They walked out on the pier, getting an ice cream and stopping to look over the water. Emma bit her lip. "You do realise that I'll have to go home soon right ? And what then ?"

"Do you have to leave ? Can't you just stay here ?" He looked at her begging and she wished she could just say yes.

She shook her head slightly. "Zac, I have my job, my family and all my things back home, and I can't stay no matter what, I don't have a green card, and I am guessing you have things to do soon too".

"Jah, I guess I do. I got a bit of film work and a mini series in Canada coming up soon". He ate the last bite of his ice cream.

She sighed. "We'll just have to do like so many others, see each other when we can. I mean if you want to ?"

He pulled her into his arms. "Of course baby. I just have a very hard time dealing with the idea of being without you for so long".

"I don't like being without you either, actually it makes me wanna cry". She snuggled into him.

He held her close and when she looked up, she saw a tear rolling down his cheek, she gently dried it away. "Don't cry sweetie, we will work this out".

She found it touching that he cried openly without trying to hide it if he got upset or touched by something, most men she had known would have gotten embarrassed or tried to lie about it, but Zac didn't care that people saw him crying.

They walked back to the car and on the way home the stopped to shop for groceries.
In the evening Emma cooked for them and they snuggled up on the couch watching a movie, and they made it almost halfway through before forgetting all about it once again totally absorbed in one another.

The next day Zac had a meeting, but only for a couple of hours, and he suggested that they invited his father and his sister and her family over and barbecue and Emma loved the idea.

While Zac was at the meeting she cleaned the house and started preparing the food.
When he came back he pulled her into his arms. "Thank you so much sweetie, but you didn't need to do all this, you are my guest".

"No I didn't need to, but I wanted to do it". She kissed him softly, she had missed him even though he had only been gone a couple of hours.

They had a great evening, his sister had her little baby boy Gryffin with her and Emma melted every time she saw Zac with his little nephew, and he seemed so natural with kids.

She really liked his sister and her husband and she liked her father, but of course she already knew that.

When they were alone, laying close together snuggled up in his bed, she couldn't help but ask. "You were amazing with your nephew, do you want kids of your own ?"

"I love to have kids, kids are so amazing. What about you ?" He let a finger slowly slide down her side.

She smiled mostly to herself. "Most definitely, not right now, but yes, I would love 2-3 kids when the time is right".

"I think we can work that out". He said like the most natural thing in the world, pulling her closer to him, and she just knew they had to work it out with the distance.