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After the party, it seemed as if Kim and Tommy had reversed back to how they were before Tommy found out he was Nicholas's father. When they were around each other, they acted like the other wasn't there. Although the silent treatment was mainly Tommy's doing. However, Kim would speak; it was just Tommy that would act like she wasn't there. But even with all the tension between them, they never let it affect the relationship they had with their son.

Oliver Residence:

Wednesday Evening

"I talked to Kimberly yesterday. I called to ask if it would be okay if Nicholas spent the weekend with me. She said yes of course, but she also informed me as to what was going on between you and her," Mrs. Oliver informed her son as she prepared dinner.

"Mom I really don't wanna talk about this," answered Tommy as he poured himself a cold glass of ice tea.

"Well to bad because we are. She is the mother of your son and you two need to be civil toward each other."

"I take care of my son and you know that. As long as he is happy, her feelings don't mean anything to me."

Turning the stove off, Jill took a seat opposite her son at the table, "Tommy you love Kim. How can you say that her feelings don't matter? I know that you are upset because she is seeing someone else, but Tommy, honey, look at it from the angel that everyone else is. Kimberly has the right to date anyone she pleases because you and she are not together. As badly as that hurts you, it's the truth."

"Mom I really don't care if she marries the guy. We have been over with for a while now. The only mistake I made was letting my guard down around her," said Tommy not bothering to look his mother in the face.

Tilting her son's head up so that she could look in his eyes, Jill responded, "Your mouth says one thing, but your eyes tell a whole different story. You love her just the same as you did when you first started dating. But now that she is showing someone else the attention that she used to show you, you want to lash out and walk around with an attitude. It doesn't work like that Tommy. If you really love her you would fight for her and don't let her get away for the second time in a row, because you might not get another chance."

Kim's Apartment:

Thursday Night

Sitting on her living room couch, Kimberly did what any woman would do; that's talk to her best friend on the phone. Every since Kim had moved back to Angel Grove, her and her two best friends Trini and Aisha had picked up where their friendship had left off when Kim moved to Florida. The three women talked about everything that was going on in their lives and I do mean everything.

"Are you serious Aisha? Rocky actually does that," asked Kimberly while trying to control her laughter.

"Yes. And it is so annoying. After he takes a shower he stands in front of the mirror with just a towel on and sings that old Rod Stewart song, "If you want my body and you think I'm sexy come on baby let me know," answered Aisha.

"I can just picture him doing that," replied Trini as the girls talked on three-way.

"So Kim, how are things going with you and Tyler?" asked Aisha.

"Yeah I want to know the answer to that one," replied Trini.

"I've seen him around the office and he has asked me out to lunch a couple times but I have turned him down. Although we are having dinner tomorrow night," answered Kim.

"So have things gotten any better between you and Tommy?" asked Trini.

"No not really. He comes by and spends time with Nick, but he doesn't really say much to me. I guess I can't blame him though for not wanting to speak to me. I mean when I look at it the way he does, I did sort of play with his emotions. We kissed for like five minutes then the next day I show up with another man to our son's birthday party. If the situations were reversed, I would probably feel the same way Tommy does."

"Maybe, but you wouldn't go around acting as if Tommy was the enemy," said Trini.

"Kim I want an honest answer, do you love Tommy?" questioned Aisha.

"Me and Tommy were in a relationship for three years and we have a son together, of course I will always love Tommy," Kim responded.

"What I mean is are you in love with Tommy right now but just dating Tyler because you feel like you can't be with Tommy," explained Aisha.

"I…………."

Before Kim could answer Aisha's question, there was a knock at her door.

"Hold on you guys, there's someone at the door."

Sitting the phone down, Kim got up from her place on the couch and went to answer her door. Looking through the peep hole, Kim was stunned to see who was at her door that evening.

"Hey Tommy," Kim said as she opened the door.

"Hey Kim, uh can I come in?"

"Sure, come on in."

