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20- Talking to Ethan

Ethan spoke sarcastically to Antonio, when he saw the two kissing, and noticed the flowers sitting on the counter. Sadie and Antonio turned to look at Ethan, both looking at him in shock, more so Sadie. She took a step away from Antonio, while wiping her lips with her thumb.

"What didn't take that long?" Antonio replied to his remark, smirking. He knew they were caught, and he didn't care.

"You getting Sadie flowers... which by the way are really nice. I also thought I just saw a heated kiss there, you two were on fire!" Ethan says, raising an eyebrow.

"Yes, you're right I did share a kiss with her, and enjoyed it, am I not allowed to?" Antonio questioned, sounding bitter.

"That's fine and all, but what about Harlow?"

"Harlow? Seriously Ethan?" Antonio angrily questioned, placing his hands on his hips.

Sadie began feeling uncomfortable and started to leave the kitchen, not wanting to witness a fight between them. She turned to look at the two. "I'm going to go check on the girls, please behave yourselves."

Antonio waited to speak to Ethan once Sadie was gone, and away from the kitchen. "Ethan, don't ever think I stopped loving your sister. I'm still very much in love with her, just as much as if she were still here. My love for her will never change.... you don't think that I miss her? You're very wrong if you're thinking that I don't love her, or have forgotten about her." Antonio says upset, while pointing his finger at him. He noticed Ethan had a smirk on his face, and it got him even more hot.

"What the hell is that smirk for?"

"Nothing, I was just seeing what you would say is all. Sadie said you were taking the girls to go see Harlow, I was on my way to visit her too, that's why I stopped here. What would you say if we all just went there together?"

As much as Antonio wanted to go alone with the girls, out of respect for Harlow he agreed. "We can do that, just don't ever question me about Harlow like that ever again."

Antonio walked out of the kitchen, still wanting to punch him in the face "I'll go get the girls and then we can leave." he says, leaving Ethan at the breakfast bar.

The girls were having a tea party in their room with Sadie, and Gabriella stopped playing, giving Sadie a serious look. "Sadie? Can we call you mom?"

Antonio was walking in the room when Gabriella asked Sadie the question, and stopped when he heard her question that again. Sadie didn't know what to say, she picked up Gabriella and set her on her lap, giving her a hug. "You can call me whatever you want." she smiled at her, she couldn't tell her no, but didn't want to say yes either, worried about what Antonio would say.

Gabriella smiled wide. "I'm going to call you mommy."

"Me too." Isabella says, sitting on Sadie's lap, next to Gabriella.

Sadie hugged the two of them tightly. "Just remember who your real mommy is, you don't want to ever forget her, she loved you two girls a lot, and I know she still does."

Antonio's heart dropped and felt his mind going all over the place, feeling all kinds of mixed emotions, he still never responded to that question when he was asked by Gabriella, and still didn't know what to tell them. "Hey girls, are you ready to go visit mom?"

They stood up from Sadie's lap, and ran over to Antonio. "Yes, can we go now?" Isabella asked. He looked over at Sadie and whispered thank you to her. "Go get your shoes on." he says to the girls.

"We need to grab our gifts that we made for her." Isabella says.

"I'll go grab them." Sadie tells the girls, following them out of the room. Antonio stopped her, turning her to face him.

"Thank you for being the way you are with those kids. Gabriella asked me that same question the night we buried Harlow."

"I hope you don't mind that I told her that she can call me whatever she would like."

"As long as you're comfortable with it, I'm fine with it." he smiled, resting his hands on her hips, pulling her to him, and giving her a quick kiss.

"I better go grab what they made for her."

Sadie stayed behind while they went to visit Harlow, figuring that this was their time together, and that she didn't need to be there. She cleaned the house for a while, and then decided to go play the piano to relax. She played for quite a while until the girls came running over to her, standing next to her and watching her play.

"Can you teach us to play sometime?" Isabella asked excited. Touching the white keys on the piano.

"Of course I can, not tonight though, it's late. Where's your dad?"

"He's downstairs with Ethan." said Isabella.

"Oh, great." Sadie said quietly. She figured that meant they probably made up, and were downstairs drinking. "Maybe this weekend I can teach you girls a song to play on the piano, looks like right now it's time for bed."

"Can't we stay up a little longer?" Gabriella asked. Being that Ethan was there, she thought that they would be able to stay up longer.

"Not tonight."

Sadie got the girls changed and into bed. "Good night girls." she says, shutting the light off.

"Good night mommy." Gabriella yelled out. Sadie giggled and shut the door.

She went down to where Ethan and Antonio were, and just as she thought, they were sitting at the bar talking and drinking. "Antonio, are you not going to say goodnight to your kids?"

"Oh, are they in bed now?" Antonio asked, turning his chair around to look at Sadie. He spread his lips back tightly when he saw her crossing her arms. "OK, OK, I know that look, I'll go say goodnight."

"I'll be right back." Antonio says to Ethan.

Sadie sat down on Antonio's chair, and picked up his glass, smelling it. "WOW, that's strong." she says, putting the drink back down on the bar.

"Would you like a drink? I'll make you one." Ethan says to her as he took a drink.

Sadie picked up Antonio's drink and took a swig, coughing as she was trying to finish swallowing the drink, it was burning her throat as it went down. "Whew, I'll have one drink, but not as strong as this one, I haven't drank in a very long time."

