Saving Them Chapter 14
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Sara and gsrgrl4eva
3 years later…
They had now moved into a house about three blocks away from Jims'. As Sara said she didn't want to live too far from her Uncle Jim. Everything was going great with their new start, Greg and Sara are now 10 years old, and Nick had turned 15.
"Hey mom, do you reckon Griss, Warrick and Cath could come over later? I haven't seen much of them outside of school lately as I've been looking after the twins."
"Yeah sure Nicky that should be okay. Just not too late alright, cause you still have school in the morning." Laura told her son, knowing that he had been spending a lot of time helping her out looking after Greg and Sara.
"Thanks mom." Nick replied as he walked passed her to call his friends.
On the phone upstairs…
"Hey Griss, you want to come over tonight and order pizza, and just chill at my place with the guys?
"Yeah that sounds cool, you want me to ring them up and tell them?" Grissom asked.
"Yeah, cool, thanks man, okay I'll see you at 6 then?" Nick replied, happy that he would be able to catch up with his friends outside of school again.
"That should be fine, okay I'll see you in a bit, bye" Grissom replied
"Okay, bye." Nick said as he put the phone down
Later that night…
Nick, Warrick, Grissom and Catherine were just hanging in Nick's room when his door was opened. He looked to the door and saw Sara and Greg coming into his room. He let out a frustrated breath, even though he loved his little brother and sister more than anything, he just wished he could have some time to himself with his friends.
"Hey Nick, can we come play too?" Sara asked.
"No Sar, not tonight, maybe some other time. Now can you and Greg please go and play in your rooms?" Nick asked, trying to be polite as he could so he wouldn't upset his younger sister.
"Please Nicky, we don't know what to do, it's fun playing with you" Greg asked him again.
"I said no Greg, now please can you and Sara leave?" Nick asked again, slowly losing his patience.
Sara and Greg, not listening to their older brother walked more into the room.
"Hey everyone." Sara said.
Grissom, Warrick and Catherine didn't know what to do, because they could see their friend becoming mad, but they didn't want to ignore Sara either, so they said Hey back.
"Look you two, I told you that you weren't allowed in my room tonight so will you guys just go!" Nick said having lost all of his patience.
Greg took a few steps back, and shouted, "FINE!" then proceeded to run out of the room into his own room and slammed the bedroom door.
Nick looked shocked that he had actually raised his voice so much at his younger brother and sister, when he saw Sara still standing there, a lone tear running down her face.
Feeling guilty about making his sister cry, he got up from his seated position of his bedroom floor and went to walk over to Sara. As he got within touching distance he said,
"Look, Sar, I'm sorr…"
Although before he got a chance to finish his sentence, Sara too, ran out of the room and slammed her bedroom door.
"That was a bit harsh wasn't it Nick?" Catherine spoke allowed, after a minute had passed in silence.
Hearing the muffled cries of his little sister through the wall, whose bedroom was next to his, Nick rested his chin against his chest and took a deep breath.
"I know I don't know why I snapped like that." Nick replied.
Nick then heard footsteps coming up the stairs, his face paled slightly, knowing his mom had heard the banging of the doors and was coming upstairs to see what was going on.
As Laura got to the top of the stairs, she saw that Nicks' door was open, so she popped in his room first to see what was going on.
"Hey Nicky, I heard banging, what is going on up here?" Laura asked.
"Oh, err, well." Before Nick could give a proper reply Sara opened her bedroom door.
"Mommy" she said quietly, and Laura turned to face her daughter. She saw that Sara had dried tears on her cheeks and was holding her favorite stuffed animal that she's had since she was brought home from the hospital, Laura then, went to see what the matter was with Sara.
Laura walked into Sara's bedroom and sat down on her bed.
"Hey sweetie, what's the matter?" Laura asked as Sara came down to sit beside her, as she was still holding the teddy.
"Well me and Greg wanted to play with Nick and his friends, but Nick said that we weren't allowed, and I only said hello to everyone and then Nick got mad and shouted at us." Sara said as tears started to run down her face again.
"Oh honey, you and Greg can't always play with Nick. He just wanted sometime to hang out with his friends, because he has been looking after you and Greg a lot recently." Laura explained.
"I'm sorry mommy, I just wanted to play." Sara replied as she cuddled up to her mom.
"I know baby, but sometimes Nick likes some time to do some of his own things. Okay?" Laura asked, seeing that Sara had calmed down.
"Okay mommy." Sara replied.
"Good girl, now I'm going to talk to Greg now, and I will talk to Nick later about raising his voice at you two like he did." Laura said.
"Okay, mommy," Sara replied to her mom as she gave her a hug.
After giving her daughter a hug back, Laura stood up off of her daughters bed, and walked out of her bedroom, and walked over to her youngest son's room which was just across the hall from Sara's room.
Knocking on his door, Laura heard him say, "Come in" and walked on into his room.
"Hey hun, you ok?" Laura asked her son.
"Hi mom, why did Nicky have to yell at us like that?" Greg asked innocently.
"Sweetie, he just wanted to spend time with his friends, since it's been awhile since he got to hang out with them. Like I told your sister, your older brother won't want to you two hanging out all the time. You can ask him to see if you two can hang out with him, but just remember that if he says no, he says no alright?" Laura told Greg.
