UnProfessionalism 4: Milestones
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Ch11: Hypocrite
Hypocrite - somebody who pretends to have admirable principles, beliefs, or feelings but behaves otherwise.
Finn cheered as Austin's football game started. She smirked to herself not seeing Nick not here. He called her bluff, and now she was calling his bluff. He's only been to the games that were on his days. Finn knew that Nick wouldn't really come; he would just tell Austin that he got called away with work. Finn has seen him do it before, and he tried to portray her as the unfit parent.
Finn made mistakes in the past she was only human but she was still being punished for those. Finn is in therapy, and she has that ridiculous court order which still makes her angry. She was held to such strict guidelines and orders while Nick was able to run free and do as he pleased. It grew irritating after awhile.
No men, excluding family members, are allowed in the home of the mother, Julie M. Finlay, while the child, Austin M. Stokes, is there until he reaches the age of thirteen or at the discretion of the father, Nicholas P. Stokes.
Seeing that court order written made Finn's head want to explode. At the time she did understand, understanding Nick's want to protect their son. However now, it irritated her especially now. She can't have a man over Nick could have his little fiancée sleep over and Finn knew that Allie had probably even when Austin was there. Nick was a hypocrite! Finn thought.
Finn turned and saw Nick walking towards the field holding the hand of the woman Finn assumed was Allie. Her hair was drown brown and wavy and long, she was almost as tall as Nick, she was slender, she didn't look like a social worker, and she laughed squeezing Nick's arm as Nick too laughed. Finn wondered if they were this lovey dovey around Austin. Finn's mind began to fire off questions faster then she could answer then.
Across the way… Nick walked towards the football field and spotted Finn looking at them. Nick wasn't really nervous about introducing Allie to Finn because he didn't need Finn's approval. Austin loved Allie, and so did Nick and that was all that mattered.
"Don't leave me alone with her." Allie begged as they got closer to the field, Nick couldn't help but smile. Allie had been nervous, which just showed Nick that she actually gave a damn but made Nick smile.
"What?" Nick chuckled.
"Please don't leave me alone with her. I know I haven't said this but I'm not fond of her." Allie said trying to be the nicest she could.
"You didn't hide it well, babe." Nick teased chuckling again.
"Well, I tried out of respect for you and Austin. Please, that stink she threw in court about the order you would have thought you would've thought that you ran her cat over." Allie said trying to keep her rant PG-13, Nick smiled confused her at her analogy.
"Listen babe…" Nick smiled holding both of her hands trying to ease her nerves. "This is going to be fine. This is just to put her mind at ease, I don't care how she feels about you because I love you and so does Austin. She just wants to intimidate you. I want to thank you for doing this, it means a lot." Nick said smiling and they continued to walk.
"I always thought that Austin looked a lot like you but he looks a lot like his mom too." Allie said seeing Finn clap her hands up in the bleachers. Nick waved at Austin, Austin excited waved back them.
"Pay attention…" Nick chuckled as Austin put his mouthpiece back in ready to tackle whoever had the ball. Austin was not only fast but he always moved with a purpose, he was very athletic.
"Number 9?" Allie asked.
"Austin and I found some old photo albums at my house. My jersey number was nine." Nick explained, Allie chuckled grabbing Nick's arm.
"You guys are too cute," Allie said as they sat on the bleacher. Nick laughed. "This stuff never interested Tristan."
"Austin told me that Tristan doesn't like sports."
"He doesn't." Allie agreed running her fingers through her long hair. Nick couldn't help but watch and smile.
"Where is Tristan today?" Nick asked, Allie loved that Nick actually care about Tristan and not just doing so to get into her pants. Allie felt blessed to find Nick and give Tristan a father figure in his life even though her younger brother had been doing a great job with that.
"My brother took him to the movies. I swear my brother thinks that Tristan is his boy. He sees him more than I do!" Allie playfully whined.
"That's nice that your brother looks after you guys like that." Nick said.
"Wait till you meet him. If you think I'm intimidating just wait…" Allie warned clapping her hands. Nick turned and waved at Finn, knowing that she was staring at them.
"But I don't think you are intimidating though?" Nick teased, Allie laughed.
