It Started Out With Coffee At Starbucks, chapter 5

When they finally found a restaurant to eat in, Mike and Rachel sat at one side of the 4 person table and Billie and Adrienne sat on the other side. After they all ordered, they sat there talking until their food arrived. While they were eating, Billie's phone started going off. *Billie's POV* "Hello?" "Billie Joe?" "Yes mom. It's me." "Oh hi sweetie. Can I talk to Adrienne?" "Yeah." I handed the phone to Adie and said "It's my mom." She nodded and spoke into the phone. "Hi Ollie." I couldn't make out what my mom was telling Adrienne but from what I knew Adrienne was now talking to Jakob or Joey. I looked over at Mike and Rachel and they were talking to each other and I could tell right then Mike loved her. Just they way he was looking at her, I could tell and I know Adrienne could tell too. And I knew that it was just a matter of time before Rachel was one of Mike's top priorities if she already wasn't. "Billie?" I looked at my wife and said "What's up with the boys?" She put my phone on the table and said "Joey let Simba loose, in his words 'by mistake' earlier and Jake's heartbroken." "How many cats are those two going to go through?" "I don't know but I think Jakob should get a new one for his birthday." "Okay but what if Simba comes back?" "Have any of the other 5 come back?" "Well no. But that was a smart cat." *End of Billie's POV* Mike looked over at Adrienne and Billie and said "Who let the cat out?" "Joey... He thought Simba wanted to go play in the frontyard." Mike laughed and said "Speaking of the evil young Armstrong's... Do you think they'd come out on tour in October after that break? Estelle's coming with me and Rachel and she wanted Joey, Jake, and Ramona to come too." Adrienne nodded and said "We need to give Ollie a break anyway. Billie call the tutor." Billie looked up with his fork in his mouth and said "Now?" although it was muffled because he had a mouthful of food. "Not right this second... tomorrow or soon. Just this week." "Okay, okay." The four went back to eating and then with 3 hours left till their flight to Toronto, Mike, Rachel, Adrienne, and Billie returned to the hotel. An hour and a half later, it was time to leave for the airport. Mike and Billie were sent down to the limo to bring out the suitcases and Rachel and Adrienne were sent to get Tre and Claudia. 20 minutes later, Rachel, Adrienne, Claudia, and Tre made their way down to the limo waiting for the outside. On the way to the airport, Tre decided to open a bottle of champagne in the limo to just have a 'sip' but by the time the got to the airport he was tipsy. For the next hour, the group of 6 sat in the waiting area of the airport waiting to go to the private plane. Finally, around 8 pm they all boarded the plane. Adrienne, Claudia, and Rachel were all armed for the 4 hour flight with all of the newest really popular magazines like People and Vogue and they even had a few celebrity gossip magazines. 2 hours later, Billie and Adie were asleep cuddled up next to each other, Tre was watching a movie, Claudia was asleep with her head on Tre's lap, Mike was playing a video game, and Rachel was staring out the plane window. Mike paused the game and walked over to Rachel's seat. He wrapped his arms around her waist and she jumped. "Oh sorry Rach." "It's okay." Rachel kissed Mike's cheek and said "It's flying...gets me everytime especially at night. I hate flying, werewolves, clowns, and bugs. Plus heights for the first time." Mike laughed, sat next to Rachel, leaned his head on her shoulder and said "Are we going straight to you parents from the airport?" "Uh... Depends. What time is it?" Mike looked at his watch. "10:30... L.A. time." "So it's around 2:30 there... We could if you wanted cause it'll be around 4:30 when we land and then about 45 minutes to my parents house. So around quarter after five we'd get there. My parents wouldn't be up till around 7:30 so I can use my key, get us in, and then stay the night in my old room... Well it still is my room. Then when we get up you can meet my parents." "Okay. Your dad wouldn't get mad would he?" "Why?" "Uh... Cause I'm there." "I'm 23 it's the 20-year old daughter he worries about. Jesus I've had so many guys in that house he wouldn't..." Rachel stopped talking and looked at Mike. He had a somewhat suprised look on his face and said "How many guys have stayed overnight in your room?" "I don't know... It's not that many. Not