When We Were Perfect

Baby Ozan just stared at Silas who beamed at him for a moment and then continued to suck his thumb turning away. Daniel burst into a laugh as Silas stood there gaping at Ozan's attitude. 

"See! He didn't like you." Daniel coughed trying to stifle his laughter. Silas just huffed in response but his lips tugged upwards.

"It can be changed!" Silas said with confidence grabbing the bag he brought earlier from the couch and pulled out a cute jungle themed toy set for Ozan. Tearing the box softly he brought out an elephant, placing it on his palm and extending it towards Ozan. Daniel silently watched the scene as the toy got Ozan's attention. He stared at the toy for a moment with his mouth open like he was making an important decision. Slowly he took his thumb out of his mouth and reached forward grabbing the toy, ignoring him before he started to play with the elephant'  big ears.

"Well, at least he took it!" Silas said half-heartedly.

"He loves to play with elephants. I am impressed with your choice!" Daniel said rubbing Ozan's soft hairs.

Silas smiled sheepishly.

"Nadia told me about it, so I bought it for him!"

Daniel raised his brow, shaking his head. Silas reached out his hand to Ozan, bending to his level.

"Hey, Ozan! I am your Uncle Silas, you know I am going to be the coolest Uncle you could have, I will play video games with you, tell you how to skip school and homework, tell you about bees and birds and even help you with your girlfriends!"

"And I will kick you out of this house if you ever dare to do such things!" Daniel glared at Silas who made a childish face grabbing Ozan's attention. He looked at his hand and then reached out, placing his tiny palm in his large ones making Silas gasp. He immediately kissed it beaming at the little boy who in turn showed him a toothy grin, at that moment Silas saw how much he resembled his father.

"See, your son likes me!" Silas tittered, poking out his tongue at Daniel which made Ozan giggle.

"Yes! I think he found an age fellow at last!" Daniel muttered ruefully, happy that his son was getting social day by day. 

Silas fake gasped before turning to Ozan who was still smiling at them.

"Can I hold him now!" Silas said with puppy dog eyes extending his arms. Daniel smiled before he gently placed Ozan in his hold.

"Be careful with him!" Daniel warned, looking for Ozan's reaction but he calmly went into his hold.

"Just because I didn't have children doesn't mean I don't know how to handle one's!" Silas tutted, placing a kiss on Ozan's head. Daniel looked warily at him before stretching a bit on the couch.

"I must say you just reproduced yourself!" Silas muttered carefully holding Ozan and sitting beside Daniel.

"Now you are exaggerating, he does have some of his mother's features if you observe carefully!" Daniel muttered, making Silas stiffen a bit, he still had to apologize to Amy.

"Ozan why don't I show you some stunts I learned from youtube!"Silas said.

" What kind of stunts?" 

"During my vacation as you know!" Silas said before deliberately pausing to see Daniel's reaction who gave him a nasty glare.

"I used to be free and watched many YouTube videos, one of them was how to entertain children!" Silas replied gently placing Ozan back in his fathers hold and sitting cross-legged on the sofa. He ran his fingers in his hair giving them an unkempt look before he started making funny animal faces. Making Daniel curse inwardly at his childish behaviour but Ozan did enjoy it as he started giggling despite his droopy eyes. Daniel continued to frown at his friend but after a few minutes even he couldn't stifle his emotions and at one act he also chuckled. The three of them were having a happy moment and it was after a long time Daniel laughed this much but they were oblivious to the situation that was going to unfold.

"Master! Dinner is ready." Martha announced coming into the living room, her own laugh begging to escape seeing Silas.

"Just a few more minutes Martha then you can put Ozan to sleep while we have our dinner!"

"As you wish, master!" Martha responded, leaving the scene.

The guards opened the gate as a blue Mercedes made its way in and parked on the porch. Amy sighed and took a long breath, frustratingly pulling the key out of the ignition before stepping out of her car. The trip was an absolute disaster, again she was a finger's distance away from her victory yet Gonsalez again managed to use his resources and get Mert out of the jail on bail. A struggle of months went into the drain at the last moment and all Amy wanted to do was bang her head somewhere. The guard came to her side taking out the suitcase from the boot.

"It's okay! I will take it in." Amy said grabbing the rail of the suitcase and strolling it inside. Her nerves were already on edge as she turned the knob of beige coloured double doors and entered inside.

Voices of laughter and giggles surrounded her as soon as she stepped inside the house, they were coming from the living room. The voices were recognisable but yet she felt them distant, ignoring the anxious feeling she trudged towards her room passing through the living room but two steps in she stood there as the scene in front of her hit her like a wave or more like the person sitting on the couch laughing did. There he was, the man she loved and who promised to marry her laughing his ass off at something, her eyes trailed to Daniel who was shaking his head smiling and then to Ozan who was falling asleep sucking some toy and then to Silas again. All of this made her dizzy, her insides were churning making her clench her jaw tightly. It seemed like a reunion to her the way they were laughing and smiling.. All of that hurt and anger resurfaced as the face of Silas paused in front of her eyes.