Merhayes Italy

Early Mornings

Meredith's POV:
Cormac and I wake up extremely early to get packed and ready to leave. He agreed to go to Italy with me and I'm excited.

Cormac's alarm goes off at 3:30 in the morning. "Babe..." Cormac says in his morning voice which happened to also be a very thick accent even thicker than the one he already has. "No." I mumbled back not actually awake. "Babe, come on." He says moving close to me wrapping his arm around my waist. "Uh ah. Cuddles." I say with my eyes closed. Cormac laughs a little "cuddles in Italy." He says. I shake my head still on my pillow. "Fine we can stay here and go to work and not cuddle all day or eat real pasta and ice cream..." Cormac says trying to wake me up. "Uhh fine I'm up." I mumble. "Open your eyes." He says. I groan but open my eyes to look at him. "Good morning beautiful." He says as our eyes lock. I close my eyes again and let my head flop onto my pillow. "Oh my goodness." Cormac says moving up more to kiss me. "Come on." He says in a begging voice. "Babe I'm up." I reply "no your not the minute I stop annoying you, you're going to fall back asleep." He protests a smile forms on my lips. "See you know I'm right." Cormac says as his hands move from my lower stomach to my hips. Cormac starts to tickle me on my hips I start to laugh but keep my eyes closed. He tickles me more and I laugh harder. He stops so I open my eyes and look at him. "There are my favorite beautiful eyes." He says as I look at him. "It's so early babe... can't we go back to sleep?" I ask tired. Cormac sits up and climbs over me standing up by the bed with me still in it. "Nope." He answers simply grabbing the decorative throw blanket that was on the chair in our room. "Come here." He says. "It's too cold and I'm too tired." I reply. He takes the corner of our blanket that was on me and throws it off wrapping me up in the throw blanket he had picked up and then picks me up wrapping one hand behind my back and one under my knees I wrap my hands around his neck and put my head on his shoulder. "I know that's why I'm doing this." He says walking me out of our room and down stairs to the kitchen. He puts me down in the middle of the kitchen while he starts the coffee. He walks back over to me as the coffee starts to brew and wraps his arms around me giving me a big hug. "I love you." He whispers. I kiss his jawline "I love you too." I reply. He holds me until the coffee is done and then let's go to go pour two cups.

I'm not sure what exactly I pack for a month in Italy but I'm doing my best. I have a little bit of everything. Sweatpants, pjs, tank tops, jeans, tee-shirt, shorts, sneakers, dress, skirt, one piece romper thing, Sandals, sunglasses. Like I said I don't know what to pack because I'm not sure what the weather will be the whole time so I'm bringing options. Cormac is packing too and seems to be packing the same stuff I am. It's four in the morning now and I figure I should wake up Liam so he can pack. I'll pack for Austin, Bailey, Ellis, and Zola because they're younger and will need help.

"Liam buddy." I say walking into the room him and Austin share. Before I call Liam again I walk over to Austin's bed, I pick him and his special stuffed animal up carrying them to my bed so Liam doesn't wake him up. I walk back to Liam's room turning on the light. "Liam." I say still no response. "Liam!" I say louder walking over to him shaking his arm a little. "What?" He says. "Get up." I say firmly so that he gets scared and actually wakes up. "Wh-what?" He says flying up. "We are going on a trip and need to be on a plane in two hours start packing." I say then I walk out of his room. "Dad!" He yells. Cormac walks into his room.

Cormac's POV:
"What's up?" I ask walking into Liam's room still in my pjs which were black adidas sweatpants and no shirt. "Where are we going?" He asks. I smile "Italy... I'm not sure what you should bring so bring a little of everything. And hurt up!" I say. "O-o-okay?" He says confused. I walk out of his room but turn back around "and be quite the kids are still sleeping." I continue he nods rubbing his eyes.

AUTHORS NOTE:
What do we think so far? I'm still not sure how I feel about this story but I'm going to keep it going.
This chapter is small but I'm starting smaller this time. Also didn't have time to proofread.