*continuation of the last chapter*
"I have no fucking idea how to take care of a baby," Calum says while holding the baby.
"Well Rose is here along with Michael, me, and Ashton," Luke says trying to comfort Calum who was on the verge of having a panic attack.
"Actually, I'm leaving for my tour literally tomorrow and I won't be back for about 9 months," Rose states while looking at Calum sadly.
"No, no no, you can't leave us. You and Ashton are the only ones who have any experience with children." Calum all but shouts only to drop down to a whisper once realizing Rebel was asleep.
"I'm sure you guys will be fine I have faith in you," Rose says while pulling Calum up and off the couch, takes Rebel from him and hands her to Michael who immediately hands her over to Luke who takes her happily.
"Now we have some shopping to do before I leave tomorrow morning and stores will be closing soon." Rose throws a pair of his shoes at Calum and then grabs Michael, who was wearing shoes already for some reason, and drags him outside to the car but not before shouting that they would wait for Calum in the car.
"So what exactly are we getting?" Calum asks from the back seat as they pull up to baby's r us.
"Crib, stroller, playpen, bottles, baby monitor, mobile, clothes, bedding, pacifiers, formula, diapers, wipes, toys, anything you will need for Rebel," Rose says while they walk into the store, which was fucking huge in her opinion.
They grab a cart each and head around the store picking up whatever they thought was useful and for Michael that meant picking up anything and everything he thought was cute or punk rock. They left the food and formula shopping to Rose as Michael nor Calum had any idea what formula was, let alone what type Rebel would need.
It took about an hour for them to finish and then another half an hour to convince Michael that Rebel did not need a mini guitar because 'for god's sake Michael she's 5 months old she can barely lift her head let alone a guitar.'
They then went to hot topic because 'That store had nothing punk rock and my baby niece who is named Rebel will not be anything but punk rock.' Michael jumped out of the car before Rose had even parked and ran into the store, He was way too excited Calum thought to himself.
When Rose and Calum walked in Michael already had his arms full of clothes for Rebel and as soon as he saw Calum he dumped the clothes in his arms and ran off to go find more stuff.
"How many clothes does this child need?" Calum whispers to Rose who was watching Michael in amusement.
"A lot actually, babies grow pretty fast and they get everything dirty. You'll be thankful for Michaels over shopping this time." Rose says then goes over to Michael who was having trouble choosing between the purple converse with spikes and the black ones with broken hearts all over them only to decide they were both great and that he would buy both.
At the end they had everything they needed plus some, as in 5 bags from hot topic filled with nothing but baby clothes and then 8 boxes with the stroller, crib, and playpens, and 6 more bags filled with bottles, pacifiers, formula, and other important things which are needed to keep a small human alive.
When they got home they called Ashton to help carry some stuff up because they all knew that Michael would carry the bags from hot topic and go straight to putting Rebel in a new outfit, even though he hates holding her he still wants her to look good.
As soon as everything was out of the car and in the house Calum and Ashton worked on the crib, while Rose and Luke put the stroller together, and Michael was going through all the bags looking for the cutest pj's to put Rebel in.
"Should I do the all time low ones or our own bands?" Michael whispers to himself.
"Do our band we gotta break it to the fans somehow, why not by taking a picture of her in our merch, and captioning it 'our biggest fan, babyhood. Welcome Rebel hood to the fam.'" Luke suggest while struggling to pull the handle up on the stroller. Michael stares at him like he just said the greatest thing in the world.
"Luke this is the first time you have ever said anything close to smart." Michael then proceeds to change her into the onesie.
"Rose we got diapers and wipes right," Calum says while coming into the living room.
"Yeah, that was one of the first things I picked up." she walked into the kitchen after grabbing a pack of bottles, she opened them up and dumped them into the sink so she could clean them.
"Get the formula out of the bag." She instructs whoever came into the kitchen.
A tan arm that she realizes was Calum's, places the formula onto the counter.
"Take the bottle I just cleaned, dry it and put 3 tablespoons of formula in it and then put the kettle on," Rose instructs while cleaning the rest of the bottles, once she finished those she cleaned the pacifiers and any of the teething toys.
The kettle goes off and Rose picks it up and pours the boiling water into the bottle with the formula.
"Okay so for the formula I got you a container that measures out the amount you need based on the milliliters of the bottle. All you have to do is put the formula into the bottle, boil the water, put the water into the bottle and then wait for it to cool down enough for Rebel to be able to drink it, and you test that by dripping a little on your wrist and if it feels warm then she can have it but if it feels hot wait a minute. When she gets to 7 months you can change her over to 1% milk and water during the day and then formula at night, and then you can introduce baby food. Call your mom if you have any questions about that though." Rose explains while unpacking some of the clothes and toys, taking off the tags in the process.
Calum tests the formula on his wrist and decides it cool enough for Rebel to drink.
"I suggest you feed her on your chest with your shirt off, that way you can bond," Rose states as she passes the bags over to Luke who takes over unpacking it. She hands the box with the baby monitors to Michael and the box with the mobile to Ashton so he can hook it up to the crib.
By the time they got everything done and Rose taught Calum how to burp a baby, change a diaper and put Rebel to sleep, it was almost midnight.
"I have to wake up in six hours and I am assuming you will still be asleep so I will give you this advice now. She will wake up multiple times at night for either food, a change, or she just can't fall asleep on her own. Also, keep her crib in your room for the first couple of months and then change my room over to her nursery. Most of all it's alright to be afraid, that just means you care."
Rose, Michael, and Calum were sitting in the living room, well Michael was laying on the couch using Calum as a pillow but that's besides the point.
"Won't you need your room?" Calum asks not taking his eyes off the almost sleeping Michael.
"Nah, I'll be gone for 9 months and plus pretty sure me and the girls are buying a house in the neighborhood beside this one." Calum nods his head but it seems like he's really not paying attention.
"Get to bed you idiots, you have a long night ahead of you." With that rose gets up and walks to her room.
As soon as her door shuts Rebel starts crying and Calum sighs before pushing Michael off of him and onto the floor, ignoring Michaels groan of distress Calum walks to his room where his daughter is crying bloody murder.