"Okay," Greg replied to his mom.
A few hours later, Laura was downstairs watching T.V. when she looked over and saw her oldest coming in the living room. "Nick, we need to have a talk." Laura told her oldest as she told him to come and sit down on the couch.
"Yeah, mom?" Nick asked as he sat down on the couch next to his mom.
"Okay, I know you know that your siblings love hanging out with you, and to them, you're their world. But I want to know, is why did you yell at them like you did earlier tonight?" Laura asked her oldest.
"I didn't mean to yell at them the way I did, I was just starting to get a little annoyed that they wanna hang out all the time. I also don't get to hang out with my friends as much 'cause I'm always babysitting them. Yeah I love them and all, but I at least want to hang out with my friends." Nick told his mom as he started feeling even guiltier since he yelled at his siblings.
"I know hun, I already talked to them about that, just next time in the near future, try not to yell at them. Especially your sister, you know how sensitive she is." Laura told him.
"Yeah, I know mom," Nick said to his mom, then got up and went upstairs to check on his siblings.
Upstairs in Greg's room, both Greg, and Sara were playing a game when they heard a knock on the door.
"Come in," Greg said.
"Hey guys how's it going?" Nick asked his siblings.
Both Greg and Sara got up off the floor and went over to his bed and sat down, not wanting to talk to him. Not getting a reply back from either of his siblings, Nick walked over to where they were sitting and bent down in front of them to their level.
"Hey guys, about earlier, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell at you." Nick told them, hoping they would at least start talking to him again.
"But you did Nicky, we just wanted to play with you," Greg told his older brother.
"I know kid, and I'm sorry, I shouldn't have yelled at you guys, you forgive me?" Nick asked them.
"Yeah, I guess," Greg, answered his older brother.
Not getting a reply from his younger sister, Nick asked Greg to leave the room so he could talk to her, once Greg left, he turned to his sister, "Hey kid, what's wrong?"
"I don't want to talk about it," Sara told her older brother.
"Come on shorty, talk to me. You can tell me," Nick said as he tried getting is little sister to open up to him.
"Well, when you yelled at us, it reminded me of when daddy would yell," Sara told her older brother with tears running down her face.
"I'm sorry shorty, will you forgive me?" Nick asked her.
"I guess I can," Sara told her brother.
"Sar', you know I love ya right?" Nick asked her
"Yeah," Sara answered.
"I'm always going to love you, no matter what happens, just know that there's going to be times where I just want to hang out with my friends, like today," Nick tried explaining to her.
"Yeah, I know Nicky, and I love you too .I'm also sorry about earlier too," Sara told her brother as she got up and gave him a hug.
"Hey, its ok, don't worry about it," Nick told her as he hugged his sister back. Nick then got up, still holding his little sister; he walked out of the bedroom and walked down the stairs.
While they were walking down the stairs, Sara asked, "Nicky, can we watch a movie?"
"Sure why not shorty, what movie do you want to watch?" Nick asked his little sister.
"Can we watch finding Nemo?" Sara asked him.
"Sure, we can watch it, why don't you go get it ready, and I'll go fix us some popcorn, and make sure its ok with mommy first alright," Nick told her as he put her down.
"Okay," Sara replied as she ran downstairs into the living room.
In the living room…
Running into the living room, Sara ran over to her mom and asked, "Mommy, is it ok if me and Nicky watch a movie?"
"Yeah, sure thing sweetie, you guys can," Laura told her ten-year-old daughter.
Giving her mom a hug, Sara said, "Thanks mommy."
"Your welcome angel," Laura told her daughter as she hugged her back.
Sara left the living room and went into the kitchen to see what her older brother was doing and to tell him what their mom said. Seeing her brother by the microwave, she walked up to him and said, "Nicky, mommy said we could watch a movie."
"Okay squirt, why don't you go get the movie ready and I'll be there in a few, alright?" Nick told his sister as he got the popcorn out of the microwave when it was done popping.
"Okay Nicky," Sara replied as she ran back into the living room to put the movie in.
A few minutes later Nick came into the living room with the popcorn and sat on the couch beside his sister. Half an hour later, Nick looked down to find his little sister asleep. Setting the popcorn bowl on the coffee table, Nick carefully got up, and quietly picked his sister up and carried her up the stairs.
Carefully opening the door, Nick walked into his sister's room, walked over to her bed to lay her down. While he was doing that Nick heard a soft whimper coming from his sister.
"Nicky?"
"Hey its ok shorty, I'm just putting you to bed, here's Isabelle," Nick said as he handed his sister's favorite teddy to her.
"I love you Nicky, and I'm sorry about earlier today," Sara told her brother sleepily.
"Its okay, don't worry about it, and I love you too squirt," Nick said as he gently gave her a hug and a kiss on the forehead.
Watching his baby sister turn on her side clutching the teddy, she quickly fell asleep, and after making sure the nightlight was on, Nick quietly walked out of the room making sure the door was cracked open. After saying goodnight to his mom, Nick walked back to his room, and got in bed.
TBC…