we see eye to eye, heart to heart.

we see eye to eye, heart to heart. by sassy 

I closed the door of Cami's apartment behind me, watching Gabe disappear at the speed of sound. "Mamaaan!" He screamed as he ran, making me sigh for how loud he could be sometimes when he was too excited. You could think a whole day out playing would exhaust him, instead no, he was still full of energy.
Following him towards his room, I smiled when I saw him wrapping his arms tight around Cami who was sitting on the floor surrounded by boxes. I had moved into her loft the weekend before and it was crazy how much there still was to do, it was even crazier that Gabe had more things than I did. "Hi Gabey." She hugged him back and gave him a kiss on the cheek as she smiled, "How was your day at the camp?"
"I won the first place! He said proudly, showing the medal he had pinned on his t-shirt, "I swam faster than anyone."

"Of course you did my little fish." She smirked up at him, watching him as he literally bounced around the room.

"I can't wait to go tomorrow." He said enthusiastically when he finally slumped on his bed.

I raised one eyebrow at him as I shot him an amused look. "Tomorrow's saturday."

"Oh." He pouted, looking now disappointed, "But I want to go anyway." He said stubbornly and I suppressed the urge to groan, hoping this wouldn't lead to a tantrum.

Cami got up, walking over him and taking his shoes off, "What if we go swimming all together instead? Papa can teach you some tricks to be even faster." She said softly, glancing at me and smirking. That was why moms were the best, they always knew the tricks and the right words to use with their kids...my mom was just the same, even now that I was a grown up man.

Gabe's eyes shot in my direction and I nodded, "I can." I grinned at my son before getting serious, "But only if you promise to do your homework on Sunday."

"But Papa." He protested with a pout, using his best weapon to convince me.

"Just reading." I said, knowing that was what he did more willingly, and he finally nodded, "Deal." I added as I took a moment to look at my girlfriend who looked even more exhausted than she did when I had left her earlier.

She sensed my eyes on her and looked up at me with a pout that matched the one Gabe was wearing a bunch of seconds before. "I need help."

I wrapped my arm around her, kissing her chastely and quickly since our son was in the room. "We're here to help." I announced and I pulled back regretfully to look at Gabe. "Right?"

"Will it be hard work?" He asked carefully and I wondered if that would be enough to make him tired, our son had so much energy and the worst timing for naps.

Cami shook her head after faking a very serious face, "It won't be hard, but it'll be very important instead."

His eyes widened, "Why maman?"

"Because if we can't find a home for all of these toys? We'll have to get rid of them," I joined in, a serious look on my face.

Cami almost laughed but smiled at him instead. "Are you willing to accept the challenge?"

Gabe nodded his head, "I am! I can do it," He added with certainty, already pulling a few toys from a box and finding places for them. If only I knew it was so easy to trick him into cleaning his room, it would be spotless all the time. He clearly had too many toys, hopefully he wouldn't notice the two boxes Cami had donated earlier. We did our best not to spoil him, but he now had two whole rooms worth of toys that he had to fit into one room. "Can I have a snack please?" He asked, not looking up from the box of toys where he was separating a few toys next to it.

"Yes you may," She replied and took my hand in hers, leading the way out of the room and towards the kitchen. "Shouldn't he be tired after being in the sun, swimming all day?" She asked, grinning as she took a pack of graham crackers from the cupboard.

"He should." I paused and left her hand regretfully to grab a pack of crackers for myself, a small sigh leaving me. "I have no idea of where he takes all his energy from."

"He got it from his mom." Cami grinned as she set her free hand on my chest, angling her head up and looking at me.

I grinned back at her, giving her the kiss she was waiting for, "His mom loves nap more than he does." I muttered against her soft lips.

"Oh and his dad doesn't instead?" She said back in a teasing voice.

