Ricky's POV
Six months passed and things only got better. I got a raise at work and was promoted and Amy still continued her classes online. Ben, Lauren, and Madison aren't friends with Amy anymore. We occasionally hang out with Grace and Jack, but when we do, it's at our house so we're with our son. John is starting to get through the night much better. He rarely ever wakes us up. Amy's and my relationship has gotten so much stronger. We are the perfect couple, and I love it.
"Good morning angel." I said as I realized that we had fallen asleep on the couch the night before.
"Hello, um why are we on a couch?" She asked, with a confused look on her face.
"We must have fallen asleep last night." I told her.
"What time is it?" She asked. Looking at the clock.
"It's 8:40" I told her smiling.
"Oh, it's the weekend right?" she asked.
"Yes, if it wasn't I would be at school." I said.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." She said tiredly, trying to go back to bed.
"No no you have to get up. Your mom and her boyfriend are coming over later. We need to clean the house." I said laughing.
"Ughhhhhhhh" she said tiredly.
"You seem to refuse to get up." I said, "we'll I guess I'll have to change that!"
I started tickling her until she got up and agreed to get dressed. She started for the staircase and I went to the kitchen. All of a sudden I heard feet running and Amy jumped onto my back and kissed my cheek.
"Good morning, I love you." She said happily.
"I love you too." I said smiling, I carried her upstairs into her room and dropped her off so she could shower and get changed. I walked into the nursery to see John. He was staring at the ceiling, smiling.
"What are you smiling at?" I asked happily.
John smiled at me and I picked him up, I went downstairs, made his bottle and fed it to him and walked him back upstairs. I put him in his baby swing and took my shower while Amy changed John into his daytime clothes.
I brought John's swing downstairs into the den, when I finished with my shower, so that when Amy and I start cleaning we could still keep an eye on him. Amy came downstairs in jeans and a T-shirt, and John in his outfit.
"You look beautiful." I said taking John from her arms and placing him in the swing.
"Thanks? I'm just wearing an old t-shirt and jeans. We're cleaning up before my mom comes remember?" he said giggling.
"Yes I know, but you still look beautiful." I said. She giggled and blushed.
We started cleaning the kitchen when the phone rang, Amy went to pick it up.
"Hello?" She answered "Oh Hi mom, yea we're fine. Oh alright, No it's okay I understand. Kay Bye."
"Well I know that it was your mom, but what'd she want?" I asked concerned.
"She can't come. She has to stay at the office late tonight, they have some huge project to do or something."Amy said sadly.
"Don't worry we can still clean if you want to." I said jokingly.
She laughed and threw a sponge at me. I ran after her a picked her up,and she burst into laughter, I ran through the kitchen to the hall way, put her down, and kissed her.
Amy just kept laughing. We heard the doorbell ring, Amy went to get John from the swing and feed him his morning bottle while I answered the door.
"Hi Neighbor!" George said as he and Ashley walked in.
"Hi George, come on in." I said as we walked into the kitchen.
"Morning dad, Morning Ashley." Amy said as she searched through the cabinet for John's bottle. Once she found it she looked up and waved and started making his bottle.
"So today's national grandpa, aunt, and nephew day!" George said.
"Very creative George." I said smiling.
"I try, I try. Anyway Ashley and I would like to take John to the new zoo, and then go back to our house for dinner." George said.
"Oh I don't know daddy" Amy began.
"We want to; besides you guys have had him around the house for months. Go out with your friends!"George said.
"Are you sure George?" I asked
"Yes Ashley wants to see the zoo so we thought why not take little John to the zoo for the first time." George said.
We agreed and once Amy finished feeding John she handed him to George, along with the Diaper bag and Stroller. We said goodbye and they left.
"So now that we cleaned for no reason what do you want to do?" I asked wrapping my arms around Amy.
"Hmm how about we hang out with Grace, Jack, Adrienne, Henry, and Alice!" She said happily.
"That sounds good to me."I said and kissed her.
"Okay so you call Grace and Alice. I'll call Jack, Adrienne, and Henry." I said.
I started calling Jack when he picked up.
"Hey, Jack okay Amy and I were wondering if you wanted to come to the park with us, we're going to have a barbeque/ picnic. We're also inviting Grace, Adrienne, Henry, and Alice." I said.
"Hey man, that sounds cool. What time?" He asked excitedly.
"One o'clock." I said
"Great! See ya there.
Once we hung up Amy ran to me.
"Grace and Alice said that they'd come. By the way asks Adrienne to bring her boyfriend, I'd hate to have all of these couples and not have her with her boyfriend." She said worriedly.
"Will do. Can you call Henry for me?" I asked.
"Sure!" She said happily, and walked into the kitchen to grab her cell phone.
I started dialing Adrienne's number, my hands started shaking. I hadn't called that number since… No I'm not calling her for that reason. I'm going to hang out with her and a bunch of people.
"Hello?" A familiar voice answered the phone.
"Hey Adrienne. Um Amy and I were going to head to the park with Henry, Alice, grace, and Jack. We were wondering if you wanted to come. Oh and you can bring your boyfriend too, Amy would like to meet your brother or half brother. Whatever you call him." I said.
Adrienne started laughing. "What time should I bring my boyfriend?" She asked.
"One." I said.
"Hold on. I'll ask him if he wants to come." She said.
I could hear her asking him if he wanted to come. When her boyfriend answered, his voice sounded familiar… almost too familiar. I wondered if I knew her brother. Maybe from band camp or something.
"Yeah we'll come." She said.
"Great. See you there!"I said and hung up.