Soft Boy

Together

 
           3 months later
   I always miss her if we're not together. Five months is a short amount of time but enough to make you crave someone. Talking on the phone everyday starts to be not enough and before you know it you're spending overnights with them and start leaving some of your clothes there.
   One night we were watching TV in bed and cuddling. It was our nightly routine. Watch some shows and go to bed early, work in the morning.
   "God I'm so ready to move out," I say.
   "I didn't know you were thinking about it," Tye said.
   "Oh yeah, I found a great place like 15 minutes from here, looks amazing, and I've saved enough money for a crib," I say excitedly.
   "Don't," Tye says seriously.
   "Why not?" I ask.
   "Move in with me," she says.
   "Okay," I say with a chuckle. She says that a lot. We joke about it. We plan out where my stuff would go and what my little room would be like.
   "No seriously," she says pausing the show. I sit up and look at her.
   "Okay," I say again. She smiles softly.
   "You will?" she asks. I rub her hand with my thumb.
   "I'd be my honor," I say dorking up the moment.
   When I tell my mom she cries. Not that she doesn't love Tye, she does, but she'll miss me.
   "There's no one I'd rather have my baby be with," she hugs me tight.
   Moving is a really long process.
   "Okay pacis, sippys, and bottles in this box, onesies and training pants in this one, stuffies in these two, diapers in these three, toys in this one," Aaron says checking off his list.
   Since I told him he's taken charge of coordinating everything. Him and Aiden have been there 100%. They've let us loan their truck which was amazing and also helped us set up a lot of stuff. My baby stuff was the last thing we needed to move.
   "Cool let's take it over," I say. we all grab boxes and bring them to the truck. I go for the last box and see my mom sitting in my room. All that's left is a empty dresser with a TV on it and a bare bed.
   "One last box," I say breaking the silence.
   "Come visit often," Mom says wiping her eyes.
    "I promise," I say giving her a hug.
   I take the box to the car and wave my mom off. I'm gonna miss her so much.
   When we got home we bring the stuff to my room. We've been working on the room for awhile now. We spent many nights up planning the perfect nursery until we both agreed. We spent a lot of time in home improvement stores and babies R us. A lot of people asked Tye's due date. I couldn't do all this planning without her, she's such a good interior designer. We decided on a safari theme. The walls are green and there's a tree sticker with a monkey hanging out of it. There's two giraffes in the room on both sides of my crib and the floor is wood. My playmatt sits in the middle of the floor. Its a round cartoon zebra head. My toy box, changing table, and dresser and closet are on the other side of the room. On the same side sits a rocking chair and the train Carter and I made.

    We unpack the baby stuff and finally we're done, completely moved in.
   "We did it!" Tye says excitedly.
   "Not quite babe, we still have that," Aaron says pointing to the disassembled crib.
    "Oh, well lets hop on it!"
   We work for an hour and a half. None of us are too good with our hands. When its finally assembled, I step back and look. I put a white sheet on it with monkeys, giraffes, zebras, and lions. It was so cute. I throw all my stuffies inside. I jump and clap three times.
    "Its done!" I yell. All four of us hug.

    "I love you guys," Tye says. We decide to celebrate with music and a meal.
    Since I'm hispanic and she's Hmong, the meals vary, but tonight we decide on a frozen pizza with added cheese and toppings. We were all too tired to cook so a greasy pizza sounded amazing.
    We all laugh and eat and dance. It feels like our own little house party. By the time Aaron and Aiden leave me and Tye are exhausted. We go to sleep that night in our room, happy, in love, and together.