"I'd kill for a nap right now." I said seriously before reaching for her hand again, heading towards Gabe's room again before he could come looking for us. It was like he had to be with us always, which was nice, but sometimes we needed a break and he didn't really need all that attention...he already got a lot.

She looked up at me with a small silly pout on her lips, "No please, I need Ben time."

I laughed at her words though I knew what she meant exactly. I was with her there, Ben needed Cami time as much as she needed him. "I'll stay up until my baby will be asleep."

"I'm not a baby!" Gabe's voice said as soon as we stepped into his room.

"I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about maman." I explained with a grin on my face.

He shot me a look like I was talking nonsense instead, shrugging his shoulders as if dismissing my words. He got up instead, walking over me to steal the crackers from my hand, "Thank you papa."

"Hey, there were supposed to be for me!" I protested even though I was mostly amused.

Cami opened the pack she was holding me and offered one to me, "We can share these ones."

I accepted with a grin on my face before I looked back at our son, "You should learn how to share little man." I said to him, my eyes dropping on the dinosaur tail peeking from under his bed. My bet was that he had spent the last five minutes hiding everything he could under his bed instead of tidying up.

"I do share instead!" Gabe replied in almost a whine, always wanting to be the perfect child.

I raised my eyebrow and kept my gaze locked on the floor. Cami followed my eyeline to the bed. "Did you find a proper place for all of your toys or are they hidden under your bed?" I asked and looked at Gabe who was chewing on a cracker, an innocent look on his face.

"Only my dinosaur is hiding," He replied and shrugged. "It's his turn to hide for hide and go seek."

Cami laughed at his response before raising an eyebrow at him, "Who is he playing that with?"

Gabe's little lips parted and then he scrunched his nose, his deep thought face. Usually he made it when he was trying to come up with a lie. "He's hiding from Iron Man, maman," He said finally and I laughed, walking over to the bed and getting on one knee, peeking my head under and looking back at Gabe who had bright pink cheeks, caught in his lie and he knew it. "Why are there other toys hiding down here also?"

"Gabriel," Cami said sternly, the full name not a good sign for our son.

He sighed and crawled over to where I was, pulling his toys out one by one while Cami ate a cracker in amusement. "I'll fix it," He told us and made a small pile with his toys.

I decided to sit on the floor, leaning my back against the side of the bed instead of standing up. "When?" I asked, keeping my eyes on him and wondered what he was thinking.

"Tomorrow." He flashed me a smile, which was supposed to be an innocent cute one and it was, only I knew what he was doing.

I raised one eyebrow at him once again, "Why not now?" I asked back, curious to know what his excuse would be and knowing that tomorrow would never come, Cami and I would take care of that instead.

"Because I just got home from the camp and I need to shower, maman always says so...right maman?" He asked as his face turned to Cami, his expression stuck on angel mode.

Cami glanced at me briefly before looking at Gabe, her face easy to read and probably matching mine. Our little man was a tricky boy, he was using something he knew we couldn't say no to in order to skip something else. Well at least that was also a sign of how smart he was. "Yes, you're right." She nodded before breaking into a grin, "But that can wait a few more moments."

"But maman." He pouted as he marched his way to her, tilting his head back and staring at her with his big eyes for full effect.

I stared at them, my grin impossibly big because that was a very amusing thing to look at. "Your dinosaur needs a home or where will he sleep tonight? Now with Iron Man, or he'll eat him." I said in a playful voice then stuffed my mouth with another cracker.

Cami bit back grin and looked at me as I ate another cracker. "Papa's right," She faked a pout as she looked back down at Gabe. "If you don't find him a home, he'll disappear while you sleep and then you'll miss him."

He threw his hands up in the air and huffed, walking back to his bed and getting on his stomach, not saying anything as he pulled all of his toys back out. "Well where do I put my toys instead?!" He asked, sounding exasperated as he sat back up, crossing his legs with a mountain of toys surrounding him.

She pointed to the toy bin in one of the corners, "How about in there for tonight?"

