"Mommy!" Mitchell yelled as he ran into his mothers waiting arms.
"Hi buddy, how was your day with Uncle Woody and Auntie Addison?"
"Sugar!" Was his response as he leapt out of his mother's arms and took off toward the living room.
Bailey just sighed at her son's response as she searched around the house for her supposed babysitters,
"Bailey!" Addison yelled as she hopped off the couch she had just been jumping on, "It's not what it looks like!"
"You mean you didn't feed my three year old son sugar?" Bailey asked with heavy sarcasm laced in her voice.
"No, uhh, Woody did it!"
"Right," Bailey said skeptically as she picked up her son whilst he ran circles around his mother. Bailey had to smile though at the antics of her friend, she really was determined not to be blamed for this one.
"He really did do it! I swear!"Addison said loudly as she proceeded to raise her hand up to her heart as a sign of promise.
"I got to go Addison, tell Woody that I say hi and thank you." Bailey said as she exited the house and put her son in his car seat. The second Mitchell's head hit the back of the seat he was asleep due to his sugar crash. Bailey drove in silence as she was consumed by her own thoughts, many of which included Cody. She thought about the night that she had broken up with him, and how different life would have been had she not.
They had docked in Paris the night before, and Cody and Bailey were having a great time together looking at all the sights and eating all the fine cuisine. Bailey and Cody had just made it up to the restaurant in the Eiffel Tower, where Cody had made reservations for the special occasion. The special occasion being their first anniversary, so Bailey and Cody ate their dinner and were gazing down upon the streets of Paris when it hit her. Bailey realized how deeply she was in love with the man standing next to her, and realized that it would kill her if the feelings were not reciprocated. Bailey never having felt so fragile before did the only thing that immediately came to mind which was to breakup with him as quickly as possible. She fled the Eiffel Tower and ran back towards her room in the ship where she cried herself to sleep. Only later did Bailey realize her mistake, but by then the ship was already on its way back to Boston and Cody had hooked up with Rena.
In a matter of months, Bailey was back with Moose and Cody was closer to Rena than ever. Cody never ended up returning to the ship, and graduated at Arthur Daniels High School in Boston, while Bailey had returned to the ship to finish her high school education. After two unsuccessful years at the community college in Kettlecorn, Bailey was engaged to be wed to Moose. Two years after that, after Cody having graduated from Yale, Cody and Rena were wedded in St. Mark's church. Thus their lives moved onward, though the moving onward having cast both Bailey and Cody adrift at sea in their thoughts of what ifs and how it could've beens.
Bailey's thoughts were interrupted by the cry of her son from the back seat.
"Mommy!"
"Shh baby, we're almost home." She said as she set aside the thoughts of herself and focused on her little son.