"Woo" Jessie yelled out as everyone made their way into the Disney theme park. Sylvain who was walking beside her laughed at her excitement.
"You're going to topple over if you get any more excited" Sylvain pointed out the fact that she was on crutches.
"I won't" she said, about that time she toppled over and if Randy hadn't been there to catch her she would have crashed to the groud. "Ok I'll take it easy" she mumbled, blushing heavily. Randy coughed back a laugh and kept close to her incase she fell again.
"Randy you really shouldn't have dressed up so much" Mark remarked with a laugh. Randy looked down at his black dress pants and shoes and white button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up with a confused look.
"I'm not dressed up" Randy said "this is casual, just cause I want to look my best don't mean I'm dressed up".
"Ooook then" Mark said, giving Randy a weird look.
"Unca Don" Sydney said tugging on his shirt, she was holding his hand as he lead her through the park.
"Yes honey" he said, looking down at her.
"Can we go on Pooh?" she asked him with a sweet smile.
"Sure honey" he told her "hey guys" he announced "I'mma take Syd on Winnie, anyone else want to go". Kevin, Jessie, Sylvain (who Jessie was forcing to go with her), and Lexi all said yes. Trish, Mark, Victoria and Randy said they'd watch Matty, Rosalyn, Samantha and Marcus while they went on the ride. John looked on a map that he had been given at the front of the park and saw that the Pooh ride was really close. Everyone made their way over so they could ride it.
"So Victoria" Trish asked her while they were sitting down waiting for the Pooh ride to end "when you coming back?" Victoria looked up from feeding Samantha a bottle and shrugged at Trish.
"A few weeks I guess" she told her "I wanna get back in shape first".
"Girl please" Trish said scoffing. She pointed to Victoria's body which looked no different than it usually did before she got pregnant "there's nothing to get in shape, you're in as good of shape as you ever were, I hate you" she joked.
"Wanna bet that our big kids wind down before the little ones do?" Victoria asked Trish, pointing to Mark and Randy who were buying Matty and Marcus sno-cones.
"Oh I know they will" Trish told her "it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out".
"Let's go on Pirates of the Caribbean" Sylvain said, pointing to it as they came upon the ride. They had been on a few other rides and he was itching to go on something exciting.
"We can't take the kids on it" John pointed out, even though he was wanting to go on the ride too.
"One of us will have to keep 'em while the others go on the ride" Jessie shrugged.
"Who though?" Trish asked.
"I got an idea" John said, going over to a vendor selling concession. He asked the guy doing it a question and the guy handed him 8 straws. John went back over to the group and took out his pocket knife, cutting the straws in different lengths, making sure to cut one way shorter than the others. He threw the other parts of straws away and put the straws in his palm, making sure to have them the same height sticking out. He let everyone draw a straw.
"Man" Randy said holding up his small nub "I want a recount".
"No Al" Mark joked "you lost fair and square".
"Alright" Randy said "I'll suck it up". Sylvain put Rosalyn in his arms and Sydney grabbed his pocket and Kevin grabbed his belt buckle. He had Marcus grab the stroller handle that Matty and Samantha was in and he set off to take the kids to the gift shop, telling them that there was a $20 limit per kid. The others laughed knowing that once he got the kids in the shop that rule would fly out the window.
"Oh My God" John laughed all of a sudden. They had gotten off the ride and were waiting on Randy to come out of the gift shop. Everyone looked at where John was looking and busted up laughing too. Randy and the kids were juggling various toys and things. Mark and John went to help him out, taking kids and toys.
"What's up with the new outfit?" Lexi asked him, looking at his Mickey tank top and shorts.
"Rosie threw up on me" he told her "my shirt was ruined".
"Man lemme pay for it" Sylvain offered, taking out his wallet.
"No don't worry about it" Randy said, brushing it off "its only a shirt, no big deal".
"So if it was only the shirt why'd you buy the shorts too?" John asked him.
"I'd look pretty funny in a tank top and dress pants now wouldn't I?" Randy asked rhetorically.
"Yes" John agreed "but you look funnier in a tank top, shorts and dress shoes". John laughed at Randy.
"They didn't have any shoes or I would have gotten some" Randy said, shooting John a glare.
"Spash mount'n" Kevin exclaimed, pointing to the ride "I wanna go on".
"Do you think he's old enough?" Trish asked John, sending him an unsure look.
"I think so" John said "I'll sit him behind me so he won't get as much of the water on him and all".
"Who all's going on it?" Randy asked, already knowing that he was since he had to sit out on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Sydney wanted to go and so did Mark, Marcus, Sylvain and Matty. Trish, Jessie and Victoria said they'd sit out with Samantha and Rosalyn who were too young to go on the ride. Jessie really wanted to go on it but she couldn't because of her cast. She had only had it on a little over a day and already she was beginning to hate it.
After they got off the ride Sylvain, Mark, Randy and John were pretty much soaked while the kids were almost completely dry. All of them were smiling though. Kevin ran up and wrapped his wet arms around Trish's waist "momma dat was fun" he exclaimed, smiling brightly up at her.
