I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Alex's Point of View-
I stood behind Chris's wheelchair waiting for Tara to answer the question about why she was at the theme park alone, I would like to think Tara and I were pretty serious but I'm not sure if we had reached girlfriend and boyfriend status but we have kissed multiple times so she is interested, I would love to consider her my girlfriend.
"Mommy!" A boy exclaimed running up to Tara, I looked at the boy that ran up to her seeing her squat down picking the boy up into her embrace holding onto him.
"Where's grandma?" Tara asked.
"She's coming." The boy responded.
"You know not to run away from grandma or myself in public, you know why?" She said.
"Because strangers will take me away from you." He recited.
"Yes." Tara said looking over to Chris and I, I didn't know what to think nor say.
"This is my son Xavier." Tara said, Tara set the boy down and he walked over to Chris staring at his cast, "Xavier this is Chris and Alex."
"Hi!" Xavier said excitedly looking up at us, he was trying to touch Chris's cast and Chris didn't mind.
"Xavier don't." Tara said.
"What is it?" He asked turning around to look at his mom, all I could do was stare and let it soak in. The boy didn't look anything like her, but obviously this must be her son so either he looks like his dad or something else.
"It's a cast, it's like a giant band aid." Chris explained as she nodded, Xavier climbed onto his lap.
"Xavier, what do you say?" Tara asked.
"May I sit on you?" Xavier asked looking up at Chris from his lap.
"Well, that is something he hasn't heard in a while." I said sarcastically when Tara bit her lip not to laugh and Chris gave me a dirty look before looking down at the boy.
"Absolutely bud." Chris said.
"Is your cast like this?" Xavier said showing us his dinosaur band aid.
"Yep, what'd you do?" Chris asked talking to the kid when an older lady came out of the same place.
"Have you seen Xavier?" She asked panicked.
"Yeah, mom this is Chris and Alex." Tara said as she turned to look at us.
"Oh, hi…." She said shaking our hands, "You guys hungry?" Mom asked.
"I am." Xavier said excitedly.
"Me too." Chris said as those three headed towards the restaurant near by leaving Tara and I there to talk.
"Mom?" I asked as that is all I could think to say, it probably wasn't the smartest thing.
"Adopted mom…"
"Oh…" I said.
"Well…sort of…what happened was my best friend got pregnant, his dad left when he found out she was pregnant and she made a will during her pregnancy saying if anything was to happen I were to take sole custody of her son. Come due date, something gone wrong, he came into the world and she went out." Tara said as she couldn't even make eye contact with me and she was fighting back tears, I wrapped my arms around her pulling her close to me and kissed her temple.
"I love kids…Lord knows I am one." I said.
"You don't mind?" She said into my shoulder, I ran my hands through her blonde hair getting my fingers tangled in it.
"Mind? No, why would I?" I asked as she leant back smiling wiping her eyes, "Come on, let's go eat, I'm starving." I said leading her to the restaurant, mom had already bought all of us lunch and we sat at a table with them, Xavier still comfy on Chris's lap. "How old are you bud?" I asked as he was counting his fingers trying to hold up four.
"I'm this many." He said proudly.
"When is your birthday?" I asked.
"February 12th." Tara answered.
"Let me see your boo-boo again." Chris said as I leant over seeing the dinosaur band aid. "You like dinosaurs don't you?" Chris said getting the boy to smile wide.
"Yeah…" Xavier said grabbing one of his dinosaur chicken nuggets that he had gotten from the restaurant playing with them as we talked, I could really see the resemblance between mom and Tara.
"When does Adam sign?" Xavier asked as he ate a fry.
"5, we got time." Tara said.
"Spiderman?" Xavier asked.
"He is like you." I said smiling.
"Like mother like son." Tara said proudly.
"You like Spiderman?" Xavier asked looking up at Chris.
"I like Superman." Chris said.
"I like Batman, you want to be Spiderman?" I asked standing up, I picked him up out of Chris's lap standing him on the ground.
"How do you be Spiderman?" Xavier asked.
"Bend these two fingers, that can shoot webs and it makes him swing." I explained as he excitedly shot and I grabbed him pretending to make him swing side to side hearing him laugh, Tara and mom took care of our things following us with Chris. I stopped at the entrance of the Spiderman sitting down seeing Spiderman riding up on a four-wheeler.
"Spidey!" Xavier said as he pulled me to Spiderman, I bent down taking a picture of him with Spiderman sending it to Tara, he held onto my hand as we found our way out of the crowd seeing Tara pushing Chris with mom walking beside them. "How does Spiderman become Spiderman?" Xavier asked looking up at me.
"A spider bites him." I explained.
"I don't like spiders, do you?" Xavier asked.
"Can you keep a secret?" I asked squatting down, he nodded his head excitedly, "I hate spiders."
"They are big and hairy." Xavier said.
"Much like how he is." I said nodding to Chris when Xavier giggled.
"No he's not, your silly." Xavier said giggling as we went into the Spiderman ride where Xavier sat on Chris's lap because he hated when the seats moved during the show, I sat beside Tara and I couldn't help but to rest my hand on top of hers hoping she is okay with it.
Tara's Point of View-
I sat in the Spiderman show next to Alex, he reached over resting his hand on top of my hand and I looked down at it then up to him smirking. I was kind of shocked of how he was handling this whole Xavier thing but he could be putting on a front for me. We got up heading out of the ride seeing Xavier fast asleep on Chris's lap.
"I think he likes you." I said towards Chris.
"Who doesn't?" Chris said shrugging as we went to the side locking Chris's wheel chair.
"What is there to do in here until we go meet this hockey dude?" Alex asked as I was telling him all the rides as my mom sat next to the wheelchair relaxing some.
"What do you think Chris?" I asked looking back seeing that Chris was now fast asleep with his head resting against Xavier's, it was truly adorable, I snapped a picture of it and Alex snapped one as well.
"I didn't realize that the Spiderman ride was that boring." Alex said chuckling.
"It is Xavier's nap time, but I didn't know Chris has a nap time too." My mom said.
"Chris always liked his naps…he's very much like a kid too." Alex said smirking, "I can go for a coffee right now." Alex said looking to me smiling.
"I'll go get you a coffee, mom do you want one?" I asked looking to my mom.
"No, but I will have a water please." My mom said.
"Okay…" I said handing her my bag that carried all the snacks and water for her to grab herself a water bottle.
"I'll come with…" Alex said as he grasped my hand walking with me to Star Bucks.
"You think Chris would want one when he wakes up?" I asked as we went around the corner.
"Maybe…were you ever going to tell me?" Alex asked.
"I was…"
"When?"
"When I thought it was appropriate…"
"That would be when? I went over to your house?" Alex asked.
"No…it was just that I didn't want to scare you away…"
"Has a lot of men ran off because of you having Xavier?"
"No, I haven't dated anyone since I adopted Xavier, but I just know a lot of men get scared because girls have kids."
"You think that I am that kind of guy?"
"No, I never thought that…I just didn't want to ruin what we have." I said as we got into the line.
"Xavier will never ruin what we have, he is an adorable boy and I will love him like he is my own, please no more secrets?" Alex asked as he rested his hands on my hips pulling me to him being pelvis to pelvis with him and my hands resting on his chest.
"No more secrets…" I said still unsure about this whole thing when he gave me kiss on the lips. We walked up to Star Bucks buying some coffee going back to where we left rest of our party seeing that Chris and Xavier was now awake, I handed Chris the coffee I had bought him.