Don't You Go and Carry On With Your Life

Jack

Six months later

"You know you don't have to work anymore, babe. I can support us just like I did before." Alex told me. I had just finished complaining about having to work overtime all this week. His offer did sound pretty tempting, I really missed sleeping in.

"As much as I hate working, I don't think I can go back to staying at home. I have friends now and I'm not stuck in the house all day. Plus Kylie starts Pre-K in a couple of months and I don't want to be home all by myself." I told him.

"Yeah I know what you mean. I was just saying if you want to take a break you can." He said and kissed me on the forehead and I nodded.

We both had to go to work today since it was Friday. It felt weird always being up at the same time as him and getting ready together, but it was more time we got to spend together.

"I should go. I have to drop Kylie off at my mom's today for Kellin. He had to go to school early to work on some project with his group." I said.

"Okay, have a nice day." He pulled me into him and kissed me. "Oh and I want to talk to you about something important tonight." He said.

"What is it?" I asked curiously.

"We'll talk about it tonight." He chuckled.

"But Alex I can't go all day without knowing." I complained.

"It's just a few hours." He teased and I pouted.

"Fine. I'll see you tonight." I kissed him again and went to go get Kylie so we could leave.

Even though I had to work two hours over time, my day went by quickly. I just felt tired after doing more work that I normally had to do. It was either stay late or do the work at home and I wanted to spend my time at home with my family, not doing work. My day did brighten up some when Alex called me during my lunch break. He told me he hired a new secretary. It was a male college student and he was the straightest person Alex could find. He assured me I had no reason to worry about him which made me laugh. I also felt a sense of relief. I wouldn’t have to worry that anything was going on between them. Everything seemed perfect between us again.

******

"Hey Daddy!" Kellin called out when I walked in the house from work.

"Hey Kells." I said, trying not to sound too exhausted. Staying two hours later at work than I normally did was killing me. Luckily this was my last week doing overtime. "Hi, Kyls." I said as Kylie ran up to hug my leg.

"I miss you!" She exclaimed.

"I missed you too, baby." I picked her up and sat her down in my lap once I sat on the couch next to Alex.

Alex chuckled when he heard me take a deep breath. He reached down and took my shoes off for me. Then he pulled my head over so I could lay on his shoulder.

"Thank you." I mumbled against his shoulder.

"You're welcome." He told me.

I remembered that he said he wanted to talk to me after work, but I was too tired to talk about it right now. I closed my eyes and quickly fell asleep.

I woke up to kisses being placed on my lips. I cracked my eyes open and saw Alex smiling at me. I was laid out on the couch by myself now. Alex kissed me one last time when he saw that I was finally awake.

"What do you want?" I said, sounding cranky.

"I made dinner, it's time to eat." He said and I sat up.

"You made dinner?" I asked and he nodded. "That's a first." I mumbled.

"Well excuse me for trying to help my husband." He chuckled.

"Thanks for making dinner and sorry about napping so much. I've just been overworked lately." Almost every day this week I would take a nap when I got home from work.

"It's okay. I know what it feels like to be overworked. And I know you're not just using that as a cover up for an affair." He joked and I laughed. That's how I knew we had a healthy relationship. The past was mostly behind us now.

Alex helped me off the couch and we went to the table to have dinner with our kids. Even after six months of having Alex here with us I still felt overjoyed when we did the simplest things, such as having dinner together. I grabbed Alex's hand under the table and we smiled as we listened to Kellin tell us about his upcoming date with Vic tomorrow.

***

Soon it was time for us to go bed. Alex and I took Kylie to bed so we could read her a bedtime story. We were finally getting her used to sleeping alone in her own bed. It actually worked most nights.
Alex laid Kylie in bed and pulled out her Disney princess book. I got on my knees by Kylie's bed so I could run my fingers through her hair to relax her and help her fall asleep faster.

"Once upon a time there were two kings that were madly in love with each other." Alex started off and I looked up at him. That was definitely not what I remembered that story book saying. He slightly chuckled but continued with the story.

"The kings had two children they loved very deeply, Prince Kellin and Princess Kylie-"

"-that's my name." Kylie giggled, cutting him off.

