The Good Life

Jack

"I was thinking of getting an interior decorator to decorate mom's house so she won't have to worry about doing all of that." I said to May on the phone. I was making breakfast for me, Izzy, and Alex at the same time I talked.

"But mom loves to decorate. Let her do it." She said.

"She's going to be exhausted after packing and moving so I thought she wouldn't want to do anything when she gets here." I explained.

"Uhh I guess you should ask her, she might feel either way. But what are you guys doing today?" She asked.

"I'm not sure. I don't want to be stuck in the house all day when it's finally starting to feel great outside again. Maybe I'll ask Alex and Izzy if they want to go on a picnic or something just as long as we're outside."

"Yeah it does feel super good out. Evan and Danny want to go see that new Martian movie so I think we're going to go see that today." She said.

"Oh my God Alex wants to go watch that movie too. His obsession with space is gross, I don't understand it." I laughed.

"Yeah I just know I'm going to fall asleep on this movie." She laughed.

Izzy walked into the kitchen, in the middle of our conversation, with her arms wrapped around her stomach.

"What's wrong, Princess?" I asked her.

"I feel nauseous." She said while taking deep breaths.

"Okay well go to the trash can if you feel like you're going to thro-" I couldn’t even finish my sentence before she was throwing up all over the floor.

"Shit! May I'll call you back later." I hung up on her and went to help Izzy.

She stopped for a second but she didn't seem done. "Bathroom now!" I rushed her to the guest bathroom before she could mess up the kitchen floor even more. I leaned her over the toilet and held her hair as she threw up again. I wonder what made her so sick.

"What's going on?" Alex asked as he walked in.

"Izzy's throwing up so get out before you get sick too Mr. Squeamish and don't go into the kitchen!" I demanded and he raised his hands in defense and quickly backed out.

"I swear if one of you two throw up on the floor again I might lose my mind." I mumbled to myself.
Izzy finished dry heaving and sat back against the wall while I flushed the toilet. She looked so pale and miserable.

"Babe go lay on the couch while I go get something to help your stomach settle." I told her. She nodded and slowly got up to go to the couch.

I brought the trash can from the bathroom and sat it next to her just in case. Then I went into the kitchen just to remember that I had a shitload of throw up to clean up.

Once I got that mess off the ground and sterilized the floor, I went to make Izzy something. I had already made pancakes for us, but she was way too sick to eat that. I made her some toast so she could slowly eat on it to put something back into her stomach. I grabbed her a bottle of water and went to give it to her in the living room.

"Eat and drink this very slowly, Izzy." I told her.

"Okay Papa." She mumbled.

I left her alone really quick to see what Alex was doing. I went into our room and he was lying in bed watching Space Jam.

"Is Izzy alright?" He asked.

"Yeah I think she just has a stomach bug." I went to go lay down next to him. He throw his arm over me and kissed me. I was comfortable lying with him, but I had to go keep an eye on Izzy. So much for wanting to spend the day outside.

"Oh breakfast is ready." I said as I tried to get up from the bed.

He held me down refusing to let me go. "Stay here with me." He whined.

"I can't. I have to keep an eye on Izzy to make sure she doesn't catch a fever or anything." I said.
"Ugh okaaaay." He sighed.

"You should get up and eat before the food gets any colder." I warned.

"Did you clean the floor up?"

"Yeah it's all gone." I laughed.

We both walked back into the living room checking to make sure Izzy was okay first. She was still lying on the couch with only one bite taken from the toast.

"You look like a ghost." Alex joked as he walked over to her.

"I'll make sure to haunt you if you don't go away." She mumbled sickly.

"Alex leave Izzy alone and go eat your food." I told him and he chuckled and went to the kitchen.
"All you could eat was one bite?" I asked her.

"Yeah I gagged as I tried to get it down so I'm just going to try again in a few minutes." She yawned.
"Okay well we'll be in the kitchen if you need anything." I said. I could see her from the kitchen table just in case she got worse.

My food was sitting on the table waiting for me when I went in the kitchen. Alex was such a sweet husband.

"Thank you." Said to him as I sat down in the seat next to him.

"Of course! So what are we doing today?" He asked.

"Well I wanted us to go and spend some time outside, but Izzy's too sick for that. Maybe we can stay in and watch movies or something." I tried not to sound too disappointed about it.

"How about we ask her godparents to look after her while I take you on a date?" He suggested.
"I don't want to bother them."

"I'm sure they won't care. Watch I'll call them right now." He picked up his phone and called Rian.

I ate and listened to him explain to Rian what was going on and asked him if they would mind watching Izzy for a few hours. It sounded like he agreed to it.

"He said they didn't mind we can just call them whenever we're ready for them."

"Oh perfect!" I exclaimed. "Izzy?" I called out to her.
"Yes." She answered weakly.

"Rian and Cass are going to come watch you later on while you dad and I got out for a few hours, okay?"

"Okay."

