Okay so I am really sorry that it took me so long. (I know I always say that but I really mean it) Hope you like it J
A Second Chance?!
Three days have passed since the conversation between Cory and Chris. Both tried to avoid each other and Tc of course, but they knew that someday they have to tell him about their secrets.
Tony walked into the livingroom, only to find a very bored looking Tc sitting on the sofa.
"Hey Tc wanna come with me over to Chris´? I want to check if she´s ready", Tony asked, standing in front of Tc.
"Yeah sure! But why do you want to check if she´s ready?"
"Didn´t I tell ya. . . Chris and I have to attend a seminar out of town. I just wanna see if she´s ready so we can leave", Tony informed Tc.
"Ah okay", he stood up and walked with Tony out of the door, "How long will you be gone?"
"Probably the whole day", Tony said as he ascended the stairs of Chris´ house and rang the bell.
Chris was just helping her girls to get dressed when the doorbell rang.
"Mommy I go!", Kate said and was about to go downstairs when Chris pulled her to a stop.
"No, first pull on your shirt and then we go downstairs and see who that is", said Chris and pulled the shirt over Kate´s head. Then she took Lucy in her arms and went downstairs.
Both girls immediately ran to Brian, who was playing with some toys, not caring anymore about who was at the door. However Chris went to the door and opened it.
"Hey, what´s up?", Chris asked Tony and Tc, who were standing on the other side of the door.
"I just wanted to see if you´re ready" , said Tony.
"Huh. . . ready for what?" , Chris asked looking puzzled.
"For the seminar! Did you forget it?"
"Oh man that´s today? I thought that was going to be next week!"
"No that´s today!"
"Great! What am I supposed to do with the kids? The kindergarten is closed, because of an outbreak of the chicken pox!" , Chris said not looking very happy.
"What about Doug? Maybe he can take them" , Tony suggested.
"No he can´t. He has to work. Are we gone the whole day?"
Tony nodded. It was this time that Tc, who was standing nearby and had followed the conversation, suddenly spoke, "Ähm. . . what if I take care of them?"
"Huh?" , both Tony and Chris asked seemingly surprised.
"Yeah. . . I could watch them. I don´t have to do anything."
"Oh I don´t know if that´s a good idea! I mean it´s your vacation, you shouldn´t be babysitting my kids" , Chris said not really knowing what she should think about this suggestion.
"Hey. . . It´s no problem" , Tc tried to assure her.
"I think it would be the best if Tc would watch them Chris. The seminar is really important!" , Tony said.
Chris looked at Tony and if looks could kill Tony would be dead, really dead.
"I know but. . . ah I don´t know. . . I mean. . ."
"Ah come on Chris. It´s not like I´m going to do anything stupid, I know how to take care of a kid!" , Tc said and grinned at Chris.
"I know you do" , Chris said while she thougt about it and after a few seconds, "alright I think I have no other choice."
At that moment the triplets started to scream and ran around in the house. Chris looked at them and then at Tc, "Sure you wanna do that to you?"
Tc looked at Chris then at the kids and back to Chris and grinned at her.
Tony and Chris just left and Tc sat in the livingroom thinking about what he could attempt with the kids.
"Hey kids! What do you want to do today huhß?"
The kids walked over to where Tc was sitting and Lucy climbed onto Tc´s lap.
"Playgrond!" , Kate shouted.
"No. . ." , Brian demonstrated.
"Yes!" , Kate screamed back.
"Oh okay okay pull it! How about we take your bikes, drive with them to the playground and later on we go and get some ice cream.
"Yay!" , Kate and Brian shouted.
"Lucy and what about you?" , Ty asked looking at the little girl.
"No" , Lucy said and snuggled against Tc.
"Why not? What´s the matter?" , Tc asked as he stroke her back.
"She c´not ride bike" , Kate answered for her sister.
"Oh you cannot ride on your bike?"
Lucy nodded.
"Ah that´s no problem. You´ve got supporting wheels (~I don´t know if that´s the right translation for the little wheels small kids have on the back wheel to learn how to ride.~) on your bike and after I have shown you how to ride, you´re gonna ride like a champion. Okay?"
"Yeah" , Lucy said and hugged Tc.
An hour later all four were on the way to the playground and indeed Lucy was riding her bike like she never did anything else.
When they arrived on the playground the triplets ran instantly to the junglegym.
Tc took their bikes and sat down on a bench, from where he could see the children. He looked at the triplets and thought, *If they only were. . . *
He was brought back to presence when Brian called his name.
"Tc. . . Tc look" , Brian called and jumped down from a little plattform and landed in the sand.
"Good, very good. Just watch out that you don´t hurt yourself" , Tc said and smiled at the boy.
A couple hours later Lucy, Brian and Kate came running towards Tc.
"Tc, Tc can we ice ceam?"
