Ooh, thank you guys so much for the reviews! Haha, I must admit that I did go overboard with the whole 'click the purple button' thing. Ehh, what can you do when you're bored and trying to avoid studying for midterms. Speaking of midterms, I so would rather be typing up more of this rather than studying for stupid english and physics... but that's life.

And as for Chris' father once more... Vaughn... huh?... who?... what?... when? ...? uh... not Vaughn, I was just kidding... or maybe I was kidding about kidding... or maybe not. Some other random guy?... huh?...who knows? haha

haha, ok so enough of that randomness. here's the next chapter!

Chapter 6

Saturday

Bristow Residence

Vaughn watched as Sydney finished getting ready to go to the circus. He had arrived early so that they could go and pick up Bobby from Francie and Will's.

"I'm ready," said Sydney. "Chris," she called out and the five year old, dark headed boy came running out of his room and jumped into Vaughn's arms.

"Thank you very much for taking me Mr. Michael," said the very polite Chris.

"No problem, buddy," Vaughn smiled. No matter what he tried to do, Chris wouldn't call him Michael, Mike, or Vaughn. He only called him Mr. Michael.

"You guys all ready?" asked Vaughn.

"Yep," replied Chris and Sydney at the same time.

"Then let's go," Vaughn said as he led them out to his car.

Sydney finished strapping Chris in and climbed into the front seat to go pick up Bobby.

Tippin Residence

"Auntie Syd, Uncle Mike!" A small dark haired boy ran to the door and threw himself into Sydney's arms when she opened the door.

"Hey Bobby," said Vaughn as he picked up the little five year old boy and spun him around. Even though Vaughn didn't even really know Bobby, Francie and Will told him all about his cool Uncle Mike. Bobby had also heard about Vaughn through Chris, who was in his kindergarten class too.

"You ready to go?" asked Chris excitedly.

"Yep, yep, yep! Mooooooooomy! Daaaaaaaaaady!" he screamed at the top of his lungs, while Vaughn covered his ears.

"Bobby, be quiet. You could wake Devin up any second," scolded Francie as she walked to the door. But, Bobby didn't even really care about getting in trouble because he was already halfway out the door with Chris, all excited about the circus.

"Thanks for taking him with you guys," said Will while he shook hands with Vaughn and gave Sydney a hug.

Vaughn was the one to say the goodbyes because Sydney had all ready been dragged out the door by the two excited little boys. He had promised Will and Francie to have Bobby back by bedtime even though it was the weekend.

The Circus

They had arrived at the circus an hour before the actual show began, giving them plenty of time to walk on the main floor and play around with the other clowns. There was this one clown that kept on following Sydney around and the other three guys found it quite amusing. However, Sydney didn't. She sent a piercing glare at Vaughn, telling him that if he was to laugh about the clown one more time, he would get it.

After the boys were tired of walking around on the main floor, they went to go find their seats, making it just in time before the house lights dimmed.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, we'd like to welcome you to the best show on earth!" announced the ringmaster. Just then the fireworks went off and the elephants, zebras, horses, and all the other animals started coming out.

"Look mommy! Look Mr. Michael!" Chris said to Sydney and Vaughn while pointing to all the animals that passed by, completely mesmerized.

The rest of the show had gone off without a hitch. From the tightrope act to the circus clowns to the "globe of death", every single part of the show captivated the attention of everyone in the audience.

When the show was over, the audience started to file out of the stadium. "Chris and Bobby how would you guys like some souvenirs?" asked Vaughn.

"Yes, please!" they both responded eagerly.

Vaughn bought them both some of the circus merchandise, making the boys very happy. And just as he had promised to Francie and Will, he had gotten Bobby back home in time for bed.

Sydney's House

All throughout the car ride, Chris kept on babbling about all the amazing animals that he had seen. Sydney looked over at Vaughn, squeezing his hand and giving him a big smile.

When they had reached Sydney's house, Chris was totally drained of his energy. He had fallen asleep sometime during the car ride, so Vaughn carried him into the car. "Poor kid," smiled Vaughn.

While Vaughn was carrying Chris to his room and Syd trailing behind him, Chris had woken up. Vaughn carefully laid him down on the bed and stepped aside to let Sydney tuck him in.

"Mommy," he said as he pulled her closer to him. Chris whispered something in her that just totally made Sydney's heart melt.

"Vaughn, Chris has two things he would like to ask you," she said, beaming.

"Ok, shoot Buddy."

"Well, the first thing is, will you tuck me in tonight?" he asked very sweetly.

Vaughn grinned very brightly, touched by Chris' comment. "Of course I will. What's your second question?"

"Well," Sydney spoke up. "Chris has this 'event' at his school in a couple of weeks. Chris," she urged on.

"My kindergarten class is having a father/son competition, and I was wondering well…" Sydney nudged him to continue. "Well, will you be in the competition with me?" he asked with a very adorable face.

Vaughn took a seat beside Chris bedside. "Nothing would make me happier," he replied he said as a single tear slipped down his face.

"Mr. Michael, don't cry," Chris said as he wiped away the tear.

"I'm not crying because I'm sad Chris. That was a tear of happiness. Did you know that you just made me one of the happiest people on earth right now?"

Chris smiled shyly and said, "Thank you very much for agreeing… Michael."

The scene that was unfolding before Sydney touched her heart very deeply.

"Your welcome buddy," smiled Vaughn as he gave Chris a goodnight hug and tucked him in. Vaughn also silently thought to himself, "He didn't call me Mr. Michael, he only called me Michael. Yes!"

Sydney walked out of the room while Vaughn followed her out. He turned off the lights to Chris' room and shut the door.

The Living Room

"Vaughn, I know you have plenty of questions about who Chris' father is…" she began.

She was about to continues, but was quickly shushed by him. "Sydney, I know I have plenty of questions about that, but now is not that time for that."

"Vaughn…" Sydney began again, but he put a finger on her lips.

"Let's leave it like it is right now," he said. He bent down and gave her a soft kiss and felt her smiling against his lips.

"Ok," she whispered back.

"I'll talk to you tomorrow. Bye," he said as he picked up his coat and walked out of the door.

"Bye," replied Sydney.

When Vaughn was out of the door, Sydney leaned back against the door and added quietly, "Love you."

Little did she know that on the other side of the door, Vaughn was doing the same thing. He had too had leaned back and quietly added his own, "Love you," once he was outside.

And everybody "awws"... haha, j/k.

How was that? Ok, well if Vaughn can wait a little while longer to figure out the mystery of Chris' daddy... then so can you! haha, ok, that was mean. I'm sorry. I blame too much chocolate and all this studying... not that it really has anything to do with it. um... so im going to stop right now, before i go on any further with more mindless babble. Later days.