A/N So I doubt any of you actually wants to read just about Lisa being pregnant. So I'm just going to jump ahead into the future to when Lisa has had her baby and help the story along.
The title of this chapter is from Fallout Boy's song "Sugar We're Going Down" because I went to see them in concert Saturday night and it was beyond amazing.
since I'm skipping ahead to her third birthday the italics stuff is a kind of a recap of right after she was born. I felt like I needed something before heading right to her being three
Lisa and Landon were now proud parents of a beautiful, healthy little girl. It didn't even matter that Landon wasn't her biological dad. He fell in love with her as soon as he held her and she smiled at him.
She resembled Lisa in every way except her eyes. Her eyes were the same glowing blue as her father's. The difference though was her daughter's eyes didn't hold the coldness Jackson's always portrayed.
The first time her daughter had looked up at her heart had melted. She may have his eyes but Lisa was determined not to let her daughter remind her of him. What her father did wasn't her fault. Lisa couldn't imagine now how something that ended up being so wonderful could have resulted from something so terrible.
Alexis had just celebrated her third birthday and would soon be starting preschool. Lisa worried about her starting preschool. She worried about her enough already when she was at work and her dad was watching her. Now she was supposed to just drop her daughter off to be watched by some stranger. Since she had a daughter of her own she now understood why her dad was always calling to check on her. It worried Lisa that she hadn't seen or heard anything from Jackson. She knew she shouldn't completely let her guard down. He had told her that they would have plenty of time to talk later
Since Alexis was only three Lisa hadn't seen any reason to explain what happened to her 'real' dad quite yet. She wasn't exactly hiding secrets from her she just would rather wait until she was older to tell her the truth. She figured she had plenty of time to tell her later. Alexis already called Landon daddy and legally he was since last year. Lisa had been so excited when Landon had proposed to her. So Lisa and Landon decided together that it was better not to confuse her as of now. They were a happy family and that's all that mattered to her.
The next couple of weeks went very fast for the whole family. The Lux Alantic was busier than ever due to it being summer and families taking vacations. Whenever Lisa wasn't working she was taking care of Alexis or the housework. Landon had just started a new job and it seemed that recently he only came home long enough to sleep. He assured her things would eventually slow down and then he would be able to spend some quality time with her and Alexis
Before Lisa realized it summer had come and gone. Where had all the time gone? She had been thinking that a lot lately. At Alexis's birthday party she found herself thinking the same thing. To her it seemed like it was just yesterday that she brought her home from the hospital. To make it worse Alexis had taken to reminding her mother constantly that she started school in only two short days. Lisa hadn't forgotten because she had been dreading the day. She didn't want her little girl to be growing up so fast.
Monday morning Alexis was already in her parent's bedroom before it had even become light outside.
"Wake up" Alexis whined "Time for school." Alexis jumped on the bed when neither of her comments got any kind of response.
Landon woke up and turned to look at his alarm clock "Lexi, honey, its five in the morning why aren't you still sleeping?"
"Too excited. School starts today." She announced bouncing on the bed some more waking up her mother.
"Lexi, what are you doing in here?" Lisa asked obviously unaware that Landon had just asked the same question
"I'm too excited to sleep."
"How bout daddy reads you a story and then you go back to sleep for a little bit longer. It's not quite time for school yet."
Alexis liked hearing stories and ran off to her bedroom to pick one out.
Landon slowly got up to follow his daughter. Landon couldn't help but glare a little at his wife. "What a wonderful suggestion, Leese. Make me get up and read to her."
"Well you wanted her to go back to sleep didn't you? Reading to her is the easiest way to make her fall back to sleep."
This didn't seem to make him feel any better about having to get up at five in the morning.
"Did I mention how much I love you?" Lisa asked placing a kiss on his cheek. This always worked.
"Not today no but you know I do like being reminded" Landon answered with a small smile and kissed Lisa on the forehead on his way out of the bedroom.
Alexis was already situated in her bed with story book in hand when Landon walked in.
"Didn't we just read this one?" he asked her looking pointing to the cover of the book
"Yes, but it's my favorite" she answered drawing out the word favorite to make sure he got the point.
He wasn't more than a couple pages into the story when he noticed she had finally fallen back to sleep.
"Well, that didn't take long" Lisa commented when he walked back into the bedroom and got back in bed.
"That's because I'm an amazing father"
"You really are. You're also an amazing husband" Lisa replied kissing him on the lips
"Well, you're an amazing wife and mother."
"Thanks"
He laid back down with her and extended his one arm so it was laying across her stomach and he was holding Lisa close to him. This intimate contact with him no longer freaked her out. Now she just felt safe and secure.
It seemed that no sooner had they gotten back to sleep that it was time to for them to get up to go to work and take Alexis to school.
Lisa went into to wake Alexis up but it turns out she had already gotten up for a second time on her own.
"Look, Mommy, I dressed myself" Alexis stated beaming with pride as Lisa opened the door to her bedroom.
Lisa had to admit she was dressed. Everything just wasn't on properly. Her shirt was on backwards and her socks didn't match. She had managed to get her jeans on correctly. Thanks goodness for Velcro.
"You did a great job honey but do you mind if mommy helps you fix your shirt and socks."
With Lisa's help Alexis was finally ready to go to school. To bad her parents weren't.
