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Annie was lounging in her chair, sunglasses on, enjoying of the sun light to the fullest. Sharon and Mark were at the pool bar getting drinks and talking to some people they met the night before at a club. Annie was just relaxing when all of the sudden her stomach growled, she sat down and reached for Sharon’s tote bag, she knew Sharon might have something to eat, she always did. It wasn’t long before Annie found a cellophane bag with a brownie inside. She opened and proceeded to eat it.

“Margarita for An…What are you doing?!” Mark said

“Eating.” She took the last piece of brownie and shoved to her mouth.

“Oh god. Did you really eat the whole thing?!”

“Well, yeah. You know me, brownie, chocolate, couldn’t resist.”

Sharon came walking holding her drink, “Hey, what’s wrong?”

Mark grabbed by her arm and walked a bit away from Annie who was now drinking her margarita.

“She ate the brownie, the whole brownie.”

“What brownie?”

“I bought a brownie when we went out last night.”

“Argh, big deal, she ate your brownie, buy a new one! Don’t be selfish!”

“No, it was a special brownie, and she ate it all!”

Sharon just stared to Mark, his words sinking in to her head, “OH!” She turned to see Annie, “How much time do we have before she starts to feel funny?”

“I don’t know, you’re supposed to eat just a small bite.”

It was just 15 minutes later when Annie laughed out of nowhere. Mark and Sharon shared a worried look, then Annie stood and tried to walk but then again she laughed.

“Hey, what’s so funny?” Mark asked.

“The ants are tickling my feet.” She giggled.

“We better take her to the room.” Sharon said and stood to grab her friend and made her walk towards the hotel. “What were you thinking? Why didn’t you tell me you put it in my bag?!” Sharon said as Annie put her weight against her.

“In my defense I never thought she will find it and eat it.” Mark answer as he hold Annie for the waist.

“She had never had pot before!”

“And how was I supposed to know she was going to eat the whole brownie.”

“I love you guys, so, so much!” Annie said as she burst out laughing.

“Yeah, we love you too, we need to take to you the room.” Mark said.

“I love the room!” Annie said overly excited.

They walked carrying Annie to the many halls of the hotel in Mexico, everyone staring at them as Annie kept laughing or singing as they pretty much dragged her.

“If Andy finds out, he is going to kill us!” Sharon said as Mark opened the door. “No, wait! You! He is gonna kill you! And trust me I will not save you!”

“He is never gonna know. It will be our little secret.” Mark carried Annie to bed. “Ok, you are staying here, we will come back in a couple of hours, try to sleep. Do you understand?” Annie lifted her thumbs up and nodded with her eyes closed. “Perfect! If you need anything you call us, ok?” She nodded as Mark gave her her phone. “Come on. She will be better when she wakes up.”

They left leaving Annie in bed high as a kite, she sat down and turned the TV on.

“Pretty pictures.” She mumbled as the images on TV moved in slow motion.

She then turned to her right, the room phone on the nightstand. She pick up and then she heard a voice.

“Hotel Riu Palace, ¿en qué podemos ayudarle?”

“Ammm, no Spanish… spañol…” The truth was Annie actually spoke a bit of Spanish, enough to communicate but she didn’t know where her Spanish went because she couldn’t remember any words as much as she tried.

“Oh! No problem miss! How can I help you?”

“M’hungry.”

“Very well, anything in particular you want to eat?”

“Pizza.”

“Alright miss, I will pass your order to the kitchen and it will be up in 20 minutes tops. Anything else I can help you with?”

“Nop! Gracies!”

She kept watching TV as she waited for her pizza for what she felt was 3 hours. Her body was tingling, it was like ants were walking over her skin and she felt extremely relaxed.  She was dozing off when a knock on the door alert her.

“Room service!”

She walked towards the door and carefully open the door.

“Miss, did you order a pizza?”

“I like pizza.”

“Good! Can I come in so I let your pizza on the table?”

“You stranger, no coming in.”

“Mmmm well, I can just give you the plate then?” Annie nodded and the guy on the other side of the door passed her the plate with the pizza. “Enjoy your meal!”

“Wait!” Annie let her plate on the bed and took a 100 dollar bill and gave it to the guy at the door. “Thank you!”

“Miss, this is too…” Annie closed the door in his face, “much.” He shrugged and left.

Annie laid down in bed again, putting the plate on her tummy and began to eat. It was the best pizza she had ever tasted, all the flavors danced in her mouth as she bite the dough with cheese. She took her phone as she kept chewing her pizza and dial Andy’s phone.

Andy was at home, it was a Saturday afternoon after all. Jake was napping after a long day at soccer practice when he saw the picture of Annie on the screen of his phone. A facetime call, how cute, Andy thought.

“Hi, honey!” Andy could only see Annie’s forehead, “Amm honey?”

“Baby! Hi! Where are you?”

“Honey, put your phone away from your face, I can’t see you.” Annie moved her phone her droopy face now on full display, “There she is! How is Cabo?”

“Baby, I have to tell you… bout the best pizza ever!” She dragged her words as she bite the pizza.

“Ammm ok, how is this pizza?”

“I don’t know! But it’s soooo delicious.”

“Honey, are you ok? You sound off.”

“M’fine! I was at the pool and then I was hungry and had a brownie and then I ate pizza.”

“What brownie?” Andy raised his brow.

“You know, the chocolate one. Uh! It had chips on it!”

“Honey, are you high?”

“No, I’m in bed! Bed no high!” She burst out laughing when she said that.

“My god, you are fucking high!”

“You fucking high!” She tried to imitate his worried voice and then laughed again.

“Honey, listen to me, I need you to go to the bathroom and made yourself throw up ok?”

