Chapter 8:
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"Nikolas?" she said starting to worry.
"Yes?" He said diverting his attention back to her.
"Are you going to answer me or do I have to find out?" She asked him.
"Answer you? What did you ask?" He asked her avoiding the question as best as possible.
"Okay. Um do you still feel the same about me?" She asked him.
"Yes." he responded.
"Thats good to know. Did you cheat on me while you were gone?" Emily asked him.
"Cheat on you?" He asked her.
"Yeah you know did you sleep with somebody else?" Emily asked him.
"No I did not sleep with anybody while I was gone at least not in the way you put it." Nikolas said as he sat down at his desk.
"What is that suppose to mean?" Emily asked him annoyed as she walked in front of the desk.
"That means that I did not have sex with anybody while I was gone." Nikolas said looking up at her and then back down at the desk.
"Well what is in the way you put it mean?" She asked him.
"Im not going to lie to you. In fact Im going to tell you the truth because I did nothing wrong." Nikolas responded.
"Yesterday morning Bernie was in Courtney's bed. She freaked I heard her I came in and when I finally got Bernie to leave we decided to watch a movie and we both fell asleep for three hours." Nikolas finished as she just looked at him.
"Who's Bernie?" Emily asked him.
"Bernie is my cousin. He's a little strange." Nikolas answered.
"And nothing happened?" She stated making sure.
"Nothing." Nikolas answered as footsteps were heard.
"Sorry to interrupted." The brunette said as the two girls made their presence.
"You aren't interrupting. Go ahead." Nikolas said looking at her.
"Well thanks to Courtney. Ethan is asleep." Sam said as Courtney tried hard not to laugh.
"Thats good." Nikolas said as Emily rolled her eyes and Nikolas caught it out of the corner of his eye.
"Anyway what was I going to say?" Sam said looking over at Courtney who just shrugged her shoulders.
"Beats me. All you said was I have an idea and dragged me out of the room." Courtney said as Sam laughed.
"Oh damn what was it?" Sam said.
"Its okay Sam. It will come to you. We dont want you to over work your brain." Nikolas said with a smile and it caused Courtney laughed.
"Your not funny." Sam said as she tried hard not to laugh.
"I have to go." Emily said looking at Nikolas.
"Want me to walk you out?" Nikolas asked her as this just made her pissed off.
"No we dont want you to do anything you dont want to do." Emily said as she walked past Courtney and Sam.
"I'll be right back you two." Nikolas said as he got up and walked past the two of them.
"Dude is she always like that?" Sam asked.
"Yes. Well I only met slash saw her like two or three times but from what I can tell yes." Courtney said looking at her.
"She's a bitch. You know what my cousin needs to do?" Sam said looking at her.
"What?" Courtney asked as they sat down on the couch.
"He needs to break up with her and you two should get together." Sam said with a smile.
"No." was all Courtney simply said.
"What! Why not? You guys are cute together and from what I could tell last night-" She began to say.
"Me and Nikolas!" Courtney exclaimed as Sam shook her head yes.
"No. He is my boss. Im Ethan's nanny. Besides it just wouldnt work and I dont like him like that and the feeling is mutual." Courtney finished.
"Okay first off you act more like Ethan's mother okay? Trust me I had nannies. Nikolas had nannies and you are the complete opposite of what we got." Sam said looking at Courtney.
"Just because he's your boss doesn't mean anything either." She finished.
"Yes it does. I always told myself that I would never fall for my boss and sadly he's the only one I ever had." Courtney said looking at her.
"This is your first job?" Sam asked her.
"Yes." Courtney answered as Sam laughed.
"Sorry. Okay getting back on track here you like him. I know you do because if you didn't you wouldnt have been all kissy face with him." Sam said looking at her.
"He kissed me first and you have got to bury that deep." Courtney said looking at her.
"Well thats even better. What makes you think he doesn't like you like that? If he didn't why would he kiss you?" Sam asked her.
