Chapter Six

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"Martin?"

Few seconds later

"Martin?"

Suddenly, Martin is not listening to anybody and not waking up. The person who was calling his name got a frustrated from all of this and decided to take a big swing at it by saying to his friend.

"EARTH TO MARTIN FITZGERALD!"

Hearing that loud and clear, Martin got woken up from his sleep of dreaming about a few things that he can't stop wondering about and to see who was yelling at him like, he turned around on his chair and saw Danny behind his desk, staring at him with a grin on his face while teasing him.

"Oh, it looks like that the federal agent is finally awake. How was your beauty rest?"

Not knowing about a single damn word that his friend was saying to him, Martin who just realized that he had fallen asleep at work, stared at Danny oddly and asked him after doing a small yawn, "Danny, why did you do that?", referring to what Danny did to him earlier, the one when Danny was yelling at him to wake up from his nap on the sunny morning of doing some deskwork on his desk.

He watched Danny starting to sit on the desk surface and after sitting down, Danny crossed his arms and with the same grin on his face, he answered Martin's question by saying to him, "Well, I watched you napping on your chair for about twenty minutes and wanting to know if everything is okay, I came over to you, says your names a couple of times, and while you were napping, I yelled your name and there you are, well and wide awake."

Martin didn't believe that for some reasons and asked Danny another question about the same topic.

"No, Danny, really. Why did you wake me up?"

Danny took a few seconds to think about it and then, told Martin. "Because I needed to get a pen from you because my pen broke and that was my last one and since you had a new batch of pens, I decided to get one from you."

Immediately wanting to get this over with, Martin grabbed a black pen from his pens and pencils holder next to the picture frame of his daughter and put the ballpoint pen in front of Danny before saying to him, "Here your pen. I needed to get a cup of coffee." and got up from his chair to walk to the coffee station to get his coffee fix.

Danny watched his friend walking over to the coffee station and with a new batch of questions about what he saw; he decided to follow Martin to the coffee station to get his answers before heading back to the deskwork.

Once Martin poured the coffee in the paper cup, put in some sugar and cream in the brown liquid, and stirs them all together with a spoon, Martin was about to put the lid on the rim when he knew right away that Danny is right behind him, probably with more questions about Martin Fitzgerald's life.

Without turning to his friend with the many questions, Martin sighed to him and said to Danny, "Danny, what's it now?"

"Martin, who is Renee?"

Hearing that coming out of Danny's mouth, Martin put the cardboard holder over the coffee cup and after doing that, Martin left it there before turning to Danny and asked his friend, "Danny, I don't know about who are you talking about?" and blushes a light pink shade on his cheeks after saying that.

Danny saw Martin's cheeks blushing pink and said to Martin, knew that this Renee keeps Martin blushing whom means that Martin might have meet someone very interesting today but where did he meet her? Let find out.

"You know who I am talking about. The Renee that you were talking about in your sleep. The name of the woman that you said aloud to everybody to hear."

"No, I don't, Danny. I told you. I don't know who you are talking about."

"Come on, Martin. Spill it!" asked Danny whose dark brown eyes were staring at him, wanting an answer to the question about Renee Walker.

Martin Fitzgerald knew that he had to tell Danny about this and after taking a sip of his coffee, Martin put it back on the counter and said to Danny, "Okay, then. I'll tell you about who Renee is." Moments later, Martin leaned over to Danny and whispered to him so no other agents can know about this, "Renee is Sara's new first grade teacher. Renee Walker is her name."

After hearing about that, Danny was a little confused about this and asked Martin, "Is this Renee really the Miss Walker? The Miss Walker that you always thought was an old lady? Are you sure about this, Martin? Since, come on. You were talking all summer about how you are hoping that Miss Walker was a creepy old woman who doesn't sexual harasses you at Sara's school and……"

Martin interrupted Danny's soon to be long speech about the sexual harassment he received from Miss Reichs last year by whispering to him some more, "Yeah, I know that but I am pretty sure that Renee, I meant Miss Walker doesn't do that to me. We had a nice chat together about losing things at home and forgetting about that halfway through outside her classroom."

"Was that why you didn't answer my calls earlier? Because you accidentally left your phone there at your place."

Martin nodded to Danny, telling him that was true and said some more to him, "And I left Sara's lunchbox there too."