"But they won't be comfortable when they sleep," He replied but did as he was told, finally. His bedroom was coming along, but there were still far too many toys for one child.

"Do we need to get rid of some?" I asked, guessing Cami's mind.

Gabe's eyes flashed horror and he shook his head, "No! I still play with all of them!"

"But if there's no room..." She trailed off, almost looking as if she was feeling bad when that exasperated look didn't leave his face.

"I want them all." He said stubbornly as he pouted again, acting like the spoiled kid he was sometimes.

I shrugged nonchalantly, trying to think about a way to trick our son even though it was almost a mission impossible, he was too smart. "Okay, but if you won't get rid of any you won't get any new." I said as I did my best to keep my face straight, it being hard because I could feel Cami's eyes on me and I was too tempted to smirk.

"But you promise you'd get me the avengers videogame." He retorted, never forgetting a promise.

"You have so many toys...you won't have time to play with that one too." Cami pointed out, joining my team that would be the winning one hopefully.

"I will instead." He got up and set his hands on his hips, getting a bad look from me since we both knew how that always ended. Not well. "Maybe I can send some toys on vacation." He added with a sigh.

Cami laughed, looking really amused, "On vacation?!"

He nodded, his expression all serious, "Yes. To grandma's house."

I blinked at him then shook my head, kind of impressed that he was actually trying to trick us in letting him keep all his toys instead. "Does she agree?" I asked, having no doubt that my mom would because she was as bad as us when it came to spoil Gabe, if not worse. "I thought she was too old to play with toys."

Gabe giggled at my dad's words and plopped down on my lap, "Grandma won't play with them! She'll only babysit them instead."

Cami watched as I ran my hand through Gabe's hair, it sticking up all different ways from the chlorine making it dirty. He was right about needing to shower. "How about you make a box of toys that we can bring to grandmas," She suggested, leaving out the part where she'd donate them to kids in need instead.

He set his head back against my chest and nodded it, "Can I do it tomorrow? I'm tired from all of my swimming."

"You can," She nodded her head. "But you need to take a shower."

"No nap instead?" His eyes widened.

"It's too late for a nap little man," I grinned and kissed our little guys forehead as he looked up at me. "If you take a nap now? You'll want to stay up all night."

A huge grin spread across his lips, "I could watch movies with you guys and have hot chocolate!"

Cami laughed and shook her head, "You can do that after your shower."

With a sigh, Gabe stood up and stripped off his shirt and tossed it at her. She lifted an eyebrow and a moment later he was racing out of the room with his white booty mooning us. She laughed and shook her head, "Where does he get his sassy attitude from?!"

"I have no idea but he's starting to act more and more like you everyday." I grinned at her, reaching for her as I looked down at her.

"Weird, because everyone says he's a lot like you instead." She grinned back at me as she wrapped her arms around my waist and finally leaned into me.

I held her close, relaxing because we had at least ten minutes before our son could come back. Fifteen if we were lucky. "I say he's a good mix." I shrugged before tilting my head down to press a kiss against her lips, the kind I had been wanting to give her from the moment I had stepped back home but couldn't have for obvious reasons which started with G and ended with abe.

"He's so silly." She said once she break the kiss but kept her mouth on mine, "He looks happy too."

I nodded in agreement as I lifted her off the floor effortlessly, leading her into her bedroom. Our bedroom now. "We all match then." I grinned at her before settin her back on her feet.

She raised one eyebrow at me instead, shooting me a mischevious look, "Why did you bring me here? What do you have in mind?"

"We don't have enough time for anything." I sighed then peeled my t-shirt off before tossing it at her, "All I can give you is a strip tease."

"I'll never complain about those." She let out a small laugh as she sat down on the edge of the bed, "I'm ready to enjoy the show."

