boxer ⋆ luke hemmings ✔️

35. Daddy.

"I'm going to tell Calum."

Ashton Irwin almost choked on his dumpling, the sliver of soy sauce he had in his mouth going the wrong way as, opposite him, Luke cringed.

"You good?"

"No, he's Ashton," Michael mumbled, sticking a fork full of noodles into his mouth and chewing sloppily. Corey Hemmings sat clumsily on his lap, giggling at the way his uncle ate his food, "Hey, I made him laugh!"

"You're hilarious." Eddie deadpanned.

Luke ignored them both, deciding to continue his conversation as he carefully fed his son a rice ball, "You think it's a bad idea?"

"Well, I don't think it's a good idea-" Ashton began, only to be interrupted by Michael.

"-He thinks it's a shitty idea, and that you shouldn't do it. Not even come close to it. If you wanna live," he noted, balancing Luke's son cautiously on his legs. Ashton quickly sent him a glare, "What?"

"No swearing in front of the kid, Michael,"

Corey let out another little giggle, tugging on Luke's shirt to get his attention. It was given to him almost immediately.

"Dad, whath does shitty mean?"

The colour drained from the blond's face as he made a small, mental reminder to never let his son near Michael ever again. The last thing Luke wanted was to add any foul words to Corey's vocabulary; which was- unfortunately- near to impossible, for foul terms made up ninety-nine percent of his own.

"Christ. Never say that again, yeah?" Luke said, wiping away at the grease on the little boy's lips, "Ever. It's a bad word,"

"But Unc-uh Mike-uh said it!" Corey whined.

"Well, uncle Michael's missing a brain cell," Luke noted sadly, his mocking tone causing a scowl to cover the rainbow-haired boy's face.

"At least I have a brain. I would never tell Calum that I was doing his little sister,"

At the slight mention of his friend's name, Luke felt his heart stop. His guilt was now at an all time high and he couldn't force himself to take no notice of it, no matter how hard he tried.

"Doing?" Corey repeated innocently.

"Okay, whose idea was it to let these two boneheads talk about Sophie in front of a kid?" Eddie piped up disappointedly, looking around the busy restaurant with a raised eyebrow.

He then reached over, covering Corey's ears as he spoke to Luke in a hushed whisper, "Mate, if you get a boner over your girlfriend right now, in front of your own freakin' son, I'm calling child servi-"

"I will stab you with these chopsticks," Luke warned him.

"Calum'll probably stab you too, if you tell him," Michael noted, before gesturing to Eddie that it was okay to let the small child hear again, "Did that pact back in high school mean nothing to you?"

"I have a pacth too, Unc-uh. My backpacth," Corey grinned happily, wanting desperately to be included in the conversation as he pointed towards his Moana themed Disney bag on the seat.