I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Adora's Point of View-
We just finished all the dishes, I pulled the pie out turning the oven off when Alex walked out with his one hand in his pocket and the other pointing behind him seeming on edge.
"Xavier is sick." Alex said.
"What do you mean sick?" I asked.
"He is vomiting in the toilet." Alex said as I hurried past him and Alex followed me to the bathroom seeing my son sitting there having gator tears roll down his cheeks and some dribble of his vomit was on his shirt and some dribble on his face.
"My tummy hurts." Xavier said wrapping his arms around his stomach.
"I think next time wait a little longer before dancing." I said as he nodded, I walked him to his room as Alex flushed the toilet. I changed Xavier into his pajamas wiping his face off with a baby wipe grabbing the bucket I keep next to his bed going out to the living room turning Rudolph on for him to watch. Alex sat down beside me and Xavier on the couch, Xavier moved himself over to Alex's lap resting his head against his chest getting comfortable. I could tell Alex was at first uncomfortable with Xavier sitting on his lap, but Alex slowly rested his hand on my son's back rubbing it lightly. "Let me get you some water." I said reaching over rustling my son's hair as I got up going to the kitchen pouring a small paper cup of water taking it out to him as Xavier drunk it slowly like I had taught him.
"My tummy is feeling little better." Xavier said.
"Your probably dehydrated." Alex said as he rubbed at Xavier's shoulder.
"What's that?" Xavier asked.
"You haven't drunk a lot of water and you had too much sugar." I explained.
"Oh." Xavier said as I got him a bottle of water to drink slowly but he had fallen asleep on Alex's lap with his head on Alex's chest. I grabbed the 3/4th full bottle he had from Xavier's grip as Alex stood up not dropping my son and carried the bucket in the other hand taking my son to his room tucking him in. I went into the kitchen putting the bottle up for Xavier to drink when he gets up tomorrow because he will definitely need to drink it.
"Is Xavier okay?" My mom asked as she was going through her now printed photos.
"Just dehydrated, I want to see the photos." I said sitting down next to her going through the photos she had printed out when I had noticed Alex hadn't emerged from Xavier's room. "I'll be back." I said heading to my son's room seeing Alex sitting on the edge of the bed running his hand through Xavier's hair and his hand was on the other side of his small body. "What's wrong?" I asked smirking as I walked into the room.
"Afraid he'll get sick in the middle of the night." Alex said not looking back at me.
"That's why he has a bucket, he is the type of kid that once he's asleep a bomb could go off and he won't wake up." I said walking in resting my hands on his shoulders.
"Do you always have these same worries?" Alex asked.
"Everyday, it comes with being a parent." I said kissing the top of his head, "Come on, mom has pictures." I said as he nodded, he stood up following me out of the room where he stopped turning the light off behind him.
"Good night bud." Alex said before he slowly started closing the door leaving it to a crack before he wrapped an arm around me walking with me to the dining room, he pulled his seat over to sit next to me wrapping his arm around me again as I looked through the pictures again with him as my mom was working on a page in the new scrapbook.
"Didn't you say you had pie?" Alex asked looking over to me.
"Yes I do, you want a slice?" I asked smirking.
"Please." Alex said smiling.
"What do you say mom?" I asked getting up heading to the kitchen to get slices of pie for everyone.
"I'll have a slice." My mom said.
"Coffee or milk?" I asked grabbing three plates from the cabinet.
"I'll make the coffee." Alex offered as he joined me in the kitchen making the pot of coffee as I put slices on each of the three plates.
"I got whip cream and ice cream, any one?" I asked turning to look at my mom then to Alex not sure if they wanted either one.
"Both." Alex said as he leant back against the counter waiting for the coffee to brew.
"Alex knows what is good." My mom said as I pulled both out putting a scoop of ice cream on each plate then sprayed whip cream on the pies.
"OoohhH, spray some into my mouth." Alex said excitedly.
"Lean back." I said as he did so I could spray some whip cream into his mouth before I did it to myself.
"God, you two are the only two people I know that do that." My mom said as I giggled as I sprayed more in Alex's mouth.
"It's amazing." Alex said with his mouth full of whip cream.
"Xavier does it too." I said before I did it again capping it before we would want more, I put it up along with the ice cream taking out two of the plates to the table coming back to the kitchen pulling down three coffee cups pouring the coffee as I showed Alex where the sugars to put in his coffee were and I put creamer into my moms and mine taking the two cups out as Alex grabbed his cup and the plate of pie going to the table eating and drinking, after we finished I played with my bracelet.
"You like it?" Alex asked as he reached over grabbing the bracelet as well, I looked up at him from it making eye contact.
"Love it." I said smiling as he smiled too, "Thank you." I said.
