Dreams of the Future- Josh Anderson
Hi can I ask for a Josh Anderson where someone makes a comment about what good parents you are not knowing it's your niece/nephew and he starts thinking about kids with you??
I hiked my niece onto my hip, making sure she was secure as we started into the crowd of people entering the arena. Josh was walking in front of us, trying to make a path as we tried to move around the crowded arena to get food before the show started. “Josh, hold on a second. I have a wiggling 4 year old who is trying to escape my arms.” Josh nods, stepping off the side and I was able follow him so we were standing against the wall.
“Do you want to split up so we get to our seats faster?” I think about it and nod, tightening my grip on Amelia. “I can go get the food?”
“No, I’ll go get the food.”
“I can take Amelia then.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah, we are just going to go to our seats. I’ve got her.” I nodded and let Josh take my niece, getting her settled on his back and making sure her arms were firmly around his neck. “I’ll see you in a few, just get me whatever you are getting to eat.”
“Okay, love you.” I kiss him quickly before watching them move smoothly through the crowd toward the section we were in before going off to find food for the three of us. 20 minutes later I made my way into the seats with my arms filled with food. Josh stood as soon as he saw me, moving to take some of the food from my arms before letting me into the aisle. I handed Amelia her hot dog before noticing something already filling her small hands. “What do you have?”
“Olaf!” She holds up the plush snowman to me, causing me to lift my eyes to Josh.
“What? How do you say no to a snowman that likes warm hugs?” I roll my eyes at him, causing him to stick his tongue out at me.
“You can explain that to my sister when we drop Amelia off.” He smiles and I have to draw my eyes away from him to looks at my niece. “I know Olaf likes warm hugs but I don’t think he likes hot dogs, so how about he sits in my purse while we eat and then he can come watch with you?” She seems to me thinking over what I say before nodding and handing me the snowman, reaching for her hot dog. The three of us eat quickly, getting excited for the ice show to start. A month ago when I had mentioned to Josh that I was looking for something to do with my niece for the next time I watched her, he had suggested Disney on Ice.
“I’ll take the trash.” Josh takes all of our trash after I wipe the ketchup off of Amelia’s hands and face, kissing her forehead as she hugged Olaf to her chest. When he sat back in his seat we tried to get a picture of the three of us and as Josh was holding out his phone a woman in the row in front of us offered to take on for us.
“You three are such a cute family! Your daughter is precious!”
Josh’s pov
When the woman in front of us took are picture and assumed we were a family it got my mind spinning about that in my mind. Dating Jess for close to 2 years now, I had met here right after joining the Blue Jackets, I had just always assumed we were headed in that direction. Marriage, house with the white picket fence, a child or two that were the perfect combination of us. However, looking over at Jess she had a tight smile on her face as she showed me the picture, the usual glow in her eyes gone when she looked at me.
Her niece Amelia didn’t seem to notice any of the tension that felt like a brick wall between us. Jess handed me a water bottle from her purse before also pulling out some cotton candy, feeding Amelia small piece as her eyes followed the figure skaters that had just taken the ice.
I kept trying to sneak glances over at Jess during the show but she wouldn’t meet my eyes, even once the show ended and there was a sleeping 4 year old between us. “I can carry her out to the car, I know you said you back was hurting.” She finally met my eyes, giving me a smile of thanks as I picked up Amelia who had a death grip on the snowman I had bought her. When we had passed the stand on our way to our seats she squeezed my neck tighter as she saw the stuffed snowman and I was happy to buy it for her.
Coming back to the present I followed Jess out to her sister’s car, we had left Jess’s car at their house figuring it was easier to take their car than to switch out the car seat. “I can hook her in.” Nodding I gently place her in the car seat, before climbing into the passenger seat. Once Jess was in the driver's seat and we were slowly making our way out of the parking lot, as we slowly inched
forward in the traffic I felt her reach for my hand. I took comfort in that small gesture as my mind pictured a little girl who was the mirror image of her wearing a jersey that had my number and daddy on the back. As I got lost in my day dream I must have missed something Jess said because she squeezed my hand and looked over at me.
“I’m sorry, what did you say?”
“I’m sorry for what that lady said to us, I hope it didn’t freak you out too much.”
“Freak me out?”
“Most guys run at the mention of commitment, let alone having kids. I love you, and I don’t want ruin what we have.”
“Why would you think I would run at the mention of commitment? We’ve been dating for almost 2 years now, I would say we are pretty committed.”
“Dating and having a child together are two very different things.”
“In case you haven’t figured it out, I’m in this for the long run and you are kind of it for me.” She gave me a huge smile, letting me lean over to kiss her as we finally got out of the parking lot and were now in traffic to get on the highway.
“Are you ready for kids?”
“Right now? No. But in a year or two, after we are married and both steady in our careers I could see us having a kid or two.”
“Married?”
“I told you, you are it for me. I don’t have an actual plan right now. I figured I would at least wait until you finish grad school, I don’t want to be a distraction.”
“I don’t know if I can just forget about this for now.”
“Then think of it this way, I am going to marry you and then when we are both ready we are going to have the cutest children the world has ever seen.” That gets a laugh out of both of us, stopping quickly so we didn’t wake up Amelia. “All you need to know right now is that I love you and you are the one for me.”
“I love you too, and I can’t wait to see how cute our future children are.”
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