The Unusual Suspects Book 2

Tony

I was walking around my room burping AJ. This was a surreal feeling. I was damn sure going to enjoy every single second of it, since I can. There was gonna be times I may not get to do these simple things with school and work and all of that. This was literally the calm before the storm. But I was going to make damn sure that my son sees and knows daddy is always here. After he gave me a good 2 burps. I came back and laid him down on the bed. His little eyes were wide open looking at me.
"Hey mans. You all wide awake." I said to him as he looked at me and then yawned real big. "Someone is still sleepy. Me too AJ, me too." I said as I laid down beside him as he began to drift off. I'm not gonna lie, I did oftentimes sit here and just watch him. Whether he was falling asleep, moving around, whining, smiling...just everything. Toya walked in the room and sat down beside me. "Hey baby." I said to her.               "Hello Love. I thought you were sleeping at first when I walked in." she said to me.
"No...I was just watching him fight his sleep for a little bit. I'm awake though."   
"I see. You sound like you could use a nap too though." she knew me too well.
"You gone lay down with us?" I asked her and she smiled and took off her shoes and crawled in the bed beside me. I kissed her forehead as she settled laying across my chest. I looked over to my side and saw him falling asleep. I felt at peace right now. It was always so much going on that we never really get a chance to just enjoy the calm. I wasn't sure how long it would last, but this was great in the moment for sure. Slowly but surely we all drifted off to sleep. I woke up and AJ was still sound asleep and Toya was completely on the side of me. I slipped out of bed gently and went to the bathroom. I hopped in the shower right quick because I knew Ant should be waking up soon and I was gonna have to give him a little bath too. I took my little shower and threw on some basketball shorts and a beater before going back in the room. Both of them were awake now. Toya was sitting on the side of the bed holding him. "Ready to give him a bath?" I asked her.                      
"We could do that." she said as she got up and came on into the bathroom. She stripped him down and set him in his little tub. Surprisingly he liked the water. I always heard horror stories about babies and baths, but they didn't didn't have my child in mind, that's for sure. I'm not sure if he gets that from me or her for real. She be loving baths, I love showers, either way he was enjoying the water. I washed his lil body before she swaddled him in the towel to take him in the room to get him dressed. I went ahead and cleaned up in there before returning to the bedroom. There was a knock on the door and I opened it.        
"Oohhhh Little Man all freshly washed and all that. Hand him here." My mom said as she walked in the room. Toya went ahead and passed him to her. "My dude...what they been doing to you?" she said as she smiled at him and he smiled back. "That's nana's baby. Come on, we'll take you for a while and let your parents handle their business. How does that sound?" she said as she grabbed his diaper bag and walked away with him.                                                   
"That's kidnapping." I said out to my mom and she laughed.                                  
"Grandparents have rights too." she said disappearing down the hall as Toya laughed at her antics.                                       
"I figured she was gonna be this way." Toya said as I closed the door back.           
"Yeah, she definitely loves babies and the fact that he's her grandchild...can't tell her nothing." I said as I sat down.     
"Right, but that's a good thing though. At least he'll have us and his grandparents. All of them." she said and I laughed when I thought about it. He has 3 grandmothers, 3 grandfathers, godmother, godfather, 1 blood uncle, 1 blood aunt, and then all the aunts and uncles that weren't blood Mar, Jay, Dom, Nicole, Erica, Riek, Aries, Araya, and Depth. Hell maybe even Kev and Suki too. My son was definitely blessed by the best right now. He has a whole dream team behind him for real and I was happy about that.     "So you got any running around to do today?" I asked her.                                        
"I don't think so. After putting the finishing touches on D's dress last night, I went and ran out to the store then so I wouldn't have anything to do today unless I just felt like it." she said.           "Oh okay then. Yeah I don't think I really do either. I mean we got invited to that lil get together Charles and Iris was throwing for Kev and Dox but I don't know how you feel about that."                  
"We can go, it's up to you." she said and the more I thought about it, I don't know if I can do it twice. They already throwing the big one this weekend after our graduation, maybe we'll sit this one out for real.                                                        "Let's just wait til the big one." I told her.
"You getting old baby." she said with a slight giggle. I laughed too.                          
"I'm just saying, you know they throwing that over the top one on the weekend, this is the prelude to that. Maybe we need to rest. Plus they'll probably all be there anyway." I said rationalizing it to her.                                    
"I'm aware. That's fine though. This just gives us some time together. Not that we don't be having time, but you know what I mean." she said as she sat down on my lap.                                                       "Of course, you know I'll always choose you over everything." I told her as she leaned down and kissed me.                        
"You better too." she said and we both laughed.