Chapter 25:
Disclaimer: Same as the last 24!
"Well we are going to get something to eat now. Nice seeing you again Lulu. We should hang out sometime." Emily said a Lulu just nodded her head. Emily and Patrick went and sat on the other side of the diner."Dont say a word to them." Courtney told Nikolas just loud enough for him to hear. "Okay." He said. "Hey mommy?" Nathan said as they walked to the table. "What sweetie?" She said looking at him. "Uncle Ry said a bad word earlier." He said. Nikolas gave Ryan a look. "Sorry. It slipped. I wanted to know who theses two people were and how they knew my sister." He said pointing in Emilys direction.
"Nice attire Court." Ryan said. Courtney looked down and realize she was wearing Nikolas shirt with her jeans and flip flops with her hair in a messy bun. "Thanks its from the line of losing track of time and throwing on what you find on the floor so you can get your kids." She said. Lulu just laughed. "Let me guess you lost track of time by trying to curl your hair but you wound up burning yourself and gave up because your hair looks a little rough sis." Ryan said. "No why would-" She stopped before she could finish. She hit Nikolas on the arm. "What?" He said trying hard not to laugh. She gave him a dirty look. "It looks great baby. Its a must for the new line." He said as she shook her head.
"Mommy when are we going home?" Nathan asked. "Soon baby. Why are you tired?" She asked him. "Yeah. Im ready for bed." He said. "Okay. Why dont you just put your head on my chest and go to sleep like you do when your sick?" She said. "Okay." Nathan replied back as he placed his head on her chest. His eyes started getting heavy.
"How dark is it Lulu?" Courtney asked bending her neck to the left so she could see. "Not to bad but I dont think make-up can cover it. Sorry." She said back. Courtney looked at Nikolas. "I wont do it again." He said. "You always say that and yet you do it darker everytime." She said. "Anyway Lulu I was going shopping Friday and wonder if you wanted to come with me." She said. "If you promise you will not spend two hours like you did last time in Victorias Secret." She said. "I promise. Nikolas dont want me going in there anyway." She said. Nathan was now asleep. "I just dont see the point of spending so much money on things like that when it comes off in like two minutes anyway." Nikolas said. Ryan and Lulu were just laughing. "New conversation please. We dont want to know about your sex life." Ryan said. "I agree." Lulu responded.
"Can you believe that he has the nerve to do that?" Emily asked Patrick. "Do what?" Patrick asked back. "Flaunt his happy little family in front of us when we know its not that happy at all." She siad back. "How do you know?" Patrick asked. "Trust me I know. Nikolas never looked at anyone like that before." Emily said. "Do you wanna know what its called?" Patrick said. "Lust?" Emily replied. "Exact opposite. Its love. He loves her and she loves him and there is no denying it." Patrick said. "I just want my little boy back and as far away from them as possible." Emily said. "And we will try to do that. I promise you." He said as the waitress came over to take their order.
"We have Nathan's thingy tomorrow." Courtney said. "What thingy?" Nikolas asked back. "For pre-k." Courtney said back. "Did you forget?" She asked him. "No I didnt." He said as she just looked at him. "Its slipped but what all do we have to do?" He asked. "Well see if we like it and if we do enroll him in it for the fall." Courtney said. "Okay. What time is it?" He asked. "10." She said back. "Okay. I'll be there. Are we taking the kids with us?" He asked. "Well we have to take Nathan and I figured that we should just take Natalie with us because she'll probably sleep the whole time." Courtney said back.
They talked a little bit longer. Nikolas was eating ice cream. "I want a bite." Courtney said. "Okay." Nikolas said. He put some on a spoon and held it up to her mouth. She opened it. He missed on purpose. Instead he hit her nose with it. "Nikolas!" She said. "Its cold." She said again. "No. Really?" He said sarcastically. "Here let me help you." He said. He stated licking it off. "Eww." She said as she pushed him away with her free arm. Nathan had his head in the other one. "What?" He said. "Thats gross." She said. "How we do it all the time." He said back. "Um yeah in our house." She said back. "Alright I'll wait." he said. "Well you were going to have to." She said as she picked up a napkin and whiped her face. "I love you." Nikolas said looking at her. "I love you too." She said. He kissed her and then went back to eating his ice cream.
"Thats gross." Emily said. "What is?" Patrick asked. "What they just did." She said finishing her cheeseburger. "Why dont you just go over there and tell them that you are jealous." Patrick said annoyed. "Im not jealous." She said. "Baby you are. You've been talking about Nikolas and his wife ever since we sat down. Just let it go okay?" He said. "Whatever." She said back to him. "Im almost done and then we can leave." Emily said.
