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All mistakes are my own. i hope you enjoy it :) love all your comments! thanks! i no its been ages im truly sorry. i have no excuse really. ok so im going to be updating this story every two weeks, ill be alternating between this one and Free because updating three stories a week it too much lol hope you enjoy. this chap is short and fluff just to get back in to the swing of things.
Arizona
Summer. I love summer, it's my favorite time of year. Especially this year because in 2 months I'm marrying the love of my life. Everything has been finalized so it's just a waiting game now. We've only had one argument about the wedding and it was about the cake. Calliope finally caved and I got the cake I wanted, double choc with a barrel wave with me and Callie surfing in wedding dresses along it. To be honest it didn't take a lot for her to cave.
"Mmmaa." Hunter babbles when I walk into his room.
"Morning little man. Ready to for some grub and swimming?" I pick him up and change his nappy before heading downstairs.
Yesterday Caroline, Poppy, Jet and Kate graduated from school, Callie balled her eyes out when they both got handed there diploma's. We met Pop's family and we had special celebratory dinner at spades for them and then a bunch of their friends ended up coming back to ours for a little party. I'm pretty sure everyone crammed into the pool house to crash, so I'm not sure how they're all feeling this morning.
I can smell deliciousness coming from the kitchen so Jet has cooked up a storm for everyone. Hunter wriggles out of my arms and takes off for the kitchen in front of me. "morning Jet."
"Hey Z, how you doing this morning?" Jet asks as he flips a pancake with Hunter on his hip watching closely.
"A lot better than Calliope, she may have had too many tequila's last night." I laugh pouring the coffee and quickly getting a pancake and strawberries for hunter. "Come on, I got you a pancake." I take Hunter form Jet and slip him in his high chair and watch him hook into his food. "Kate still asleep?"
"Yeah, she tried to out drink Callie on the tequila."
"Ah so she will be like the dead for a while then. Can you watch him I'm going to check the pool house." Jet nods and I head towards the pool house. The blinds are down so I stick my head in the door and see about 20 people spread out on blankets and pillows. I head to the bedroom and stick my head in and find Poppy lying on Caroline, head resting on her stomach and I think her name was Maddie lying the wrong way up as they all cram into the bed. Holding in a laugh I head back to house, on the way I find random pieces of clothing thrown in the garden. All in all it was a pretty good party I think.
"Mmmmaaa." Hunter mumbles through a piece of pancake pointing to the hall.
"The doorbell just rang." Jet tells me.
Checking the clock and seeing its only 8 in the morning, I head to the door. I can hear giggling behind it so I have no idea who it is. Pulling it open I see two black blurs drop skateboards before my legs are being wrapped around by little bodies. "Aunty Z." The two girls shriek as they hold on tight.
"Nice to see you still answer the door without pants." I hear Aria say and look up to see a smirk.
"At least they're swimmers this time." I say making her laugh. The first time I ever met Aria and her Husband James I opened the door half asleep in a singlet and very skimpy underwear, to say I was embarrassed would be a major understatement. "Look at you two, I think you've grown again. Hunters in the kitchen. Come on in, no James?"
"No, couldn't get time off." Aria says pulling me into a hug. Sara and Alexis run towards the kitchen, both dressed in Purple skinny jeans, chucks and little white tank tops. "I have two tomboys now, no princess girls." Aria says making me laugh. "And they want to be exactly like Aunty Z, I have no complaints though." Aria shrugs as we walk to the back. Aria says hi to jet and the girls are stuffing their faces with food as they entertain Hunter. "We've come for a pool day and see Aro and Pop."
"There still asleep, we had a bit of a party last night and Callie will be out for a while as well. So help yourself to some food and we can hit the pool." I load up a plate of food for myself and sit at the table while aria grabs some coffee. "How long you here for?"
"Just a couple of days, I'm getting them measured for their flower girl dresses while we're here but other than that were just here to visit."
"Aunty Z!" Alexis mumbles around a mouth full of food.
"Alexis!" Aria reprimands and Alexis quickly chew's and swallow's.
