Second Chance

Daddy Date

"I'm so glad we could all get together again. It's been months." Normally Scott exaggerates but this time he's right.

"I know the feeling. It's been chaotic lately. The diner's been slammed for the last two weeks. We wanted to stop by and check on you guys but between Jordan's work and mine we haven't had time."

"We've had our hands full with everything that's happened this last week. And thanks again Kelley for covering for me at work. I plan on being in first thing monday."

"I'm just glad that your Dad and Lissa wanted to watch her again after what happened last time."

"They know she didn't mean it. She's just curious is all."

"What happened?" Nikki loves to know what everyone is up to and Brooke is no exception.

"She thought it would be fun to scare them."

"She didn't scare them. She gave them a heart attack." Steve is still bent out of shape of it. I should have known.

"What? Mom seemed just fine when I saw her yesterday. She would have told me if she was sick." He looks crushed and heartbroken that he didn't know. He might even be a little teary eyed. He really does remind me of an overgrown puppy.

"She really didn't give them a heart attack. Take a breath Scotty."

"Close enough." He's grumbling now. Sometimes he's just too much.

"So what was so bad? I can't image a little girl as sweet as her doing anything bad enough to warrant Steve's reaction."

"You know last week when we left her with them for the first time since the incident. We left her overnight with them."

"It was your Dad's idea." Steve seems defensive.

"It was and we needed it. We ended up in a hotel room for the night."

"Not the whole night. We had to leave at 3am." He sounds pissed about that still.

"Not the point. We needed that time and you know we did."

He nods in agreement and leans over to give me a kiss. It starts out chaste. His lips are soft and possessive against mine. I angle my head and he deepens it. Everything fades away the more he kisses me. His hand wraps around the back of my neck and pulls me to him. I don't ever want it to end. I hear the others talking around us but I just don't care. I love feeling like he's staking his claim in front of everyone.

"Do you think they notice we're still waiting to hear what happened?"

"No. Maybe someone should tell them."

"You can interrupt them. I'm not crazy."

"Or we can take bets on how long they'll keep at it."

"I'll bite Jordan. I got five on them lasting till the waitress brings our drinks."

"I'll take that and put five down that they last until our food comes."

"Nope I say even that doesn't stop them. I mean come on they barely keep their hands off each other before Brooklyn."

"They're not bad yet. I mean they're still wearing clothes." Leave it to Nikki to be the practical one.

I laugh at that and end up breaking our kiss. As much as I like, well love, random make out sessions with my husband, our friends are getting a little ridiculous.

"Now I was willing to let you guys make your silly bets and poke fun at us but you just had to distract him." Steve slips into the stern parent roll a lot easier now.