Once Kim closed the door behind Tommy, she picked up the phone to end her conversation with her two best friends.

"Girls I'm gonna have to call you back," and with that Kim hung up her phone.

"So Tommy, what brings you over?" asked Kim as she took a seat in her previous spot on the couch.

"Since I leave Saturday morning for a race and I know that my mom is keeping Nicholas tomorrow night, I was wondering if it would be alright if he spent the night with me tonight. That way I could spend all day tomorrow with him and then drop him off at my mom's later on tomorrow," asked Tommy as he stood in the middle of the floor with his hands in his pocket.

"Yeah sure, but let me feed him his dinner first. You are more than welcome to join us if you want," said Kim as she rose from the couch to walk down the hall toward Nick's bedroom.

"Yeah sure why not," replied Tommy as he took a seat on the couch.

As soon as Kim told Nick that his father was in the front room, he took off running at top speed to see him.

Hearing his son running down the hallway, Tommy turned around and picked his son up into his arms.

"Hey little man, how you doing?" asked Tommy after he gave his son a kiss on the cheek.

"Fine," replied Nicholas as he held on tight to his dad's neck.

"That's good. Are you hungry?"

"Yeah."

"Well let's go wash our hands so that we can eat that great dinner that your mother cooked for us," said Tommy.

With her view point from the kitchen, Kim watched as Tommy led Nicholas to the bathroom to wash his hands. Once they were done, they both took their respective seats at the kitchen table. Like most three year olds, Nicky made a mess while trying to feed himself. Even though there was going to be a lot to clean up, both parents were amused nonetheless to watch their son grow before their eyes.

With the leftovers from dinner put away and the kitchen clean, the family of three retired to the front room.

"We should be leaving soon. I still need to give this little man a bath and it's getting close to his bedtime," said Tommy as he rose from the couch.

"Nick, why don't you go play in your room and let mommy and daddy talk for minute," said Kim as she sent her son to his room.

"Kim…….."

"No, Tommy. We really need to talk."

Sitting on the opposite end of the couch, Tommy replied, "Talk about what."

"About us."

With a confused look on his face, Tommy answered, "Us. What us? As far as I know, there is a Kim and there is a Tommy, but there is no us."

"You know what I mean Tommy. We can't keep acting like this toward one another. We need to work through what happened three weeks ago."

"Oh, you mean how you lead me on and then……"

"Lead you on," Kim interrupted.

"Yeah. Remember when you kissed me up against your door and then showed up the next day at our son's birthday party with your boyfriend. Remember that," Tommy reminded her.

"He is not my boyfriend Tommy. We have gone out a couple of times, but that's it," explained Kim.

"Look you don't have to explain anything to me. What you do and who you do it with is no concern of mine. My mom made sure that I got that through my thick skull."

"What do you mean?" asked Kim.

"Kim, I'm not going to hide the fact that I have feelings for you. I know it, our friends know it, and I think that deep down inside, you know it. But the fact of the matter is, I don't wanna put myself on the line to be hurt again by you. That letter hurt like hell. To think that another man could give your girlfriend something you couldn't or satisfy her in a way that you can't kills your pride. But then when I realized the real reason behind the letter, it still hurt me because it made me question why you didn't tell me we had a son together. It made me think that I had done something wrong to make you believe that I wouldn't make a good father. Which is why I have been busting my ass to prove to you that I am," Tommy said with a look of love in his eyes.

"I'm sorry for making you feel that way," replied Kim with tears in her eyes.

"It's not you." Reaching out to tilt her head up, Tommy explained, "I'm not mad at you. It's just……. When I saw that you had someone that you were spending time with, I just automatically thought that this guy is going to step in and take my place with you and Nicholas. I know that's ridiculous, but that's what was going on in my head."

"Tommy I would never let another guy take your place in either one of lives be it me or Nick. You are his father. You are the one he loves."

"What about you?" asked Tommy looking Kimberly in the eyes.

Before Kim could answer, Nick came running out of his room yelling for Tommy.

