Authors: Toni Aleo
“A question that is none of your business,” Fallon warned as she looked down the bleachers. Lucas followed her gaze and saw her parents walking up the bleachers with Audrey. Audrey said something and kept climbing up the stairs, while her parents sat down with their food.
Audrey started giggling and Fallon’s mouth pulled at the side but she didn’t laugh as she shrugged her shoulders. “I don’t care what you do.”
Lucas smiled as he leaned a little closer to her, and he was surprised when she didn’t move away. “Can I watch yours?” he whispered. Fallon turned her head to look at him.
“I do like him, thank you,” Fallon said, but Lucas ignored her as the game started. Aiden’s team took the field first, and Lucas sat on the edge of his seat. He was so excited to see Aiden play, even if he didn’t like baseball. It was just the fact that his boy was playing something that made him giddy with excitement.
Lucas rolled his eyes as he looked out on the field. He searched the field for his boy, and found him in right field. Even he knew that was bad, and he hated this sport. Aiden had his hands on his knees, ready for the ball while the left fielder chased a butterfly and the center fielder picked his nose. Why was his kid in right field? Especially with Coach Dweeb trying to sleep his Fallon! Obviously Coach Dweeb had no game.
A very large child came up to bat and Lucas seriously thought about asking for the kid’s birth certificate. He was huge! The little kid on the pitching mound threw the ball with all his might and the kid smashed the ball. It went past the first basemen out into right field. Lucas stood quickly, excited because there was no way Aiden could miss the ball.
Lucas looked at her like she was the dumbest person in the world and when he looked at Audrey, she also had the same look on her face.
“I’m gonna act like you did not just say that,” Lucas said as he looked back out onto the field.
Fallon let out a little huff of air but he didn’t pay her any attention. He had a game to watch. Lucas learned quickly that baseball, for a bunch of six, seven, and eight year olds, was not competitive at all. While he wanted to scream his ass off at the little fat kid on second that let the ball go by him countless times, he knew he couldn’t. Moms awed over their little ones as the dad’s played on their phones. Even the coach just stood there, not giving any kind of direction what so ever!
“One more time, Audrey, and I swear,” Fallon warned but Audrey just giggled as the pitcher got ready to throw the ball. Lucas saw that Fallon held her breath as the boy beamed the ball across the plate at their kid. It even made Lucas nervous. Aiden swung missing the pitch, but it was a good solid swing.
“Kid needs a hockey stick, not a bat,” Lucas observed when the pitcher pitched again and Aiden missed.
“I know, right?” Audrey agreed.
“Whatever,” Fallon mumbled as Lucas watch Aiden strike out. Fallon stood up, clapping her hands. “It’s okay, Aiden. You’re awesome honey.”
When Aiden glanced up at the stands, Lucas saw nothing but embarrassment in his eyes. Fallon sat back down and Lucas looked over at her. “Fallon, this is wrong. The kid hates this.”
“He loves it.”
“No, he doesn’t.”
“I think I would know what
my
son likes,” she snapped, causing Lucas’ eye to twitch. He tried to calm himself down by counting to 10 but he felt his temper about to snap. He hated losing, and watching his son lose was making it really hard to keep his temper under control. Especially when he knew for a fact that Aiden hated baseball!
Lucas leaned back against the rail with his arms crossed against his chest. He would save Fallon the embarrassment of yelling at her in front of the whole baseball team. But, once they got to the car and Aiden was out of earshot, he wouldn’t hold back.
Fallon knew she was pressing Lucas’ buttons, but her dad had her on edge. She could feel him watching them all through the game and she hated that he was disgusted in her. Why? She didn’t know. Maybe it was the need to make him happy, even though she knew that he would never be happy with her. Fallon was apparently the biggest fuck up in the world, and nothing she did would ever make him happy.
Fallon let out a long breath as she watched the boring baseball game. Aiden stood in right field, bored out of his mind but acting as if this was the biggest game in the world. He was showing off for Lucas, and Fallon hated that all Lucas could do was bitch about how bad Aiden played. Yeah, Aiden wasn’t the best baseball player, but damn it, at least he was trying.
The Cubs’ lost and Fallon was sure it was because of the 13-year-old pitcher from the other team. Someone should really check birth certificates out here, because that kid was huge. Fallon didn’t believe for a second that that kid was young enough to play in this age group.
