A New Partnership 2

A special meeting

 Chapter 14

Nathaniel and his mother stood by the meeting point near the embassy of Italy waiting for the person, they were supposed to meet. The two were dressed a little differently than usual. More sympathetic towards the hosts. Nathaniel observed himself in a white dress shirt and dark-blue pants, that seemed quite new.

"Did you put any fragrance on your shirt?" Questioned Miss Kurtzberg watching Nathaniel shake his head. "Come, that would have been ideal. The one from Silverstar mostly. You loved that one, when I got you from Hanukkah,"

"I know. I just felt we were doing too much for only a few hours," Responded the redhead making the mother shake her head and place her hand on his shoulder.

"You'll do just fine. Just be that boy, you are," Said Miss Kurtzberg making her son nod and they watched from around the building an SUV move up slowly and stop in front of them. The driver stepped out revealing herself as Mrs. Rossi, which held her hand out to the adult.

"You're the mother, Mrs. Kurtzberg, right?" Questioned the brunette woman making the younger woman nod.

"Yes," Responded the woman, then the Italian looked at Nathaniel, which stretched up his hand to greet the woman.

"I'm one of Lila's closest friends Nathaniel....the one you invited, of course," Explained the redhead making the adult nod.

"I'm glad, that my daughter has a friend like you here. I didn't hear a lot, but I have acknowledged, that you do treat her right," Stated the woman making Nathaniel nod a little sheepishly at the woman's sympathy. "You do not look a lot like your mother I have noticed,"

"My dad sort of.....went to get milk, when I was still a baby," Mentioned Nathaniel followed by getting elbowed by his mother.

"This all happened years ago. He was.......a more reserved guy. He would talk to you about problems if you would know him very well. I did know him well, I could sense when he felt down and would ask him about it, but in relation to us having Nathaniel.......things just changed. The one good thing about this was that despite only being the two of us, Nathaniel did grow up well without his actual father. That role he could only see in his grandfather, who along with my mom was a great help," Explained the raven-haired woman making the ambassador nod.

"If you are okay with it, we can continue the talk inside the car. It's a little far for our destination and the earlier we go, the better," Stated the woman opening the door for the duo to enter the backseat making Nathaniel gasp at the modern interior.

"This makes our own car look like garbage," Commented Nathaniel making his mother shake his head.

"Ours may be old, but it survived a lot of heavy years, hail, your run over the road....."

"Ha Ha Ha," Nathaniel said sarcastically, then looked behind at the trunk to notice it consisted of two more seats, which were closed leaving more space in the trunk. "You can also make seven seats here?"

"We barely need those seats, but the volume of the trunk is quite useful," Admitted the mother entering into the front of the vehicle and watched the Kurtzbergs put the seat belt on. Mrs. Rossi took out her smartphone to send a thumb up to a foreign number she had saved under A. Rossi and placed it back. She swallowed hard a little tensed about having given out the command and moved the car out of the road to make her way out.

"I'm curious to get to know you two. You're a single mother, right?" Questioned Mrs. Rossi making the raven-haired woman nod. "How were you able to sustain yourself and your son only? Did you have any special help?"

"My parents would have taken care of Nathaniel, while I was going to school. I had made a break, when I was pregnant with him and got back to work later at around the same time his father left,"