high school. What do you want to do?" I ask.

"I kinda want to go to college" he says. "What do you want to do?" He asks.

"I really want to go buy a house upstate like near where Shawn lives and just be there and raise a family" I say.

"Tell me what your imagining" He says.

"I imagine this. I imagine a decent sized house with a big piece of property and we can have a play set for Avery and I really want to hang a swing from a tree and I'm just kinda done with the city life. I'm ready to settle down" I say.

"I think we can definitely make that happen." He says. "I will talk to my parents and you can talk to your mom and we can start figuring this out" He says.

"Ok" I say.

"You know Riley isn't going to like this right?" He asks

"I know" I say

"Is that why your doing this?" He asks

"No. I'm doing it for us" I say. "Also I want another baby" I say.

"We aren't having another baby until after marriage" He says.

"No baby" Avery says. Me and Lucas laugh.

"I'm gonna talk to my mom later and see what she thinks" I say.

"I'll do the same thing" He says. "I'm gonna get going. I'll see you tomorrow" He says.

He gives me a kiss on the lips and then goes and hugs Avery and gives her a kiss on the cheek.

"Bye" I say.

"Bye daddy" Avery says.

"Bye" He says and leaves.

Avery comes and sits next to me. "I hungry" She says.

"Let's go get you a snack then." I say.

I stand up and pick her up. I put her in her high chair and get her something to eat and then sit across from her.

"What do you want for your birthday?" I ask her.

"A doggy" She says.

"Give me something realistic" I say.

"A doggy picture" She says.

"How about a easel? Where you can draw and color" I say.

"Yeah" She says.

She finishes her snack and I clean her up then she goes and plays for a little bit. About a hour later my mom comes home.

"Hi mom" I say.

"Hi grandma" Avery says.

"Hi girls" My mom says. She comes and sits next to me on the couch. "How was your day?" She asks.

"It was good. Me and Lucas started dating" I say.

"I thought you and him have been dating for like three years now" She says.

"No we haven't" I say.

"Well I am very happy for you" She says.

"Thank you" I say.

"How would you feel if me and Lucas moved?" I ask.

"Well I expected you to move out eventually" She says. "Why? Where do you want to move to?" She asks

"I want to move upstate like near Shawn" I say.

"Well I was kinda planning on moving in with Shawn when you graduated and giving you the apartment." She says.

I thought for a moment. "No. I would rather have all off us go up there " I say.

"Ok. You know you are going to have to tell Riley though right?"

Why does everyone keep getting her involved in this. This doesn't concern her. "Yeah. I know. She is going to be the last to find out" I say

"So we're moving" She says.

"Yep we are moving" I say

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