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Date Posted: Friday, November 28, 03:59:36pm
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Nikita507
's message, "Commix 565+" on Saturday, November 22, 11:58:37pm
Nikita laughed as Joey hugged her doll over and over again. The simplest toy, a doll that didn’t make any sounds or light up, was what Joey had taken preference of over all of her other gifts. Nikita knew that this would be a lesson for her next year. Sometimes simple was best.
Touching the mother’s necklace that Michael had given her, with the birthstones of her two girls on it, Nikita heard the doorbell. She had sent Walter and Belinda out of the house to go on a post-Christmas shopping spree. Nikita wasn’t sure what they were after, but she thought more than anything they wanted to have sometime to themselves. The house seemed so much smaller these days and Nikita was sure that Walter’s and Belinda’s active lifestyle had changed a lot now with a toddler that could easily walk and another baby in the house. “Michael… do you want to get the door?”
Michael was in the kitchen preparing lunch. Nikita wasn’t sure what he felt he had to prepare. Although everyone in the house had known that it was only going to be the six of them for dinner, Belinda had cooked well over what they would need for three days. They were to have leftovers and Nikita just allowed Michael to do what he wanted to do. She wanted him to take time away from the children and spend some time with the new GPS thing that Birkoff had helped her select as something that Michael wanted. She had been worried until she had seen Michael’s face when he opened it. Something told Nikita that she had missed that Michael had a tech geek heart inside that beautiful body of his with the way that he had been getting that gadget.
“I’ll watch the girls,” Michael popped into the room and Nikita sighed and stood up. She looked at herself, knowing that she was dressed, but was unsure if she matched. “Maybe it’s that reporter from last year coming to make sure that you are still married.”
“That report no longer is working in Las Vegas, Kita,” Michael pointed out as he picked up Aleshia in his arms and held her gently. Nikita smiled and paused until the doorbell rang again. Nikita turned and walked down the hallway, knowing that it wasn’t far at all. Maybe the walk at their land wasn’t a good thing because right now Nikita just saw all the places that they lacked space. “Hold your horses… I’m coming, I’m coming…”
Nikita peeked out the door and rolled her eyes before she opened the door. “Mick… we told everyone that we would invite them over for the holidays sometime soon… Aleshia just got home…”
Mick just looked up at Nikita and then she noticed that he had not a thing in his hands. Nikita tilted her head. “Mick?”
“I got… the worse gift… for Christmas…” Mick declared and Nikita stepped back and allowed Mick into the house. The man looked like he was ready to cry and Nikita could not remember seeing Mick like this. Everything for Mick was going well. Forever Jasmine was the clothing line to buy this year and his schedule with the magic shows had settled. Nikita was also looking forward to the magician contest that Mick was going to hold in order to free up his schedule some more too, that would be starting in March.
“Ah… you can come into the… kitchen,” Nikita commented and Mick shook his head back and forth as he started to pace back and forth right there in the hallway. “Mick… did something happen between you and Jasmine.”
“You can kind of say that…” Mick nodded his head up and down and Nikita was thoroughly confused. “Did you break up?”
“That would have been… much better,” Mick declared as he stopped and looked at Nikita. “I’m not meant to be a father. I’m not ready to be a father. A magician should not be a father. I do slight of hand tricks. I make things disappear. I don’t want to make them appear. I don’t want to think of anything just appearing in Jasmine’s stomach and coming out of her… it just grosses me out to no end and I don’t want Jasmine to be sick or to worry or hurt… I heard labor hurts the woman… they scream, they have pain. I don’t want to cause Jasmine pain at all…It’s just… not in the plan… I worked hard for the plan that I got at the show and this isn’t in the plan… it isn’t in the plan!”
Nikita stepped forward and placed her hands on Mick’s shoulders. The man finally stopped talking with that motion. Nikita took a deep breath and waited till Mick finally mimicked her action. “Congratulations, Mick.”
Mick looked at Nikita as she was smiling at him. “No… you can’t think that this is a good thing…”
“I think it is a wonderful thing,” Nikita looked down the hallway. “I have two beautiful girls…”
“And you were the freak of nature who didn’t have any labor pains! You are the abnormal one. Jasmine is going to have pain!” Mick declared firmly but he didn’t move away from Nikita’s touch. Nikita stepped closer to Mick. “I would have taken the labor pains to have them, Mick.”
Mick closed his eyes and rubbed his face. “I’m so scared… this wasn’t planned… we were sloppy… but we didn’t think…”
Nikita dropped her hands. “How is Jasmine?”
“Happy,” Mick shook his head back and forth. “And for her… I’m being happy…”
“I’m guessing she is as scared as you are, Mick. You should tell her all of this,” Nikita pointed out as she looked at her friend. She wasn’t about to tell Mick that he wasn’t the only one of her friends who was expecting. Nikita had gotten the call from Sarah this morning and Nikita was happy for Sarah and Davenport. They truly were waiting for the right time and was blessed with being allowed to conceive at the right time. “You are talking to the woman who had given up the plans of having a child when I got pregnant with Joey. Plans are meant to be broken. Kind of like rules and I didn’t think you liked to play by the rules.”
Mick chuckled. He always told everyone that he would throw the rules out of the book if he could. “If she is happy… I don’t want to ruin that…”
“I believe you can be happy and scared at the same time,” Nikita noted as she turned and sat down on the stairs. Mick turned and looked at her. “I’m not even ready to ask her to marry me… and now I’m wondering if I have to….”
“You don’t have to do anything,” Nikita commented firmly. She did not think that Jasmine would be the type of woman who would want Mick to propose to her just because she was pregnant. “But you do have to be a father for that child.”
Mick sat down on the stair next to Nikita and groaned. “I just… I just can’t believe that I’m going to be a father.”
Nikita nudged him slightly with her elbow. “I’ve seen you with Joey…. And you are going to be a great father.”
Mick shrugged his shoulders. Nikita knew that it really didn’t matter. There were tons of people who told her that she was going to be a great mother. It took a long time for Nikita to think that she was even a decent mother. But she knew that she was doing her best and that was that entire she could do for her children.
“Popsicle… you know me in High School… you were practically the only bird who didn’t know me biblically… and I didn’t always… well let’s just say that there probably should have been some scares along the way… so when there never were… I just assumed…” Mick stammered and Nikita shook her head.
“Assuming makes an ass out of you. You know that Mick,” Nikita retorted and Mick narrowed his eyes until Nikita smiled at him. “Look… you have me… and while I’m not a father because I have the wrong equipment… I am a mother… I also happen to be married to a man who is a great father who will talk to you whenever you need him. Michael is your friend too.”
Mick swallowed and nodded his head. “I just have to process things…”
“If you came here to process things that’s fine… but we are going to have to do it with my children…Michael was making lunch and I have to get back to them,” Nikita stood up and looked at Mick. He looked up at her and blinked his eyes. Nikita extended her hand. “Come on, Mick… you’ll be my first friend to hold Aleshia. That will get you good practice. And if you hang around too long… I’ll even let you burp her after she gets fed.”
“Can I watch her getting fed?” Mick quickly commented and Nikita blankly stared at Mick as she whispered, “Do you want Michael to make you into a girl?”
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