The Sidemen Baby

Chapter 13

TRIGGER WARNING: MASSIVE INJURY AND BLOOD

Ethan's POV:

"Come get your bear, Ver!" I cooed and tried to bribe her to walk over to get it.

She was sitting in Josh's lap across the living room and we were trying to get her to take her first steps by herself.

She wasn't having any of it.

Every time we'd come close to making a breakthrough, she would flop down dramatically and start rolling and grabbing her ankle while giggling

JJ was able to teach her that trick last time he was babysitting. She found it hilarious and every time she had an audience she would go diving for the floor, making it difficult to try to teach her anything.

She looked at the bear and held out her hand for me to give it to her.

"No. Come get it. Come on honey."

She glared and whined, waving her open hand around as if to make sure I saw it.

Josh stood up and held her hands, pulling her up to her feet. "Lets go get it then."

She looked up at him, clearly not impressed, planted her little feet into the ground and refused to move.
Her angry little eyes turned to look at me and she growled. "Gimme Pap."

It took everything in me to resist giving in to her. Just seeing her frustrated tiny baby face made my heart twist violently, to the point of Ana covering for me.

"No dear. Come get it from papa. His legs are sleeping. Daddy will help you." Ana said softly and crouched down to her level.

Josh urged her to put one foot forward by tapping it lightly. But of course, JJs lesson kicked in before ours so she went down like a bag of rocks, rolling dramatically all over the living room and giggling like a maniac. "PENTATY! REF!! PENTATY!!" She yelled and looked around at us for a reaction, with the look of hopefullness plastered all over her face.

Everybody in that room was cracking up, until finally I burst out laughing. The rest followed my lead and soon we were all wiping tears from our eyes and gasping for breath.

Veronica, pleased from our reaction, wriggled away happily, having given up on her walking lesson before it started.

We were all finally calming down when we heard a loud crash and a scream from upstairs. I scooped up Veronica while Josh pounded up the stairs and into the room the screams and cries for help were coming from.

Veronica's room.

We hadn't finished it yet, and it was constantly getting those last "finishing touches" installed before somebody else decided it needed a different finishing touch. It was never done.

Ana, Cupcake and I were waiting anxiously at the bottom of the stairs to hear what had happened, when Josh waltzed down nursing Cat's mangled arm and Harry's (probably broken but definitely bleeding) nose as JJ followed close behind spouting apologies.

He shooed us back to the living room without a word and twenty five minutes later the four of them were leaving our house in an ambulance.

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Harry's POV:

Fuck.
Fuck Simon.
Fuck JJ.
Fuck.

Simon decided that Veronica's room needed a bookshelf on the wall for her books and knick-Knacks, but after filming his latest drunk fifa video he was too out of it to do it himself. He said he'd pay JJ, Cat and I $80 each if we'd put them up for him today. JJ and I didn't really need the money, but Cat did for rent so we agreed.