I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Tara's Point of View-
Xavier and I danced until a knock came to the door, I left the game allowing Xavier to continue dancing.
"Hey Alex." I said smiling as I opened the door seeing him on the other side.
"Hey babe." Alex said as he scooped me up into a hug before he pressed his lips to mine for a kiss.
"Alex! You want to play?" Xavier asked as he ran up to the doorway to stand with us, Alex picked him up and set him on his hip.
"Maybe just one...where are your bags?" Alex asked as I stepped aside letting him step in with my son.
"What bags? I need bags?" I asked confused as I shut the door.
"Yeah, go pack." Alex said.
"For what?" I asked.
"Where are we going?" Xavier asked curiously, I was just as curious.
"We are going to Disney World, I got a hotel room and us two day passes, we will be back on the 30th and in time for us to go get fireworks for the next night." Alex said.
"We're going to Disney World?" Xavier asked excitedly.
"Yes we are bud," Alex said.
"I don't know Alex." I said unsure about all of this, it seemed kind of expensive.
"May we mom? Please?" Xavier said.
"Please?" Alex asked as him and Xavier did a pout look, "I already bought the tickets and hotel room." Alex said.
"How much do I owe you?"
"Nothing, just have fun." Alex said as he leant forward pressing his lips to mine for a kiss.
"Ew!" Xavier said covering his eyes.
"Ew? Ew?" Alex asked tickling Xavier then he tossed him onto the couch and pinned him to the couch as I went to the bedroom packing my things then zipped that up, I went into Xavier's room packing his superhero bag with his things he would need for the next few days taking the bags out to the living room putting them by the door still unsure about it but if that is what Alex wants to do then I am not going to argue with him and I get to spend the next so many days with my boyfriend that I love and with my son.
"Did you pack your swimsuit?" Alex asked.
"No, it's cold out." I said.
"They have an indoor pool, it'll be fine." Alex said as I took my bag back putting my and Xavier's swimsuit into the bag along with Xavier's arm floaties to wear since he wasn't that tall nor a good swimmer, I figured he won't need his duck floatie that would go around his waist.
"Mom, I'm hungry." Xavier said coming into the room.
"Me too." Alex said as he stopped at the door leaning onto the doorframe.
"Let me heat up some of the left over food before we head out." I said as I took the bag back to the door before I went into the kitchen. "What does everyone want?" I asked looking at the different containers with the different food in it.
"I want ham, yams and cranberries." Xavier said.
"Sounds good, me too." Alex said as I pulled out those containers heating up the contents that needed to be heated up then separated them onto the three plates then we went to the table setting the plates down. "Milk?" Alex asked as Xavier nodded as Alex poured the glasses for us and we carried the glasses to the table where we sat around it to eat. I went back to the kitchen grabbing forks for us since I totally forgot, I went back handing out the forks.
"Have you ever been to Disney World?" Alex asked before he took his first bite.
"No…what is it like?" Xavier asked as Alex and I begun trying to explain the rides and how much fun Disney World will be but I was worried he won't be able to go on a lot of rides. After finishing lunch, Xavier couldn't wait until we left but didn't understand why we needed a hotel since I had lived only a half hour away.
"Go wash up and put your shoes back on." I said as I rinsed the dishes off so it won't mold or harden.
"I'll go put the bags up, may I have your car keys to move the car seat over?" Alex asked.
"Only if you tell me why we need a hotel room." I said turning to face him drying my hands slightly.
"To make it more of a vacation than coming home every night….and you don't have a pool." Alex said smirking.
"It would have been cheaper…" I said when he put his finger to my lips.
"Will you please for the duration of this trip trust me, not worry about money or work and just have fun kind of like on the boat."
"I'll try."
"That is all I ask." Alex said smirking as he leant forward pressing his lips to mine for a small kiss, "The keys?" He asked.
"On the desk." I said as he went out hearing him grabbing the bags and head out the door as I washed the dishes the best I could and made sure I had everything and that everything will be fine for a few days as I found Xavier sitting on the bed getting frustrated with the shoe laces. "What's wrong?" I asked walking into the room.
