My Biggest Mistake: My Greatest Joy

Cassie Holmes pushed her hair back away from her eyes. She quickly packed up her bookbag, and grabbed her black bag and her keys off the table. She walked to the man in the back of the room, sitting behind a desk.

"Mr. Cohen?"

The man looked up and smiled at Cassie he peeked at the clock and nodded waving her on. Cassie smiled and jogged out of the class, into the senior parking lot. She opened the driver door to her red Honda Accord and sat down in the driver's seat. A few tears escaped her eyes as she started the car up. She drove for ten minutes before reaching the building. She got out and stood in the group of females. The females gave her dirty stares. Cassie moved her hair in front of her face.

'I'm just as good as they are. Who cares if I'm eighteen and my child is four? I don't care. I'll never regret it.' Cassie thought as she stared straight ahead waiting for her son, Reed to come out of his pre-school classroom. She grinned seeing Reed come flying out of the classroom his curly brown hair going all over the place. She crouched down and opened her arms to her son.

"How was school kiddo?" Cassie asked carrying Reed in her arms. The other mothers gave Cassie dirty looks as she walked away with Reed.

"School was good. We got to give a talk on our families. I talked about you and Zane. My teacher gave me homework!"

"What does she want you to do?"

"She wants me to find out about my daddy, but I know it makes you upset to talk about it so I told her I wouldn't upset my mommy. She wasn't too happy."

Cassie hugged Reed closer to her and gave him a kiss. "Thank you. Do you want to know about your daddy?"

Reed shook his head. "Nope, I'm ok. Besides I like the way our life is right now. Did you know that sometimes mommies and daddies break up and then a new person enters the family?"

Cassie giggled and nodded her head. "Yeah baby I did know that. How about we go home and have some dinner, then take Zane on a walk?"

Reed grinned at the mention of his dog. "Ok!"

Cassie put Reed in the booster seat and drove back to her apartment. When she was walking down to her apartment door, she saw someone she knew waiting at her door.

"Fuck, we've got trouble."

The man turned around and grinned at Cassie.

"Cassie my dear how have you been?"

"Agent Holden, I've been avoiding you for four years, must have slipped up somewhere." Cassie said unlocking her door and ushering Reed in.

"Indeed you did mess up somewhere and that was by registering for high school. You must know by now that your mother is safe and Division has stopped trying to strengthen our power. All the gifted in this area have gathered to form a community. I however, noticed that our sarcastic lovable little Cassie wasn't with us. So, I decided to do a search and your registration for high school lead me straight to you. So, what do you say about joining our little community?" Agent Holden said following Cassie in small one bedroom apartment. "Nick would be happy to see you."

Cassie stiffened at the mention of Nick. "He left he wouldn't care about me."

"That's not always true. He's been talking about you recently. Wants to know what you're always up to. He heard you were still in school."

Cassie rolled her eyes and walked back into the bedroom. "What else does Nick want to know about me?"

"He wants to see you. Wants to see if you ever got over that flu thing you had."

Cassie mentioned for Reed to follow her into the bedroom. She closed the door and grabbed a change of clothes before heading into the bathroom.

"Yeah, I got over my flu thing. I was pregnant. He left before I found out. He didn't want to be with me." Cassie took off her clothes and slipped into a pair of blue flares, a white cami, and a black shirt that said in red writing, 'I do bad things and I do them very well.'

"We're having a community dinner tonight. He'd love to see you. Your mom is going to be there."

Cassie swung the door open. "My mom?"

Holden nodded. "Yup, so are you going to come? Cause if your not I need to get going so I'm not late for it."

"Let me see if I can get someone to watch Reed."

Ten minutes later Cassie was putting on her black and red Puma shoes. She tied her hair back in a ponytail and lead Holden to her car.

"So, I'm going to be seeing Nick and my mom?"

"Yeah, Kira moved across the world so you won't see her."

Cassie hid her smile and turned up her adult music. Agent Holden and Cassie talked about everything she had missed.

"So Nick's the dad huh?"

"Yes, he is and he doesn't know. So let's keep it that way." Cassie added threateningly. She took a sharp turn and sped up.

"Hey, slow down the turn is right here."

Cassie sped up and took an even sharper turn. "Which house?"

"The black and red trimmed house on the right."

Cassie parked the car behind a Suzuki jeep. She raised an eye at the license plate. "Number one mover? I'm guessing that's Nick's car."

Holden nodded. "Yeah, are you ready to see Nick again?"

"I don't have a choice, I'm already here. So, I kind of got to see him."

Cassie followed Holden into the house.

"Look who I found hiding out in Hallows!" Holden said as he walked into the kitchen. Cassie glared at Holden and gave the group of people a small wave. "Hey guys." She scanned the group quickly and didn't see her mom. "Where's my mom?"

The group shifted uncomfortably.

"Well, see your mom killed herself after all of the things that happened with Division. We knew you wouldn't come otherwise." Nick's voice sounded from behind her. She turned around and felt tears come to her eyes. All those feelings she had for four years came back to her. She flung herself into Nick's arms and started to cry. She felt her heart break for her mom and at the same time it mended while she was in Nick's arms.

"Shhh, its ok she didn't suffer. I made sure of that. Please stop crying Cas, everything is ok."

Cassie shook her head. "Nothing is ok. God, I really fucked up. I should have told you that I was pregnant but I didn't."

Nick stopped and looked at Cassie. "You were pregnant?"

Cassie nodded. "Yeah, that was my flu thingy. You have a son."

"What's his name?"

"Reed, he's four."

Nick wiped away a tear. He hugged Cassie tighter to his body. "Can I meet him?"

"Yeah, let's leave now and you can meet him."