Accidents Happen

Part 3

"It-it is a bit smaller."

Romulus looked down to see his grandson staring wide eyed at the small entryway. With a low chuckle, he leaned down to pat the child's head.

"Well, we don't need as much space as we used to."

Romeo looked up at him with teary eyes.

"Do we not have money for a bigger house?"

Mildly shocked by the emotion and the perceptiveness, Romulus crouched down to Romeo's level and looked him in the eye.

"We're going to be fine. You don't need to worry about that."

Romeo started to express a small thought of doubt before Feliciano interrupted the conversation from a few rooms over.

"Fratello!"

Romulus frowned.

"Feliciano, don't yell."

The small Italian peeked around the corner followed by the oldest triplet.

"Sorry, nonno"

"You two are supposed to be washing up for dinner."

Feli dragged his foot on the carpet.

"I wanted to show fratello our room."

"Our?" Romeo whispered looking up and his grandfather. "We had separate rooms back out our old home."

Romulus sighed.

"Yes, I know that. You boys are staying in a room together for now, I thought you'd be happier like that. There's another empty room next to you that you may use when you boys get older and want a little more space. I just didn't want you getting lonely."

Romeo smiled slightly.

"We always crawled in bed with each other anyway."

With nod Romulus gestured towards the back bedrooms.

"Go put your bag away and we can have dinner before bed."

Romeo nodded and tried to pick up the backpack on the floor next to his feet.

"I got it!" both Feliciano and Romano chirped in unison.

They eyed each other suspiciously before darting towards Romeo at the same time. Feli made it first and triumphantly grabbed the bag before darting back to their bedroom.

"You don't have to..." Romeo's meek voice trickled off into a whisper.

Romulus chuckled and Lovino shook his head.

Romulus spoke first.

"You'll have to get used to that for a while. Your brothers are going to be really careful and protective of you for a while."

"Yeah, stupid head," Lovino said.  "You're our baby brother, we're not going to let anything happen to you."

"You don't have to do that, really," Romeo repeated meekly.