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50 - Natural

"What do you mean you don't like me?" Harry pouts at Gordon, who clings to Louis' hand. 

"You're big. And tall. And scary." Gordon puts spaces between his words as he thinks of them. 

"He's not scary!" Louis squats to look eye to eye with Gordon. "He's just different."

Harry makes an offended face to that, but Louis rolls his eyes at the taller boy. Louis is defending him, he'd better be grateful. 

Louis gets a devilish smirk before he leans closer to Gordon and whispers, "Wanna hear a secret?"

The seven-year-old, obviously hungry for information, nods vigorously before leaning even closer to Louis and cupping his hand around his ear. "Extra secretive." he says.

Louis smiles, "Harry still has a teddy-bear."

A laugh bubbles from Gordon's chest and he looks back and forth between Louis and Harry. "Really?" he asks. 

"Yep!" Louis replies, biting his bottom lip to contain his beaming grin. 

Harry cocks his head at Louis, his facial expression saying, "What did you say?" 

Louis just shrugs playfully, looking back to Gordon. "Not so scary now, huh?"

"No!" he laughs, and then Amy comes over and grabs Harry's arm, trying to drag him away. 

Harry follows the girl, leaving Louis with Gordon and Charlie. 

"Just us boys, then." Louis flops onto the couch, patting the spots next to him. "What to do?"

Charlie makes a face like he's thinking much too hard, and Gordon furrows his eyebrows in thought. Louis contains his laugh at how hard these boys are thinking about this. 

"Oh!" Gordon hops off the couch, running down the hallway, to what Louis assumes is his bedroom. 

He comes back with two Nerf guns, and he gives the bigger one to Louis. Louis messes around with it for a second before a foam bullet flies out of the gun and sticks to the wall in front of him, due to the suction cup. 

"Sick." Louis tells Gordon, who gestures to Louis with his hand that Louis should follow him. Louis does as suggested, taking Charlie's hand and leading him along. 

Gordon makes his way to a room with a white door that's closed. He puts his finger to his lips before opening the door slowly and carefully, trying not to make noise. 

"On the count of three." Louis whispers as he catches on to what Gordon has planned. 

"Three, two," Gordon counts, "one!"

The three boys barge in with their faux guns, but Louis is distracted before he even shoots one bullet. There's Harry, with a giant purple bow in his hair. Oh, and Amy's doing his nails. Okay. 

Gordon doesn't fire any shots, either, because Louis didn't. So, there goes that.

"Um, so," Harry coughs. 

"I'm giving Harry a makeover!" Amy cheers, lifting the nail polish up and spilling it on Harry's shirt. 

"Woah!" Harry flinches away instantly, backing into bookshelf, which nearly fell over before Louis ran over and held it up. A lone book falls onto Harry's chest, precisely where the nail polish spilled. 

Gordon and Charlie burst into laughter at the scene in front of them, whereas Amy is as bright as a cherry from embarrassment, Harry inspects the now-nail-polished cover of the book, and Louis lets out a huge sigh of relief, still holding the bookshelf up. 

Louis backs away, then, and Amy sets down the nail polish. "Sorry." she squeaks. 

"It's okay." Harry replies, looking down at his white shirt that now has a splat of purple on it. "I have a ton of these." he assures, referring to his white shirt. 

Louis picks up the book with nail polish on it, and shows it to Amy, asking if it's important. She shrugs, saying that she never really liked that book anyway. 

"Well, that's good, then." Louis mimics Amy's shrugs and sticks the book back on the shelf - but where the nail polish won't get on any of the other books. 

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Everything goes pretty smoothly - minus Gordon shooting Harry with one of his Nerf guns (reminder: you're not supposed to shoot people with those!) - until it's 5 o'clock, two hours before the kids' mother is returning. At this point, Charlie doesn't want to eat his dinner, Gordon spilled his water all over Amy, and Amy won't talk to anyone because she's so mad at her brother. "It's only water..." Louis had mumbled so many times. 

Harry tries to get Charlie to eat his peas, unsuccessfully.Eventually, Charlie gets frustrated and takes a fist full of the peas and throws them at Harry - making his shirt more of a canvas than it already was. Honestly, Harry thought three year olds were over the throwing-food stage. Obviously, he needs to do more (and better) research. 

Amy resides in her room - probably changing her shirt or pouting - while Louis wipes up the excess water and and tries to convince Gordon to apologize. But, he's saying that it wasn't his fault. Really, it was his fault. Louis doesn't see how he could blame it on anyone else. He hit the water over and it spilled, how could that be anyone else's mistake? Louis just sighs, not understanding the child's logic. 

Finally, Charlie and Gordon both give in: Charlie eating the rest of his dinner and Gordon finding his sister to say sorry. 

Louis and Harry mutually decide that they're all going to watch a movie for the rest of the time, and per request of Charlie, they watch Toy Story.

Charlie squeezes himself between Harry and Louis, Gordon sits on Louis' side and Amy on Harry's. They drape on blanket on top of the whole lot of them, before starting the film. 

Charlie is easily scared by the movie, and nestles into the larger boys when the creepy baby-doll spider thing crawls out of under the bed. 

The kids' mother walks in on the very last minutes of the movie, grinning when she sees how content everyone looks. (Good thing Harry's shirt is unnoticeable in the dark room.)

Harry and Louis refuse the money for looking after the kids - they don't need it. It was fun, despite Louis' first feelings on the subject. Harry, honestly, loved the whole thing. Even the pea incident didn't bother him.

Louis thinks he's a natural parent, really. 

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hiii so i think this is the second to last chapter? like the next one will be the last one and then there'll be a christmas special and then it's done. well, then to the sequel. eXciTinG.

as for 2mil reads, thanks so much!! the christmas special that i'm writing for this will be my celebration of it, okay? (and of course, that will come out around christmas. duh. hahaha.) 

seriously, thanks for sticking around through this mess hahah i love you guysss :*