The Walks of Life

Chapter Thirteen

~one year later~

"Aiden! Get back here!" Haden yelled as he chased him down the hall.

"Aiden is streaking down the hall!" Cole laughed as the naked child ran past him.

"Aaaahhhhhhh!" Aiden yelled as he ran from his father. His strawberry blond hair was wet from his bath. His brown eyes flashed mischievously. "Ahhhhhhh!"

"Get back here and put some clothes on!" Haden yelled.

"And they called him the streak! Because he loved his physic!" Jay began to sing. Kai snorted with laughter at this.

"That's an old song, Dad," Jason smirked. "What does that make you?"

"Well researched," Jay retorted.

"Wow!" Ronin yelped as Aiden ran between his legs. He was carrying an armload of tools and nearly dropped them. Haden flew past him and Ronin looked at them incredulously.

"Ha! I've got you cornered!" Haden yelled as Aiden reached a corner.

"Ahhh!" Aiden ran off to the side only to be grabbed by his dad.

"I've got you!" Haden said in his 'monster voice.' "You can't get away! I'm going to make you wear clothes. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Aiden laughed and tried to squirm out of Haden's grip. Haden sat down of the floor and trapped Aiden with his legs.

"Good grief," Skylor laughed. "Aiden has to be the most mischievous one year old I have ever seen!"

"I dunno," Garmadon said from the doorway. "Lloyd could probably rival Aiden."

"My dad ran down hallways naked because he didn't want to put clothes on?" Haden nearly fell over with laughter. "Aiden stop squirming."

"Lloyd is so not gonna hear the end of this?" Cole laughed, coming from the other end of the hallway.

"If you are ever wondering where Aiden's mischievous personality came from," Garmadon laughed. "It came from your father, Haden."

"And he carried it with him into late childhood," Cole rolled his eyes.

"I want candy! Give me candy!" Kai shouted in a high pitched voice from the end of the hall.

"Hey! You guys can't make fun of me when I'm not around!" Lloyd shouted from the living room.

"Hey, Lloyd!" Cole snickered. "I hear you liked to run around naked when you were a toddler!"

"Dad!" Lloyd shouted in annoyance. "Seriously?"

Lloyd appeared in the doorway. Cole burst out laughing and Lloyd raised his eyebrow at him.

"Apparently you still run around naked!" Cole whooped.

"How is going shirtless naked?" Lloyd retorted. "I was training."

"You have to admit," Aira came up from behind him and wrapped her arms around him. "Not many grandkids can say their grandpa is sexy and a total badass-er-ya. I mean not that word."

"I doubt many grandkids think about that," Haden stuck his tongue out and shivered, ignoring his mother's slip up.

"That's because most grandads aren't like us," Garmadon pointed out.

"Whatever," Haden waived his hand in a dismissive manner. "Now it is bedtime for this little booger."

"No!" Aiden yelped. He tried to squirm away from his father's grip.

"Oh yes it is!" Haden began to tickle Aiden. Aiden was at the mercy of the tickle monster. He laughed and squirmed.

"I remember when you used to do that to Haden," Aira said reminiscently to Lloyd.