"Daddy come play with me," yelled Nick as he climbed into Tommy's lap.

Finally taking his eyes off of Kim, Tommy looked down at his son and said, "How about we go to my house and play huh. You wanna spend the night with your dad?"

"Yeah," shouted Nicholas as he got out of his fathers lap and jumped up and down while laughing.

"Alright let's go put your shoes on then we can leave."

Once Tommy left to go help Nick put on his shoes, Kim released a breathe she didn't even realize she was holding. She was very thankful that Nick interrupted when he did. She her self was not ready to explore the answer to that question.

"Come on kid lets go. Kiss your mother and tell her you'll see her later."

"See you later mommy," Nick stated after giving his mother a kiss and a hug.

"Bye baby. You be good for your dad," Kim replied as she walked them to the door.

"Bye Kim."

"Bye, Tommy," said Kim as she closed the door.

Jedi's Garden Restaurant:

Friday Night

It was an evening planned down to perfection. It all started with Tyler arriving at Kimberly's home promptly at 7:00 as planned to pick her up for dinner. Upon opening her apartment door, Kim was greeted by Tyler with a warm smile and a dozen of white roses. Seeing the white roses, Kim was hit off guard with a memory of the first man to ever give her white roses, Tommy.

Shortly after arriving at the restaurant, they were seated and given menus. Tyler then proceeded to ask the waiter for a bottle of their best champagne. Tyler was pulling out every trick he had. First starting off with the white roses leading up to a nice candle lit diner and a bottle of very expensive champagne. This night had to go as smooth as possible if he wanted to complete his mission of making Kimberly Harte his.

"I know I said this to you earlier, but I have to say this again. You look absolutely amazing," said Tyler as he gazed at Kim across the candle lit table. "You are beautiful."

There it was again. That one little something that always seemed to bring back memories of her first love, Tommy. Even though Tommy did not own the word beautiful, to Kimberly he did. Out of all the possible words Tyler could have used to describe her, he picked that one. Even though Kimberly was all smiles on the outside, on the inside she was screaming at him to never use that word again.

"Kim……Kim……..Kim….."

"Huh," said Kim as she snapped back into reality.

"You just seemed as if you spaced out on me for awhile there. Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, everything is just fine," replied Kim as she took a sip of her champagne.

The rest of the evening was spent eating a fabulous meal with various conversations of small talk. To Tyler it seemed as if the night had been a complete success. As he replayed it in his mind on the ride back to Kim's apartment, dinner had gone well and he had managed to keep a smile on her face almost the entire night. Although, that was just one half of the story. Kim on the other hand had been having a big tug of war match going on inside her head most of the night. And holding on to the ropes were none other than Tommy and Tyler.

After parking the car and opening Kim's door to let her out of the car, Tyler then walked her to her door.

"I had a great time tonight Kim."

"Me too."

After what seemed like an eternity, Tyler leaned down as Kim leaned up and gave a soft but passionate goodnight kiss.

"I am seriously falling in love with you Kim," Tyler said with his lips a half an inch apart from hers.

With her eyes still closed, Kimberly responded, "I'm falling back in love with you to Tommy."

Realizing what she just said, the couple pulled apart and looked at each other.

Eyes wide open from shock; Kimberly very quickly tried to apologize. "I am so sorry Tyler."

"Don't Kim. The heart knows what it wants, even when the body tries to deny it. Obviously my heart wanted you and you wanted somebody else."

"Tyler just let me explain."

"You don't have to explain anything Kim." And with that Tyler walked off with a sad and hurt look on his face.

Kim's Apartment:

Midnight

Alone in the dark, Kim sat alone on her couch with a cup of coffee in her hand replaying the events of tonight. The one thing that she sees over and over again is the look on Tyler's face when he walked away. Knowing that she needed to talk to someone to help with the dilemma in head, Kim called the one person she knew she could talk to at anytime of the day no matter what.

"Hello."

"Hey Kendall."

