Chapter Twenty Eight
Get away and out of this city,
Maybe I shouldn't of called
But someone had to be the first to break…
Can you
believe what a year it's been
Are you still the same?
Has your
opinion changed?
Savage Garden – I Don't Know You Anymore
It was unusually warm for February, Flack's hand was linked in mine as we strolled a long the boardwalk of Coney Island. Thomas toddled ahead of us, his eyes taking in everything. Don held the handle to the reign's that were strapped across the toddler's chest, so he couldn't run off without us knowing.
The sea breeze itself was cooling; I was wearing a light jacket studying the water ahead. I turned my head, a smile crossing my lips, catching Flack watching me.
"Can I ask you something?" he said quietly. I pushed my hair behind my ears before replying.
"Of course."
Flack's eyes flickered to Thomas who was staring up at a clown face painted on one of the stalls.
"You ever thought about giving it all up and getting out of the city?" he asked, halting as we came to a stop by a empty bench. I frowned puzzling over this question for a minute as we both dropped down onto it. Flack's eyes were on Tom as I scanned the profile of his face trying to see where this question had come from.
"You mean give up being a cop and move to the suburbs?" I clarified. Flack nodded, tugging the reigns a little as Thomas tried to clamber toward the edge of the boardwalk.
"I don't know. I've never really thought about it." I told him, leaning my head on my hand.
"At some point maybe, settle down, have another kid. But not right now… I don't feel like I've given it my all just yet…" I paused, thinking how to answer the question honestly.
"I just feel like I'm not ready to let go of it yet. Like there's so much more I can achieve, so many more people that I can still help." I gazed down at the burn that was beginning to heal on the back of my hand.
"Besides I'm not good at the whole housewife thing, I can't even bake cookies and they have instructions." I joked. Flack chuckled with me, his eyes still firmly on Thomas, his expression thoughtful.
"Why have you?" I asked him softly. Don's head turned to me, catching my eyes.
"A little." He admitted, before he turned his head back to Thomas who was attempting to sneak up on seagull.
"Thomas, you're not allowed to keep a seagull for a pet if you catch it buddy." Don called out. The seagull flapped his wings at the sound of Flack's voice, and cawed before flying away towards another group of seagulls. Thomas starred at the spot where the seagull had been momentarily confused.
"So what have you been thinking about?" I asked Flack, touching his arm gently. He let out a deep sigh before turning to look at me again.
"I'm concerned about ya, ya know? I'm not sure if we would have been able to bounce back if O'Reilly had actually touched you." He confessed, his mouth setting in a grim line, clearly expecting a fight.
"The truth is, I just want to know your safe. I've been evaluating things a lot lately and I keep thinking Tom's growing up, is the city really such a great place to raise him?" I tilted his head acknowledging his concern. I took Don's hand surprising him. Our eyes met mine now and I could see all that concern and responsibility in them.
"Right now…Can you really see the both of us living in the suburbs? I mean right now. Can you imagine me giving up my job to raise Tom in the suburbs?" Flack let out another sigh and shook his head.
"I think it's something to think about in the future, when we want to settle down properly. Maybe when we decide we want to have another baby." Flack's head shot up, his gaze intent on me; a small smirk was crossing his face. I narrowed my eyes playfully, my thumb gently tracing his knuckles.
"But right now, despite everything that's happened in the past few weeks. I wouldn't want to change anything. I'm happy to just be in our place, with you and our little boy and to just help people, the same way you do." Flack leaned forward kissing my mouth gently.
"I thought you'd say something like that." He murmured as he drew away.
"You did?" I asked surprised.
"I just wanted to make sure you were happy." He reassured me, before kissing me again. After he pulled away I opened my eyes, to see him staring at Thomas.
"This time I think you should be the one to tell our son that trying to poke a seagull with a plastic blue fork is wrong." He told me leaning in as my eyes diverted to Thomas.
"You are kidding me." I muttered, jumping to my feet, flapping my arms trying to scare the seagull that was practically the size of my little boy away.
In the distance I could hear Flack laughing in hysterics.
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