A lot of people have asked how Alexis is doing through all of the things that have made this The Year Of Suck. Usually I respond by asking if they have met Six? Because Six is very much so like a puppy. It runs around all sorts of happy and oblivious because Six is the center of the universe. Just make sure you hand over the treats and clean up after it, you know?
That's to say, the kid is fine.
She knows about the lack-of-a-job thing but doesn't particularly care. It's not that she's insensitive, it's that at the end of the day, it hasn't yet impacted her in any sort of tangible way. She asks for things constantly. I tell her "no" constantly. That was the way of the world before That Thing With That Company happened.
As for the car accident, she was engrossed in a movie on her Kindle Fire one moment and upside-down in a creek the next. She didn't even know something had happened other than OMG WHERE DID THE MUPPETS GO? because she dropped her Kindle and THAT was the most important thing in that very moment. By the way, Kindle Fires float. It was retrieved and was no worse for the wear. Once some old school Muppet movies were streaming on it in her hot little hands, she didn't care about the car anymore.
And then there's the miscarriage thing. I've met Six and I know Six asks more questions than a grand jury, so Alexis doesn't know about it. We were getting close to telling her things were going to change but hadn't because HAVE YOU MET SIX? I couldn't handle months and months and months of being interrogated. My mission was to delay the torture as long as possible. At some point we'll fill her in, but for now, she's happily oblivious.
Then there's the chorus of the bad country song that is my life that talks about the dog dying. Alexis was really, really upset when we told her Meg had passed away. She sobbed in my arms for over an hour. But then, well . . . here's the thing. Meg wasn't Her Dog. You know how Christina yelled at Owen to be Her Person? THAT. (If you don't get the reference, I'm crazy jealous of you. WHY HAVE I BEEN SUCKED INTO GREY'S ANATOMY?)
Alexis loved Meg, but Cody is Her Dog.
Cody is the photo-bombing, tail-wagging, kiss-giving furry friend that makes Alexis' heart go pitter-patter. The two of them are like peanut butter and jelly. They just go together. You guys, she can hold up a sweater and he'll run at her at top speed, as if to say, "IS THAT FOR MEEEE? YAY!" and then he sits there and lets her dress him. He dances with her, he cherishes her every glance, and he listens to her WAY better than he does any other humans in this house. She knows that he adores her and returns the adoration in triplicate.
Meg, on the other hand, was a lumpy, bumpy, drooly slug. Alexis and Meg fought over which of them got to sit next to me. Alexis cried and cried and cried when Meg would sit on her "artwork" and destory it. (My answer to that dilemma was always DON'T LEAVE IT ON THE FLOOR, KID but Alexis didn't like that answer.) Alexis loved Meg, but she could never be Her Dog.
Cody is Alexis' heart and soul.
But, you know, I think maybe Penny is going to give him a run for his money.