Emily and Patrick finish eatting their dinner and then left. Of course Emily had to make an exit by yelling across the diner bye to Lulu. This pissed Nikolas off and she knew it. She walked out holding Patricks hand which didnt bother Nikolas one bit liked she hoped.
"So who was she? I mean I kind of figured it out but I want the whole story." Ryan said. "Yeah your not the only one." Courtney said. "You told me not to say anything." Nikolas said. "While they were here but now I want to know and you will tell me or else."Courtney said. "Or else what" Nikolas asked. "You will be sleeping on the couch without me." Courtney said. "Okay so where were we then." Nikolas said as Lulu and Ryan laughed.
"Emily and I dated off and on for two years more off then on. There was alot of mistakes I made in that relationship. She wound up pregnant and it was mine. Or atleast everybody thought it was." He said. "Is this where Nathan comes in at?" Courtney asked. "Nope but we are getting to him. At three months she miscarried but we were already married so we figured that we'd give it a go even though we didnt love each other the way we should have. Big mistake there. We started having problems and we thought that to fix them and be happy like we were at the begining of our marriage to have a kid. Ryan never marry somebody because you got them pregnant and Lulu never get pregnant to save a relationship." Nikolas said.
"Now dont get me wrong. I love Nathan and if I could go back and do it over again I wouldnt think twice about it. She got pregnant and things just got worse from there. She was always at the hospital and she always had stress on her and the doctors kept telling her to aviod it because it could cause she could miscarry again but she didnt listen. Nathan survived even though her doctors and everyone else didnt think he would. After he was born we were getting on the right track but now there was absoultly no love between us not even as friends. I mean thats how bad it was. Instead of her asking for a divorce she decided to cheat on me thinking I never would have found out. She would come home after beinging at the hospital she would say for 18 hours and sleep for six and leave again. I found out she was cheating and she told me she stopped. We were only still together for Nathan. big mistake as well." he said.
"Well right before Nathan's first birthday she came home early. I was shocked that she came home. It was like six o'clock at night and let me tell you I was surprised. She came home early just to tell me that she was leaving. Patrick had a job somewhere else and she was going with him and taking Nathan. I told her that I didnt care if she left but she wasnt taking Nathan and that if she walked out that night that I was filing for divorce and she was never going to see Nathan again. So she left and at first I was upset you know. I mean I didnt love her but I didnt know that I didnt until one night while I was on the docks promising myself that next time would be for love and about a minute later there was this beautiful blonde standing in front of me.
It took me two months to realize that what I was feeling everytime she was around or talk on the phone or were apart was love. At four months into this relationship I screwed up big time by breaking it off. Biggest mistake of that relationship." Nikolas said. "Who was she?" Ryan asked. All three of them just looked at him. "Well he said hot blonde and Im wondering if I can get a number over here since they broke up and I need some loving." He replied with all seriousness. "You already have your sisters number dumbass." Nikolas said. "Oh he was talking about you.Eww. My bad. Anyway continue." He said. Lulu and Courtney just laughed.
"It took my son getting sick and going to the hospital to realize that I made the biggest mistake ever. She showed up because somebody called her. I wasnt shocked to see her there. We argued in the hallway until the doctor came back and then when he left we made up. New Years Eve I proposed to her. She said yes and then we set a date and got married months later. After that we started adding onto our little family and now Im the happiest I've ever been." Nikolas said grabbing Courtneys hand. "I love you." He said. "I love you too." She said back to him.
"That is so sweet. I want a guy who would do all that for me." Lulu said. "No you dont." Nikolas said. "Why dont I?" Lulu asked. "I was a total ass multiple times since we've been together including today." He said. "But you said you were sorry though." Courtney said. "I know but what Im trying to say is that I dont deserve you because of the way I act sometimes." He said. "Baby its okay. I wanted to kill you multiple times such as today but its okay now. We have our fights like everybody." She said. "Well its nine. We better get going." Nikolas said. "Yeah we do. We got two sleeping babies to take home and put in bed." Courtney said. "Okay see you later." Ryan said. Nikolas grabbed the carrier while Courtney carried Nathan out to the car.
It was the next day. Nikolas had a meeting in the morning but was going to be done in time for Nathans. Courtney was already at the preschool and was waiting outside with Nathan and Natalie for Nikolas. "Mom." Nathan said. "Yes?" She asked him. "When is dad going to be here?" He asked. "Soon I promise." She said back to him. "He better be or he's im big trouble." Nathan said as soon as a car pulled in. Nikolas got out of the car. "Sorry Im late." He said. "I called and they said your meeting was over an our ago." Courtney said as Nikolas took the carrier from her. "Yeah I dont want to talk about it right now. We can as soon as we get home." He said as they entered the building. "Okay." She said back to him.
