Chapter 55

Nicolas

I was in the kitchen drinking a cup of coffee when Nikki came walking in with her jeans, pink top and pink jacket she also had pink sneakers on this girl takes her pink very seriously.  “You look pretty.”  I told her.  “Thank you very much.”  “My pleasure. Now where do you want to go for breakfast?”  “I was thinking while I was getting ready….”  “Yes, go on.”  “You said we can do anything right?”  “Yes.”  “Okay can we have cereal here at home and then go to Time Square and then go to Serendipity restaurant I saw it in a movie and then when we done there to the huge M&M store in Time Square?”  She rambled that down very quickly.  “If that is what you want to do then yes, we can do that.”  She started to jump up and down saying “Thank you thank you thank you.”  “It’s really no trouble sweet pea.”  “Mom don’t like going to Time Square she’s always afraid I’ll get lost or there are so many tourists they will steal me.”  Fuck I didn’t think of all those scenarios.  I had to think of something quickly if I lost Nikki, I would be devastated but Nicol will kill me.  “Okay I have one conditions.”  “I shouldn’t have told you about mom, right?”  “No no you should hold my hand the whole time where in Time Square.”  “But ….”  I just looked at her.  “Okay okay I can do that.”  “Well then, we have a deal. Let’s get the cereal shall we.”  I’m not big on cereal but I was going to try it for her this morning, I told her it was her day so I’ll do everything she does, when we get back, she would want to work this thing out between the three of us and not run away.

After we had breakfast which consist of cereal, we took the lift downstairs to where Geoffrey was waiting for us.  He held the Audi’s door open for Nikki.  “For me?”  she asked confused “Yes off course jump in.”  Geoffrey said like just he could.  “Thank you, Geoffrey.”  When she said that she looked just like her mom so innocent and grateful for every small thing, she might look like me but she was Nicol through and through.  I got in behind her and helped her with her seat belt.  “Is Geoffrey going to take me to school as well?”  Nikki asked.  “Yes, off course he will, is there something wrong with it?”  She smiled from ear to ear “No there is absolutely nothing wrong with it, can we go with the big car tomorrow as it’s my first day back?”  “The limousine?”  “Yes, that one.”  I smiled at her clearly, she wants to make an impression on some of the kids at school.  “Off course you can.”  She tried not to jump up and down out of pure excitement.  “Where to Nicolas?”  Geoffrey asked “You want to tell him?” I asked her.  “Time Square please Geoffrey.”  I don’t know why but she got a British accent when she said it.  I looked at her and she just started laughing.  “When did you become a Brit?”  “When you started to treat me like a princess.”  I had to smile at that.  “I’ll always treat you like a princess Nikki because you are my princess.”  She got quiet, looking out the window, I didn’t know if I said something wrong but I wasn’t going to ask.  While she was looking at the scenery outside, I was checking if there was anything important that needed my attention.  Luckily, I can go back to work tomorrow, fuck I wonder how that is going to work? Nicol and I will have to talk about it.  Geoffrey can pick Nikki up from school and take her back to my place Isabella is always there so we don’t have to worry, but I’m not sure if Nicol will be okay with that and if Nikki needs tutors.  Fuck this is things I need to know.  But I’ll ask Nicol tonight.  ‘You still learning Nicolas you still learning.’ I told myself.

When we came closer to Time Square, I asked Nikki “Where do you want to go first?”  “Everywhere.”  I smiled at her “Where should Geoffrey drop us?”  “Anywhere, we are going to walk through all the shops all the small shops to.”  “Well, you heard her Geoffrey, you can drop us anywhere.”  When we got into the busy street Geoffrey was looking for a spot, he could drop us off, Nikki’s eyes were getting bigger and bigger looking at everything around her.  It must have been hard for Nicol being to scared to take her to places where there are so many people, I totally understand with all the people I’m seeing now I was starting to get cold feet, but Geoffrey found a spot, Nikki wanted to grab the door and open it.  “No Nikki wait I’ll come to you and open the door for you.  Geoffrey, I will call you when we need you.”  “I’ll be in the vicinity.”  I jumped out and open the door for Nikki she jumped out of the Audi but before I could close the door she was holding onto my other hand.  Good girl.  I thought.  Fuck I can’t lose her here.

We started our big walk she pulled me into every tourist store you could think off and she wanted snow globes lots and lots of snow globes. How could I say no, I told her we were going shopping I was thinking more in the line of cloths or a phone or tablet or maybe her own laptop but nope Nikki wanted snow globes.  Every store we walked in she found another snow globe at the 5th store I told her “Don’t you think it’s enough sweet pea?”  “You could never have enough snow globes.”  She said smiling.  As we walked out yet another small store, I saw an H&M and I remembered Nicol saying she liked their cloths.  “You want to go to H&M and find some new cloths.”  “Oh yes please.”  She almost ran to H&M I had to walk faster to keep up with her, but I also know if she went on like this, we won’t get the whole of Time Square she wasn’t passing herself and she still got tired quickly, when I told her we should take it easy she just said I should keep up and I’m old. I wasn’t going to argue with her because in comparison to her I’m a grandpa.