IX

Michelangelo crossed his arms and looked at his mother.

"I don't beweave you."

Camden rolls her eyes and opens the door for Nikolai so he could come in and see his son. When Michelangelo saw who was at the door he squealed and jumped immediately into Nikolai's unexpecting arms, making Camden almost drop her son. He hugged his father like he hasn't seen him a while when in reality he only saw him the day before.

"Daddy! What you here for? I waiting for surprise, mommy say she have one for me."

  Camden smiles and looks towards Nikolai.

"So mommy didn't tell you that daddy is your surprise?"

He shook his head while giving him a big toothy smile.

"Well surprise! Daddy is here!"

Michelangelo starts clapping and everyone starts laughing.

"So what do you want to do today Piccolo? We can't go out because of the rain, we can do something inside."

Michelangelo put his hand on his chin, like he was thinking.

"First we eat, mommy made Maky cheese. Then we can   play with my cars."

Nikolai smiles at his little boy and kissed his cheek.

"Alright, let's eat some Mac and Cheese."

They all then went into the kitchen to eat. After they ate, they decided to play with Michelangelo's toys. Camden watched as the two played. She realized that she wanted this, that she wanted to begin a life. Michelangelo needs his father so why not be with the man? Oh that's right, he messed up badly. She keeps forgetting, she has a plan and the plan so far isn't working. She is letting him win and that is not how its supposed to be. She can't get distracted again. Who is she kidding? She is still in love with him and she can't do anything about it.

They spent the whole day together, sometime during the day, Michelangelo fell asleep so Nikolai went into his room and placed him in his bed, he tucked him in and kissed his forehead. He went back downstairs to see that Camden had moved into the kitchen. She was by the sink washing the dishes when she heard Nikolai come into the room.

"Thank you for coming Nikolai, it meant a lot to Mickey."

  She had been washing the same cup the whole time they were talking. Nikolai came behind her and placed the cup down and turned her around.

"What's wrong?"

  He looked her in the eyes and saw that tears were coming down her face.

"I can't do this anymore. I can't fight it, I don't want to fight it. But I am scared it will happen again and I don't want it to happen again."

Nikolai rubbed the tears off her cheeks.

"You are scared what will happen again?"

She looks into his eyes and starts crying even more.

"I am scared that if I let you in, you are going to hurt me again or you are going to hurt Michelangelo. I can't have that."

Nikolai sighs and kisses her forehead.

"I will never hurt you or Michelangelo ever again. I promise that, it was a mistake that I regret entirely and I will not have it happen again. You can trust me on that love. Alright?"