They sat in the meeting for about an hour when they decided that Nathan would go here in the fall for pre-k. This was also the school that Cameron was going to be attending as well. "Mom can I ride with dad?" Nathan asked. "Ask daddy baby." She said. "Ask me what?" Nikolas said turning around facing them. He was ahead of them. He was putting Natalie in the car. "Can I ride home with you?" Nathan asked. "I dont care." Nikolas said. "You ready?" He asked the little boy. "Yeah." Nathan said. Nikolas picked him up and walked over to Courtney to give her a kiss. "Love you and see you home." He said as he pulled away. "Okay." She said as she pulled out.
They met back at home. Courtney was in the living room with Natalie feeding her her bottle. "Hey sweetie." She said as Nathan and Nikolas walked through the door. "Daddy drives like an old lady mom." Nathan said. Courtney just laugghed. "It did take you ten minutes longer then it should have. Did you do atleast the speed limit?" Courtney asked. "There was an old lady in front of us. Its not like I could just run her off the road." Nikolas said as he went and sat beside Courtney on the couch. "Im going to go play." Nathan said. "Okay. Are you hungry?" Courtney asked him. "Yeah." He replied.
"Now are you going to tell me what took you so long earlier?" She asked him. "Yeah I can." He said as he opened his jacket pocket that he had wore earlier for his meetings this morning. He handed her a piece of paper. "Whats this?" She asked. "Read it." He said. "Here take her." Courtney said handing him the baby. She read over the papers. "Wow theses came quick." She said after she read them. "That means she filed them before she came back to town." Nikolas said. "Who handed them to you?" She asked. "Alexis. She agreed to represent me and you in the custody battle." He said looking at her.
"Did Justus agree to be hers?" She asked. "Nope. I called him. He said that she asked him but he told her no because he believes that Nathan belongs with me and you and she shouldnt get anything and told me if I needed a lawyer he would do it but I was like no I got Alexis." He said. "Can we use his statement in court?" She asked him. "Yes we can. Im going to have Alexis do it where we ask relatives what they think." Nikolas said. "Okay. I guess all we can do now is wait huh?" She said looking at him. "Yup but dont worry about it." Nikolas said.
He watched her sit down on the chair taking all this in. He placed the baby in the swing and walked over to her. He bent down in front of the chair so she had to look down at him. She hugged him tightly. He held her right there on the floor for a minute running his fingers through her hair. "What if she gets him?" Courtney whisper in his ear as tears began to flow from her eyes while her head was on his shoulder. Nikolas just smiled. "She wont I promise." He said. "She would have to bribe the judge because no judge in their right mind will grant her custody or even visitations after what she did." Nikolas said.
"Dont worry too much about it okay?" He said. "Okay." She said back as she pulled away and looked him in his brown eyes. "I love you baby." He said. "I love you too." She said back. They were in the middle of a kiss when Nathan came in. "Eww daddy. You shouldnt do that." Nathan said. "Why not?" Nikolas asked while he wrapped his hands around Courtney's waist. "Because uncle Ry said that girls can give you icky germs." Nathan said. "I kissed mommy earlier and you didnt say anything." Nikolas said as Courtney just smiled. "Well thats because it was the kind of kiss grandma gives me and those are okay. Just not those." Nathan said. Courtney laughed. "Come here baby." She said. Nathan walked over to her and Nikolas.
"Why are you's sitting on the floor?" Nathan asked. "Because we want too." Nikolas said. "Oh." Nathan said. "Can I sit with you's then?" He asked. "Yes you may." Courtney said. Nathan crawled on to Courtney's lap because she was sitting in Nikolas. "Its a good thing you arent pregnant still or I'd be crushed by now." Nikolas said. "Thats not funny." Courtney said back. "I know. I know. I cant wait for you to be pregnant again." He said. "I can." She said. "Me too." Nathan said.
"Mom." He said. "What baby?" She asked him. "I love you very much but I dont want no more sisters or brothers because the one I got now is broken. She doesnt do anything but sleep and cry. Why couldnt I get somebody like Morgan who plays all the time and can walk? Atleast he does cool things." He said worried. "I know but we have to wait til she's older." Courtney said back. "That'll take forever." Nathan responded. Nikolas and Courtney just laughed. "Whats so funny?" He asked. "You." Courtney said back. "I love you." he said. "I love you too." She said as she gave him a hug.
A/N: Do you like it? I hope. There wont be to many more chapters. So please review. I'll love you's forever not that I dont now because I do because anyone who can read my non-spelling/grammer ass stories must really like it! I've been getting alot better lately though because I was reading like the first 10 chapters and like almost half the words were spelled wrong and I laughed because Im retarded!
