Chapter 4
That night after Sam closed up Cheers and went to Diane's apartment to pick up Bonnie. When he got there, he saw Bonnie sleeping on Diane's couch. Diane got up from the side of the couch and went over and hugged Sam. "She is one heck of a girl. I can definitely see a resemblance between you two."
Sam smiled and gently picked Bonnie up and started to carry her out of the door. "Thanks for watching her Diane. I know that you have better things to do than look after someone's kid."
Diane smiled and opened the door for Sam. "It was no trouble. We had fun."
Sam walked out to his car with Bonnie in his arms and gently laid her down in the backseat and drove to his apartment. When he got there, he gently laid Bonnie on the couch, kissed her on the forehead and then went into his own room.
It was a few hours later or it seemed like a few minutes to Sam, he heard screams coming from the living room. He quickly got out of bed, put on his bathrobe and ran into the living room where he found Bonnie sitting up on the couch and had her arms wrapped around her knees. "Bonnie, are you ok?"
Bonnie looked up with tears in her eyes. "Yeah, Daddy. Just had a nightmare is all."
Sam walked over to the couch and hugged his daughter. "Do you want to talk about it?"
Bonnie hugged her father back and said. "My nightmare was about you leaving me like Mommy did. Are you going to leave me too?"
When Sam heard of that, he thought that he felt his heart broke in two. "You don't have to worry about that Bonnie. I'm not going to leave you for a long time."
Bonnie looked up at Sam with tears in her eyes. "You promise?"
Sam smiled and kissed Bonnie on her forehead. "I promise. How about you go back to sleep?"
Bonnie nodded and laid her head back on the pillow. Sam got up and started to head back to his room, but before he could get there, Bonnie called him again. "Daddy, can you stay until I fall asleep?"
"Yeah." Sam said as he walked back to the couch and sat on the cushion that Bonnie wasn't lying on and put her head in his lap and smiled. He knew that there was nothing that he wouldn't do to make sure that he was going to keep the promise that he had made to the one woman that he wouldn't leave for anything.