I grinned at her, kicking my shoes off then taking my jeans off before reaching for a pair of sweats and a clean t-shirt. "Later baby." I said as I bent over to press another kiss on her lips, thinking that now I could finally relax and focus on my family. Everytime the door closed behind me, the rest of the world was left out.

Cami smiled against my lips and pouted when I pulled back, getting dressed in my comfy clothes. "This is the opposite of a striptease instead! I'm disappointed," She said stubbornly but smirking. "I want a better show."

I laughed, my head popping through the top of the shirt as I pulled it on. "And you're wondering where Gabe gets his sassy attitude from?" I lifted an eyebrow in amusement.

"Are you implying that I'm sassy?" She faked a shocked look before kicking her sandals off, keeping her eyes on me. Instead of answering her, I peeled her shirt over her head while she lifted her arms up and got goosebumps. "Why am I the one doing the striptease now?" She grinned coyly and leaned back on her elbows as my eyes dropped down her bare chest.

"You're not. I wasn't expecting you to be wearing no bra," I answered with a smirk and turned around to find her a shirt and shorts that she could sleep in... or at least wear until Gabe went to bed. Laying down on her back, she lifted her hips up and pushed her skirt down past her ass, then down her legs, kicking it in my direction. "What is my naughty girlfriend doing now?"

"I'm waiting for you to dress me," She said simply.

I kept my smirk in place as I took some time to watch her flawless dress, wishing I had more time to worship her like she deserved. "I didn't realize you were still a baby." I said but stepped between her legs anyway, discarding her clothes to run my hands flat up her silky thighs instead.

"I'm going to tell you a secret. Come closer." She said seriously as she looked up at me, waiting for me to bend over her. When I did, she pressed her lips against my ear, "It was an excuse, all I really want are your hands all over me."

"I knew you were sneaky." I grinned and let my hands move up, past her hips and all the way up her stomach until they found her breasts, kneading them softly. "I wish we had more time." I added with a groan.

"Me too." She moaned softly as she wrapped her legs around my hips, forcing me on top of her. "I just want to lay down with my boyfriend for a while."

I pulled my head back, sighing this time and resisting the urge to grind my hips against hers instead. "We both know it's never just lay down." I grinned at her as I pull back regretfully, my fingers pinching her already hard nips in the process before I grabbed her shirt.

"Lies." She retorted, her pout back in place as she let me dress her, "We always do that with our baby too."

I raised one eyebrow at her as I slid her shorts up her long legs, "Are you suggesting I should tell Gabe to hurry?" I joked, knowing it wasn't the case. We loved our son and his company, but we also loved the rare moments all for ourselves.

"You don't like being alone with me?" Cami faked another pout before grinning wide, standing up on the bed and setting her hands on my shoulders.

I set my hands on her hips and kissed her exposed belly before setting her down on the ground again. My hands remained on her, pulling her closer until her chest was rested against mine. "I don't get enough of you instead," I said quietly, not complaining but wishing we had more time for us. Even though Gabe was gone at camp for a part of the day, we were usually running our separate errands or she was being booked up for shoots or weddings on weekends too now.

"The idea of you taking over the agency is starting to sound more and more tempting..." She trailed off, leaving me wonder what she was thinking about that subject. We had discussed it but we hadn't come to a conclusion just yet.

"Is it?" I grinned, not wanting to bring up any of the subjects that stressed me lately. Chloe, Tristan, my job...it was an intense time of my life.

She shrugged her shoulders and forced a serious face, "Then I could quit my job and become your personal assistant and assist all of your sex needs."

I laughed at that, already thinking about how great would be if we could be able to spend all day every day together. I didn't know if it was normal, at the point of our relationship where we were we should have been more patient, less eager, instead no, we were like teenagers all over again and my guess was that it was because we had a lot time to make up for. That and because we were really in love. "That would never work." I said eventually once I was able to fake a serious face myself.

"Why not?" She blinked at me, biting back a grin, "I'd made a great assistant."

