Little Brother (Drake & Josh Agere Fanfiction)

Night Routine Troubles

After the two had came back from the store and given their mom her gift, it was getting close to evening.

So they were both getting ready for bed.

Drake was still regressed though.

The two decided they were first gonna eat their dinner on the couch together.

Their parents and Megan already knew about and were okay with Drake's regression so they didn't have to hide it.

The two were watching Barney, per Drake's request, and eating spaghetti their dad made.

A bit later, Josh noticed Drake hadn't even touched his plate.

"Drake, aren't you gonna start eating? Your food's gonna get cold."

Drake shook his head. "Not hungwy."

Josh found that hard to believe. "Drake, you've barely eaten today. I'm sure you're hungry."

"I don't wanna eat, Josh." Drake pouted.

"Just take a few bites, you probably don't realize you're hungry." Josh explained.

Drake shook his head. "No!"

"Drake..." Josh warned.

Drake continued to pout. "I don't wanna!"

Josh didn't say anything, twirled some spaghetti from Drake's plate on his fork, and started moving it towards Drake's mouth.

Drake got more frustrated, he actually slapped the fork out of Josh's hand onto the floor.

Drake turned away with his arms crossed.

Josh was in shock, where was this coming from?

"Drake! Bad boy! Don't slap things out of my hand! And no making messes!" He yelled.

Drake was instantly scared again, hearing Josh raise his voice like that.

Josh grabbed Drake's hand, and dragged him to the corner of the room.

He grabbed a chair and brought it to where Drake stood, facing it to the corner.

"That's it, Drake. You're gonna sit there for five minutes and think about what you did." He instructed, still with a stern voice.

Drake was teary eyed and his lip quivered, but still did as he was told.

Josh just set a timer for five minutes while he played a quick video game to make himself feel calmer.

Drake began crying out loud in the corner, he felt so bad for what he did and was worried that Josh hated him and was gonna hate him forever.

Josh at first was angry so he didn't say much or think much.

But then Drake just wouldn't stop crying for the whole time, and towards the end Josh really started to feel bad.

The timer went off and Drake's time out was finished, he was still crying though, thinking that Josh hated him.

Josh went to where Drake was still sitting, and said in a gentle tone. "Ok, Buddy. Your time out is done, you can come out now."

Drake looked up at his caregiver with tears in his eyes and a fearful look.

"Hey, it's okay. Your punishment is done." Josh assured.

Drake simply got up, still trembling slightly, before stuttering out. "O-ok..."

"Alright, now let's just finish dinner."

The rest of dinner went on with Josh still feeding Drake.

After that, it was bath time for Drake.

Josh ran the water for the bath.

Drake stood there, waiting for Josh to get the bath ready.

Josh then asked. "Alright, Drake. Do you want me to add bubbles?"

Drake shook his head.

"Alright, what about any bath toys you wanna play with?"

"No."

"Alright then." Josh sighed. "Just get in the tub."

Drake complied.

Josh tried to talk to initiate conversations with Drake but he never engaged really.

~

After the bath was done, Josh dried Drake in a towel and put on his pajamas for him, which consisted of a diaper and a onesie that was green with yellow stars on it.

"Alright, Drake. Let's brush our teeth." Josh said, before he took out both of their toothbrushes and put tooth paste on each.

Both boys were brushing, Drake still having some sort of a timid almost sort of "aura" to him, and being quiet.

~

The two were in their room, it was time for them to get into their beds and go to sleep.

That's when Drake couldn't take it anymore.

He began bursting into tears again and sobbing, right in the middle of their room.

Josh was worried, did Drake hurt himself? Why was he randomly crying?

He walked up to Drake. "Drake, what's wrong?! What happened?!"

"You hate me!" He yelled through tears.

Josh's heart broke at those words. "What? Why would you say that? I don't hate you."

Drake just kept crying and said. "Yes cause you were mad at me!"

It clicked in Josh's head he was talking about the time out. "Because of the time out? No, don't worry, I was just punishing you because of how you acted."

Drake shook his head, tears still flowing from his eyes. "And at da baw."

Josh wanted to kick himself at that moment, he really regretted even more now setting that thing up with his two camp counselors, sure it scared Drake straight but it scared him a little too much, this was probably the reason why he was acting out and just been out of it all night tonight.

Josh immediately brought Drake into his arms and began rubbing his back while talking to him in a soothing voice. "Drake, hey. I just wanted to let you know I would never hate you, I love you so much. And I'm so sorry for the thing at the bar, I'll never do anything like that again, I promise."

Drake sniffed. "P-pwomise..?"

"Yes, I promise." Josh said again.

Drake took out his pinkie and put it in front of Josh's face.

"Pinkie pwomise?"

Josh smiled before taking his own pinkie out and intertwining it with Drake's pinkie.

"Yes, I pinkie promise."

Drake smiled, no longer crying.

Josh wiped the tears from his face.

"Now." He began. "Time to go to sleep."

"Wait." Drake said.

"Hm?"

"Can I sweep wif you?" He asked with a pleading face.

Josh's heart melted. "Of course you can."

"And wif my paci?" Drake asked, making sure first.

"Yes you can, here." Josh took out one of Drake's pacifiers and popped it in his mouth.

"Awso my teddy?" Drake asked, his voice sounding somewhat muffled due to the pacifier being in his mouth.

"Yes, him too."

"Yay!" Drake went to his bed to get his teddy bear and then went to Josh's bed to lay down next to him.

Drake cuddled up next to Josh and Josh hugged him.

Drake yawned. "Night night."

Josh kissed Drake on the forehead. "Good night, sweet boy."

And with that they both fell asleep for the night.

TBC