"Joey, go get grandma and bring her in here. Ok?" Kim said to her son as
they headed towards the living room of her mother's apartment.
"Ok." he replied as he ran off to find his grandmother.
Kim turned back to Alex and said, "I'm going to go slip this on, stall them till I'm ready."
Alex nodded her head and watched Kim head down the hall with the dress as she went into one of the spare rooms to change. Minute's later Joey returned to the living room followed by his grandmother.
"Where'd mommy go?" Joey asked Alex.
"She'll be back in a minute, she's got a surprise for you." Alex replied as Joey hopped onto the couch next to her.
Alex began talking to Kim's mother when she heard a door open down the hall. She knew Kim had the dress on and turned to Joey and said, "Hey Joey, look down the hallway."
Joey turned his head towards the hallway where his mother now stood. The little boy's eyes lit up when he saw how pretty his mother looked in the wedding dress she'd just bought. Kim's mother felt tears stinging the corners of her eyes as she looked at her daughter in the dress she'd just bought.
"What do you think?" Kim asked her mother and son.
Joey looked at his mother in the white dress and said, "You look like an angel."
Everyone began to laugh as Alex whispered into Joey's ear, "Joey that's the dress your mom's going to wear when she marries Bobby."
"Really!" the little boy exclaimed.
"Yep, but you can't tell Bobby about the dress, it's a surprise. Ok?" Alex replied.
"Ok, I want to see his reaction anyway." Joey said laughing.
Everyone in the room began to laugh at Joey's excitement of Bobby seeing her in the dress.
"It is ok if I leave the dress here so Bobby can't see it?" Kim asked her mother.
"Sure, put it in one of the closets in one of the backrooms." she replied to her daughter.
Kim headed off to change and put the dress in one of the closets till it was time for her to wear it again. A short time later she rejoined her mother, Alex and Joey in the living room and they sat and talked for another hour or so.
"It's getting late, we'd better be going." Kim said to her mother after glancing down at her watch.
Kim's mother walked the three of them to the door and bid them a goodnight and went to get ready for bed herself.
"Hey Alex, do you want to come up for a bit?" Kim asked.
"Maybe some other time, Ty should be getting off from work pretty soon." she replied.
"Ok, have a nice evening." Kim said back as she and Joey headed for her apartment.
Once they were home, Kim turned to her son and said, "What do you want to do for the rest of the evening?"
"Let's play video games!" he said excitedly.
"Pick the game and I'll be in shortly." Kim replied as she went to put some things up in her room.
"Ok." Joey replied as he went through the crate containing the video games that sat beside the television in the living room.
Kim quickly put up a basket of laundry while her son debated on what game he and his mother would play. When she finished putting up the clothes, she glanced at the picture of her, Bobby and Joey together and felt a comforting warmth spread through her.
"Have you picked a game yet?" Kim asked her son.
"Yep. You ready?" he asked happily.
"You better bet," she replied, taking a seat next to her son on the floor.
"Is Bobby coming over after work?" Joey asked his mother.
"I don't know. He got a call before he could tell me if he was coming over or not." she replied softly.
After an hour and a half of video games Joey wore himself out and Kim sent him off to take a shower and get ready for bed. Kim curled up on the sofa to relax a bit, after putting Joey to bed and picking up a book off the bookshelf when she entered the living room. Two hours later she heard a faint knock at her door and quickly went to the door and saw Bobby on her doorstep. She let him in and walked with him over to the sofa and sat down.
"How was work tonight?" she asked.
"Long and tiring as usual." he replied.
"What have you done all day?" he said back to her.
"Not much, basic household chores, looked at wedding dresses and visited with mom for a bit." she replied, noticing how tense Bobby looked as he sat beside her.
"I think you could use a massage to help relax," she said noticing him jump slightly at the sound of her voice
"You've been watching Oprah again haven't you?" he asked her as he chuckled a bit.
"Nope, haven't watched it in a while, although I got the concept from the show eons ago." she replied laughing.
"Well, if your offering to do the honors I could use one." he said back laughing.
"Take your shirt off and stretch out on the floor on your stomach." she said, as she went to retrieve some lotion from her room.
When she returned with several containers of lotion for him to pick from, he looked up at her and said, "I sure hope that stuff is unscented."
"No such luck. I don't even own unscented lotion. Your choices are Ocean Breeze, Warm Vanilla Sugar, Pear Glace, and Sunripened Raspberry." she said as she placed each container in front of him.
