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five

*Tatum POV*

"Yeah of course I'll come Andrée, okay see you at six. Bye", I say while Patrick is driving me home.

"What was that all about?", he asks as we pull into my driveway.

"Well since your leaving tomorrow at noon we having a going away party for you." I say as I unlock the door. "I'm going to go change quickly then we can head over to the Toews, so you can change too."

"What I don't look good enough?", Patrick asks and looks offended.

"No you don't", I say and stick my tongue out.

"Well then hurry up", I quickly run upstairs, and slip out of my dress and look for something to wear. I slide some jeans on and a striped shirt. I leave my make up on from shopping and straighten my hair. I throw on a yankees hat and some white converse and run back down stairs.

"Ready?", I ask Patrick and he looks up and nods his head.

"You look great."

"Thanks Pat." He unlocks the door and we both get in.

"So Tatum."

"So Patrick."

"Since we all know that you still love Jonathan, and Jonathan still loves you. Can you too please get back together so I can leave you guys here in peace?"

"I would love to get back together with him, I honestly would. It's just-", he cut me off.

"Just what Tatum?"

"I'm scared Patrick!", I basically scream. We drive in silence for about five minutes then Patrick says something that catches me off guard.

"Were all scared some off us just hide it better than others", the rest of the ride there we were silent. We got out of the car and went up and knocked on the door. "Hey Tatum forget what I said before."

"What do you mean."

"I should've said hell were all afraid. What you got to do is put a face on it and beat it. Better yet you can use it."

"Thanks Pat, I -", I was interrupted by Jonathan opening the door.

"Hey Patrick, Tatum", he smiles.

"Hey Tazer", Patrick returns and walks past him.

"Hey Jon", I say as I walk into the house.

"Tatum!", Andrée yells and comes over to me and Jon.

"Andrée", I return, as she gives me a hug.

"Well I'll let you too kids talk while I go finish dinner."

"If you need any help just ask."

"Mackenzie is helping me so no need to worry."

"Okay." I say and Andrée walks away.

"Can we talk? Please", Jonathan asks me and I nod my head and we walk outside on the back porch. "Tatum, I miss you." I felt the tears already starting to fall.

"I said I wasn't going to do this. I said it wasn't worth it. But it is. I am still in love with you. I don't think I ever fell out of love with you." I wipe my eyes.

"Tatum I love you, but I need you to need me back."

"Jonathan I'm scared."

"If you need to hear why I love you, I can go on all night", that's it I couldn't take it anymore. I leaned over and crashed my lips onto his. It took a coupe seconds but eventually he responded. We were interrupted by Patrick.

"Finally you too made up."

"Seriously Kaner fuck off", Jonathan said.

"Hey guys dinner is ready", Mack joins the conversation and says. We all walk to the dinner table and Jon's brother, dad, mom, Patrick, Mackenzie, Jon and I all sit down.

Dinner went by fast and I went to go help with the dishes and I see Jon's doing the same thing.

"Andrée you cooked, you can't do the dishes too."

"Thanks so much Tatum."

"No problem", I say and grab the towel and start drying and putting away. After a couple minutes, and I shove him a little.

"Hey", he says. I shoved him again.

"You asked for it", he splashes water at me and it hits my shirt.

"Jonathan", I say and splash him back.

"Now were going to have to change Tatum", he says and starts tickling me.

"Jonathan stop it enough, okay okay. Let's finish then we can change okay?"

"Okay", he says then kisses my cheek. We finish the dishes then go to his old room in the basement. "Here you go", he says then throws me a red Blackhawks hoodie. 

"Thanks", I start to take off my shirt when he says,

"Do you want me to leave or something I can."

"Chill Jonathan, it's not like you haven't seen it before. We used to bathe together", I say and then quickly take my shirt off and pull the hoodie on.

"Yeah when we were five.", he says then changes his shirt too. We were all chatting up stair when I looked at the clock and it was eleven thirty so I decided to go home. Shit I don't have a ride home. I walk up to Pat and give him a hug.

"Later Pat I'll miss yeah."

"I'll miss you too Tay."

"Well I better get going I have to work tomorrow."

"It's just temporary, remember you'll have an amazing job soon", Mack says.

"Shut up Mack."

"What job honey?", Andrée asks.

"I got a job working for the Blackhawks."

"That's wonderful Tatum", she says and everyone adds in.

"Jonathan could you give me a ride home please?"

"Yeah sure, no problem", fuck he looked so pissed. I should of told him about the job. The ride home was silent. Or it was until Jon said,

"Why didn't you just tell me about the job."

"I was going to believe me I was."

"I know you were, Mack told me about the job earlier today."

"Then why are you mad, hell I should be mad at Mack. I was going to tell you about the job when you were driving me home."

"Tatum, I'm not mad. I'm so happy for you. Really", he says then grabs my hand.

"Your happy I'm moving back?"

"Well yeah."