Pacific Coast Academy: 10 Year Reunion
Chapter 5: Meet The Meliets
LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA
Nicole groaned. "Why can't football season be all the time?"
"If it was all the time, the players would never get a break," Jake said bouncing their 2-year-old son Joey on his lap. "Nicole, you should enjoy this time off. From September to February, you're always at my games. I know you must get tired of it."
"It's just that I'm bored. I need something to do."
"Why don't you go shopping? That's what you do best, huh?"
"I would, but… I think I bought up everything I wanted so far."
"Well, maybe you wanna go wash the dishes?" he smiled innocently at her.
"That's one thing I will not do. Hey," she smiled. "This just popped in my head. Let's talk about the wedding."
"Come on, Nicole," he sighed and rolled his eyes. "I'm tired of talking about the wedding."
"We haven't talked about it enough. Now… traditional weddings have white in it, right? So I was thinking about being nontraditional."
He sighed again and nodded. "What do you wanna do?"
"I was thinking we should do peach."
"Let's just keep it white, you know, traditional."
"Maybe you're right. But can you not wait for the reunion? I can't wait," she rambled. "I'm gonna get to see all my friends again. Then we'll talk about old times and do all the stuff and—"
"I get it. You can't wait for the reunion."
"Are you all packed? I'm all packed. I really can't wait."
"Yeah, I'm packed. Joey's packed. Everybody's packed."
"Hey, I know what I wanna do now?" She took little Joey from him.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to the store to but him some new clothes. He can't go to the reunion wearing rags." She walked out the door. Jake shook his head and turned on the tv. He had to go through this everyday. "Women," he huffed.