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I woke up in the middle of the night as a thought crossed my mind. If Tony can come back, could Jack come for me?

"Mhm... wh... what?" Aaron replied sleepily. I guess I'd voiced my thought out loud.

"Well I was just thinking," I said quietly. "If Tony came back to hurt me, do you think jack might come too?"

"He better not, cuz I'll kick his ass," Aaron said laughing. "You're my girl, and I won't let anyone hurt you ever again, I promise."

I went back to sleep. The next morning I woke up and reached over to give Aaron a kiss, but he wasn't there. I yawned and stretched, I thought about changing before I went downstairs, but decided against it.

When I got to the bottom of the stairs I was greeted by the smell of... strawberry soap?! I walked to the kitchen and saw the floor overflowing with soap suds! Kanden sat in a high chair, giggling as the bubbles tickled his feet.

"What the hell happened?" I asked.

"This genius over here put hand soap in the dishwasher!!" Angel screamed, pointing to Aaron.

"What!? We were out of dishwasher soap!" he said defensively. I just started laughing.

"Well it seems like Kamden is enjoying it..." I said.
Kamden looked up at Aaron and smiled.

"See? Someone's benefitting from it." Aaron stated. Angel rolled her eyes. I got a mop from the kitchen closet and helped clean up.

Once all the suds were cleaned up, I went and sat outside by their pool, dipping my feet in. I had this nagging feeling about Jack, not that he was coming, but like I was gonna hear from him...

I didn't notice Nick come out and sat down beside me, looking out over the pool. "What's up?" he asked, noticing the somewhat troubled expression on my face.

"Oh, I don't know," I said looking down at my feet in the water.

"Somethings wrong, now you tell ol' Nicky what's wrong," he said pinching my cheeks like an old aunt would.

The gesture made me smile, but it didn't lift my mood. "I just have a bad feeling that Jack is going to make a 'surprise appearance' in my life, and I don't want that to happen."

"Hey, you know we got your back, so don't sweat it," he said giving me a pat on the back.

"I know, but you guys aren't going to be with me 24/7. And Jack's no idiot, he'll wait until I'm alone to talk to me." I sighed and ran my fingers through my hair, "I'm probably just overreacting, but I can't help but have a bad feeling."

"Sometimes bad feeling are just our mind's way of dealing with everything happening around us."

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

"By the way, did you lock my house last night after you left?" I asked him.

I began to panic as the smile was wiped from Nick's face, until he burst out laughing.

"Of course I did! I'm not a moron like my brother!" Nick said.

"You're a jerk." I said jokingly, giving him a shove. I guess I don't know my own strength, because Nick fell into the pool. Laughing hysterically, I screamed as he tried to knock me into the pool with him. "Cut it out, Nick!"

"Should I be worried?" Aaron asked after Nick managed to pull me into the pool.

"No, he tried to scare me-" I began.

"-And she called me a jerk and shoved me-" Nick interrupted.

"-After you called him a moron!" I exclaimed.

"Okay, okay," Aaron said, "Theres only one way to settle this."

As Nick and I exchanged looks, Aaron jumped into the pool, causing a big splash.

"Well have fun you two, I'm gonna go and check my mail." I said. I couldn't help laughing at the sight of Aaron and Nick, still fully clothed and now soaking wet, in the pool.

I went across the street and to the mailbox. Nothing but junk mail.

I put the mail back into the mailbox and went inside to get some dry clothes. Because of everything that happen the night before, I forgot to get a change of clothes.

I went up to my room and changed, I was drying my hair with a towel when the phone rang.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Amy?" said a male voice.

"Yes, who is this?"

"Amy, you can't recognize my voice, did you seriously forget about me that quickly?"

I froze and my heart beat sped up...I knew exactly who it was...Jack.... "Oh hey, sorry. I-it's j-just I haven't t-talked to you in a long t-time," I said in what sounded like an amazingly bad Porky Pig impression.

"Look, I just called to apologize for what happened the day you told me you were leave. I was totally hungover, and I wasn't thinking," he said.

"Okay, well, if that's all you called to say than goodbye," I went to hung up the phone but I heard him call, "Wait!"

"What?" I said tiredly into the reciever.

"You know what?...Never mind, I don't have to tell you right now."

"Tell me what?" I asked a little quicker than was neccissary. "What don't you need to tell me Jack!?"

"Oh nothing, I'm just sending you a little gift, it should be there in a day or two."

I let out a breath of relief, his idea of a gift was a pair of his old socks. So there shouldn't be anything to worry about.

"Oh okay, well you wouldn't want to ruin the surprise now would you?"

"No," he gave a little laugh. "No I wouldn't."

The next few days went by great. Aaron was away for a while doing some recording and stuff in Miami, Kanden had gone home with Bob and Ginger, and Angel went to Vegas with her friends for the week. The only bad thing was, I almost never saw my dad because he was always either with my mother or at work, but I did whatever I could for him, like doing house work, cutting the lawn, keeping our pool and jacuzzi clean... Stuff like that.

School was pretty uneventful, Homecoming was coming up and Julie got asked to go by this guy Steve who I guess is supposedly "Extremely Dreamy" or so says Julie. And Gina was going with her friend Dan.

I on the other hand decided not to go. I didn't like school dances, they were always filled with drunk kids, your feet always killed by the end of the night, you stand in line forever to take pictures that you just end up hating anyway, and to top it all off the food totally sucks.

I was home watching TV when the doorbell rang. I looked at the clock, 7:30. "Hmm...wonder who that could be."