I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Tara's Point of View-
I was woken up by a knock at the door, I slowly sat up scratching at the top of my head as my sight was coming more clearer from the blur vision of just waking up. A hotel attendant came in putting four plates onto the table before walking out hearing the door shut behind him.
"Yay! Pancakes are here!" Xavier exclaimed running out of the bathroom.
"Did you wash your hands?" Alex asked as I rubbed my eyes seeing Alex walking over from the door area.
"Yes Alex." Xavier said nodding knowing he was lying.
"Liar, go back in there and wash them." I said getting them both to jump.
"Morning…listen to your mom…" Alex said as he smirked looking between Xavier and I.
"Fine…" Xavier said going back to the bathroom to wash his hands.
"Where's my mom?" I asked scratching the top of my head again just noticing she was nowhere to be found.
"She went to the store, she said she needed to buy some kind of medicine or something." Alex said as he walked over to the bed with his hands now being shoved in his pockets.
"Is she okay?" I asked concerned standing up to be face to face with him.
"Yes, she said she had a headache…morning." He said pressing his lips to mine for a kiss, "Care to tell me why you called Chris's name out in your sleep last night?" Alex asked smirking as our faces were still mere inches together as he leant forward pressing our lips together again.
"I said that? Oh god…sorry…I had a dream that Chris was doing something stupid with his leg still in his cast…my work has took too much of my life." I said slightly embarrassed covering half of my face with my hand that broke the distance between our faces.
"It's fine…come on, I ordered you a special round of pancakes." Alex said as he grabbed both my hands pulling me with him but he made sure we got closer than we were previously, we were pelvis to pelvis and chest to chest and he wrapped my arms around his neck and he rested his on my waist. "I can get used to this…" Alex said smirking as we stopped right at the edge of the beds closer to the table.
"You already are used to it." I said smiling as I pressed my lips to his.
"See mom! I washed them this time." Xavier said coming out of the bathroom and up to me showing me his hands inspecting them.
"Good…" I said smirking as I ruffled my son's hair.
"How did you know he didn't wash his hands?" Alex asked.
"By the tone of voice he used when he answered you." I said smiling.
"Mom always knows when I'm lying." Xavier said smiling.
"It better stay like that when you get to puberty." I said.
"What's puberty?" Xavier asked.
"Something that you will learn when you get older and Alex will discuss it with you." I said glancing to Alex who rolled his eyes.
"Well that will be a joyous conversation." Alex said.
"Who better to learn it from than a man." I said smirking as the door opened seeing my mom coming in with a CVS bag. "Morning mom." I said as she let out a deep breath.
"Morning." She said.
"Breakfast?" Alex asked as he wrapped his arms around me as I tried to walk away but he pulled me back to his embrace giggling as he kissed at my neck.
"Nah, not that hungry." My mom said knowing she probably had a migraine by now if she was denying food.
"Take some medicine and lay down mom." I said as she nodded laying down doing just that.
"She okay?" Alex whispered.
"She probably has a migraine, we got to keep it quiet." I said.
"Hey Xavier, why don't we take our breakfast out by the pool?" Alex asked.
"We can do that?" Xavier asked as he looked up from the spot he was at kneeling on the one chair.
"Absolutely." Alex said shrugging as he grabbed two plates and I grabbed another one along with a room key following behind the two men. We walked out to the pool side claiming one of the tables that was there sitting around it, "Does she get migraines often?" Alex asked.
"Just as much as I do…once every two months or so…nothing too serious and it's hereditary…" I said shrugging as Alex pulled the covers off the plates seeing that Xavier had bananas on his pancakes along with a few syrup cartons to pour on top of his pancakes, the bananas were in a shape of a smiley face.
"A smiley face, that is so cool." Xavier said happily as he pulled one of the banana slices off the pancake eating it. "What'd you guys get?" Xavier asked as he reached for another slice of banana as Alex pulled off his seeing the same thing and I did mine but mine had hair on it with strawberries instead of bananas. "Why did you get strawberries?" Xavier asked.
"Girls have long hair." I said.
