Chasing Happiness-Ch 26
A couple of hours later Derek was tucking his daughters into bed, he smiled down and said, "daddy loves you", Ashley yawned and said, "I lub you to daddy", he leaned down and kissed the top of her head and said, "I'll see you and Abby real soon, I promise". Ashley nodded her head and said, "tay daddy" as her eyes started to finally close.
He then walked over to Abby and tucked her in and said, "daddy loves you princess", she smiled and said, "me lub you to daddy", he said, "I'll come by and spend time with you and Ashley after you get home from school". She nodded her head and said, "weally"?, he tapped the end of her nose and said, "yes really", she smiled as she cuddled up to the huge bear and closed her eyes.
Penelope pulled Derek into her arms and crashed her lips against his, when they pulled apart she said, "I hope that we can prove who is helping her", he rested his forehead against hers and said, "me to and soon because I don't know how long I can make it without you". She rested her head on his shoulder and said, "I'm going to miss you, especially at night, I've got use to sleeping with you and waking up in your arms".
He sighed and said, "when we get this Savannah crap taken care of you won't be able to kick me out of bed again", she laughed and said, "good night handsome, I love you". He smiled down at her and said, "good night gorgeous and I love you to", Fran and Dave watched from the kitchen as the couple headed down the stairs, he looked at her and said, "are you ever gonna believe me"?, she crossed her arms and said, "not now Derek".
He winked at her before turning around, he said, "night momma, night Rossi", Fran said, "good night baby boy but are you sure that you don't want to stay"?, as he glanced back over at Penelope, he wanted to stay ohhhhhhh how he wanted to stay. He swallowed hard and said, "it's better if I go momma, put some space between me and Penelope".
Penelope looked down at her feet as she fought back the tears that were threatening to slid down her cheek, Derek said, "I'll come over tomorrow and see the girls,
well if that's alright"?, Penelope nodded her head and said, "yeah that's fine". He then kissed his mom and said, "good night momma", she looked at her broken hearted son and said, "good night baby boy".
As he opened the door he took one final glance at Penelope, right now all he wanted to do was hold her and tell her how much he loved her but the thing that was most important thing was finding out who was helping Savannah and take them both down. He then stepped out onto the porch and shut the door behind him, as he climbed into his SUV he looked up and saw Penelope looking out the window.
He took a deep breath and said, "I love you" before starting his car and driving away, as she watched his tail lights going out of sight she felt two arms wrapping around her. She turned to see Fran standing there, she said, "honey what happened"?, she took a deep breath as she took the next several minutes filling them in on what had happened and what she caught Derek and Savannah doing.
As she spoke it was killing her to not be able to tell them the entire truth, the truth that they were working to find out who was helping Savannah and this was the only way they could think of to do it. Dave closed his eyes as she told about walking into the hotel room and finding Derek and Savannah kissing on the bed and he could tell that she was hurt, that she was heartbroken.
When she was through explaining Fran said, "I'm so sorry honey but are you sure that you saw what you saw"?, she said, "I'm sure, I walked into a hotel room and saw Derek and Savannah in their underwear making out". Dave shook his head and said, "what's wrong with that boy"?, Fran said, "I wish I knew, I truly wish I knew", after staying downstairs for a few more minutes she queitly excused herself.
As Dave and Fran watched her head up the stairs there was something that Dave couldn't put his finger on, he didn't know what it was but he knew that there was more to this than either were telling right now.