56: Hide My Scars

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Griffin's POV

"Liam! Why won't you let me change you? Ugh!" Kio yelled from Liam's room and I smiled.

I walked over to his room, leaning onto the door frame. Kio was trying to get Liam in his diaper, but Liam was kicking his little legs.

"Liam!" Kio whined, getting mad which was super cute.

"Kiooo!" I whined, jokingly.

"Babe!" Lio whined. "He won't let me change him."

"You have to calm him down first, baby, so he lays still." I said.

"How?" Kio asked.

"Like this." I said.

I rubbed Liam's stomach and he almost immediately calmed down. Liam looked up at me with tear wet eyes.

I quickly changed Liam. Kio smiled at me as Jaden walked in. He had a hoodie on that was converted in white paint.

"What did you do?" Kio asked.

"Correction. What did Bryce, Zoey, Josh or you do?" I asked.

"Hey!" Zoey yelled as everyone walked into the room.

"Zoey and Payton were just painting in their room, Bryce, Quinton and I were sitting on the floor, watching them when Josh, Noah and Blake came through the door, yelling." Jaden said.

"It scared me and I knocked Payton's paint on Jaden." Zoey, walking in.

"Why were you running?" I asked Blake, Josh and Noah.

"There uh was a bee." Noah said, looking down, embarrassed.

"Ugh." I said.

"One, no running in the house. Two, no painting in the house. Three, let's get you a new hoodie, Jayden. Four, we need to get lunch." Kio said.

"Food!" The "kids" yelled.

"I'll pick some up when Jaden and I are heading back from the mall." Kio said.

I nodded, kissing his nose. Jaden and Kio left. Blake, Bryce and Zoey ran to Liam like the happy little kids that they are. Payton stood beside me. Quinton went to go clean up the paint with the help of Noah.

"Thanks." Payton said.

"For what?" I asked.

"For making all of this happen." Payton said and I looked at him.

Payton looked at me then back Zoey and the others. They were now all laying on the extra bed in the room, asleep.

"I never told you why I had found Zoey in the skate park, have I?" Payton asked and I shook my head "no."

"I don't think so." I said.

"My parents had kicked me out that day for being too "busy", because I was always skateboarding." Payton said.

"Zoey's basically the same, but she does it inside." I said.

"I had walked to the skate park. My board was already there since I left it and I saw Zoey at my normal spot." Payton said and I smiled. "I fell in love. I didn't care that she was pregnant or that she couldn't skateboard at the time. She is the most beautiful girl ever."

"That's how I feel about Kio. I always wonder how I got how lucky." I said.

"Same." Payton said.

"I had joined a house, because of TikTok and now I have a whole family. I have a husband and five kids, but I wouldn't change it for the world." I said.

"Me either." Payton said. I bro hugged him as the door opened.

"Oh no." I said.

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