A/N: I'm so so sorry for letting you wait so long. I was busy with school and everything.. But here's the new chapter.
Chapter 4:
When the elevator stops, Nikki and Olivia walk out and to the door that leads to the parking lot.
'Wait! Where's your baggage?' Olivia asks suddenly seeing that Nikki doesn't carry any.
'Oh yeah, right! Almost forgotten. There was a policeman here when I came in. I asked him if he could keep it for me, but I don't see him now. Oh wait, there he is!'
Nikki gets her baggage back and Olivia and they go home.
'Make yourself at home, I'm going to order some food, what would you like to eat?'
'Pizza? I mean if you want that too?'
'Pizza it is then! When you were six you like pizza with salami most, do you still?'
'You remember that? Yeah, it's still my favorite.'
' Good, uhm if you want to put your stuff away, the guestroom is down the hall on your left. The bathroom is on the right.'
'Okay, I'll be right back.'
Nikki puts her stuff in the room while Olivia orders pizza. After they're finished eating they settle on the couch to watch a movie. Olivia still has a lot of questions but thinks it's better if Nikki first gets some rest.
Halfway the movie Nikki is fast asleep with her head resting on Olivia's lap. After the movie Olivia is trying to wake Nikki up but Nikki doesn't give in.
' Nikki sweetie, wake up.' Olivia says softly.
' No, I'm tired! Let me sleep!' Nikki voice cracks with sleep.
' Nikki, I want to go to bed. Please you have to go to bed, too.'
' I'm lying just fine here, now shut up and let me sleep!'
Olivia chuckles, 'I won't shut up until you wake up!'
Olivia tills Nikki upper body up so that she can stand up. As soon as she stands Nikki starts to wake up a little. She stands up too but still leans on Olivia. They start walking towards the guestroom, but even before they're halfway Nikki is asleep again fully leaning on Olivia.
' You must be very sleepy? When was the last time you slept?' Olivia asks while she is almost sure she doesn't get an answer.
'Mhm, dunno, let me sleep!' was the reply from Nikki.
The next morning Olivia wakes up to the smell of coffee. She pulls her robe on and walks to the kitchen.
' Good morning!' Says a tired-looking Nikki.
' Good morning, how did you sleep?'
' Well I woke up around four, couldn't find my sleep again, so I read my book till a more normal hour and made us some coffee.'
' Yeah, I can smell that, it's so sweet of you! What about you and me taking a lazy day today and we start thinking about serious things tomorrow?'
' Serious things? What do you mean by that?'
' Well you know, school, you living with me and I really want to know what happened to your mother and of course how you spent the last ten years.'
' Okay, let's see, my mom had a business diner, she got drunk, drove home anyway, drove through a red light, hit another car, and ended up in hospital, when she woke up after four days of come she said goodbye to me and told me to go find you and died. That's what happened! She just gave up.' Even though she tries to act like she doesn't care tears start to leave Nikki's eyes.
Olivia stand up and walks over to Nikki.
' Shh, it's okay. I know you don't believe me right now, but I knew your mother, she did fight, but sometimes a fight is just lost. Fighting doesn't mean always winning. That she wake up means she fought. She fought to wake up to say goodbye, she loved you!'
' I don't know! Can we stop talking about this now? I don't want to think about her like she was the last few years. I want to think about how she was before we left, before my life turned into hell. She never talked about then, about her childhood, about her friendship with you, only about how amazing her life was after everything, like she erased everything that happened.'
' Well we can talk about that, if you want to.'
' Yeah, I would love that, but can we just relax today, like you said?'
' Sure. What would you like to do? Watch a movie? Shopping? Whatever you want.'
'Well, I know it sounds stupid, because it's freezing outside, but can we maybe go to the beach? In Holland we lived near the beach and I always went there when my head was a mess, it sort of calms me down.'
' Sure, if you want. We can leave now and have breakfast on the way or do you want to make breakfast from the things in the fridge, which I think are not very much eatable as breakfast.'
Olivia walks to the fridge and looks inside.
' Well, that answers your question, I think.' Chuckles Nikki when she looks over Olivia's shoulder and only sees bottles of water, beer and soda.
' Well, I do have milk!' Olivia laughs as she picks up the hidden can of milk which had only enough in it for half a glass.
' Okay, I'll get dressed and ready so we can leave, cause I'm starting to get really hungry.' Nikki says while her belly starts to grumble.
' I think your stomach agrees with you!'
' Yeah, I know! So I'll hurry!' Nikki laughs as she starts walking down the hall towards the bathroom.