Conversation's in the Dark (Merhayes)

Early morning's

*two days passed*

I wake up to the sound of my alarm going off. It was 3:50 am we had to be at the airport in 2 hours. I roll over to see cormac laying next to me. His eyes are still closed as he says "morning beautiful." In his morning voice. "Good morning." I reply and move closer to him. He stretches and wraps his arm around me. "You ready for our trip?" He asks "yes I'm excited." I answer. "Me too. 5 more minutes then I'm getting up." He says. I chuckle because I'm normally the one who wants to stay in bed. "No we need to get ready or we will be late. Come on." I reply sitting up. He puts his head on my thighs and wraps his arms around my lower hips "I just want to cuddle." He whines. I giggle a little. "I know but we can sleep on the plane. Come on." I say and run his back. "Uhhhh fine." He says and sits up. He kisses me and then we both get up and walk downstairs. He makes two cups of coffee hands me one and then kisses me again. It's still dark outside and we're the only ones up. "I'm excited for vacation." Cormac whispers "me too." I respond. Then we go back upstairs I take a quick shower, when I get out I throw on black leggings a white baggy tee shirt that has a picture of the 90's rapper biggie on it and Cormac's green hoodie. I don't want a lot of make up because we were going to be on a plane for most of the day so I just put on mascara, concealer, and lip gloss. I throw my hair up in a ponytail and then walk out of the bathroom. Cormac has on destrested jeans and a black hoodie that has a little "c" in the top left. The "c" stood for champion it was one of his favorite hoodies ever. I put a few more things into my suitcase and then put it by our bedroom door. My suitcase has my clothes, swimsuits, make up and other small stuff I couldn't bring in my carry on. Cormac and the boys don't officially live at my house but they spend almost every night here so it feels like they do.  Cormac grabs his suitcase and puts it by mine. He helps me make the bed by pulling the blanket on his side and putting the pillows back on correctly. "Thanks babe." I say and smile. "You're welcome." He responds. "Can I get the kids up today?" He asks I shake my head as a response and he practically runs out of the room to the girls room.

I loved waking the girls up especially Ellis because the first thing they want is a hug. "Good morning lovey." I softly say sitting on the Side of Ellis' bed. I started calling her lovey it was something I did with the boys when they were younger. Ellis loved it. "Ellis" I say still soft. She rolls over and tries to pull her blanket on her more. I was going to help her but I need to wake her up and if I put the blanket on her she will go back to bed. "Come on lovey it's vacation day." I say and she sits up "vacation?" She says in a confused face rubbing her eyes. "Yeah we're going to go to the beach remember." I ask Ellis doesn't answer she just puts her arms out for a hug. I hug her and then pick her up trying to get ready to go. "Are you bringing your blankey and Elephant?" I ask rubbing her back. She shakes her head. Her head was laying on my shoulder. "Okay let's get it all ready. We need to get the boys up and then we can get zo hows that sound?" I offer. "Can I wake up the boys?" She asks half asleep. "Sure." I respond I walk into the boys room. The light was off but the sun was rising so it wasn't pitch black. I put Ellis down. She quietly walks over to liams bed and crawls on to it. "Liam! Liam!" She chants. Liam was not used to being woken up like this so he immediately opens his eyes and sees me in the door way. "Dad." He says I chuckle and shrug. "Liam!" Ellis excitedly says. Liam sits up and Ellis wraps her arms around his neck. "Good morning E." Liam says returning her hug. "Morning." She says back. "You going to wake up Austin too?" He asks her. Without responding to Liam Ellis gets up and walks over to Austin's bed he was on the bottom bunk. She crawls in to Austin's bed and lays her head like an inch away from Austin's. "Austin?" Ellis calls. Austin turned over. "Bubba" she says bubba instead of brother, I don't know the full story on why. "Hmm" Austin hums. "It's acaion day." She says. Ellis is in kindergarten and still doesn't form words all the way. Liam and I laugh at the way she says vacation. With his eyes closed Austin replies "I know." As excited as he can at 4 in the morning. Ellis pushes his back "get up" she orders so Austin turns around and wraps his arm around her giving her a hug still laying down. "Bubba!" She says. Austin sits up frustrated "what?" He catches himself and calms down a little. "It's time to wake up. We need to go on the big big plane so we can go to the beach." She says. Austin smiles at her, "okay I'm up."  I walk over to the bunk bed and see Bailey. "Hey buddy time to get up you can go back to sleep in the car. Come on." Bailey is usually really good about getting up but he didn't today it was 4:03 am so I knew it would be hard. "Liam get dressed and make sure you wake him up." I say grabbing Ellis and walking out. "Dad can I wear sweats?" Austin yells. "I don't care." I yell back. I walk into the girls room to wake up Zola I put Ellis down and start calling Zola as I get out leggings and the cutest little sweatshirt for Ellis. I miss little clothes like these and I never got to do girly clothes so this is fun for me. "Zola come on hun it vacation time." I say. I walk over to the closet where Zola keeps her clothes. I pick out a track suit which is just sweatpants and a matching sweatshirt. I pick out a baggy tee-shirt that has a picture of a unicorn of it. "That works." I say as I put both outfits on the bottom bunk. I step on the first step of the ladder for the bunk bed. "Zozo" I say shaking her leg. "What?" She whines. "It's vacation come on get dressed and then you can go back to sleep and I'll carry you to the car if you want." I offer. I was figuring I would have to do this with most of the younger kids. Zola sits up half asleep grabs her clothes and goes to the bathroom to get dressed. "Come here Ellis." I say. I help get her dressed and then I fold up her blanket and put it on her suitcase. Meredith walk's in as I'm on my knees with Ellis in my arms giving me a hug. "Hey Zo went to the bathroom to get dressed, but has been in there for a while can you go see if she's ok?" I ask Meredith smiles at me and says "you're so cute, yes I'll check on Zo." I smile and then we hear Zola yell "mom?" In a very confused and worried voice. Me and Meredith lock eyes and I can tell Meredith is scared. It's that mom instinct. "Shit. Not today please do not make this start today." She says as she runs to the bathroom. I knew exactly what was happening.

AUTHORS NOTE/:/:/

I'm sorry for not posting yesterday. I rewrote this chapter five times five different ways and this is was the best one. Let me know what you think. What is happening with Zola? How will the plane ride go? Thank you for all the reads, votes, and comments. 🥰