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Date Posted: Thursday, April 07, 08:11:33pm
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Nikita507
's message, "Priority Mail 211+" on Sunday, April 03, 05:47:08pm
“I’m so glad that we stopped to have omelets half way thru opening up the gifts! I would have been eating my hand off,” Adam declared as he shoved the last of the wrapping paper into the garbage bags that he had been using all morning. Nikita turned red and looked around. “You shouldn’t get bored.”
“I’m going to get some sort of Wii elbow or something,” Adam winked as he stood up and rolled his head around. “I want to go help Walter some.”
“Adam,” Michael spoke as he looked at his son. Adam stopped and shook his head. “They are gifts from Nikita.”
“And can still be taken away if you don’t follow the rules. But I don’t expect I’ll be running into any issues. You should be too busy,” Michael finished as he looked to the kitchen. “Now… can you see if Walter made some more coffee?”
“Seriously? You know that it’s empty,” Adam countered and he rolled his eyes. “You should just ask for some time alone…”
Nikita watched as Adam walked away and shook her head slightly at Michael. “Why do you do that to him?”
“What?”
“Push his buttons,” Nikita commented with a smile on her face. She rubbed her hands together and looked at Michael. “You liked your gifts, right?”
Michael nodded his head as he leaned forward and kissed Nikita gently. “I loved them all.”
“I know that it was too much…”
“Kita…” Michael whispered as he shook his head and he saw that she stopped talking. “It was a perfect Christmas morning.”
“Even though I got everyone up before six?” Nikita questioned as she blushed. Michael laughed and nodded his head. “I’ve been woken up earlier. Adam’s first Christmas he had me up at just a bit after four… and I tried to make him sleep but he just squirmed and squirmed in bed…”
Michael watched as Nikita eased back on the couch. She finally looked relaxed and he was happy. She had gifts to open also but it was clear that she was worried that every single gift that she got went over just as she thought the person would like it. Davenport had loved the Kindle that Nikita had gotten him and Walter was touched with the rare vinyl records that Nikita had found for him. She had done great and now Michael had one last gift.
Michael shifted and pulled out the slim box from underneath the couch where he had hidden it away when they came downstairs. He turned and placed it on Nikita’s gift. “Your real gift.”
Nikita looked at the box and he was almost sure that he saw relief on her face that it wasn’t a square box. It wasn’t a ring.
Nikita pulled the paper off and lifted the lid to see the golden necklace with four colorful gems clustered together and integrated together. Nikita looked at Michael as she swallowed hard. “Michael…”
“It’s a mother’s necklace,” Michael explained as he took the box from her hands and pulled the golden chain up to pull it from the box. He reached over and placed it around Nikita’s neck before closing the clasp. “It’s our birthstones… with Adam… and our daughter…”
Nikita swallowed hard and Michael shook his head as he swiped at Nikita’s tears. “Just because we don’t know where she is, doesn’t mean that she isn’t part of our family, Kita.”
Nikita looked down to the necklace and swallowed hard. “But I’m not Adam’s mother…”
“You are his mother in lots of ways, Nikita. He isn’t going to forget Elena… but you have a place in his heart that is very special. It’s a place that only a mother can be… and you share that with Elena… so you are his mother,” Michael explained as he stroked Nikita’s check gently. He dropped his hand to touch the necklace. “We can always add to the necklace.”
Nikita’s mouth dropped open and Michael smiled gently. “I know… you want our daughter… but I think we have enough love…”
“Michael… I can’t think about that…” Nikita shook her head slightly. She looked at the necklace and then back to his shiny green eyes. “I still… find it hard to think that I have a family… a family…”
Michael nodded his head up and down. “And you deserve so much more than just having a family.”
Nikita leaned her head down on Michael’s shoulder as he hugged her warmly. Michael opened his eyes after a few moments of holding Nikita and saw Walter and Adam grinning at the door. Both of them knew what Michael had bought Nikita and Michael would have never given it to Nikita without their approval.
But Walter wanted his birthstone to be included and that was a bit too much to push at this point.
It was the perfect gift.
It was better than a ring.
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