Ethan stood up quick, and walked over to the liquor cabinet, looking for something to make her, and something that she might like. He dug through the booze wondering what she would drink, he didn't know her very well, and wasn't sure what kind of taste buds she had. "What would you like, I don't even know what you like?"

"I don't care, surprise me."

"OK..." he says, grinning. He grabbed a bottle of Captain Morgan, and mixed her a drink. Pouring quite a bit of booze in the glass oops he mumbled under his breath, quietly chuckling. He then grabbed some soda, and poured it in the glass, stirring it up to try and mix up the alcohol.

While Ethan was making her a drink, he kept looking over at her. "You know... Harlow talked very highly of you quite often."

"She did?" She looked at him surprised. "I would never think that she would do that, or think that. She hated me for the longest time..."

He slid her drink on the bar, over to her. "At first, she didn't like you at all, she didn't think you were here for the kids, she thought you were here for something else. But that all changed quickly as she watched you with her girls, and believe me... she watched everything, even when you didn't think she was, she was.... she actually liked you a lot."

"I liked her a lot myself, and I tried to do whatever I could to help her. I felt bad for her, and I couldn't even imagine going through what she went through. She went through something that I know, even I couldn't handle. She was a strong woman, much stronger than I ever would have been." She looked at her drink Ethan slid over to her and took a sip.

"Wow!" she said surprised.

"Too strong?" He laughed.

"Yes... very strong... but I'll drink it, it actually tastes pretty good."

Antonio came back down by Sadie and Ethan, he looked at Sadie and was shocked to see her with a drink. He picked her glass up and tasted it. "You're actually having a cocktail?"

"Is there something wrong with that?" she asked with a smile.

"No. In over a year, I have never seen you with a drink... well I saw you drinking a beer in Florida, but that was it." Antonio said surprised, he looked at Ethan, and squinted an eyebrow. "How did you manage that?"

"I just asked if she would like a drink." he says, putting his hands up in the air, grinning.

"I'm only having one, and then I'm going to bed, I don't know what you two are going to do. And since my room is right over there, I'm going to ask that you two keep it down."

Ethan saluted Sadie "Aye, aye, captain."

Antonio laughed, shaking his head. Here we go, just like old times. He thought to himself, thinking about how Harlow got with them when they drank.

The two continued talking, and talking about old times. Sadie finished her drink, and snuck away, going into her room. She shut the door quietly, and laid on the bed. The drink hit her pretty good, which made her dizzy. She stared at the ceiling for a while until she closed her eyes, trying to stop the spinning in her head, and fell asleep. Antonio and Ethan ended up staying up late, talking, drinking and doing shots.

"Harlow told me that she wanted the best for you, and wanted me to make sure that you and the girls remained happy, I also mentioned that to Sadie when I took her out."

"So... what are you saying?" Antonio slurred, taking another drink.

"Just curious, are you happy?" Ethan asked, finishing his drink.

"I guess, being the situation that I'm in. I'll admit, I'm much happier now than what I was about two months ago."

"Well that's good." Ethan says looking down at his glass, spinning it around in circles. Ethan's phone made a sound, and took his phone out of his pocket, looking at it. "I better get going, my ride is out there waiting for me... I'll get my car in the morning."

Antonio saw him out, after Ethan left, he stood in the doorway, wondering what Ethan was getting at, and shrugged it off. He walked up to his room and stared at the bed, the thought of Sadie came to his mind, wishing that she was in his bed. He turned around and went down to her room.

He quietly opened the door and saw that she was halfway on the bed and halfway on the floor, and laughed, laughing harder when it hit him that she only had the one drink. He took his clothes off, and climbed into bed, sliding her up to him and laying her in his arms.

He rested his head against hers, laying there thinking about everything that Ethan had brought up. His head began to hurt from thinking so much, and kissed Sadie's forehead. He closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Antonio woke up the next morning, and was liking that Sadie was still in his arms, he squeezed her tighter, wanting her as close to him as possible. She awoke, and looked at him confused, not remembering him coming to her bed, worried they had sex, and she didn't remember.

She lifted the sheets up, and looked under them, giggling. "I wasn't drunk last night, was I?" she asked quietly, when she saw Antonio was awake.

"Not that I know of, you only had the one drink, unless you had more when I was saying goodnight to the girls."

"No, I didn't, but how do you explain that I have clothes on, and you're naked?" she giggled. "I don't even remember going to bed."

"When I came in here, you were halfway on the bed and halfway on the floor. I just took my clothes off, and climbed into bed pulling you in my arms, I wasn't about to take your clothes off." he chuckled.

"Can I ask you something?" Sadie asked, while she yawned.

"Sure, I might have an answer for you."

"Was it just me, or was I imagining things about Ethan?" she asked. "He was acting weird, saying some things about Harlow, and was telling me things that she apparently told him."

"No, I noticed it myself. He was asking me things, and had talked to me about Harlow wanting me to be happy and wanting the same with the girls."

She rolled onto her side, propping her head up with her hand to look at him. "He told me that too, he's been really strange lately. At first, I thought it was because I wouldn't go out on another date with him, but now I feel that it's much more than that." Sadie says, scratching her head.

"I'll have to give him a call, or stop by the office, and find out what the hell he's up to."

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