The Good Life

Jack

Today we were having a baby shower for Izzy. My mom and May helped me decorate the house while Alex and Izzy sat on the couch in their pajamas and watched TV. It didn't take us long to decorate since we all enjoyed doing things like this. We finished an hour before I told everyone to come over.

"Can you two go get dressed before everyone comes over?" I asked Alex and Izzy and they both groaned.

"I don't feel like moving." Izzy whined.

"Yeah and why should we have to put on regular clothes? It's not like we're leaving to go anywhere." Alex added. I glared at them about to ask them again, but my mom did it for me.

"Both of you up now, and go get dressed." She demanded. Izzy and Alex both stood up and went to go do as she told without any protest.

"Wow!" I called out to both of them. "Why do they listen to you and not me?" I poured to my mom.

"Because I'm the authority figure over everyone. Especially you two." She joked as she gestured to May and I.

"Whatever you say mom." May chuckled. "I'm going to go. I'll see you two in an hour." She told us and let.

My mom went up to her guest room to change outfits and I went back to my room. Alex was in his closet looking at different shirts when I walked in out room. I went to his closet to help him decide.

"I don't know what to wear." He whined.

"Just put on jeans and a nice shirt." I told him. I searched through his closet and handed him a pair of khaki skinny jeans. "Here wear these and pick out a shirt."

He looked through his clothes for a minute and picked up a blue jean shirt.

"This one?" He asked and I nodded.

"Yeah and wear a white shirt under it so you can leave it unbuttoned."

"Thanks!" He exclaimed and began undressing.

I went back into the bathroom and started to play with my hair. I had recently gotten it cut shorter than I normally did and it was taking a little while to get used to. My blonde strip was still in my hair, but the hair cut made me look older.

"Stop stressing about it. You look gorgeous with this haircut." Alex said as he watched me mess with my hair.

"It just looks weird." I complained.

"It looks different. You just need more time to get used to it." He walked over and kissed me on the forehead.

"Do you really like it?" I mumbled against his shoulder.

"I love it!" He exclaimed and I chuckled. I let him grab my face and we began kissing. My mom walked in a few seconds later and I quickly pulled away from Alex. It was always embarrassing to me when she saw me kissing him.

"Jack do you think we should put the extra balloons in the kitchen?" She asked unfazed by us kissing.

"Um yes sure go ahead." I quickly answered and she chuckled.

"Okay." She said and left.

I turned to Alex with my checks bright red and he laughed at me.

"It's not funny." I huffed.

"It is. She couldn't care less about what we were doing. She could probably walk in on me fucking you on the counter and she wouldn't care." He joked and I hit him.

"Shut up." I told him and crossed my arms.

"I'm just kidding. Come here." He pulled me back to him and kissed me again. I unfolded my arms and wrapped them around him. This time Izzy walked in with her make-up kit and caught us.

"Can you two please stop?" She complained as she sat her stuff down. Alex sighed and let me go and I chuckled.

"Why are you in our bathroom?" He asked her.

"You guys have better light in here." She told him.

"Isn't that what you're vanity is for?"

I tuned out their arguing once I heard the doorbell ring. It was still too early for our first guest to be here. I walked to the front of the house and my mom opened the door. I could see the Fuentes door closing. We looked down and saw three big gift bags filled with stuff. I picked up two of the bags and my mom picked up the other one.

"Aww! Who is this from?" My mom asked.

"It says to Izzy from Vic." I read the tag. "This was so sweet of him." I said and we carried the bags to the table we putting the presents on.

I peeked into the bags and saw diapers, clothes, toys and other baby essentials. The whole thing was so cute. It also showed that he still trying to show us that he was serious about caring about the baby.

I walked back to my room to tell Izzy about her presents. She was still doing her make up when I walked in.

"Who was that?" She asked.

"It was Vic, dropping off gifts for your baby shower." I said.

"He bought a gift?"

"Three gifts!"

"Aw that was nice of him." She smiled to herself.

"I guess that was pretty nice." Alex said.

We finished beautifying ourselves by the time the party started. One-by-one family and Izzy's friends came over. It reminded me of the baby shower Cass had for us for Izzy. The house was decorated in blue which caught everyone off guard because we kept the sex of the baby a secret until now.

"It's a boy!" Cass exclaimed as she walked in with Rian.

"Yeah." Izzy chuckled and Cass and Rian hugged her.

"I knew it! I couldn't imagine you having a girl." Rian said.

"I was hoping it was a girl." I complained and they both laughed.

Oli and Hannah came in next with a huge box. Oli sat it with the other gifts and they came to kiss and hug Izzy. I think they bought stroller, I couldn't really remember. It was hard trying to keep up with who bought what gifts. I just know we didn't have to buy anything yet because all the gifts on her gift registry was bought.

"Where's the Grandpa?" Oli asked.

"He's in the kitchen, but you might not want to call him that. He's still not comfortable with the name." I told him. Both Rian and Oli looked at each other and went into the kitchen yelling out Grandpa. I should have known they would use that against him.

"He doesn't want to be called grandpa?" Hannah asked.

