Take Good Care Of My Baby-Sequel to You,Me and Baby

Chapter 56-Mind Your Eyes

  "Is he ok?" Cristiano asked as he leaned against the door frame. "He's fine. He'll be asleep again in a few moments" Molly replied as she carefully placed Junior back into his cot. "What?" she asked when she looked up to find him smiling at her. "You tell me to be careful of the baby monitor and you go and forget yourself" he said holding up the monitor in his hand.

"I don't understand" she said confused. "Everyone heard you when you came up here. Telling Junior not to bite" he said. "Oh no" she said mouth opened. "Relax I said you were talking about the bottle" he laughed. "It's not funny Ronaldo" she said storming past him. He walked to the cot and stroked Junior's head. "Noite my cutie" he said and rolled his eyes that Molly's nicknames were starting to wear of on him.

He closed the door and turned to his left and knocked on the half open door. "What do you want?" she groaned. "Nothing about how I knocked" he joked walking into her room to find her laying flat on her back on top of the bed. "Go to bed Ronaldo" she said and he sighed and took a seat at the bottom of the bed. "Talk" he said. "Urgh" she said throwing her arm over her eyes. "So you can play poker well" he said. "Well? I beat all your buts. And aren't you supposed to be good at it?" she snapped. "I am. But I'll hold my hand up and admit that you are better. Although the competition wasn't much" Cristiano said. "No it wasn't. They all suck" she said. "Their tells are easy to see" he said. "Ya" she said.

"So where did you learn to play?" he asked staring at the wall opposite him. "Guess I learnt something from my mother" she said. "Molly" he said. "At least I didn't get the drinking gene from my father otherwise who knows where I would be" she said. "We make our own choices Molly" he said. "Don't I know it" she muttered. "So you used to play poker alot?" he asked. "My parents well my mother played alot. They used to have poker nights at the house when I was younger. I guess I just picked up the game as the more I watched" she said. "And the reason you didn't want to play for money was because it reminded you of your parents problems?" he asked and turned his head slightly to find her staring at him.

"I know shocker, noticing two things in one night. What ever will happen next?" he joked and a small smile appeared and the disappeared as quick of Molly's face. "I've seen what playing for money can do" she said raised on her elbows. "It was just a game between friends" he said. "That's how it starts. My mum lost money to her apparent best friend's boyfriend one night and the following week a brick got thrown through the window barely missing me. I was only five. I didn't realise how messed up things were back then" she said.

"Molly" he said. "Don't even think about giving me your pity look Ronaldo" she said laying flat on the bed. "And don't shut me out. What Fabio said" he said. "I'm just sick and tired of being the incentive" she said. "I don't understand" he said. "It doesn't matter" she said. "Molly talk" he said. "My parents always used me as an excuse. Oh Molly needs this and that let's go gamble for the money. Hello Tony was going to use me as an incentive to get my parents to pay back his money. It's just.." she stopped. "In the past Molly. You aren't in that life anymore. And I'm sure your parents will realise that they can't keep living the way they have being. But it's not your fault if they do. Oh by the way you were never my play thing. And if I ever made you feel that way and I know I did then I'm sorry" he said.

"You ok now?" he asked. "I can't believe they nearly heard" she said covering her face with her hands. "They didn't though" he said. "Them finding out...I couldn't.." she stuttered. "Forget it Molly. Now are you ok?" he asked again. "Yes" she said. "Tonight was fun" he said. "Who knew you could have a good idea" she joked. "Well next time I'll do more research. Jezz you would have cleaned us out if we hadn't been playing for M&Ms" he said.

"Not my fault you sucked" she said. "Hey I lasted longer than any of the others Ms. Beginners Luck" he said catching her feet and she laughed when he tickled her foot. "Thanks for tonight though" she said when he stopped. "I think it's time we put Tony and all of that behind us. Don't you think?" he asked. If only it was that easy she thought.