"You were serious," Julia commented when she opened her door and saw JC standing on the other side.

"Yah," he nodded. "Is Micah still up?"

Julia nodded. "We were watching Leno. There’s some group on there he likes, *NSYNC, never heard of them but I figured what could it hurt letting him stay up?"

"You’re so amusing," JC shook his head. "Can I see him?"

Julia nodded again, leading him into the living room. "There was an interesting clip of you on the news."

"Oh yah?"

"Yah, seems you were uh I guess it could be called dancing, outside your hotel in LA," Julia giggled.

JC blushed. "I got a little excited."

"It’s all right, as long as your dorkiness doesn’t rub off on Micah."

"Poor kid’s got enough dorkiness from you," JC replied.

"Hey," Julia said, bumping him with her hip. "Micah, we’ve got a visitor," she added, pausing at the doorway.

"Jace and the others are on television," he replied, not taking his attention off the television. "They’re talking about us."

"Really sweetie?" Julia said, motioning for JC to follow her. "What are they saying?"

"Jay asked Jace if he was my father... You haven’t told him?" he asked.

"We taped it earlier today," JC said. "Before your mom found out."

"Jace?!" Micah exclaimed.

"Hi, Micah," he smiled.

"Hi, Jace," Micah smiled back. "Are you really my dad?"

"Yah," he nodded. "Is that all right?"

"Yah, you’re cool, I like you."

"Well I like you too, Micah."

"Can I call you Daddy?"

"You can call me whatever you want," JC answered.

"Cool," Micah smiled.

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"Micah’s certainly taken to you being his father," Julia said when JC came into the living room after tucking in Micah, who insisted JC did it or he wouldn’t go to bed.

"I understand how he feels about it. When my parents adopted me, I fell in love with the idea of having parents," JC answered.

Julia nodded. "I meant it when I said I was glad you’re the father. Micah really likes you and you’re a really great guy."

"I’m glad Micah’s mine," JC said. "He’s a great kid and he’s got a pretty good mom too."

They sat in silence for a while then Julia spoke up. "You know you can come visit whenever you wait, right?"

"Yah..."

"And if you wanna I dunno, have him visit you or something, I’m not opposed as long as we talk about it."

"All right, good to know. I wanna see Micah as much as I can."

"That’s good... When do you go back on the road?"

"Next month, for a small tour. We’re on break for while after that so Justin can do ‘Rent’ and then we’ve gotta work on the album."

"All right... There’s something else I feel I need to tell you."

"Yeh?"

"Remember me telling you about that guy from the daycare I went out with?" JC nodded. "Not that you probably care but well we’re dating..."

"That’s great," JC smiled. "I’m glad you found someone."

"Thanks. Just wanted you to know cause like he’s around and stuff."

"Well if you ever need a baby sitter, you know my number."

"Yah," Julia smiled.

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