"I dont know that but I do know he doesn't like me like that so just drop it." Courtney said as she stood up and began walking out of the living room.
"Going somewhere?" A voice said as she got to the doorway.
"Yeah. Just upstairs." Courtney answered looking at Sam who smiled.
"Oh. Are you busy?" Nikolas asked her as she pushed her hair behind her ear.
"No not really why? Whats up?" Courtney asked wondering why he would ask.
"Because I need to run into the city and I was wondering if you wanted to go with me?" Nikolas asked her.
"I can but why dont you want to take Sam?" Courtney asked confused.
"Because Sam cant do what I need you too." Nikolas said as he looked over at his cousin and then back at Courtney.
"Courtney already said she isnt sleeping with you!" Sam yelled from the couch as Courtney blushed and tried hard not to laugh.
"Your not funny Samantha. If I wanted Courtney to sleep with me I would just kick you out of the living room since I have a perfectly good desk right there." Nikolas responded as she blushed more.
"Ooo. Kinky are we? See Courtney." Sam said with a smile.
"Alright Sam." Nikolas said looking at her as Courtney was trying hard not to laugh and blush.
"No I dont need you to go with me for-" he began to say.
"I know. Let me get my purse." Courtney said walking up the steps.
Nikolas walked into the living room and looked at his cousin.
"You need to be quiet." Nikolas said looking at her,
"What did I say? You are the one who said you wanted to sleep with your nanny right there on the desk. Not me." Sam said as he just looked at her.
"Remind me to stay far away from your desk as well cause to tell you the truth Nikolas thats kinda eww since we are related and what not." She finished.
"Anyway we should be back in about in thirty minutes. An hour tops. You are on baby duty so if he cries you better make sure my son is okay or we will have words when I get back." Nikolas said looking at her.
"I know how to take care of a baby Nikolas. I do have two little sisters." Sam replied looking at her.
"Okay. Dont burn down my house either." He responded.
"How would I burn down your house?" She asked him as she looked up at him.
"Just dont do it." Nikolas said looking at her.
"Who almost burnt down your house?" Sam asked wondering who the hell couldn't cook.
"That would be me." Courtney said making her presence.
"How!" Sam asked with amazement.
"Somebody never told me to put water in the pan when I went to go heat up a bottle." Courtney answered as Sam laughed.
"Okay let's go." Nikolas said as he began walking out of the living room.
"Bye Sam." Courtney said looking at her.
"Bye Courtney. Remember what we talked about!" Sam said looking at her.
"And Nikolas practice safe sex! You already got a little one!" She finished by shouting so she knew he heard her.
"Sorry." Nikolas said as they got on the launch.
"Its not your fault so its okay. Besides Sam is cool." Courtney said back to him.
"So where are we going?" Courtney asked him.
"Just to the pizza shack to pick up pizza." Nikolas responded.
"Oh." Courtney answered.
"Yeah I didn't want to take Sam because she would want to go everywhere and I didn't want to go by myself." Nikolas said looking at her.
"Oh. I gotcha." Courtney replied as they finally reached the docks.
"Yeah I figured we would have pizza for lunch and then take the little ones to dinner tonight at Metro Court." Nikolas responded as she laughed.
"Little ones?" Courtney asked him.
"Yeah. I guess I have to start paying you double for baby sitting Sam too." Nikolas said as she continued to laugh.
"No you are paying me plenty." Courtney replied looking at him.
"So when are you going to go home?" Nikolas asked her.
"Well I need money first if I decide too." Courtney said looking back at him.
"If you decide? What does that mean?" Nikolas asked her.
"I like it here in Port Charles with you, Ethan and Sam." She responded.
"Besides there is nothing in the big city for me anyway and to tell you the truth the only person I really miss is my butler." Courtney said as he laughed.
"He was your best friend huh?" He replied as he looked at her.
"The only true friend." Courtney responded.
"Why you say that?" Nikolas asked her. He was like Sam asking a million and one questions.