He took a few whiffs of some of the lotions and said, "How on earth can you stand the smell of some of these?"
"Trust me, I've got one that I love using that I know you'd hate so that's why I didn't include it with the others." she said giggling at him.
"Use the vanilla one, it's the one I can actually tolerate the smell of." he replied as he grabbed a pillow from the couch to rest his head on.
She straddled his lower back and began to put some of the lotion on him. He jumped beneath her slightly as the cold lotion touched his back, and he craned his head around and said, "Any way you can warm that stuff up?"
She laughed at his reaction and said sarcastically, "Sorry, I forgot to warm it after I got it out of the fridge."
"Please tell me your joking," he replied, thinking she was going to put more of the lotion on him.
"Yes, silly I'm joking. Now turn around and relax or I'll put more cold lotion on you." she said trying not to laugh.
He did as he was told and she slowly spread the lotion out on his back with her hands before starting the actual massage. She slowly moved her hands up his spine towards his shoulders and back down and slowly began to move out towards his ribs as she gently kneaded her fingertips into his back. After about five minutes, Bobby could tell a huge difference in the tension level of his body. Thirty minutes later, she was finished and said, "How do you feel know?"
"A lot more relaxed than when I came in." he replied with a sound of calmness in his voice.
"Then my job is done," she said smiling as she stood up and sat down on the edge of the couch.
"I think I could get used to you doing that more often." he said as he got up from the floor and sat beside her on the couch.
"Just remember, I might ask you to return the favor when I start back to work." she said laughing slightly.
"Sounds fair." he replied as he pulled her over into his lap.
The two sat on the couch in the comfort of each others warm embrace for close to an hour, when Kim felt Bobby put his head on her shoulder as he just about dozed off.
"Come on, lets get you to bed so you can rest." she said as she took his hand and began to pull him up from the couch.
"Can I take a quick shower first?" he asked.
"If you do you'll feel greasy because of the lotion." She replied over her shoulder to him.
"In that case I'll wait till in the morning." he said as he followed her towards her room.
"Are the clothes I left still here?" he asked when they entered the room.
"Yep, top drawer of the dresser." she replied.
He nodded his head in response and opened the drawer and removed a T-shirt and a pair of boxers and headed into the bathroom to change.
While he was gone, Kim changed into a spaghetti strapped top and a pair of sweatpants and pulled back the covers on her bed. Minutes later he returned to her room and placed his clothes in a chair and slipped into bed beside Kim. She flipped off the bedside lamp and curled up along side Bobby and fell asleep.
The next morning Joey woke up early and quietly made his way into the living room to play a few rounds of video games. As he passed his mothers room, he peeked in and saw his mother sleeping peacefully along side of Bobby. A huge smile crept across his face as he headed on to the living room, thinking about how wonderful it was that she had finally found the person that made her truly happy.
Thirty minutes later Bobby was awakened by the sound of laughter coming from the living room. He slipped out of bed quietly so he wouldn't bother Kim and headed for the living room to see what was going on. Joey heard footsteps coming and paused the game he was playing to see who it was. He saw Bobby walk into the living room and take a seat on the couch.
"Awfully early for video games isn't it?" Bobby asked Joey.
"Not really." The little boy replied grinning; "Wanna play?"
"Sure, why not." Bobby replied as he took a seat next to Joey on the floor and reached for the second game controller.
An hour later Kim awoke to the sounds of squealing tires and crashing metal.
"What the hell is going on?" she said to herself as she got out of bed.
She followed the source of the sounds till she saw Joey and Bobby in the floor playing video games.
"You two making enough noise in here?" she asked smiling.
"Sorry if we woke you up." Bobby replied as he focused on the racecar he was driving.
Kim stretched out on the sofa behind her son and Bobby and watched the ensuing race.
"You know, for his age he drives a car rather well." Bobby said laughing.
Kim lightly punched him in the shoulder and replied, "Don't tell me you want to start teaching him how to drive now."
"Really!" Joey exclaimed excitedly.
"Maybe when you're older munchkin." Bobby said smiling.
"Who you calling a munchkin?" Joey said laughing.
"You." Bobby said, ruffling his hair.
Joey pounced on Bobby and started laughing.
"Someone's in a feisty mood this morning." Kim said giggling as she went to help Bobby
Kim began to tickle her son who was laughing so hard he stopped rough housing with Bobby and said, " Mom. st.ooo.pppp"
She finally stopped and got back up on the sofa, as Joey headed back to where his game controller sat and said, "You ready?"