"I can't get it." He said.
"When Alex comes in, he would love to teach you." I said smiling remembering I made a promise that Alex will teach him how to tie his shoes, I heard the front door open, I carried Xavier out to the living room so he won't trip over his shoe laces. "He's ready to learn to tie his shoes."
"Are you?" Alex asked setting the keys down and put his hands on his hips.
"Will you teach me please?" Xavier asked as Alex smiled as he grabbed my son carrying him to the couch where he sat down putting my son's feet on his lap.
"I was taught by a rhyme about a rabbit…you make a tree, this string is the rabbit, it runs around the tree then hide in the hole due to a storm that is coming." Alex said as he made a loop with one string and continued tying the shoe explaining it in rabbit sense as I snapped picture with my phone to capture his first time tying his shoes. "Why don't you try?" Alex asked as Xavier nodded confidently.
"Tree, rabbit, rabbit hops around the tree, hides in the hole from the storm." Xavier said completing the process of tying his shoe.
"You did it bud, congrats!" Alex said giving my son a high five.
"I did it!" Xavier said as he was nothing but smiles.
"Yes you did, all by yourself, I'm so proud of you." Alex said ruffling his hair before hugging him and kissed the top of his head, "Let's go, we got to go check into the hotel." Alex said as we headed out of the house, I made sure I had my house keys and I sent the pictures of Alex and Xavier tying his shoes to my mom as Alex held my hand on the way to the hotel that was Downtown Disney.
"We at Disney World?" Xavier asked.
"Somewhat, we are at our hotel…we will go to Disney World tomorrow but we have dinner reservations at Downtown Disney tonight." Alex said.
"Huh?" I asked as we got out of the car heading into the hotel.
"Surprise!" Alex said smiling as he leant forward pressing his lips to mine as we got in line checking into the hotel and headed to our room with our bags and our room was across from the pool.
"May we go swimming?" Xavier asked excitedly as he was practically pressing himself against the glass that looked into the pool.
"We have to change first." I said as Alex opened the door leading into the standard room setting our bags down.
"Get your swimsuits on." Alex said.
"When is the reservations?"
"7, we got time." Alex said smirking opening his bag as I did the same handing my son his trunks as I begun trying to blow up the floaties I had brought.
"Here, you have a lot of hot air, you should put it to good use." I said jokingly handing one to Alex, he grabbed it blowing that one up as I worked at the other one getting it filled enough seeing Alex plugging the floatie he had when Xavier came out and he slid them on.
"Do I have my duck floatie?"
"Nope, you're a big boy and you can go without the duck." I said ruffling his hair as I went into the bathroom changing into my swimsuit and slid clothes over it to cover up my body heading out to let Alex go change before we walked the short distance to the pool where we grabbed a few provided towels they had taking it to three chairs setting them down as we slid our shoes off and Alex pulled his shirt off as I begun doing the same.
"Canon ball!" Alex exclaimed as he ran and jumped into the pool doing the perfect cannon ball.
"My turn!" Xavier exclaimed as Alex resurfaced running a hand through his hair to get it out of his face.
"Come on bud, I got you." Alex said waving for Xavier to do it, Xavier looked up at me excitedly as I nodded as I got my camera ready doing the 7 snapshot option my camera had that took 7 snapshots one after the other within 2-3 seconds after the other to capture every moment of the process watching my son running and jumping with all his might into the water grabbing his legs doing his best canon ball into the water and Alex pulled him back to the surface pushing my sons hair out of his face as Xavier was giggling.
"That was fun!" Xavier said as I knew he was doggie paddling like I had taught him and he was having those floaties made me at ease.
"Are you coming?" Alex asked looking to me as I put my camera down pulling rest of my clothes off taking the ladder option in joining in on the splash fight Alex and my son were having and during the fight I was grabbed by Alex who picked me up tossing me into the deep end.
