Chapter 7:
Sandy woke up, because he felt something tickling his nose. As he opened his eyes he immediately saw what had woken him, his little girl hovered over him and tickled his face with her soft blonde curls. As Sophie saw that she had succeeded in waking her still sleepy parents she burst into giggles.
With that Kirsten woke up,too. For the first time Sandy regonized where he was and that even Kirsten had joined them last night. Kirsten and Sandy looked at each other and smiled, before giving each other a good-morning-kiss. "Morning, my two beautys" Sandy said looking back to his little daughter.
"Hi daddy" Sophie said still giggling. "Hey what are you laughing at, i can tell you feel much better, sweetheart, maybe too good" Sandy said and started to tickle her.
Kirsten laughed and put her hands on Sandys "Honey stop she's almost crying of laughter". "Yea daddy, stop stop!" Sophie said laughing.
The three of them were too preocoppied with themselves and didn't hear Sophie Sr. entering the room cause she didn't say anything at first, just watching the family time.
Sandy suddenly noticed that his mother was watching them with a disapproaving look on her face. He let go of Sophie and she used the opportunity to escape him and ran out of the room, giggling. Sandy and Kirsten looked at the Nana and prepared themselves for her next comment.
"What are you doing here, together in the bed of your daughter?" Sophie said, talking to them like they were 4-year-olds themselves who did something wrong.
"We...um fell asleep while reading something to her last night" Sandy explained. "Umm Sophie when did Julie leave yesterday?" Kirsten said trying to change the subject.
"I don't know. After we had this...um.. i mean... she didn't feel well and left, i don't know when exactly" Sophie , for the first time in her life, rambled.
"Ma. What happened?" Sandy said picking up to his mothers behaviour. "Nothing, just what i said, she wasn't feeling well and left" Sophie said quickly.
" Not feeling well? She wrote us a note, that she would miss her family so much and that was the reason she'd go back to newport so unexpectly" Kirsten said raising an eyebrow.
"Well...umm..yea sorry then i just got it wrong. Who wants breakfast?" Sophie said , trying to change the subject. Sandy sat up in bed and glared at her: "MA! What did you do, that she wanted to leave so suddenly?" Sandy asked a little angry. "Nothing Sandfort.." Sophie began but was quickly interrupted by Kirsten who was standing up and leaving the room to give them some privacy, cause she knew if Sophie would admit a fault, not in front of her, that's for sure.
"So ma,spit it out!" were the last words Kirsten heard, as she went downstairs to find her little daughter.
It was a few minutes later and Kirsten sat in the kitchen with Sophie on her lap. They had just finished making breakfast and Sophie drank some orange juice, as Sandy came sturming down the stairs, followed by his mother. He didn't say anything but Kirsten could tell Sandy was angry.
"Umm..honey want some breakfast?" Kirsten started the converstation, deciding she would talk to him about the conversation with his mother later.
Sophie Sr. tried to say something but Sandy just put a hand up to signal at her that she should better keep her mouth shut, what she, to Kirstens surprise, just did.
She really must have done something wrong, Kirsten thought.
"Sure" Sandy answered shortly and they started eating their breakfast, except for Sophie Sr.
"Umm Sophie, aren't you hung..." Kirsten began to ask but was interrupted by Sophie: " No thanks, i'm going for a walk" Sophie said and left before Sandy could protest.
Now was Kirsten really confused. What had happened to Sophie Cohen, a women who never would escape because of an uncomfortable subject?
"Baby what.." Kirsten began but stopped herself cause she thought about their little daughter, who was still eating on her lap.
"Mommy?" Sophie suddenly asked. "Yea sweetheart?" Kirsten anwered. "Why's the nana not eating with us?"
"She's not hungry, baby" Sandy answered for her, still not with a calm voice
"Where's she going, daddy?" Sophie asked again, always curious to know everything.
"She's just going for a walk and will be back soon, honey" Kirsten helped Sandy.
"Why's she so sad?" Sophie asked again and with that Sandy stood up and left the house without saying a word.
Kirsten looked gob smacked. First Sophie Cohen and now Sandy Cohen, both people who wouldn't get out of themselves in a million years. What happened?
Sophie suddenly started to cry which caused Kirsten back to reality. Kirsten wrapped her arms around her "Baby what's wrong?" .
"I made daddy sad" Sophie continued to cry. Kirsten rubbed her back "No you didn't. Daddy just needs a little fresh air. It has nothing to do with us" Kirsten tried to calm her.
Sophie calmed down a little but still sobbed quietly "arusure?". Kirsten giggled "Yes i am sure, honey".
After Sophie had stopped crying Kirsten decided to distract her, and herself, a little and they sat down on the couch and watched Pinoccio together.
2 hours later and still no Sandy or Sophie, Kirsten started to worry terribly. Sandy never acted that way. What had happened?
The front door opened and suddenly Kirsten was back in reality. She saw Sandy entering the hall, an exhausted look on his face. Sophie had fallen asleep on her chest so she wasn't able to go over to him instead she called, as quietly as she could "Baby, please come over here". Sandy noticed Kirsten lying on the couch, so he made his way over to her. He sat down next to Kirsten on the couch, his head still hanging down and Kirsten began to stroke his hair "Honey, what happened?".
