Chapter 10: Frankito's Here Part 2

The next morning both Tre and Dani were woken by a six year old boy jumping up and down on their bed. "Daddy, Dani, wake up. It's morning and I'm hungry. You promised we would go to Uncle Billie's today Daddddyyyy." Frankie said in a rush as he continued jumping. He jumped up and down a few more times before jumping on Tre making him groan. Dani couldn't help but giggle.

Frankito didn't even notice that Dani had moved until she was already tickling him, making him laugh. She tickled him for a few more minutes before telling him if he went into his room and got dressed that they would go over to Billie's for breakfast instead of waiting until after.

Dani and Tre laid there for a few minutes just holding each other.
"I can't believe I'm moving in here, THIS is like a dream. I never thought I would be lucky enough to have you." Dani looked over at Tre only to realize he hadn't heard a word. "Tre…wake up, we've got to go over to Billie's." Dani shook Tre. She shook him a couple more times before she got an idea. She gently shook him once more to make sure then she pushed him off the bed.
Tre fell on the floor with a loud thud. As he fell he took all the blankets and sheets with him.
"Owww…Shit!" Tre grumbles trying to get out of the blankets, the whole time Dani is laughing not really paying attention. Tre had successfully got out of the blankets and tackled Dani knocking them both of the bed, Dani continued laughing. Frankie came running into the room after hearing all the loud noises, seeing what was going on Frankie ran and jumped on his dad.
"Daddy, I wanna play." Dani began laughing even harder than she was.
"Frankie, how bout you let us get ready and we'll head over to Uncle Billie's and you can play with Jake and Joseph. Frankie ran out of their room and disappeared.

Dani and Tre finally got around and got dressed. When they went downstairs they found Frankito standing by the door bouncing on his heels, already full of energy.
As they drove over to Billie's house they told Frankie that Dani would be moving in with Daddy.
"You're really going to live with Daddy?" Frankie asked cocking his head to the side.
"Yeah, is that alright with you?" Dani really wanted Frankito's approval. Frankito got a huge smile on his face and shook his head, "YES!" he practically screamed.
Both Dani and Tre laughed.

When they reached Billie's Frankito waited for Dani to unbuckle him and jumped out to the car and ran toward the door with Dani right on his heels. Both Dani and Frankie ran through the door laughing. They almost ran into Billie but took not notice. Billie smiled at seeing how well Dani seemed to be getting along with Frankito. 'Maybe they'll make it. If Frankito likes her, she'll most likely be staying around for awhile. Frankie never like any of Tre's other girlfriends. So who knows?' He thought. He looked at Tre as he walked through the door and tilted his head toward Dani who was now tickling Frankie to the point he began screaming for his Daddy and Uncle Billie through his laughs.

Frankie's screams brought Jakob and Joseph downstairs. Upon seeing Jakob, Frankie was done with Dani, wanting to play with Jake. Joseph rolled his eyes as the two younger boys ran up to Jake's room.

Mike showed up about an hour later, just in time for breakfast was to be served.
"Hey guys what's going on?" Mike could always tell when something was going good for Dani because she always had an extra bright smile. "Really what's going on?"

As everyone sat down at the table Frankito decided to speak up.
"Daddy asked Dani to move in with him and she said yes." Everyone looked at Frankito's smile then over to Dani and Tre who both shook their heads in the affirmative.

"Congrats, guys that's great." Billie and Adie said at the same time.
"What does Claudia think?" Mike was always trying to be the sensible one.
Especially since these two people were his friends and one of them was his cousin.
"Well Claudia doesn't know yet but she seems to like Dani." Tre replied shoving some eggs into his mouth.

"I talked to Claudia the other day, so I'm going to talk to her tonight when she calls to talk to Frankito. I'll tell her then." Dani said shrugging her shoulders.

They spent the rest of the morning at Billie's until around 11:00 when Dani whispered to Tre. "Hey why don't we take Frankito to the beach? I mean we can invite everyone and make a day of it."
"That's a good idea, let me tell the guys. We'll surprise the kids." Tre walked over to Billie to let him know what was going on.
Everyone agreed. Dani and Tre left Frankito at Billie's while they went and got all the beach stuff together.

It took about an hour to get everything together.

Awhile later Dani was splashing in the water with all the kids keeping them entertained, while the rest of the group talked about her, not that she knew of course.
"She's really good with kids, Tre. I think you should definitely keep her around. But I guess you already knew that since you asked her to move in with you." Adie said watching Dani pick up Jake and toss him into the water. Jake surfaced laughing and smiling brightly, Frankito was jumping up and down next to her, letting her know he wanted to be next.
"I've wanted to ask her for awhile but I wanted to also see how she would do with children. I mean I have seen her with your kids but it isn't the same as seeing her with my own. Yah know?" Adie raised her eyebrows as she shook her head saying she did. "Once I seen how well she was with Frankito, I just knew. I had to ask her."
Tre watched as Dani picked up Frankito and tossed him in the water. When he resurfaced he and Jake tried to dunk her in the water. Dani of course let them think they had succeeded.
Adie looked at Billie and smacked him on the arm to get his attention. She pointed at Tre. Billie smiled as Tre got out of his chair and ran, skipping and in the end tripped over himself down the beach to get to Dani and the kids. Everyone laughed as he got up.
"You know Billie I think Dani is making Tre more serious. I can't tell whether that is a good thing or a bad thing." Adie watched Tre pick Dani up and throw her into the water. Dani resurfaced and spit water in Tre's face before she kissed him.
"Well, Dani has that goofy side so maybe she's helping Tre finally grow up a little bit. But I have to say I hope it doesn't happen. I think I would miss that." Billie said.
Mike heard Billie's comment and shook his head in agreement.

They stayed at the beach until it was dark and getting ready to close. They were packing up all the swimming gear when they noticed that all the kids were pretty much dead on their feet. On the drive home Dani sat in the back with Frankie, he put his head in her lap and was out like a light.
"I think we tired the kids out today with all the running around. I had so much fun and I'm guessing they did to." Dani looked up front at Tre.
"Yeah, I know Frankie had fun. You're so good with him, Dani." Tre said keeping his eyes on the road.

When they got home Tre carried Frankie up to his room and tucked him in, while Dani went into their room. By the time Tre got to their room Dani was already asleep. Smiling softly Tre climbed into bed putting his arms around her and fell asleep.