“Iugh! No vomit!” Annie then looked away and then again to the screen, “Baby! Where are you? I miss you!”

“I miss you too. But, hey tell me where you got this brownie.”

“It was in the bag.”

Andy knew he wasn’t going to get any information out of her in this state, so he just sighed and kept talking to her.

“Baby, do you think this looks good?” She grabbed her boobs, pushed them together and pulled her bikini, the red fabric barely covering her soft brown nipples that Andy loved so much. He could already see the tan lines on her skin.

“Hmmm, looks very good actually.” Andy had a dark thought, “You look really sexy. How about if you show me the other half.”

Annie nodded eagerly and placed her phone in the bed, she turned and showed him her ass; her bottom was a tropic cut that was now sticking between her butt cheeks.

“Fuck, honey.” Andy’s hand reached for his semi hard dick in his grey pants. “You look amazing.”

Andy saw Annie pulled the strings on her top and bottom, she wiggled the clothes away, turned and made herself comfortable against the pillows. Andy was hard by now, his hand in his pants squeezing his cock.

“Open those legs for me baby, come on.”

She did as she was told, her left hand going to her breast, while the right hand went down to touch her clit using her middle finger.

“Fuck!” Annie moaned, her small circles soon enough became faster.

Andy took off his sweatpants, his cock throbbing in his hand as he stroke it and the red tip began to leaked. His gaze fixed on the screen of his phone, watching every move Annie made, her fingers went south to touch her entrance. Andy was mesmerized watching how two of her small fingers disappear in her warm, wet hole.

“Yes, honey, fuck yourself, come on.” Andy said as he kept stroking his cock. “Imagine those fingers is my cock.” Annie moaned loud. “You like that?”

“Yes! Oh god!” Annie’s pace raised, her fingers coming in and out of her sloppy cunt. “Andy!”

“Yeah, that’s right baby, I know you’re close. Touch your clit, honey.”

Annie’s left hand went down to touch her bundle of nerves, electricity running through her body as she touched it slightly and her fingers kept coming in and out.

“Yes, honey. Just like that. You’re doing so well.”

Annie’s moans grew lauder as her climax approached. Her tights shook when the pleasure wave hit her body. A hollow moan filling the room. Andy grunted as he came in his hand and stomach making a mess with his white load.

Both panted and took deep breaths as they came down of their high. Andy smiled when he saw Annie’s thighs were still shaking a bit a lazy smile on her lips. He stood up and went to the bathroom to clean himself up and put his pants back on. When he came back Annie was still where he left her.

“Honey?”

“Hmmm?” She hummed sleepily.

“Pick up the phone.”

She did and look at the screen, her hair was a mess. Andy found endearing and cute the redness in her nose and cheeks.

“Ok, honey. Listen to me. You are gonna drink water, and then I need you to go to sleep.”

She nodded “I feel sick.” She whispered.

“I know, I promise it’ll pass if you sleep.”

She followed his instructions, Andy never ending the call, waiting for her to come back to bed. She laid down, cover her naked body with the white sheet, her eyes heavy with sleep.

“Promise to stay with me until I fall asleep.”

“I’ll be here, honey”

10 minutes passed and Annie was fully sleep now, she looked at peace which made Andy smiled lovingly. He was about to end the call when he heard two voices.

“Hey, look, she is actually sleeping.” Sharon whispered.

“Thank god! I was worried she might done something crazy.”

“Hey, you two!” Andy said a bit loud and Annie groaned.

Sharon looked down at Annie’s phone in her hand and picked it up.

“Oh, hi, Andy! Were you guys talking? That’s so cute!”

“Whose brownie did she eat?!”

“You’re doomed.” Sharon said as she passed the phone to Mark.

It’s been two weeks now since the case over the custody of Jake began and Laurie wasn’t backing down. Andy hadn’t found any reason as in why Laurie wanted to have Jake back, either she wasn’t hiding anything or she was very good at hiding it.

“Ok, honey.” Andy walked out of their closet fixing his tie, “Are you sure you can come to court today?”

“Yes, you know today I only have 3 classes. There will be no problem.” She said as she finished to brush her hair. Andy walked behind her and kiss the top of her head.

“I like that dress.” He said looking to the flowered lilac midi dress with heart neckline and short sleeves she was wearing.

“Thanks! You bought it.”

“Do you remember what I told you?”

“To answer with all honesty everything they ask.”

“Good, girl. Remember, at 11. See you later!”

Annie went to school and tried to pay attention to all of her classes of the day but it was impossible, she was getting nervous as the time passed. It was her last class and it was pouring rain outside.

“Sure you don’t want us to come with you?” Sharon asked when she saw Annie couldn’t stop moving her hands.

“No, I’ll be good.”

“Good luck, if you need anything at all.” Mark said.

“I’ll call you.” They walked out the building, the rain was heavier than before. “Guess I’ll have to run to my car. I’ll see you tomorrow.”

It was 11:15 and Annie wasn’t at court.

“Where is she?” Lynn asked.

“I don’t know,” Andy took his phone and send her a text.

Not even 5 seconds later Annie came in running, wet from head to toe, her hair was drenched, and right when she was about to made it to the front, she slipped falling on her ass in front of every one.

“SHIT!” The deputy ran to help her stand.

“You ok, miss?” He grabbed her arm.

“Yeah, yeah! Sorry I’m late. It’s raining.”

“Miss…” The judge looked at the paper he had, “Johnson?”

“Yeap! That’s me! Hi!”

“Please, Miss Johnson, come to the bench to take your oath.”

Annie walked carefully to the stand and sat on the chair in there, she waved a little to Andy who waved back and smiled. Laurie didn’t miss this interaction.

