The Good Life

Jack

Every once in a while I would have so many papers to look over for work and I would have to bring them home. It didn't bother me since I rarely had to do it but today it was killing Alex. He was used to having my attention when he got home from work so he was upset that I wasn't able to do that.

"Jack I'm bored." He complained on the couch next to me.

"That's good, babe." I said as I continued to look over my papers.

"Do you have to do that right now? Can you take a break for an hour?"

"No I need it finished by tomorrow. We can do something when you get home tomorrow."

"But I want to do something now." He whined.

"How about you call Rian, Austin, and Oli and see what they're doing." I suggested and he sighed.

"Oli is in Los Angeles until tomorrow for a work. It's Rian and Cass's anniversary, and Austin is probably making googgly eyes at Tay right now."

"We need to get Rian and Cass an anniversary present. I'll order something online tomorrow." I thought out loud.

"Did you hear anything else I said?" He asked.

"Mhm." I hummed and corrected a mistake David made on his order form. "Why don't you see if Bass is doing anything?" I jokingly suggested and he rolled his eyes at me.

"The only thing Bass likes to do is cry, eat, and sleep and I don't feel like do any of those things right now. Can you just do something with me? We can do something simple like watch TV together."

"Okay turn to whatever you want to watch and we can watch it." I agreed.

"Are you going to put the papers down?"

"No I can multitask."

"No you can't."

"Yeah I can."

"Fine we're going to watch the Cowboys and Panthers football game."

I barely liked sports unless it was a game played by a Baltimore team so I really wasn't going to pay attention to the game. I agreed to watch it anyways just to make Alex happy. The football game had just begun when he turned to it. I was probably going to be finished with my work by the time it went off.

"The Cowboys are going to murder the Panthers, don't you think so?" Alex asked.

"Sure." I said and Alex glared at me.

"You're definitely not paying attention because you should know the Cowboys aren't going to win." He pouted.

"No no I really think the Cowboys are going to win." I guessed. I didn't know much about either team.

"Really?"

"Yep!"

"Do you want to bet on it?"

"Oh my god what is up with you and betting?" I chuckled.

"It's just fun." He shrugged.

"Fine I have ten dollars."

"Okay well when the Panthers win you'll owe my ten dollars."

"If you say so."

I continued to read over my papers through the commercial break. Alex leaned over my lap and all over my papers and I glared at him. Usually when I was needy for attention he would push me away. Now he was expecting me to just throw all my work aside and shower him with my attention. I knew he wouldn't stop until I did just that.

"Fine Lex, thirty minutes. I'll stop working for thirty minutes that's it." I sighed and he smiled.

"Thank you."

"What do you want to do now?" I asked.

"I just want you to cuddle with me." He pulled my papers from my hands and lap and sat them on the floor. Then he pulled me to lay on the couch with him. "This is all I've ever wanted." He said comfortably with me laying my head on his chest. He threw his heavy leg over my hips making me grunt.

"You're so annoying." I chuckled. I reached up to kiss him. "And heavy! Move your leg."

"Un un I'm too comfortable."

"Lex you're hurting me." I joked. I tried to push his leg off, but he was stronger than me.

"Trust me if I wanted to hurt you I would." He laughed.

"Is that supposed to be a threat?"

"It's whatever you want it to be."

"I'll take it as a threat, asshole."

"You didn't take it as a threat when I was fucking you to death last night." He said slyly, making me gasp. I hit his side as he laughed.

"That'll be last time you'll touch me for weeks!" I scolded him.

"Aw come on don't be like that. You know I'm telling the truth." He said as he kissed down my jaw trying to make it to my neck.

"No don't touch me. You can literally go fuck yourself cause I won't do it anymore." I told him and he slapped my ass.

"I'm getting sick of your smart ass mouth."

"Do something about then." I taunted.

Alex sighed with a smile on his lips and lifted up. He put his legs on both sides on my hips to pin me down. I immediately regretted smack talking when I saw his hands come for my side.

"Alex! Alex wait no please I'm sorry!" I cried as I fought away his hands.

"You should of thought of that before starting with me."

"Please!" I laughed as his fingers dug into my sides.

"I'm sorry baby, but I have to teach you a lesson." He chuckled.