"A lot of people would tell me that he wasnt my friend that he got paid to do what he did but not all of it." Courtney began.
"He didn't get paid to help me with my school work or to make sure I was up for school. He didn't get paid to wish me a happy birthday on every birthday I had. My father didn't even do that." Courtney said looking at him.
"He cared about me like I was his own daughter. He actually had a daughter. She was ten years older then me and she died on her sixteenth birthday in a car crash." Courtney said as a tear left her eye.
"Im sorry. It sounds like you's were friends." Nikolas responded.
"Yeah we kind of were. She would come over after school for as long as I could remember. Even when I wasnt in school and she would hang out with me." Courtney said as they came up on the Pizza Shack.
"Want anything special?" Nikolas asked her.
"No Im good." She replied as he smiled at her and they placed their order.
"Sam is going to be mad." Courtney said as they sat down at the picnic table.
"I know. Oh well. We will simply tell her the store was close." Nikolas said as Courtney laughed.
"What store closes at one in the afternoon?" Courtney asked him.
"We will tell her they had a chemical spill or something. I dont know. Just whatever I say agree." Nikolas said looking at her.
"And what makes you think I want to lie to your cousin?" She asked him curiously as to what he was going to responded.
He leaned over the table to whisper in her ear. "I know you will." He said as she laughed.
"Order twenty one." The lady behind the counter said.
"Thats us." Nikolas said as the two of them stood up.
They got the pizza and made their way back to the launch.
"Hey!" Sam said as they made their way into the living room.
"Ethan is up." Sam said as the baby held himself up with his hands on the table.
"Look at you!" Courtney screeched to Ethan as he just smiled at her.
"He'll be walking soon." Sam said looking at her.
"Yeah. Im excited." Courtney said as she squatted on the floor to sit beside him.
He let go of his hands and started falling towards her.
"You better be careful." Courtney said as she caught him and placed him on her lap.
"Want some pizza?" Nikolas asked Sam.
"Yeah so much for going to the store huh?" Sam asked him as Courtney just laughed.
"Look Im taking you out tonight so just hush." Nikolas said looking at her.
"Want me to bring you a piece Courtney?" Nikolas asked her.
"No. We will come to you." Courtney said as she got off the floor with Ethan.
They went to the kitchen and she placed him in his highchair.
"Here." Courtney said handing him her crust.
"I was going to feed him baby food." Nikolas said as he sat down across from her.
"No he's fine. He likes bread and crust." Courtney said as she looked at Ethan who was slobbering all over the crust and Sam laughed.
They ate their pizza and Courtney wiped Ethan off.
"Im going to get a shower before we go out." Sam said as she made her way up the steps.
Courtney sat on the floor with Ethan as Nikolas sat at his desk.
"Come on baby." She said as she held his hands and tried getting him to walk around.
He took three steps before falling down.
"Awww. You are okay." She said all baby like as Nikolas watched and smile.
"I have faith in you baby." She said as she lifted him back up.
Nikolas got up from the desk and made his way over to his son and Courtney.
"Here why dont you sit there. I'll sit here and he can walk from you to me." Nikolas said as he sat down.
"Okay." Courtney said as she sat down as Ethan held onto the table.
"Come here baby." Courtney said getting him away from the table.
"Here walk to daddy." She said as she held onto his tiny fingers again as she crawled on her knees.
She got about two steps away from Nikolas when she let go of his fingers.
Ethan took a step forward not even realizing she wasnt holding on anymore.
On the second step he fell flat on his butt.
She let out a laughter. "Look baby you did it!" Courtney said as she clapped and Ethan looked up at her.
He began clapping and laughing too just because she was as Nikolas just smiled and shook his head.
"Let's try it again!" She said as she helped him stand up on his feet.
He took another step and fell on the second one again.
"Its okay baby. You'll get it." Courtney said.
"You are really good with Ethan you know that." Nikolas said looking down at his son who just decided to crawl this time.