"Bring it on." Bobby said as Joey unpaused the game.
After about twenty minutes more of racing between Joey and Bobby, Kim said, "Whoever wins this race, gets to race me."
By the end of the final race, Bobby beat Joey by the barest of margins and Kim switched places with her son and got ready to take on Bobby. Joey sat perched on the couch in between them, watching his mother get ready for her race. After the race had started Bobby said, "So, who do you think is gonna win Joey?"
Joey looked over at his mother and back over at Bobby when he replied, "I think mommy's gonna win."
Kim laughed as she maneuvered her car around the racetrack while Bobby tried to catch her. By the time they hit the last lap, Joey sat anxiously on the couch waiting to see if his prediction was right about who would win. Bobby drew along side of Kim but wasn't paying attention to the turn that was coming up and slammed into the retaining wall as Kim crossed the line the winner.
"I think I see a resemblance to your driving in the bus." Kim said sarcastically.
"Oh really?" Bobby replied in amusement.
Before Kim could react, Bobby pushed her down to the floor, pinning her arms and legs down when he said, "Hey Joey. Tickle Attack!"
Joey pounced on his mother while Bobby held her down as laughter filled the room.
Several minutes later Bobby let go of Kim and pulled Joey off his mother and laughingly said, "I think she's had enough for now."
"You'll pay for that later." Kim said as she poked him in the stomach as she sat up.
"Anyone want to go out to eat for lunch?" Joey asked.
"You buying?" Bobby replied laughing.
"If I could I would." Joey said giggling.
"I'll pay for lunch. Joey go get ready and we'll head out." Kim said.
She ran in and took a quick shower, washed her hair and blow dried it and got dressed and straightened up her room while Bobby got ready for work. Once the three of them were ready, they all headed out together for a relaxing lunch. An hour later the three walked towards the firehouse where Joey saw his father helping wash one of the trucks.
Jimmy didn't see the three of them coming, until Bobby picked up Joey, who covered his fathers eyes with his hands as Kim said, "Guess who?"
"Uh, one of Santa's elves?" Jimmy replied laughing.
"Hey! Not funny." Joey replied as the group of people around the truck began to laugh.
"Go on inside and I'll be up as soon as I'm done with the truck." Jimmy said to Kim and Joey.
"Ok." he replied as he ran off to find his grandmother.
Kim turned back to Alex and said, "I'm going to go slip this on, stall them till I'm ready."
Alex nodded her head and watched Kim head down the hall with the dress as she went into one of the spare rooms to change. Minute's later Joey returned to the living room followed by his grandmother.
"Where'd mommy go?" Joey asked Alex.
"She'll be back in a minute, she's got a surprise for you." Alex replied as Joey hopped onto the couch next to her.
Alex began talking to Kim's mother when she heard a door open down the hall. She knew Kim had the dress on and turned to Joey and said, "Hey Joey, look down the hallway."
Joey turned his head towards the hallway where his mother now stood. The little boy's eyes lit up when he saw how pretty his mother looked in the wedding dress she'd just bought. Kim's mother felt tears stinging the corners of her eyes as she looked at her daughter in the dress she'd just bought.
"What do you think?" Kim asked her mother and son.
Joey looked at his mother in the white dress and said, "You look like an angel."
Everyone began to laugh as Alex whispered into Joey's ear, "Joey that's the dress your mom's going to wear when she marries Bobby."
"Really!" the little boy exclaimed.
"Yep, but you can't tell Bobby about the dress, it's a surprise. Ok?" Alex replied.
"Ok, I want to see his reaction anyway." Joey said laughing.
Everyone in the room began to laugh at Joey's excitement of Bobby seeing her in the dress.
"It is ok if I leave the dress here so Bobby can't see it?" Kim asked her mother.
"Sure, put it in one of the closets in one of the backrooms." she replied to her daughter.
Kim headed off to change and put the dress in one of the closets till it was time for her to wear it again. A short time later she rejoined her mother, Alex and Joey in the living room and they sat and talked for another hour or so.
"It's getting late, we'd better be going." Kim said to her mother after glancing down at her watch.
Kim's mother walked the three of them to the door and bid them a goodnight and went to get ready for bed herself.
"Hey Alex, do you want to come up for a bit?" Kim asked.
"Maybe some other time, Ty should be getting off from work pretty soon." she replied.
"Ok, have a nice evening." Kim said back as she and Joey headed for her apartment.
