Simply Sinful-Josette ✔

C H A P T E R ▪ 24

Morning came too quickly again and I didn't get a wink of sleep. Joey was sleeping in my bed and the only thing that I could do for the whole night, was keep him by my side and watch him sleep. As creepy as that sounded, I just felt like someone was going to come and take him away from me. It wasn't the nightmares that were keeping me awake, it was the thoughts that spiraled in my mind. They wouldn't stop and it was making me go crazy because it was something I did regret this morning after waking up.

Of course, Drew didn't forget about the conversation that we were supposed to have. He was almost waiting for me to tell him everything at the dinner table, but his dad shouted that he had to go to work and he didn't even meet me or anything, but that did grab Drew's attention and the twins too, while I was helping Joey brush his teeth. I knew it wasn't going to avoidable completely, but I was going to have to try somehow. It was going to have to suck explaining to him why my mother was in jail, but I was going to give it a shot.

However, I smirked to myself when I remembered that there was school, but then my smirk dropped when I realized that the twins go to the same school as Joey and we will be walking together to drop them to school. Well, that's what you called a plan that's going to fail and now, I had no more ideas. I was just going to have to either come up with a lie, or I was going to have to tell him the truth, which was going to lead into more questionable questions.

'You ready?' I jumped when I heard Drew's voice coming from the doorway of the guest bedroom. Turning to him from my position, where I was making sure that I was zipping up Joey's coat because it looked cold outside. Instantly, Drew's eyes dropped to my chest where he saw the dip in my shirt and no, I didn't do this purposefully, I just didn't have any clothes where I could conceal my lady parts because I was low on spending money. 'I'm going to come down in a minute.' I told him, but he knew that it was an excuse.

'Listen...' He began, but then he didn't finish his sentence and he ended up shaking his head and walking out of the room, as you can imagine, my smirk returned and I continued to make sure that Joey was okay for the day, when I caught him giving me an odd look. 'You're trying to avoid him. Is it because you love him?' I chocked on my saliva when he said that and I also almost fell backwards when he said that. 'Where the hell did you hear that, child? And no, I do not love him.' Nope. No!

Luckily, Joey didn't get to to say anything else because I glared at him and he smirked to himself and he didn't open his mouth to speak. Now, it was time to go downstairs and face the fears that seemed to love to take over my life and I was going to have to speak to Drew, even though I didn't want to. One thing that I didn't know, is if he really was pissed off at the fact that Nathan and I might have had sex, but it's Drew and he had no reason to be jealous, does he?

No words were exchanged between Drew and I, but the same couldn't be said to the children as they waled tot he car and started to talk about random things such as ... well, I wasn't exactly paying attention to their conversation because I was currently biting my lips and wondering how Drew was so close to me and why I was so responsive. Responsive being that I was kind of going a little red, something that I didn't usually do as most of you know. This was Drew though, I shared a kiss with him a couple nights ago and he...

We got into the car and my words just disappeared and I found myself to just be looking out of the window, at the mirror just to make sure that Joey's seat belt was on. No, I didn't have to go there and do it for him because he knew how to do it himself because I did have to teach him and when he did get the hang of it...I think he liked putting his seat belt on more than the ride itself. However, I was surprised that Drew didn't check the twins. But there was no point because they did it themselves too.

The whole ride to the elementary school was awkward between Drew and I and it was almost like a knife couldn't cut through the tension in the air. He didn't have to even say anything, it was just that weird between us that no words had to be exchanged between us. I knew that was going to change the second that the kids were going to be dropped off and I was not looking forward to that conversation considering that, well, I knew that there was going to be a hell of a lot of shouting.