When The Stars Align

Chapter 28

On Saturday it was the day when we were going to spend the day with Lars and Belle. I couldn't wait as it had been an almost a week since I last had been able to talk to Belle and I missed her. We had always been so close and shared everything that I just missed my times with her.

"Sarah...hurry up." James shouted from the door.

"She is taking long." I told him holding the door open. James stayed with us the whole week. We didn't have the need to hide anymore around her, so we acted like the couple we were.

"I'm coming." She said running down the stairs.

"Don't run, then you say you feel tired." James told her putting an arm on her neck and walking up to me. Their relationship was working out fine and they were getting closer every day. "Do you have your bathing suit on?" He asked her.

"Yes, I do." She smiled. "Will you swim with me?" She asked him.

"I am getting jealous! Now it's all about James, where do I fit now?" I teased her pulling her pony tail lightly.

"Someone's jealous!" James laughed surrounding my neck with his arm and pulling me to him, kissing my cheek.

"Let her James." She said. "Mom, I love you, don't worry." She said serious as if the subject was absolutely of great matter. We got inside James's truck and we all buckled our seatbelts, then he blasted Motorhead and Sarah gave him the horns. Since he began to hang around our house he got her into his bands. He gave her the horns too and winked at her making her giggle.

"Motorhead is really cool." She said.

"And she knows the name of the bands and everything." I commented looking at James.

"What can I say...she has good taste in music." He shrugged and grinned, I smacked his arm knowingly. They did everything together. Every time he got home after the studio he would sit with her sharing stuff. They were so much alike that I was even afraid Sarah would notice by herself how much she resembled to him. Halfway to Lars's Sarah killed our mood though.

"Mom, can I call Alex?" She asked me. I got caught a bit off guard and James gripped onto the steering wheel immediately. I couldn't tell her no.

"Sure." I said quickly and James shot me a pissed look by the corner of his eyes. We went silent after that and I could feel how tense he was while Sarah talked happily to Alex on the phone. Everything got worse when Sarah gave me her cell.

"Mom Alex wants to talk to you." She said. I took the phone unable to tell my daughter I didn't want to talk to him. The second I grabbed the cell James's eyes fulminated me one more time, this time around even worse.

"Hi." I said a bit dryly on the phone.

"How are you?" Alex asked me.

"Fine and you?" I said. I looked at James by the corner of my eye and he puffed. There was no singing and good mood anymore.

"I am doing fine. I wanted to ask you if I could see Sarah tomorrow." Alex told me.

"I am sorry Alex; James is taking her to Oakland to see a Raiders game." I said.

"Oh...maybe on Monday then. Andrea you have to let me see her. You can't just erase me from her life like that. I love her as if she was my own." Alex pleaded. I knew he had a point, but the situation was delicate. I thought for a few seconds.

"Call me on Monday then." James understood what I was talking about and the third look was nothing but close to friendly. I hung up the phone and gave it back to Sarah.