Taking a Walk Rosalie attn: anyone

[Rosalie Naples]

"Her father sounds like one" Rosalie said in agreement. "I know she loves her family but nothing should ever make you leave your child behind. She cared this darling boy in her stomach for 9 months, that is a connection you can't ever forget." She knew when she got pregnant she would be so happy and love that child from the moment it was concivened. And only death could ever seperate her from her baby, she would go poor before leaving her child behind. "Sorry it hurts me when me hear how children are hurt by family that treat that way" she said honestly. "They may not be able to say anything but they know something is going on and it does affect them. Kia is lucky to have a father that loves him so much, some children don't have that. And he will always have a special bond with you because of that."

"I don't judge you for taking the money. It was being used for a good thing, for you and your son to have a better life, where you don't have struggle so much. I admit I have always had the best of everything, my family always had money, our vineyard has been passed down generation to generation" she explained to him. she was not ashamed of her money but she knew she did not act like the typical rich girl. "Of course I was taught to treat everyone the same no mattter what their status in life was, we are all the same, we all have feelings, we all are people. And you are raising your son that same way, and that lesson does not equal any amount of money."

"Well you know you did the right thing. If you did anything different you would of had regrets. And your happy which is something that is important. You love him and he loves you. You are a family, and your parents are there for you. And if she proves herself he will also have a mother" she said. "He is one lucky little boy to have so many people that love that is for sure, and to have so many people on his side, he will never not have someone to turn to."

[Ashley Bolton]

He nodded, "Its true, family is a big part of my life. I sure as hell couldn't have done most of what I have without them, my parents make the best babysitters while I am at school. There is usually one of them at home every day, so he stays home with them and they dowacky stuff." Ashley said with a grin. "They keep me level headed and help me stay in school, I would be doing minimum wage stuff right now without them." he added.

"Wow this food ain't that bad, Kai would love it if he were awake, but waking him would mean I have a sleepless night. Cranky on a Sunday morning that good a start, this bowling thing coming up tomorrow, I plan on being there. Its one of those events that I can bring him along, he is my own personal cheerleader, without the bad puns." Ashley said to her. "What about you are you up to much tomorrow? Over than the animal shelter, I assume you spend time away from that place." Ashley said to her smiling, it was a given after all.

"The guys on the team don't get to see my softer side, so I may have to kill you if you let them know that one does indeed exist. Pretty much every one knows about Kai, and my history with Alex, but what ever was said here tonight I don't want across the school and I definitely don't want Alex hearing about what I have said. I would definitely appreciate your discression." he said to her with a nervous smile.

[Rosalie Naples]

"Parents good parents I should say are a blessing. I know mine would do the same thing if I was in your situation. They are not the kind that could ever turn their back. I am really close to both of them and I know I can talk to them about anything. That includes sex if I was having it" Rosalie said with a laugh. "You would love my parents they would make all over Kai, I got my love of kids from them. I have been told I am very much like my mother and father, the perfect combination, which makes me proud. Which of your parents are you most like? Or are a nice equal combination to?"

"You should brig him back when he is awake then" she said as her soup was sat in front of her. She picked up soup spoon and had a spoonful. "Their tomato soup is so good, nice and creamy and the cheese is good on top. You should try this sometime" she recommened to him. "I heard about the bowling thing" she said. "I am not sure if I am going or not. I have to check my planner, normally that is full" she laughed. "But of course I still make time to go out and have fun, if not I really would be boring. I will check on the animals in the morning, and I know I want to hit the gym in the morning, or take a run along the beach. Other then that I am not sure what I am going to get into the rest of the day. I bet that handsome little guy is happy to go anywhere with his daddy."

"I would never say a word I promise you that" Rosalie said seriously. "I do not tell anyones private business. So what was said between us stays between us. " She gave him a honest smile and everything she said was the truth. She was not a gossip and kept secrets and knew that she could never spread something around that could hurt someone else. That was just not the kind of person that she was.

[Ashley Bolton]

Ashley grinned, "I'm definitely going to bring him back here when his awake, though tomato soup and a two year old boy just wouldn't mix. If I brought him a soup he'd be wearing more of it than he ate, brought him this marshmellow cornetto once, it was not a pretty sight when he was done." Ashley said taking a mouthful of his own food, he listened to her for a little while his smile widening further. "Weekends are our time, so yeah usually unless he is with his mom he is with me all of the time. It gives my parents a break, and father and son get to spend some quality time together doing mundane stuff." Ashley said smiling.

"Having Alex about gives me more time to do my home work, so my grades have actually picked up which can only help with getting me into a college on my own merits without a scholarship being needed." Ashley said to her.

"I appreciate your discression, Alex and I are working out this mess with the hope that we don't hurt Kai in the process. You know she had no part in naming him, so I went with what I'm pretty sure would anger and annoy her parents. Their traditional English aristocracy, I imagine having their eldest grandson not having his grandfathers name would probably be quite insulting to them. Well Kai has my fathers name in his, but not Alex's." Ashley said. "I guess you could call it madness that I still love the girl that left me and her child behind, but sadly and maddeningly its true. It would be so much easier for us all I guess if I could put those feelings behind me, I don't trust her but I still lover her now thats demented." he said to her.

