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“Mom, I have a proper sit–on,” Aizen says and sets a notebook in front of me.
“Proposition,” I correct him. How cute is he? Ah! Okay, Phoebe be serious. Don’t laugh. “That’s what I said,” he rolls his eyes.
“Wait, I’m here,” Ayrie says as she runs in with her pink laptop toy and a matching. carrier. The laptop’s mouse is dragging on the floor beside her, and I’m surprised she hasn’t tripped on it.
She sets them down on the dining table. My baby is wearing her favorite coat and plastic princess heels from her dress–up treasure chest. This is the very first time the two of them have teamed up on me like this. I sneak a couple of pictures while they’re distracted.
“I told you to hurry,” Aizen tries to fix her hair as she tries to take the carrier strap off.
“I was getting pretty,” Ayrie scoffs.
“That’s impossible.” he rolls his eyes and she half–heartedly shoves him before going back to her task.
It takes them a moment to gather their toys. She opens the laptop that she insisted she needed to learn math and it helped. That’s all it does. Teaches her how to add and subtract. She’s tried the multiplication levels and she caught on that the x1s are always just going to be the multiplied number. It has a bunch of cool games on it. We couldn’t put it down the first week she got it. The toy pings and starts to boot up as she opens up the carrier. I nod when she pulls out a plastic banana, a tomato, and a pack of crayons. Those are one hundred percent necessary.
“Where’s the mouse?” she looks around.
“I found it,” Aizen jumps out of his chair to pick it up.
“Thank you,” she takes it and helps him back into the chair. “Ready,”
“Our proper sit–on,” Aizen waves his hands over the toys and papers. He slips a sheet of paper with the word puppy written in big sloppy letters. Their names are both scribbled at the bottom as signatures.
“Do you understand, mommy?” Ayrie asks crossing her arms over the table.
They are dead serious about this. So, I play along. I reach into my purse for my glasses and slip them on. Ayrie taps Aizen’s arm excitedly but his focus is completely on me. I pretend to read through their proposition and then set it down.
“A puppy, huh?”
“Yes, please,” they say at the same time.
“Am I allowed to think about it?” I ask. “So that I can come up with my own proper sit-
on?”
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“One second,” Ayrie says and leans into Aizen to cup her hands over his ear to whisper to him. He listens and then they switch. I sit back to see Kendra standing by the hallway trying her best to stay quiet. “How long will that take?”
“Usually, I have to the end of the week, I shrug. “You want Mommy to really think about it,”
“Ugh, that’s a long time, Mom,” Aizen complains.
“I know. A puppy is a big responsibility. You’d have to feed it and make sure it drinks. water. You have to teach it to go potty and then clean its poopy and peepee. I don’t want to do that and neither does Kenny, Cause, gross,” I shrug.
“We can do that,” Ayrie promises.
“Fine. Until the end of the week,” Aizen rolls his eyes.
“What have I told you about the eye roll? I glare at him.
“Sorry,” he smiles.
“Cheeky. Very well. I will think about it until the end of the week. I would also like for the two of you to think about what I said. You cannot expect me and Kenny to take care of your puppy. That’s going to be your job. We can go to the store after work to get a calendar so you guys can set up our chores chart. Maybe we can add the puppy so you can see how much work it is to have one,”
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“Okay, they both agree right away.
“All right, clear the table. Breakfast time,” I take their proposition and tuck it into my carrier. I am going to have my assistant frame this for my office. Then I’ll add pictures of them. I love puppies. I just haven’t been able to have one because we travel a lot.
“Help,” Ayrie grabs Aizen’s arm to stop him from leaving her.
“Fine,” he growls and takes some of her things.
“We can, you know,” Kendra says and helps me serve them their breakfast. “We’re not going to be on the move now that you’re at the head of the table. Xochtl doesn’t want you out on the runway anymore. She said Francis made a huge mess here. She wants it fixed. That means longer days away from the twins, Mama,”
“Yeah,” I agree. “But a puppy won’t compensate for that,”
“Right. But it’ll distract them, Hopefully long enough for you to get settled,”
“Did you contact the school already?”
“I have. The principal said that she’ll meet with us Wednesday morning. You up for that?”
“Yeah, the sooner the better,“, I agree.
“I’ll set it up,” she pats my head.
“Pancakes, Ayrie wiggles in her chair.
Kendra distracts them after I tell them I’m going to have to go soon. I usually have to
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sneak out or Ayrie cries. I like taking her with me sometimes, but I need to get a feel of the layout before I let her into the new office. I want to know who they’re going to be around. They ask a lot of questions.
Cevin, my personal assistant is waiting for me when I get to the lobby. There are cameras outside already. We both let out heavy sighs. This is one thing I will miss about Paris. The paparazzi here are a lot hungrier than they are over there and I am the shiny new toy.
Questions are fired at me as soon as we step outside. Cev brought out the big guys today. The guards push the cameras back as I am led to the car with Cevin right behind me. We get situated and I let out a sigh of relief. At least, no one threw paint at me today.
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