Once they were home, Kim turned to her son and said, "What do you want to do for the rest of the evening?"
"Let's play video games!" he said excitedly.
"Pick the game and I'll be in shortly." Kim replied as she went to put some things up in her room.
"Ok." Joey replied as he went through the crate containing the video games that sat beside the television in the living room.
Kim quickly put up a basket of laundry while her son debated on what game he and his mother would play. When she finished putting up the clothes, she glanced at the picture of her, Bobby and Joey together and felt a comforting warmth spread through her.
"Have you picked a game yet?" Kim asked her son.
"Yep. You ready?" he asked happily.
"You better bet," she replied, taking a seat next to her son on the floor.
"Is Bobby coming over after work?" Joey asked his mother.
"I don't know. He got a call before he could tell me if he was coming over or not." she replied softly.
After an hour and a half of video games Joey wore himself out and Kim sent him off to take a shower and get ready for bed. Kim curled up on the sofa to relax a bit, after putting Joey to bed and picking up a book off the bookshelf when she entered the living room. Two hours later she heard a faint knock at her door and quickly went to the door and saw Bobby on her doorstep. She let him in and walked with him over to the sofa and sat down.
"How was work tonight?" she asked.
"Long and tiring as usual." he replied.
"What have you done all day?" he said back to her.
"Not much, basic household chores, looked at wedding dresses and visited with mom for a bit." she replied, noticing how tense Bobby looked as he sat beside her.
"I think you could use a massage to help relax," she said noticing him jump slightly at the sound of her voice
"You've been watching Oprah again haven't you?" he asked her as he chuckled a bit.
"Nope, haven't watched it in a while, although I got the concept from the show eons ago." she replied laughing.
"Well, if your offering to do the honors I could use one." he said back laughing.
"Take your shirt off and stretch out on the floor on your stomach." she said, as she went to retrieve some lotion from her room.
When she returned with several containers of lotion for him to pick from, he looked up at her and said, "I sure hope that stuff is unscented."
"No such luck. I don't even own unscented lotion. Your choices are Ocean Breeze, Warm Vanilla Sugar, Pear Glace, and Sunripened Raspberry." she said as she placed each container in front of him.
He took a few whiffs of some of the lotions and said, "How on earth can you stand the smell of some of these?"
"Trust me, I've got one that I love using that I know you'd hate so that's why I didn't include it with the others." she said giggling at him.
"Use the vanilla one, it's the one I can actually tolerate the smell of." he replied as he grabbed a pillow from the couch to rest his head on.
She straddled his lower back and began to put some of the lotion on him. He jumped beneath her slightly as the cold lotion touched his back, and he craned his head around and said, "Any way you can warm that stuff up?"
She laughed at his reaction and said sarcastically, "Sorry, I forgot to warm it after I got it out of the fridge."
"Please tell me your joking," he replied, thinking she was going to put more of the lotion on him.
"Yes, silly I'm joking. Now turn around and relax or I'll put more cold lotion on you." she said trying not to laugh.
He did as he was told and she slowly spread the lotion out on his back with her hands before starting the actual massage. She slowly moved her hands up his spine towards his shoulders and back down and slowly began to move out towards his ribs as she gently kneaded her fingertips into his back. After about five minutes, Bobby could tell a huge difference in the tension level of his body. Thirty minutes later, she was finished and said, "How do you feel know?"
"A lot more relaxed than when I came in." he replied with a sound of calmness in his voice.
"Then my job is done," she said smiling as she stood up and sat down on the edge of the couch.
"I think I could get used to you doing that more often." he said as he got up from the floor and sat beside her on the couch.
"Just remember, I might ask you to return the favor when I start back to work." she said laughing slightly.
"Sounds fair." he replied as he pulled her over into his lap.
The two sat on the couch in the comfort of each others warm embrace for close to an hour, when Kim felt Bobby put his head on her shoulder as he just about dozed off.
"Come on, lets get you to bed so you can rest." she said as she took his hand and began to pull him up from the couch.
"Can I take a quick shower first?" he asked.
"If you do you'll feel greasy because of the lotion." She replied over her shoulder to him.
"In that case I'll wait till in the morning." he said as he followed her towards her room.
"Are the clothes I left still here?" he asked when they entered the room.
"Yep, top drawer of the dresser." she replied.
He nodded his head in response and opened the drawer and removed a T-shirt and a pair of boxers and headed into the bathroom to change.
