Here comes Teddy

September again (Seventy-four)

Teddy PoV

5 mouths later...

It was September again, which meant that the kids were a whole school year older than they were before, and I always felt old as fuck when school started up again after the summer holiday, (as you are all very well aware of by now), though this time Jack and I felt old as fuck together, because parenting with another person has its pros sometimes, even if it meant we acknowledged the passage of time.

A lot had happened to us in a year, Jack and I had gotten together, we moved in together, and the five of us became a little family, which I didn't think was even fucking possible, but hey presto.

Jack and I got home after the school run, and the flat was strangely quiet, since Georgie was still in bed, the lazy shit, I also felt like shit about our little family getting that little bit older.

"You feeling ok there Handsome?"
"Yeah Babe, it's just that time of the year again, you know, and it never gets any bloody easier, if anything it gets fucking harder every year without fail"
"(Snorts), only you would swear like that when talking about the kids getting older"
"What do you expect from me Babe?, I'm a fucking Addams"
"Yeah, to be fair you're right about that, so what are we doing for our anniversary tomorrow?"
"I don't mind, you choose Green eyes"
"I don't know what we should do for it, that's why I asked you Handsome"
"(Snorts), well I don't care as long as I'm with you"
"You know that doesn't help, right?"
"What about if I said surprise me?"
"(Snorts), I thought that you didn't do surprises Teddy?"
"It's not that I don't do surprises, I've just never had a good surprise"
"That just makes me feel bad now"
"No, don't feel bad Babe, you didn't know"

We sat on the couch for a little while, because we needed time to cope with the fact that our kids were a whole school year older.

"I love you Handsome, you know that, right?"
"I love you too Babe, so I hope that it counts for something"
"(Snorts), stop making me laugh you fucker"
"But why would I do that?, I love your laugh and the left dimple that shows up when you do laugh"
"My laugh is atrocious"
"You obviously haven't heard my mother's laugh"
"Why, what does it sound like?"
"Like a cross between a banshee and a sheep with a little bit of a pig"
"Holy shit, wait that's oddly specific Teddy"
"Well, when you look for things to dislike after being sent to foster care, you sometimes can find the most oddly specific things ever that don't end up on the dislike list"
"Ok, why didn't it end up on the dislike list?"
"Well after all the shitty things she has done, an atrocious laugh suits the Bitch"

Georgie then woke up and walked into the living room, the blanket still wrapped around him like a fucking cocoon.

"Oh, I didn't know that the dead could rise Georgie"
"Yeah yeah yeah, well if I didn't rise from the dead then you would have no Georgie in your life and that thought made me feel sad Teddy"
"You're up early for you though Georgie"
"Yeah, so?"
"I was just wondering why that was?"
"Because I didn't really sleep that much last night Teddy"
"Ok now you sound just like a mini me there Georgie boy, and that doesn't sound like fun for anybody"
"Yeah well unlike you there Teddy, it was only last night that I couldn't seem to fall asleep"
"I feel so called out right now"
"Well maybe that's because you are being called out Handsome"
"If I wanted to be called out for my sleeping habits or lack there of then I'd phone Aunt Rebecca"

Georgie fucking started to piss himself laughing, because while our Aunt Rebecca was very close in age to us, she still manages to be very Mumsy towards us, which we all found hilarious.

We all then just had a cup of tea and chilled on the couch for the day, as Georgie wasn't back at college yet and both Jack and I weren't working that day.

"You know, this is actually quite peaceful"
"(Snorts), only you would say that Babe, but you're right, it is quite peaceful"
"Gee thanks"
"You're welcome Green eyes"
"Are you feeling less like an old man yet Teddy?"
"Oh fuck off Georgie"
"I love you too Daddyo"
"Sorry that your peacefulness got ruined"
"It didn't get ruined Handsome"
"It's quite peaceful at 3 O'clock in the morning"
"Handsome, no offence to you but I like my sleep too much to be up at that time"
"(Snorts), none taken"