Nick's POV
I woke and saw that Jeff wasn't next to me. I am usually the first to get up, but I guess there could be that day were Jeff decides to get before me. I do my usual routine and then when I went to get Clark up for school I found him asleep in Jeff's arms. I watched for a couple of minutes because I couldn't help but enjoy what I was seeing.
Then I went and gently shook Jeff and when that didn't work, I gave him a kiss on the cheek. His eyes started to flutter open and I grinned at him. "Hi." He says sleepily.
"Did Clark have another bad dream?" I ask.
"I'll tell you later." Jeff tells me. "Clark and I are staying home today. I thought we could have our own little day together. So go—shoo! And let us sleep." Jeff says and slowly his eyes fall close again. I shook my head. I didn't think it was a good idea for Clark too miss some school already, but it's not like it's high school and his teacher did say he is doing pretty well for starting late; he'll probably be fine.
And when Jeff takes personal days is his choice.
After making some coffee and some toast, I grabbed my jacket and quietly shut and locked the door. I didn't want to wake the boys.
Clark's POV
I woke up and saw Jeff in my bed with his arms around me. I didn't think he would stay the whole time and I didn't think we really would stay home. But it was nine o' clock so we had to be.
I wonder what we will do. I want to wake him but if I do he might get mad and I don't want that.
I just lay there, but I didn't mind. I like it when he holds me. I close my eyes again, hoping to go back to sleep, but I can't. I guess I'm not tired.
Jeff woke up after I moved my arm to scratch my foot. Oh no, he might be mad I woke him up. Mommy got mad when I woke her up before. She yelled and slapped me and told me I was a bad boy for not letting her sleep; I hope he's not too mad.
"Good morning." Jeff says. He seemed happy. I guess he wasn't mad. "Are you feeling better?" He asks me and I nodded my head yes. "Okay, how about we have some breakfast?" He asks as he throws the covers off us. I follow him downstairs and watch as he looks into the refrigerator.
"How about some bacon, eggs, and toast?" He asks and I nod. He gets the bacon out and puts it on the stove to cook. "Clark, can you get the eggs?" I nodded and got the carton out, but then I slipped and dropped it. I opened it and all the eggs are broken and it's all wet.
You ruin everything, Clark! I start to cry. Now there are no eggs and there is a big mess. He is gonna be mad at me for sure.
Jeff picks me up and puts me on the counter in front of the window. He then picks up the carton and throws it away and then wipes up the mess I made. I ruined breakfast. Now he will yell at me like mommy would.
"It's okay, don't cry." He says and I feel his finger wiping my tears away.
"I ruined breakfast." I say and look down. I already ruined today.
"No you didn't. There is another carton and even if there were no eggs, we could just go get more at the store." Jeff says.
"I made a mess. Why are you not mad?" I ask.
"It was an accident. And it's just eggs, Clark. That isn't anything to yell at you for." Jeff says. "I can't tell you how many times I've dropped eggs before. I even dropped them in the parking lot after Nick and I bought them." He says and I felt better that he was not mad at me.
Jeff gets the new carton out and puts in on the counter, along with some other things. He then puts me on a chair so I could see. "Here, you can help me." Jeff says and I watch as he breaks one egg and lets the inside go in the bowl and throws the other parts in the sink. "Why don't you try it?" He asks and I didn't want to make another mess.
But I picked up the egg and hit it against the bowl lightly. "Clark, you'll have to do it a little bit harder than that." Jeff says and I do it a little harder and bits of the egg gets on us. I guess that was too hard. I slowly turn to Jeff and saw he was laughing.
"You definitely are Superman." Jeff says as he then picks me up and then wipes the tiny bit of egg off my face. He breaks the rest of the eggs and then puts some stuff in the bowl with them.
I put the toast in the toaster as he gets cheese out and puts them in the pan with the eggs.
We eat breakfast at the table and then afterwards we change our clothes. I come downstairs and sit on the couch waiting for Jeff to come down. But after a while I got bored, so I went upstairs and laid on my bed with my bear. I decided to call him Barry, I hope I was allowed to pick its name.
I lay there on the bed, waiting for Jeff. I wonder what else we'll do today.
Jeff's POV
I took a shower, got dressed, and then as I headed downstairs, I saw Clark in his room playing with his teddy bear. I went in and sat on the bed next to him.
"What are you doing?" I ask.
"Waiting for you." Clark says and holds up his bear. I guess sitting downstairs waiting for me was no fun.
"Did you name your bear yet?" I ask and a grin appeared on Clark's face. He then nodded. "What is it?"
"Barry." He says and I grinned. "Is it a good name?" He asks, like he was asking for approval.
"It's a great name." I say and Clark smiles again. "Now how about we go to the park? Since most people are at work or school right now, it'll just be the two of us."
