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Date Posted: Saturday, December 08, 11:49:56pm
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's message, "Priority Mail 499+" on Sunday, November 18, 03:12:32pm
Laura smiled as she eased into the small diner and saw Nikita already with a burger and fries. “I’m sorry that I’m late.”
Nikita glanced at her watch and shook her head. “You aren’t late… I was just hungry.”
Laura chuckled as she sat down across from Nikita and picked up the menu. “So the burger and fries are the best here?”
Nikita swallowed and turned slightly red with embarrassment. “Well… not exactly. That would be the Reuben. .. but I’m not supposed to have that... you know, the meat isn’t something that Keane would like me to have.”
“But?” Laura asked and Nikita looked around. “I ordered one… because that’s what I need to have.”
“I think one won’t be too bad,” Laura folded the menu and quickly ordered a Reuben along with a diet pop when the waitress returned to the table. “I won’t tell anyone.”
Nikita sighed and wiped at her mouth. “I had a small breakfast…”
“You are pregnant,” Laura shook her head from side to side. She looked around and then at Nikita. “It’s nice to get out of the house.”
“How is your father?” Nikita inquired and Laura shrugged her shoulders. “He is getting a lot better physically… but I can see that he is depressed… he feels like he isn’t getting better quick enough and feels guilty about me staying home.”
Nikita leaned back slightly and thought for a second. “So he was happy that you were coming to lunch.”
“Overjoyed,” Laura nodded her head. “But he isn’t strong enough to be alone for long periods of times. He knows that but that doesn’t stop him from feeling guilty about that.”
“And about what has happened to your career?”
Laura blinked her eyes as she didn’t expect that Nikita would have figured that one out. “Yeah… he thinks that I left the police force because of… his history… and that has nothing to do with it… I was gone from the police force and with Tom well before… well…”
“Do I need to go and explain to him that it was Michael and I that ruined your career?” Nikita inquired as she shrugged her shoulder slightly, but Laura laughed. “I couldn’t be happier… and he knows that.”
“But you don’t like being a caregiver.”
“No,” Laura shook her head from side to side. “But I don’t like the idea of someone else taking care of him. It’s a catch 22.”
The waitress arrived with the Reubens then and both silently ate. It was as Laura paused to take a long sip of her soda that she cleared her throat. “Why are we having lunch, Nikita?”
Nikita shifted and placed a USB key on the table. “I need you to take care of this.”
Laura slipped the USB key into her pocket and took another bite of her sandwich. She swallowed and looked at Nikita. “What is on that?”
“Something I can’t handle. I’m not in the position… to be… that person,” Nikita looked around as she rubbed her hands along the edge of the half eaten sandwich and then pushed it away. “I know that we said that we were pulling away… from that… but the suspect… is a teacher at Adam’s school.”
“What?” Laura leaned forward. “You need to involve Nat…”
“He isn’t Adam’s teacher… nor Lisa’s. But all I have on there is circumstantial… you’ll need to dig some,” Nikita outlined as she saw that the waitress was coming towards them. She needed to change the conversation. “So, did I tell you about Sabina?”
Laura was confused and looked around to see that the waitress wasn’t right at their table, but at the table right beside them. “What about Sabina?”
“She told me that she liked it better when I worked more,” Nikita shook her head slightly. “It sounded so crazy. But then she pointed out that when I was working so much, I would make the time that I had with her… special. Shopping or doing a craft together. Now our time is almost ordinary. Snack time. Helping out with homework, which is a joke.”
“You aren’t going to work more, are you?” Laura inquired and Nikita laughed while she shook her head firmly from side to side. “I can’t. I’d want to do anything that I could for my children… but I can’t work more. Not with this baby. Not that I want to work more.”
“So, are you going to do?”
“I signed her up for Girl Scouts,” Nikita looked around as the waitress nodded that she would bring over their check. Nikita wasn’t hungry any longer and regretted that she couldn’t eat the entire sandwich. She surely couldn’t take it home.
“Girl Scouts?”
“ Yep,” Nikita nodded her head. “Some of her friends are… and she seemed to be ok with the idea. For now after Adam told her that he was a scout.”
The check arrived and Nikita quickly pulled out a large bill, leaving a large tip as she eased out of the booth, her stomach seeming to be so much bigger than the last time that Laura had seen her. Laura sighed and looked at Nikita. “You can’t be…”
“No,” Nikita shook her head as she stopped Laura from saying any further. She waited until they were outside. “You can be the Angel on this… it’s your turn on this and it best suits you… the teacher isn’t suspected of doing anything with the children he teaches… that’s the only reason this can wait if you can’t get to it right away… but he needs looked into.”
“And handled?”
“There is a suggestion or two with the information on him,” Nikita walked to her car and paused to look at Laura. “I might not be able to put barriers up with Sabina… I may not be the best type of mother that she needs because I don’t know how to… but I know how to protect my children… and this man, he might not be a direct threat to either of them, but I can just feel that he shouldn’t be a teacher either.”
Laura knew that Nikita was doing a great job for the situation that she was in with such a smart girl for a daughter. No one in that family had been given a great start to being a family. They had faced such obstacles to being together, but they were together now. It just meant that there were bound to be lots of bumps in the road. “You are a great mother, Nikita.”
“I will be,” Nikita declared as she dropped her head and opened up the car. “If you aren’t comfortable doing this…”
“I’ll take care of it… as you said, it’s my turn now.”
“Laura…”
“I know that it doesn’t have to happen right away… but I’ll handle it, Nikita,” Laura firmly declared as she knew how important that it was for Nikita to trust her to handle this. It was clear that Nikita knew that she couldn’t physically handle this but that she didn’t like to pass off the responsibility to someone else.
Nikita chewed her lip slightly and then got into the car without another word. That was enough for Laura to know.
She wasn’t going to wait long to take care of this.
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