Although neither Ashley or John could get Gracie off their minds they were determined to have a good day. They were going to spend the day with Randy and Trish and just relax and chill which they haven't been able to do in so long what with Randy being sick and the kids and jobs.
"Being a kid is so much easier" Ashley said flopping down on the couch next to Trish.
"You being the youngest of all of us would know wouldn't you" Trish replied.
"Shel has never been a kid" John said.
"I'll agree to that" Randy said.
Ashley still couldn't believe how wonderful Randy looked his hair had grown back after the chemo and he had managed to gain some weight he looked like his old self now.
"I was a kid at one time in my life I'm just not sure when" she said.
"Mommy" they all heard Talon yell.
Ashley quickly got up to see what was wrong. Being a mother of two little boys the worst popped into her head first.
"What's the matter baby?" she asked when she found him.
"Stupid Chris broke my toy" he said.
"Honey don't call your brother stupid and let me see maybe I can fix it" she said.
Sure enough all Ashley had to do was pop the arm back into the hole and the toy was good as new.
"Thank you" Talon said.
"Your welcome sweetie and be nice to your brother because if I have to come back in here because you are fighting with him or Tyler and Ryan I will be very mad and you'll be in trouble understand" she told him.
"Yes" Talon replied.
"What was the matter?" John asked when she returned to the room where all the adults were.
"Christian broke Talon's toy but it was fix able so the peace was kept" Ashley answered.
"Do the twins fight a lot?" Ashley asked Trish.
"Sometimes but they are basically really good" she replied.
"Talon and Christian fight all the time I have never seen anything like it" Ashley said.
"How much damage can they really do they are still little?" Randy asked.
"You'd be surprised" John said. "did you see that huge gash across Christian's face?"
"Yeah I was wondering about that" Randy said.
"Talon threw one of the cats at Christian" Ashley said.
"Damn your son is evil" Trish commented.
"I hope this is just a phase because if they are like this for the rest of their lives I'm going to go crazy" Ashley said.
"I'm sure it is I mean when the baby was younger Talon never did anything to him" Trish said.
"He was very good with Christian when he was smaller" John said.
"But now Chris is older and moves around and takes his toys so there will always be an element of jealousy also Talon remembers what it was like before when it was just him" Randy said.
"When the hell did you become so smart?" Ashley asked.
"I've always been this smart you guys just never listen to me" he replied.
"He has a point we do never listen to him" Trish said.
"Thanks for the support honey" he said.
"Any time darlin'" Trish said imitating a southern accent.
"Hey Ash her accent is almost as good as yours" Randy said.
"Umm mine is real" she said.
Although Ashley had grown up in Boston she spent most of her summers and any time she didn't have to go to school with Matt and Jeff in Cameron so she had picked up an accent.
"So Brat how is school going?" Trish asked.
"Fine 1 more year and then I'm done, I'm really looking forward to this summer because the superiors at Stanford set me up with an internship with a really great office here in Boston" she replied.
"That's my future wifey to be, all important and such" John said.
"Wifey" they all asked at the same time.
"Yeah wifey now stop looking at me like I got 3 heads" John said.
"Man sometimes he really scares me" Randy said.
"Aw man I love you too" John said sarcastically.
"Ok you two get a room because we don't want to hear it" Ashley said.
"Sorry baby you ain't gettin rid of me that easily" John said as he wrapped his arms around Ashley.
"I wouldn't dream of it" she replied.
They hung out for a little longer but it was getting late and the boys were falling asleep so they headed home. Neither of them expected what or should I say who was waiting for them when they returned.