“Lawyer Canavan, since your witness is already here, you can began.”

“Thank you, your honor.” Lynn walked towards the stand, “Your name, please.”

“Annabelle Marie Johnson.”

“Perfect. How long have you known the Barbers?”

“Since March this year.”

“How did you come to work for them?”

“Mr. Barber called me because Mrs. Duffy recommended me to be his nanny. He told me to come to his house for an interview and he said he needed someone to take care of Jake because he was going to have more work due to his promotion.”

“In all of the time you had work there, have you seen Mr. Barber been aggressive towards his son?”

“Never! He is a great dad, very loving. Andy hugs and kisses Jake every time he has the chance. He had yelled at Jake a couple of times, like every parent, but he had never been physical. They play, they spend time together, they go fishing and when Jake needed help Andy didn’t hesitate to look for someone to help him.” She smiled looking at Andy who saw her with love in his eyes.

“Mr. Barber mentioned you have been great help in the psychological process Jake’s been having.”

“Well, I suppose. I spend a lot of time with Jake and I just want him to have a happy childhood. Jake is a great kid, sweet, funny, so smart. I don’t want to see him suffer.” She looked at Laurie when she said that last line.

“Thank you, Miss Johnson. No more questions your honor.”

“Lawyer Anderson, your witness.”

“Thank you, your Honor.” He stood up and walked towards Annie. “Good morning, Miss Johnson, thank you for keep us waiting. I hope you are alright, it was quite a hard fall.” Annie was shivering by now since she was drying.

“I’m ok.” She gave him tight smile.

“Have you and Mr. Barber ever argue?”

“Once, ammm it was early when I first started working for him. He was stressed and he missed dinner with his kid. I got angry so we yelled, but other than that, never. He apologized and I kept working for him.”

“What were your duties?”

“I needed to come to his house at 3, took care of Jake, played with him, and helped him with some activities they left him at day care. I made them dinner. I left by 7 or 8 tops. Monday to Thursday and the weekends were off. Later I also started to cook lunch for them.”

“Excellent! So, do you live with the Barbers?”

“I do now. I wasn’t when he first hired me. I came and went as my shift ended.”

“What change?”

“I had some personal issues and they took me in. It was very nice of them to help me when I needed the most.”

“What happened?”

“I broke up with my then boyfriend, he attacked me and Andy helped me through the process.”

“Always the gentleman.” Richard turned to see Andy, “Does he still pay you?”

“Yes, of course. I take care of Jake and the house. I cook and I clean.”

“What is your relationship now with Mr. Barber?”

“He is my boss.” She looked at Andy who gave her a small nod, “And I’m his girlfriend.”

“Girlfriend? I hardly think that could be considered a pure love relationship since he is paying you to be with him.” Annie opened his mouth not believing this guy.

“Objection! Your honor!” Lynn said.

“Hey!” Andy was stood by now, “What’s your problem?!”

“Mr. Anderson! That was way out of line!” Judge Choi said.

“I’m not a whore!” Annie was fuming now. “Andy hired me to be Jake’s nanny! I needed the job because I am a student who needs to pay for things! And then we fell in love! How is that any close to what you are implying? YOU ASS!”

“Miss Johnson!” Judge Choi said, “Calm down.”

“He started!”

“Very well, I apologize for whatever you all think I was implying.” Richard said with a mocking tone. Annie could not believe the nerve on this guy. “Do you know Mr. Barber’s dad is in prison?”

“Yes, of course.”

“How do you know that?”

“He told me.”

“Why?”

“Well, I don’t know if you are married or not, but in a relationship is important not to have secrets. He knows about my background and I know about his. His dad is in jail for raping and murdering a girl. They have no relationship.”

“Are you afraid of Mr. Barber?”

“Pff why? Look at him! He is a cute soft giant bear! He is one of the nicest men I’ve ever met, after my dad and my brother. Oh and he is sexy too!”

“Miss Johnson.” Judge Choi said. “Just answer what they ask.”

“Sorry. I’m not lying though.” You heard Andy Laughed a bit and saw Lynn elbowed him to stop.

“Is it true you attacked my client?”

“Mmmmm,” She made a thoughtful face, now she was certainly mocking him, “Nop.”

“No? You know lying in court is a felony, right? You seem like a smart girl.”

“Fine! She showed up at our house…”

“But is not your house, is Andy’s.”

“Can I continue, or are you going to keep interrupting me?”

“Go on.”

“As I was saying, she showed up at our house trying to look for Jake. She tried to walk into the house, and I avoided her to do so because it is my job to take care of him.”

“But why, she is his mother after all.”

“Some mother! She left Jake when he was a baby! And by the way, do you know she hasn’t give any money to Andy to take care of Jake?” Richard was taken aback when Annie said that. “If she left then why she never gave Andy any money to take care of her kid? That’s what happens when people get divorce right?” Richard just looked at her. “Right?!”

“Right.” Richardson said.

“That woman has no right over Jake. She has no right to come here 3 years later, just because she feels guilty, or for whatever reason she wants him back. Jake doesn’t know her, and she doesn’t need him, if she did, she would have done this right after she left them! And I can assure you neither Andy nor Jake need her. She did them a favor!” She sneezed after she finished.

“I believe Miss Johnson needs to go get change. No more questions your honor. Thank you, miss.”

“Thank you, Miss Johnson, you are dismissed.” Judge Choi said. “We will continue this tomorrow.”

Annie walked to Lynn and Andy, and he rapidly reached for her enveloping her with his warm suit jacket.

“Come here,” Andy hugged her and rubbed his hands in her back.

“Did I do well?”

