Halcyon

Childish Games

Nikki has just finished herself and Poppy's dinner and has set them out on the dinner table, she walks through to the lounge and looks at Poppy, "Come on darling your dinner is ready" She smiles as she scoops Maddison up and then walks into the kitchen. 

Poppy comes bounding into the kitchen and clambers up onto the chair at the table and looks at her dinner, "I don't like that!" Poppy frowns and pushes her plate away. 

Nikki sits down and rolls her top up and unclips her nursing bra to feed Maddison while looking at Poppy and raising an eyebrow, "Why darling? you always eat this" Nikki smiles as she starts to eat her own dinner with her free arm while feeding Maddison. 

"It's yacky!" Poppy frowns and folds her arms. 
"Well that is all you're getting tonight Poppy, I suggest you eat some of it" Nikki speaks and Poppy frowns and looks at the food and then picks up her fork and picks up some broccoli. 

They continue to eat, Jack walks into the kitchen as he has been in their personal office upstairs for a while and looks at Nikki. "Where is mine?" Jack asks and Nikki completely ignores him. "So what is this now? playing wee childish games?" He questions. 

Nikki continues to eat and pat Maddison's back gently as she feeds too, Nikki had gotten the hang of multi-tasking at the dinner table from when Poppy was a baby and learnt that if she wanted to eat she must have to feed the baby and eat at the same time. 

He stands waiting for a reply, but she continues to look through her iPad which is next to her plate at the table. "This is stupid Nikki, playing your wee childish games with me because you don't like that I don't want anything to do with that woman!" Jack replies. 

She proceeds to ignore Jack and continues to eat and help Poppy with some of her dinner as she can only use her one had due to the other being in a cast. "You would think I've committed a murder, the silent treatment is silly Nikki, I never gave you this treatment when you decided to drop your knickers for Harry..." Jack speaks and Nikki bites her lip in frustration. 

"Jack stop it! Stop playing mind games, I simply want my girls to grow up with grandparents... both my parents are dead... yours are alive... treat yourself lucky!" Nikki snaps as she pulls her top back down and clips her bra back together. 

She sits Maddison up and supports her head and neck and gently burps her, "But I said I don't want them to see her, I don't want them to even know she walks this planet!" Jack huffs. 

"Right, until you get your act together and understand that I want my daughters to know her... I won't speak to you, you can sleep on the sofa and cook your own meals! Because I am sick of your silly little life and your tapped mind, Honestly I don't even want to know you right now, so either you think about your actions... or pack your bags and get out!" She snaps before turning to Poppy and helping her cut up her meat. 

They remain silent for a moment before Jack replies to her, "So what you kick me out and I don't get to see Poppy and Maddison? Is that your game?" 
"Yes Jack, that is my game! You won't see your kids but your Mum will... see how you feel!" 

He stops and just glares at her, "You're a manipulative cow, Nikki! just like that woman who claims to be my mother... my mother died years ago, what don't you understand, I'm going out!" He replies in a raised tone. 
"Good and don't come back... oh and don't even rock up at work on the slab because there will be no sympathy from me, I won't shed a tear!" She snaps back. 

Jack just grabs his keys, phone and wallet then he leaves the house. Nikki sighs and looks at Poppy who is attempting to sneak away from the table, "Oi cheeky monkey where do you think you are going?" She chirps happily at her daughter. 

Poppy freezes and giggles to herself, "I'm invisible!" She giggles and stands really still for a three-year-old who rarely ever stands still. 
"Well then I will just have to give Maddison a bath and read her a bedtime story" Nikki smirks and gathers the plates together and with one arm carries Maddison and in the others, she carries the plates to the dishwasher. 

Once sorted she heads upstairs and carries the Moses basket in one hand and Maddison in the other arm, she lies Maddison down in the Moses basket in her room and gets down to running a bath for Poppy.