Chasing Reality [sequel to Autistic Innocence -J.M]

Chapter 5

Jason's P.O.V

"Oh the joy of having five children!" I say sarcastically as they all continued to argue in the living room while I watched tv with my wife cuddled under my arm.

Or at least, tried to watch tv worth my wife cuddled under my arm.

"You signed up for this dad, should've worn a condom." Jr shrugged.

"W-what condom? What is c-condom Jay Jay?" Ava pats my arm to try and get my attention.

I sent a glare over to my oldest son.

"Umm, a c-condom is-"  I go to explain but am cut off by my youngest son.

"A condom is a plastic wrapper that a guy puts on their-"

"WOAH!" My eyes widen as I look over at Xander and cut him off before he could finish.

"How in the hell do you know what a condom is?" I squint my eyes and point at him.

He shrugged innocently and gave me a smirk that caused for my eyes to widen even more.

"Um, Ava, sweetheart, you wanna do something really nice for Jay Jay? You wanna go color me a pretty picture in the garden? You too Melly? I would really love one of your pretty pictures as well." Her eyes light up and she nods excitedly along with her mother.

"I-Yes Jay Jay! I makes one for you and for c-Camilla and J-Jazzy and Jason Jr and baby boy X-Xander and baby girl Melly! I make six pictures for six families!" She mixes up her words as she rushed outside and continued to talk with mostly herself and our youngest daughter while she dragged her out to the garden.

I make sure she's completely gone before throwing one of the pillows off the couch at Xander's head.

"What did I do?!" He turns to me.

"What didn't you do? Hmm? I bet your already out here having sex! What are you? Nine? You need to calm your little self down man!" I try to keep my voice low so Ava doesn't hear me from the garden outside.

"One, how don't you know how old I am? And I'm turning ten next month," he says proudly.

"And two, I'm not little." He smirked.

I pull at the ends of my hair as I stare at him in shock.

Did my nine year old son really just joke about the size of his penis?

All the kids busted out laughing while I still had to try and figure out what I'm God's name was going on.

"Dad, I never had sex. I'm just kidding." He shrugged.

"Then how did you know what a condom was?" I ask him.

He rolled his eyes.

"My teacher," he chuckled.

"They teach you that in fourth grade?!" I ask him, shocked.

They all nodded.

"So.. I'm leaving." Jr says and they all follow him up the stairs, leaving me alone.

I put my head in my hands.

"What are they teaching these kids?"

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Jazzy's P.O.V

"I don't think I'll be able to make it to your game tonight, my mom really wanted to have a family game night and of course my dad is willing to drop everything and do whatever she wants, plus she was really excited about it." I smiled lightly at the memory of my mom's overly excited reaction of being told we can have a fun night as a family.

Gavin sighs.

"Come on babe, it's our first pre-district game. You're really gonna leave me hanging?" He looks down at me.

I frown that he didn't seem to understand what I was saying.

"Gavin. I already told my mom and dad I'll be there tonight, I've already bailed on them for you so many other times... besides, you should've seen my mom's face this morning. She was so happy." I smiled brightly.

"She's autistic Jazmyn, you put her outside with a stick and a bowl of water and she'll have the time of her life." He snorts at his own joke but I frown and stop walking.

He stops as well and looks back at me.

"What?" He asks as I glare at him.

"What did you just say about my mother?" I squint at him.

He rolled his eyes but took a couple of steps closer to me.

"Look, I shouldn't have said that. I'm sorry, alright? It was just a joke so calm down. I have to go get ready, I'll see you at my game." He pecked my lips and left, leaving me completely dumbfounded and speechless....

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"Why n-no stay? Why Jazzy no stay?" I hear my mom's voice as she asks my dad worriedly, her arms filled with all different kinds of board games and puzzles.

He takes them from her arms so that her face was visible, and sets them down on the coffee table beside them.

I put on my jacket.

Xander, Jr, and Camilla, and Melissa were all sitting in the living room, watching me and mom with dad.

Being nosey.

"She says she had to go to the library with her friends to study, she'll be back later sweetheart."

I may have told a little lie. Just a little one though.

If my dad would have known I was going to Gavin's football game, I would never hear the end of it.

He really doesn't like Gavin.

I've always wondered why though.

I shake it off as I skip on my converse and go to grab my keys off the coffee table.

They both look at me.

I sigh as I look into my moms eyes that filled with sadness and disappointment that I couldn't stay for the family game night she's been wanting for so long.

"I'll be back mom," I whisper as I grab my keys.

"I promise."

And with that, I place a kiss to her cheek, give a quick nod to my dad, and exit the house to make my way to my boyfriends game.

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Smh.