Strawberry Boy // Tysh // ddlb ~ Discontinued ~

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It's 5 o'clock in the evening. I am laying down and watching some Nick show. It's more for Josh than me, when I wake him up. Plus, it's Spongebob, so I have to watch it. I start to rub Josh's side slowly. He stirs before rolling over towards me.

"Hey, Josh, time to get up and get ready for dinner, babe." I whisper. He clings onto me, whimpering. I shift him onto my lap, placing my hands on his hips.

"What's wrong, bubble?" I ask, kissing his forehead, knowing the nap converted him to his little self. My little boy gives me a tiny smile and giggles. I kiss his nose, giving me more giggles and an even bigger smile from my little ray of sunshine.

Josh breaks out of my soft hold, stumbling over to a white duffel bag on the floor. He unzips it and digs through to find something. He pulls out a blue teddy bear and hugging it to his chest. Josh comes back to the bed and sits in front of me, holding the blue bear out towards me.

"Who's that, baby? What's her name?" I ask, completely faking that I forgot the bear's name, which is Izza, if you forgot.

"Nnmm." He hums, shaking his head.

I gasp in fake shock. Placing my hand on my chest.

"You're not going to tell me her name?! Why not?"

He giggles and shakes his head again, his yellow curls swinging back and forth. He leans forward and topples on top of me, hiding his face in my lap.

"Hmm, well, should I guess?" Josh nods, nuzzling into me more and more.

I know we're wasting valuable time to get ready for dinner, but this is just so cute.

"Is her name Bizza?"

He shakes his head, giggling loudly.

"Is her name... Lizza?"

He shakes his head again, still giggling.

I "guess" a few more times before I decide to end the little game.

"Oh yeah! Her name's Izza!"

He nods and sits up, clutching the bear close to his chest. He then rolls over and off of the bed. Josh points to the digital clock on the nightstand.

5:13

"Dinner?" Josh asks, sticking his thumb in his mouth. I get up and go to the duffel bag where the bear was, pulling out the puppy pacifier. I give it to him and he smiles again, placing it in his mouth.

"Yep. We should get ready, pumpkin, want me to help you get dressed?"

Most of the time it gets chilly in Maine at night, so I just want Josh have a sweatshirt on with pants, not shorts.

I grab our sweatshirts from one of the many bags we have, putting mine on first.

"Arms up, sweet pea."

Josh was sitting on the bed, he put his arms up above his head. I easily slid the dark grey sweatshirt on him and switched out his shorts for sweatpants. I shut off the TV and took Josh's hand in mine. Right when I twisted the doorknob Josh let's go of my hand and rushes to the bed. He comes back with the blue bear in his hands.

"Dada? Bin' Izza?" He asks. I nod and he takes my hand back in his.

———— I'm sick, but I'm at work cuz I need cash! Also time skip ————

We arrive at the small cabin right past the pool. I can feel Josh squeeze my hand, probably doing the same to Izza. I drag him along, towards the group of people.

"Tyler!" Everyone seems to say in unison. I slowly get pulled away from Josh and into the group of people, until that is, someone mentions Josh.

"Hey, who's this, Tyler?" Mariah asks in her somewhat thick Portuguese and New York accent.