"Sorry mami." Alexis says guiltily. "Aunty Z, I can do a kick flip and ollie now. I've been practicing every day." She says proudly.
"Wow, you'll have to show me after breakfast. Have you had any big scrapes yet?" I ask.
"No but Sara has, she's not as good as me yet."
"See." Sara says walking around the table and pulling down her jeans to show me her knees.
"Sara, pull your pants back up please." Aria says rolling her eyes trying not to laugh.
"Oh they look pretty nasty, don't they hunter?" I say's as he tries to crane his neck to see Sara's knees.
"Ow." He says pointing to the sores.
Sara pulls up her pants and taps her hand on Hunters knee before sitting back at her plate.
"I'm going to put on his swimmers and then we can all go swimming." I say making the girls cheer as Aria directs them towards the bathroom to change. "Thanks for cooking Jet, it was awesome as usual."
"No problem, I'm going to check on Kate and then I'm coming swimming." Jet says heading to the downstairs guest room.
"We going swimming." I say to Hunter as I lay him on the change table. "With Alexis and Sara, how cool its that huh?" I pull his little speedo's on and pull him to stand so I can wipe the syrup off his face. He smiles making his dimples show as his chubby hands squish my cheeks and he leans forward with his mouth open laying a sloppy kiss on my nose. "Aw I love you too little man." I say kissing his nose back.
His eyes just look at me, piercing blue studying me like he's trying to figure something out. I just smile at him and he slightly tilts his head before his hands hold my shoulders. "Mama." He says tapping my chest. My stomach feels like it's been punched before dropping.
I clear my throat and half smile. " Zona, can you say Zona?" I ask.
"Mama, mama, mama." He happily says jumping into me so I have to carry him. I feel my eyes tearing up as I hold him close and kiss his temple. And it actually hits me that I am his mama now, Ashley will always, ALWAYS be his mommy and Tim will always be his daddy but I'm his mama. He's my little man, our little man.
"Yeah little man I'm your mama." I say and get a big smile in return making me smile.
Down stairs Sara and Alexis are already in the pool with Aria on the blow up turtle. I see Jet heading out the back already. "Hey Jet, Can you take him I just have to do something?" I say and my voice is hoarse.
He gives me a look before taking hunter and smiling. "sure, come on lets go see your cousins."
I can feel my eyes burn as tears are trying to fall but I hold them back. I race upstairs into our bedroom as Callie's coming out of the bathroom. "Morning ba- What's wrong?" She asks rushing over to me and I instantly fall into her arms as the tears finally fall. "Is Hunter ok? What happened?" Callie asks hear voice filled with worried.
"H-hunters okay." I mumble into her chest. "H-he… he called me m-mama." I say when Callie pulls my back to look in my eyes. I instantly see her understand and she pulls me back into a hug wrapping me in her arms. "I miss her. It should be Ashley that's mama. It's not fair."
"I know sweetie. I know." Callie whispers as she holds me tight. Ten minute goo by and shes whispering calming words to me as I calm down enough to step back. She cups my face and wipes the tears with the pads of her thumbs and I can see the tears in her eyes as well.
"Sor-."
"Don't. You don't apologize, its ok baby. How are you feeling now?" She asks and I shrug.
"Aria and the girls are here. They're all in the pool, Jet has Hunter." I tell her.
"It's ok that he calls you his mama, because you are. You're not his biological mother but you're his mama. It's ok to be happy and sad about that. Ashley and Tim would have wanted him to be happy and loved as if he were your own child." Callie says making me love her even more.
"How do you know how I'm feeling when I don't even know and always say the right thing?" I ask making her laugh.
"It's a gift and because I love you." She jokes making me laugh. "Now I'm getting my swimmers on and then let's go enjoy the day shall we?" I nod and she kisses me fiercely before turning and swaying her hips over to the wardrobe.
"Z watch this." Alexis calls and I watch as she does a little ollie.
