Nikki came into the lounge sitting on the sofa.
"All set?" tom asked
"Holly's asleep, Gemma is just finishing off her last bit of work then going to bed"
"Good im glad Holly's settled"
Nikki smiled. She couldn't help it but she did feel a bit awkward.
"so erm im off to bed night" Nikki said as she went upstairs
Tom sighed and went up himself.
It was roughly two weeks later, Nikki was looking healthier and happier, the rooms for the girls had been done up and they were both settled now. It was during the night, it was hot sticky and humid and there was a thunderstorm going on outside.
Nikki woke up, she could hear the bangs and it was scaring her she never like thunderstorms ever since her one year out in Afghanistan where she met her ex-husband. She got up realising her pyjamas were soaked and her bed was also. Nikki Boston, 39 years old had wet the bed. She stripped it quickly and jumped into the shower and changed, she crept downstairs putting all the bed linen in the washing machine.
Nikki jumped five feet when the light turned on, she turned round and tom was standing there.
"shouldn't you be in bed?" Tom asked
"Erm…" Nikki panicked
"Whats that?"
"Nothing…its just washing" she said quickly again
"No what is it?" Tom asked
Nikki looked down feeling all embaressed "I wet the bed" she mumbled
Tom tried to stop himself from laughing, but it just burst out
"its not funny tom!" Nikki screamed at him now in tears
"im laughing because its such a pointless thing, who cares if you've wet yourself, it happens in old age" he smiled winking
Nikki smiled looking away
"did you have a nightmare or something?" Tom asked seriously
"no…the thunder…it literally scares the crap out of me" Nikki admitted
Tom went over and wrapped his arms around her, Nikki greatful of the hug.
"How about you come to bed with me?"
"What why?"
"Not like that…so you have a friendly face"
Nikki looked at him and nodded "you wouldn't mind?"
"course not" Tom smiled taking her hand in his and going upstairs to his bedroom. They both got into bed.
"ive missed doing this"
"What?"
"sharing a bed with someone its so cosy and it makes you feel safe"
"well if you want to do this every night im not going to stop you and I don't mind" Tom smiled
"Really?" Nikki asked
"Yeah, you might want to inform the girls, but were just friends comforting each other" tom smiled
Nikki nodded "right im gonna try and get some sleep" Nikki smiled rolling over onto the other side, tom did the same rolling over to his side and falling asleep.
The next morning tom was awake and smiled as he watched Nikki sleep he was falling for her but he knew she didn't feel the same way.
"Clarkson you best not be watching me sleep" Nikki said her eyes still closed
"nope not me" Tom said looking away then looking back as her eyes opened
She gave him a one eye brow look
"Morning" he smiled
"morning yourself" Nikki smiled
"What do you fancy for breakfast?"
"mmm something tasty"
"How about me?" Tom bounced his eyebrows as he showed his chest
"no! put it away!" Nikki laughed "you Mr Clarkson are a flirt a big massive flirt" Nikki smiled getting up
Tom giggled "im joking with you, I'll do some bacon butties, what about holly?"
"ill go feed her soon" Nikki smiled "Cant wait to ween her though, she needs to go onto bottles now, shes teething and it hurts" she moaned getting her clothes from her room and coming back
"I can imagine"
Nikki went straight into the en-suite
"ill go make breakfast" tom said leaving
Nikki came out half change and went to get holly she sat on the edge of toms bed and started feeding her. "you missy are getting too big for this now" Nikki said
Tom came in and saw her sitting on the bed her back to him he smiled "breakfast is ready when you are"
Nikki turned her head round "wont be long" she smiled
Gemma was downstairs eating breakfast with tom.
"you know you've changed my mom…shes a different person Thankyou"
"Gemma she just needed a stable home hun and quite frankly I love having you all here, I hate being on my own at the best of times"
"its nice here tom, I don't mind that your my teacher neither…in fact I wouldn't mind it if you were my dad"
"erm…"
"I saw you both last night you shared the bed"
"erm…gem…its not like that me and your mum were just friends, she got quite scared last night so I wanted her to know I was there for her and we both said we liked having the company"
"look mark my words" Gemma smiled as she had a sharp pain in her stomach she held it and carried on "a years time your be engaged, mum will proberbly be pregnant and there will be wedding plans" she giggled
"you are a cheeky madam you are" tom smiled
"what she done?" Nikki smiled coming in with holly
"shes just been a cheeky little madam, she thinks because we slept in the same bed were an item"
"who would wanna go out with you?" Nikki laughed at tom
"this is a true point" tom smiled
"awhh his not that bad mother" Gemma laughed rubbing her tummy as the pain was growing
"go and get changed for school you" Nikki smiled
Tom smiled at Nikki. Gemma walked upstairs as shooting pains were going through her tummy.