We wake up the next day. We get breakfast and get dressed. We go to a different theme park. I take Emily on a ride and Halo takes Andrew. We go on the ride and she laughs a giggles. We get off.
"That was fun!" Her hair was wind blown. I throw it into a messy bun. As I finish a sippy cup is on the ground rolling to us. I pick it up and hand it to a woman holding a baby boy. I hand the sippy cup to her.
"Thank you." She says.
"Your welcome." Right about now I am expecting her to hit on me when Halo comes up to me and puts her arm on my shoulder.
"Ready babe?" She makes sure the woman sees the ring on her finger.
"Um yeah, let's go." The woman turns around and walks away.
"What was that about?" Halo asks me.
"I picked up her son's sippy cup."
"Okay." We go on some more rides before going for lunch. We see some Disney characters. We go home in 4 days and I don't want this to end. It has to eventually.
Eventually this will end, Andrew will be 6, and school will start. Winter will come and another Christmas will go. Halloween and Thanksgiving. My graduation will come and I will have a diploma on the wall.
Halo will be pregnant and we will have a baby. We will be married and life will go on. Far in the future I can think of all the good. Now walking around a amusement park with my brother on my shoulders.
It makes it seem so far away yet close at the same time. Everything good is here though. It just gets better. When 4:00 comes around we go back to the hotel.
We give the kids baths and get them some food. They watch cartoons while they eat. Halo and I talk.
"What do we want to do for Andrew's birthday?" Halo asks me.
"I don't know. It's all the same. You get a cake, set up the water slide and sprinkler, get wet and have a cook out. If you want to mix it up then you go to the bowling alley. What else is there?"
"We could go the the movie theater and have the party. Watch a movie play video games."
"That sounds like a good idea."
"Okay, we just have to get ready."
"Don't remind me." She starts laughing. We decide to stay in the hotel tomorrow. We are all feeling sick from a lot of time in the sun. The kids fall asleep really early. Halo and I take showers and lay down. I kiss her neck and she looks at me.
"What are you doing?" She asks me.
"Nothing." I shrug my shoulders. She gives up and I continue to kiss her neck slowly and softly. I just want to mess with her but I end up screwing myself in the process. She starts laughing.
"Nice try."
"Damn it I will be back in 20." She laughs so hard she rolls over and falls on the floor. I hear a thud and turn around. She sits back up with her hair in her face laughing. "You okay?"
I start laughing a little. She moves her hair out of her face and shakes her head yes. She stands up her long legs looking longer in the shorts she was wearing. She ties her hair back and sits on the bed.
"Have fun."
"Okay." She starts laughing again. I shake my head as I close the bathroom door. I lean on the door. She is something. I take a deep breath and let it out slowly. I run my fingers through my hair and close my eyes.
*Next Morning*
I wake up tired as ever. Emily was sleeping her hair such a mess. I can only imagine how fun it will be brushing it. Halo was in some funny shape. Andrew almost off the bed. I get up and push him over and use the bathroom. I lay down again and fall back asleep.
*2:30*
I wake up and Halo was alive. She was braiding her hair and Emily's hair was brushed and in a neat French braid down her back. Andrew was playing with toy cars.
"What the heck. What time is it?" I ask.
"2:30." Halo says.
"Hell, I have a headache."
"Advil is in the bag."
"I know." I get up and take some medicine. I drink some water, I just don't feel good. Halo feels my forehead.
"Sun exposure." She says.
"I am going to take a cold shower."
"Okay I would just put on some pj shorts."
"That's what I was thinking." I get up and grab some shorts. I go to the bathroom and turn the shower cold. Not ice cold but cold. I take all my clothes off and step in. The cold water shocking my skin and making me shiver.
It felt good though on my hot skin. I feel my skin cooling off as I stand under the cold water. I feel better by the minute and turn the water a little colder. I wash my hair and that's it. I stand under the water but get out when I see my lips turning blue.
I dry off and put my shorts on. I leave the bathroom and lay on the bed. It is now cold and I moan softly at the feeling. Halo sits on the bed and puts her hand on my back.
"Feel better?" Halo asks me.
"Yeah, I am just tired I think I'm going through a depressing phase."
"You will be okay in a couple days." Halo says.
"I need to call my therapist."
"Call him."
"Okay." I call him and make an appointment for the day after we get back. It is a couple days before we leave yet and we haven't seen everything. We may even go back early. I got some heat stroke and if I did I can't imagine what they got.
We are all tired and run down maybe the best thing would be is to go home. It is so bad that Emily's shoulders got sunburnt and I put sunscreen on them multiple times. Andrew's knees where sunburnt and I have heat stroke.
I don't know what Halo is feeling. Later that night after everyone was in bed Halo and I sit at the table talking. It was late and I wanted to go to bed.
"I was thinking maybe we should head home."
"Yeah me to."
"They are sunburnt I got heat stroke. I don't know how you are doing."
"I got some sun to."
"Yeah so I think we should go home and do nothing until we are good."
"Yeah I agree."
"Today is what the 26th?"
"Yeah.
"Leave the 28th. We need to get the plane tickets in order and packed up."
"Yup, let's do it." So the next day we spend packing and getting ready to leave. We have had fun but we just want to go home. The 28th bright and early we board a plane. We listen to what the flight attends has to say before taking off.
The kids get mesmerized for a little bit. They give up and don't care so they go to sleep. I fall asleep to and wake up to the flight attendant talking. She was telling us to fasten are seat belts and get ready to land.
We land and get off. We all go home and Bowser tramples us in hugs and kisses. The turtles on their rock up against the glass. Emily goes to them and opens the lid to the tank. She pulls Poop out and holds her.
She lets Emily rubs her neck and hold her claws. She puts the turtle back in the tank and gets Skadoop. She holds her and pets her. She gives them a treat and hugs Bowser. They run around and laugh. Man is it good to be home.
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We Are Free
Novela JuvenilJace has been struggling for a while now. With a 5 year old sister,a 2 year old brother, dead mother, and alchoholic father this 16 year old has been through a lot but he keeps fighting on. If one thing is for sure its that this teenager is anything...
