"Jasper, Jasper, Jasper, Jasper, Jasper, Jasper, Jasper, Jasper!" Alice chants. She's jumping on our bed. She's actually being very successful in not jumping on me.
"What, Alice?" I ask. I roll over and look up at her. I smile my 'southern gentle man' smile. The one she finds 'so cute'.
"Aw," she coos, "you're so cute."
"Yeah, yeah." I say, getting out of bed. She's still jumping on the bed but soon she jumps off and follows me into the bathroom.
"Alice, I have to pee," I say. She giggles and shuts the door behind me. I roll my eyes, because I know she's leaning against it on the other side. Sure enough when I open the door she falls in from not expecting me to open it. I catch her and laugh.
"Guess what?" she asks.
"What," I say.
"No, you have to guess," she whines. I grab the sharpie off the dresser and go to make an X on yesterday's square of the calendar. Alice already did it.
"You already Xed out yesterday," I say.
"Well, yeah, but that's not it," she's says excitedly. I put the sharpie back. Alice and I have been crossing out the days on the calendar ever since my bachelor party last week. We've circled the date of our wedding. Yeah, we're weird… but we're excited, we can't wait.
"The police called," she says, smiling.
"Oh…" I say. I turn around and look at her. "What did they say?"
"That they found my dad violating his parole and he's going back to jail!" she exclaims. I sigh in relief. They finally found him… even better; they found him violating his parole.
"Alice, that's great," I say. I pick her up and spin her around the room. She laughs and I eventually set her down on the bed.
"I know, now we can get married and get a house and start a family… oh and get a puppy, with out him being out and about!" she exclaims.
"No bad visions?" I ask.
"Nope, not yet! Oh, Jasper things are actually going well," Alice says, flopping back onto the bed. I see the tattoo on her ankle and smile. It always makes me smile.
"Um, Alice?" I ask.
"Yep?" she asks.
"What was that last thing you said before?" I ask. She sits up and smiles.
"Start a family?" she suggests.
"No, that wasn't it," I say.
"Get married?" she offers and I shake my head. "Buy a house?" I keep shaking my head.
"Alice," I say.
"Get a puppy?" she says, shyly. Yep, I knew I had heard her right.
"Alice Brandon were you trying to trick me into getting a puppy?" I ask.
"Maybe," she says, looking down at her toes. I laugh and pull her off the bed.
"We'll get a puppy… just not yet, okay? I promise," I say.
"Can we get two puppies?" she asks.
"Why would we need two puppies?" I ask.
"Well, ever since I saw the Aristocats I wanted two puppies. First a Great Dane or Black Lab, named Napoleon. Then a basset hound named Lafayette."
"You are so weird."
"No I'm not!"
"Yes you are."
"NO."
"Yep, weirdest person I know."
"That's not true, you know Emmett!"
"Good point, Miss. Alice."
"Well, you know me Jazz, I always win," Alice says and I laugh and kiss her. That's when I remember something her dad had said. It could be years before we see him.
"Alice how long is your dad back in prison for?" I ask.
"I don't know," she mumbles and kisses me again. I kiss her back but all I can think of is her dad. What if it's only a couple of years? What'll we do when he gets out?
"Don't worry Jazz," Alice says. "I'll tell you if I have a vision of him coming for us."
"That's the thing though, Ali," I say. "What if you don't have one?"
"I think I will," she insists.
"Still," I say. "We have to find out how long he has to serve, just in case."
"Okay, we will," Alice says.
"Promise?" I ask.
"Of course… I pinky promise," Alice insists and we do, we pinky promise. Alice and I don't fool around with those. If we make a pinky promise we intend to keep it.
Short, chapter I know. But it's going to lead up to something I swear! Please review, I'm still going to give sneak peeks to any one who reviews. So, review away!
~EM~
