The Story Of Us

Chapter 3

She just nods her head and continues driving towards the local Primary school. She parks the car outside the from of the primary school. I watch as a young boy with light blond hair comes running toward the car, his black shoes have freshly made marks on them, probably from running and playing. He holds onto his bag straps as he runs toward the car.

He grins as he sees Ms Carrie, he slows down and walks to Ms Carrie's window. I watch as he wraps his arm around Ms Carrie.

"Hi mum, how was work?" He asks as he gets into the back.

He looks to Tyler, surprised to see another child in the car. He sits down anyway and buckles in while waiting for his mother to answer his question.

"Work was good, how was school Justin?" I watch Ms Carrie as she starts the car up again and listens to her son talk about the events of his day, not that I was paging a lot of attention to the conversation.

"So, who are these?" Justin asks curiously, gesturing to me and Tyler.

"These are friends. This is Laura and Tyler." Ms Carrie introduces us. I turn and give him a small smile. He smiles back.

Soon enough we get to my home. On the drive home, Justin and Tyler had started talking to each other and seemed rather disappointed that we were home.

"Would you like to come in for a little bit?" I ask Ms Carrie.

She looks back at her son, contemplating whether or not to stay or not. Looking back at me, she sighs and nods her head, unbuckling her seatbelt.

"Sure, but not for long Justin okay?" She warns as she turns to Justin.

Justin grins and nods her head. I smile and get out of the car, walking to the back to help Tyler out. I hold him to me and open up the front door to be greeted by aria and James.

James grins and runs to his brother. I let Tyler down on his own two feet, who is then attacked with a hug by James. I smile at the two of them, tears of joy starting to well up in my eyes.

I watch as Aria does the same. She picks up Tyler and hugs him to her. He whines a little from all the attention but hugs her back. Soon enough Aria glances to Arizona.

"Oh hi ms Carrie." Arizona blushes.

"Call me Arizona." Aria nods her head and let's Tyler go before walking back into the kitchen, bringing out some sandwiches for the boys.

The three of us walk into the kitchen, each of us with a coffee as the boys play in the lounge room. Small talk filled my ears as Arizona and Aria spoke to each other whilst I watched my sons play. That is, until I hear a gasp, looking over at my sister and Arizona I see that Arizona had spilt her coffee on her dress.

"Come, you can wear some of my clothes." I say, standing and offering my hand out to help her up off her seat.

She blushes and takes it. The small contact warming up my body, but it's quickly gone, as soon as she finds her feet. I lead her to my room, getting out a grey t shirt and a pair of denim shorts. I turn to see her looking at the photo of me and Ellis, my wife.

"So you got married to Ellis?" She asks with a small smirk. I chuckle.

Ellis was a girl who was in a couple years below me. We had always had feelings for each other but I never acted on them until she was eighteen, and by that time I was twenty-one.

I walk to her, grabbing hold of the photo. I sigh and trace over her face, the pain coming back. I run my hand through my hair and look back up at her.

"It was so hard losing her." I managed to choke out, a limp forming in my throat.

Arizona caresses my cheek softly. Her eyes looking at me with remorse. I smile and place my hand above hers.

"You loved her a lot didn't you?" She asked knowingly. I nod my head and sigh, trying to calm the flood of emotions. I move away from her touch and give a weak smile before walking out of the room, letting her change. It's not long until she walks back out. My breath escapes my lungs as I look at her, she's biting her lip and tugging at the bottom of her top slightly, feeling foreign in someone else's clothes.

"Thank you for the clothes." She says as she walks to me.

"You look better in them then I do anyway." I mentally curse at myself for blurting that out. I blush and let out a sigh of relief when she just smiles and blushes. It could have been a worse outcome.

We walk together back out to see James and Justin falling asleep on the lounge as Tyler plays with his toys quietly. I smile and pick up Tyler, walking with him in my arms toward the kitchen. As I do, Aria covers the other two boys in blankets.

I sit next to Arizona with Tyler on my lap. I hug him to me, swaying my legs, rocking him to sleep as I stroke his head. I can feel Arizona watching me as I help him fall asleep.

"Your boys are so beautiful." She says softly as Tyler falls completely asleep. I smile.

"They are my life." I say in all honesty.

"I know what it's like. Justin is all I have." She says as she looks toward her son.

"What happened to his father?" I ask. She looks down at her lap.

"He doesn't have one. Not that he knows of." She says in a mumble.

"Did he not stick around?" I ask, feeling sorry for her.

"Something like that." She mumbles. I let the subject drop, she obviously not comfortable talking about it.

"If you want, he can stay here tonight, I can drop him off at school tomorrow." I say as I look at the boys who are now eating dinner. She bites her lip, worry in her eyes as she thinks about it.

"I'm not sure." I smile with q little chuckle escaping my lips.

"I'm a police officer Arizona, he will be completely safe." I assure her. She blushes and nods her head.

"Okay, well I guess I'll see you tomorrow." She says with a smile on her lips.

I stand up and walk her toward the lounge room where she lets her son know he can stay the night, before walking with her toward the door.

"I'll see you tomorrow." I said with a smile as she stands beside her car. She smiles and wraps her arms around me, hugging me. I smile and can't help myself, pressing my lips against cheek as we pull away. I watch as her face reddens considerably.

"I'll bring your clothes back tomorrow." She says with a slightly flustered look on her face.

I nod my head and watch her get into her car and reverse out of the driveway. Sighing, I walk back into the front door, greeted by the sounds of giggling coming from the lounge room, I just can't help but smile.

Soon enough Aria says her goodbye. I carry my two boys into their bedroom with Justin following behind me giggling as the boys squirm in my arms. I set them down on their beds and take out the spare mattress, setting it up on the floor of the boys room.

After telling them all a bedtime story, I walk into my room and sat down, only now realising I still have my uniform on. I let my hair down and run my hands through it before undoing my uniform and changing into a singlet and shorts. I climb into bed, looking over at Ellis' side of the bed, taking hold of her pillow and hugging it like I do every night.