Rebirth of the DiBianco Family

[21]The world will continue to be crazy tomorrow morning.

Katherine POV

"Come on dad." Milena screams, stamping her impatient foot,

"I'm going." He answers, going down the stairs following Francesca.

I was leaning against the back of the couch facing the staircase.

"Where are we going?" Francesca asks more excitedly.

"Caterina made a surprise, come on." Milena claps her hands, jumping around.

"I like Caterina's surprises." Cesca says and despite not having spoken to me yet, my girl was back. The thought hit again. I dodged the couch and started walking towards the kitchen. Trying to control the feeling the thought stirred up.

"Isn't it too late for a picnic?" Francesca's voice breaks the silence of the kitchen, looking at the door that led to the back of the house.

"It's not just any picnic I say."  Milena repeat my word to her sister.

"Aren't we going to see a movie?" Dom asks opening the door.

"Yes, we're." I say with a smile passing him with Milena.

"Okayyy..." he slurs the word following me with Francesca

"Thank you Leo." I say as he gets out of the little club car we used to go around the property. "Everything is ready?"

"Yeah. I wente to check it out just now."  I can feel Dominic's and the girls' curious gaze on me and Leo as he spoke, perhaps trying to figure out where we were going.

"Perfect, thanks."  I say grateful, I knew this had never been done by anyone on the property, I'm sure there would be comments, but I didn't care.

"Have a good night." He says leaving, patting a picnic basket attached to the back of the cart.

"A golf cart?" Dominic looked more and more confused

Milena sits with me at the front and Francesca sits behind me with Dominic.

"Are we going to the river?" Milena asks, looking at the path we had taken in the first week.

"Sort of. " I say with a smile

When we reach the lake she sees the tent and the fire she had asked Leo to make. The little ones jumped out of the car excitedly walking around everything. Jumping up, I watched how one simple thing had made them so happy.

I feel Dominic's arms around my shoulders.

"Thanks." He thanks me in my ear kissing my forehead watching the little ones jump into the tent full of pillows and blankets.

"The pleasure is mine." I say without taking my eyes off the little ones.

"ahh" Milena screams followed by Francesca's identical scream.

"Our sleeping bags." Milena says appearing with the bag of dinosaurs. "Look dad."

"I think your brother is right, you will spoil them." He says walking with his back to them, pulling me towards the tent.

"Cesca love, can I talk to you for a second?" I ask when she lifts her sleeping bag for Dom to praise.

She gives me a nod before coming over to me. I pat the blanket beside me and she sits down to look at the fire.

"Do you want to tell me why you've been sad?" I ask, because I wanted my Cesca talking to me again, but I didn't know how to approach her.

"You're not going to abandon us, are you?" I was confused by the question and by the amount of pain she was carrying.