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Isak began to pick up all the baking tools and cleaned up the floor. He was glad Noah’s friends came over, but he didn’t think about the fact that he wouldn’t have any time with Noah for the rest of his staycation. Though, Isak felt like he kind of deserved it. He was rarely home, and when he tried to spend time with Noah, it was as though his whole company was against it. They called him constantly. He would get angry but kept his temper low. Some times he would come home late and there would be dinner on the counter, but no Noah. Noah would be fast asleep in bed since it was late. Isak constantly felt terrible, he was lucky to have Noah and Noah meant the world to him. He just needs to find more ways to prove it.

Isak’s phone began to ring. He went and picked it up. “Hello?”

“Mr. Salligan, sir. We-”

“Gosh. Do my employees not know what vacation means?” He sighs,

“Is it important, Samir?”

“Well-uh, no sir.”

“If you had to call me it must’ve been. I’m free anyway, what is wrong?”

Isak sat down at his desk and opened his laptop. “David slipped and fell down the stairs. He can’t work for two weeks.”

“What? Then get Carlos to work his job.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Is that all?”

“Yes.”

They hung up and finally Isak laid down for a nap.

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Noah and Mikalea kept sneaking looks at Michaels phone message, to the point where Michael had to put it in his pocket. “Privacy guys. Not that hard to think of.”

They were headed to the arcade to play some games. Though, this was an arcade from when they were younger. When they arrived they got tokens and began to scatter to different places to look around and meet up in five to discuss.

Five minutes later, they all meet back at the start and talk about what they saw. “Alright, we need to play on the motor bike things and mario ones!” Michael exclaimed.

“Ooh! I love those! I saw a dance one like from Kissing Booth.” Mikaela pointed in the direction.

“OK, and then finally, I want to do the pac-man games!” Noah finished they all agreed and started heading to the motor bike game.

“I call blue!”

“I call pink!” Mikaela giggled,

“C’mon….I don’t want bright green.” Noah laughed putting his hands in the air.

“On your mark….get set….go!” The screen announced.

They all began, laughing as they rammed into eachother in the screen. “Yes!” Noah shouted being ahead of the both of them. Only for Michael to over take him 30s later. On the last lap, Mikalea leaned to far while turning for one of her sharp ones, she fell over. Both Mikalea and the boys burst into a fit of laughter. Mikalea, rubbing her head as she sat up, looked at the screen and yelped in surprise. She had gotten first! “Take that boys!”

“NooooOo!” Noah and Michael complained in unison.

“Rematch on the Mario Karts!” Michael yelled.

They raced to the Mario karts and played. Michael and Noah were neck in neck right ill the end and Noah won! Noah exclaimed, “Yeah! That’s what I am talking about,”

They all got ready to go to the dance machine and it was a three person one. In the end they got 40th place. “Guys we failed,” They burst into laughing again. “Well at least we tried!”

“Ok finally, PAC MAN!”

After they played a few more games the ventured to the very corner of the Arcade trying to spot new things when Noah stopped in his tracks. Gaping.

Mikalea gasped. Michael was silent. “No. Way” It was a huge Claw Machine. For humans. “I CALL FIRST!” Noah yelled and raced down to get in line. When it was Noah’s turn Mikalea got it on video. Noah got harnessed in and lifted he scanned for a large plush. He spotted a turnable octopus and gave the signal to be dropped. He went down and picked it up, achieving the prize. When he walked out he had a huge smile on his face. Michael and Mikalea didn’t like harnesses so they skipped out. It had been about two hours so they decided to head home.

When they arrived Noah marched in with the plush bigger than his body. Isak laughed when he walked in with it.

“Well, what do we have here?” Isak laughed kissing Noah’s head.

“His name is Evan!” Noah giggled.

“Well Hi, Evan. How was it, what’d you all do?” Isak looked to Michael and Mikalea.

Mikalea was looking around the house, nodding at the cleanliness. “We went to get food, Michael got a number, then went to the arcade!”

“Nice moves, Michael. Did he score good?”

“Oh yeah, I did.” Michael laughed.

They all gathered on the couch. “So, Michael and Mikalea. Mikalea you can sleep in the Guest Room. Michael, with Noah?” They nodded in agreement.

“Great! Well, I assume you all want to take a break.” Isak mentioned.

“Yeah. I need a nap.” Mikalea said.

“I am gonna go call Nick.” Everyone laughed as they split their ways.

Noah and Isak remained on the couch. Noah curled up into his arms. “What did you do all day?” Noah wondered.

“I cleaned up, as you can see. I took a nap…and did some work.”

“Isak! You know you don’t do work on vacation days. That’s the point!”

Isak chuckled softly, “Well, I was bored and didn’t know what else to do.”

Noah groaned and faced Isak,

“Don’t over work yourself, okay?”

Isak nodded and kissed Noah softly.

End of pt 14