I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Tara's Point of View-
I woke up the next morning not seeing Alex beside me, I rolled back seeing my door open so I got up walking out rubbing my face as I got to the living room not seeing anyone but begun to smell bacon and pancakes coming from the kitchen walking into the room seeing Xavier sitting on the island next to the bowl of pancake batter watching Alex who was at the stove multi-tasking. Alex turned around holding the frying pan with a freshly cooked pancake in it.
"Morning sleepy head." Alex said smirking as he slid the pancake on top of the pile of pancakes that were already made.
"Morning mommy." Xavier said turning to look at me with a smile.
"You look like you feel better." I said as I walked around the island running my hand through his hair realizing he needed a hair cut.
"I do, I drunk a whole bottle of water by myself." Xavier said proudly.
"I don't get a morning?" Alex asked stepping beside me to grab the batter.
"Morning Alex." I said leaning over giving him a light kiss, "What is all this?"
"Breakfast." Xavier said and I smirked, "And I helped cook it." He said proudly.
"This is a ritual my family does, figured you wouldn't mind." Alex said as I could tell he was smirking from his spot in front of the stove and I just looked at the back of his head.
"I put my toys up this morning mommy." Xavier said proudly again turning back to my son.
"Good boy, now go get dressed." I said.
"I want to finish help cooking breakfast." Xavier said.
"I'll finish helping Alex." I said.
"It's time for mommy to help me." Alex said.
"But may I flip one more?" Xavier asked.
"Absolutely, come here." Alex said as he walked over picking my son up from the island resting him on his hip taking him over to the stove handing Xavier the spatula to flip it. "Just like how I showed you." Alex said as my son tried to flip it when Alex helped him rest of the way.
"Mom, I flipped that pancake, may I have that one?" Xavier asked.
"We will put it aside just for you." I said as Xavier went to get dressed, "Is my mom up." I asked.
"She left earlier, she said she got called into work for today and tomorrow." Alex said.
"What time is it?" I asked curiously as I put antibacterial on to begin helping him cook what was left.
"9:30, she left no more than a half hour ago." Alex said as he put that pancake onto a different plate that was put onto the island.
"Sorry for sleeping in." I said as I pulled a pancake onto another plate.
"No problem, your not superman...and you need a better definition of sleeping in, because 9:30 is no where near what sleeping in is clarified in my dictionary." He said as he leant over pressing his lips to my cheek.
"Your not superman either." I said smirking because that is all I could think of to say as I put a pancake onto the second and third plate making trips to the table.
"Mom, Alex said we are going ice skating like hockey players." Xavier said as he walked into the room fully dressed properly.
"Are you excited about it?" I asked as he climbed into his seat sitting on his knees.
"Yes, when are we going?" Xavier asked turning around to look at Alex still in the kitchen.
"After breakfast." Alex said as I brought out the last plate with butter and syrup.
"Juice or milk?" I asked.
"Juice." Xavier answered as I went back into the kitchen grabbing silverware taking it out to the table buttering Xavier's pancake and allowed him to do his own syrup but watched over him to make sure he didn't do too much. I went back into the kitchen realizing I could get used to this, it seemed like a standard family smiling at the thought of this being a family. I poured Xavier a glass of orange juice with no pulp just the way Xavier liked it.
"Alex, you want juice?" I asked.
"Nah, I'll have milk." Alex said as he looked back at me smirking, I nodded as I put the juice up grabbing the milk to pour the glasses for Alex and I taking them to the table seeing my son barely have two bites eaten of his pancake and trying to cut it himself.
"You want help?" I asked looking to my son.
"No mommy, I can do it." Xavier said smiling as I went back to the kitchen seeing Alex pour rest of the batter into the pan and I grabbed the plate of bacon taking it to the table putting a couple on my son's plate then some on Alex and my plate leaving the bacon there in case we want more.
"Tara, can you do me a favor?" Alex asked.
"Absolutely." I said smirking as I walked back into the kitchen.
"I have vitamins I take daily in my bag, I missed yesterday so can you go grab them please?" He asked as he flipped the pancake.
"No problem." I said as I went back to my room to his duffel bag shuffling through to find the few bottles of vitamins, each bottle was a different vitamin so I took all of them with me to the kitchen to see Alex take the plate with the pancakes to the table.
"Thanks." Alex said.
"What are those?" Xavier asked as he bit into his bacon.
"Vitamins, they help my body be strong and get things I don't normally get." Alex explained.
"Like what?" Xavier asked.
"Calcium, its in milk and I don't drink a lot of it so I sometimes take a vitamin for calcium to give it to my body." Alex said.
"What does calcium do for the body?" Xavier asked.
"Tara." Alex said looking over to me.
"Calcium helps makes your bones strong so they won't break and helps your teeth too." I said as I put syrup on my pancakes.
"Is that why I drink a lot of milk?" Xavier asked.
"Yep, it also helps your bones to grow." I said.
"So you could be tall like me." Alex said smiling.
"Am I going to be that tall?" Xavier asked.
"Maybe, either taller or shorter, but you will be taller." I said knowing that he'll be at least my height because his mom was my height, so let's hope that won't be sooner than it will be later, I enjoyed watching Xavier grow up and was treasuring these moments with him.
"Why is everyone different heights?" Xavier asked.
"Your mom didn't drink her milk." Alex said as he sipped his milk.
"Did too…girls just have smaller frames and are known to be shorter than guys, but there could be woman that are just as tall. It is known that you will be between the heights of your mom and dad." I said.
"Is there anyone my height?" Xavier asked.
"A few." Alex said as we spent the whole breakfast discussing heights and bone structure, Alex always had a smile n his face. "I think Scooby-Doo is on." Alex said.
"May I go watch?" Xavier asked.
"Yeah, channel 64." I said as he went out to the living room, I stood up collecting things to take to the kitchen.
"I'll take care of this, you go get dressed. You want to keep the left over food?" Alex asked as I looked at the stack of five pancakes.
"Nah, have enough from last night." I said as I went back to the room changing and came out pulling my shoes on before going into the kitchen helping Alex. "Thanks." I said as I put the butter back, I looked back to Alex who shut the cabinet after putting the syrup up.
"No problem. I love you." Alex said as he stepped closer to me, resting his hands on my hips pressing his lips to mine.
"I love you too…I think you promised ice skating." I said smirking.
"Well your excited." He said smiling and moved a strand of hair from my face.
"I am, haven't been since I was a kid."
"I go every year, so start training because you are going to start going every year."
"I could deal with that, depending on Xavier."
"I'm sure he'll love it, come on." Alex said as we headed out to the living room getting ready, Alex drove us in his car to the local ice skating rink.
"I like this car…" Xavier said.
"Me too, maybe your mom should get one." Alex said as he reached over grasping my hand with the bracelet still dangling from my wrist.
"May we mom?" Xavier asked.
"I'll see what I can do." I said knowing it will never happen, Alex parked in the parking lot seeing two other cars there. "Is it even open?" I asked climbing out of the car then helped Xavier out of the car walking into the rink not seeing anyone on the ice.
"I guess no one else skates." Xavier said.
"They do, just not today I guess." I said shrugging but was happy at the fact that we got the whole ice to ourselves.