"What? Have you brought him to the vet at all?" Ethan asked very anxious, "I haven't been able to. I don't want the kids there just in case we get bad news. I don't want them to see me cry and be worried."
Ethan pulled me into a hug as I started to quietly cry into him.
"I'll call colby tomorrow to see if he wants mae and maybe Joey and kelly would like to take care of Asher." Ethan rubs my back trying to help me calm down. I whisper a thank you to him and cuddle closer trying to stop crying.
We both fell asleep cuddling in eachothers arms that night.
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"Mommy? Daddy? Wake upppp!" Mae whisper yells at ethan and I.
I slowly sit up grabbing her for a hug and start to get out of bed before ethan stopped me, "no no no, let me take care of the kids, you can sleep in!" He says holding onto my wrist, "Ethan it's fine I do this everyday." I smile at him but that didn't make him budge.
"You've got a long day babe, let me do this." I finally give in and hand him mae. "Don't forget to change Asher." I give him a kiss on the cheek before getting back into bed.
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After finally convincing (y/n) to sleep in and getting the kids some food I called Colby to see if he wanted to take Mae for the day.
"Hello?" Colby says into the phone, "hey colby! It's Ethan." I reply to colby. "Oh! Hey man! What's going on?" Colby asks me, "so something came up today and I was wondering if you could maybe take care of Mae for a few hours, or if you want a day with her that's cool too." I ask colby.
"Hell yeah I'll take Mae! Is everything okay? Is Asher and (y/n) okay?" He sounded worried, "theyre okay! We're going to see if someone else wanted to take care of Asher since Mae loves you. But something came up with barley. He needs to go to the V-E-T" I spell not wanting the kids to hear the word vet.
"Okay well let me know if he's okay, and let (y/n) know that I'm here for her whenever!" Colby smiles through the phone, "alright I will. Thank you colby so much!" I say. Colby and I say our goodbyes so I go ahead and call Jfred.
Both Jfred and kelly had nothing to do today so they were super excited to see Asher.
"Alright!" I say and look at the kids who were playing on the floor. "Whos ready to get ready for the day?" I ask hoping for some excitement. "Mommy usually gets me ready for the day." Mae says not taking her eyes off her toys, "well why can't daddy help you get ready?" I ask her kneeling down next to her. "Cause i like it when mommy helps me."
I grab Asher and stand up, "Maybe mommy will be awake but if she's not then I have to help you get ready, okay?" Mae just nods her head, even though we both know she's going to throw a fit if (y/n) isn't going to help her get ready for today.
We all go upstairs and I check on (y/n), she was still asleep. So we head into ashers room first.
I turn to Mae, "mommy isnt awake yet. So we will get Asher ready and then see if she's awake okay?" Mae still just nods her head.
I changed Asher and got him dressed. Mae was still as crabby.
"Okay Mae lets go get ready." I say looking at her. "No." Mae looks away from me. "Mae we have to get ready. I need to help you, okay princess?" And then it happened. She started screaming and crying.
"Mae come on... don't wake mommy up!" I go to grab her and she starts to kick and yell. I start to freak out. I wanted to let (y/n) sleep in for once.
"Mae stop." I say sternly. But she starts getting more angry.
"Mae I will take you to marks and I know you don't want that to happen!" I say sternly again but it didn't work. The mark thing ALWAYS works... I thought.
"Babe? What's going on?" I look up and there stands (y/n). I put my face into my hands as a sign of giving up. I look back up at her and explain that Mae wouldn't let me help her get ready cause that was your job.
"Did you try the mark thing?" She asks me, "of course I did!"
She picks Mae up and sets her on her feet. "Mae. You do not treat daddy like this. That makes daddy sad. He won't want to sleep over anymore if you keep doing that." She looks Mae straight in the eyes. "Now what do you say to daddy?"
Mae walks over to me and says sorry and gave me a hug, "now can I get you ready so mommy can get ready?" I ask Mae and she finally agrees. Damn girls are so stubborn.
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After dropping off the two kids (y/n) and I headed to the vet with barley.
I looked over to (y/n), I could see how scared and nervous she was. I lay my hand on her leg giving her a little reinsurance. "Babe, it's going to be okay. Barley is probably just getting old." I say looking at her then back at the road.
"He's not getting old, you got him for me when we first started dating. He was a baby.."
I pull into the vet, (y/n) got even more nervous, I lean over and kiss her cheek, "I promise. It'll be okay." She smiles a little bit before opening her door and opening the back door to put barleys leash on.
We walk into the vet and check in. Before we know it we're in a room talking to a veterinarian. We explain to them about how barley has been acting and they ask about doing tests. We agree and go out into the waiting room.
After maybe 20 minutes they walk out and give us barley. "We're going to go run the tests, it shouldn't be long." He smiles at us and walks back.
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The vet walks out with a paper about 10 minutes after. He walks over to us, not smiling. I look over to (y/n), I could tell she knew something was wrong. I can tells she's stressed out. I put my arm around her pulling her close to me.
"I'm really sorry." He starts off by saying. "Barley seems to have Lyme disease. It doesn't seem like he just got it though. Seems like he had it since he was really born. Most likely from where you got him. They didn't take the best care of him. I don't have an answer for how long he will live but it won't be long. There's no point in treatment at this point." He hands me the paper. (Y/n) was looking at barley with tears running down her face. "Thank you. For helping." I say standing up and shaking his hand. "I'm really sorry. I wish I could help. Spend a lot of time with barley." He says and walks away.
I help (y/n) up and we walk out to the car. I open the door for barley and then (y/n).
The moment she gets into the car she breaks down crying. "How didn't they see this before!?" She cries out. "I don't understand either." I say hugging her.
"How am I supposed to tell the kids."
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