Triphilia - together forever | one-shots

Apart |4|

When Avi woke up he felt disoriented. It took a while for him to realise that he wasn't at home but in Leigh's and Kevin's guest room. The bearded man looked at his phone. Nothing new from his boyfriends. But then again it was only 9.00 and they were probably still asleep.

Avi decided to get up and see if his hosts were up as well. After a short detour in the bathroom, he went downstairs into the kitchen where Kevin was taking care of a fuzzy baby.

"Good morning. Where's Leigh?" Avi greeted his best friend and jumped to his side when the glass of water he was pouring for himself, tumbled.

"Oh thank you" Kevin said and sighed. "She's still in bed, she got up four times tonight, so I told her to sleep."

"You don't look too fit either..." Avi replied.

"Well, I've been up since 7, Leila peed when I changed her nappy and she already threw up all over me..." Kevin explained.

Avi sniffed twice. "Yep, you're smelly" he pointed out. "I can take care of her while you take care of yourself" Avi explained.

Kevin sighed. "That would be lovely, but she's fuzzy..."

Avi shook his head. "I don't care. Just hand her over and take a shower" he said and stretched out his arms towards his best friend.

"Thank you, Avi" Kevin said as he had handed down his daughter. He emptied his glass of water and turned away, but then remembered something. "Okay, so she will neither be hungry now will she need her nappy changed for now. Just I don't know, keep her entertained?"

Avi chuckled. "Kevin? This is not the first time I'm taking care of her. It'll be alright." He smiled at his best friend, before looking back to his goddaughter. "Of you go. And take your time, I don't want you rushing back down within the next thirty minutes. Maybe spend some time with your wife! If I need your help, I'll let you know."

Once Kevin had left him, he went over to the living room with the baby, and sat down on the ground in the little play area Leigh and Kevin had installed for her. He sat her down next to himself, but the little baby started to cry almost immediately. "I'm here, Leila" he said and sat her down on his lap, rocking her softly. "So... what do we do? Shall we read a book?" He grabbed a book about pets which had little patches of artificial fur of each animal for the little girl to touch. "This one?"

Avi spend the next twenty minutes telling Leila all about the animals while she touched the skin and fur happily.

Kevin and Leigh were still nowhere to be seen when he poured himself a cup of tea and sat down on the sofa, little Leila still on his lap. She had started to play with his beard a while ago and Avi was happy that it calmed her down at least a little bit.

He had gotten comfortable with his tea when there was a ring at the door. "Oh, seems as if we've got visitors..." Avi said to Leila and went to the front door. He looked through the camera of the security system and sighed.

It was Mitch.

He faltered only for a split second before he opened the door and smiled slightly at his boyfriend. "Good morning, Mitchy" he said softly.

"Avi..." Mitch seemed to be taken aback by his boyfriend standing in front of him instead of either Kevin or Leigh whom he could have bribed for some information regarding Avi state of mind. But there he was. His Avi, handsome as ever with this small smile on his face, which almost made him forget just how much he messed up. And then there was Leila who Avi held on his right side and who was playing with a strand of Avi's hair.

"Come on in, Mitchy" Avi said softly. "I hope you don't mind me taking care of Leila, Leigh is napping and I told Kevin to take a little break."

"Of course I don't mind. She's wonderful" Mitch replied as he stepped inside the house and followed Avi into the living room.