Sandy grabbed Kirstens other hand and kissed it softly before sighting "Aww baby, believe me, you don't wanna know".
"Sure i do" Kirsten said softly to reassure him.
"Well my mothe..." he began but was interrupted by a yawning Sophie.
"Daddy, are you still upset?" Sophie said sleepy the second she noticed Sandy.
"No baby, and daddy's very sorry how he behaved this morning, it had nothing to do with you..." Sandy said kissing her forehead.
"Okay" murmured Sophie and drifted back to sleep. Sandy and Kirsten chuckled lightly at their daughter but Kirsten was quickly serious again: "What happened, baby?" she asked again. "My mother, she and Julie... I don't know...they were alone.." Sandy began "Oh Oh" Kirsten added. "Yep.. and i don't know how it happened but my mother asked Julie how Marissa was..." Sandy said his eyes looking down again. "Oh my god. What did she say?" Kirsten asked worried.
"Well Julie told her that..you know Marissa is.. and of course my mother had to make some comments about it... about the drama in her life...that it had been her own fault...you know" Sandy said sadly, disappointed that his mother obviously hadn't changed at all.
"What? Why is she doing this? I need to call Julie!" Kirsten said , still a little shocked, because even she thought Sophie could behave herself after all this time.
"Yea, i'll take the sleeping beauty here to bed for her nap, and you can call Julie and apologize for me.." Sandy said scooping the little girl up in his arms, but as Sandy wanted to stand up and walk away, Kirsten grabbed his arm, so he had to face her. She softly kissed his lips and pulled a few inches away, so their noses were still almost touching : "Honey, it has nothing to do with you. It's not your fault", she said and walked into the kitchen to grab the telephone, while Sandy went upstairs to put Sophie to bed...
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"yea but i'm still really sorry that your visit was this bad. First you have to babysit our little weirdo and then you have to listen to some unfair comments about Marissa" Sandy heard Kirsten tell Julie as he entered the kitchen, after he had put down his sleeping daughter.
"No of course i'm not mad at you for leaving so suddenly. You can visit us whenever you want again!" Kirsten said. Sandy made his way behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist, resting his head on her shoulder and kissing her cheek.Kirsten smiled.
"Of course. Yea. Uhh sure. Aww miss you,too. Well.. oh yea. Nonono sure. yea. Alright. Bye" Kirsten said and hung up the phone.
"So everything okay with her?" Sandy asked. "Yea. She wasn't mad at us..just a little hurt, you know..." Kirsten explained softly and turned around in his arms.
"Yea i know. And i am really sorr" he began but was silenced by Kirstens mouth on his. When they pulled apart ,Kirsten whispered: "Sandy, it's not your fault. But...where's your mother?",she asked. "I don't know. I think she'll be away for a while. Maybe she's looking for a hotel... if Sophie Cohen is emberassed once, she's really emberassed. So...i don't care. She can be away as long as she wants..." Sandy replied. "SANDY!" Kirsten said warning. "I'm just saying that i don't know where she is" Sandy corrected himself.
Kirsten nodded and accepted his answer. "Well..."
"what"
"are"
"we"
"doing"
"now"
they said and they both laughed. They always knew what the other was thinking.
Sandy pulled her in for another kiss, this time more passionately. Kirsten tried to protest at first, thinking about their daughter and that they were in the middle of the kitchen, but Sandy read her thoughts and before she could protest, wrapped both arms tight around her waist and scooped her up, carrying her into their bedroom. Kirsten giggled: "I see" and Sandy laughed,too.
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A few moments later they were passionately kissing, already naked and under their blanket as they heard a loud noise from downstairs.
They immediately pulled apart and Kirsten mouthed an worried "oh god" to Sandy. Sandy looked down at her and said "Sophie can't make a sound as loud as this so it has to be a..." Sandy said but Kirsten interrupted him "a what? a criminal? a thief?" Kirsten asked tightening her arms around Sandys middle.
"shh sweetie, it's 5.00pm, the middle of the day, don't worry until we know what's going o.." he said but was interrupted by a even louder noise from downstairs.
Kirsten now pulled Sandy as tight against her as she could so he almost had to stop breathing "Okay baby, i gotta go downstairs and see what's going on.." Sandy explained. "NO! No you won't!" Kirsten said scared. "Sweetie, what's about Sophie?" Sandy said and Kirsten suddenly remembered their little daughter. "Okok go but please let me go with you" Kirsten begged. "Honey, please i'll be back soon, i can't think straight when i have to worry about you!" Sandy said and wriggled out of Kirstens grasp, climbing out of their bad. Kirsten nodded and pulled the blanket up, until it reached her nose and only her eyes were sticking out.
Sandy pulled on his boxers and put his robe on, then he quietly made his way downstairs to find out what or better WHO was causing these noises...
!!!HEY!!!! Soooo do you wanna know how the whole thing will turn out?? Who's in the Cohen-house? Will something happen to Sandy while he looks what's going on? What about Kirsten and Sophie? If you wanna know what'll happen, tell me :)
Thank you so much for your awesome reviews! And yes , you were right, of course Julie left a bit suddenly, but now you know why )
Love ya, Jen.