Jerrie's Adoption Story

Chapter 69

Perrie's POV

It's about mid afternoon and Zoey and I are just now getting ready for the day, we don't have any plans but I'm sure we'll find something to do, maybe go for a swim?

"Zoey, baby come here for a second" I hollered our to her, she comes around the corner, "want to just go swimming for the day? Maybe invite some people over have a little cookout type of thing?" I ask her. She nodded her head excitedly, "I'm going to invite my friends!" She met some kids at the park the other day and their parents and I swapped numbers for a play date. "That sounds lovely" I said, "go fetch your swimsuit" she took off in the other direction and once again I didn't bother telling her to walk because it would've been no use.

   I take out my phone and call Alli, I'll be surrounded by people so it'll be fine, Jade can't be mad because nothing happened. I text her asking if she'd like to come over and then I do the same with Jesy who's returned from holiday and they've both agreed and Jess is bring Chris so it should be fun. Then last but not least I call the parents of three different kids asking if they'd like to have a play date, and lucky me, they all agreed, that's Hope this day goes well.

   We set a time for us all to meet at the house so I go to get Zoey and tell her you have to go to the store quickly and pick up some snacks for the kids and some food for Chris to cook on the grill.

   We go to the store and I'm swarmed in a crowd of people wanting photos and I accept quickly getting as many as I could before I went to finish my shopping trip. I make sure Zoey stays close to me because there's a lot of people here today and I don't want anything happening, which I'm glad to say she has no problem with and just blindly follows me because I promised her a cookie.

   When I arrive back at the house I see Jess has already made it, I step into the house and see her on the sofa waiting, "hope you don't mind, made myself at home" she jokes, "auntie Jess!" Zoey runs in her direction and jumps on her. "So we have three kids coming over, three moms, two dads, and also my friend Alli" I told her sitting the stuff down. "Alli? Jade was telling me about her I do believe" she says skeptically. I roll my eyes, "Jess it's nothing like that, she's just a friend" she looks at me with a raised eyebrow, "better be"

   A knock on the door brings us out of our awkward silence, "Chris? Hey come in" I greeted the man, "Hey Perrie" he replies stepping in. Him and I have only met once but he's very nice and I definitely give him the best friend approval to date my oldest sister, I'm sure the other girls agree as well. "So what'd you get for me to cook, it's been a awhile but I'm not that rusty" she jokes and rubs his hands together. "I don't know I kinda just grabbed things because I've never actually done this before" I tell him truthfully. He just laughs and I lead him into the living room where Jess and Zoey are, "hey babe, took you long enough" Jess says once she sees him. "Yes yes I know" he sits beside her and they start talking so I turn to Zoey who's watching the television, "let's go change yeah?" She quickly follows me and gets into her swimsuit and she waits patiently for the others to get here.

   First person to join us was Milly, and her mom Joanne, lovely people, "wow your house is huge" milly commented, Zoey giggles and took her hand and they went into Zoey's little playroom. "I love your house" Joanne says in disbelief looking at me, "thank you, we just moved in" I said. I then lead her into the kitchen where Jess and Chris both were, "hi I'm Jesy, Perrie's friend" Jess holds out her hand and Joanne shakes it, "I'm Joanne, Milly's mother. Nice to meet you" "and I'm Chris, her boyfriend" he points to Jess smiling, "hi Chris" the four of us got along well which was nice.

   Jess and Joanne took the girls out to the pool house, while Chris prepared the food and I waited for our other visitors. Soon enough Alli joins and she keeps me company in the kitchen while I wait. Not long after the two other groups joined us and I greeted them happily and then we all went outside to join everyone. Once we got to the pool house I clicked the fancy button that allowed the roof to open and the sun to shine onto the pool, "woah" everyone started in awe and Zoey and I laughed at that.

   The adults all sat outside the pool keeping an eye on the kids, "so what do you do for a living?" Mark asked, "not to be rude or anything, just wondering because this place is massive and just amazing" he says looking around. I glance at Jess who tries not to laugh, "I'm just good with finances I guess" I joked. They all looked at me with wide eyes, "we definitely need to take some notes" said Sara. Beside me I can hear Alli giggling, because obviously she knew who I was. I bumped my shoulder with hers and I heard Jess clear her throat, she's watching us like a hawk.

   "Mommy!" I hear Zoey scream, "yes baby" I walk over to the edge and lean down, "Can we go past the rope?" She asked me pointing to the deep end, "no bug I'm sorry you're too little" I ruffled her hair and she frowned before she turned to play with her friends again. When I walk back over Joanne says "she listens so well" I burst out laugh and soon Jess did too, they looked at us odd, "don't let that fool you, she can be a demon child at time" I say and Jess agree and they all start laughing with us.

   I hear my phone vibrate on the table next to me and Alli takes it before I could, "ohhh Jade's calling" she teases, "hey give it to me" I laughed and tried to reach out for it. "She wants to FaceTime" she says in the same teasing tone I tackle her onto the lawn chair in attempt to get my phone but I'm doing so her finger slid to answer the phone and the first thing jade saw was me on top of Alli laughing.

   Shit.