Jessy woke to crying, "Zac honey wake up. Zac." she said. "Yeah Jessy" Zac answered. "Honey we have an uhappy camper, get the flashlight and come with me?" Jessy asked. Zac grabbed the flashlight turned it on, crawled out of their tent and turned, extended his hand and pulled Jessy to her feet. They made their way down the row of tents until they heard the crying, Jessy bent and looked inside "Mackie what's the matter?" she asked. "Jimmy hit me." Mackie said. "He did. He must have been having and dream and swung his arm, I don't think he hit you on purpose. Do you want to come sleep with your brother and me?" Jessy asked. "No Zac wouldn't like it." Mackie said. "Hey bud, why would you say that?" Zac asked. "Cuz you love Jessy." Mackie said. "Yeah I do bud, but why do you think I wouldn't want you to sleep with us." Zac asked. "Cuz if she loves me you'll be jealous Zac." Mackie said. "No, Mackie I'm okay if Jessy loves you, I'm glad she does? I hope you love her too." Zac said. "You do?" Mackie asked. Zac handed Jessy the flashlight, "Come here bud. You know there's different kinds of love don't you? Like I love you, Ike, Tay, Jessie, Avie and Zoe. Like I love Mom and Dad. Like Mom and Dad love each other. Well I love Jessy like Dad loves Mom. And Jessy loves you like I love you. So it's okay that you love Jessy and Jessy loves you. I would feel bad if she didn't love you like I love you. Your too cool not to be loved. So you want to come sleep with me and Jessy, bud?" Zac asked. "Yeah Me do." Mackie said and Zac picked him up and carried him back to their tent. Jessy handed the flashlight to Zac and she crawled in, "Come on Mackie" Jessy said and he crawled in towards Jessy. "Sit on my lap until Zac's in so he doesn't crawl on you by mistake." Jessy said as Zac handed Mackie the flashlight and he played pointing it everywhere as Zac crawled in. "So you want to sleep between us Mackie?" Jessy said. Mackie looked at Zac, "It's okay bud you can sleep between us, Jessy is a great hugger." Zac said as Jessy grabbed their blanket. Zac laid back down and Jessy threw the blanket over him, then hugged Mackie and scooted towards Zac then she laid down holding onto Mackie. "You okay there, not getting squished huh?" Jessy asked him as she tucked the blanket around them. "He's asleep already." Zac explained to Jessy's surprise. "I sure hope you meant what you said to him. I didn't even think when I offered for him to come to sleep with us. I hope Mom and Dad don't mind." Jessy said. "Jessy we aren't doing anything why shouldn't he sleep with us. Look how safe he feels, to fall asleep like that. He loves you and trusts you. And I love you more because of it." Zac said leaning over his brother to kiss her. "He's so easy to love." Jessy said bending and kissing Mackie's forehead and then Zac kissed his forehead, "You're right he is easy to love. Goodnight hun." Zac said touching her face then he turned off the flashlight. Four hours later Jessy woke and quietly made her way out of the tent. As she stretched she noticed Mom, Daddy, Momma and about four or five other adults out by the cookers. Jessy headed in the back door, she heard crying but in a distance and figured it must be Zoe. She took the stairs two at a time and made it to the door of the guest room. "Hey baby all alone?" Jessy said and Zoe stopped crying. She picked her up changed her diapers and put on a pair of jeans, tee shirt and a sweatshirt. Then she found her shoes and they headed to her room. Jessy put her on the floor to play while she quickly showered. When she made her way to the bathroom, she noticed Chele and Tay in Chele's bed. Jessy locked the door on their side and took a quick shower and soon she was in a towel checking on Zoe. She dried her hair and unlocked Chele's door and closed hers and dressed. Choosing shorts, tank and a warm up jacket. "Let's get to it girl." Jessy squealed lifting Zoe in the air and heading downstairs. She grabbed a bag loaded up all the boxes of cereal they had, a box of sugar packets, foam bowls and plastic spoons. She grabbed the milk and a thermos, filled it with the coffee and started another pot. She grabbed Zoe and the bag and headed out the front door, singing and dancing to Zoe's delight. "Morning troups." Jessy smiled. "Hey sunshines." Daddy said as Jessy made her way to them kissing and hugging. "Momma there's a thermos of coffee in the bag and cereal stuff. Zoe wants O's please. Momma would you take her, I think I'm going for a run to get rid of the nerves." Jessy said. As Momma picked up Zoe and made her O's Jessy stretched, "See ya. Oh Mackies sleeping with Zac, Jimmy smacked him in his sleep this morning around 2a and he was just sitting there crying when we found him. So we took him to bed with us. I think he understood Jimmy didn't do it on purpose, but we should make sure. Later." Jessy said and took off running, her hair flying free behind her. "Such a pretty girl." Momma said. "Yeah Jessy sure is." Mom said. "I was talking about your Zoe, but thank you." Momma said. "No Thank You." Mom said and the table laughed. "Hey where's Jessy