many stayed overnight it was usually when my parents weren't home." Mike pulled away from Rachel and picked up her copy of People. He started skimming through it and she put her arm around his shoulder, kissed his cheek, and said "I've only ever been with 15 guys. Mostly in New York. 4 have stayed overnight at my house. And one was the guy I was engaged to when I was 20." "You were engaged?" "Yeah for 5 months. But he cheated on me with his ex-girlfriend and I caught them. In mine and his apartment." "Why'd he cheat on you?" "I didn't want to have sex until after we were married. See about 2 months after we got engaged... I was feeling sick and went to the doctor's only to find out I was pregnant and Matt was happy. We both were. But then about a month later and I said I wanted to make sure nothing happened to the baby so I didn't want to do it again till me and him got married that Christmas which was 5 months after my due date. So then he started cheating to satisfy his need for sex and I caught them one day when I came home from a class." "Oh Rach... I'm sorry. That must've been the worst." "Yeah... Especially since the girl was my best friend from New York at the time." "Jesus... So you had the baby then I'm guessing?" "Yeah I didn't want to have an abortion that far along after all the hell I went through up till then with Matt and I didn't want to kill the baby just cause I was single. Then I had her and since it was early August I was home in Toronto so I took the first semester of school off and my parents helped out with Abby then in January I went back to school in New York and moved in with my brother Jeff and his wife Ashlie so Ashlie could watch Abby along with their two sons while I was at class." "So Abby's 3 now then?" "Yeah." "What's her full name?" "Abigail Marie Sawyer. But I make everyone call her Abby. Abigail just seems to proper to me." Mike laughed and said "That's how Estelle got the nickname of Stella." Rachel laughed and said "I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner. It's just I thought a rockstar like you wouldn't want to date a single mom like me." "I would date you no matter what." Mike kissed Rachel and said "I should've questioned you if you had another younger sister other than Bridget when I saw how good you were with Stella but I just let it go. And I don't care if you have a daughter. I actually wanna see if she's anything like you now." Rachel laughed again and said "Well you'll have to wait till breakfast cause she doesn't stay in my room and I really don't wan to wake her up cause she won't go back to sleep." "Okay." Mike kissed Rachel again and said "Do you want Abby to come on tour? Cause I won't mind. It would've only been us on my bus anyway at least until Estelle comes out." "Are you serious? Could she really?" Mike nodded and Rachel said "Oh my god I would love to have her on tour. And I swear she won't cause any problems cause she never cries unless she wants attention." "Okay, okay. She'll leave with us when we go to Paris at the end of the week." Rachel hugged Mike and said "Thank you so much." "No prob sweetie." "Great two people to pack for." "Plus all your stuff to move back to Oakland." "God that too... And Abby has so many toys." "Well we have 4 days in Toronto. So we'll pack your stuff for Oakland while we're there and ship it to Annie's... She's got a key to my place so I'll get her and Tim to bring it over for us and we'll unpack when we go home in October." "Okay." Mike looked at his watch and said "I better fix my watch to Toronto time. What time's it there now?" Rachel took his wrist and said "Uh... 11:30 in L.A. making it 3:30 in Toronto. God no wonder I'm tired... I'm used to Toronto time." Mike took his wrist back, fixed his watch, and said "We might as well get an hour of sleep now... Everyone else is asleep." "Okay. Sleep it is." Mike put his arm around Rachel's shoulder and she laid her head on his shoulder. Within 10 minutes they were both asleep. An hour and a half later, they finally landed at Pearson International Airport in Toronto a half an hour late due to turbulence. Mike woke Rachel up and they got off the plane and walked to the car waiting for them with their luggage. After Mike put his and Rachel's luggage in the back of the black SUV, they climbed into the front seat and left the airport. An hour later, after taking a wrong turn, they got to Rachel's parents. Mike got their bags and Rachel led him to the front door.