Disclaimer: I own nothing except Tyler

Things had been going well. Nick and Catherine were still together. Tyler was doing well to. Nick had him all signed up for kindergarten. Tyler seemed excited but nervous at the same time. Nick was doing a lot better and nightmares were less frequent now. He still had them, just not as often.

Today they were school shopping. Catherine and Lindsay were going with them so Lindsay could get stuff for school.

"Ok. First we need crayons" Nick said reading Tyler's list.

"Can I get the big box of crayons?" Tyler asked holding up the biggest box of crayons the store had.

"Why do you need that one bud?" Nick asked.

"Cause it has a sharpener dad. Duh!" Tyler said.

Nick laughed.

"Ok Ty. Put it in the cart" he said.

Tyler did.

"Pencils" Nick said.

He grabbed a package of pencils and dropped them in the cart.

After shopping for supplies they went to look at clothes. Tyler grew bored looking at clothes.

"Can't we just go to lunch daddy?" he asked.

"After we finish" Nick said.

They finished getting clothes and went to pay. Then they headed to lunch.

"So are you ready for kindergarten Tyler?" Catherine said.

"Yeah. But I don't get to come home at lunchtime anymore" Tyler said.

"You don't like that?" Catherine asked.

"No because I'll miss my daddy" Tyler said.

"Aw Tyler, I'll miss you too. But I'll be there when you get home" Nick said.

"Ok" Tyler said.

When they finished lunch they all went home.

"Hey bud, what would you think if daddy asked Catherine and Lindsay to live at our house?" Nick asked as he and Tyler played a board game.

"Why?" Tyler asked.

"Well I love Catherine and I want her to live here. But I want to make sure it's ok with you" Nick said.

"It's ok" Tyler said.

Nick had wanted to ask Catherine for a while now. They'd been dating for over three months now and they'd talked about moving into together. But Nick was worried about how Tyler would take having two new people in the house. After all it had just been those two for so long.

After Tyler went to bed that night Nick packed his book bag. He still couldn't believe Tyler was five and going to kindergarten. It seemed like such a short time ago that he'd been left on Nick's porch as a baby.

Nick finished packing the book bag and went up to bed.

Note: next chapter will be Tyler going to school