Fly With Me (a Jonas Brothers adoption story)

Chapter 26: A Month With You

Joe's POV

It's almost 4am and I'm up and awake. We have to leave the house by 5am and get on the road so we can hopefully be in Atlantic City by 7:30.

I have to make sure that all of our food is packed. We plan to head down to the beach for a little picnic brunch, then head up to the pier and boardwalk to play games, ride rides, and eat. I know Lainey really wanted to go on the ferris wheel.

We plan to stay at one of the resorts that they have, that's the closest to the arena that we're going to be playing at. There's also a casino down there, so me and the boys might do some gambling while we are there as well if we have time. We have a show in Maryland the next day and it takes 2 and a half hours to get there, so i'm not sure how much gambling we will be able to do.

Anyways, once I make sure that everything is packed, I go to wake up Lainey... This is always such a struggle as she absolutely hates getting up in the mornings.. especially when we have to wake up this early. She'd sleep in all day if i'd let her.

I walk into her bedroom seeing that she's all sprawled out all across her bed, with half her cover on the floor, only having a fuzzy green blanket on top of her. She is still very much asleep.

I gently shake her

"Come on babe we gotta go get on the road." i say

She stirs a little.

"what time's it?" she says softly but tiredly

"4:23"

she just groans

"why do we have to get up so early all the time?" she asks, rolling over onto her back

"that's just show biz baby girl" I say

She just closes her eyes and exhales, clearly not wanting to get up.

"here i'll help you babe" i say

I take the blanket off of her seeing that she has on grey sweatpants and a red shirt, so i grab her checkered vans and put those on her feet. then I carefully lift her up to put on a blue tie dye sweatshirt that says good vibes on the back.

"Baby, i got you dressed now go brush your teeth. I'll take your bag downstairs." I say as she slowly sits up.

Once I make sure she didn't fall back asleep, I grab her pink duffle bag and head downstairs. I put Lainey's bag by the door and go back to packing our lunch. Soon I see Kevin coming upstairs from the basement where the twins room is holding a sleepy Rowan, with Nick and Ollie not too far behind.

They're just wearing black sweatpants and grey jackets, and what I assume blue and green undershirts of course.

Nick hands me Ollie and he puts his head on my shoulder, falling back asleep.

I talk with Kevin and run through the day with him while Nick goes and wakes up Charlotte.

I turn around when I hear a few pairs of little pitter patter footsteps on the stairs.

All 4 of the girls are coming downstairs all ready to go.

Kevin makes sure that Alena has her shoes tied, and that Valentina doesn't have her sweatpants on backwards.

It's just a sweatpants and comfy kind of morning.

I'm sure we'll get changed into something nicer when we get to the hotel though.

Anyways, once we made sure everyone had all their bags, we finally got to the cars.

Nick,Kevin,Dani, and the twins are in one car, then Me, Lainey, Charlotte, Alena and V are in the other.