Our little brother

Chapter 84

Alexander's POV:

I head outside with Noah trailing behind me. "Okay listen, I just need you to run okay? I'm going to chase after you." I say, that explanation sounds easy enough. "Run w-where?" Noah asks skeptically. "Everywhere, just run in all directions, and be fast." I say, but he doesn't move yet. "Lex, c-can only go one direction! Where go?" He asks impatiently. "Like, just change directions, go left and right and spin around or something." I say also impatiently, because why is he getting annoyed? "N-not know left and r-right!" He tells me and I probably should've known that. "Well, what hand do you write with?" I ask. "All them!" He says and I pause. "What the hell does that mean?! You only have two hands??" I say incredulously. "Yes and w-write with all, don't y-you!" He says with his hands on his hips as if I'm actually stupid. "What? No I don't write with all my hands!" I say, using air quotes when I say all. Don't slap him, he's not Spencer, and he's only twelve, I think in my head. "Can learn." He says with air quotes around learn. Did this kid just mock me? You know what? Maybe just one tiny little shove...

"Noah buddy that's not how air quotes work, and Alex don't even think about it." Nick says and I hold my hands up smiling sarcastically at him, before sticking my tongue out at Noah. "Lex n-no give good 'structions!" He tells Nick, before he looks behind me. He smiles sarcastically back at me and then takes off running. Why the hell does he have so much attitude today, all I wanted was for him to run. Ben zips past me a second later, and now I know what the smile was for. "Better get a move on, no wonder Seb thinks you've gotten slow." He calls out and I scoff, taking off after them. Slow my fucking ass, I'll show them.

An hour later, I collapse on the grass out of breath. "Maybe I am out of shape." I huff. Noah looks at me weirdly when I say this. "Lex shape l-like celery." He tells me and Ben bursts out laughing. A water bottle is then thrown at me, hitting my stomach. "Sorry, it slipped." Seb says but he doesn't sound sorry. "You kind of do resemble a celery I guess. That was a good shape to describe him Noah." He says and I roll my eyes, chugging the water. I do not look like fucking celery. "Okay, you three need to come inside and shower now." Hunter calls us in from the door. "You think he's gonna end your guys grounding? Because I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be grounded as long as you're grounded." Ben says and I sigh. I hope we're done with this, I can't wait to be able to go out again.

Hunters POV:

"Keep your eyes closed and lean back." I say, pouring water over Noah's hair to rinse the conditioner. He giggles and shakes his wet hair. "T-tickle!" He laughs. Once hes out and dry, I take him to his room to get some Pajamas on. "Hey buddy, do you want to have a sleepover in my room tonight?" I ask, thinking back to what Sebastian said earlier, maybe it is better to be safe, just in case. "N-no want Noah stay here?" He asks me with a frown. "That's not what I meant." I start with a light laugh. "You can sleep here, this is your room, it always will be okay? I just thought it might be fun to have a little sleepover, just you and me. I haven't gotten enough cuddles from you lately" I continue joking, making him gasp.

"H-how many cuddles you w-want!" He demands, launching into the first of probably many. "How many? Well I want all of them!" I say wrapping my arms around him so he can't get away. He tries to escape but can't. "All!? T-too many! Have to share!" He says laughing when I start to tickle him. "Hmmm no, I think all your cuddles is perfect for me." I say. "Okay! Okay! Noah s-sleepover but have t-to share cuddles!" He says. "Fine I guess I'll share." I sigh. He puts his hands on my cheeks and makes me smile. "Happy?" He asks me. "Yes, I'm very happy." I say. "Me too." He says wiggling away from me.

Holding back a laugh, I watch him pull out his notebook from therapy, flipping to a happy page. "Hunter h-how spell cuddle?" He asks me. We work on the page for a bit before his stomach growls. "I think it's time to eat something." I say. "Think s-so too." He says taking my hand and leading me out of his room. When we get downstairs, we see Alex and Ben passed out on the couch, and Maddox sleeping on the arm of the couch beside Alex's head. "S-so cute!" Noah exclaims. I wonder if he knows that every time he says or does anything, we think the same.

