I Do / S.M/ ( sequel to Strings) *On Hold*

Chapter 10 accident

"Zoë I'm fine." He says smiling a little. I turn the key in the ignition and shake out my hair my cheeks hot from us kissing. "Okay." 

I pull up to the school and glance over at Shawn. "You want to walk up with me?" 

"I can wait here." He says. I get my purse from the back and shut the door. "I'm leaving the keys in so you have some heat." 

"Thanks for that." Shawn says smiling. "I'll be right back babe," I say the word felt weird on my lips since I haven't said it in a while. I shake off the throught and walking ito the school   I  sign in at the front office that has that familiar sent of floor polish. 

"Zoë, how are you?" The secretary Jackie bubbles. "I'm good how was your day?" 

"Good." I  scribble down the date. 

"See you tomorrow. " I say and wave. 

"Bye." I walk down the hall reading the room numbers and the teachers names and fondly remember my elementary years.  

"Look what I made in art today!" Skye says and proudly shoves a drawing in my hands and beams up at me. "This is pretty, who are the people you drew?" I ask looking at the stick figures. "You, daddy and me, and I added a  puppy because I want one for my birthday." She says matter of factly.  "I like it, you got all your stuff?" I ask glancing down the hall. I always feel paranoid when I pick her up from school and I wish I could shake it but since that photo of Shawn outside surfaced on the internet I always make sure I'm in the building for the shortest amount of time possible.  "Yep!" She says and bounces down the front steps and to the car.  I  smile at her excitment as I unlock the door. "Daddy! What are you doing home?" Skye says excitedly as I buckle her in her car seat. "I had some free time." He says and turning to face her. Her eyes widened in concern. "What happened to your face?!" Skye asks shocked. "I erm fell over." Shawn lies I give him a look. 

"Oh... look at this drawing I did!" She says thrusting the paper forward. I get in the car and watch his confused face trying to decipher what it is. "It's you, me and Skye along with a puppy," I explain. "Ahh, I knew that I just wanted to see if you knew." He says and smiles. 

"Skye what do you want for dinner?" I ask looking through the rearview at her. "Um.... I don't know," she says. "How about pizza, we haven't had that in a while," Shawn suggests. "Yes!" Skye cheers. "Ok, we can go home and order some, how about that?"  She nods eagerly making me giggle.  "Is the pizza here?" Skye asks looking up from the table. "A few more minutes,  did you finish your homework yet?" I ask. "Almost... daddy can you help me? This math problem is hard." She says. "On it." I smile watching Shawn go into the dining room. 

Today was the most time Shawn and I have gotten along in a while and it feels foreign to me. I glance down at my hand that looks naked without the engagement ring on it, but do I even want to take that step again? We are both so busy right now, how would we even find time to get married in the first place? "What are you thinking about beautiful?" Shawn asks sliding into bed next to me. "Us," I say softly as I stuck my hand under the covers. "Everything is going to work out for us, don't you worry." He says placing a kiss on my temple. "I also wanted to thank you for coming to the ER you didn't have to-

"Of course I do, you're my.." I pause cause were not boyfriend and girlfriend yet I'm not his fiancee anymore. "You're my significant other," I  say, he frowns a little. "You're still my girlfriend Zoë." He says softly. "Were in that weird in-between phase and I just didn't know what to call it." I slide down in the bed a little. "I get it." I hear little feet running down the hall and count down the minutes till our door is shoved open."Daddy! Theirs's a ghost in my room I saw something move!" Skye says frantically running into our room and launches her self on to our bed crawling over me to get to Shawn. I hold back my laughter knowing it must have been a shirt falling off a hanger or something, but she's been reading scary stories recently so her fear makes sense.