"I learned! I swear I learned!" I exclaimed and he stopped.

"Are you finished being a smart ass?" He asked.

"Yes I'm done."

We both laughed and leaned down to kiss me. I sat up so we could catch up with our football game. The Cowboys were losing but not by many. Another commercial break came and I saw Alex looking at me from the corner of my eyes.

"Don't look at me, weirdo." I mumbled and he chuckled.

"I can't help it. You're so gorgeous!" He leaned over me and began kissing over my cheek.

"No go away. I don't want to play with you anymore." I complained.

"I'm sorry for tickling you." He said as he kissed closer to my ear.

"No you're not." I pouted.

"Yeah I am. And I would never hurt you on purpose."

"My butt begs to differ." I said as I rubbed the side where he hit a little too hard last night.

"I'm sorry, do you want me to kiss it better?" He whispered in my ear giving me chills.

"Yeah maybe later on tonight before we go to bed."

"Okay." He kissed me on the cheek.

He pulled me pack up to sit straight with him as we heard Izzy come downstairs with Bass. She had just finished feeding him his bottle and she was coming to wash it.

"Can you hold him while I go clean his bottle?" She asked Alex since he was closer.

"Yeah." He took Bass from her and held him out in front of him. "You are just the cutest baby I've ever seen!" Alex told Bass. I smiled at his cuteness with his grandchild. I reached out to touch Bass’s chubby legs and he cooed.

"What? Does it tickle when I touch your chubby legs?" I asked in a baby voice as I continued to touch his leg. I did it for a few more times until he coughed and spit up on Alex's shirt. Alex closed his eyes in disgust as I laughed.

"Oh no did he spit up on you?" Izzy asked as she walked out of the kitchen and Alex nodded. "He did the same thing to Vic last week. You might want to wash your shirt now to make sure it comes out." She chuckled.

Alex handed me Bass and pulled his shirt over his head. He tried to stand up but Izzy put her hand on his back.

"Daddy why do you have so many red lines on your back?" She asked confused. My cheeks began to burn as the events from last night began to replay in my head.

"Ask Jack." He smirked at me and got up to go to the laundry room. She looked at me and frowned.

"Don't make me say it."

"Ew! Aren't you guys too old for that." She grimaced and I scoffed.

"No we're not too old. You were too young for it though." I said and she rolled her eyes.

"Jack you owe me thirty more minutes of your attention because of that." Alex complained as he came out in a new shirt.

"I can't, I need to start back up looking over this stuff." I handed Izzy Bass and began picking up my papers. "We can just say it's pay back."

"Pay back for what?"

"For when Izzy was a baby and you tickled her leg making her spit up on my shirt." I reminded him.

"I don't remember doing anything like that. How do you even remember something that happened like seventeen years ago?" He asked and I shrugged.

"I just do."

I went back to checking over the last of my work. It only took me a little over an hour to complete. As I looked over the last thing the football game Alex and I were watching ended.

"Are you kidding me?!" Alex yelled at the TV screen, startling Bass and making him cry. "I'm sorry Bud!" He apologized and picked him up from his bassinet.

"I take it that the Cowboys won?" I asked without looking up and he grumbled. I saw him reach into his pocket and money landed in my lap. I laughed as I closed my work portfolio and took the money.

"I'm only taking this to teach you a lesson." I told him and he rolled his eyes.

My phone vibrated with a text from someone a few seconds later. I pick it up and unlocked it to see that it was from Vicki.

To Jack:
Hey I was thinking about what you told me about Emilio and Alex not getting along still. How about we all go to dinner and make them Emilio talk out their problems so there won't be so much hostility between our two families.

To Vicki:
I'm not sure that'll work. Alex would probably try to walk home if I tried to make him talk to Emilio.

To Jack:
I'm sure he wants to fix this as much as we do. Just trick him into coming out Saturday night, that's what I'm planning on doing with Emilio.

I was sure Alex would not cooperate if Emilio didn't so hopefully they both would be civil.

To Vicki:
Okay I'll tell him I'm taking him out for dinner tomorrow and we'll see how it goes.

To Jack:
Cool! I'll see you both then

Notes

This is just an unnecessary fluff chapter, but I assumed you all wanted more fluff lol you can always tell me if you want to see more of something!