Of course, I think that had something to with the fact that he had brought a guest of his own along. A blonde haired girl that reminded me of a pixie, with her pale skin and short spiky do. According to Ally, they had met when the tour first started, she made sure all of the equipment got from point A to point B, and when Ally started seeing Teddy, they got together not long after.
“You ready to go home, baby?” Chase snaked an arm around my waist and dropped a kiss on my forehead.
“Definitely, home sounds perfect. I had fun but I’m ready to see Caleb. I missed our time together.” Chase smiled knowingly, I knew he felt the same way and he wished that he could come home right away too, but duty called and off to work he would go. Hi ho, hi ho.
Chapter 23
Leah
“Here we go.” Chase dropped our bags in the front entryway of our house. It seemed odd that Tootsie wasn’t there to greet us right away; he had stayed at Mary’s house while we were gone and I had been too exhausted to want to pick him up.
It felt good to be home. Caleb had been overjoyed when we picked him up from Roy’s, truthfully I think it hurt Roy’s feelings a little bit at how excited he was to leave. We stopped for lunch on our way home, that way Chase and Caleb could spend a little bit more time together, but the time had went by way too quickly and now we he was leaving.
“You two going to be all right here without me?” Chase smirked as I flopped down on the couch, drained from the trip and ready to head to bed. I was sure Caleb had other plans in mind though.
“Yes, I think we’ll be okay even though you won’t be here to fight off all the bad guys.”
“Well, I am the man of the house and all. I guess Caleb will just have to take over for me.” He pulled me up from the couch and ran his hands up my sides slowly. It had felt good to spend the whole weekend alone with him, I really wasn’t looking forward to him leaving, but his ego didn’t need to know that.
“You, mister, better get out of here. Do you have everything packed up that you’ll need?”
“Yup, unless you want to try and hop in there too, I think I’m all set.” I rolled my eyes as I lightly shoved him towards the door and he scooped up his bag once again.
We said our goodbyes and soon Chase was gone. It was definitely going to be weird having him gone, but I knew Caleb would keep me busy.
“Hey bud, how ‘bout you change into your jammies and then we’ll watch some movies and order pizza for dinner,” I yelled down the hallway into his bedroom.
“’Kay, Mommy. I wanna watch Spiderman.” I groaned when he said it, even though I knew it was coming. Spiderman was his obsession right now and Chase was in heaven about it. I just couldn’t get into the whole superhero thing. I guess it was a boy thing. Why didn’t he ever want to watch movies about princesses?
After watching two movies and eating a whole large pizza between the two of us, we were both fighting to keep our eyes opened. I tucked Caleb into his bed and then crawled into ours. It felt so empty without Chase, so I snuggled up to his pillow, breathing in his soft soap scent. I felt a little on the pathetic side for already missing him so much, but I didn’t care. Chase and I were finally in a good place and I couldn’t be happier.
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“Mommy, I’m hungry. Wake up.” I cracked an eye open and saw a pair of brown eyes staring back at me, just an inch of space between our two faces. I had definitely missed these wake-up calls while we had been gone. I looked over at the clock and saw that it was almost noon; apparently both of us had been worn out.
I stretched my arms out and then wrapped them around his tiny little body, burying my face in his soft curls. How anyone couldn’t love this little man was beyond me. He made it so easy.
I padded out to the kitchen with him in my arms and sat him on the countertop where he watched me pull out ingredients for our breakfast. “Can we have the smiley face pancakes? And then we’re going to go get Tootsie from Grandma Mary’s, right?”
“Of course, that’s exactly what I was thinking about making. Hopefully, we have some whip cream, that’s the best part, right?” Caleb clapped his little hands the second I found the canister of whip cream and we assembled our pancakes quickly. “We’ll go get Tootsie as soon as we eat and are dressed for the day,” I added on.
“Good. I miss Chase, when’s he coming home?” he asked in between bites. “He’ll be home late tomorrow night, he misses you too. You had fun at your dad’s house though, right? Chase said he had a bunch of fun stuff planned out.”
“Yup, Daddy’s was okay, I guess. He took me to the animal place and then we went to the pizza place for dinner. The next day Shelia came with us, that wasn’t fun,” he grumbled, his bottom lip sticking out into a pout.
I had to stifle a laugh at his expression, he really was not into Shelia. I think it had a lot to do with the fact that he wasn’t getting one hundred percent of his dad’s attention. And she kind of seemed a little stuffy, in my opinion.