Love You Long Time (Duncan Keith)

14| Sleep Over

Duncan

"Teacups mommy, teacups! Please" Tristan begs Alyssa as she holds his hand waking around Disney. I was scared shitless I was going to lose him in all this mess but he refused to go in the stroller and he only wanted Alyssa to hold his hand.

"Of course sweetie. But you have to wait in line patiently" she tells him and he nods his head.

"How in the world do you do that? I couldn't even get him to wipe his own ass" I whisper and she giggles.

"He loves me" she shrugs and I just look at her. That makes two of us.

We end up going on the tea cups three times in a row before Tristan got too dizzy and nearly passed out. It was probably time to go get some food and cold water anyway. It wasn't incredibly hot here but he still needed to sit down for a while and let his body catch up to him. He doesn't know it yet, but he is very tired.

We go to one of the many restaurants available in Magic Kingdom and sit down to eat. I break up his chicken nuggests so he can eat them before he shovels them into his mouth. I try not to laugh when his mouth eventually ends up covered in ketchup but it ended up looking like a mustache and that made me chuckle.

"Are you having fun" Alyssa asks him and he gives a big smile filled with chicken nuggets. She wipes his mouth off before he replies to her.

"So much fun" he claims and she smiles back at him.

"Have you ever thought about having kids of your own" I ask her.

"Not for a while" she admits.

"Well you're an amazing mother" I insist and she smiles at me.

"My mommy" Tristan says and we both laugh.

"Yeah sweetie, your mommy" she assures him as she runs her fingers through his brown curly hair. "Where do you want to go to next" she asks him.

He wasn't tall enough to go on most rides and we've already been to the castle and got ice cream and one of those cool mickey balloons. So as far as Magic Kingdom goes we were pretty much done here.

"I want animals" he claims.

"I do too" Alyssa giggles. "Let's get you to Animal Kingdom so we can see the animals" she insists.

We finish up our lunch and hop on a bus that would take us over to Animal Kingdom. Once we get there we find a safari ride to sit on after walking all day. So we hop on a trolly and Tristan makes himself comfortable in Alyssa's lap. She wraps her arms around him as we wait for the trolley to fill up so we can get started. He resets his head on her chest and I smile at the sight.

"You know, I've never been here before" she admits as she takes it all in. 

"Never" I gasp and she laughs.

"Never. When I was a kid we always went to cedar point or the dells or something in the midwest. My brothers didn't want to come down here and my parents were afraid of the heat so we never made it out" she shrugs.

"That's insane. You are one of the biggest Disney nerds I know of" I admit.

"I know right" she smiles. "But I'm happy my first time here is so meaningful. I would much rather be here with you and Tristan than listening to my brothers arguing all the time" she insists.

"Awww. That was kind of sweet" I joke as she rolls her eyes.

"You are so impossible" she claims.

"How so" I counter.

"I don't know... you just are" she smirks.

"I will be whatever it is you want me to be."

Finally after sitting there for a while the tour starts. They take us around the park and we get to see some pretty great animals. And this was nothing like the zoo back home, no. These were safari and tropical animals. Some things Tristan hasn't even heard of before. I mean he was about to turn two so that wasn't saying much, but he was still amazed.

"Daddy! I want monkey" he cheers.

"Where are we going to keep a monkey" I ask him.

"At home with mommy" he says and I freeze. I stare at him and think about how hard it would be to explain that this would never happen.

"We can't do that" I say. "I'm sorry."

I see him start to make himself cry and I feel bad. I know it wasn't genuine but it still breaks my heart to see him cry. He had my heart in his hands and he knew exactly how to test me.

"How about we make a deal" Alyssa says. "If you're a good boy for the rest of the year then we get you a monkey to keep on the zoo back home. You get to name it and everything" Alyssa says and we both gasp. That was both really brilliant and really kind on her behalf.

"Monkey baby" Tristan yells and I laugh.

"That is amazing. What do you tell Alyssa" I ask Tristan.

"Thank you mommy" he cheers and I smile big. How lucky am I?

We finish the tour and much to Tristan's despise, it was bed time. We still had a while left here so it's not like we we're going to miss anything. We could watch the fireworks from our hotel so that helpednme get him ready for bed. He pulls on some Mickey Mouse PJs and brushes his hair out before jumping into bed.

"I want mommy" he insists.

"Mommy is resting in the other room" I explain.

"But I want her" he claims.

"You can sleep over there tonight if you want. But you have to ask nicely" I tell him as he smiles up at me. He nods his head vigorously as he jumps out the bed. I follow him over to Alyssa's room where she was just sitting on the bed watching tv.

Tristan climbs into bed with her and she doesn't even hesitate to pull him in. He lays in her arms as she smiles down at him.

"What's are you doing here? You should be asleep" she claims.

"I told him that if it's okay with you he could sleep over here tonight. Have a little sleep over" I explain.

"That would be so much fun" Alyssa claims. "We can have a sleep over."