CHAPTER TWELVE

"This is so unreal... I'm gonna be a daddy." Bosco said with a smile as he traced Faith's belly with his finger.

"I can't believe I'm pregnant again... with Maurice Boscorelli's baby." Faith replied and smiled back at him. They were lying in his bath tub and she was sitting between his legs and had her head on his chest. The lights in the bathroom were off but they had lit some candles before they got in the tub. "You think it's gonna be a boy or girl?"

"I told you... I wanna boy."

"Yeah I can't see you with anything else."

"My little boy," he rubbed Faith's stomach with a proud smile. "So what's the plan on this Fred thing?"

"I don't know after we grounded Emily for skipping school, he's been pressuring me about having sex or being around him. I want to tell him as soon as possible before I really start showing. I'm only 11 weeks and I already got this little pooch." She put her hands on her tiny bump.

"Are you sure it's mine?" Bosco asked.

Faith turned her head and stared up at him. "Yeah Bosco... I told you, Fred and I haven't been together since you and I have."

"I just want to make sure that I'm not getting excited for nothing."

"Don't worry." She said and laid her head back on his chest. "So what do you wanna do now? I mean after I tell Fred, what do you wanna do about everything?"

He shrugged and wrapped his arms around her chest. "I know Ma will be pissed at me if I keep it hidden from her for too long so I think we should tell her soon. Then get an apartment together cause this place is way too small for three people."

"What about Charlie and Emily?"

"Do you think they're gonna wanna stay here after they find out that Mommy has been sleeping with Uncle Bosco?"

"I don't know about Emily but I don't think Charlie will care. He's always loved you."

"He'll probably think different when he knows that I broke up his family."

"Well, I will have to tell him that Uncle Bosco makes his mommy happy." She said and rubbed his muscular arms. "I love you Bos."

He smiled. "Really?"

"Why do you always do that?" She asked and he chuckled. "Every time I tell you I love you, you gotta ask me if I really do."

"I love you too Faith." He said and kissed the side of her head and smiled. "You are the mother of my child right?" He looked down at her and she smiled then kissed him. "That's weird to say... this is gonna be an interesting nine months."

"It's gonna be a weird rest of our lives." She said and closed her eyes.

"Sully?" Emily said when she saw that they had come back from the morgue.

"Hey," he said in an uneasy voice and looked over at Swersky who walked to his office. "Your brother here?"

"Yeah he's in the bathroom. Our neighbor brought him by a couple minutes ago and I told him what happened." She looked up at his face and could tell that something was wrong and he was hiding it from her. "So... how did everything go? I mean I know it didn't go good but..."

"It was... hard." He said and cleared his throat.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing... just a little hard to see someone there who you know."

"No... Something else is wrong. What aren't you telling me?"

He cleared his throat again. "Nothing Emily. Nothings wrong."

"Did they find something wrong with my mom or Bosco?" She looked up at him with sad eyes.

Sully looked back at Davis who was staring at their interaction. He walked to the locker room when he caught his partner's gaze. Sully looked at Swersky's closed office door and let out a sigh. "You have close friends Emily? I mean really close friends that you see almost every day?"

"Well... yeah sure. I have lots of friends at school."

"All right, well just imagine how hard it would be to see one of those friends lying on a table in front of you. I've known Bosco his whole career. I trained him fresh out of the academy." He paused and looked down at the floor. "And seeing him on that table today... well it wasn't easy for me."

She stared at him then covered her face with her hands. "This is all my fault!" She cried.

"None of this is your fault." He said and put his hand on her shoulder.

"If I hadn't gone to Bosco's house that day! Or called my mom before my dad got over there! This never would have happened!"

Sully looked up at her with a confused look on his face. "Did you see your dad before he went over there?"

"Yeah." She said softly and sniffled. "He came home when Mom was in the shower. He went into the bedroom and told us to not tell Mom that he was there. He said that he had a surprise for her." She shook her head. "I thought they were gonna work things out... that's why I went to Bosco's house to tell him to stay away from her."

He slowly nodded. "Did you ever tell your Dad about your mom and Bosco?"

"No... I tried a bunch of times but couldn't get it out."

He nodded again. Sully looked over and saw Charlie coming back from the bathroom. His eyes and nose were bright red. "Where's my dad?" He asked softly.

Sully looked at Emily and she shook her head at him. "Uh... do you guys know your grandparents address or phone number?"

"Yeah I have it in my cell phone... but we don't want to go out there." Emily said.

"Why not?"

"Cause we wanna stay here." She answered. "Can't we stay at your house Sully?"

"Oh gosh guys I'm gonna be here working on this for a while."

"Please don't make us go out there." Charlie peeped.

"Why don't you guys wanna go out there?"

"Because our mom liked you." Emily said as tears ran down her eyes and Charlie covered his face. "She said that you were a good cop and a good friend." She looked at her brother and wiped her face. "Besides Grandma Mona won't understand..."

Sully let out a sigh and looked toward his boss' door as some officials walked in. "Let me talk to Swersky."

Emily nodded as he started to stand up. "Where's dad? Why can't we stay with him?" Charlie asked and Sully looked over at Emily.

He sat back down and scooted his chair closer to the young boy. "Charlie I want you to listen to me..." He said and put his hand on his shoulder.

To Be Continued...