Chapter 46
"San," Paul whined one afternoon, "I can't see right, I've got this nasty cold and it's clogged up my sinuses."
"And that is my problem how?" Sandy asked, raising an eyebrow. "Try carrying a baby and having to go to the bathroom every ten minutes."
"Tyler gave me this shit. He's your kid."
"Jesus, Paul, the way you act, pretty soon I'll think I'm going to have three children instead of two."
Paul coughed, then got a strange look on his face. "OH MY GOD, IS THAT BLOOD?" he yelled.
"No it isn't," she said. "For God's sake, every little germ you get, you act like you're dying."
"Maybe I am," he whimpered. "Thanks to your son."
"Go take some of that stuff in the medicine closet I'd gotten for Tyler," she suggested. "Whining is cute when someone is seven, not twenty seven. And if you think you're dying, go lay down for awhile. Better yet, you can call Spanky and excite him with your bellyaching."
"You're no fun today, crab ass."
"Well, your daughter decided to start her little flips, along with the kick and stomp dance, in me at three thirty this morning. Between that and you hogging half the bed, I didn't sleep much."
Paul made his way to the medicine closet, murmuring in Spanish.
"And if you're going to cuss, do it in English," Sandy added.
"Hey, guys!" Tyler said cheerfully as he came in the door from school, throwing down his backpack. "What's happening?"
"Disease spreader," Paul snorted at him.
"Hey, I said I was sorry," Tyler replied.
"Don't mind Daddy," Sandy said. "He's a bit cranky today."
"So is Mami," Paul responded, taking some cold medicine and then making a face. "JESUS CHRIST, ARE YOU TWO TRYING TO KILL ME?"
"Now what's the problem?" Sandy asked.
"I don't know what is worse, Tyler giving me his fucking germs or this cold medicine shit you have in here."
"Well, I'd like to hang around and enjoy all this marital bliss, but I have homework to do. I'll be upstairs," Tyler said.
"Dinner will be ready in hour, sweetheart," Sandy told him, then realizing she had been cranky the better part of the day, threw in jokingly. "And don't worry, I just made the payment on Paul's life insurance."