Brooke/Lucas * Eskimo Kisses

Chapter Twenty-One

*Julian*

"He called again," Kerri tells me the second I walk by her desk, she gets up and follows me, a folder in her hand. I keep my back to her and my guard up, the tightening in my jaw is the only outer sign how much her words affect me, instead I strut into my office and over to my chair, "keep telling him I'm busy"

With my back still to her I can feel her eyes staring at me, she sighs loudly, yes that is disapproval I hear. Pretending to be searching for a book on the shelf behind my desk I don't turn around, neither do I hear Kerri leaving my office.

"Problem?" I ask slightly...

Chapter Seventeen

*Sam*

This morning just doesn’t sit right with me, from the moment I woke up I was in a grump, and not the I haven’t had my coffee yet type but the I just made a fool of myself last night slash have to face people I don’t want to face slash where the hell are my favourite jeans grump.

Elena watches me slump around the room and I try to act more… chipper, I don’t know, more like me. Not this woman, this grown woman, who can barely put one foot in front of the other, who’s brain is racing so fast I can barely speak without stumbling over the words.

I groan in frustration....

*Brooke*

When Abby was a baby she cried all the time, I spent nights pacing up and down trying to figure out what was wrong with her. By that point in my life worry had become like a second nature to me and yet I still wasn’t use to it. Sawyer had been such a loud and happy baby, she only ever cried when something was wrong, and Keith had been such an easy baby, I barely remember him crying, and when he was a newborn I use to constantly check to see he was still breathing because he’d be so silent. Abby was a learning curve, I tried everything and nothing seemed to work. After five very...