"Kim are you okay? You sound like you had a horrible day," stated Kendall over the phone.

"I'm fine. It's just that I really need someone to talk to."

"Sure go ahead, what's on your mind?"

"Of course you know I went out with Tyler tonight. When he picked me up he brought me a dozen of white roses."

"Were they beautiful," interrupted Kendal.

"Yeah, but when I saw them, it just brought on a whole slew of memories of Tommy," explained Kim. "Tommy came by last night and we finally talked about what happened at Nicholas's birthday party. He explained to me that he wasn't angry at me for inviting Tyler to the party, but that he felt that Tyler was taking his place in both me and Nick's life."

"Are you serious? He was just jealous all this time," asked Kendall.

"Yeah, I thought it was actually kind of cute."

"So how did dinner go with Tyler? Apparently it didn't go to well because you're on the phone with me instead of being dessert for Tyler," said Kendall as she burst into a fit of laughter.

"Dinner went great. It was after dinner where things went south."

"How far south?"

"As in the fiery pits of hell south."

"What the hell happened Kim?"

With the event in question still fresh in her head; Kim explained the details to Kendall. "When we arrived back at my place, Tyler being the true gentleman that he is walked up to my apartment. During our good night kiss, Tyler confessed that he was falling in love with me. But unfortunately, I was the one that blurted out and I quote, "That I am falling back in love with you to Tommy."

"Oh my God. Please tell me that you did not really say that Kim."

"Kendall you should have seen the look on his face. He was so hurt. I tried to apologize as soon as the words came out of my mouth but he did not want to hear any of it. He just turned and walked away," Kimberly explained. "God Kendall I felt so awful."

"So now what are you going to do?"

"I don't know. I truly don't know," answered Kim.

"Do you love Tommy?" Asked Kendall.

After giving the question some thought, Kim responded with, "Of course I do. I don't think I ever stopped loving him."

"Well I guess there's only one thing to do," stated Kendall.

Mrs. Oliver's Home

Saturday Morning:

After being woken up at six in the morning by her son Tommy, Jill Oliver decided to stay up and get ready for the day ahead of her. Since Tommy's flight for Memphis was scheduled to leave at 7:30 that morning, he decided to bring over his son Nicholas as soon as possible, so that way he would make it to the airport on time.

With her grandson still upstairs in the guest bedroom sleeping, Jill got started on breakfast. Not to long after finishing breakfast, Jill heard the faint sound of crying coming from upstairs. Upon seeing his grandmother coming into the room, Nicholas ran to her and slowly stopped crying.

With breakfast over with, Jill than proceeded to give Nicholas a bath and get him dressed. By the time anyone knew it, it was almost noon time. Sitting down to enjoy a nice Looney Tunes movie with Nick, Jill was interrupted by the ringing of her door bell.

"Kimberly darling, please come in," said Jill as she ushered Kim inside.

"Thank you Mrs. Oliver."

"Please call me Jill," responded Mrs. Oliver as both women took seats at the kitchen table.

"Mommy, mommy, mommy come watch the movie with me," pleaded Tyler as he climbed into his mothers lap.

"Sweetie, why don't you go back in there and watch the movie and when I'm done talking to your grandmother, I'll be in there to watch it with you," said Kimberly as she gave her son a kiss on the head.

"Okay," replied Nick as he got down and ran back into the front room to watch his movie.

After noticing the uncomfortable look on Kim's face, Jill asked, "Kimberly honey, is everything okay?"

Taking a moment to get her thoughts together, Kim proceeded tell Jill about Tommy coming over and what was said during their talk.

"He actually admitted that to you. I thought for sure with that stupid pride of his that boy was going to stay mad forever," said Jill.

"Me to, but it also showed me how much he wanted to be in our lives. Tommy also admitted that he still has feelings for me." With a slight pause, Kim continued. "Yesterday, I realized that I still have feelings for him too."

