Honey

Tables are for glasses not arses.

It's been a week since our encounter with Hunter, none of us have spoken about it, John's probably still trying to calm down and I'm yet to speak to mum and dad in regards to what Lex told me. I've filed a restraining order against him, I've filed for full custody with the help of John and Nick's lawyers.

The lawyer informed me that this process could take sometime, but I've done the right thing with the restraining orders so hopefully, no more of this showing up unannounced business. 

Lex has been at preschool for a week now and it's safe to say she is loving it. She's up before me and itching to  get out the door each morning. Her and Archie have become little best friends to which I'm glad, but Ben has just been at me about organising a play date outside of preschool. 

We obviously didn't make the playdate with Ben the first time, he seemed understanding but was refusing to leave it alone. 

"Are you sure your okay? I don't mean to pry but I'm happy to help  out with Lex if you need me to." He said as he took at seat at my desk. 

I mentally take a deep breath and calm myself before responding, "Ben, I'm fine and thank you but I've got everything under control." I smile and busy myself with work so maybe he'll get the hint to leave me alone. 

He huffs and stands ups, "Well if you're sure... I'll let you get back to work then." He trails off fiddling with stuff on my desk. 

I look up to him and smile, "That'd be great, talk soon okay?"

He just nods and walks off, does he ever work? seems to be he spends most of his working day in the office bugging me.  

I shouldn't be rude, he's helped me out a lot with the whole preschool thing but it's just getting a little annoying now. He's older than me yet acting like a boy in high school trying get the girl he likes to date him after she said no about 500 times. Persistent.

I head over to the break room to grab myself a coffee and cake when I've walked in on Nick and Claire in a heated discussion. 

"Oh sorry... I can come back?"  I say, feeling the tension radiating off the two of them. 

Claire smiles and shakes her head, "No, no sweetheart, we had just finished, hadn't we Nick?" she glares at him patting his cheek as he turns to me and nods sending me a half-assed smile.

As Claire brushes past me she gently pats me on the shoulder and sends me an apologetic smile, not saying a word, just walking out. 

I head over to the fridge to take out the milk and a slice of cake before the door was rudely shut on me. 

"Car, can I talk to you?" Nick asks, he looks a little apprehensive but I dismiss it and gesture him to the table. 

"What's up?" I say biting into my slice of cake. 

Nick's quiet for a moment, before he blurts out, "Do you prefer John over me?"

What?! I'm shocked, I almost choke on the cake currently half chewed in my mouth. I gather myself, chew and swallow the cake before answering. 

"No? Why would you even ask that?" I'm a little dumbfounded if I'm being honest. I thought I'd made it clear that I was equally invested in the both of them..

"Well it just seems like he's your go to guy... I just wanted to know whether I'm more a second thought you know? I'm not jealous as such but maybe just a little hurt? I know you had the connection with John first and all that but..." He trailed off, shaking his head and going to stand up. 

Is that how I've made him feel? Oh god. I quickly snap out of my thoughts and grab his hand and pull him back to his seat.

"Nick I'm so sorry, I  never meant to make you feel like that. I'll work on it, I'm so sorry..." I say hanging my head in shame, Nick is such an emotional person, I should've realised...

He smiles and shakes his head, "Car it's okay, You're not just dealing with us I know you've got a lot of stuff going on." He takes my hand in his before continuing "I think, obviously... I'm falling for you and I just don't want it to be one-sided  you know?" He says, twiddling with my fingers. 

Hot damn. How could he ever think he would be a second thought? I've got to make it up to him. 

I smile at him "Nick it's definitely NOT one-sided." I chuckle a little, I've been a little apprehensive in telling the two of them that I'm falling for them just in case they're not recipricating but now I know at least one feels the same. 

My stomach starts to flutter at the admission by the both of us. Now I feel like I've left John out of this but I think maybe we can do this individually? Normally in the books they all admit they're in love all at the same time and their first time is together but, this is real life, our story wont be like everyone else's.

"Nick, Can I take you out to dinner?" I smile, hopeful. 

His head pops up and his boyish grin takes a hold of his features. He stands up and pulls me up with him, his arms attach  around my waist and our eyes burn into each others. 

"Are you asking me out on a date Ms. Sinclair?" He smirks.

I smirk back and lean in closer "Are you accepting?" I whisper against his lips. 

He doesn't even answer, his lips crash to mine with such force I may have lost a couple of teeth. He immediately deepens the kiss, not caring that we're at work or in a public break room. 

I invite him to explore my mouth, he groans and our tongues dance together. His hands clasp around my thighs and sits me up on the table. 

Screw the whole 'tables are for glasses not arses.'

My hands travel up his chest and wind around his neck, pulling the ends of his hair in an attempt to pull him closer. His groans fuel me even more, I move my lips to start the assault on his neck. 

The clearing of a throat brought us both back to earth.

Whoops.