[Rosalie Naples]

"Father son time is very important" Rosalie said. "So it is good you spend so much time with him. This is what he will remember being with his dad and doing the fun stuff together. That is what I remember most having picnics going for horseback rides with my mother and father. And so whenI have kids I plan on doing the same things because I know that is what I want my children to remember." She was very very close with her parents which she was sure was very apparent as she talked about that. She knew the warmth of her voice conveyed how much she loved them and respected the. "The mundane stuff is always fun, you just have fun and enjoy life and enjoy what you are doing in that very moment."

"It is good you want to go to school, where do you want to go to college? Do you know yet?" she asked him and sipped some more of her soup and took a sip of her drink. "Have you thought about your major? I know some people have trouble with that" she said. She knew plenty of her friends that just could not decide what they wanted to be, they kept flip flopping back and forth between choices.

"Your welcome for my doscression. Every word spoken I will keep to myself regarding this situation"s he smiled. "It is good your trying to work out, it shows how much you both love yoru son to want to make it easy on him. More parents should do it that way instead of intentionaly or unintentionally hurting their kids by hurting the other parent" she smiled and finished off her drink and began finishing off her soup. Her body was nice and warm with the soup going through her body. "It is not madness you love her, you can not help how your herat feels" she said softly. "The heart has a funny way of who it loves at times. Maybe once trust is built she might love you back. Or she could still love you and not tell you" she said honestly. "Don't give up on your feelings for her completely."

[Ashley Bolton]

Ashley grinned, "I either want to do journalism or something else to do with writing, I'm already a member of the school paper, which helps because when it comes to colleges I'll have writing samples to give them as well as hopefully a recommendation from the school itself." Ashley said to her. "I need a good body of work for that kind of course, so when I'm not playing football for the school I'm writing. I have nothing published as yet, apart from the school paper of course, but that hasn't stopped me trying, if I had to guess most of it is because of my age rather than my ability."Ashley said with a grin on his face.

"What you suggest is great in theory but it sucks when you have a child in the middle of those feelings, anything other than to hide those feelings have the potential to destroy any kind of relationship mother and son have. There is a lot more at stake than my feelings for Alex." Ashley said to him with a sad smile on his face. "I can survive Alex leaving quite easily, but the same could not be said of Kai... he was to young to remember her leaving the first time. Hell he was days if not hours old when it happened, his two now, if I drive Alex of this time nothing I do can protect him from that fact. That and I'm pretty sure Greg would be peeved as hell that I did. There are somethings that you just have to bite the bullet for, and that boy is my first and last priority. If Alex leaves this time because of her father, I need to know that my conscience is clear. Otherwise I won't be able to look Kai in the eye and tell him what happened when he ask." Ashley said.

"Its kind of funny really, two years ago if you had asked me what I'd tell him about his mom and why she left, when he was old enough to understand... I would have told him the truth and nothing but the truth. Now I contemplate the idea of just telling him he was ill or something, save them both the pain, but I know if he finds out the truth he'd hate me for lying." Ashley said to her. "Its quite the quandry, lie or not to lie, hide or not to hide... either way one of them is going to get hurty. Alex doesn't realize it yet but its going to be her, because neither of us can bare to see Kai hurt." Ashley added with a odd kind of look on his face, part of him actually liked the idea of her facing that kind of pain, another part of him wanted to try and protect Alex from it.

[Rosalie Naples]

"I think it is very cool that you want to write" Rosalie said. "It takes a very creative and smart person to be a writer. I love books but I am not a good writer, unless it would be for a magazine about animals. I can write about what I know but thinking of stories off the top of my head is hard" she admited. "What kind of writing do you want to do? For newspapers? or novels or poems?" She did not know much about writing but she did know there different kinds of writers. "I do write in my journal that is my writing I do" she said after she thought for a moment.

"You should not worry about your consience being clear you ahve no reason to feel guilty. It is clear you are doing all you can to make the situation better. And if she would leave it is all on here. And let me tell you this you are being more mature in this whole situation then men more then twice your age. I have seen some divorces that should be considered illegal because the parents act like they don't care about the child. If you ever need to vent if things get bad and you need a party to vent to I can give you my number and you can call. I can listen and do my best to give advice to you about things. But I am here for a listening ear or a person to vent to if need be." She tore off a piece of a paper napkin and asked to borrow the waiters pen and wrote down her number and pushed it over to Ashley. And she ordred chocolate cheesecake for dessert and stayed quiet in case he wanted to order something to.

When the waiter walked away she continued talking. "You can't ever lie to him about anything. It would hurt terriably, and the truth will to but the truth is what he needs to know" she said agreeing with him. "You can't say how he will react he might be glad you told him the truth and ask answers from her and then get over it, or he may have anger for a bit, but in the end be better for it knowing the truth of it all. You know him better then anyone and when the time comes to tell him I have full confidence in you that you will know just what to say to him, the perfect words will come when it is that time. But at least you do have plenty of time to tell him, he won't really be able to understand till he is much older."