"Cool" Trish told him, smiling down at him "I guess its not fair that you and daddy are wet and I'm not huh".
"Nope" John said, wrapping his arms around her and hugging her to him, kissing her cheek. She glared at him, silently telling him that payback would be a bitch.
Randy heard the opening chords of Beauty and the Beast start as he held Sydney's hand while they walked through the park. He stopped and bent down toward her "may I have this dance?" he asked. Sydney giggled and nodded. Randy picked her up in his arms and started swaying to the music.
CREDIT TO DISNEY PLEASE DONT REPORT ME
Tale as old as time
True as it can be
Barely even friends
Then somebody bends
Unexpectedly
"Do you remember the first time we danced to this song?" Randy asked her as they danced to the music.
"I was sick" Sydney replied. "We watch da movie and dance".
"Yep" Randy told her "you had a cold and were feeling terrible. I thought that, that would make you feel better, and I was right it did".
Just a little change Small to say the least
Both a little scared Neither one prepared Beauty and the beast
Ever just the same Ever a surprise Ever as before Ever just as sure As the sun will rise.
"It cause it was you" Sydney told him "daddy made me feel better not the song". Randy smiled faintly and held back the swell of tears that pooled in his eyes. He finished dancing to the song with his little girl, happy that she was in his life.
Tale as old as time
Tune as old as song
Bittersweet and strange
Finding you can change
Learning you were wrong.
Certain as the sun
Rising in the east
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the Beast.
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the Beast.
Later that week the guys were watching the kids while the girls went shopping. "Wanna go swimming?" John asked the kids. They had been stuck inside the hotel suite all day so far and were getting antsy to do something. The kids cheered their approval and the guys split up to put on their swim suits and get their kids in swimsuits as well.
The guys spent the next few hours splashing around in the pool with the kids. After a few hours of horseplay the kids started getting tired. The guys got them out and dried them off, carrying them up to the suite for a nap. They laid the kids on the floor and let them nap, the guys not intending on taking a nap but falling asleep as well.
A half an hour later Kevin and Sydney had woken up. They got bored and wanted something to do. Sydney felt her way over to where John was snoring softly on the couch and shook his arm, trying to wake him up. He just snorted in his sleep and rolled over. Kevin tried waking Sylvain but Sylvain didn't even startle. The kids then went off to find something to do themselves. Sydney found some old fingernail polish that Trish had thrown away earlier and she and Kevin decided to finger paint with it.
"We got no paper tho" Kevin pointed out to Sydney.
"We use dem" Sydney said, meaning the guys who were asleep in the living room. "We make dem pwetty". Kevin nodded and he and Sydney took the fingernail polish and started making designs on the guys faces, bare torso's, arms and legs.
"That was fun" Trish said as the girls lugged their shopping bags up to the suite. She unlocked the door and the girls dropped the bags on the floor just inside it for the moment. Sydney came to where they were then, feeling her way along the wall.
"Momma" she said excitedly "come look what we do". Alexis came over and took her hand, going into the living room area. The girls heard her exclaim and then a burst of hysterical laughter. They all rushed into the room and when they saw what she was laughing at they busted up laughing too. The guys were still asleep, fingernail polish designs all over their bodies. Randy had a heart on his stomach and it looked like Sydney or Kevin had tried to follow his tattoo designs because their was fingernail polish all over them. The kids had played tic-tac-toe on John's chest and had put some polish on his lips, making it look like he had on lipstick. Sylvain was the lucky one of the four. He had one lone stripe going down his nose. Mark however got the brunt of it all. There wasn't a part of his exposed body that didn't have some kind of design on it.
The girls laughing woke the guys up. "What are you girls cackling about?" Randy asked as he rubbed his eyes. Trish pointed to his arm. He looked down at it and his eyes widened in shock. The other guys had noticed their bodies and were talking all at once.
"What happened?" John asked, looking at himself. He stuck a finger in the not fully dried polish on his chest and made a face at the gooey feel. The girls filled the guys in on what happened and they went to clean up. John came out of the shower and wrapped his arms around Trish's waist. "I guess that's what we get for falling asleep huh?" he asked, kissing her shoulder.
"Yep" Trish laughed, rubbing her hand on the red spot on his bare chest where he had to scrub to get the polish off.
It was Thanksgiving. The girls were in the kitchen of their suite cooking dinner while the guys were watching the football game on tv and supposed to be watching the kids also. They had the kids sitting on the floor coloring quietly so they wouldn't be disturbed during the game. Randy got up and got another beer. As he came back into the living room Marcus called his name "Uncle Randy look at Matty". Randy looked over and saw Matty holding on to the back of the couch. Matty looked at him and to Randy's surprise walked right over to him and wrapped his arms around his waist. Randy dropped the beer he was holding, not paying any mind as it spilled all over the floor. He wrapped his arms around his son's waist and hoisted him up in his arms. Randy couldn't help the tears that fell from his eyes. The emotion he was feeling was overwhelming. He was so happy.
"Looks like I have something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving" he remarked as everyone looked at father and son with smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes.
A/N: The next chapter will be the last