Chapter Eight

“The funeral starts in 5 hours.” Jamie said as she walked into the living room at Nick’s house to see him sitting there on the floor, playing with Dylan the next morning, “Nick?”

“Huh? What?” Nick asked, looking up at her, “I don’t think he likes me.”

“He doesn’t know you that’s all.” Jamie said smiling, “Um the funeral is in 5 hours. What time were your parents coming?”

“They should be here anytime.” Nick said as he stood up off the floor and Dylan stood up, running over to Jamie.

“Okay well I’ll go get him dressed and stuff. But I need to go over to my parents in a little while too.”

“Yeah and I’ll deal with the aftermath here, then meet up with you before the funeral.”

“Okay.” Jamie said as she smiled and walked out of the living room, holding Dylan. Nick stood there smiling as he looked around and heard someone knock on the door. He looked around; knowing that it couldn’t be his parents this soon. He shook his head and walked up to the door, looking out of the peephole to see Mike standing there.

“Sup daddy?” Mike asked as Nick opened the door and he walked in, “You didn’t call me last night to tell me how it went.”

“Well.” Nick said as he rubbed the back of his neck, “We’re back together and I asked her to marry me.”

“No shit, are you for real?”

“For real.”

“Well congrats buddy.” Mike said as they hugged, “Now you’ve just gotta tell your parents.”

“They’re gonna flip out. Oh man and Kevin.” Nick said as he looked down shaking his head.

“So you’re really together now?”

“Yep, her and Dylan stayed over last night. It was like weird man.” Nick said as he walked back into his living room and Mike followed him, “Like seeing him, knowing that he’s yours. That’s the weirdest damn thing.”

“So what’s it like with him?” Mike asked as he sat down and looked at Nick who stood in front of the fireplace.

“It’s just weird. I look at him and he looks like me and he looks like her, and he doesn’t know me that well yet. Jamie said he doesn’t take to strangers very easily at first but he was playing with me with some toys so I guess that’s a good sign.” Nick said, “I’m so glad she didn’t get a abortion.”

“Yeah I bet.” Mike said when there was another knock on the door, “Oh hell, expecting company?”

“My family.” Nick said as he put his hands on top of his head and looked around before walking up to the door and opening it up to see Jane, Bob, Aaron, and Angel standing at the door, “Hello family.”

“Is that anyway to greet your mother?” Jane asked as she hugged him. Nick hugged his father and sister and tried to hug Aaron, but Aaron punched him in the stomach.

“Little freak.” Nick muttered as they walked into the living room, telling Mike hello. Nick shut the door and followed them in, telling them all to have a seat.

“Well why don’t you sit down Nick?” Bob asked as Nick stood there, putting his hands in his pockets and looked over at Mike who wanted to laugh, “What’s so funny?”

“Where’s Leslie?” Nick asked, looking at his mother.

“She didn’t feel like coming up for the day.” Jane said, “So what did you want to see us about?”

“Where’s B.J.?”

“Oh just get to the point.” Angel said as she crossed her arms and sat back on the sofa.

“Well.” Nick said as he took his hands out of his pockets and put them on top of his head, “Like see there’s some things I never told you guys.”

“He’s gay.” Aaron said as Bob hit him in the arm, “Damn dad.” And Bob hit him again, “Okay okay.”

“I’m not gay.” Nick said as Mike cracked up laughing while Jane looked at him.

“Trust me, this is good.” Mike said, as he looked down, trying not to laugh.

“You remember Jamie right?” Nick asked as his family looked at him.

“Duh.” Aaron said, “We remember her, I know she was here yesterday -”

“She was here?” Jane asked, interrupting Aaron, “You’re seeing her again?”

“Well um, let me tell you something first.” Nick said as Bob interrupted him.

“I never understood why you two broke up.” Bob said as Mike continued to shake his head, looking up at Nick.

“Well I’m getting to that.” Nick said as he cleared his throat, about to say something when Jamie walked into the room holding Dylan. He looked over at her, followed by Mike, and then Jane, Bob, Aaron, and Angel.

“Jamie.” Jane said as she looked at Dylan, “You’re babysitting?”

“Well I’m getting to that.” Nick said as Jamie walked over, sitting down beside Mike who looked at Dylan.

“Damn he can’t deny the boy.” Mike whispered as Bob looked at Mike, “Sorry.”

“God.” Nick said, throwing his hands in the air.

“Nick, just say it.” Angel said as Nick looked over at Jamie who shrugged her shoulders.

“Fine, okay the reason we broke up is because Jamie got pregnant. I tried to make her have an abortion and she said she did, but she didn’t really have one and gave the baby up to her sister to raise with her husband and her sister and brother in law got killed in a wreck two days ago and now Jamie has Dylan again, and we almost got back together a month ago when I found out about Dylan but we didn’t and now we are again and we’re getting married.” Nick said all in one breath, “There.”

“Yo, you got a kid?” Aaron asked, looking over at Dylan, “Holy shit.”, he said as he jumped, realizing his father didn’t hear him.

“Well?” Nick asked, looking at his family who were in shock.

“I’m speechless.” Jane said, looking over at Dylan, “Can I see him?”

“Sure.” Jamie said as she stood up, holding Dylan and taking him over to Jane as she sat him down in her lap.