"May I have a strawberry, please?" Xavier asked as I picked the fork up from the napkin that wrapped it picking a strawberry up onto it feeding it to him getting him to smile as he ate the strawberry.
"May I have one too, please?" Alex asked as I looked across the table at him, he just smiled at me and I rolled my eyes as I poked another strawberry onto my fork handing the fork across the table for him to feed himself but he shook his head 'no.' "You got to feed me like you did him." Alex said as he nodded towards Xavier who covered his mouth giggling as Alex opened his mouth.
"Are you serious?" I asked lowering the fork a little.
"Dead serious, come on." Alex said as he opened his mouth again, I rolled my eyes as I let out a chuckle going along with it. "It wasn't that hard." He said as he smirked as he chewed on the strawberry then I ate one myself, I ate rest of the fruit off before I begun pouring syrup onto my pancakes seeing Alex help pull the cover off the syrup cartons for Xavier. "Is your mom going to be okay? Does she get migraines often?"
"Not often, like I said before, but when she does get it, it'll be best to let her be and let it take care of itself…the worst case scenario is her stomach will be upset until stuff comes up…" I said as I tried to say it in the least gross ways.
"You get it too?" Alex asked.
"Yep…luckily he hasn't gotten them and probably won't, I hope." I said nodding towards my son.
"Get what?" Xavier asked.
"Migraines…" I said.
"What's that?" Xavier asked.
"It's when your head hurts super bad…" I said trying to explain it.
"Ouch…that is not normal, right mom?" Xavier asked.
"Nope…that is why you take medicine to make things normal." I said as he nodded his head yes.
"You excited for the beach?" Alex asked.
"Yes! Are we going to go into the ocean?" Xavier asked.
"Nah, I think it might be too cold for that." I said.
"Then may we go swimming before we go?" Xavier asked.
"I don't know if we have time." Alex said.
"Why is that?" Xavier asked.
"We have to leave by noon and it's 10 AM." Alex said.
"Is it?" I asked not knowing it was that late.
"Yes, well around there…" Alex said, "Did you have fun this weekend Xavier?" Alex asked as I saw the hopeful look in his eye as he glanced to my son as he was taking bites into his pancakes.
"I had fun! When are we going again?" Xavier asked excitedly, "May I take my Mickey ears to day care next time I go mommy?" Xavier asked looking to me.
"Yes, if you promise not to lose them." I said.
"I won't lose them, I love the ears." He said happily.
"We will go again during summer…" Alex said.
"When's that?" Xavier asked.
"In 6 months, can you wait that long?" Alex asked as he took a bite of his pancake.
"How many days is that?" Xavier asked.
"Well, let's figure this out…jump start on your math skills…" Alex said as he pulled a sharpie from his pocket.
"Why do you have a sharpie in your pocket?" I asked curiously.
"As a wrestler, you tend to carry one because you never know when you will get stopped by fans to sign something." Alex said smirking.
"Oh yeah, that came in handy this weekend." I said chuckling.
"It is now…" Alex said sarcastically as I got a dead serious face. "Okay so how many days are in one month?" Alex asked.
"30 or 31…not sure which is which." Xavier said as he put his fork down and started eating with his hands, but I didn't bother to get after him, figured let him make a mess this one time since we were on vacation of sorts.
"January has 31, February isn't an average month, it only has 28 unless if it is leap year then it is 29, this year it has 29." Alex said.
"Why is that?" Xavier asked.
"Scientifically, they say that it comes down to how many times the earth spins and how many times it rotates around the sun…every four years is leap year, it is when we get an extra day due to such rotation." Alex tried to explain.
"I don't understand." Xavier said.
"I'll demonstrate it later when we have fruit." Alex said as Xavier nodded, "March has 31, right?" Alex asked looking up to me questionably.
"Yeah…then April has 30." I said.
"Leaving May to have 31." Alex said.
"So, every other month it is 31?" Xavier asked.
"Sort of." I said.
"Okay, so 31 + 28 + 31 + 30 +31 will equal what?" Alex asked as he flipped his napkin to show the numbers along a lined up in a downward column.