"Okay." He says and then we go downstairs to get our shoes on. I help Clark tie the laces—I had to remind Nick to help me teach him how to tie them—and then we walked down the street to Neighborhood Park.
We got there and we saw there was this young woman with a toddler. She was pushing her daughter on the swings.
"Go head! Have fun!" I told him and Clark ran off and got on one of the swings—well he at least tried to. I went over and helped him get onto it.
"Will you push me?" Clark asks and I nod. I start gently pushing him at first. "Higher, higher!" Clark says, so push a little more to get him a bit higher. I smile as Clark laughs. "I'm flying!" He says, it was nice to see him so happy.
"How old is he?" The woman next to me asks as she continues to gently push her daughter on the swing.
"Seven. Yours?" I tell her.
"She's almost two. And pretty soon, she'll be a big sister." She tells me. "Do you have any more kids?" I shake my head, though we could in the future, but I think it'd be a good idea to get Clark officially adopted first. "Can I go on the slide now?"
"Hold on, let's get you down—don't jump." I say and once Clark has slowed down enough, I pick him off up off the swing. I put him down and let him run off to the slide and watch as he goes from that to the jungle gym.
I decide to sit on the bench and watch him and take my eyes off for a second to check my phone and then looked up and saw Clark looking over to me. He was at the top of the monkey bars, sitting on them. How did he get up there? "I can't get down!" He says, I could tell he was scared. I went over to him and luckily it wasn't too high up, so I could reach him. I got him down and he put his head on my shoulder.
"I saved you, Superman!" I say and then put him on my shoulders.
"Can we go home now?" Clark asks, but then looks over as we hearing the music of the ice cream truck approaching.
"Would you like to get some ice cream first?" I asked and I didn't even have to look to know he would say yes. I went over and I got a strawberry shortcake and Clark got some Rocket Popsicle. We ate them as we walked home and I threw the wrappers away in the trash.
I put Clark down and I told him to wash his hands—they were probably sticky and I didn't need to hear it from Nick if he comes home finds the house mysteriously sticky. Clark came running back in when he tripped over the rug.
"You okay buddy?" I asked as I picked him up in my arms and he nods. He didn't cut himself which was good. "Clark, do you know what time it is?" I ask and he shook his head. "It's…TICKLE TIME!" I say and he starts running away and I go after him and I grab him in my arms and start tickling him. Clark laughs loudly as I tickle him in my arms; his laugh just made me so happy.
He continues to laugh "stop—can't breathe—" I stop tickling him so Clark could catch his breath.
"Aww but I like hearing you laugh." I say and Clark laughs again. I moved Clark back onto my lap and held him in my arms. So far today had been very fun. Of course, a little rocky at first, but I'm sure there's a rocky moment every day for everyone.
I feel Clark relax and put his head against me. I run my fingers through his hair and then kiss his forehead. "I love you so much." I tell him.
"I love you daddy." I hear Clark says and I couldn't even explain the happiness I felt at hearing Clark call me daddy. I was so happy when he said he wanted to stay here with us and when he said he loved us too. But hearing that along with the word daddy; I was happier than I have ever been.
Nick came home a little late that night because of an emergency appointment. I kissed him when he came in. "Hey, how was work?"
"Let's just say I am happy to be home. Where's Clark?" Nick asks.
"Playing in his room."
"Did you guys have a fun day?" Nick asks and I couldn't even express how amazing today was. I wish everyday could be as good as today was.
"It was so much fun." I say. "Nick…Clark called me daddy today."
"Really? Oh Jeff, that's amazing!" Nick says and gives me another hug. Weird, how I thought Clark would have called Nick dad or daddy first. I hope he didn't get worried if Clark didn't start calling him dad right away.
"I think he's starting to really get comfortable here." Jeff says. "He's really happy. He was so happy today."
"That's good. Let's try to make the next few days really good for him." Nick says and I frown. That didn't sound right. Something was going on and I knew it.
"Why? What's going on?"
"Oh it's nothing bad—well he probably won't like it, but he has medical check-up on Friday and since he's never been to a doctor before he's going to need some shots." Nick says, the last word very quietly, he didn't want to chance Clark hearing and getting him upset days before this even happens.
"How are we doing this?"
"We're going to take him Friday morning and we'll do our best to calm him down because no kid likes going to the doctor. But it'll be fine. The appointment is with Sam and he's really good with kids." Nick tells me and I nod. Nick took care of the doctor stuff and I knew he wouldn't just let any doctor do anything to Clark.
But one thing I knew for sure: Friday would not be the best day we've had with Clark; it was going to be a hard one.
So here's the day-off chapter you guys asked me to write :) And yes, next chapter will be the doctor's visit. And they both know it's not going to be easy. Let me know what you think and if there's anything else you want to see, let me know in the reviews. ;)
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