"I'm sure you would but." I paused to kiss her nose, "First? I wouldn't get any work done with you around and the agency would close in a heartbeat. Second, you wouldn't get paid and we need money to buy the castle we want to live it."

This time it was her turn to laugh, "A castle? Who did ever talk about a castle?" She asked, amusement in her tone.

"We said big rooms, many too, a large backyard, a pool...it's a castle. How we didn't think about it before?" I grinned, always liking joking about things more than being serious unless it was needed.

She nodded, looking into my eyes, "You're right. We're looking for a castle, maybe we should move to Disneyland."

"Thank god my girl is so smart, I wouldn't have ever thought about it." I grinned at her, loving how easy things were between us, while all the rest was so hard.

"Lucky you," Cami winked, smiling as she stared at me. "Why wouldn't you pay me?" She said after a moment, lifting an eyebrow.

I laughed and nuzzled her neck, "Wouldn't you work for free instead?"

"Never," She said seriously then laughed again, her eyes back on mine when I pulled my head back. "I want to open a gallery."

I stared at her for a moment with my face more serious than before, even if I was still smiling, "Where did that come from?"

She shrugged her shoulders, "I've been thinking about it recently. I could showcase local artists... start painting and drawing again."

"Will you draw me like one of your French girls?" I asked, being silly.

She broke into a laugh, "I'm serious!"

"I know you are." I smiked at her and sat down on the edge of the bed, forcing her down on my lap gently as I kept my eyes on hers. During the last six years we had done everything thinking about our son first, he had come before anything else and we had had to put aside a lot of things, including our dreams. Of course we liked our jobs and I was sure both of us would do it all over again, still, maybe it was time to change that.

"And what do you think?" She asked softly, running her hand up the back of my neck and tangling her fingers with my hair.

"I think you should do it." I answered seriously, having no doubt that she'd be able to do that or anything she wanted, "It'd be great and I'm more than ready to support you in any possible way."

She smiled at my words but still looked lost in her thoughts, "That'd be a big change and there would be a lot to do..." She trailed off while I nodded, agreeing because I was no fool. You didn't just open a gallery with a snap of your fingers.

"You can do it baby. I'll be by your side helping you in all the way I can. I'll even pose for you." I added to make the moment lighter, but still hoping she'd take me seriously. Posing part included. "It's always been your dream Cami and now you can make it true. Gabe is not a baby anymore and we're a couple again, there couldn't be a better moment for taking a step towards the future."

"You're so good to me," Cami smiled and kissed my cheek, about to pull back when I cupped her cheek and kissed her on the lips. The sound of the shower shut off and she broke the kiss after letting her lips linger on mine, knowing that we'd have a naked boy roaming the hallway soon to make sure we weren't up to no good. Gabe still wasn't completely sold on the idea of his parents being back together. He was happy yes, but confused and afraid something bad would happen if we were to break up again.

I smiled at her, knowing that our serious conversation was over already so I'd have to tell her about my plans another time, and tucked some stray hairs behind her ear, "We better get started on dinner soon, swimming makes our little starving."

She grinned as she stood up, reaching her hand out for mine, "Maybe we should order in and spend the night cuddling on the couch instead."

"I want Asian food!!" Gabe said from the doorway, jumping up and down.

"Chinese," She corrected him and looked at me with an eyebrow raised, waiting for the verdict.

"No one will deliver to a home with a naked boy," I said, trying to force a straight face at Gabe who, of course, was naked.

"I won't be naked for long!!" He replied and with that a naked butt was mooning up all the way down the hallway until he was in his bedroom to hopefully put pajamas on.

Cami laughed and shook her head, "He definitely did not learn that from me."

"I wouldn't complain if you started going around with your bare a.ss showing." I grinned at her, then I corrected myself, "Around our home, of course."

She raised one eyebrow at me, shooting me an amused expression, "Do you can do that but I can't?"