“You were perfect.” He gave her a kiss on the nose and she sneezed again. “Come on, honey. Let’s go home. You need a warm bath.”

Laurie stared at Andy and Annie, in all the time they were together he never looked at her the way he was looking at Annie now.

Once at home, Annie went to take a hot shower and changed her clothes. When she came down the stairs she saw Lynn sitting at the dinner table surrounded by papers.

“Where is Andy?”

“He went to pick up Jake.”

“I’m making some tea, you want some?”

“Sure, thanks!”

Annie walked to the kitchen and put the pot in the stove.

“Can I ask you how did you know Laurie wasn’t giving Andy money?”

“A friend of mine has divorced parents and he mentioned that the other day. Andy never talks about money."

“He never wanted to ask Laurie for money, he was too proud to do it. You know him.”

“I just assumed she didn’t pay for anything because Andy once told me she resigned to her parent rights. I don’t know, probably shouldn’t have said that.”

“No, actually it was good. That way the judge could see Laurie hasn’t been part of Jake’s life in any sense.”

Annie walked holding the two mugs and sat in front of Lynn.

“What happened the day Laurie left?”

“Andy hasn’t told you?”

“I think he told me what he wanted me to know.”

“I just know she left. Andy showed up in my house that night. He had been working for the county for over a year maybe. I never expect him to be in my house crying asking for help, he doesn’t have the type.” Annie giggled knowing very well what she meant, “I advised him to talk to her, to try to fix her marriage, and he did, but apparently Laurie had different plans.” Lynn took a sip of her tea, “Then she send a letter saying she didn’t want to be involved in their lives and even thought I told Andy he could sue her for leaving them and not giving child support, he never went for it. I think that deep down he thought Laurie was going to come to her senses and come back, but she never did.”

“Well, that worked for me, He is mine now.” Lynn laughed, “Do you think you could win?”

Due to the load of work he had now, and his moving from the apartment he had been living since Jake was a baby to a new house, it wasn’t until a Thursday when Andy finally finished his research on the nanny Pam had recommended. He had talked to Jacob about his new job and explained to him how they had to spend a little less time together. Of course, Jacob wasn’t so thrill about it, but this job was to give them a better life and sacrifices had to be made. After picking up Jake at daycare at noon, and had lunch with his son, he called the infamous nanny.

Annie was at the coffee shop with Mark and Sharon, her classmates and close friends, working on a project to turn in later that evening. Annie had her nose stuck up in a book, when her phone rang.

“Who is it?”  Sharon asked.

“It probably is Daniel,” said Mark with a disgust face. “He calls her every time she is not in the apartment. Seriously honey, I don’t know how can you like him, he is kind of a jerk.”

“He has a big dick…” she joked. “Hello?” Annie put the phone in her ear.

“Hi! Is this Annie Johnson?”

“This is she, who is this?”

“This is Andy Barber, look I need someone to take care of my kid and I was wondering if you are available for an interview today at 2:30.”

“Sure! Where do you live?”

“Newton, I’ll text you the address.”

“Perfect, I’ll see you at 2:30 Mr. Barber.” Annie ended the call and smiled.

“Who is Mr. Barber?” Sharon asked.

“I don’t know, he said he needs a babysitter, so I have to meet him at his place.”

“Oh no! You can’t leave! We haven’t finished!” Mark said.

“Please! You know this is what I do, I have to go. He said it was just an interview.” she looked at her friends with puppy eyes. “Look I will finish my part and I promise I’ll send it to you before 7.”

“Fine!”  Mark told her rolling his eyes while Sharon laughed at his expression.

Annie grabbed her things and headed to her car when the phone dinged with a text with an address. Newton wasn’t far from Auburndale, where the university was; 10 minutes tops if there was traffic, which hardly ever happened. It was 2:20 when she arrived to the Barber’s house. It was a pretty white house with a red door, and a wide driveway.  She looked herself in the mirror of her black old Jetta, putting some lip-gloss on her lips, she was wearing a light pink sweater, jeans and her black Converse. She got out of the car and walked to the door, fixing her clothing and hair a little before knocking. The door was opened by a man with black pants and a white shirt, the sleeves were rolled up to his elbows. Annie was taken aback by his face, full beard, blue eyes and white skin, he had broad shoulders, and in general he seemed fit.

“Annie Johnson?” Andy looked at her, she was just an average girl, wavy light brown hair, tanned skin, she didn’t look skinny nor fat either, 5’4” perhaps.

“Excuse me?” Andy raised his eyebrow and cleared his throat. “I’m sorry, yes, I am Annie Johnson and I guess you are Mr. Barber.”

“Andy, you can call me Andy. Come in” Andy step aside for her to get in. “You’re early.”

“Yeah, sorry.” Annie could smell his cologne as she passed by him.  “Did I interrupt anything?”

“No, not really.” Andy looked at her up and down as she passed in front of him.

Annie looked at the living room and dining room and then followed Andy.  There were boxes everywhere. The big window on the dining room allowed her to see the backyard, with two swings, a slide and a trampoline.

“We just move in, sorry for the mess. Please, sit.”

“It’s ok Mr. Barber.” Annie sat around the dining table, some dirty plates where still there.

“Andy… so my friend Pam told me you were an excellent babysitter.”

“Pam?”

“Pam Duffy.”

“Oh right! Phoebe’s mom! I love that kid, she is very smart.”  Annie smiled at the thought of the child.

“Alright so, here’s the deal, I need a nanny from Monday to Thursday, from 3 to 7.”

“Wow! Hold on, I thought you needed a babysitter, you know for the day, or the weekend. I have never done something like this before.”

“I understand that but look I really need help, I got promoted, I’m the new ADA…”

“ADA?” She asked confused.

