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Moving

"It is so nice that you actually get a weekend off." Jackie told Nick as the two sat on the couch cuddling with one another after tucking the kids in for the night.

"Yeah, I'll say." Nick agreed.

"Honey, there is something I need to talk to you about, I don't want to make you upset, but I would like you to think about what I am going to ask you." Nick told her.

"Ok what is it?" Jackie asked. "I got another job offer, I would be the supervisor of the graveyard shift at the crime lab in your hometown, it's about the same amount of money I make now but being that the town is a lot smaller and a lot less crime happens there than here it would be a pretty easy job."

"What is your feeling about it?" Jackie asked.

"Well I'm torn, I love my coworkers here, and if I took the job I would be moving even farther from my family but at least your family could move back with us, and it would be good experience for me. How do you feel about moving back to your hometown?" He asked.

"Honestly, I'm not that thrilled about it, I didn't like it growing up, there wasn't much to do at all. It was a safe place to grow up but I don't think that is true anymore, as I got older it really started to change and the crime rate was steadily increasing, and from what I hear about it now it's even worse, I'll admit that it is safer then Vegas but still. And there was really nothing to do there, when I was a teenager if you didn't drink or party, which I didn't it was really boring, I don't want that for our kids as they get older. Do you remember when we were dating and you'd come to visit me?"

"Yes." He answered.

"Well, the only thing we really did is go out to eat, go bowling, to coffee, and go to the movies when you'd come because that is all there was to do. I used to feel bad because when I'd come to Vegas to see you you'd take me to all kinds of neat places, and then all I had to offer you when you came for a visit was dinner and a movie."

"I like going to dinner and a movie and so do you so I don't really see the problem." He told her sounding confused.

"Yes you're right, I do, but it's nice to have options to do other things, like we have here in Vegas, or like we have when we go visit your parents in Texas."

"That's true." He agreed.

"Listen, I shut down the Chicago move pretty fast, so if you really want to move to my hometown I'll support you, but I at least want to wait for the school year to end so Jasmine can finish out the school year with her friends and Mrs. Rice who she adores, and so I can finish out the year with my students."

"I can certainly make that happen." He assured her.

"Do you want to take this job?" She asked.

"Well I don't know but I'm debating, I had no idea you felt that way about your hometown."

"Yes you did, I've told you before." She told him.

"Yeah but I didn't think you hated it that bad."

"Most of the young people there call it sleeperville because it is so boring." She added with a laugh.

Nick laughed too. "Well I have some news for you that may make your hometown a little more enticing." He said as he handed her a piece of paper that he had printed off of the computer.

"What's this about?" She asked curiously.

"Well it says here that there is a teaching job open at the school that you student taught in, the very same school your mentor teaches at now and the job is for the same grade she teaches, you could be Jane's teaching partner, and with all the experience you have you'd be a shoe in for the job."

TBC….