Wanting to know about how his lovely goddaughter felt about that, Danny asked Martin about how Sara felt about it, her father suddenly became a forgettable person that morning.

"Sara got a little pissed off at me about it because I think that she never saw me like that before, being that type of person but she calmed down a little when we got to her classroom a little later than we thought and met Miss Walker there a minute later."

Seconds after saying that to Danny, Martin felt his cheeks blushing some more because this is the most embarrassing thing that he ever did in front of a woman, his daughter and a bunch of first-graders in his life. Martin also felt Danny's eyes beaming at him, hearing the Latino agent's voice saying to him softly, "Martin, what had happened after that?"

Hearing that question, Martin looked at Danny and whispered to him, "When I saw Miss Walker for the first time, I got so stunned when I saw her that when she asked me if I am Sara's father, I just said to her: 'Who?'"

Danny looks like that he is about to make fun of him from the look on his friend's face when Martin told him that and knew all along that this is a bad idea to tell him about this and want to get to his paperwork right away before anything else happens to him until Danny put his hand on Martin's arm and told him something about it.

"Martin, I wasn't going to laugh at you about what had happened but I had to ask: What Renee Walker looks like?"

Seeing an image of Renee in his mind, "A few inches shorter than me, an inch or two taller than Sam or Elena, long wavy reddish-brown hair, dark blue eyes, a small and sweet nose, and the best smile that I ever saw, and she was wearing a sleeveless yellow dress."

"In other words, she looks like an angel in a yellow dress." said Danny, referring to Martin's description about the lovely and beautiful Renee Walker. In return, Martin just nodded to him, telling that the words Danny was describing to him about Renee were very true about her.

"No wonder that you ended up being like an idiot in front of her. How Sara reacted to that?"

Martin took another sip of his coffee and with the warm cup in his hands, he looked at Danny and answered the question by saying to him, "I don't know. Maybe embarrassed of what she saw and kept pressuring me to go to work or I'll be late."

"That Niña sure know what she was talking about. You were definitely late for work today. "

"I know that, Danny."

"How Renee reacted to this and are you seeing her anytime soon?" asked a smiling Danny.

Martin saw the smile on Danny and he smiled back to his friend while saying to him after walking back to his desk with his friend, "I think that she was fine with this. She had to head back to the classroom to teach the first-graders and I had to go to work and I'll see her again when I pick Sara up at school later."

"Probably with a lot of stories to tell you." said Danny who is proud of his goddaughter who he hope that Sara had beaten up that Liam kid that day since Sara heard that rumor that Liam will be in her class for first grade a month before school started for her and he gave her that advice while Martin rolled his eyes during it.

"Probably." said back by Martin who sat back on his chair after putting the cup of coffee on the desk surface, hoping that his daughter will come back with stories to tell about her first day of school. After hearing that word from his friend, Danny agreed with him and asked Martin one last question.

"Martin, I am going to the deli shop in a couple of minutes. Want me to get a sandwich or a sub for you?"

Martin smiled at him and nodded before answering Danny's food question by saying to him, "Sure, get me a sub."

"The usual?"

"The usual, Danny." The usual means an Italian style roll with stacks of turkey meat, dark green lettuce, and Provence cheese with mayo on both sides of the bread.

"Fine, then." said Danny and before he can leave his friend alone for the moment, Danny turned to Martin for a few seconds and said some more to him, "And Martin."

Martin looked up to Danny from his desk and said to him, "Yeah, Danny?"

"When you see Renee Walker again, calm down and don't do anything stupid, okay? You wouldn't want that to happen again in the same day, Martin. Just do that for the sake of yourself, Sara, Renee Walker and me. You promise?"

Martin smiled at him and answered Danny's question of wise words by saying to him, "I'm okay with that, Danny. I am promising you that."

"Good, then." said Danny and slowly, a grin was appearing on his face when he asked Martin, "And now, can you give me some money for your sub? I'm not paying for the lunch for the two of us plus Elena. Cough your money up or you will regret it."

In return and very afraid if he doesn't cough up the ten dollars up right away and Danny will do something to him if he don't, Martin dug out a ten dollar bill out of his wallet and put it on Danny's palm.

"Thanks" said a very happy Danny who had completed his mission.