That Same Day
Juliet was sitting on the couch watching TV when Shawn walked into the living room and plopped himself right next to her.
As soon as Shawn sat down the doorbell rang.
Shawn got up and opened the door and saw Juliet's mom and her brother.
"Jules we have company." Shawn said.
"Who is it?" Juliet asked.
"Your mom and Bailey."
Juliet got up quickly and ran and hugged her mom.
"Hey mom." Juliet whispered.
"Hey Julie. How are you?" Maryanne asked.
"I'm ok. Today is Aaron's first day at school. It's hard on me."
"It was hard on me seeing my little girl on her first day of Kindergarten."
"Great. Shawn's gonna break down when Maggie's first day comes."
"Damn right about that." Shawn butted in.
Juliet looked at Shawn and smiled.
Maryanne let go of Juliet and went and hugged Shawn.
"How are you doing Shawn?" Maryanne asked.
"I'm ok. I haven't been without Aaron for more than 5 hours at a time. Except when they spent the night at Karen's." Shawn said.
Maggie's cry came over the monitor.
Juliet looked at Shawn and Shawn nodded.
"Excuse me." Shawn said.
Shawn turned around and went into Maggie's room and saw her crying holding her arms up.
"Hey Maggie. What's wrong pretty girl?" Shawn asked.
As soon as Maggie saw Shawn, she immediately started to calm down.
Shawn picked Maggie up and brought her in the living room to let Maryanne and Bailey play with her.
Juliet went into the kitchen and fixed her a bottle.
Shawn went over to her and said, "I didn't know they were coming today."
"I didn't either. They must've gotten an earlier ticket. I thought the one you sent was for this weekend." Juliet added.
"It was."
Juliet shrugged and got Maggie's bottle out of the microwave.
Shawn and Juliet went back into the living room and sat down and visited with Juliet's mom and brother.
"Do you guys want to go to lunch?" Maryanne asked.
"It's 12:30, we don't have to pick Aaron up until 2:30, so yeah I guess so." Shawn said.
"Perfect. Bailey knows a place where we can go."
"Bailey, you did research?" Juliet joked.
"Haha. Very funny Juliet." Bailey shot back.
Juliet smiled.
Shawn told the boys to get their shoes on and wait by the car.
Shawn got his shoes on and dressed Maggie and then went out into the car and put her in her seat and shut her door and got in with Juliet.
"Are we following your mom and Bailey?" Shawn asked.
"Yes." Juliet replied.
Shawn followed Maryanne and Bailey to the restaruant.
10 minutes later Shawn pulled into the Steak 'N Shake parking lot.
"Jules your brother has amazing taste." Shawn complimented.
"I know. I'm shocked." Juliet said.
They parked and Shawn got out and grabbed Maggie's seat from the back and grabbed the diaper bag and put it on his shoulder and walked to the front of the car and waited.
Juliet looked up and saw Shawn with the diaper bag on his shoulder.
Shawn caught Juliet's eye and he smiled the biggest smile that she has ever seen.
"Like what you see?" Shawn asked.
Juliet walked up to him and whispered, "Oh yeah. I like it very much."
Shawn kissed Juliet and walked into the restaurant.
An hour and a half later they all went back to the house and Shawn left the boys and Maggie with Juliet's mom while they went and picked up Aaron.
"Juliet! Let's go. It's 2:10." Shawn yelled.
"Hold on. I'm trying to get your child down." Juliet said.
"Give her to me."
Juliet handed Maggie to Shawn.
"Hello Maggie. Can you please behave and take your nap? I know we haven't had kangaroo time today, but I promise we will have it tonight." Shawn whispered.
Maggie looked up at Shawn and smiled.
"Hey pretty girl. I love you. Go see Uncle Bailey." Shawn said.
Shawn put Maggie in Bailey's arms and took Juliet's hand and left to go get Aaron.
At 2:25, Shawn pulled into the school parking lot and went inside and waited by Mrs. Scott's room door until school let out.
"These are going to be the longest 5 minutes of my life." Juliet said.
"I know. I want to hear how his day went." Shawn said.
5 minutes later, the bell rang.
Mrs. Scott opened the door and saw Shawn and Juliet.
"Aaron! Your mom and dad are here." Mrs. Scott said.
Aaron came running and stopped when he saw Juliet.
"Mommy!" Aaron said.
Juliet bent down and caught Aaron and said, "I missed you baby. How was your day?"
"I missed you mommy."
Juliet looked at Shawn and saw him talking to Aaron's teacher.
"How did he do?" Shawn asked.
"He did amazing. He made a friend today. He hung out with that friend at recess and at lunch." Mrs. Scott explained.
"Who is this friend of his?"
"That would be Zach. The red-head over there."
"Was Aaron nice?"
"Easily the sweetest person I have ever met."
"Good. Makes me fell at ease when I hear that he behaved. I didn't behave when I was his age. I'm glad that they act like my wife. I don't know who Maggie is going to act like yet."
Mrs. Scott laughed.
"Thank you for updating me." Shawn said.
"No problem. He was a good boy and deserves a treat on the way home." Mrs. Scott said.
"Duly noted."
Shawn smiled and turned around and saw Aaron running toward him.
Shawn sat down on the ground and let Aaron crash into his chest.
"How is my boy doing?" Shawn asked.
"I missed you daddy." Aaron said.
Aaron hugged Shawn tight.
"Aaron I can't breathe."
Aaron let go and said, "Daddy I made a new friend."
"I heard. Where is he?" Shawn asked.
Aaron took his hand and walked him toward Zach and his parents.
"Hey Zach!" Aaron said.
"Hey Aaron." Zach said.