Audrey and Lucas stood and started down the bleachers with Fallon behind them. She dreaded going anywhere near her dad. She had no clue what he would say to Lucas, and what bugged her all to hell was that she cared if William was rude to him. She didn’t know why, maybe because it wasn’t Lucas’ fault for her becoming pregnant. Like she told William, they both lay down and made Aiden. Even if it was an accident, it wasn’t anyone’s fault. Or maybe, it was because she still felt protective over Lucas. Don’t ask her why because she had no clue.
Fallon saw her parents get up and both of them looked right at Lucas. What surprised Fallon was that he actually stopped and held out his hand to Nora. Of course, Nora took it, placing a fake smile on her face as she shook his hand.
William looked down at Lucas’ hand then back into his eyes before taking his hand in his. “Nice for you to finally make an appearance.”
Lucas chuckled. “Believe me sir, if I would have known I would have been here a long time ago.”
“Is that right? So this is all Fallon’s fault,” William said, and everyone turned to look at her. William was glaring, while Nora and Audrey looked at her with their eyes filled with sympathy. Lucas was looking at her as if she was the most beautiful girl in the world, and that bothered her. Why couldn’t he be mad at her, or fight and yell something! Why was he being so nice while she was the biggest bitch ever!
It was so frustrating!
Fallon felt like she was gonna cry, so she quickly passed by all of them, going down the bleachers to meet up with Aiden by the dugout. With every step she felt the tears threatening to fall, but she’d be damned if she let them fall. Yeah, it was her fault that Lucas hadn’t been in Aiden’s life, but what about what he did to her. Sure, she should have had the lady balls to tell him about his child, but how was she supposed to when she couldn’t even talk to him! He broke her heart! And look, everyone is so forgiving, so nice to the man that ripped her heart out of her chest and threw it against a wall.
Whatever.
Fallon shook her head as she reached the other parents that were fussing over their little ones. Aiden stood with a Capri sun and a pack of apples in his hands with all his equipment around his feet.
“You did good, baby,” Fallon gushed as she wrapped him up in her arms. He giggled as she kissed his cheeks and neck. He was sweaty, but she didn’t mind one bit.
“I sucked Mom,” he groaned before he took a sip of his drink. “Is Lucas still here?”
“Yes, he’s with AA and your grandparents,” Fallon answered, wishing that Lucas wasn’t. Why did they already have a bond? It drove Fallon crazy with jealously which was downright disgusting on her part.
“Cool, oh no,” Aiden was looking past her, and when she turned she saw Chase coming over to them. Chase wasn’t really her type, but he was a nice guy. He was extremely tall, six-foot-something, skinny as all hell with a very narrow face. The worst part was the large blonde fro. It scared Fallon, but he seemed to like it. He wore his Cubs shirt with a pair of jeans that did nothing for his ass. Yeah, she had been checking him out during the game, trying to make herself like him in the hopes that she would stop wanting Lucas.
“I only speak the truth,” he said and Aiden rolled his eyes again this time while letting out a bored sigh. All of a sudden, his face turn bright and Fallon knew that Lucas was coming over to them.
“Yeah, of course we are,” Fallon said with a grin. She felt Lucas eyeing her but she stood confidently, trying to show that his gaze didn’t affect her at all. She hoped it worked.
“Right,” Fallon said as he started to walk backwards. As she waved bye, she felt someone’s hot breath on her neck. When she turned, Lucas grinned down at her.
“Going out with Coach tomorrow?”
Fallon rolled her eyes before she turned to pick up Aiden’s things from the ground. “None of your business, Lucas,” she said as she stood up.
She glanced up at him and he had a dazed look on his face. “I think you forgot something on the ground,” he said, pointing to the spot where she just picked up Aiden’s things.
Fallon turned looking down at the ground and nothing was in the grass. “I did not,” she said as she turned to look back at him.
He had a devilish smile on his face as he shrugged his shoulders. “I thought you did.”
Fallon eyes narrowed as she passed by him, smacking him in the chest as she did. His laughter ran down her spine as she made her way to her son and family. Lucas had been checking out her ass.
Before when they were together and she was cleaning the house, if she bent down in front of him, he always said she missed something just so she would bend over again. Fallon tried to be mad at him for his pigness but all it did was turn her on. Knowing that he still thought her ass was hot had
her
hot.
Of course, they were a big ole happy family. Well she’d be damned if she was gonna go have ice cream with one man that was disgusted in her and one that cheated on her.