Second Chance Ch. 4 part A

[cinlaw]

Both Jared and Olivia jumped at the horn.  Olivia turned to try and compose herself while Jared turned to see Jerry, his brother and Ty waving at him.  He showed them that they were number 1 in his book. 

He turned around saying to Olivia, "Go get back in the truck I will be right back."  Then he walked back toward the second SUV.  When he got close, the window rolled down and Jason sat there with a grin that looked like he was proven right.  Damn, Jared thought to himself, I kiss her to shut her up and I get caught by the one person I'd rather not found out about the kiss! 

"You know if we didn't come along I'd swear that you would've preformed a XXX movie for the toddler in the truck." Jason observed.

"She's asleep."  Said Jared.

"Not anymore." Jason said pointing to the truck in front of them. 

Jared turned to see Chloe's arms waving at Olivia or maybe anything she thought might be waving back at her. 

"Are you seeing us to the lake?" Jared asked him, trying to change the subject from the kiss.

"Yeah we wanted to make sure that you don't get... sidetracked.  We were almost too late." Jason said.

"Looked like you had your hands full a few minutes ago" Jerry threw in.

Jared began to feel a foreign feeling, when Jerry said that then kept looking at Olivia he wanted to rip him apart.  "Stay away from her Jerry she don't need your shit." Jared growled at him.

"You know for someone who doesn't care about her your sure protective of her.  I think that you may be getting to close to the job since you just want to insure her and the kid's safety.  Maybe I should send them some place away from you.  " Jason said.  He could tell that they were getting under Jared's skin but it was kind of nice to see his brother reacting for the first time on a deeper level then sex with a woman. 

"Fuck you!"  He told Jason as he turned and walked back to his truck.

"We could take the kid so you can continue with what you were doing!" Jason yelled after him. 

Jared ignored him and continued on to his truck.

 

When he climbed in Olivia was quiet and wouldn't look at him.  "Olivia?"

"I'm sorry, I, uh, I shouldn't have done that.  I don't know why I kissed you."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"You said a bad word Jared One!"

"Chloe honey, please not right now, Jared's just upset and please stop calling him Jared One.  His name is just Jared." Olivia told her.

"But mommy, there is two of him and you said there's never a good reason to say bad words."

"He's not two people Chloe he has a twin whose a separate person named Jason.  As far as the cussing, your right honey, but he's a grown up so I can't tell him what to do."

"Chloe your right.  I'm sorry that I used a bad word.  It wasn't nice.  I'm not upset Olivia.  I'm frustrated and really wishing that we didn't have to drive right now or have my brother right behind us." Jared said letting his irritation with the whole thing show. 

"Olivia, you have a horrible memory because I kissed you.  You just responded to me."

"Jared, listen to me, I'm not a tease and I feel like every since I've met you I've teased you.  I'm not even sure how we went from me pulling you into my car, unconscious, to us driving up to your family's lake house.  You make me think of things that are possible and yet offer a lot less and tell me that when it's done that you will give me the money to leave.  In the next breathe you tell me that you want me in your bed but that you aren't sure how much farther then that you can go."

"I told you my life is complicated." He reminded her.

"What happens if I'd end up pregnant?" she asked.

He looked at her then turned back to the road, "I'd wear protection."

"Yeah I'm sure that Jason said exactly the same thing." She said as she turned to look back out her window again.

"That was different.  Jason had to marry Laysea because she was a virgin.  Since he was the first one with her, if he didn't marry her then he'd have been killed for it.  Besides, if you ever get to meet her then you'd see how perfect they're for each other.  Hell everyone sees it, always has."  Jared concluded.

The rest of the ride was very quiet.  Chloe fell back to sleep very quickly.  Olivia began to doze in the passenger seat while Jared drove in silence. 

When the truck came to a stop she woke up looking around.  "Is this like a resort or something?" she asked while looking at the huge house sitting in front of her. 

"No, this is our summer lake house."  Jared said as he climbed out of the truck.

The house looked like a large single floor log cabin.  She thought that it looked very picturesque, with the cabin in front of a lake backdrop.  It reminded her of a summer camp picture she once saw that had really nice bunk houses.  She had begged her mom to let her go to it but she just told Olivia to get away from her.

Olivia got out of the truck and stretched after the long ride.  Then she opened the back door to get Chloe out.  Like any child at her age, Chloe was a little slow to wake up but when she got a look around she was filled with energy.   She hit the ground and ran on high speed in every direction possible.  Olivia was actually surprised that she did not climb the cabin.  She followed behind Chloe trying to insure that her daughter would not get harmed by nature or curiosity or vice versa.  They ended up going down to the lake and looking at the water when a fish jumped out of the water.  That's when Chloe decided that she'd get into the water and catch the fish.  Olivia barely caught her before Chloe jumped straight in.  It was that point that Olivia suggested that they go see about getting a snack. 

"Can I have chocolate cake?" Chloe asked in an excited child voice.

"Let's see what Jared's friend has put in the kitchen okay?  If there is chocolate cake then you can have some as long as you promise to eat all of your supper."  Olivia told her.

"Okay I promise!  Pinky swear!"  She said while hold out her little pinky.

Olivia wrapped her pinky with Chloe's little one.  She knew that it would be hard to get her to eat her dinner - even if she did pinky promise.  But when she used those big baby eyes to look at her while promising to do what she was told, it was very hard to tell her "no".

As they made their way back to the house Olivia saw that everyone was still there.  Jason, Jerry, Jerad, and two other guys that she didn't know.  They were talking in a hush tone when she and Chloe walked up.  That's when they stopped talking looking at her as if she needed to explain her sudden appearance to them.

"Chloe's decided that she'd like a snack so we're going to see what's in the kitchen."

"I'm going to have chocolate cake Jared!" she yelled excited.

"Will you save me some?" he asked her.

"Yes, but you better hurry, my belly might rumble again."

"Okay, I'll see what I can do." He told her.

After Olivia and Chloe went into the house, Trenton commented, "Cute kid, you gonna be daddy?"

Jared gave him a dirty look.

"Careful he threaten to kick my ass for saying something about the mom." Jerry warned him.

Jared rolled his eyes at them both, "Just go do your jobs.  Don't worry about what is happening between Olivia and me."

"Yes, want to share with us what is going on between Olivia and you?"  Jason asked in a softer tone.

"Nothing, she stuck her neck out for me so I just want to make sure she doesn't end up one of Tom's new toys for it."

"Alright well we'll get going, but first, I think that I'll go have a word with Olivia."  Jason announced.

"What do you have to talk to her about?" asked Jared.

"None of your business actually.  Ty, I don't want interrupted."

"Jas, leave her alone.  I don't want her drug into this anymore then she already is.  And she certainly doesn't need any shit, from us, that could put more pressure on her."  Jared pleaded.

Jason walked over to stand toe to toe with his brother, "What?  Do you think I want to fuck her?  Are you fuckin' crazy?  Laysea would kill me for doing it and all of you for not stopping it.  Relax this has nothing to do with whatever is going through your imagination."  With that Jason turned and walked into the cabin.