Buffy's POV
Cara and Andreas are already sitting at the table and eating their leftover pasta for lunch when Brayden enters the kitchen with a pamphlet open and his eyes scanning it across. He passes by me and Marty at the island and stops to ask us a question.
"Mom, Dad, have you gotten the shingles vaccine yet?"
"Brayden, how old do you think we are?" I respond.
From the table, Andreas asks his brother, "What are you reading?"
Brayden goes over to sit down in his chair replying, "I got this pamphlet on vaccinations from my school's health and wellness fair last week, and I don't remember getting as many needles as it says here I should've."
Marty shadows me as I go over to check the list of vaccines on the blue and white paper. I recognize every one of those and can recall bringing Brayden in. Actually, I think he signed himself up to get a few of them when he was little.
"No, you were vaccinated for all those," I say.
"If you weren't, you'd probably be with Wyatt's rabbit," Andreas comments.
Marty turns toward the smirking teenager, saying, "Shouldn't you get going? I thought you were meeting up with Oceana at 12:00."
"I am," Andreas responds.
"It's 12:13," I tell him.
"Shit." Andreas drops his fork and blasts out of the kitchen.
"No swearing!" I call out.
"Sorry!"
He flings open the door and leaves, his shoes only half on his feet. Brayden remains focused on his pamphlet, not bothered in the slightest by his brother's departure.
"Are you sure I'm not missing a vaccination?" he checks again.
"Like Andreas said," Marty replies, "you're not dead yet, so that's hopeful."
"What's a vaccination?" Cara chimes in.
"They're needles you get to protect you from getting certain illnesses," I explain.
"Did I get them?" she asks.
"Yes, of course."
"Let's check," Brayden says, and then he begins listing each vaccination. "Tetanus."
Marty and I both nod.
"Diphtheria."
Nod.
"Whooping cough."
Nod.
"Polio."
Nod.
"Hepatitis A."
... I look at Marty, but he just looks back. I don't specifically remember Cara getting that one.
"And we found the one," Brayden concludes.
I can't believe we forgot a vaccination for her. I guess by the third kid, everything just becomes so automatic that you forget the simple things like vaccinations and night lights and the fact that they shouldn't watch horror movies yet.
"Well, Cara," I say, "guess what we're doing today."
"I don't want to get a needle!" Cara shouts, getting worked up instantaneously.
"Would you rather get hepatitis A?" Brayden counters.
"No, you don't have a choice," I cut in. "We're going."
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The Good Hair Family Sitcom
Fanfiction{4 seasons and complete} Tyrus, Ambi, Muffy, and Wonah are adults now, but growing up and having families brings new kinds of challenges. Through the complications of them and their kids, their life-long friendship is the one thing they can always r...
