Fourth of July

Chapter 19

We got to my parent's house and I held Gee's hand.

"Remember the rules?" I asked.

"No screaming, no not thinking before I speaks, no throwing food, no touching things that could break," he said.

"Good boy," I said, kissing his cheek.

We went inside and I smiled when I saw my parents. I sat Gee on the ground to play with his toys while I sat on the couch.

"So, I kind of needed a little favor," I asked. "Gee isn't going to be finding a family, he's going to be living with me permanently. And I thought that maybe I could get a bigger house. Then maybe he can even have his own bedroom. And I do have some money and stuff but I was wondering if maybe you could help me out a bit on money. Not a lot, we finished our CD and we're starting to make sales online now."

"You finished our CD and you didn't tell us?" My mom gasped. "Frank, go on the computer and order ten. We need one for your aunt, one for your grandma, two for each of your uncles and one for the kid down the street who likes music because he cuts our lawn."

"There's still five left," I said.

"Five for us so if one breaks we have four as a backup," she said.

"Can we get back to the house thing?" I asked.

"What's the name of your album?" My dad asked.

"Stomachaches," I said. "House?"

"Sweetheart, of course we'll help you pay for the house," my mom said with a small chuckle. "We were always going to help you with your first house. You have the little place you live in now but that's just a little starter home. You were always going to have to move into a new house when you started a family."

"S-so you don't mind?" I asked nervously.

"No, of course not," she said. "We were planning on paying for most if not all of it as a wedding gift when you got married but we might as well do it now, we don't mind."

"Oh thank you so much," I said.

"My friend's daughter is a real estate agent, I'll call her," My mom said, walking out of the room.

Gee tugged on my pants and I smiled down at him.

"Sippy," he said.

I reached into his bag and handed him his sippy cup. My mom came back and smiled.

"She said she can make an appointment with you for later on in the week," she said. "Here's her number, I already gave her yours."

She handed me her number and smiled.

"But I'm going with you to look at places," she said.

I nodded, smiling happily as I stuffed the note into my pocket.

"Thank you again," I said. "This was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be."

"We already had money put aside for it, Frankie," my dad said. "It's the tradition for the bride's parents to pay for the wedding so we thought since you're the groom we would be able to pay for the bride and groom's house. Or groom and groom, whatever you choose."

"Thank you, Dad," I said, giving him a hug.

"Oh but we can't stay, we're going to lunch with some friends," my mom said. "We'll see you soon."

I smiled, kissing her cheek before I took Gee's hand as we left.

"Well, that gives us some more time than I actually thought," I said, looking at my watch. "Let's go catch a movie."