Disclaimer: I do not own maximum ride or any of its characters; I do how ever own the new characters and the story line.
"Ok, first things first" We had found a super Wal-Mart not to far away from a hotel. So we dropped the flock off at the pool and Kevin and I took Alana and Darren to shop. "cloths." I pushed the cart into the kids section and watched as Kevin frowned.
"Awww, look how cute the cloths are, not to mention how small." He rolled his eyes and looked at a rack of shirts. "What size do they wear?"
The smile disappeared from my face, I felt horrible like crying horrible. Kevin saw and quickly came over to put an arm around me. "What kind of mother am I? I don't even know what sizes they wear."
I was obviously embarrassing him because he kept looking around at all of the adults in the clothing section. "Jamie please don't cry, its not you fault that you don't know." It took a minute but I finally stopped crying. An elderly woman in a Wal-Mart vest came over and offered to help us.
Kevin quickly accepted and with in a few minutes she had found cloths in the right sizes. "It's hard to keep up with how fast they grow." She smiled and looked down at Alana and Darren, before going to help someone else.
"What next?" Kevin took a step back, almost as if expecting me to cry again. "Back packs, shoes and all that other stuff." He nodded and turned to leave, saying "be back in a sec." before disappearing.
Instantly Alana and Darren wanted to know where he went. I shrugged off there questions by taking them into the toy aisle. They calmly walked with me as If the toys weren't interesting, but I saw Alana's eyes light up as we walked past the baby dolls and Darren's light up when we passed the toy cars.
I smiled and stopped the cart. They looked up at me, saw my smile and started looking at the different toys. They didn't touch any of them until they found the ones they wanted. In the end Alana chose a cabbage patch kid and Darren chose three different toy cars.
I expected Alana to complain because Darren had three toys and she only had one. She didn't, instead she asked if Darren wanted to play with her doll. He politely declined and I felt like my face would fall off if I kept smiling.
"There you are!" Kevin ran into the aisle with the back packs and tennis shoes. He placed them into the cart and kissed my forehead. "What are you doing?" he wrapped an arm around my waist and looked down at Alana who was listening to Darren talk about his cars.
"Just getting a few toys." After picking up a few more things we paid and headed for the hotel.
This time we had three rooms, Beverly and Maria in the first, Matthew, Colton and hunter in the second one and then finally me with Alana, Darren and Kevin in the third one.
Alana and Darren automatically started playing with there toys on the floor next to the bed while Kevin and I put their stuff into their backpacks. "Ok, that's everything." I handed Alana's backpack to Kevin and tiredly fell onto the bed.
I quickly kicked off my shoes and curled up in the middle of the queen size bed. I heard a giggle and opened my eyes; Kevin was whispering something to the kids. I closed my eyes and tried to hear what they were saying.
"Dog pile on mom!" Kevin shouted and I felt all three of them jump on top of me. I opened my eyes and saw there smiling faces. "You know what happens when you dog pile mom right?"
They continued to laugh as they all shook there heads no. "They get tickled!" I used all of my strength and energy to get out from under them and then started tickling Alana. Darren wormed his way a way so I quickly pulled him back. "No stop that tickles!" he said between laughs.
"Me too!" Alana piled on top of us and started tickling me. "Get her!" both Darren and I teamed up on her. "Daddy!" I smiled as her reinforcements arrived and pulled Darren away, swinging him around real quick and then setting him on the bed to be tickled.
There was a knock on the door, but we were having too much fun to notice the flock walk into the room and stand off to the side. I picked up Alana up off of me and set her on the bed before carefully rolling myself off the bed as Kevin came after me.
"No fair!" he landed on top of me and pined me to the ground. "Ok, get her before she gets up." He was calling to the Alana and Darren, but looked up and saw the flock staring at us.
"You guys too, she can't get you back as long as im holding her down." They smiled and joined in. hunter shouted "Charge!" and I was pounced on. They continued to tickle me for a few more minutes and eventually their sights turned onto each other.
"That wasn't very nice." I frowned at Kevin, who was still holding me down. "Oh well, while you're here." He leaned down and kissed me.
When he pulled away Alana and Darren jumped on him. "Daddy, come play with us!" with a quick smile and an even faster kiss he got off of me and started chasing them around.