Happy Happy Day
Another installment of Addie!Verse
Connor accepted long ago that his days of sleeping in were long since past. Fatherhood and mornings spent lounging in bed just didn’t go hand-in-hand.
Between Christmases and birthdays, nightmares and thunderstorms, it’s a miracle if Addie let them make it to the alarm before bounding in their room – a riot of energy and sleep-mussed curls.
Most of the time he and Oliver gave her a little bit of a hard time; lightly teasing that ‘It’s so early, I’m not sure if the sun’s even up yet’ and the like, all of which she giggles off as she tugs at their quilt and pulls them downstairs with requests for waffles and orange juice and morning cartoons.
But today is different. Today neither of them will issue a single groan of complaint when Addie bursts in before the sun. Because today is not a normal day.
Today is Adoption Day.
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“Wake up!” Addie screams as she scrambles through their bedroom door with Waldo chasing in after.
She grips handfuls of the quilt as she scales the bed. A “Sorry, Papa” is given in passing as she knees Connor in the back, while climbing over him to plop herself between them both. The dog, however, rounds to the foot of the bed and makes it up in a single bound, landing solidly on Oliver’s shins just as Addie leans over to pry one of Oliver’s eyes open. “Wake up, Daddy. It’s today!”
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