"I don't go around my a.ss showing." I retorted, wondering where she was trying to go with that. Such a silly girl.

"I think I already have the magazine with those pictures of you showing basically everything." She smirked and then I realized what she was talking about.

"That was forever ago." I smirked back at her and reached for her a.ss, pinching it playfully as I stared at her, "But I'm flattered that you bought every magazine I was in and you kept it too."

She open her mouth then closed it, blushing a little as she finally talked, "Not every one." She corrected and broke eye contact, squeezing my hand as we walked to the kitchen.

"I wish I had pictures of you too." I sighed as I let my eyes take in her tiny body, causing her to turn her head to smirk at me. "The past is the past. Maybe it's time to take some new instead."

She let out a soft chuckle, nodding her head, "I love that idea."

I leaned into her once again, ready to kiss her lips when our boy appeared again, "Dad!" He protested with his desperate expression on his face which was as silly as it was fake.

"Who is this dad you speak of?" Cami raised her eyebrows at our son who rolled his eyes in response, setting his hands on his little hips.

"Papa!" He corrected himself and got a serious look on his adorable face. "Why do my friends at camp call their papas dad instead?"

Cami let go of my hand and picked Gabe up to hold him like a baby even if he was heavy like a sack of potatoes instead. "When you were a baby, your first word was papa," She told him and kissed his forehead before setting him back down on his feet.

His eyes flashed to mine and we looked at each other, obviously pleased with himself. "What was my second word?" He asked, smiling.

"Poop," Cami wrinkled his nose and he threw his head back to laugh.

"Didn't I say maman?!"

I reached for my phone from off the counter and started looking up the number for Chinese food, "Maman was your third word."

"I was silly," Gabe stated, still giggling. "Can we have eggrolls and extra fortune cookies?"

"If you say please then it's a possibility," I grinned at him.

"Please papa," He asked, using his precious pouty face that always got him his way. Before I had the chance to answer, already dialing the number, Gabe was yelling thank you and saying that he was going to pick out a movie for us all to watch.

I cringed a little as I ordered our food before setting my phone back on the table, running my hands through my hair, "Since when our son is so loud?" I asked, wondering if we had to teach him some matters all over again.

She grinned at me, "Since we got back together and told him."

"Great. Such a good sign." I joked and smirked back at her, wrapping my arm around her shoulders to pull her against my side.

She set her hand on my chest as she looked up at me, "Our son has been an angel from the first six years of his life, we couldn't be that lucky forever."

I furrowed my brows as I made a silly face, "Will we get deaf eventually?" I asked seriously.

She laughed, even tossing her head back a little, just like Gabe, and I felt warmth spreading inside of me. "God I hope not. We just have to remember him that we're not 80 yet and that our hearing works just fine."

"Maman!" He announced himself into the room with another yell and this time I nearly jumped.

"Gabe! Can't you use a decent tone of voice?" I shot him a look and he pursed his lips together, "Thank you." I added more quietly.

"Maman." He whispered this time, even smirking a little. His sassiness was reaching a new level. "What should we watch, the avengers or toy story?"

"We already watched those one million times silly boy." I grinned at my son and his obsession.

He shrugged his shoulders as if those words meant nothing to him and in a sense, they probably didn't. Gabe could watch a movie over and over again in one sitting without getting tired of it. "I choose The Avengers since it's maman's favorite," He decided and opened the case, walking back towards the living room to attempt to put the movie on.

"I wasn't aware that was my favorite," Cami said slowly.

"I thought that I was instead," I replied and grinned at her, making her bit her lip.

"You are," She said in a hushed voice and pressed her lips against mine before pulling back. "We better put the movie on before he breaks something while trying to do it himself."

"He definitely gets that from you," I added with a smirk, keeping her body against mine as we walked towards the living room.

"Hey! I am not that bad with technologies," She lied, a look of mock offense on her face.

I laughed, "Not bad, but not great either."