“Assistant District Attorney” She kept looking at him when she heard the answer, “I’m a lawyer.”

“Oh!” she blushed a little, “Sorry, I really didn’t know what it was.”

“Anyways, my son can’t be by himself all afternoon, nor be with me at the office; he is just 3, and I promise you he is very calm.” he looked at her with pleading eyes.

Annie looked at the men talking in front of her, he was really handsome, his teeth were perfect, and those rosy lips seems so soft.

“Miss Johnson?” His voice brought her back to reality. “Are you listening to what I’m saying?

“Just Annie, and you said over the phone this was just an interview.”

“Well, yes. I need to know more about you. As I told you my son Jake is only 3, and…

“You need to know I’m not crazy” She interrupted him. “It’s not my first interview.” Both smiled. “What do you want to know?”

“Just, tell me about you.” Andy said while leaning back on the chair and crossing his arms.

“That poor shirt must be suffering, it looks very tight around his arms.” Annie thought. “Alright, my name is Annabelle, Annie… I’m from Boston, I’m 21, I study education at Lasell, is my third year now… I have a brother back in Boston, he is an accountant, and he is married, they have a baby girl named Denisse. Ammm I like chocolate ice cream… I have a boyfriend, Daniel, he is majoring in criminal justice… my favorite Disney film is Aladdin,” Andy laughed.  “What? It’s a great movie! And ammm I’ve been a babysitter since high school. I think that’s it.”

“What about your parents?”

“Theirs names were Peter and Lisa, both were high school teachers, dad taught English and my mom taught sciences.”

“Were?”

“Ammm they died a little after I came to Lasell. Car accident, a drunk driver hit their car.”

“Sorry to hear that.”

“No problem. Sooooo… You actually need me 4 days?”

“Yes, you will be free on the weekends, I managed to convince my boss to let me work half the day on Fridays. I just need you to be with Jake, help him with the little homework they give him at daycare and make dinner.”

“Make dinner? Well… we may have a problem there, I don’t cook much, but I guess I can learn.”

“Great!” Andy clapped his hands. “Questions?”

“Yes, how much are you going to pay me?”

“Right! Excellent question.” Andy give her a toothy smile and winked at her. “20 bucks an hour.”

“Mr. Barber, you got yourself a nanny.” she extended her hand waiting for his handshake which Andy replied.

“I told you I’m Andy. Just Andy. Now if you excuse me, I will go for Jake to introduce you.”

Andy left and Annie let out a breath she didn’t know she was holding. The man was hot, like really hot! Whoever was married to him was a lucky lady. She was deep in her thoughts when Andy came back.

“Annie, this is my son Jake. Jake this is our new friend, Annie.”

Annie looked down to the kid behind Andy’s legs, Jake was a cute little boy, dark hair, pale skin, and very marked bags under his eyes, a little strange in a kid his age.

“Hi Jake, I’m Annie.” Jake looked at her with big eyes while he held his Captain America action figure against his chest. Annie kneeled to be eye level with him. “Do you like Captain America?” the boy smiled and nodded. “I like Loki you know.”

“He is ba’ guy.” Jake said walking towards Annie.

“I know, but superheroes need bad guys to fight with don’t you think?”

“Yes… Loki is good bad guy.”

“Yes, he is a gud ba’ guy.”

Andy was amazed with how good she was, she did nothing and the kid sat with her and showed her his toy. He looked at his watch.

“Damn,” he said under his breath. “Can you stay today? I’ll pay you. I’m already late.”

“Sure Mr. Barber.” Not even looking at him, her whole attention was on Jacob.

“Either you call me Andy or I will fire you.” Andy said while picking his briefcase.

“Andy it is… come on Jake say bye to dad.”

The boy stared at his dad, tears in his eyes and a trembling chin, and hugged his dad.

“Shhhh, Jake we talked about this, I have to go, and you can’t come with me. Annie will play with you ok? Be a good boy, for me.”

“Yes, daddy.” Jacob rubbed his eyes with his sleeve.

Annie carried Jake in her arms to the couch and walked Andy to the door.

“I feel terrible for this.”  Andy commented grabbing his keys.

“Don’t worry Mr… Andy, is normal. He’ll be fine.”

“Ok.” Andy gave a last look to his son sitting on the couch. “Ok… call if you need anything or an emergency, you already have my number.”

“I got this, go.” Andy walked away to his car. “Excuse me, Andy?” He turned and looked at her.  “When is your wife coming home?”

It has been 2 weeks since the “incident”, as her friends called it, happened. It was Friday, last day of school and thankfully she didn’t have exam that day, so she stayed home so she could sleep a little longer. Annie had apologized to Andy for falling asleep during working hours and told him she was extremely stressed and the lack of sleep was taking a toll on her, which was partially true, although she didn’t mention her break up with Daniel.

It was nearly 6 o’clock when Annie went out for a walk to distract herself a little of the awful week she had; she was wearing a black hoodie, a pair of black biker shorts and white sneakers, she grabbed her keys and purse and off she went. She decided to go back to the apartment to pick the rest of her clothes and things. When their friends went to pick her stuff Daniel wasn’t too nice to them and they left as soon as they could. Sharon had been borrowing her clothes but she couldn’t keep doing that to her friend. She was aware of Daniel’s schedule, so there was not a problem by going at this time of the day, especially on Friday. Annie opened the door and made sure Daniel wasn’t around and headed to the room. She took one of the suitcases she had in the closet and started to put her clothes in it as fast as she could when the front door was shut by a loud slam. By the time Annie closed her suitcase and turned around Daniel was standing by the bedroom’s door.

“Hi babe, I’m so glad you’re back.” he saw the suitcase near her feet, “What do you think you are doing?”

