Trying to Score
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“Did you know that we are 75 feet in the air?” Aiden asked. Lucas smiled down at Aiden.
“I didn’t,” he answered.
Aiden pointed to the sign right in front of them. “You should read the signs. They tell you everything!”
A lump formed in Lucas’ throat as he slowly nodded. Lucas didn’t know how to tell Aiden that he couldn’t read well, but he needed to. His son had every right to know everything about him, and Lucas not being able to read was something that his son should know. Lucas smiled down at Aiden before saying, “Will do.”
“Cool. Come on, let’s go to the Dino part. It’s my favorite.”
“Lead the way,” Lucas said. Aiden smiled fully up at Lucas and then took off past Fallon. Fallon glanced over at Lucas and their eyes met for only half a second before she was running off after Aiden. Lucas rolled his eyes and followed behind the both of them through the Science Center, only stopping when something would amaze Aiden. Which was basically everything.
An hour or so later, Lucas pulled out his phone since it was ringing.
“Hello?” he asked, since he had forgotten to look at the picture on the display.
“Hey, when you coming home? We got to be at the airport in an hour and a half,” Levi said.
“I’m not. Meet me at Fallon’s, we’ll leave from there.”
Levi paused before saying, “Okay, whatever.”
The line went dead and Lucas rolled his eyes.
“Levi?”
Lucas looked over to see Fallon looking at him, her cheeks a little red. Man, he loved her face. “Yeah, we need to go in a few. I’m leaving in an hour for the airport.”
“Oh, okay.” She looked sad as she called for Aiden. Aiden looked over at them, and his grin fell when Fallon said they had to go. Aiden sulked over to her and leaned against her as he looked up at Lucas.
“Do you really gotta go?” he asked with his little lips puckered out.
“Yup, but I’ll be back in no time and then we get to party cause its someone’s birthday from what I was told,” Lucas said with a grin. He held out his hand and Aiden took it eagerly.
“Yup! Mine!”
As Aiden talked about his awesome Ben Ten party, Fallon followed behind them towards the car. After Lucas got Aiden buckled in, he jumped in and started the truck. The car ride to Fallon’s house was quiet and Lucas hated quiet. One of his favorite things about Aiden was that he talked all the time, but Aiden didn’t say a word as they rode home. It was kind of freaking Lucas out. When they arrived to Fallon’s house, he parked and they got out. While Lucas helped Aiden out, he watched as Fallon walked towards the mailbox. Lucas couldn’t get over how much he loved her ass. He loved the way it moved from side to side, the way it filled her jeans to perfection, everything.
Aiden ran ahead of him into the house, leaving Lucas to wait for Fallon. She looked up at him right before she reached him with a letter in her hands. Her eyes looked worried as he held her gaze with his.
“It’s the paternity papers,” she said as she handed him the letter.
Lucas held the letter in his hand, looking down at it before looking over at Fallon. They held each other’s gaze until a car pulled into the driveway. Lucas looked over to see Levi walking towards them, looking angry as hell.
Fuck, he didn’t have time to deal with him.
“Hey, what are you guys doing?” he asked as he came to stand beside them.
“The paternity papers came in,” Lucas answered before looking back at the letter in his hand. He didn’t want to open it. He already knew that Aiden was his, what was a piece of paper going to do for him?
“Give it here, let me open it,” Levi said with his hand out to Lucas.
“No, let him open it,” Fallon said causing both men to look at her. “It's his letter, not yours.”
Levi’s eyes narrowed. “Yeah, but he can’t read it. I can, and I need to make sure you didn’t do anything to it.”
“For one, ass**le, what the hell could I do to a letter that I just got out of my mailbox, and for two, he can read. So, f**k off.”
Levi’s eyes went wide as Fallon snatched the letter out of Lucas’ hands, tearing it open before handing it back to him. He looked down at the jumble of words and hated when the feeling of failure washed over him. He expected the silence around him, and he hated that too. He didn’t like when people waited on him to read something, that’s why he had Levi do it all. He felt Fallon move in closer to him, her body touching his side as she leaned across his arm to see the letter.
“Come on, Lucas. You can do this. Take your time, switch the letters,” she encouraged in a whisper. Levi let out a frustrated breath before walking to the truck and leaning against it. Sometimes, Levi really could be an ass**le. “God, he such a douche,” Fallon whispered with a roll of her eyes. “Alright, Lucas. Read it to me. It’s only me and you.”
Only me and you.
Man, how he missed hearing her say those words to him.
Lucas blinked twice before focusing on where she was pointing. He stumbled a few times, but Fallon stood beside him, helping him through it. The same way she used to before.
“Probability of Parentage, 99.9999%,” Lucas finished before smiling over at Fallon. “That’s a lot of nines.”
“It sure is,” she said with a grin. “Good job, Lucas.”
He smiled and all he wanted to do was kiss her senseless. Didn’t she realize that he couldn’t have read it without her? That she was the reason he could do a lot of things. That he needed her?