"My turn!" Xavier exclaimed as I emerged catching my breath and pushed hair out of my face.
"Be careful, don't take him into the deep end." I said.
"Trust me." Alex said as he threw my son over his shoulder hearing my son giggling instead of screaming before he made a big splash and I watched as he resurface by himself, I let out the breath I was holding.
"Again!" Xavier exclaimed.
"Let's do it!" Alex said as I pulled myself up onto the edge of the pool watching my son having fun being tossed around and Alex was trying to teach him how to flip mid-air and needless to say Xavier had picked it up, "Can you flip?" Alex asked nodding to me.
"When I was younger." I said.
"Will you show me?" Xavier asked.
"Do it!" Alex begun chanting and Xavier joined him as I got up and letting out a deep breath attempting it and unsure if I had succeeded until I resurfaced getting applauded.
"I can do a hand stand." Xavier said as he swam to the edge pulling himself onto the edge showing us his hand stand.
"Very impressive." Alex said as Xavier smiled before he jumped into the pool where we horsed around for a couple more hours before heading back to our room where Alex and I showered quickly letting Xavier slide as we changed back into the clothes we were wearing earlier today as we headed to downtown Disney by shuttle.
"Is this Disney World?" Xavier asked looking up at us.
"No, this is Downtown Disney, it is nothing but shops and restaurants, and for this week only they have a gingerbread house and snow to play in." Alex said.
"May we play in it?" Xavier asked.
"Absolutely." Alex said as we found the spoken place seeing parents playing with their kids and others standing aside. Alex chased Xavier through the snow making a snow ball along the way as I started making one as well throwing it at Alex when he ran past me. "Whose side are you on?" Alex asked when Xavier hit him from behind. "Hey!" Alex said chasing my laughing son as they took turns throwing snow at each other, I went into the gingerbread house looking at the detail that was put into it and reading the interesting facts about gingerbread when Alex walked up holding onto Xavier's hands seeing wet spots from the snow that had hit them.
"Is this real?" Xavier asked going up to the wall touching the gum drop that was placed on it.
"No, it's a replica of what one should be like…but you get free ones at the end of the tour." Alex said.
"Do we?" I asked as Alex nodded, we walked along the house listening to Xavier trying to read aloud what the signs with the interesting facts on it said until we got to the end where we each got a bag of different candy, I put them aside in my purse for dessert as Alex led us to Goofy's kitchen where we were sat at a table and was able to cook our own dinner at the table with the designated character, we got Donald Duck which Xavier loved every minute of and tons of picture were took during that time and other characters came around to meet with the kids and Xavier enjoyed every minute of it, I don't think the smile ever left his face. After dinner, we headed to the gift shop where Alex paid for us all to get matching Mickey ears to wear the next day and Xavier insisted on wearing his back to our hotel but he fell asleep on the way out of the gift shop in Alex's embrace, his head rested on Alex's shoulder but the smile never left his lips even when he slept. "As you couldn't tell, he's very excited." I said chuckling as I snapped a picture of this as we climbed onto the shuttle to head back to the hotel, Xavier was placed on Alex's lap and his head never left Alex's shoulder and Xavier never snarled, I snapped another picture.
"I could tell." Alex said smiling and proudly as we got shuttle back to the hotel, we went back to our room laying Xavier down and slowly slid his hat off and tried not to wake him. "I hope you had fun tonight." Alex said as he rested his hands on my hips after he pushed a strand of hair out of my face.
"It is always fun with you…when did I fall for you? You seriously too good for me." I said wrapping my arms around his neck smiling.
"You fell for my good looks then I got under your skin."
"Your kind of like an infection." I said chuckling.
"I've been told." Alex said smirking.
"Obviously I don't mind." I said leaning in pressing my lips to his for a kiss, "We should get to bed so we can get up early to take the youngster to Disney World."
"Yeah." Alex said as we changed into our pajamas sliding into the other bed cuddling under the covers feeling Alex's arms tightly wrapped around me and rested my head against his chest hearing the slight beat of his heart.