"I know, I'm not. My brother thinks he's intimidating but were both nerds." Allie laughed. Nick stood up. "Are you alright?" she asked seeing his face grimace.
"My leg has been giving me grief lately." Nick said seeing Finn finally make her way down the bleachers as half time came along. Nick stopped Finn from walking passed them. "Finn, I'd like you to meet Allie." Nick introduced. Finn cursed him for having so much confidence in everything he did, especially now. Allie awkwardly stood up and put out her hand out for Finn to shake.
"I'm Allie."
"Finn." Finn said quickly shaking Allie's hand. The women made awkward eye contact with each other, and an awkward silence and tension engulfed the trio. "Nick, can you give us a minute?" Finn asked, Nick looked skeptical and looked at Allie who surprised nodded telling him it was alright.
"Yeah?" Nick asked and Allie nodded again. "I will go get some more water for Austin." Nick said awkwardly limping away, it was a hot day and Austin got always use more fluids.
"His leg bothering him?" Finn asked.
"Yup." Allie asked, she wanted no part in this little talk with Finn and immediately regretted agreeing to it now. "What do you want to talk about?"
"I want to know the woman who will be spending time with my son. Personally, I find it a little hypocritical of Nick to even let you around him." Finn argued.
"Hypocritical? Please tell me how many of Nick's girlfriends were abusive or hit Austin?" Allie shot back. Allie may not have been intimidating to anyone but she wasn't backing down to anyone especially Finn.
"Nick, told you about that?" Finn said almost getting enraged.
"I was there when he had to bail you out of jail." Allie said. "Nick, has been good to you and Austin, and I've watch you use them to your own advantage. I don't know why Nick let you treat him like garbage for so long but I'm tired of seeing him and your son sad because of you."
"You think you never everything?"
"I don't, and I know I don't. I just know what I've seen… and I think you are s very selfish person."
"And I think you are a little noisy know-it-all bitch." Finn argued back, Allie just put her hands on her hips. "You know nothing of Nick and I, or my relationship with my son. Don't you dare try to portray me as the bad parent. Why don't you talk to your darling fiancée because he obviously has you fooled on what kind of person he is? I've made mistakes and I know that but I'm not the only guilty one… and I sure as hell don't need to prove anything to you."
"I'm not going anywhere. Although, I don't want to fight with you."
"We will see about that." Finn said walking away. Allie looked at Nick from across the field and shrugged her shoulders. Allie wished she handled that better but as soon as she looked at Finn she saw the problem in Finn and Nick's demented relationship. Allie always thought that Nick was too eager to help her but Finn loved him. Allie could see it in her eyes and for some reason that made Allie upset because she didn't want to lose Nick especially to Finn.
"So are you satisfied?" Nick asked putting his hands in his pockets.
"This is bullshit Nick and you know it. You want to flaunt your arm candy while I can't date…"
"No, no… Finn. No one said you couldn't date. You just can't bring men into the house, like I've said only a thousand times. Austin spends half the week with me, you can go out there and find someone."
"Oh, well. Thank you Dr. Love." Finn said Nick chuckled and smirked at her.
"You know what? I'm not doing this." Nick said walking past her but Finn turned him around.
"I want you to lift the order."
"No. you can date someone without bringing them around Austin." Nick said walking away.
"Hypocrite." Finn said crossing her arms. "What kind of backroom deal did you make with the judge to get that order in place?"
"Excuse me." Nick said turning to look at Finn.
"You heard me."
"Allie and I, dated for a couple months before I introduced him to her. Even then it was only brief. We dated for nine months before Austin met her son, and started seeing them more often. I wanted to make sure I really liked her before I started bringing him around out of respect for you." Nick said Finn sighed.
"Why would you care?"
"Because you're his mother, Allie's not trying to replace you just is another person there to help him. I didn't want to disrespect you by introducing numerous women into his life." Nick said leaving to rejoin Allie in the bleachers and watch the remainder of Austin's game.
Sparks always fly when Finn feels like she's being attacked. What did you think of Allie's fiesty side or her realization? What did you think of Finn's accusations? Please Review!