I Can't Even Concentrate

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Demi's POV

"Mama! Mama!" Carter shouts from his crib and I groan as I grab the baby monitor and see Carter wide awake. I glanced over at the time and sighed heavily because it wasn't even six in the morning yet. "Mama!" He then screams causing me to jump and I huffed as I got out of bed and walked down to Carters room.

"What are you doing awake baby?" I ask as I walk into his room and he squeals in response.

"Mama!" He shouts reaching for me and I bend down and lift him into my arms. He does not seem like he's going back to bed at all so I just changed his diaper and brought him into my room. I let him eat while I closed my eyes hoping he would go back to sleep. I was wrong though, because he started crawling  around the bed and playing with my face and hair.

"Carter honey, go to sleep baby." I say laying him on my chest and rubbing his back and head but he just squirms in response. I let him play around on the bed while I scrolled through my phone. I decided to FaceTime Odell to see if he was awake since he was out of town for a football game and was two hours ahead of us. To my surprise, he answered. "Your son won't go back to sleep." I mumble and he laughs.

"He's up already?" He asks and I nod as I move the phone so he can see Carter who was playing with Eris' ears. Odell's dogs are so good with Carter and they literally let him do anything to him. "Why is that dog on the bed?" He asks and I giggle innocently. I always let the dogs on the furniture when Odell isn't around.

"Because your not here and I needed a protector and a cuddle buddy." I answer and he rolls his eyes. "Carter, come say hi to Dada." I then say changing the subject and he smiles big and crawls over to me so he can see Odell. We all talked for about ten minutes until Odell had to go. About an hour later, I went downstairs with Carter and made some breakfast. I had rehearsals today for my tour that's starting next month. Today we were going over some choreography and I wasn't going to bring Carter, but since Odell was out of town, I really didn't have a choice since our families both were busy also today. Thankfully I knew Phil wasn't going to be there so I didn't have to hear his shit. As soon as I walked into the large dance room, all the dancers ran over and swooned over Carter and he was definitely soaking it all up.

"He is such a flirt." I say laughing as he smiles big at the twin dancers, Savanah and Serena.

"He is so cute Demi. He is definitely his fathers son." Serena says and I chuckle shaking my head. Dani then walks over and I smile as I give her a small hug. We went over some of the choreography while I watched on with Carter in my arms. When they finished up, I joined them and let Dani teach me some of the dances while Carter crawled around and entertained himself with everyone in the room. I always kept one eye on him though because I know my son and I know he is always up to something.

"Hey! Carter Elias." I shout out across the room when I see him reach for one of the large speakers and he looks over at me quickly and sits back on his butt and gives me a big and guilty smile. "Come over here." I say waving my finger in my direction and he smiles bigger as he starts crawling over towards me.

"At least he's a good listener." Scott says chuckling and I shake my head laughing.

"He's just like Odell, I swear." I say back as he sits himself a few feet away from me and smiles up at me.

"Mama mama." He mumbles as he chews on his fingers.

"What baby?" I ask smiling and he smiles even bigger. "Are you hungry? Your chewing on your fingers baby." I ask more to myself if anything. I walk over to his diaper bag and I pull out some of his baby snacks and then I lift him into my arms and let him pick them out of my hands and eat them so he doesn't drop any of them on the floor.