Chapter 6

The next morning, Olivia awoke to her son poking her in the face. She opened her eyes and smiled at him. "Baby, why are you poking mommy in the face?" She asked him.

He laughed then shrugged his shoulders. "I no know." He said then crawled off her bed. Trying to pull her covers off the bed. "Mommy, beakfast!" He started yelling while pulling her covers.

She sat up and looked over at the clock, it was 9:30 am, she knew she had lunch at noon, so she had to find someone to watch James; she couldn't take him with her. She eventually forced herself up out of bed and went to give her son breakfast. After feeding him, she called her babysitter, but she couldn't come because she had to work. So she was out of luck on a babysitter, then only thing she could do was cancel. Then she decided to see if Terry wanted to watch him. So she called.

"Hello?" Terry said answering the phone.

"Hi Terry, what are you up too?" She asked him making sure to stay on his good side.

"Nothing much, watching TV. So, you decided you didn't want a break?" He asked smiling through the phone.

"Well no, actually I was wondering if you would watch James for me. I have somewhere to be and I can't take him with me." She said hoping he wouldn't ask where.

"Where?" He asked.

She rolled her eyes. "I am have lunch with a friend." She said honestly.

"Oh, what friend." He said curious.

"Just an old friend, we are going to play catch up. I will only be gone for no more then an hour or two." She said trying to convince him.

"Well, ok, I will be there in 10 minutes." He said giving in, he wanted to make sure she was happy so that they could get back together.

"Thank you so much. The door will be open." She said then hung up. She went in to the living room to check on James who was watching TV. She then ran upstairs to get ready, she took a quick shower and came in her room to find James sitting on the bed. "What's wrong honey?" She asked seeing that he was upset.

"Terry downtairs." He said looking down.

"Awe, why aren't you down there with him?" She asked kissing his little chubby cheeks.

"I no like him." He said playing with his little frog toy. She knew he didn't like Terry, for good reason too. Terry would always yell at him for no reason, and ignored him a lot. She started to second guess leaving James with him.

"You want to go with mommy to see her friend?" She asked sitting next to him.

He smiled. Then nodded his head rapidly.

"Ok, go in your room and get your bag." She said shooing him off. She hurried and got dressed, and did her hair, then grabbed her purse. And went downstairs to find Terry sitting on the couch. When he saw her, he smiled then stood up to give her a hug.

"Hey, you're leaving now?" He asked. He saw James come in and sit on the floor. "Aye boy, get off the damn floor!" He yelled at him, causing James to jump and stand up looking down.

Olivia looked at her baby, becoming pissed. "Terry! Don't yell at him, he is only a baby." She said, she was not going to let Terry make her baby feel bad for nothing.

"He don't need to sit on the floor like-"

"Look, I am telling you, don't yell at him no more, and anyway. I'm sorry that I made you come all the way over here for nothing, I decided to take him with me." She said kneeling down to tie her son's shoes.

"Dammit woman, why the hell did I come all the way over here then." He said now upset.

"Well I was going to leave him, until you decided you wanted to yell at him for no reason. Besides I haven't spent enough time with him lately." She said looking down at James.

"What ever, fine, I will see you later." He said then walking out the house.

She sighed then smiled down at her baby. "Come on." She said then they walked out of the house.

She drove about 15 minutes to the restaurant where she was meeting Elliot, she didn't know what he would say, and so she decided to call. She got his number the night before when he asked her to lunch.

"Hello?" His voice rang through the phone.

"Hi, Elliot this is Olivia." She said, making sure he knew who she was.

"Hey, what's going on?" He asked, happy to hear from her.

"Well about lunch-" She started.

"You're canceling on me?" He said sounding disappointed.

"No, I just wanted to make sure it was ok if I bring someone." She said.

"Well, sure, is it your boyfriend?" He asked a bit irritated.

"No, it's just someone very special to me. Trust me its no one you know." She said.

"Ok, then well should I bring someone?" He asked, not wanting to be the third wheel.

"Oh no it's not that type of thing." She said assuring him.

"Ok, I trust you." He said, and then they said their goodbyes and hung up.

When she arrived at the restaurant, she got James out of his car seat and they went inside hand in hand.

Elliot was sitting at a table waiting, he saw her come in the door and noticed no one else was with her, he was wondering where the person was that she was talking about. Then when he could see her entire body, he saw a little boy walking with her. His eyes widen, he didn't know she had a son.