Title: The Depths of Love

Chapter 1

8 years later...

Sydney sat drinking coffee at the dining room table of her cozy three bedroom house. She heard squeals coming from the doorway. She turned her head in time to see a little girl with sandy blonde hair and brown eyes run into the kitchen, followed by a brown haired boy with intensely green eyes. "Zoey Ann Vaughn, Evan James Vaughn," she sighed, "Please stop running in the house, you've been told before." Little Zoey, her 4-year-old daughter ran over to her and gave her a hug.

"I'm sorry mommy," she replied before smiling and jumping up on her mother's lap.

Sydney smiled to herself. "It's okay sweetheart," she replied giving her daughter a quick kiss on the cheek.

Now 6-year-old Evan, after feeling guilty walks up to his mother, and after giving her a quick hug he said, "I'm sorry too, but it wasn't our fault, dad started chasing us around the house." Zoey shook her head also, as if to tell Sydney that Evan was telling the truth.

As if on cue, the guilty daddy walked in the doorway. "Yeah, your father does seem to like to antagonize you," Sydney replied, all the while knowing that Michael had just walked into the kitchen even with her back to him.

"Zoey and Evan, go get your hockey stuff on and your mother and I will take you to the ice rink in a little while," he told his children.

"You really like to antagonize them, don't you?" Sydney asked him, teasingly.

He kissed her on the lips and sat down next to her at the table. "Yeah," he replied, "I guess I do." He silently turned around and watched their son and daughter scramble upstairs to get ready to go to the ice rink and play hockey, girls against boys of course.

TBC...

I hope everyone likes this

~nicole~