going?" Zac asked. "Morning, she's got a bad case of nerves and she runs them off sweetie. She just left, that way. Man she's flying low today can't see her already. I'd say a half hour she'll be back." Momma said. "Son would you like me to give you a lift and go after her." Dad offered. "Would you Dad?" Zac asked and the two hopped in Ike's jeep and took off down the street and doubled back and headed after Jessy. "There she is Dad. Drop me off at the next corner so I can stretch out while waiting for her. Thanks Dad." Zac said and was stretching on the corner when Jessy ran up to him. "I would have woke you but I decided at the last minute to run hun. Ready?" Jessy asked. "Let's go." Zac said taking the lead and Jessy quickly matched his strides and they ran to and around the park and Zac headed home "You ready to go home? Jessy you okay?" Zac asked. "Yeah hun, I'm getting my second wind. Keep going." Jessy huffed and a few minutes later "Wheee!" she squealed. "What's up?" Zac asked. "Runner's high. Cool." Jessy said and her pace matched Zac's again. "How'd you do that?" Zac asked. "Don't you get one?" Jessy asked. "No, I never had one." Zac said. "Do you get to the point you think you can't go on, not even one more step?" Jessy asked. "No" Zac said. "Well that's why. You get to that point, the wall, and you push past it and Viola! Runner's high. I dig em." Jessy smiled. "You sure look like you do." Zac said. "I'm heading home." Zac finished. "I'm right behind you." Jessy said patting his ass and he led her home. They stopped down on the main corners and walked the rest of the way home, hand in hand. "Good run?" Momma asked. "Great" Jessy smiled. "Painful" Zac said. "Someone kept smacking my ass." he finished. "Zac Hanson, I tapped you not smacked you. You want a smack so you know what one feels like boy?" Jessy asked as Zac threw her over his shoulder. "Shower time girl." Zac said. "Let me down. I hate being upside down. I'll barf on you Zac. Oh no." Jessy said sucking her tummy in and pushing it out over and over to really panic him. "Jessy don't puke" he called as he put her down. "Got you." she laughed and ran towards the house. "Morning kids." she said. "Morning Jessy." they replied as Jessy made it through the door and raced upstairs. When she reached her room the shower was already going, she checked Kat's room but they were in her bathroom. "Grab your clothes, we have to use the shower in the basement again. Hope there's some hot water left." Jessy said grabbing her change of clothes and a set for Zac. "Come on hun." Jessy said trying to pull him up off her bed. "What?" she asked seeing a far away look in his eyes. "Where are you, Albertane." she asked. "What? Oh I was thinking about the hot chick I saw running this morning. Man what an ass." he said. "Hey that's not nice. You go running with me and your looking at someone else's ass?" she asked. "Man khaki shorts up to here and legs down to there." Zac said dreaming with a big smile on his face. "I think you enjoyed it too much." Jessy said looking down at the bulge in his pants, and she turned and shut the door, heading to the bathroom, "You guys almost done in there, I stink and need a shower. Just ran." Jessy said. "Sure we're done." Chele said and as she left she opened Jessy's door. "Thanks" Jessy said following her and locking her door. She turned on the shower and headed back to Zac, taking off her clothes. "You ready for a shower?" she said taking off her shoes as she sat on the bed, then taking off his. She stood pulling off her shirt, the unfastening her bra. She unzipped her shorts and dropped them in the pile as Zac threw his shirt in the pile. Jessy took off her panties and tossed them on his shirt and hit the shower. She was washing her hair as Zac came in. "You are gorgeous. I haven't connected all the parts before." he said staring as she rinsed her hair. "Your turn." Jessy said moving out from under the spray and grabbed a towel and towel dried her hair while watching Zac shower. "Jessy you're quiet. Jessy. Hey Jessy." Zac yelled. "Oh Zac." she said her eyes finding his as her face turned red. "Oh I did it too. I'm sorry. I know how it made me feel. I'm sorry. I was seeing parts not all of you. Zac?" she asked. "Yeah Jessy" he answered. "I'm sorry" she said and she looked for the forgiveness in his eye. "It's ok hun." he said kissing her cheek. "Zac I love you." she said. "I know you do, as much as I love you." Zac said. "Uh huh!" she said putting her forehead to his. "Jessy we better get going, people should start coming soon." Zac said and he turned off the water. "Oh I guess you're right, you usually are." Jessy said towel drying his hair then quickly wiping herself with the towel and wrapping it around him. She headed to the sink and grabbed the hair dryer and she dried her hair then his as he dried off her body again then tossed the towels on the pile of dirty clothes. The dressed each other and picked up the pile of clothes and raced them to the basement, loaded and started the washer and then headed outside.
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