"No. Its just because he such a good baby." Courtney said looking at him.
A silence came over them and he just looked at her and then down.
"Listen I just wanted to tell you that last night-" He began to say as she cut him off.
"It's okay." She said looking at him before standing up.
"Im going to give him a bath before we go to dinner." Courtney said lifting Ethan up and walking up the steps.
He watched her walk up the steps with her son as all the questions Sam asked him the night before played in his head.
"Whats wrong?" He heard a voice say to him.
"Nothing." He responded before getting up and going upstairs.
Sam just sat there and watched him leave.
Obviously she walked into a very awkward moment between the three, well two of them, just now.
They arrived at the Metro Court, which was rarely crowd for today, and sat down at the table.
"Wow this is nice. Is the owner cute?" Sam said with a smile as Courtney laughed.
"Jasper Jaxs." Nikolas replied with a hint of laughter.
"What is he like ugly or something?" Sam asked Nikolas.
"I wouldnt know but I do know a lot of girl thinks he is like god or something." he said back to her.
"Ooo is that him?" Sam asked pointing to a man that sat at the bar.
"Nope! That would be Jason Morgan." Nikolas answered her.
"He's cute! Let me go get a number!" Sam said as she got up and walked away from the table.
Ethan put his hands over his eyes and shook his head as she did this and it caused Courtney and Nikolas to laugh.
"Hello Nikolas. Who's this?" A tall blonde man asking as he made his way over to the table.
"This is Courtney. Courtney this is Jax." Nikolas said as she looked at him and nodded.
"Do you and Emily still go out or is this your new girlfriend?" Jax asked Nikolas.
"No she works for me. Me and Emily are still together." Nikolas said.
"Yeah and nobody knows why!" Sam exclaimed as she sat back down.
"Look! I got my number!" She exclaimed as she was extremely happy and Courtney just laughed at her.
"Well I wanted to personally invite you's to a party Im having tomorrow night." Jax said looking around.
"What kind of party? Like who sees who can get smashed first and yelling chug! Chug! most of the night? Or the kind where you dress up real nice and fancy clothes and leave with barely a buzz so you bring your own liquor?" Sam asked as Courtney just laughed at her.
"Well it's a Mascarade Ball so you dress up and its here so the bar will be open. Coming?" Jax asked the table.
"You want to go?" Nikolas asked Courtney.
"No I can watch Ethan." Courtney said looking at him.
"No do you want to come or not?" Nikolas asked her again.
"I said no." she exclaimed.
"Why?" he asked her as the other two people just watched the interaction.
"Because I just dont want too and I have nothing to wear and nobody to go with." She stated.
Jax thought this would be the perfect time to butt in and ask her but he didnt get that chance.
"Come with me and you and Sam can go tomorrow to get something." He said looking at her.
"Aren't you going to be coming with Emily?" Courtney asked him back.
"No she is going out of town tomorrow morning." Nikolas replied looking at her.
"So what do you say?" Nikolas asked her.
"Who is going to watch Ethan?" She asked worried.
"I have somebody in mind." he finished as she just looked at him.
"Yes I will go to the party tomorrow then." she said as she looked at him.
"Good." Nikolas responded.
"See yous there!" Jax said as he walked away.
"This is going to be so much fun! Im calling Mr. Dreamy tonight and asking him if he wants to go!" Sam said as they just laughed.
They continue to eat their dinner and then went back to Wyndermere.
Courtney helped Nikolas put Ethan to bed before everybody parting to their rooms.
He laid in bed thinking about what possessed him to convince Courtney to go to the party tomorrow night. Why did he want her to go with him so bad? Was it the same thing that made him kiss her the night before?
A/N: I know a lot and I mean a lot of unnecessary and pointless crap was in this chapter! But believe me I didnt want to make two chapters filled with crap and pointless things so I just did one long one that way next chapter we will be moving on! Yeah next chapter is going to be better trust me! Okay Read and Review! Thanks!