“I mmmm, I came to pack my things.”

“Really?” Daniel walked slowly towards her, standing just in front of her, “I called you and you didn’t answer” his finger touch her check. “You can’t leave babe… we have a future together,” Daniel was dangerously close, “remember? You are all mine.” Annie could smell a hint of alcohol in his breath.

“I am not yours,” Daniel’s eyes grew darker. “You fucked another woman! In our bed! What makes you think I’m gonna stay with you?!!”

Daniel slapped her hard and grabbed her by her arms tighten his grip as he talked.

“You are mine! And you are not leaving until we work this out!”

“Let me go!!!”

“I’ve done so much for you, and this is how you pay me?” his body pressing against her, “Don’t forget who took you after your parents died. I was the one who took care of you, and gave you a place to live.”

“You’re hurting me!”

Annie tried to let go off him, but she couldn’t he was way stronger than her, her right arm started to hurt as she tried to run away, but Daniel was faster and threw her against the wall, making her hit her head and arm. As Annie was trying to stand Daniel slapped her again, this time both her lip and cheek stung and pushed her to bed, Annie moved to the head board of the bed but Daniel grabbed her by the ankles and dragged her towards him getting on top of her to prevent her from running, he opened the hoodie she was wearing, revealing her black cotton bralette.

“Uff babe,” he hooked his finger on the bralette and lower his lips to her breast, “these,” he gave her boobs a harsh squeeze, “have always been my favorites.”

“Daniel, stop!!!” she cried and kicked trying to get Daniel off of her.

“Shut up!” he put his hand around her throat, “I’m gonna make you feel so good babe, just the way you like it.”

Daniel put his hand inside the front of her shorts, smiling and touching her roughly. The look in his eyes made her scared, he was not the man she once fell in love with. His lips connected to her chest sucking and leaving marks  as he slide two of his fingers inside of her, Annie stayed still, and felt the sting between her legs as his fingers pumped in and out of her fast, she was looking everywhere but him. She tried to let go again but it was useless, Daniel had her and he was going to get his way with her. That was until Daniel stood to open his jeans, Annie saw the opportunity to stand and get to the door of the room, throwing all she found around her to make Daniel loose his balance. Daniel reached and hold her from behind both fell to the floor and then Annie kicked him right on the face; Daniel touched his face letting her go. She stood up and grabbed the first jar she saw near her, turned and hit him on the head with it, leaving him unconscious.

Annie closed her hoodie and ran down stairs leaving Daniel and all her things behind. She walked to the closest bus stop to go to Newton and 15 minutes later she was in front of Andy’s house, all the lights were out, she walked to the entrance but didn’t knocked at the door. She went back to the downtown and walked around going nowhere. She was sure she had taken the same path for the third time when she stopped in front of a pizza place, the smell filled her nose and her stomach growled. She didn’t have money, she spend the bill she always hide on her shoe to pay the bus to Newton and she didn’t have her phone with her to call neither her friends nor brother. She was staring at the window of the place when she felt someone tackled her on the legs; she looked down she saw Jake holding her tightly.

“Hi, sweetie.” Annie hold the kid back “Where is your dad?”

“Jake! Don’t run away like that!” Andy smiled when he saw her. “Oh! Now I see why you ran. Still don’t do that, ok?”

“Yes, dad” Andy looked for a moment to Annie, she looked a little disturbed, and she had a cut on her lip and her cheek was a bit purple.

“Hey, are you ok?” Andy touched her lip, it stung and she hissed.

“Yeah,” she lied, “I… I fell.”

Annie paid attention to Andy, he wasn’t wearing a suit, he was wearing jeans, sneakers, a red hoodie and a baseball cap, and he looked a lot less strict with that outfit.

“Right,” Andy wasn’t too convinced with that answer. “What are you doing in Newton on a Friday?”

“Why not? It’s a free country” Andy raised his brows when he heard her. “Sorry… I was bored, and I decided to come here.”

“No parties?” Annie shook her head. “Very well, are you alone?”

“Yes, my friends are busy.” She lied.

Andy still wasn’t convince on her answers, she was defensive “Hmmm, well if you have nothing to do, we were about to buy something for dinner and watch a movie, wanna join us?

“Do you always watch movies on Fridays?

“Yes!” Jake told her, “Is movie night! pease, come with us.” The boy looked at her with puppy eyes which made her laughed a little.

“Alright, but I will choose the movie.”

“Deal!” Jake said “I wanf pizza, dad.”

“I think our guess should choose our dinner.”

“Pizza is fine, but without pineapple.”

“Smart choice,” Andy smiled, and opened the door of the pizza place. “After you.”

The three of them walked into the place and stood at the counter waiting their turn, a little later a young girl appear to take their order.

“We will have a large pepperoni pizza.”

“Anything else sir?” the girl batted her eyelashes to him.

“No, just the pizza.”

“Your name?”

“Andy.”

“That’s a nice name. It will be 10 bucks.”

Andy paid and the girl give him a toothy smile and left.

“She was flirting with you.” Annie said whispering.

“Who?” Annie pointed the girl who took their order, “Really?”

“Yeap, she is cute.”

“And she is probably like 16, I’m not a perv. And she is blonde, I don’t like blonde girls.” Annie froze when she heard the words blonde girl. “You look… are you sure you ok?”

“Yes, I’m fine. You know I had finals, I’m just thinking about it.”

They sat in one of the tables waiting for their pizza to be ready. Andy asked her about her exams, and she told him about how the pedagogy professor made the most difficult exam she ever had since she starter at Lasell.

“Honestly I think he just wants everybody to fail.”

