A Second Chance at Love

Two weeks had passed. We didn’t speak of that night anymore. She was too important to me. I didn’t want to lose her over school boy type jealousy. She swore she hadn’t never slept with Jordan and I believed her. She told me her kissed her a few times. The thought made my blood boil, but I pushed it out of my mind.

Just watching her made me smile. She was currently rushing around my house throwing costumes in a pile and pulling bags of candy out from every hiding place you could think of. The boys were in school. Claude looked over towards me and whispered “look how mad she gets when she realizes I stole a bag of M&Ms.

Sure enough she yelled kitchen a few minutes later. “Not funny you two, stop eating the kids candy.” We were getting ready to take pre-game naps, but were amused watching her try to get everything ready before the kids came home. She was taking them trick or treating for me. Surprisingly, Sylvie had been ok with it, knowing she had to take Ryan out anyway.

When I woke up I went downstairs. She was on the phone with Eric. I was rather pleased to hear her telling him she couldn’t work with him on his foundation, that there were too many conflicts of interest. I wrapped her in a hug and promised her I would talk to Ed Snider about her working with his foundation. It allowed inner city kids to play hockey for free. She had endless energy, running around with the boys with hockey and also working with Max, plus taking care of us. I didn’t know how she did it. She claimed she got rest when we were away and Syl had the boys but I knew better. She used that time to spend with Ryan. I had gotten really attached to him. They were staying at my house more and more. Him and Carson shared a room when they stayed over and so far they had gotten along really well.

I yelled up to Claude to get ready, and left to go pick up the three youngest from school. They came tearing into the house, high on sugar already clamoring around Raina asking for more candy and permission to get dressed in their costumes. Caelen got home a few minutes later and went right to work helping her. I was happy to see him being such a big help for her. She dressed Ryan in a ninja costume, did Carson’s zombie makeup and Cam’s blood for his vampire costume. We were getting ready to leave. I gave the kids a hug and started to leave. She was running around like a nut and I didn’t want to bother her. She came jogging down the steps and jumped into my arms. “Love you too Danny” she smirked. I just laughed. “Promise I will be there before the first period is over.” The younger kids had off from school the next day and she was bringing them to a rare weekday game.

I had to laugh when we skated out during warm-ups. There was my family, standing by the glass in full costume watching us practice. Caelan had thrown a mask on and Raina had leopard print cat ears, a tail and some make-up on. She wore black tights and a tight-fitting black shirt. I called her over towards the bench. “Done trick or treating already? I asked.

She laughed, “yeah they got a lot of candy and they wanted to come to the game.” I went back to practicing.

Kris skated up beside me. “Dude, so do not allow that outfit go to waste.” I smacked his helmet and skated away laughing.

We lost the game 4-2. It wasn’t a very good game and I was trying to wash it away in the shower. I worked hard to keep my frustrations with hockey on the ice. I didn’t want the kids to have to deal with me being upset about a game. I got dressed and went out to meet her. She had the biggest smile on her face. Carson and Ryan had fallen asleep on the chairs in full costume.

The guys were laughing and taking pictures of them. I grabbed Carson, Claude grabbed Ryan and we headed to the cars. She laid out a big comforter on the floor in the living room and we put the boys there. They rest of us went upstairs to sleep. Thank god the kids were worn out. Raina’s second costume of the night was hotter than the first and I will never ever look at a leopard without thinking of that night.

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