"Sure, if you´re finished with playing!"
"Ya!" , all three said.
"Okay then let´s go."
The triplets took their bikes and together they went to the ice cream vendor. After a long discussion of whon wants what, they finally were sitting at a table and were eating their ice cream.
"Kate watch it! Your chocolate ice cream is running down" , Tc said and tried to stop it with a tissue, but Kate wanted to see where it was running down so she turned her ice cream and with a sudden the ice cream was on her shirt.
"Oh" , Kate led out and looked at her shirt and then at Tc.
"Ah that´s not so bad, don´t worry about it" , he said and tried to clean it up as best as he could.
When they arrived back home Tc went with the triplets into the bathroom to clean them up.
"Kate can you show or tell me where you´re shirts are?"
"Yup!" , Kate said and walked, followed by Tc, into her room and opened a cupboard, "There."
Tc took a shirt out of the cupboard, took the dirty shirt from Kate and helped her to put on the fresh and clean shirt.
The rest of the day went easy. Tc made them something to eat and afterwards he played with them. Now they were fast asleep lying on the couch. They had fallen asleep right in the middle of the movie "The Lion King". Tc put a blanket over them as he heard how the front door opened.
"Hello!" , shouted Chris.
"Oh" , she said when she saw that the triplets were fast asleep.
"Hi Tc" , she said in a quiet tone.
"Hi Chris!"
"How long are they already sleeping?" , Chris asked and sat down besides Lucy.
"An not so long maybe half an hour. They were quite exhausted" , Tc said looking and smiling at the sleeping children.
"Tc would you mind helping me to bring them upstairs?"
"No, not at all."
Chris put Kate and then Lucy in Tc´s arms and then she took Brian and walked upstairs. She put brian in his bed, gave him a goodnight kiss and went into Kate´s and Lucy´s room. Tc already put them in their beds so Chris gave them a kiss and walked with Tc downstairs.
"Okay I´ll go then" , Tc said and went into the direction of the door.
"Hey Tc maybe you wanna stay for a glass of wine or something else?" , Chris asked.
"Sure, why not" , he said smiling.
"Okay I´ll get the wine" , Chris said and went into the kitchen to get the wine and two glasses.
When Chris returned with the wine Tc already sat down. Chris sat down beside Tc and filled the glasses with wine and gave Tc one.
"So how was the seminar?" , Tc asked taking a sip from his glass.
"Boring. . . totally boring!" , Chris said smiling.
Tc laughed.
"And how was your day with the triplets? I hope they behaved!"
"Of course they did! They´re great kids" , Tc said looking at Chris.
"Thanks!" , she said and looked into her glass.
"We had much fun. We took the bikes, rode with them to the playground and later on we got some ice cream" , he said laughing as he remembered Kate´s little accident with the ice cream, "Then we went home I made something to eat for them and after that we played together."
"Aha. . . And Lucy rode her bike too?"
"Yeah sure! After I showed her how it goes. Now she rides her bike like a champion" , Tc smiled.
"Thanks Tc!"
"You´re welcome!"
A short silence followed but Tc broke it, "Chris there is something I wanted to ask you the whole time since the day we met at McDonalds."
"Okay go ahead" , Chris said nervous.
"When you came back to Santa Monica were you already involved with the kids father?"
"No of course not. Tc I never cheated on you!"
"Yeah, but it seems that you were pretty fast over me" , Tc said while looking hurt.
"Huh? What are you talking about?" , Chris asked pretending not to know what he was talking about.
"I mean this Doug guy, the kids father you must have been together with him shortly after you left Santa Monica for the second time" , said Tc and stood up, "Chris I loved you and I thought that at least a bit you loved me too. But I guess I was wrong."
"Tc. . ." , Chris said but was cut of by Tc.
Tc continued in a very furious tone, "You took the next guy you could get and let yourself knock up by him."
"Wow Wow", held her hands up and said angrily, "Tc you have no right to say that, you´re the one who cheated on me remember? Besides that I don´t need to exculpate what I did."
"I told you it was a mistake and that I was sorry but you. . ." , shouted Tc.
Now it was Chris´ time to cut him off, " Yeah what? Tc you don´t know anything that went on back then!"
"I think I know enough!"
"Oh yeah? Should I tell you something. . . you know nothing, nothing at all. Doug is not the kids father and around the time the triplets were conceived I never slept with somebody else than you!!!", Chris said and tears started to come down her face. She needed to sit down and when she did so she couldn´t belive it, it was out, her secret was finally out.
And Tc the last words hit him hard. He just stood there and looked at her, not knowing what to say. He couldn´t belive what he just heard. He was the father of Chris´children. The triplets were his children.
He just stood there stunned by what he just learned and Chris just sat there with tears in her eyes.
IT WAS OUT!!!
To be continued. . .