"Yeah it is. That's because you're a beautiful princess." I told her and kissed her on the cheek.

"The kings could never imagine life without the other, until one day King Alex started to change. He began spending more time away from their castle in hopes of providing more for his family. What King Alex failed to realize was that his family needed him more than they needed the resources. His husband, King Jack tried warning him of this several times, but King Alex didn't listen. And one day while King Alex was out, he let an evil witch put a spell on him." Alex stopped when he heard me laugh at his ridiculous story.

"Keep going. It's just getting good." I said and he chuckled.

"Um the witch's evil spell made King Alex repulsive to King Jack and Prince Kellin. Princess Kylie couldn't tell that a spell had been placed on King Alex so she felt no differently about him. King Jack could not stand to be around King Alex anymore so he rightfully divorced him and kicked him out of their castle. This angered King Alex at first, but he soon realized he had no one to blame but himself for allowing the witch to cast the spell on him. Over time he was able to get Prince Kellin to forgive him, but it took longer for King Jack to do the same."

"King Jack searched for someone to replace King Alex and he settled for a royal fool, named Austin." Alex said and I playfully rolled my eyes at him. "King Jack tricked himself into thinking he liked the fool, but deep down inside he still had feeling for King Alex. It took some time, but King Alex finally figured this out. He worked extremely hard in order to win back King Jack. At first King Alex's efforts were in vain, but King Jack couldn't hide his feelings for long. He began to fall for King Alex all over again. Soon King Alex fought and defeated the royal fool, but that didn't win him King Jack's trust back. King Alex knew he couldn't do that task alone so he hired a professional named Dr. Pope to help him. After a few months, Dr. Pope helped King Jack rebuild his trust of King Alex. He agreed to take him back and even allowed him to move back into the castle with him and their children." Kylie was asleep by now, but Alex continued with the story.

"Six months later, King Jack and King Alex's love was now stronger than ever. King Alex felt that something was missing though. He set out on a quest to find the perfect token of love to give to King Jack to make their love official again. None of what he found could compare to the original token of love he had first given to King Jack. So King Alex had it polished and hoped that King Jack would take it back.”

I stared at Alex to see where he was going with this. I was following along with what every part of the story represented, except for this. He sat the book down and got on his knees next to me. Then he pulled a black box out of his pocket and opened it. My wedding ring that I had given back to Alex was in the box. I stared at the ring in the box and looked back at Alex. I was shocked. I stared at him and forgot how to speak.

"Jack Bassam Barakat, will you marry me... again?" He asked.

"Oh my God, Alex. I don't know what to say." I whispered, finally finding my voice again.
"Please say yes." Alex said desperately.

I looked down at my ring again before answering. "Just promise me that you'll never give me a reason to doubt our love again." I begged.

"I swear, Jack." He promised.

"Then of course I'll marry you again!" I exclaimed. He smiled and slid my ring back on my finger. Then he stood me up with him and pressed our lips together tightly.

"I love you. I love you. I love you." He said in between kisses.

"I love you too, Lex."

I looked down at my ring on my finger. I felt the exact same euphoric feeling I had the first time Alex gave it to me. I quickly attached my lips back to his. I couldn't believe we were actually going to be remarried. I trusted that Alex would never do anything to hurt me again. And he was finally going to be permanently back in my life.

“Can you finish the story?” We heard Kellin quietly ask from behind us and Alex nodded.

"And they lived happily ever after."

Notes

The end!!

I always hate ending stories. It makes me so sad, but at least this one has a happy ending! It's kind of short, but I just wanted to end it with them getting back together since it began with them divorcing.
I can't say thank you enough to all of you for reading this fic! I really hoped you all enjoyed it. I was planning on uploading the first chapter of my new story today, but I think I'm going to hold off for a little bit. I don't know the direction I want to take the story in yet and I don't want to upload it and make stuff up as I go. I'll be planning it out though and have it up sooner or later! This story turned out exactly how I wanted it to and I couldn't be happier with it. Thank you so much for reading it! And as always, I'll be here and on Mibba for forever so message me about anything or tell me about your new stories! I'm always looking for more to read!!!