"What are you saying dear?" asked Mrs. Oliver hoping against all odds that her son and Kim would get back together. Seeing as how Kim was the only girl that Tommy ever truely loved.

"I'm saying that I still love your son and I don't think that I ever stopped," admitted Kimberly with a sincere smile on her face. "That's why I came over. I was wondering if you had Tommy's hotel information."

"Yes, I have it. Just wait here while I go and retrieve it," said Jill as she went up to her room and gathered the information for Kimberly.

Angel Grove International Airport

Saturday Afternoon:

"Flight 1210 to Memphis Tennessee is now boarding at gate 24," was the announcement heard over the loud speaker.

"Well that's my flight," said Kim as she looked at her son and some what mother-in-law. "You be good for your grandmother. I love you baby. I'll call you when I get there okay."

Giving his mother a hug, Nicholas responded with a kiss and said, "I love you to mommy."

Looking at the woman Jill always knew would some day be her daughter, she gave Kim a hug and wished her luck.

Natchez Raceway

Memphis Tennessee

Saturday Evening:

After finishing his last practice run, Tommy was more than happy to be leaving the track. Tired from the practice itself along with having jet lag from the plane ride earlier, all Tommy wanted to do was have a nice dinner, drink a beer or two, and retire to a nice long sleep.

Reaching his hotel, Tommy decided to stop and have a meal at the bar/grill located in the hotel. While waiting for the steak and fries that he ordered, Tommy thought it would be a good idea to check on his mother and son.

Picking up his cell phone, Tommy called his mother.

"Hello."

"Hey mom how's everything going?" asked Tommy as he took a swig from his beer.

"Everything's fine here. How about yourself? Meet any interesting people."

"Mom as soon as I got here I went straight to the track, I haven't had time to meet anybody. By the way is Nick still up or did Kim come get him already."

"He's still here but he's asleep. Nick's going to be with me the entire weekend. Kim came by and asked if I could watch him a little longer. There was something important that she needed to do," explained Mrs. Oliver.

"Well my food is here and I'll talk to you tomorrow before my race," said Tommy.

"Alright dear, good night."

"Good night mom," with that said Tommy hung up the phone.

Hilton Suites

Memphis Tennessee:

After dinner, Tommy retired to his to take a long hot shower and get ready for bed. Little did he know that at the same time, the mother of his son was arriving at the same airport that he did just hours ago.

Stepping into the taxi and telling him her destination, Kim was starting to think that this was a bad idea. Pulling out her cell phone, Kim called Mrs. Oliver to let her know that she had made it okay.

"I am so glad that you made it safely dear. That boy is going to be so surprised."

"I just hope he is there."

"Trust me dear he is. I talked to him an hour ago and he was having dinner at the restaurant inside the hotel," explained Jill.

"Jill please tell me that I am doing the right thing," said Kim needing reassurance.

"If you love him like you say you do, then there is nothing in the world more right than telling him."

"Thanks Jill. I really needed to hear that," said Kim as the taxi pulled up in front of the hotel Tommy was staying in.

After paying the cab fair, Kim then walked inside the hotel and headed straight for the elevator. Once reaching the twelfth floor, Kim walked down the hallway until she found suite 1205. Gathering up all the courage she could, Kim knocked on the door.

After shutting of the water from his shower, Tommy heard someone knock on his door.

"Who the hell could that be," said Tommy out loud to himself. "I'm coming yelled Tommy hoping that the person on the other side of the door heard him. Quickly towel drying him self, Tommy threw on a pair of blue plaid boxers and proceeded to answer the door.

Knocking for the fourth time, Kim was ready to turn and leave until she heard some commotion from inside the room.

Looking through the peep hole on the door, Tommy was shocked to say the least to see who was standing out side his door. Opening the door, Tommy said the first thing that came to his mind. "Kim, what are you doing here?"

Sorry for such a long wait. Although I hope that this chapter made up for it. Not to worry chapter 13 is already in the works. Hopefully I won't take as long to finish it. Hope you all enjoyed and always please review.