I couldn't get this chapter to agree with me. That's why it's on the short side. Enjoy!
"We can't move, Wade, our life is here and it's nice that you'd be willing to move for me, but I never said I wanted to move, I love it here," Zoe told her husband the second he had walked through the door. It didn't make any sense for them to pack up and move elsewhere when their lives were there in Bluebell. She had outgrown the dream she had had as a child and all the dreams she could ever have she's already living them with her wonderful and beautiful family.
"Okay," Wade told her, relief flooding through him. He would've gone through with it because he'd always support his wife with whatever it was she wanted to do, but staying where they were at was a huge relief for him, they had everything and it really didn't make sense to move, but he wouldn't deny his wife anything.
"But thank you for offering to do something like that, but it's not just us here Wade, besides you own the Rammer Jammer and who says I can even get a job at any hospital in New York?" She went on to say, listing reasons on why they couldn't just pack up and move it wasn't that easy or simple.
"Because you Doc are the best doctor around and any hospital would be a fool not to hire you," Wade told her with a smirk, pulling her into his arms. "But you are right, it's not just us and the kids are a handful here things could only get worse with them if we lived in a bigger place," he said, shaking his head with smile on his face, he really didn't want to think how they would be in the city, where they needed to be watched at all times.
"I do hope we never have to witness them coming home in a police car again," she told him, laying her head on his chest. "But this whole thing about New York has got me to thinking," she started to say, a soft sigh escaping.
"Your Mom?" Wade guessed, rubbing his hand over her arm. Zoe nodded against his chest. It had been something that she had been thinking about a lot lately and it was time to go back to the city and try her best to make amends with her mom.
"I haven't ever been close to her but it's never been this estranged before and if I have the chance to fix things with her than I need to do just that," she explained.
"Hey, I get it and together we'll go and see her," Wade told her. He wasn't going to let her go alone. He trusted her, it was Candice he didn't trust, but again he didn't know much about her, he hadn't had the privilege of meeting her more than a few times and it was never a pleasant meeting. He'd be there for his wife because above everything else this was a huge step for her. "We can go to New York after we send the other two off for Summer Camp," he assured his wife. It had made more sense to do it that way. They would be leaving within the next week and that would give Zoe time to get things sorted out in her head on what she was going to say to her mom when they did show up.
"I'd like that," she told him softly, placing a kiss to his chest.
Before they knew it was time to drop their two oldest off at camp. They had promised to be on their best behavior, because Wade had told them that if they get one single call they would be coming home. And they didn't want to miss any part of camp; they had spent the past year waiting to return to camp to hang out with the friends they had made over the last few summers.
"We've done this a few times now and I still don't feel any better in just dropping them off and walking away," Wade quipped back on the ride back home. "I would never take this away from them, but I don't really like leaving them there for someone else to watch."
"I feel the same way," Zoe told him, laying her hand on his leg, it wasn't easy to be leaving their kids when they wouldn't be around to keep an eye on them. "Part of me wants Eliza to go to summer camp but the other part doesn't want her to go," she sighed, glancing in the back seat. "I know it's silly because we have years before that ever happens."
"It is a little silly," Wade smiled, twining his fingers with hers on his lap. "But I can't help but fear that myself. Sending her away will be nice because we'll have time for us, but keeping her home…" he trailed off trying to find a reason on why they would keep her from going to camp if she did choose to go in the future.
"We'll miss her," Zoe smiled. Wade nodded, agreeing with her on that. It was silly to be thinking about something like that when they had years to wait before she could even go to camp, but they would let her go if it was what she wanted to do.
"So I was thinking that we could leave Eliza with my parents when we leave for New York, it's only going to be for a couple of days," Wade suggested.
"I don't know," she sighed. She didn't know how Eliza would be on the plane but she didn't know if she could spend that much time away from her little girl. Spending a night away from her was easy now that she'd done it a time or two but to be states away for days on end was something else entirely.
"We have nothing to worry about and it will give us a few days to ourselves, a little vacation for us if you will something we haven't done in a while and it would be nice and my parents wouldn't mind. I don't see the point in bringing her along to put her in what is going to be a stressful situation."
"I get it," Zoe told him. She just wasn't sold on it. "Was this your mom's idea?" She asked with a knowing smile.
"It was she pointed a few things out. And I do want her to be a bit older before taking her on an airplane," he confessed. She did get that, but it was still hard for her to leave behind her little baby girl for a couple of days, even if it was for the best.
"I'll think about it," she told him.