"Can take p-picture please?" He asks and I nod handing him my phone, with the camera app open. "You just have to touch the circle here and it'll take the picture okay?" I say reminding him of how it works again. He's so curious about everything, but when it comes to our phones, he always looks at them like they're his enemy and never remembers how to use them. He laughs taking a bunch of pictures, really close their faces. "C'mon you goofball, let's leave them to nap for a bit and go get our snack." I say ushering him towards the kitchen.

Noah's POV:

Lex is so cute, he's sleeping with Benny and Maddy, I'm going to ask him to have a sleepover tomorrow. "Hunter? C-can Oli come sleepover too?" I ask, I don't want him to get lonely guarding everyone all by himself. "Of course he can, he can sleep right in the middle of us." He says and I nod, the middle is a very special spot, just right for Oli, but then I remember something. "Oh no!" I say. "What? What's wrong?" Hunter asks quickly. "Oli no h-have pajamas!" I tell him, can he still have a sleepover without them? Spencer was watching a movie once and the kids all had matching pajamas for their sleepover. I don't have matching ones with Hunter either. "I think we have some fabric somewhere upstairs, we can make Oli some pajamas." He says. He can make pajamas? Just like that? "Well actually not me, Nick can, he's better at sewing." Hunter says. Can Nicky make us all matching pajamas? That would the best! (Lmao guys I can't for the life of me remember who was good at sewing, but I feel like it was Nick? Or did I never mention that anywhere? Been writing this book for so long I can't remember anything)

"We can ask him now that you're done eating, but is your hair still wet? We can blow dry it again." He says but I shake my head, I don't like the blow dryer, it's so loud. "Well we should get you a haircut soon." He tells me, so I put my hands on my hair, why would he cut it? Do we have to cut my eyebrows too? "Buddy, it's okay, you've gotten a haircut before. Remember when we trimmed off some pieces to help it grow back strong and healthy?" Hunter laughs and explains. Oh, I remember that, my hair turned really really curly after we did that, and now my hair looks just like Reid's. "H-healthy now.Why 'gain?" I ask. "Your hair keeps growing, and to keep it healthy, and make sure it doesn't get too long, we have to cut it again." Hunter says and I nod, we can do that. "N-no cut eyebrow. Want to keep." I tell him. "Sure, we can keep them, should I keep mine?" He asks wiggling his eyebrows. "Yes! Keep it!" I laugh and try to wiggle my eyebrows too. Hunter is so silly.

"Nicky!" I say when he walks into the kitchen. "What's up?" He says and I look up. "N-nothing there Nicky?" I tell him, can he something because he's so tall? What if he sees a spider! "What are you— you know what never mind. I think everyone's having an early night." He says. Early night? If now is early, then when is late? I thought nighttime was already late? "Whatcha thinking so hard about?" Nicky asks tapping my forehead. "Oh! C-can please make Oli pajamas?" I remember to ask him. "We're having a sleepover, me, Noah and Oli." Hunter explains. "A sleepover sounds fun. Let's go upstairs and we can make Oli some pjs." He says and I look at Hunter waiting for permission. "Go ahead, I'll clean up here and then find you later." Hunter says.

Oh my god you guys I'm so sorry for taking so long to update, I'm a baker and the holidays are always super busy, and y'all know I'm lazy and procrastinate and next thing you know it's been over 3 weeks. Thank you guys for checking in on me, I swear I'm gonna try really hard not to make you all wait so long for the next chapter! I ended it sorta early because I want the next chapter to just be hunter noah and Oli lol so I know Noah's POV was a bunch of things smashed together into one, but next time it'll be a bit more organized. Anyways thank you again for sticking with me through all my long breaks and everything

May xx