There are flowers in my heart

 "Oh, stop worrying about Boone," Gage did have a baby to tend to. The infant was so tiny. He wasn't used to this, but he'd had some all-nighters to get used to. And now he was at the coffee shop with his six-week-old baby girl and Alfie to the rescue. Only Alfie sat there a bit unconscious and Gage was struggling with the diaper bag and a baby.

"Well, he and Lily are worth fighting for," Alfie said about the matter.

"Did they break up?" Gage looked at him blankly as he put the awoken Ava up to his shoulder. Of course, she spit up. He knew she didn't like breast milk in a bottle. But he didn't hurry to clean it up. Chili arrived with a bunch of napkins and cleaned the mess. He thanked her.

"Not officially." 

Alfie was in a pout as he went back to his creamed iced coffee.

"Some things, you just got to let alone," Gage told him. "Look, you think I got any help from Henry when I was at my wits end-" Oh, he couldn't even say her name now. She was just Alec's mother who signed the paperwork to make Nora his mother. "I was in high school. Boone is much older. There is no..no baby involved."

"Gawd, I hope not," Alfie cringed at the thought.

"It'll all work out," he looked at baby Ava and said sweet nothings. He knew who he had to keep an eye on and it wasn't Alfie's problems with Boone.

"Did you take the test yet?" Gage asked about the state pharmacy exam.

"Not yet," Alfie shrugged.

"See, you are just using Boone as an excuse," Gage told him he needed to snap out of it. He was certain his best friend was his own worst enemy. "You aren't just doing this for you. It's for your family." Gage reminded him Alfie needed to stay on track.

"Well, thanks a lot for putting the pressure on me."

Alfie looked at him wide-eyed. Gage sighed then as if Alfie might as well be going in for major surgery.