"Wow, you're so good, that's amazing." I tell her watching a massive smile form on her face. We've spent all day chilling by the pool and a picnic on the grass. Pop and Aro emerging from the pool house with everyone else either hanging around for a swim or heading off. Teddy and Addison came over after work and Carlos has come for dinner along with momma and dad. I'm watching as Sara and Alexis skate around the back with Poppy who isn't half bad on a board.
"Mama!" Hunter calls and I see him wriggle out of my dad's arms and 'runs' towards me with a big smile. He's called me that all day and it makes my heart melt, after my break down this morning I feel a lot better from calliopes words. Momma had tears in her eyes when she heard but didn't say anything, she just gave me a little smile and continued talking to Aria.
I feel Hunter run into my legs and his little arms hooking around my knees and him pushing his head between my legs to watch the girls in front.
"He's starting to talk more?" Poppy asks as she stops in front of me.
"Yeah, a lot more. Learning new words, so we have to watch our mouths now." I say laughing.
"Tomorrow did you want to come for a surf?"
"Yeah sure, just come wake me up when you want to go. I want to try out my new board I got the other day." I say opening the garage as Hunter runs off to chase Sara around.
"Holy crap I didn't know you had this many boards." Poppy says in awe as she looks over the racks of surfboards on the wall. "This set up is mad."
"Calliope had it built for me." On the side wall is racks for my surfboards and then on the back wall is where all my skateboards are hung and then my work bench is set up underneath them. It's the best set up I've ever had. "You can use any of my boards tomorrow if you want."
"Really?" I nod. "This is so cool. Is this a Billabong sponsored board?"
"Yeah, I did a tournament in Hawaii and ended up scoring that board and the blue one next to it. You should use the blue one tomorrow, I just had new fins put on it."
"Awesome."
"Arizona, babe dinners ready." Caroline calls out as all the kids run towards the house.
"Coming." I call. "You'll just have to wax it in the morning before we go." I tell poppy as we head inside.
After saying goodbye to Carlo's and my parents Calliope disappeared to put Hunter to bed and still hasn't come back, so leaving all the girls in the theater room I head upstairs quickly checking Alexis and Sara who are zonked out, I can hear Callie's voice coming out of Hunters room. She's reading a book it sounds like, Dr. Seuss of course. Hunter loves Dr. Seuss books at the moment so we read him one every night before he goes to sleep. Peeking just in the door I can see Hunter curled up in Callie's arms on the arm chair as she reads the tongue twisting story. A massive smile is on her and Hunters face as he relaxes back into her. As she finishes the story she closes the book just dropping it on the floor before kissing the top of Hunters head while his arms are above his head and playing with Callie's hair. He cranes his neck back looking up at Callie as she peppers his face in kisses. It's the picture of perfect to me and I can see the look he's got, it's the one I got this morning. The look of pure love and trust, him knowing that he will always be safe with us and never have a reason to be scared. And then Hunter stopping mine and calliopes hearts again with one word.
"Mami." He whispers and I can see Callie freeze for a split second before attacking him again with kisses. Knocking I step in and smile. "Mama."
"Hey little man, did mami read you a good story?" I ask winking at Callie when her head snaps up to me. "You look ready for bed, how about your bottle in the crib tonight."
Callie places him in his crib and I hand him his bottle and he readily takes it closing his eyes straight away. "We love you baby, sweet dreams." We both kiss him and creep out of the room.
"I get why you cried before." Callie sniffs as we head down stairs. I link our fingers and pull her into me at the bottom of the stairs. I don't say anything because I don't need to, I just kiss her like my life depended on it. Which it does sometimes. I feel her tongue slip out to run along my bottom lip before she sucks it between hers making me moan every time she does it. My hands slip into her shorts, fingers skimming across smooth flesh before squeezing making her grind into me.
"Come on mommies, Aria pulled out the poker set." Poppy says breaking us apart and walking to the kitchen and grabbing scotch and Tequila. Heading back she just smiles and says. "Aria wants to play for clothes." Callie groans and I just laugh.
"Come on." I say pulling Callie behind me into the theater room. "I wanna see how fast you lose your clothes." I say winking as I hear Aria saying we stop at bra and panties making everyone laugh.
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