"Your welcome." Alex said leant over kissing me on the side of my head, "When are you going to do your scrapbook?" Alex asked curiously.
"Why?" I asked looking to him as I twirled my fork on my plate.
"I want to do a page." Alex said.
"My printer is still plugged in." My mom said as I looked over at her, she didn't even look up at us.
"Would you mind if I used it?" I asked.
"Not at all, Alex is welcome to print himself copies if he wants them." My mom said as I set up the printer and plugged my camera into her printer to print out the pictures.
"I may want copies." Alex said as I begun printing one picture at a time of the pictures handing them to Alex for him to look through as I went to grab my scrapbook to put the fresh new pictures in. "I stole these." Alex said flashing the handful of photos he had wanted.
"Alright, let me reprint those and print some from my mom's camera." I said as I printed out copies of those pictures for me then printed out spares of my mom's photos for Alex and I.
"I'm heading to bed, thank you both for the lovely presents and Merry Christmas." My mom said as she closed her book standing up.
"Your welcome mom, Merry Christmas. Good night." Alex said as she gave us each a hug before she headed back to her room for the night. "May I make a page?" Alex asked as I got to the first free page of the book.
"Absolutely." I said smiling as I pulled out the cardstock that was in the sheet along with three photos to try to fit onto the sheet, "Do you ever scrapbook?" I asked looking at him out of the corner of my eye.
"I used to help my mom and sister." Alex said smirking as he placed the photos on the sheet before he put photo squares on the back of one of the photos.
"Sister older or younger?" I asked.
"Younger, I also have a younger brother. What about you?"
"I have an older sister but she is out of the picture." I admitted.
"She didn't die did she?" Alex asked fearfully.
"No, well I don't know…she left at age 18 and never looked back."
"Oh, what's the age difference?"
"4 years."
"Not bad…there is 5 between my sister and I, my brother is in the middle." Alex said as he glanced at me as he pressed the photo onto the sheet.
"Who were you closer with?" I asked curiously.
"My brother, it was hard adjusting to having a sister but she had two brothers so she had to accustom too, so we all had to get used to it." Alex said.
"I bet, and let me guess she didn't date anyone either?" I joked.
"We didn't let her date." Alex said sternly as he put the box of photo squares down.
"Did you mean what you said on the heart?" I asked randomly looking down at my bracelet.
"I wouldn't have put it on there if I didn't mean it, that would have been ridiculous." Alex said as I had to chuckle, it went quiet for a little bit when Alex spoke up, "Do you feel the same?" Alex asked as I couldn't even look at him, I kept my focus on the sheets and photos in front of me, but honestly I couldn't help the smile that was creeping on my face.
"I guess I'll keep you." I said looking over at him smiling and he had a half smirk.
"I hope so." Alex said as he leant over pressing his lips to mine, "I'm kind of tired." Alex said as he put the last photo down on the sheet and looked at his work.
"Me too." I said as I begun putting what we had out up, Alex carried his copies of the photos back to my room where he put them in his bag. "Where are you going to put those pictures?" I asked curiously.
"I'll find a place…thinking of making a couple of wallet sizes of these pictures…"
"Wallet sizes?" I asked kind of shocked but yet thought it was cute he would want to do that.
"Yeah so I could show you off to my friends, can you send the pictures you have on your phone to mine?" Alex asked.
"Remind me in the morning." I said as I went into the bathroom changing into the same Tinker-Bell pajamas coming out climbing into bed with Alex.
"What are we doing tomorrow?" Alex asked.
"Depends on how Xavier feels."
"What do you usually do?"
"Nothing really." I said shrugging as Alex ran a hand through my hair.
"How much time do you have off?" Alex asked.
"Until the 2nd, Universal gives those with kids a lot more time off to spend holidays with their kids because they know school and daycares are out until after the New Years."
"So then, what are we going to do until then?"
"We?"
"You think I'm going to be that hard to get away from, especially the girl I love."
"True, we should use this time wisely since neither of us are working. What do you do around the holidays?"
"I go ice skating." Alex said.
"We'll go ice skating then, I've never took Xavier to any rink."
"Then it'll be a first, he may like it…" Alex said as I yawned, "I guess that's a cue that it's time to shut up." Alex said.
"It's not that, I'm sorry."
"It's fine." Alex said smirking as he slithered his arm around my waist pulling me close to his embrace, my hand resting on his chest as our foreheads rested against each others. "Good night, I love you." Alex said, it sounded so much better hearing it come from his mouth. I looked into his brown eyes that had a slight sparkle in them, I couldn't help but to smile hearing him say it.
"Night, I love you too." I said not believing I had just said that and the nervousness and fears of saying it, the fears that it was setting me up for failure and pain but Alex hasn't given me a reason yet to believe this.