A Lovely Surprise

Challenges

MICHAEL'S POV **
This is so hard. When I see her I just wanna ugh... god.... I can't even kiss her. That's probably a good thing though cause I get carried away. But she wears these fucking yoga pants that define her ass so well.
"Michael!" She hollered. "Huh?" I asked. "I was talking to you." She said throwing her hands up. "Sorry." I giggled.
"What time do we have court tomorrow?!" She asked frustrated. "11am dollface." I replied. "Don't call me that." She stated. "Okay dogface." I replied laughing till she pinched my under arm. "Ouch!" I giggled. "I'm nervous! I don't wanna go up on the stand!" She stressed. "Dre... after this Thursday we hopefully only have 2 more months of this 6 months custody battle. Just be honest. But just try to avoid.... yah know." I said referring to 'us'. "I know. But I know they're gonna throw Aria in my face! I was a dumb 16 year old. I made a really bad mistake!" She stressed. "We know. Liz and Shawn let you have her a day out of the week so that says they trust you with her. If they trust your parenting then everyone should. Because Liz and Shawn are the ones who make the calls and they've been in the system adopting kids so they are on a fine line along with us. We are fine. You are fine." I said. "Okay." She said. "Dre dre!" Jayden Hollered running into the kitchen. "Yes?" She asked. "Wook! I dressed myself!" He smiled. He wore a pajamas with a beanie. "You look handsome jj." She smiled. "Is Willow coming over?" He asked. "Yes sir." She said. "Yayyy!" He squealed running back into the livingroom. "He seems to be doing better." She commented. "Yeah he's still clingy but he hasn't been throwing his tantrums." I said. "Yeah they were getting pretty bad." She said. "I know. He was driving me nuts. He's just stressed and emotionally confused." I said getting jayden's lunch ready. "Do you notice how Jayden still doesn't call Nina mom. He always refer to Nina as 'she' 'her'." She said eating a strawberry. "Yeah." I sighed. "Why do you think he does that?" She asked confused. "Because he doesn't feel like she is his mom. I think he still looks at you in that way. He's being forced to accept this woman who abused him and left him as his mother, you and him made a connection. He doesn't like that he's being forced to make a non-existing connection." I said.
"True." She replied. "Oh Joshua is here." She said walking into the living room opening the door for him. "Jayden. Willow Is here." I hollered. "Jaydennnn!" Willow hollered. Jayden came running from the bathroom. "We gonna eat lunch Willow." He told Willow. "Can you watch the boys today too.... please Dre i am begging you. Me and Erin need some alone time." He begged. "Yeah. Are you guys okay?" She asked. "We've been arguing none stop. We need to talk." He said exhausted. "Okay. It's fine. You guys figure it out. Okay? I love you guys." She said then josh left.
The boy ran in "Uncle Mike!" Cam said hugging my leg. They recently started calling me their uncle. No one seemed bothered by it so it stuck. I picked Cam up. "What are you doing little man?" I asked putting him on my hip. "Hanging out with you!" He said. "Hanging out with me what about danny?" I asked. "He can hang out with aunt Dre." He said. Cam is my little buddy. He loves following me around. "Whats for lunch?" He asked with the cutest darn smile. "Peanut Butter and jelly with strawberries and grapes." I said getting extra plates. "Yum!" He said excited. "Alright I'm gonna have to set you down to make my master pieces ." I giggled putting him down. Dre walked in standing next to me. "Is it okay that the boys are here? I'm sorry I feel really bad that I'm not helping as much anymore." She said guilty. "It's fine." I smiled. "Is Nina still coming tonight?" She asked. "Yep." I said disappointed. "Hopefully the triplets here will keep him in good spirits. Okay one more question... and you can say no." She said. "Oh boy.... what is it?" I asked. "Can we keep the triplets tonight so josh and Erin can have a night to themselves. They're really struggling." She said. "That's fine but I'm not doing their whole getting up every hour to do whatever excuse they have." I said. "Okay that's fine. I'll deal with them. Thank youuu!" She said kissing my cheek really quick. "Moommmm, daddd." Aria called out coming inside. I have 5 kids in my house right now.... "Hi dad." Ari said hugging me. "Do I need to make you lunch too?" I giggled. "No, I'll just heat up some pizza in the fridge." She said. "Where's mom?" She asked
"With the triplets and jj upstairs." I said. "They're all here?!" She asked surprised . "Yep." I sighed. "I'll help keep them under control." She said. "Need help?" She asked "can you just put some grapes and strawberries on each plate." I said.
The day went on and it was crazy. Dre and aria are doing their best to keep everything under control. It finally came bed time. Jayden slept in his room and the triplets slept with dre. Ari slept on the couch.