strong brothers

Halloween

Aces pov:

So Halloween is coming up and Avery has been jumping up and down nonstop. I regretted telling him about our planned road trip to France. It was supposed to be kept a secret until 'Jake' decided to sneak around in my office looking for his phone. Forcing me to announce it during dinner.

I really hope mom wouldn't mind that we leave her behind. She wasn't even really ready to be discharged yet. The nurses all told me she just walked out the hospital 5 days after waking up.

She's been sleeping a lot recently because of the nonstop bickering between Silas and her. The unendurable conversation they talked about is pointless. How does one go from talking about trees end up talking about renovating the whole mansion?

"But either way I'm glad mom took the bickering away from me." I grumbled to Ezra. "I've gotten much more things completed in the past couple of weeks than a year. Putting all those asides, let's talk about Avery instead aye? Why did you show him the conjuring 2?"

"Whattttt? I did? How did you know?" Ezra said shocked. It was obvious they planned it when I went to a business meeting. "Oh how did I know? Avery's been running into my room in the middle of the night crying about how he was scared and wet the bed because there was a 'ghost' in his closet?" I shot out in one breath. Clearly so done with Ezra already. "Wait! I didn't know he would be that scared!" He quickly shot back. Probably scared from the looks of it.

"You're putting him in pull ups at night from now on. Understand? And let him sleep with you. Even though I love him as much as you do, I can't keep getting interrupted in the middle of the night. Okay?"

"Fine." Ezra said. Sighing out whatever comebacks he was gonna say. "Good. Now go away."

Ezra's pov:

I ignored the cries of despair from Jake as I sat down on the couch, He crawled his way to my feet and was about to kiss it when all of a sudden Silas and mom came walking in. They stared at us for a few seconds and started laughing like some kind of maniacally insane person!

"Get up Jake!" I half shouted at him. He immediately got up and acted like nothing had happened. Scrolling on his phone whenever he was embarrassed. God that's adorable.

I quickly ran towards Silas and tackled him down onto the floorboard. Putting my hands over his mouth to stop him from laughing was tougher than I thought. Mom was standing above us laughing even harder! Which was not what I was expecting.

"Alright enough Ezra!" Silas said, out of breath. "We were just joking!" He added. "Yea right." I said. Pushing him away and getting up from the floor. "I gotta go pack for the trip. Come on Jake."

Mumbling about me being to bossy. He got up from the couch and followed me towards the hallway. "Thanks." He suddenly said. "What for?" I asked him. Wondering why he would say thanks all of the sudden.

"You helped me just now by tackling Silas. I couldn't hear him laugh anymore, my ears were about to burst!" Jake said. "Nothing to thank me for. It's just basic human decency to know what's annoying my baby brother." I said cheekily. Jake nudged me gently and smiled.

We both decided to help settle Avery's baggage first. Since he's still new and doesn't know how to fully pack for vacation yet. Entering his room. We found out that Avery was in his bed sleeping with Tyson! Which was the cutest thing I've ever seen today.

Taking a picture, we slowly pulled out his luggage and clothings. We're going to be in France for 1 week. So I pulled out 9 sets of long sleeves shirt with designs Avery would like, 4 pairs of plain shorts, 5 pairs of pants, 5 pairs of underwear and some daily necessities like toothbrush, socks and etc.

Zipping up the luggage, I set it aside and told Jake to get me Avery's diaper bag. As much as I didn't want to admit it. It was my fault for all the incidents Avery's been having. I shouldn't have shown him those horror movies.

I took out 9 sets of night time diapers for Avery and another 7 sets of pull ups for everyday uses and arranged them nicely in the bag. Jake handed me the diaper rash cream, 2 packs of wipes and a pacifier. which I also added in the bag to give avery something other than his thumb to suck on.

"All done." I whispered to Jake. As he took the bag away from me and placed it by the door. "Let's go pack ours." He whispered back. Dragging me out of the room as we walked towards our own enclosures.

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