Chapter 7:

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"God you scared me! Don't do that again." She told him "What? Who did you think it was?" He said back to her "I didnt know but for all I know it could've been somebody trying to take me Nikolas." she said emphazing his name "Well, I'm sorry Courtney." he said mockingn her which made her laugh a little. "I was on my way to get Nathan's prescription filled and I saw somebody who looks really good and I thought hey look at that beautiful girl. I didnt know it was you or believe me I would have kept going." he said teasing her. He knew it was her.

"Oh yeah sure. Anyway are you on your way back or just now going?" "Way there" he responded. "I would race you but I dont have the right kind of clothes on ya know." "Yeah sure. I bet it's because you dont wanna get beat by a girl." she said teasing him this time. "Yeah thats it. But hey listen do you want to go with me? We can grab some lunch if your done running. I just have to be back by 3:30" he said looking at her "Sure why not let's go."

When they were done eating, Nikolas looked down at his watch. "Okay" he said "I still have 10 minutes before I have to head back. How about you accompany me back to my house and stay for a little while." he said hoping she would say yes" Now why would I wanna do that?"she told him just messing around"Okay give me five minutes so I can change." She told him as she started getting up "Now why do you have to change? I think you look perfectly fine besides it's not a beauty contest and even if it was you would win by far." he told her. "Are you sure?" she asked. "Positive. Now let's go." he said as they walked out the door.

"Alright here we are." he told her as they walked in the front door. "Lucky I'm back." He said as him and Courtney walked through the door to the den. "Oh hey I'm glad I was starting to get worried I would be late for work." "Yeah sorry about that but thanks alot." "No problem. Nice seeing you again Courntey." Then he was out the door.

"Alright let me go get Nathan." he siad as he walked off. She decided to sit on the couch until he returned. "Alright here we are." he said as him and Nathan sat on the couch next to Courtney. "Can you say hi?" he asked Nathan "Hey." he said "Aww how cute?" she said at his response. "Yeah improper language thats what it is." "Uh, tell daddy,Nathan, Oh well. Tough luck get over it." Courtney said looking at Nathan. He just laughed at this. Then the phone rang.

"Here. Go to Courtney for me, baby?" he asked Nathan as Nathan streached his arms out as a sign for Courtney to take him.

"Cassidine." he answered. "Sure. No problem. Yeah I'll be there. Okay see you then. Buh bye." and hung up. He walked up and sat on the couch beside Courtney and his son. "I have a big favor to ask you." he said "Okay ask me?" she responded. "I have a meeting that I, well forgot about at the hospital in a hour and I was wonderin." he said before she cut him off "Yes I will be happy to watch Nathan for you why you go. It's not a problem." He loved the fact the she didnt mind "Thank you so much and it shouldnt take long and I'll bring you a surprise back." he said as he kissed her cheek "From the hospital? No thanks I'll pass." she said kidding with him "I promise it's not from the hospital." "Okay." He walked upstairs to get ready for his meeting.

He came back down about 20 minutes later and saw Courtney and Nathan on the floor playing with his trucks. "Okay." he said drawing the attention from the trucks onto him "I should be back in a little while and I call when I get a break to check on Nathan." he told Courtney as he bent down and was talking to him "Daddy has to go to a meeting and your going to stay here with Courtney until I get back okay." he told his son "Ok." the little boy responded. He kissed him on the forehead and walked out the door.

"Okay Nathan. It's you and me what do you want to do." she asked him. Nathan got up and walked over to his blocks and started talking gibberish. "I take it that you want to play with them." She said as he nodded his head. An hour later her phone rang. "Hello? Hey How's the meeting? Oh so your on a break. Yeah he's fine. What do you want me to feed him because I think he's hungry? Okay and I'll see you when you get here. Okay buh bye." she hung up. "Well Nathan that was daddy and he said for me to feed you some pasta noodles in the kitchen so how about we go eat since it's about 7 now." she picked up the little boy as they made their way to the kitchen.

She had given him a bath after his father called the second time to tell her that the meeting would run over but shouldnt be too long and for her to get him ready for bed that way when he got home he could put him down."Okay how about we get your bottle and go watch a movie on the couch and wait for daddy to get back." she said as they picked the bottle up and walked into the living room to put a movie in. They were watching Finding Nemo. Nathans favorite movie considering he picked it out.

Not even 30 minutes into the movie before the two were passed out on the couch and Nikolas was walking in the front door. wow he thought to himselm. He put the cheesecake in the refrigerator, for that was Courtney's surprise because everybody loves cheesecake. He walked into the room and picked up Nathan so he could put him in his bed. When he returned he covered Courtney with a blanket hoping it wouldnt wake her. She was sleeping so peacefully. He sat at his desk which was right across the room. He had to fill out papers from the meeting.

It was 11:30 at night when Courtney finally woke up. She looked up and saw Nikolas sitting in his chair at his desk just smiling away trying not to laugh. "What time is it?'" she asked as he looked at his watch "11:30" he told her "How long have you been home and me sleeping?" she asked rubbing her eyes."Oh and where's the baby?" "he is in his room. I've been home since 8:30 and I guess for aboput 3 hours I really dont know." he responded. "Why did you let me sleep?" "Um you were so peacefully and I didnt want to disturb you." you said nicely "Oh really." she said as he made his way to the couch and sat down beside her. "Yeah I walked in and saw you two passed out so I put you surprise in the fridge and put Nathan in his bed. He likes to move a lot." "Oh really and what exactly is my surprise?" she asked

He looked at her. "You get it on one condition." "Oh and whats that?" she asked wondering what the response would be. "You have to guess. I'll go get it and you have to close your eyes and tell me what it is by the taste of it. Deal?" he asked. "Only if its not something that I wouldnt know." she said "Oh you better know this. Everybody does." "Fine deal." she said as he got up and walked back to the kitchen.

When he came back into the room he said "Alright we had a deal so you have to close your eyes and no peeking or your in trouble." "Okay" she said as she placed her hands before her eyes so she couldnt see. "alright open up." she opende her mouth as something cold but soft was placed in her mouth. With one bit she knew what it was. "Do you know?" he asked knowing she knew by her smile "Yeah I think so. Is it cheesecake?" "Yeah you got it." he said pulling her hands down from her face. "Here is some more." he said putting more in her mouth.

"thanks." "No problem. I should really be the one thanking you for putting up with my sick son." "Oh it was no problem he was good." "Good I'm glad." He leaned into give her a kiss which as the one before lasted much longer than intened. Before he knew it his shirt was off as he was pulling hers off.