“Some teachers are like that. I had one at NYU, the guy was a jerk, but he was one of the best lawyers in the city.”

“Argh, I hate that! This guy is a freaking genius, is so good at what he does, you cannot be angry at him for making difficult exams, yet you hate him, is a very confusing feeling.”

“Andy!” Annie turned to see a dark haired woman that now was kissing Andy’s cheek.

“Hi, Stacy,” Andy said not too pleased at her actions.

“What are you doing here?” Annie stared at her, it was a stupid question considering they were in a pizza place.

“We came for something to eat.”

“Oh! Right.” The girl saw Jake and Annie up and down. “I’m sorry,” a fake smile on her face, “I’m Stacy, we work together.”

“Are you a lawyer?”

“No no, I’m a secretary, but we work in the same floor. Right Andy?” She touched Andy’s arm and Annie lifted her brow at the sight of her touching him. “And I assume you are his wife?” Andy was very uncomfortable by the question, Annie could tell.

“Actually, I’m his...” She said pointing at Jake.

“Yes, she is my wife” Andy lied.

“I’m Captain America!” Jake interject.

“Yes, you are sweetie.” Annie hugged and kissed him.

“Andy!” A guy behind the counter said, “Andy!”

“That’s us, we better go.” Andy stood quickly, “See you later.”

“Bye Andy, and nice to meet you Mrs. Barber.”

Andy took the pizza, left the establishment and walked down the street to the parked car. Jake jumped to his seat, while Andy opened the door for Annie and then climbed in the car and started the engine.

“She likes you” Annie said a bit annoyed.

“Who?”

“Don’t act so innocent Andy, that Stacy girl.” She crossed her arms. “She was touching your bicep.”

“And… is that a problem?” Andy looked at her pouting, she looked hilarious.

“Well… no, I mean, if you like her, there’s not a problem.”

“She is new in town, and to be honest she is quite noisy.”

“She is beautiful”

“I don’t like her.”

“It’s fine if you do.”

“I don’t!” he laughed

“Why are you laughing?”

“I literally said you were my wife so she stop hitting on me. I’m sorry about that by the way.”

“That’s what friends are for. Right?

It was Friday, Andy picked Jake from day care and headed back home to have lunch. Andy heated up some of the leftovers they had from the meals Annie had prepared for them during the week.

“Dad…” Jake was biting his piece of chicken while he held it with his hands.

“Jake, use the fork.” The kid ignored him

“Is Annie coming?”

“Is Friday, she doesn’t come on Fridays, you know that.”

“But you say yesterday you calling her.”

“I know, but I don’t think she wants to talk to me.”

“Why?”

“We had a fight.”

“Why?”

“Ammm, I was angry, and she was upset and sometimes adults say things they don’t mean.”

“Why?”

“I… don’t know.”

“Mrs. Williams say we haf to learn to say soggy.”

“When did you become so clever?” Jake shrugged and kept eating his chicken. “Ok, after we finish our lunch we will go to her school, so I can talk to her.”

“Can she haf movie night wid us?”

“I’ll ask, but she might say no, and if she says no, you’ll have to come with me to the office, I have some things to do, ok?”

“Ok!”

After they finished their lunch, they left the house on their way to Lasell. Once they arrived, they started walking around not really knowing where to go.

“Hi, excuse me,” Andy stopped in front of a group of students. “I’m looking for…”

“Annie!” Jake told them, wide smile across his face.

“Sorry, I’m looking for the education building, you know where that is?”

“Yes, you walk behind this building, cross the gardens, turn to your left and then you’ll see it, is not that far.”

“Thank you, come on Jake.”

It was the last class of the day and Annie couldn’t stop thinking about Jake or his dad for that matter. Andy will definitely need another nanny, and she hoped he found one soon. Annie was looking at a blank point in the wall in front of her, while the professor explained the assignment for the weekend. The noises of the chairs and the movement of her classmates brought her back to reality.

“Wait… what did he say?” Annie asked to her friends.

“Darling, are you ok? You haven’t been paying attention all day.” Mark said

Sharon, Mark and Annie grabbed their things and walked out of the classroom to finally go home.

“No, I’m not.”

“Have you told Daniel you were fired?” Sharon asked.

“No, yesterday I came to the library until it was 7:10 for me to come back.”

“Honey, you have to tell him, he is gonna notice” Mark commented. “Or find another job.”

“You are the only person I know with balls that would yell to her boss.” Sharon Joked.

“You weren’t there! I was angry! I wasn’t thinking, and Jake was crying!

The three of them left the education building. They stood there talking about the assignment their last professor gave them, and commenting about the topic they were going to use.

“Oh my God! Look at that piece of candy standing under the three” Mark told their friends pointed with his noise to the right.

Annie turned only to see Andy with Jake staring at her. The little boy moving in his arms to be released. Jake jumped out of his dad’s arms. Andy was wearing a navy blue suit and he had his sunglasses on.

“That’s Andy.” Annie said nonchalantly without taking his eyes off of him.

“THAT’S YOUR BOSS?!” Both Sharon and Mark screamed.

“SHHHH!!!!”

“WOW! You said he was handsome, but not hottie-hot-fuck-me handsome. I would give him some.” Mark said licking his lips.

“Shut up!”

“Annie! Annie!” Jake ran to her arms and she picked him up and hugged him tight. “I missing you!”

“I missed you too” Annie kissed his cheek. “What are you doing here?”

“Daddy say we need to find you. Who are you?”

Jake stared at her friends and they smiled. They were so focused on the child they didn’t noticed Andy walked to where they were.

“Hey.”

“Hi, Andy.” There was a long silence before Annie put Jake down and Andy continued.