“So yeah, we’re getting married now.” Nick said, “Aren’t you going to yell at us about how irresponsible we are and all of that stuff?”

“Damn boy is asking for it.” Mike said as Aaron started to laugh.

“Well?” Nick asked as he looked at them.

“I’m not yelling at you.” Bob said, “I think you’re doing the right thing.”

“You know we always liked Jamie.” Jane said as Mike and Jamie looked at each other and then back at Nick, “And he’s so cute.”

“Yeah he is.” Angel said, “Doesn’t take after his father.”

“Holy shit that is scary.” Aaron said as Bob hit him, “Damn you heard me this time,” as Bob slapped his arm again, “Ouch okay okay.”

“He looks just like you when you were a baby.” Bob said, looking at Dylan, “Damn I have a grandson.”

“Oh god I’m a grandmother.” Jane said as Angel, Aaron, and Mike started laughing at her, “Oh goodness.”

“Well.” Nick said as he walked over, sitting down next to Jamie, “I guess this went well.”

“Well you two can get married and have as many of these as you want. You do a good job at it.” Jane said as Aaron looked over at her in shock.

“You’re actually giving him permission to have sex?” Aaron asked as Jane looked at him.

“He’s 22, not 14.” Jane said as Mike cracked up laughing.

“I can see Aaron hasn’t changed.” Jamie said as Nick laughed at him.

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“So,” Jane said a little bit later, before Jamie left to go to her parents to get ready for the funeral, “When are you two getting married?”

“December 2, 2003.” Jamie said, “Our anniversary, and next year. We’re not gonna rush it.”

“Well it’s good to have you back again.” Jane said as her and Jamie hugged. Nick looked over, giving her a weird look, and she returned it to him.

“It’s good to be back.” Jamie said as she smiled, “But I’ve got to get to my parents now and get ready for the funeral.”

“Oh yeah.” Nick said as he walked over, to where they were standing, “I’ll get ready and come over before you guys leave okay?”

“Okay.” Jamie whispered, giving him a little kiss on the lips, going over to tell everybody goodbye and to try to steal Dylan away from Bob.

“Well she’s just as nice as always.” Jane said as Nick looked over at Jamie telling everybody else goodbye, “I’m glad you two are back together.”

“Yeah me too.” Nick said smiling, “I was afraid she wouldn’t take me back.”

“And now you’re a father.”

“Damn don’t remind me. That’s still scary.”

“Well you better not get scared and leave her with that baby.” Jane said as Nick looked over at her, “And don’t say anything. I know you and that’s why you wanted her to have an abortion.”

“Yeah, but I’m not like that anymore.” Nick said as he looked back over at Jamie.

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Nick’s family left his house when Nick and Mike left to go to Jamie’s parents for the funeral. They all went to the funeral together, and Jamie kept quiet throughout the whole funeral, never crying or showing any kind of emotion. Nick kept looking over at her as Dylan sat in her lap, knowing that she was wanting to cry but she was holding it all back.

After the funeral and going to the cemetery to see the caskets being buried under in the ground, everybody went back to Jamie’s parents. She stood around, seeing everybody wanting to see Dylan, but she couldn’t stand it. They were starting to get on her nerves and finally she told her mother to watch Dylan and she went upstairs to her bedroom, shutting the door behind her and sat down on the floor in the corner.

Nick was standing downstairs talking to one of Jamie’s cousin’s that he hadn’t seen in a while when he noticed that she wasn’t around. He looked over seeing Mrs. Marshall holding Dylan and walked over to ask her where Jamie went. She told him and he ran upstairs, and went to her bedroom, opening up the door to see her sitting over in the corner crying.

“Oh damn.”

“Yeah, it hit me.” Jamie said as she put her hands over her face, “I couldn’t hold it in anymore.”

“I knew it.” Nick said as he walked over, sitting down beside her and wrapped his arm around her, “I looked at you all during the funeral and knew you were about to lose it.”

“I couldn’t hold it in anymore. I just couldn’t. I have the past few days and us getting back together has distracted me but I just couldn’t ignore it anymore.” Jamie said crying as Nick pulled her close. She moved up in his lap, straddling him and facing him. She wrapped her arms around his neck, hugging him and he wrapped his around her waist, and rubbing her back, “I miss her.”

“Yeah I know you do. Could you imagine what she would be saying with me here now?”

“Probably something along the lines ‘Are you out of your mind Jamie?’”

“I told you she never liked me.” Nick said as he started to laugh.

“Yes she did, she just liked to pick on you.” Jamie said, “I just don’t know what I’m going to tell Dylan when he gets older.”

“Yeah that’s gonna be weird telling you. He’ll know who they were though.”

“Yeah.”

“I feel like I’m gonna be sick.” Jamie said as she layed her head on his shoulder.

“Shh, just calm down.” Nick said as Jamie lifted her head up and looked at him, “I know all of these people are getting on your nerves.”

“Yeah.”

“You wanna just go back to my place and then come back later and get Dylan?” Nick asked as Jamie nodded her head yes, “We can call the guys and tell him.”

“Oh joy. Kevin will slaughter us.”

“You can say that again.” Nick said as Jamie leaned over to kiss him. They stood up, holding each other’s hand as they walked out of her room, leaving.