How Did This Happen?

Illinois

The next morning we got up and I made breakfast while he packed my makeup bag in my carry on and tucked my computer into its bag along with my notebook and pens for the meeting I'm sure to get pulled into with the company. He put them all together and into the car as I finished up and served our breakfast. I was wearing Brian's shirt but Jax was too tired to notice.

"Ready?" He asked after I started my dishwasher and we headed out to the airport. I messaged Jesus a picture of where we parked and reminded him where the key is as we went through security checks. We found a seat close to our gate and sat back to back for comfort. This was something we had figured out the first few times we traveled together. Sitting back to back on a bench kept us more aware of our surroundings as well as adding a bit of cushion at our backs. I usually read or dealt with company business on my phone while he either watched a movie listened to music napped or sometimes I found a book he actually liked. He's very picky.

"Jax do you want coffee?" He grunted and I tapped his shoulder. "Jax? You alive back there?" He grunted again and after a few seconds gave me a human response.

"Why are you talking? Read your book." I ignored him.

"Do you want coffee? Si o no?"

"Yeah okay. Just hurry back I was using your head as a pillow."

"The plane should be getting close to ready so I'll hurry anyways. Here lean on my bag. I'll be back soon." I put my bag in the chair behind him and went to get coffee. When I got back he was asleep laying on my bag and I wondered how late he was up last night. I prayed not late enough to hear me when I woke up from the flashback type nightmare I had. I was planning on getting some sleep on the flight but he never sleeps on planes. They freak him out. He used to question my ability to sleep on planes then he stayed at my house overnight and found out how little I actually sleep. Instead of waking him up I sat on the floor beside him and kept reading my book. Around half an hour later he woke up as I was engrossed in my book and not paying attention to anything around me.

"Shadow why are you on the floor?" I jumped when he spoke and turned to look at him.

"You were sleeping. I just sat down instead of waking you again. I got you coffee." He smiled and took it before telling me to get back in the chair.

"Is that a new shirt?" I grinned and nodded. "Nice." A while later we boarded the plane and I fell asleep, not waking again until we were in Illinois. We drove to the house we are staying in with a friend of mine in Paris and he carried our stuff inside. I told him multiple times that I could carry my own bags but he protested, insisting that I catch up with Cassidy. I told her about meeting Brian and going surfing with him yesterday then she told me about her son's father being a huge pain as always. We swapped stories for a while then I asked where her son was and she said he's with his father in Chicago for the night but he will be with us tomorrow. Jax and I left to go meet up with Javy and Will about an hour later and got to the restaurant we were meeting at a little early. They came in right on time and I flagged them down. Javy was the first to speak when they got to us.

"¡Nessa! Hola Gorgeous ¿cómo estás?"
"Soy fantástico ¿cómo estás? ¿Cómo estás, Will?" I got up and hugged both of them then we all sat down and ate late lunch and talked.

"Nessa ¿Qué haces mañana por la tarde? Tenemos una práctica de bateo Joe dijo que podías venir si quieres." I looked at Will as he spoke and caught Jax looking confused so I translated for him.

"Batting practice tomorrow afternoon... I think Jax has a meeting tomorrow but my meeting isn't until the next day. I can make it work." Jax nodded when I said I thought he had a meeting so he's probably meeting with the CEO of the company he works for or his dad for lunch. I smiled and we talked more about random things. We caught each other up on what's going on in our lives and Javy was talking about his girlfriend then he asked about my Snapchat last night.