Dom POV

"So Mason you getting hungry ?"

"oh yes daddy I'm super duper hungry I could eat a whole house!"

I laughed at my sons exaggeration of his hunger.

"Well, I don't have a house you can eat but how about pizza?"

"PIZZA! really, aw yeah! wait is it a birthday?"

"Nope, just us having pizza."

I said confused as to why he thought it was a birthday party.

"Oh wow I must've been a really good boy cause mommy never let's me have pizza!"

"oh what do you usually have?"

"we eat a lot of mice and chicken and vegetables, mommy says it'll make me big and strong just like you!"

"that's very true, but mice ?"

"yeah you know mice little white stick looking things they kinda look like bugs so I like them."

I just smiled at him in the backseat and called Letty.

"Hey, is he ok?" She answered on the first ring.

"Yeah he's great we're just talking about dinner and I said we're going for pizza and he said you don't let him have it that you eat mice and chicken and vegetables instead, but I wanted to check if pizza was ok with you first."

She started to laugh on the phone at me.

"He means rice, he never could pronounce the r in rice for some reason, I think he likes to think he's eating mice instead. But yes Dom he can have pizza, I usually have him eat healthy but a slice of pizza isn't going to hurt."

"Ok,I wanted to check with you first just so you know and are aware."

"Dom, it's ok. Just calm down a bit ok, have fun you're his father I trust you to make the right decisions for him. And for what it's worth, I do appreciate you calling me to check first."

"I just don't want you being a screw up."

"Excuse me, you don't want me being a screw up Dom! Are you kidding me right now!" she yelled at me

"ME ME ME! I don't want me to screw it up, sorry this damn

blue tooth cuts in and out."

"You have a blue tooth? haha id love to see how weird you look with it right now."

"well I figured I should be safer on the road with little man in the back, and not having a phone to my ear is safe."

"Dom, really. You are the best driver I know, you can literally drive with your eyes closed. I don't doubt you wouldn't drive carefully with him. But that means a lot that you took that precaution."

"Thats not all, I'm even going to speed limit."

"Wow, driving miss daisy you deserve a medal."

We both laughed, it felt nice to laugh with her again.

"Anyways bab..Letty, I'll see you when I drop him off little man and I are going to talk some more."

"ok, and Dom? have fun and try and relax."

Letty shuttered at the slip up if him almost calling her baby again. She missed that, but she had to be strong about it.

"I'll try, bye Let."

"Bye, tell Mase I love him."

"Mommy said she loves you buddy."

"Love you mommy!"

We arrived at 'Giggles n Hugs' children's restaurant with an indoor play place and tons of kids, we took Jack here for his birthday one year and he loved it.

"Welcome to 'Giggles n Hugs' would you like to be a pirate or a race car driver today!" The cheerful woman asked Mason.

"Race car driver !" Mason jumped excitedly

"Well ok then let's get you to the race track!"

The woman brought us to a table that had toy race cars and tracks to play on. I sat and watched Mason play with the cars.

"What's your favourite car bud?"

"Oh that's easy, a Charger!" I smiled proud of my sons answer.

"That's my boy"

"Hey guys I'm Sarah and I'm going to take your order should we start off with some motor oil to drink and

some tires to eat?" Mason laughed at the girls joke and I laughed at how he enjoyed it.

"That's silly, we can't eat tires, right daddy?"

"That's right, but how about we get some chocolate milk and pepperoni pizza?"

"Oh yes!"

"That sounds a lot tastier than a tire I'll be right back with your order." She said while rubbing Masons hair and he just smiled at the waitress who couldn't have been older than 17. Great, my son was already a flirt.

Our dinner came and we ate the pizza and drank our chocolate milk and I've never had so much fun. I learnt so much about him, I learnt his favourite animal was a shark, his love for cars, how he wants to grow up to be a race car driver or a ninja turtle, his bestfriend is jack and he loves banana pancakes that only Letty can make perfectly for him. I smiled and thought about what an amazing job Letty has done with him, I know most parents brag that their child's the best but Mason was truly amazing and I was so proud to be his dad.

By the time we left Mason was buckled in his seat in the back and we drove back to Lettys. When we got there I noticed he must've fallen asleep. I quietly went to open the back door and unbuckle him. I carried him in my arms so tightly like I felt a need to protect him from anything and everything. When we got to the door I rang the doorbell and Letty answered in sweat pants a tank top with her long locks swept into a messy bun. She looked at me and Mason and smiled she held the door open and moved to the side allowing me to come in and bring him up to his bed.

I walked upstairs to his room, set him in bed and placed a kiss on his forehead and whispered that I loved him and that I will always protect him. I didn't know that Letty was at the door watching me and when I stepped out she smiled at me again.

"I tell him every night." she said making me turn to her

"What?"

"Every night before he goes to bed I tell him mommy and daddy love him, no matter what our relationship is Dom he needs to know that he will always have a loving mother and loving father. No matter what. Even if we fight and disagree you have to promise me, that whenever he stays at your house you tell him how much we both love him. I haven't missed saying that to him once and I don't plan on starting now."

"You really tell him that." I asked sounding grateful and appreciative that she didn't just mention me once and a while to him. Even after our fight the other day."

"Every night, he deserves to know that we will always love him and he could never feel that one of us wouldn't love him because we we're mad at each-other. Just remember that."

I looked in her beautiful brown eyes as my way of saying I understand. We walked to the front door together and she said goodnight, and so did I.

When I got back in my car I felt the urge to go and see my son again. So I walked back to the front door and knocked lightly.

"You forget something ?" she asked me looking confused.

"Yeah, be right back."

I went back up to Masons room and I sat on the chair in his room and watched him sleep for a couple minutes.

"I do this too you know." Lettys soft voice pulled my attention away from him to focus on her.

"I love watching him sleep, it just reminds me that I can make a life good. Maybe not my own but for now I can make his life good and happy. He doesn't have a care in the world and I can only hope it stays like that forever."

"He's just so, so.." I struggled to find the words.

"Perfect." she finished it for me.

"Yeah, he's perfect. He's more than I could've ever asked for in a son. I'm going to do this right for him."

"I know you will, but it takes time and you still have to prove that"

"Can we go to the park tomorrow ?"

I asked wanting to spend as much time as I could with him getting to know him.

"After his doctors appointment yes. Should be done around 12 tomorrow."

"Doctor ?"

"Yeah he's getting a shot for measles."

"Oh" I looked at him sadly, I didn't want him to have to go through pain but I knew it was necessary.

"Do you want to come?"

"Uh yeah, if that's ok with you of course."

"Yes, Dom you can come. Besides it might calm him down a bit if you're there too."

I left for a second time that night and went home, I smiled about tonight I was really happy. After the park I need to kid proof the entire house, and I need to make a bedroom for Mason to sleep in.