***

Alex and I decided on going to a carnival that was a few miles away from home. We went at the perfect time since the sun was barely out and most families had left around the time we arrived, it was mostly couples. I haven't been to a carnival in years so this was so exciting. We had been here for two hours watching shows and riding a few rides, it was almost time for us to leave.

"Can I pig out now?" Alex asked. There were so many food stands I didn't blame him for becoming hungry.

"Yeah go ahead." I giggled.

He grabbed my hand and we walked over to the closest food stand. "What do you wanna eat?" He asked as we walked.

"Um a corn dog sounds pretty good." I answered.

"What? That's lame. I'm getting a turkey leg." He taunted.

"Sorry my food choice isn't cool enough for you." I said and he laughed.

We went to the counter and Alex ordered our food for us. We were going to eat then play a few games before we left.

"Here." Alex handed me my corn dog and grabbed his turkey leg as he thanked the guy.
We went and sat down a bench as we ate. It was peaceful just the two of us watching all the other couples walk around enjoying each other's company. I cuddled into to Alex's side as we ate.

"You know what I was thinking about the other day?" He asked.

"No, what?"

"The trip around the world that were supposed to take when I retire in a few years. I want to start off by going to Bora Bora. I heard it's so peaceful and relaxing and that'll be exactly what we need."

"I heard it's nice too. We can definitely start there and just go where ever the next flight takes us." I smiled just thinking about it, but then I thought of Izzy. "I'm just worried about Izzy. I don't want to leave her alone while we're gone on a long trip."

"She'll be living with her friends or some guy by then so she won't be alone. Plus you two will probably talk on the phone every hour so it'll probably be like we never left." He said.

"You're such a smart-ass."

"Admit it, you love it." He kissed me.

“I put up with it because I love you.” I mumbled.

"And I love you too." He kissed me again.

"Mhm hurry up and eat. I want that cheetah stuffed animal from that game." I pointed to the game where you had to knock all three milk bottles down with a ball.

"Alright give me a second."

Twenty minutes later we were walking over to the game. It was five dollars for three throws so Alex payed the teenager and began to play. He threw the first ball and knocked down two bottles instead of all three. The worker reset the bottles and told Alex to go again. With the next throw he hit all three bottles making me cheer out loud for him.

"Which prize would you like?" The lady asked.

"I'll take the cheetah!" He exclaimed. She handed him the cheetah and he thanked her.

"Give me! Give me! Give me!" I cried reaching to take the stuffed cheetah from his hands, but he kept moving it away from me.

"Hey get your own! I won this thing." He said.

"Buuuuuut Alex you said you'd win it for me!" I whined.

"I was just kidding. Here it's all yours." He said as he handed me the stuffed animal.

"Thanks!" I kissed him on the cheek.

"You're welcome. Let's go try to win something for Izzy." He said.

We went to the game where you had to throw the ring on the bottles. I always hated that stupid game because May would always throw it on the bottle effortlessly and I could never.

"Do we have to play this one?" I huffed.

"Yeah! Izzy would love that huge elephant!" He pointed to the large grey elephant stuffed animal.
"Will that thing even fit in the car?" I giggled.

"Uhhh yeah I think so. We would have to stuff it in the trunk." He laughed.

We walked up to the counter and Alex paid ten dollars for twenty rings. He tried to give me half of them but I declined. It would just be a waste of money. He only needed to make five for a large prize. The first one he threw landed on the neck of the bottle, which made me roll my eyes, but the next three he missed. Before I knew it he had made three total and only needed two more with seven more rings to throw.

"Here try it. You never know maybe you'll get one." He said while handling me a ring. I already knew how this was going to go. I quickly tossed the ring, not hitting it anywhere near the necks of the bottles.

"Well that was a waste of a throw." He joked and I flipped him off. He of course landed two more rings on the bottles, winning Izzy the elephant.

"Maybe this will help Izzy feel better." Alex said.

"I don't think a giant stuffed animals help with a stomach bug." I said sarcastically.

“It might.” He rolled his eyes at me. "Are you ready to leave?" He asked.

"Yeah I think we did all that we could do." I said and we began walking back to the car.

We were in the parking lot a few rows from our car when Alex stopped and mumbled, "How do we keep running into them." I didn't know who he was talking about until I saw Mike holding hands with a blonde girl and Vic walking next to them with a red head girl. They were just making it to the carnival.

"Hey boys!" I said as we walked by them.

"Hey Mist- I mean Jack and Alex." Mike said. Vic mumbled hi, but he looked so pale and frightened. We said hi to their girlfriends, but I didn't want to hold them too long.

"Well we're going to go. We have to get back to Izzy, she isn't feeling too well." I told them.

"I'm sorry to hear that." Vic caught me off guard apologizing as if it was his fault.

"She'll be fine. It's just a stomach bug." Alex shrugged.

We told them bye and finished walking to our car. Once I was seated in the car I looked at my phone and saw I had a message from Cass.

To Jack:
Izzy feels so much better now. I think she got it all out of her system!

I typed a message back to thank her and Rian again for watching her. I locked fingers with Alex as he started the car to take us home.

Notes

Pointless fluff!