Shawn and Juliet went up to his parents and said, "I'm Shawn, Aaron's dad, and this is my wife Juliet."
"Hi my name is Tony and this is my wife Jennifer." Tony said.
"What's your last name?"
"Williams."
"Ours is Spencer. It was great meeting you. Hopefully we can get the boys to hangout sometime."
"I agree. Nice meeting you too."
"Aaron, son, let's go." Juliet said.
"Bye Zach!" Aaron said.
Zach waved bye.
Shawn picked up Aaron and walked out to the car.
"So Aaron, what do you want for a snack?" Juliet asked.
"Pineapple." Aaron said.
Juliet looked back at Shawn and shook her head.
"No doubt whose kid you are." Juliet joked.
"Heard that!" Shawn said.
"I meant to say it like that."
"Ok. Let's go home."
"Aaron. Mommy's mom and Uncle Bailey are at our house." Shawn said.
"Really?" Aaron said.
"Yeah. They can't wait to see you."
"Yay!"
They all got in the car and Shawn drove them home.
15 minutes later, Shawn pulled into his spot in the garage and parked and let Juliet and Aaron out.
Aaron ran to the door and opened it.
Juliet came after Aaron and saw Karen, Henry, Maddie, and Carlton sitting on the couch.
"Hey guys." Juliet said.
Shawn walked inside and saw his family.
"Hey y'all. Why are you guys here?" Shawn asked.
"We wanted to hear how Aaron's first day of school went." Maddie said.
Carlton was holding Maggie and looked up and said, "You are going to have a hard time letting this one go Shawn."
"Thanks Lassie."
Carlton smiled.
Maggie started to wake up and saw her Uncle Carlton holding her.
Carlton looked down and said, "You look just like your mom, has anyone told you that?"
Maggie laughed.
Shawn went over to him and grabbed his daughter from him.
"Maggie mommy and daddy are home." Shawn whispered.
Maggie grabbed on to Shawn's necklace.
"I know you like my necklace." Shawn laughed.
Shawn sat down and took it off and put it on Maggie.
"Jules look." Shawn got Juliet's attention.
"What?" Juliet asked.
"She's wearing my necklace."
"Is she grabbing and hanging on to it while you are wearing it?"
"Yeah."
"Bailey had the same problem."
Bailey looked up and said, "How did you know that?"
"I'm 6 years older than you." Juliet said.
"It's weird how you remember that stuff."
"Shawn remembers a lot of things. That's probably why we work so well together."
"And or he is so handsome you just can't keep your hands off of him." Shawn added.
"Shawn!" Juliet said.
Shawn pulled Juliet down on the couch next to him and said, "Yes dear?"
"You're so handsome that I can't keep my hands off of you and we work well together."
"That's exactly what I wanted to hear."
Juliet smiled and leaned into Shawn.
"So Goose, how was his first day?" Maddie asked.
"He loved it. He made a new friend today." Shawn said.
"What's the name?"
"Zach Williams."
"You think he will be Aaron's best friend?" Henry asked.
"Good chance."
"I'm glad."
"I just can't wait until he starts developing crushes."
"Shawn, he has one." Juliet said.
"I mean like real ones like late middle school, early high school."
"Oh ok."
"Maggie is not dating until she is 50."
"That's not happening."
"Well I'm the dad and I say it is."
"We will discuss this later."
Shawn nodded.
The rest of the afternoon they enjoyed each other's company and talked about Aaron and his first day of school.
Around 5:30 that evening, everyone left. That left Maryanne and Bailey left at the house including Shawn and Juliet and the kids.
Shawn was fixing dinner.
Juliet came into the kitchen and sat on the counter top and said, "What's up with Maggie not dating until she's 50?"
"She's my baby girl. My ONLY girl." Shawn said.
"So what does that matter?"
"I don't want her to grow up too fast. I can wait a good 20-30 years until I have to walk her down that aisle and give her away."
"That's what this is about."
"Yeah. I don't want to lose my baby girl Jules."
"I know you don't. When you do that, I am going to be one proud momma seeing the love of her life walking down the aisle with the one that we created together."
"What about the boys?"
"I'm always going to be proud of them. Maggie is our girl."
"See I told you I was right."
"Yeah you did."
"Out of the boys, who do you think will get married first?"
"My bet is Cole."
"Why Cole?"
"He is the sweetest thing in the world. Next would be Aaron, just because he is like you, stubborn, and last would be Brice."
"I can see where you are coming from on that point."
"What age did we get married?"
"Hmmm…23."
"So Maggie is going to date when she is 23."
"That's a perfect age. Now go get everyone, dinner is ready."
"Are you going to feed Maggie?"
"That was a silly question Jules. Of course I'm going to feed her."
Juliet laughed.
Juliet went up to her husband and said, "I love you so much. Thank you for this famjly that you've given us."
"I love you so much too baby. You helped with the family part." Shawn said.
Juliet got on her tiptoes and kissed Shawn.
Shawn wrapped his arms around Juilet's waist and pulled her closer.
Juliet pulled away and then gave Shawn one more kiss on the lips and then kissed his nose.
Shawn smiled and watched Juliet go get the family.
Shawn fixed plates and drinks and then fixed Maggie a bottle and got her out of her bouncy seat and fed her.
When Maggie was done eating, she turned her head away and Shawn went and changed her and put her in her pajamas and rocked her to sleep.
Maggie was down by 6:30 that evening.
Once Maggie was down, Shawn grabbed the monitor and turned it on and grabbed the other one and took it with him and went and ate with his family.
How are you guys doing? I know I've been gone a while. I finished this semester with a 3.5 GPA. Which is so much better than last year. Hope you enjoy.