The Trap

Chapter 71

I'm so sorry this is so late! I've just been busy, under the weather and working on other stories. So I decided to make it a little bit longer. Hope you don't mind! Enjoy!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The next few days were average for the family with some wedding planning mixed in. On Wednesday, Simon and Paula sat down and decided on who they were going to invite to their big day. They agreed on seventy guests; just family and very close family friends, nothing too fancy or too large. Then Paula called Beth and gave her the final count and they would need about thirty-five invitations. Beth decided to bump it up to thirty-six invites because she was planning on giving them a wedding album on their first anniversary so she for sure needed their announcement.

The next day, while the kids were in school, Simon, Paula met Beth at her house. She had already gone to Kinko's to print the invitations. Then the four adults; Simon, Paula, Mason and Beth sat down at the dining room table and got to work. The men stuffed the envelopes while the women addressed, stuck on the return labels and put on stamps. Both Paula and Beth are perfectionists so this task had to be perfect and they didn't have time for the men to screw it up. Beth was planning on mailing the invitations later on that day.

While his parents were busy, Josh played with Issac, but when Sydney heard who he was watching, she flew over to hang out with the little boy too. Josh loved the attention. With Josh being one of five, he had to share the attention, but not this time and he absolutely enjoyed it.

When Josh's parents were done with their huge wedding task, they followed the sound of his laughter to the Willis' backyard. Josh was very content with his babysitters and it showed. As Paula watched her son playing with Issac and Sydney, she felt like she just walked onto parents playing with their little one. She knew right then and there that one day she would attend their wedding and that they'd have a little one of theirs someday. These thoughts made her smile because she already considered herself a mother figure to both of the young adults. She didn't want to pull Josh away, but it was time to go pick up their other children from their schools.

"Come on Josh!"

He looked up and shook his head. His parents didn't have time for him to throw a fit, so Simon grabbed Josh from behind and carried him away. Josh didn't know what happened, but he didn't want to leave his new friends which made the little boy cry.

"Oh it's okay son."

"Do you think he's tired?"

"No I think we just ruined his fun."

"Oh, but we had to go."

"Yes I know love."

"I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to Joshua."

Simon pouted. "So you don't want to talk to me?"

She sighed and got into the car without another word. Then the threesome drove silently over to go pick up the kids from their schools. The happy couple split up to get the kids, it seemed to make the waiting period shorter. Simon and Josh left to go pick up Rochelle while Paula waited by the car for the other three. She didn't have to wait long before she saw her kids walking towards her, from both sides actually. It was a funny sight.

While Holly's family was greeting each other, she hopped up to her mother, trying to get her full, undivided attention.

"Mom when am I getting out of this cast?"

"Is it itching you?"

"Well sort of, but the crutches are hurting my armpits."

"I'm sorry you're in pain, sweetie. But tomorrow you're getting out of school early because you have a doctor's appointment."