Brothers

Chapter nine

Alex's POV
We walk to the park since we live close by it. I keep Grayson in the middle of us as we walk so I can keep my eye on him so he's safe. We finally get to the park and thankfully it's not crowded. Grayson yells and immediately goes to the monkey bars.
   I walk to the bench so I can keep an eye on him. I saw Noah walking with me instead of going with Grayson.

"Why aren't you playing with Grayson?"
  I ask him as he sits down beside me.
He shrugs.

"I just don't feel like playing right now. I wanted to stay with you today."

I smile and look back towards Grayson. He jumps down off the monkey bars and runs towards the slide. I watch him run up the steps and go down the slide. He does it over and over. I laugh softly and hear Noah laugh as well.

"He has so much energy it's insane."

I hear Noah say and I nod in agreement.
We watch as Grayson goes to the swings and tries to swing.

"Noah come and push me!"
Grayson yells and looks at us.

Noah groans and looks at me.

"Do I have to? I wanted to sit with you."

He says and pouts.

"Noah! Please Noah!" Grayson pouts.

"Go on Noah. Grayson wants you to push him. I'll wait here and after he gets done you can come back over here with me."

I tell him and pat his shoulder. He groans and stands up.

"Fine"
he grumbles and walks towards Grayson. Grayson smiles big when he sees Noah coming to him.

Noah's POV
"Push me high!"
I walk behind him and grab the handles and pull back.

"Alright little brother ready?"

I ask him and he nods fast excitedly.

"Yes!"
He yells and looks back at me with a huge smile.

"Alright 1! 2! 3!"

At 3 I push hard but not too hard for him to fall. I do it over and over till he gets high. I hear Grayson yell and laugh at the same time. I laugh with him.

"Higher Noah higher!"

I push him alittle more and stop since he's already too high.

"Alright Gray that's high enough. Is that okay? Are you having fun?"

Grayson laughs "yes I'm having fun!"

I laugh and smile while watching him. He swings for about 5 minutes and starts slowing down.

"What's wrong Grayson?"

"Nothing I just wanna go play with something else."

He stops and runs to this rock climbing thing. I walk with him making sure that he's going to be okay. I watch him for a minute and decide that he's going to be okay.

"I'm going back to Alex now okay? We'll both be right over there at the bench."

Grayson nods "Okay!"
And goes back to playing. I smile and walk back to Alex and sit down.

"Did you have fun?" He asks me

"Yeah actually I did. I didn't know that I would have fun pushing him but it was fun."

He smiles
"that's good. I'm glad that you both had fun. But we'll have to leave soon since it's getting late. I still have to make dinner and Grayson needs to take a bath before bed."

I nod
"yeah that's fine with me. But it's going to be hard getting Grayson to leave here."

He nods in agreement

"Yeah that's going to be fun."

He says sarcastically. I laugh at him and he glares at me. I shut up seeing that. He sighs and stands up.

"Well we should get this over with. He'll probably give us both trouble."

I nod and walk with him towards Grayson.

"Grayson buddy it's time to go now. We've been here alittle over an hour and we still need to eat dinner and you need to take a bath before bed."

Grayson stops playing and looks at Alex.

"No! I don't wanna go home yet I wanna stay here and play!"

Alex sighs

"Grayson come on. We can come back another time. We've been here long enough."
   
Grayson pouts "no!"

"Grayson now." Alex tells him sternly.

"Grayson come on please listen to Alex. We really need to go home now."

I tell Grayson trying to help Alex.

Grayson looks at me and stomps his foot

"No noah! I'm not going!"

He sits back down and crosses his arms.

"Alright Grayson if you don't get up now you'll be in trouble. Do you want that?"

Alex tells him and bends down so he's face to face with him. Grayson glares at him and shakes his head no.

Alex sighs
   "Alright I'm gonna count to 3 and if you're not up when I get to 3 you'll be in trouble."

I see Grayson get a scared expression on his face but he still doesn't get up.

"1....2...."

"Come on Grayson don't let him get to 3"

I tell him and he looks at me and back at alex. I see his lip tremble.

"But I wanna stay here!"
    
Grayson whines.

"Grayson I already told you that we have to go home. We can come back later I promise. Now come on stand up please you're almost at 3 and I don't think you want a spanking do you?"

Alex tells him and at the word spanking Grayson cries and starts to throw a tantrum. He throws himself at the ground and starts pounding his legs on the ground.

"I don't wanna a spanking I wanna stay here! You're being mean!"

He yells and stops and looks at Alex angrily.

"Alright that's it mister. Come here."

Alex says and grabs Grayson and stands him up. He grabs his upper arm and turns him sideways and spanks him hard 3 times.

" you -SMACK do not -SMACK tell me no -SMACK"

"OWWW STOP IT! IM SO-RRYYY!!"
   Grayson yells and tries to get away.

Alex spanks him 3 more times and stops. He turns him around and makes Grayson look at him. Grayson cries hard.
    Alex sighs and wipe his tears away.

"I didn't want to do that but you left me no choice. Now you're gonna listen to me and when we get home I want you in the corner."

"NO!"

"Grayson" Alex growls

Grayson whines

"but I don't want a time out!!"

"Then you shouldn't have acted the way you did. Now no more arguments and let's go."

Alex says and starts walking expecting us to follow him. Grayson is still crying. I sigh and wrap my arms around him. He makes grabbing motions at me wanting to be held. I look at him sadly and pick him up. He wraps his arms and legs around me and I start walking towards Alex.

"Shhh Grayson calm down. Alex isn't angry with you I promise. He just wants you to listen to him. Shhh calm down baby. "
I try to soothe him and it works eventually. He sniffs and hiccups with his head on my shoulder. I get to Alex and he turns and looks at us. He looks sad while looking at Grayson. He rubs his shoulder soothingly.
He sighs and we continue walking to our house.