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Chapter 19

They quickly drove off to Danny's kindergarten. They were almost an hour late. Sara was really worried and Nick kept telling her Danny was going to be okay but that still didn't lessen Sara's worry. They arrived and sawthe little boy sitting on the pavement with his head in his arms. Sara quickly got out of the car and ran towards him.

"Danny,"

"Mommy!" Danny ran up to Sara and Sara hugged him tightly.

"Honey, I'm so sorry, I forgot to pick you up, are you okay," asked Sara sobbing.

"Yeah, but I was scared," replied Danny sniffling.

"Danny, I'm so sorry," said Sara.

Nick who was watching their interaction from behind spoke up.

"Hey Danny, you wanna go to zoo?"

Danny looked over his mommy's shoulder and shrieked with excitement.

"Yeah, let's go!"

He ran towards Nick and Nick caught Danny and lifted him up. Sara just smiled at how easy they were around each other even though Nick and Danny just met. Nick walked up to the passenger's seat and Danny sat on his lap while Sara drove the car.

"Hey, Danny, you like Uncle Nicky," asked Sara looking at Danny who was playing with Nick's watch.

"Yeah, he's so much fun, I wish my daddy's like him," said Danny.

Nick and Sara's eyes locked. Those words hit them full force. After seconds of awkward silence that seemed like minutes, Nick spoke up.

"Danny. Where's your daddy?"

Sara's head snapped towards Nick and gave him a "what the hell are you doing!" look. Nick just ignored Sara's look.

"Mommy told me he's somewhere very far and mommy don't know if he's coming back, and mommy said he's a great man, he's a CSI like mommy too," said Danny smiling and his tone sounded like he was really proud to have a daddy like Sara told him even though he's never met him.

"Danny, do you love your daddy," asked Nick.

"Yeah, I know he's gonna come back because he loves me too, right mommy," asked Danny looking at Sara.

Sara wastrying to control her tears assheheard Danny's words. She felt like the worst mother ever.

"Yeah, honey," answered Sara. There was a hitch in her voice.

"I'm sure he loves you too, Danny, but right now we're going to go the zoo and have fun, okay," said Nick breaking the tension.

"Yeah," yelled Danny.

All the way to the zoo Nick and Danny talked what they were going to do there but the conversation was unheard by Sara because there were a lot of thoughts in her mind. She was considering if she should tell Danny the truth. She knew it was mean to keep that secret but she was trying to protect Danny from getting hurt. Even though she loved Nick, she didn't quite believe him yet.

They arrived at the zoo and Danny at once jumped from the car. He was about to run when Nick caught him.

"Hold on, little guy."

"Come on, Uncle Nicky, I wanna see the lions," whined Danny.

"You can, if you behave and stick with us, okay," said Danny.

"Yes, mommy," said Danny. He stopped struggling and held Nick's hand.

They went straight for the lions because Danny couldn't wait to see them. After seeing some other animals, they went for the seals show. Danny loved the seals. He aid they were so cute going through the hoops and placed the beach ball on their noses, He shrieked with excitement. After the show they went to grab some snacks.

"Uncle Nick, I'm tired," said Danny leaning on Nick.

"Come here, I'll give you a piggy back."

Nick lifted Danny and put him on his shoulder.

"Better," asked Nick.

"Yeah! Mommy, look I'm tall," said Danny looking at Sara who was walking next to them.

"That's great, honey, you want some cotton candy," asked Sara.

"Yeah!" Danny was so excited about the cotton candy he keptbouncing up and down on Nick's shoulder and almost fell over when Nick caught him.

"Danny," shrieked Sara.

"It's okay, Sara, I've got him," said Nick.

"Honey, are you okay," asked Sara.

"Yeah."

"You better sit properly Daniel Nicholas, or you won't be getting any candy," said Sara in a mother's mode.

"Okay, okay, I'll sit properly."

When they arrived home Danny's face was covered with paint because Nick let him get a face paint. He got a lion picture on his face. Nick also bought him some other stuff like T-shirts, stuffed animals and many more. Danny was going through his stuff in the living room while Nick and Sara were in the kitchen.

"He was so excited," commented Nick.

"Well yeah, not to mention you bought those ridiculously expensive stuff."

"I don't mind."

"He's going to be a spoilt brat if you keep that up," said Sara.

"I don't think he will because I'm not staying with him forever, not that I don't want to."

"Nick, don't start," said Sara sighing.

"Sara, you heard him in the car, he thinks his dad's going tocome back, his dad is back and he doesn't even know it, you're lucky he's not old enough to understand all of this," said Nick.

"I told you, I don't want him to heartbroken once you leave if I told him."

"But Sara, we could make this work, just give me another chance, I promise I won't repeat my mistake," said Nick holding Sara's hands and clutched it tightly against his chest.

"Nick, I can't, I forgave you but it's going to take time for me to trust you again, I'm sorry Nick," said Sara taking her hands of off Nick's chest.

"Sara….," said Nick. Sara quickly went into the living room to her son. Nick sighed and followed Sara out of the kitchen. He saw Sara was at their son's side. Nick knew she was really tired and was trying really hard not to cry.

"Sara, why don't you go rest, let me take care of Danny."

"You sure?" asked Sara.

"Yeah, I already take you off your work, go ahead," said Nick.

"Thanks Nick, I'm really tired."

Sara kissed Danny's forehead.

"Bye Danny, I love you."

"I love you too, mommy," said Danny.

"I love you, Sara," thought Nick. If only he could say it and got the same reply.


Well, that's Chapter 19. I got 6 As out of 9 subjects. Not too bad I guess. And I'm gonna use the power of begging to get CSI seson 2 DVD. Hope it'll work. And don't forget REVIEW!