“Can we… Jake wants you to have movie night with us, if that’s ok with you.” Andy licked his lips “I mean I don’t know if you are busy, or if you have plans with your boyfriend…”

“She is totally free kind sir” Mark said.

“Totally.” Sharon repeated with a wide smile.

“But we have the assignment…” Annie began but Mark cut her off.

“Assignment? Oh no honey, you misheard the professor.”

“Alright.” Annie gave her friends funny looks. “I guess I’m free.”

“Yeah! Pizza! Pizza! Pizza! Jake was jumping up and down between her and Andy.

“Shall we?” Andy told her offering his arm.

“You go ahead, I need to tell them something.”

Andy hold Jake’s hand and walk to the right where they were standing. Annie turned and looked at their friends.

“Please, fuck the guy.” Mark told her “I will if you don’t”

“You two are crazy. He is my boss.”

“He fired you.” Sharon pointed.

“I have Daniel.”

“Your boss is worth like three Daniels, and I bet his dick is bigger.” Sharon joked.

“Hey, that’s mean!”

“And about the homework, you can send your part tomorrow or on Sunday.” Sharon said.

“Homework?” Annie told them. “I’m sorry but apparently I don’t have homework, you do.” Annie turned to leave. “And you better put my name on the paper, or I will murder you. Sharon take my car, I’ll pick it tomorrow.”

Annie gave her the key and ran towards Andy and Jake. They walked to the parking lot and climbed on the black Audi.

“So,” Andy began. “I have a meeting…”

“I knew there was a catch” Annie raised her eyebrow to him.

“As I was saying, this meeting won’t take long… I hope. You two can go home and play for a while. When I’m done, I’ll get the pizza and we’ll watch the movie. Deal?” Andy looked both Jake and Annie who nodded at the plan.

A couple of minutes later they arrived to the house. Andy left as soon as they climbed out the car. Jake wasn’t in the mood of doing anything, he said he wanted to lay down and stare at the ceiling, and they did, but it got boring after a couple of minutes.

“How about we play rock band?”

“What is that?” Jake asked with big eyes.

“I put some music and we sing and dance.”

Jake didn’t seem too convince about this game, so Annie took out her phone and look for an aux cable to connect to the stereo. She hasn’t seen a stereo since she lived with her parents, which make her question how old Andy was, she thought he couldn’t be as old as his parents were; perhaps 40 tops. She connected her phone and music began to play, it didn’t take much for Jake to start dancing around Annie.

It was almost 7:30 when Andy came back with the pizza ready for movie night. When he got out the car, he could hear the music coming out of the house, Anybody Seen my Baby by the Rolling Stones was blasting trough the walls when he opened the door. He walked to the living room, leaving the pizza on the small table at the entrance, he saw Jake jumping up and down on the floor and Annie was giving him her back, he saw her up and down; she was swaying her hips at the beat of the music and singing pointing at his son. The jeans and white top she was wearing fit her perfectly. When the song came to an end, Andy started clapping. Annie jumped and looked back.

“How much did you see?”

“You are a great dancer.” He smiled at her and took his jacket and tie off “Who’s ready for a movie?”

“ME!!!!!” Jake jumped on the couch finding his spot for the movie night.

“Why don’t you settle with Jake while I change?” Annie nodded and Andy walked to his room.

10 minutes later Andy came down wearing some black sweatpants, a white V-neck t-shirt and he was bare foot. Annie just stare at him for a moment before looking down at her hands. Jake was in charge of choosing the movie, and as they expected he chose The Avengers. The three of them sat on the couch, Jake was in between Andy and Annie enjoying his pizza slice and chips. During the movie Andy glanced at Annie, her soft jawline lighted with the light from the TV; Annie turned to see him and Andy put his attention back on the movie, she could see his long eyelashes and the way his muscles tighten on his neck. Half way through the film Jake laid on Annie’s lap and a little later he fell asleep.

“Do you want to finish the movie?” Andy said out of the blue turning to see her.

“Mmm no, not really, I already know how it ends.” She smiled, “I think I should go home.”

“Let me put Jake on his bed, and I’ll drive you.”

Andy took Jake in his arms and went upstairs. Annie started to clean the little mess they made on the coffee table and washed the dishes. She was about to finish when Andy cleared her throat.

“Do you have to leave already? I was hoping we could talk.”

Annie looked at the clock in the kitchen, it was 9:30.

“I could stick around a little longer.”

“I mean, I know you have to go home to your boyfriend, I don’t want to cause you problems”

“He is out, he’s never home early on Fridays. His classes end around 7 and then he always goes out with his friends after school”

“Great!” Andy said a little bit too excited, “Beer?”

“No, thank you. I don’t like beer. Water is fine.”

“WHAT?! That’s a crime!” Andy said grabbing a beer from the fridge, then went to the cabinet.

“Beer tastes bad, and smells even worse.”

“I have red wine” Andy showed her the bottle.

“Well…I guess I could have a glass.”

Andy opened the bottle, served her a glass and headed back to the living room. They sat down and put their drinks on the table in front of them; they stayed there, silence filling the air.

“I…” they said at the same time.

“No no, me first.” Andy cut her. “I wanted to apologize for the way I yelled at you last Wednesday, I was stressed and you were right. Jake didn’t deserve my behavior nor you. I need you… we need you, Jake loves you, and I want you to know that the job is still yours if you want it.” He took his wallet out his pocket and give her the payment of the week.

“Really?” She said taking the money, “After the way I snapped and basically called you a terrible father?

“Yeah, even after that.” Andy took a sip of his beer. “And also, I was hoping we could start over, so, “Hi,” Andy extended his hand. “I’m Andrew Stephen Barber, born and raised in Boston. But you can call me Andy.”