Rubik's Cube (Joshler)

Josh's POV ~

"Joossshhh!" Tyler screamed from the bedroom. I slowly walked in seeing Tyler trying to get our daughter dressed. We adopted her about 2 years ago shes 4 years old now and her name is Hope. Hope was running around the room in her underwear as Tyler stood by the bed holding her pants in his hands with a defeated expression.

I smiled at him. "Hopey come here." I said kneeling down and opening my arms. She quickly ran over and threw herself into my arms. I hugged her tightly. I started tickling her and she squirmed in my grip while laughing. "Daddy no!" she screamed. I then kissed her nose. "Lets get you dressed." I said and she pouted "I don't wanna get dressed."

"You have to sweetheart were going to grandmas for supper." I said softly. "Were going to grandmas?" she perked up. I nodded. She cheered. I picked her up and brought her over to Tyler who got her into her pants and shirt. Then she ran off to put her shoes on. "Thank You Joshie." he said as he pecked my lips. "No problem baby." I smiled with an arm around his waist. "We should probably get going." he whispered. I nodded and we went to put our shoes on as well.

When we walked out Hope was standing there, her shoes on the wrong feet and a smile on her face. "I got my shoes on daddy." she said excitedly. "Their on the wrong feet bubs." I chuckled as I knelt down to help her get them on the right feet. "Oopsie."

Once they were on the right feet and me and Tyler had our shoes on we locked the apartment and made our way to my moms house.

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"Can I ring the doorbell?" Hope asked as she walked in between me and Tyler, holding both our hands as we made our way to the front door. "Of course sweetheart." Tyler answered her. I picked her up and let her pressed the doorbell before setting her back down. She grabbed both our hands again as we waited.

A few seconds passed before my mom opened the door. "Josh! Tyler! Glad you could make it." she exclaimed giving us both a hug. "Grandma!" Hope squealed as she hugged my moms legs. "And I can't forget about you Hope." she said kneeling down and picking her up. "Come in, come in" she said walking into the house. We followed, making sure to take our shoes off at the door.

We went into the living room where everyone was gathered. There was me, Tyler, Hope, mom, Jordan, Ashley,  and Abbigal. Mom set Hope down and disappeared into the kitchen to finish supper. Me and Tyler sat down on the love seat while Hope was bouncing around excitedly talking to my sisters.

I watched with a small smile, my arm around Tyler's shoulders. I turned to look at him to see him watching contently. I pressed my lips to his temple. He then turned so he was facing me. We stared at each other for a few minutes. Then I leaned in and kissed him. "Cooties!" Hope yelled. I slowly opened my eyes to see Hope standing by the other couch pointing at us. I smiled and shook my head. Tyler just leaned his head on my shoulder.

"You two still seem just as in love as when you were teenagers." my mom spoke from the doorframe of the living room. I looked over at her then at Tyler. "I'd say even more if it was possible." I spoke. Tyler placed another quick kiss to my lips. "Well suppers ready so everyone to the kitchen." mom said turning and heading back to the kitchen.

"Hope come on time to eat." Tyler said standing up and reaching his hand out for her to take, she ran over and grabbed it. Once we all settled down in the kitchen and had our plates filled with food we began eating.

I sat with Tyler on my left and my brother on my right, Hope sat on the opposite side of Tyler next to Ashley then it was Abbigal and my mom. Me and my brother quickly got into our own conversation. We were talking about a party that he went to last week. "Yeah and there was this girl there, super hot by the way, and we went upstairs."Jordan spoke "did you get laid?" I asked with a sly grin. He smirked "yeah I got laid." he said. "nice." I replied. "Dad whats laid?" Hope asked looking up at Tyler.

Tyler sent me a death glare for talking about that kind of stuff with her around. I sucked on my bottom lip. "Uh.. It's something.. Um... It's..." he tried to put it in a family friendly kind of way. He turned to me for help. "It's something adults do for fun." I said. "So when I'm an adult I can get laid? Can I get laid every night?" she asked tilting her head to the side. Tyler smacked my arm as I sat there with a horrified expression, just the thought of her doing that made me sick.

My brother tried to hide his laugh by fake coughing. "You better not." I said sternly. "Why not? I want to get laid." she pouted. Tyler looked like he was trying to explode me with his mind. "I Because.. Um... Uh... You just can't end of discussion." I said shoving potatoes into my mouth. "But daddddyy I want to." she whined. "No you don't. Eat your supper princess." I said as she continued to pout.

Tyler tapped my arm and motioned toward the living room. Uh oh. Here comes the lecture about how I need to be more careful about what I say. I sighed and put my fork down. "We'll be right back." Tyler said and we stood up. "Ooo Josh your in trouble." Ashley sang. I glared at her before following Tyler out of the room.

"What did I say about talking like that around her?" he asked. "Sorry baby." I said. "Sorry? Josh she's only 4 you got to be careful about what you say or she'll start repeating it we've been over this." he said. "I know Ty. I'm sorry. I'll be more careful I promise." I said sincerely. "Do you not remember a few months ago when you were talking about going to get wasted with Brandon and she heard you?" he question. "I remember. I'll be more careful." He nodded and headed back into the kitchen. We sat back down and ate the rest of our food in silence.

After we finished eating we went outside letting Hope run around the yard with my sisters as me, Tyler, Jordan and my mom sat on the step watching. "Anyway as I was saying at supper like this girl was so hot, I mean like her ass was just-" my brother started before my mom smacked his arm and told him to stop talking like that. I turned to Tyler who was watching the 3 girls run around.

The sun was starting to set as we headed back inside. Hope had fallen asleep outside so I carried her in. "We should be getting home mom, we need to get little Missy here cleaned up and in bed. Thanks for having us over though supper was fantastic, as always." I said walking toward the  front door. "Okay sweetheart, come visit again soon." she said giving me a one armed hug and a kiss on the cheek. "I will. love you. Bye." I said as Tyler opened the door, my mom gave him a quick hug and we were out the door, making our way back to our apartment.

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Hope woke up as I took her out of the car, her eyelids still half shut as we walked up the stairs to our apartment. Tyler unlocked it and we all walked in. Tyler pulled Hope's shoes off as I held her in my arms. I carried her to the bathroom before handing her to Tyler.

I ran the bath as Tyler began taking her grass stained clothes off. I made sure the water wasn't too hot or too cold then placed her in the water. I rolled up my sleeves and went about washing the dirt off her face and hands and cleaning the rest of her body. Tyler was washing his face in the sink and brushing his teeth as I did this. Once Hope was all clean I picked her up and set her on the bathmat while I dried her. After she was dried I wrapped the towel around her shoulders and carried her to the bedroom to get her some PJs.

Tyler dressed her in them as I went to get ready for bed. Not long after the 3 of us crawled into the bed. Tyler on one side with me on the other and Hope in between us. She'd have her own room if only we had another bedroom, we don't though just the one, me and Tyler are looking for a place with 2 bedrooms though. I fell asleep with my beautiful daughter curled up at my side and my beautiful husband laying on the other side of the bed.

Life was great. I wouldn't have it any other way. It's absolutely perfect. I got a good paying job a gorgeous husband and daughter, a decent apartment and car, unfortunately we don't have Bella anymore, she had problems with her liver and we ended up having to put her down, Tyler cried the whole day that day.

We still have our bumps in the road but we manage. I am perfectly content with my life.