While he was gone, Kim changed into a spaghetti strapped top and a pair of sweatpants and pulled back the covers on her bed. Minutes later he returned to her room and placed his clothes in a chair and slipped into bed beside Kim. She flipped off the bedside lamp and curled up along side Bobby and fell asleep.
The next morning Joey woke up early and quietly made his way into the living room to play a few rounds of video games. As he passed his mothers room, he peeked in and saw his mother sleeping peacefully along side of Bobby. A huge smile crept across his face as he headed on to the living room, thinking about how wonderful it was that she had finally found the person that made her truly happy.
Thirty minutes later Bobby was awakened by the sound of laughter coming from the living room. He slipped out of bed quietly so he wouldn't bother Kim and headed for the living room to see what was going on. Joey heard footsteps coming and paused the game he was playing to see who it was. He saw Bobby walk into the living room and take a seat on the couch.
"Awfully early for video games isn't it?" Bobby asked Joey.
"Not really." The little boy replied grinning; "Wanna play?"
"Sure, why not." Bobby replied as he took a seat next to Joey on the floor and reached for the second game controller.
An hour later Kim awoke to the sounds of squealing tires and crashing metal.
"What the hell is going on?" she said to herself as she got out of bed.
She followed the source of the sounds till she saw Joey and Bobby in the floor playing video games.
"You two making enough noise in here?" she asked smiling.
"Sorry if we woke you up." Bobby replied as he focused on the racecar he was driving.
Kim stretched out on the sofa behind her son and Bobby and watched the ensuing race.
"You know, for his age he drives a car rather well." Bobby said laughing.
Kim lightly punched him in the shoulder and replied, "Don't tell me you want to start teaching him how to drive now."
"Really!" Joey exclaimed excitedly.
"Maybe when you're older munchkin." Bobby said smiling.
"Who you calling a munchkin?" Joey said laughing.
"You." Bobby said, ruffling his hair.
Joey pounced on Bobby and started laughing.
"Someone's in a feisty mood this morning." Kim said giggling as she went to help Bobby
Kim began to tickle her son who was laughing so hard he stopped rough housing with Bobby and said, " Mom. st.ooo.pppp"
She finally stopped and got back up on the sofa, as Joey headed back to where his game controller sat and said, "You ready?"
"Bring it on." Bobby said as Joey unpaused the game.
After about twenty minutes more of racing between Joey and Bobby, Kim said, "Whoever wins this race, gets to race me."
By the end of the final race, Bobby beat Joey by the barest of margins and Kim switched places with her son and got ready to take on Bobby. Joey sat perched on the couch in between them, watching his mother get ready for her race. After the race had started Bobby said, "So, who do you think is gonna win Joey?"
Joey looked over at his mother and back over at Bobby when he replied, "I think mommy's gonna win."
Kim laughed as she maneuvered her car around the racetrack while Bobby tried to catch her. By the time they hit the last lap, Joey sat anxiously on the couch waiting to see if his prediction was right about who would win. Bobby drew along side of Kim but wasn't paying attention to the turn that was coming up and slammed into the retaining wall as Kim crossed the line the winner.
"I think I see a resemblance to your driving in the bus." Kim said sarcastically.
"Oh really?" Bobby replied in amusement.
Before Kim could react, Bobby pushed her down to the floor, pinning her arms and legs down when he said, "Hey Joey. Tickle Attack!"
Joey pounced on his mother while Bobby held her down as laughter filled the room.
Several minutes later Bobby let go of Kim and pulled Joey off his mother and laughingly said, "I think she's had enough for now."
"You'll pay for that later." Kim said as she poked him in the stomach as she sat up.
"Anyone want to go out to eat for lunch?" Joey asked.
"You buying?" Bobby replied laughing.
"If I could I would." Joey said giggling.
"I'll pay for lunch. Joey go get ready and we'll head out." Kim said.
She ran in and took a quick shower, washed her hair and blow dried it and got dressed and straightened up her room while Bobby got ready for work. Once the three of them were ready, they all headed out together for a relaxing lunch. An hour later the three walked towards the firehouse where Joey saw his father helping wash one of the trucks.
Jimmy didn't see the three of them coming, until Bobby picked up Joey, who covered his fathers eyes with his hands as Kim said, "Guess who?"
"Uh, one of Santa's elves?" Jimmy replied laughing.
"Hey! Not funny." Joey replied as the group of people around the truck began to laugh.
"Go on inside and I'll be up as soon as I'm done with the truck." Jimmy said to Kim and Joey.