"Um…1 + 8 is…" Xavier said using his fingers to count as we watched him count his syrup and pancake crumb fingers as he counted, "9. Then 9 + 1 is 10…" He said adding his last finger to stand up. "Then there is a 0 next, 10 + 0 is 10, right?" He asked looking to Alex then to I.
"Yes, so you're at 10…" Alex said.
"Then plus 1 is…" He said as Alex reached over adding his finger to it, "11?" Xavier asked questionably.
"Yep…" Alex said nodding as Alex slid the napkin over to sit in front of him where he wrote 1 below the line he had drawn below all the numbers then put the other 1 above the first 3.
"Where is the other 1?" Xavier asked.
"It was carried over here, it is to be added to this column…" Alex said as he started to try to explain it, my son really understood or was trying to understand what Alex was saying which means he is going to take after his real mom and be a math genius. During so I had pulled out my camera recording him doing this type of math, figured it won't hurt to see this for future use and it made me proud.
"3 + 1 is 4…4 + 2 is 6…6 + 3 is 9…9 + 3 is…" Xavier asked looking at his now empty hand when Alex reached over adding his two fingers, "10, 11, 12…" Xavier said counting the fingers Alex had now added. "12 + 3 is…" Xavier said as Alex added the last three fingers on his hand, "13, 14 15…12 + 3 is 15…so the answer is 15." Xavier said as Alex nodded as Alex slid the napkin in front of him writing 15 down.
"So 31 + 28 +31 + 30 + 31 equals 151." Alex recited back, "Good job buddy." Alex said as he gave my son a high five and my son was so proud and he was nothing but smiles as Alex rubbed his hands with my clean napkin from the syrup he had gotten from my son's hand.
"That's hard and a lot of work…" Xavier said as he put a slice of his pancake into his mouth.
"It'll get easier…" I said.
"And when you get our age, you will have a calculator." Alex said.
"Calculator?" Xavier asked.
"It's a device that you use to do math." I said.
"Why didn't we use that in the first place?" Xavier asked getting us both to laugh.
"You need to practice." Alex said chuckling as we finished our breakfast before we cleaned up our mess heading back to our room trying to be as quiet as possible as we made trips out to his and my mom's car loading up our things, I did the liberty of packing my mom's things so we didn't have to bother her until we checked out through the television.
"You can check out through the television?" Xavier asked.
"Yep, technology huh?" Alex asked as he ruffled my sons hair as he put the remote back on top of the television like where it was when we had arrived.
"Mom, it's time to leave." I said softly as I gave my mom a light shake, "You feeling any better?" I asked.
"Yeah, my head isn't feeling as bad as it was…you guys won't be mad at me if I just meet you guys at home?" My mom asked as she sat up.
"No, not at all…we won't be here much longer, I think we were just going to walk along the beach then head back…but we totally understand if you want to head home." I said nodding as I looked to Alex who had flung Xavier over his shoulders by request and Xavier was laughing.
"Go home mom, we don't want to make you sicker…go home and sleep…" Alex said.
"Yeah grandma, I want you to feel better." Xavier said as he looked at his grandma smiling which caused my mom to smile.
"Alright, you guys have fun for me then." My mom said.
"We will, trust us." Alex said winking.
"I'm scared." I said as I helped my mom to her feet as we headed out of the room with Xavier sitting on Alex's shoulders giggling and had fun running his hands along the ceiling since he hadn't been able to do so before hand. We watched my mom climb into her car, she rolled down her window, "Drive safe, text us when you get home and feel better please…" I said.
"Will do, love you both…" My mom said.
"Love you." I said as Alex and Xavier were chasing each other around the parking lot until Alex grabbed Xavier's hands spinning him around by his hands hearing Xavier laugh, "Ignore them…" I said turning back to my mom laughing myself.
"They are just having fun…relax a tad." My mom said.
"I'm more relaxed than usual." I said smirking.
"I can tell." My mom said smirking before I smiled too backing up letting her back out watching her pull away worried about her capability to drive, but knew she will be fine.