Chapter 3 Start Again

Six weeks has slowly rolled by since I was brought back to life and Lillian and I are finally divorced and she's moving the last of her things today. "Jake, thank you so much for understanding and for all these years." Lillian thanks me, I'm currently see her out the door with the last of her luggage. "No, I'm simply doing the for the safety of my kids and I." I replied, she looks down shamefully.

"I want more for myself Jake , I need the finest things money ." She sighs than looks up from the ground, "Chad and I plan on getting married in two months, I'll see if I can send you an invite." She says lowly, I nodded in understanding. "Michelle and Michael are still your kids see them when you can." I tell her, she stares into the living room space and shakes her head, "I don't think I can. I want to cruelly abandon my past and not look back and that past includes those children." She says then rolled her luggage out the door, "Goodbye Jake I'm going to live a better life and I hope you can at least try to as well." Lillian tells before stepping out too and shutting the door behind her.

Lillian didn't surprise me when she said she wanted to abandon her past which included the kids, after all the day after I gave the divorce papers she told the kids to not call her mom anymore and left for Chad's pent house. We only saw ourselves in court to finalize the divorce. I sighed a bit relieved that my nightmare was out the window. I could now focus on my job and children without lingering fear. I walked to the play area in the living room that was set up for the kids. "Daddy?" My daughter calls and I sat down in front of her and smiled sweetly. "Yes sweetie." I answered still smiling as I ruffle her hair, " Are we still going to see mummy?" She asked with a trace of slur in her words like a regular four year old would. "Of cause sweetie, but not everyday. Mummy would now be away from us for a while." I explained in the best way I could.

"Like Seb's mom?" She asked, I didn't know this Seb Michelle was talking about but I didn't bother asking, I just nodded in reply. "So does that mean mommy did a bad thing?" She asked again, where is she getting these from? "Oh no sweetie." I replied and stroked her long brown hair. As much as Lillian messed I don't want the kid to grow hating her. "How about we go stay at grandma's for a while?" I asked and she nods eagerly and hugs me tightly. "Daddy will go get Mickey and we'll stop for ice cream on or way to grandma house." I tell Michelle she squeals happily and hops towards her toys. I presume to pack up her favorite toys. I dashed upstairs to pack up a few things for us, not forget my laptop bag and carried a sleeping Mickey . I got down stairs to that Michelle already had her shoes on and her back pack with her as well. "I'm ready daddy." She tells me smiling cutely and bouncing on her feet, "Alright sweetie let's go to the car." I say as I opened the door for her to go wait by the car while I close up the windows and the door. I opened the back and put Mickey in his car seat before strapping him in and securing the seat. Michelle was patiently waiting for me to help her up into the car. I drive a land rover defender so its too high for her to get in on her own. I put on her seat belt and shut the door before going to the drivers seat. My mom stays about forty minutes away for us and so we stop at an ice cream shop ten minutes away from my mom's house. The best ice cream shop in New Jersey ."Michelle let's go get our ice cream." I tell her in a playful tone and got down from the car before opening the door for Michelle and taking Mickey out of his car seat . The moment we walked into the shop I noticed tall men in black standing by the door and scattered around the shop but I paid no mind to them until I heard Michelle call out 'Seb' happily and rushes to a boy slightly taller than her and attempts to hug him when she was stopped by the guy on black suit and glasses stand by the kid. I observed the kid and noticed he had a dark blonde hair and was wearing a khaki short and a t-shirt with sneaker he looked rich. I watched as Michelle tries to hug him again but that mean looking man pushed he back slightly.

That got he pissed so I spoke up, "That's my daughter mister and isn't it obvious they know each other why are you stop her?" I calmly asked but trust me when I say I was annoyed. "Seb?" Michelle says with sadness in her voice. The boy takes Michelle's hand and gives her a warm smile to comfort her. "She's my very good friend from school." He speaks up sounding very mature for his age as he frowns at the guard. "I'm sorry young master I didn't know." The mean looking guard says.

Ignoring him I asked Michelle who her sweet little friend was. "This is Seb daddy, I talked about him today." She reminds me. "He's name is young master Sebastian and not Seb." The mean guy tells me, I nod then leaned down to raffle Sebastian's hair lightly. "Thank you for protecting my Michey. How about I get you an ice cream." I said smiling warmly at him before extending my hand to him. "He's father is on his on his way, he'll get........" I didn't let him finish before lifting my hand to cut him off. "Seb hold on to Michelle's hand and you hold mine." Sebastian looked surprised but didn't hesitate to do as I had instructed, I smiled at him before facing the mean guard. "If you need us we'll be at the counter." I said glaring at him before heading towards the counter to order our ice cream.