Chapter 36

"Yo!!" Johnny and Chris walked in, Johnny with one of his Ipod headphones in.

"Chris." I got up and gave him a big hug "How's the baby?"

"Good, Angela is here with him now she is in the waiting room, for a 3 month old baby that thing can shit."

"Aw, I want to see him." I smiled.

"Well you are his Godmother you can hold him you know." He grabbed my head and gave me a noogie.

"One thing I don't miss about home." I pulled out of his grip. "Getting picked on like there's no tomorrow." Chris laughed and sat in my chair and Johnny leaned on the wall.

"So boys." Riley started "Guess what Kate told me."

"Riley!" I shot him a look.

"What, cats out of the bag now." He rolled his eyes. "Allie came to visit Kate, and she got knocked up."

"No fucking way!" Johnny blurted out, pulling his ear phones out. "Is it yours?"

"Nope, you know I haven't seen her in forever."

"I'm betting it's Justin." I sat on the bed.

"Yeah okay Kate, He is a douche and she lives no where near him." Johnny popped one of his headphones back in.

"I'm just saying, it's possible!" I shook my head. "Where is Brandon? if he was here we have the whole crew." I smiled.

"He took the girls to the park." Chis said in a blank tone, knowing it would upset me.

"They are here?" I hung my head.

"Yeah, they look good, they have your eyes you know."

"Chris don't." Riley sat up. "Lets talk about something else."

"Yeah I second that." Johnny raised his finger while flipping through his songs.

"Well I'm going to go see Angela, I want to see the baby, see ya buds." I got up to give them hugs. "Riley, call me when you get discharged I want to take you out for food."

"Yum, I want like 4 burritos." I smiled.

"Okay we can go to Chipotle or something."

"I wanna go!!" Johnny said in a whinny tone.

"We can all go, that way I can bring Nick and you can all really meet him." I headed out to the door.

"Yeah, sounds like your feeding him to the wolves." Chris pushed his chair around.

"Not really if you guys are nice to him!" I pointed my finger at all of them with a stern look.

"Hey." Riley put his hands up. "He is cool in my book, you should be giving Johnny hell!"

"Yeah Johnny!" I turned my head to look at him.

"Give me a break, I'm not that bad!"

"Just watch your mouth." I shoved his arm.

"Okay, Okay, I will be good.."

"Good, later guys." I waved goodbye and headed to the waiting room to see Angela feeding Christopher.

"Hey hunny!" She leaned up and gave me a kiss on the cheek.

"Oh my god, he is gorgeous."

"Oh that's right, you haven't seen him yet. Want to feed him?" I shook my head.

"Absolutely." I sat next to her as she handed him to me.

"So, how do you like it out here?" She rubbed my shoulder. "Heard you met a boy."

"Yeah it's nice, but I miss home a lot, mostly because of this, missing being at the hospital, seeing your nephew born. It really sucks."

"Kate it's okay, I barely even remember giving birth, 11 pounds of baby coming out a very small hole. I couldn't tell you who was in the delivery room or who the doctor was." I laughed.

"Yeah true, I know how you feel. Looks like he is falling asleep here." I handed him back to her. "So do you call him Chris, or Christopher?"

"No we call him James, since it's his middle name and it would get confusing when he is older, so you heading out of here?"

"Yeah." I leaned in to hug her. "I got to pick my guy up from practice."

"Okay Hun, you are coming home for the Baptism right?"

"Yup, I have my plane ticket already, Me and Josh are coming."

"Alright well I'm leaving tonight so I will see you then." She gave me another kiss on the cheek.

"Okay, bye." I walked out of the hospital to the car. I was a little more successful driving Nicks car, I didn't stall once. I got to the rink but they were still practicing so I decided to try and call Allie again. I got her voicemail and left a message.

"Allie, I'm sorry for what I did, it wasn't right but I'm worried about you and want to make sure you are okay. I'm not going to ask you why you lied, and I'm not going to judge you. I have been in a situation like yours. Please just call me back." I put my phone in my pocket and waited for Nick to finish up. I walked outside and leaned on Nicks car. Nylander walked up and gave me a hug.

"Where have you been stranger, you don't come out to lunch with us anymore."

"Yeah just dealing with some family stuff, how are the kids?"

"Good, good, you should come out to lunch with us today." I smiled as I saw Nick walk out of the doors.

"Yeah I should, I don't have to work today, I miss the guys."

"Okay it's a deal, we will see you there?"

"Yup, see ya." I popped the trunk for Nick and got into the passenger seat, he got into the driver seat and leaned over and kissed me. "Good practice?"

"Yup, good hospital visit?"

"Yup." I smiled. "I saw my Nephew for the first time."

"Oh really."

"Hold on." I cut Nick off and picked up my phone. "Allie! I'm sorry."

"It's okay.... I kind of understand where you are coming from."

"Allie I think I know why you don't want to tell me who the dad is, I know who it is and I understand."

"Really, you know who it is?"

"Yeah, I can tell."

"The thing is I didn't want to tell anyone because of what my family would say and what your family would say. This could tear everything apart."

"His name starts with a J doesn't it." I knew it was Justin but I didn't want to say it in front of Nick. Justin liked Allie just as much as me and she had told me he had been bothering her a couple months ago, I felt her pain.

"Yeah." She started to cry. "It's just hard."

"Allie don't cry, we are coming to get you I understand everything your going though."

"Okay, I'm just going to shower really quick."

"That's fine, we will be there in about 20 minutes." I hung up the phone and looked at Nick.

"Do you mind if she comes to lunch?"

"No not at all, is she okay?"

"Yeah, she just needs to get out." I opened Nicks glove box to put a paper from the Hospital in there.

"Don't open that!" Nick shouted and scared me so much I slammed it shut, but I did see a glimpse of a black ring box.

"Okay wow sorry." I looked at him.

"Did you see anything?" He sighed.

"No, I shut it too quick you scared me, what is in there?" I asked just to see if he would tell me.

"Nothing." He linked his fingers in mine and turned up the radio.