Dangerous feelings

Chapter 16

Emily walked down the quiet street holding Noah's small tanned hand with the biggest smile showing on her face. She felt like the proudest mum ever and it had to be one of the best feelings she had ever experienced. Noah had been attending his new pre school for a little over a month and after the initial worries on his first day he had learned to love it. He constantly came home gushing about his day and what he had been up to. Emily and Alison's fridge was already filled up with different pieces of Noah's school work that he had brought home with him, both of them couldn't hide how proud they were of the young boy.

Emily had been called inside of the school as soon as she had arrived to pick Noah up to talk to one of his teachers. She had arranged with Mona that she could finish work at the accountancy office early on Wednesdays and Fridays in order to pick up her son. Alison would collect Noah on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Pam picked him up on Mondays and whenever the other two were unable to. Their arrangement was working well at the moment and only once had they needed to call Hanna to collect him when Emily was stuck in an important meeting at work, Alison was stuck in Philadelphia in traffic and Pam had been called in to the police station to do overtime.

Emily was called in to talk to one of his teachers and to start with she had been slightly worried and apprehensive as to what this spontaneous meeting was about. She guessed it couldn't have been too bad though as the pre school would have contacted her as soon as the accident had happened rather than waiting until the end of the school day. Those worries had been put to rest immediately as she was handed a piece of paper, when she turned it over she saw that it was an award for 'friendliest child'.

The teacher explained that Noah always went out of his way to make other children be happy and would often play with those that were more shy than the others. He would patiently sit with them until they felt comfortable enough to play with him. Noah had quickly become very popular amongst both the children and the teachers and was a pleasure to be around, or so the award stated. Emily had lit up when she found these things out and she had pulled Noah into a tight embrace.

They were now heading to the local ice cream parlour as a reward for Noah's excellent behaviour. Emily had sent a quick text message to Alison explaining that they would be home later than expected and that she could join them if she so wished. Alison only had a half day at the office and was therefore back at home awaiting their return.

The ice cream parlour was only a ten minute walk from the preschool and it was a nice clear day with barely any clouds in the sky which made it rather enjoyable to be outside in the fresh air. The building had an old fashioned vibe to it and it had several small wooden tables set up outside for people to enjoy their ice creams comfortably, several of the tables were taken as this parlour was very popular with the residents of Rosewood. Inside had the same vibe and more of the tables had people sat at them enjoying their different desserts, ranging from milkshakes to ice cream sundaes.

"Which flavour would you like Noah?" Emily asked once they were inside the shop, she had picked Noah up in her arms so that he was able to see all the different flavours and they had both decided to get the original style ice cream in a cone.

"Umm..." he thought out loud whilst he took in all of the different flavours, it was slightly overwhelming for his young mind and he struggled to make a choice. His eyebrows furrowed as he concentrated but ultimately came up blank, it was too hard.

"My favourite flavour is chocolate chip" the young red head who stood serving behind the counter said softly to Noah before throwing in a wink to Emily which caused the brunette to blush slightly.

Noah peered inquisitively at the young woman who looked to be no older than twenty and then focused his attention back down at the tubs of ice cream before nodding in confirmation to Emily with a shy smile on his face.