Chapter 37

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May 21st

Grayson 5 weeks

Atlas's POV

   "The princess's friends are here!" Herb shouts running for the door. I just groan as the groups of girls walk in. I secretly think they are just one big group of lesbians.... especially Hailey..... she just gives me the vibes.

"Hey!" The birthday girl comes running down the hall and they also crash into one big hug.  "Happy Birthday!" Hailey shouts squeezing her extra tight. "Happy birthday to my best friend!" Zuri follows close behind giving her a not-so-bone-crushing hug.

"I can't believe you're so old now!" Vivian snickers pushing Zuri out of the way. That quickly caused chaos as the two gays... I mean girls started to tussle with each other. "Happy birthday" the shyest gay-girl of them all whispered, Charm.

Lyra smiled and was the one to pull her into the hug. "Thanks, guys!" She giggles her long brown hair pulled back into a braid that she had proudly done herself. "Come to my room!" She shouts grabbing onto Zuri and Charm before they run down the hall. Hailey and Vivian close behind.

"How the fuck did they all get here at the same time!" Uncle Ron shakes his head having witnessed the whole thing. The redhead in his arms quickly turned around to grab his head. "Mommy no!" She pouts as she smushes his face.

Ron pulls her up more and kisses the top of her head "I'm sorry baby" he apologizes and Isla giggles "no more" she repeats and he nods "okay little missy, no more I got it" he laughs and she lays her head on his chest.

"That's going to last like a day" I smirk and he sends me a glare before nodding. "I can't get mad because you're not wrong... I'm a man of few.... colorful words" he shrugs not even understanding what he's saying.

"They pry planned it" I finally answer and he kisses the tops of Islas's head again.  "Let's go find daddy and Imani" he whispers and she nods letting her eyes close. 

He gives me a little wave and walks down the hall, passing by my dad along the way.  He quickly picks up the pace and stops in front of me.  "Is your Papa in the kitchen?" He asks quickly and I nod.

"Birthday cake?" He smiles and I nod once again knowing we were keeping it a secret from Ron and basically all his children. "Great I'm going to go help him... Gray is sleeping can you check on him, once in a while?" He asks giving me a pleading look.

"Yeah easy" I wave him off and he smiles before running into the kitchen. Walking down the hall I stop outside Lyra's room leaning in the doorway. Regretting it immediately. "Really! I think guys are gross!" Lyra cringes as Hailey slaps a hand over her mouth.

"There's no way have you seen some of the older kids!" Vivian smirks as I just stare wide-eyed.... these girls are 11 and 12..... it's too soon. "It's true, but then there are the nice and hot ones" Zuri giggles Lyra listening as if her life depended on it.

Poor Charm just smiled a long playing with the laces on her shoes. "Like who!" Lyra rolls her eyes all four girls look at each other and giggle, blushing immediately before turning back to the birthday girl. "Your brother" they whisper as she stares in disgust and I choke on the air.

And I'm gone... I quickly turn around hoping they hadn't seen me. Running for Dad and Papa's room... Grayson definitely needs my help right now.  I hear shouting behind me and cringe hoping it wasn't the girls.  Why did I feel so embarrassed!? "Atlas! Stop running!" The words finally become clear and I whip my head around to my out-of-breath boyfriend.

"Hey stop running!" I shout back keeping it a little quiet so the others wouldn't hear. He stops his little run and grabs his stomach trying to catch his breath. Out of worry, I sprint back to him placing a hand on his back. "Do I need to get you something? Are you okay!?" I ask and he shakes his head no.

"Just winded" he replies standing up with a little cough. "Why were you running?" Asher asks me taking my hand. He looks up with the most innocent eyes.

"I heard something in Lyra's room.... yeah" I chuckle nervously and he gives me a confused look. "They think... I'm nice..... and hot.... they're like 12!" I whisper the last part as he bites his lip holding in a laugh.

"I'm sure it's just a little crush" he still holds back his laugh as I groan into my free hand.  "Oh, I have to go check on the baby now.  Want to come?" I ask, he quickly nods and I turn to snake my arm around his waist.

"You're so tiny" I state the obvious as I pull him closer into my side. "It's not my fault!" He pouts the door to my parents' room becoming closer. Ash opens the door and I follow closing it behind us.

He doesn't take any time to run over to the crib positioned right next to my parent's bed. He gushed at how cute the sleeping baby is. "So he's asleep?" I whisper and he looks up from the baby nodding.

"Well that's good" I mumble not really sure what to do now.  I'm definitely not going to Lyra and Dad and Papa are probably having a very heated make out- I mean they are baking a cake.

Shrugging my shoulders I walk over to my baby brother's crib standing behind Ash.  I wrap him in a hug. "Hi" he whispers looking up at me. I smile and lean down giving him a quick kiss.

"Hey" I smirk and he turns around in my grip.  My hands grip onto his lower back as he goes to my chest.  "So I have something to tell you" he whispers as I feel my face drop.  "What's up?" I mumble searching his face for any expressions.

"Don't w-worry it's nothing bad" he must have noticed my expression and quickly tried to fix it. "So what do you need to tell me?" I pull him closer to me our bodies touching.

"I think Em is trying to make you jealous" he giggles as I loosen the grip giving him a weird look. "Uh how?" I question him and he bites his cheek looking to the floor. "She keeps trying to set me up.... with these other guys at school" his voice gets lower and lower as I feel my face go red with rage at the thought of any other guy having him.

"No" I pout squeezing the life out of him. "I know, I don't want to be with any of them anyway" he whispers as I sigh. "I think it's time we told them then" I laugh and he nods.

"Wait shh" Ash shushes me putting a hand over my mouth. I go quiet for a minute and turn to my side to see Gray's tears just starting to stream down his face as he silently cried.  I lick Ash's hand and he jolts away with a gasp.

Bending over I grab Gray from his crib pulling him to my chest. His tiny hands stretch around trying to grab for me as he closes his eyes. Too weak to hold his little head up.

I place a hand on his back rubbing it carefully as my other hand holds him in place. "It's okay... I'm right here" I coo bouncing a little like Papa always did to us when we were small.

"You wanna go see Daddy and Papa," I ask in a baby voice.  His tears slow at the somewhat familiar words.  Looking to the door Asher takes the hint and opens it quietly as I continue to whisper loving words to the gurgling child. 

Every noise he made always made me the slightest bit happier knowing that he wouldn't ever be completely silent.  Oh, how I loved this boy.  "I love you Grayson" I whisper kissing his head again while Asher turned around, now walking backwards to smile at me.

"You're such a good brother" he smiles and I nod "I love children" I whisper the baby on my chest now silently staring off obviously drooling onto my shirt.  It didn't take long and I hesitantly opened the door to see Papa working hastily to make the cake Dad pressed up against him from behind.

"Stop please, just stop" I whine shutting my eyes. Dad chuckles and I open my eyes to see him now walking over to us. Papa had his head on the counter his ears flushed red as he tried to mentally kill himself.

"Was my baby boy crying" Dad grows serious taking the tear-stained child away from me as he saw his pink puffy eyes.  I nodded going back over to Ash, who leaned against me.  Happily, I wrapped my arm around him.

"Great! Draco get out of here and take Gray, Atlas, Asher help me with this damn cake... I didn't want to use magic, but I'm this close to giving up!" He whines stomping his foot as Dad turns to flash him a quick smile.

"Don't you dare give me that smile, I'm not scared to beat you with a pan"

"Please not again.."

"Again?"

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