Pickleville 01 - Whispers of Home by April Kelley

Author:April Kelley
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781487402402
Published: 2015-02-15T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Travis woke up to big blue eyes staring at him from across the coffee table. “Hi,” he said to Bobby, from his horizontal position. He was afraid to sit up. He knew he would probably move like an old man after spending the night on Jaron’s couch.

“Why are you sleeping there?” Bobby asked. Leave it to a kid to get right down to the bones of it all.

“Because.”

“Because why?”

“Because I needed a place to sleep.”

“I always sleep with Daddy. He likes to snuggle. You can sleep with him too. He calls me his snuggle bear.” Bobby giggled at this last little bit of information.

Travis smiled at the boy, but otherwise didn’t say anything. He would love nothing more than to curl up next to his man, but the angel with the big blue eyes didn’t need to see that just yet. Bobby truly did look like an angel too, quite literally, except without the wings and halo. But Travis could imagine both. Bobby had this light about him that was ethereal.

“Come on.” Bobby grabbed onto Travis’ finger and tugged, until Travis was sitting up on the couch. Yep, his body was telling him to never sleep on this couch again. Bobby kept tugging until Travis was standing and then tugged him across the room.

“Where are we going?” he asked the little boy who led him around the house to the kitchen.

“You can make me cereal,” Bobby said as he released Travis and sat in the same kitchen chair Travis had sat in last night. “I want the chocolate kind.”

“Chocolate, huh?” Travis proceeded to open cabinets until he came to the one with three boxes of cereal lining the shelves. Travis grabbed the cereal from the shelf and rummaged around for a spoon and bowl. After pouring the cereal and then milk in the bowl, he placed the bowl in front of Bobby and sat down at the table with him.

“I’m in kindergarten,” Bobby said between bites.

“Do you like it?”

Bobby just shrugged. “I like Mackenzie. He’s our class hamster.”

“So you like animals?”

“Oh yes. And I like Daddy.”

“What kind of animal is he?”

Bobby giggled. “He’s not an animal, silly.”

“I like your daddy too.”

“You do?”

“Yep. Is that okay with you?”

“I guess so. That just means you’re gonna be nice to him. Cuz if you like someone then your nice to them. If you don’t like someone then you’re mean. Can I tell you a secret?”

“Sure.”

“A bad man hurt my Mommy. I guess he didn’t like her very much, huh?”

Travis swallowed down the lump in his throat. What did he say to a statement like that? He decided to change the subject. He chose, “Do you like puppies?”

Bobby’s blue eyes got bigger, if that was possible, and a smile lit up his face. He nodded his head. “Daddy said he wants me to buy him a dog when I get rich. He’s gonna name it booger. But It’s gotta be green.” Bobby’s little frown over the last statement had Travis chuckling.

“Dogs aren’t green.”

“I know.

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