"No he thinks it'll make him seem older than he is. So his grandchild is going to call him Pops." I told her.

"Leave it to him to have a ridiculous ideology." Cass chuckled.

More people came over as time went by. Alex's dad and his wife came barring more gifts. Kellin, Tay, and Lynn arrived at around the same time. I greeted them all and took Izzy's presents the den where we were keeping all of her gifts.

"Why did you tell them that I hated to be called Grandpa?" Alex chuckled as he walked in behind me.

"Sorry! I forgot you all like to torment each other." I laughed.

"It is literally torture, that's all I've been called the entire night."

"You'll live." I looked behind him and saw Izzy walking upstairs with Lynn. "Hey where are you going?" I asked her. I didn't want her to spend the rest of her party in her room instead of with the people that came to celebrate with her.

"I'll be back down in a minute! I just need to talk to her!" She called out as they continued to walk upstairs. She was probably going to ask Lynn for advice on what to do about Vic. I shook my head and Alex and I walked back into the living room with everyone else.

"Here's another beer, Grandpa." Austin said and handed Alex a beer. Alex sighed and took it as the other guys laughed at him.

"Cheer up son. I'm about to become a great-grandpa and you don't see me complaining." Peter chuckled.

"Dad you're old so you fit the description." He said and I hit his arm.

"Hey I'm only in my sixties, I should still only be a grandpa right now." Peter said.

"Me too!" My mom agreed.

"Oh god that makes me a Great Aunt doesn't it?" May chuckled.

"Is everyone going through midlife crisis at once?" I joked.

Everyone went back to talking in groups. My phone vibrated and I saw a text message from Izzy.

From Izzy:
HELP!

I quickly left to go upstairs to see what happened.

When I made it to her room, she and Lynn were in her bathroom. She was standing in a puddle of liquid afraid to move.

"Papa I think my water broke!!" She cried.

She was wearing a dress so I could see the liquid still on her legs. I was about to panic because she was only six months it wasn't that her water was breaking this early. I looked down at the floor and noticed that the liquid was clear like all the websites said it would be. It was yellowish.

I almost didn't have the heart to tell her. "Izzy, Hunny, I don't think your water broke." I said.

"What? Why not?" She asked.

"Because the liquid isn't clear . . . it's yellow." I said slowly.

"What does that mean?"

"It means you wet yourself babe."

"I what??" She asked and looked down at herself.

"Yeah I'm pretty sure you peed and it's okay." I told her.

"I peed on myself?? Oh My Gosh! What’s wrong with me?!?" She cried.

"It's okay, Izzy. We can get you cleaned up really quickly and it'll be like it never happened." I assured her.

"No! I can't go back down in a new outfit. They're going to know that I peed on myself."

"No, we can just say you spilt something on your dress."

"Isn't it normal for pregnant women to pee on themselves a lot?" Lynn asked and I nodded.

"Yeah it happens to a lot of women so she has nothing to worry about." I said.

"Nothing to worry about? I literally just peed on myself!" She sniffled.

"No don't cry!" I took a step towards her and then stopped. We needed to clean up the mess before it got worse.

There was a knock on the door and Alex walked in. He walked into the bathroom and saw Izzy standing in a puddle.

"What's going on? Is everything alright?" He asked me.

"Yeah she just had an accident." I told him and he frowned.

"An accident? As in she peed?" He asked and I nodded.

"Yeah can you go grab the mop please?" I asked and he said yes.

"Great now everyone is going to know what happened." Izzy cried.

"Alex if anyone ask just say she accidentally spilled something." I called after him.

"Got it!" He said and went downstairs.

"I wanna take a shower." She mumbled.

"Okay really quick." I started the shower for her and Lynn and I stepped out so she could get undressed and step in.

Alex came back minutes later with them mop and bucket. I thanked him and quickly went to go clean up before Izzy finished. Then I went to her closet and pulled out another dress for her to put on. I placed the dress and more underwear in the bathroom for her.

She finished up a few minutes later. She put on the dress and came out with her eyes on the ground. I hated that she was so ashamed for something that was normal for most pregnant women.

"Come here." Alex said and she walked over to him. He wrapped his arms around her and she whimpered into his chest. "Shhh it's okay, baby." He whispered.

I smiled as I watched him try to comfort her. It was working, she had slowly stopped crying. He kissed her on the forehead and wiped away the rest of her tears.

"You're okay. It was just an accident, okay?" He said.

"I know." She mumbled.

"Good. Now put on your happy face so you can go open all of those gifts downstairs. Then we can eat cake, send everyone home, and you can go to bed." He told he and she smiled.

"Okay Daddy." She and Lynn walked back downstairs to join everyone again.

"You're so cute with her." I told him and he chuckled.

"I just wanted to help my Angel feel better."

"Well you did a good job of it." I said and kissed him.

"I kinda miss when she was younger and how she would run to me crying when she needed me." He sighed.

"Well now you'll have a Grandson that's going to do that instead." I said and he smiled.

"Yeah I guess you’re right!"

Notes

Aww Alex is finally coming around to liking his unborn Grandchild!