little love

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after their tubbie, ashton had rubbed cream onto calum and then dressed him, then carried the little down to the kitchen and sat him down on a kitchen chair.

ashton proceeded to make some grilled cheese and tomato soup - something simple that would ease into calums stomach. neither of them said anything the whole time.

yet, there were words on the tip of calums tongue. the little wanted to say everything, or just say anything, but he couldn't. all these words that lingered on his tongue did just that. they merely just lingered.

ashton, on the other hand, didn't know what to say. part of it was his fault, he knew this, but at the same time it was also calums fault and ashton wanted an apology from calum. ashton wouldn't just not take care of him again like that, but he wasn't going to be all happyhappy chipper with calum.

the little was just so sad and confused.

"alright, here we go," ashton says, setting the plate and bowl in front of calum. the little stares at the food, purses his lips, and then looks up to ashton.

"i eat?" calum asks sadly.

"yes, baby, you gotta eat," ashton says, and sets another plate and bowl down next to calum. then, he's putting calums sippy cup of juice, and a cup of water down. the little waits patiently until ashton sits down before grabbing his spoon.

calum bites his lip as he moves his spoon around, in circles, in the warm bowl. ashton dips his grilled cheese into the soup, takes a bite, and then sets his sandwich back down.

"would you eat a couple bites if daddy fed you, sweetheart?"

the little has never ever nodded so quickly. it makes ashton smile a bit.

"okay, here we go," ashton says, lifting the spoon with some soup on it. he goes to put it close to calums lips, but he first decides to blow on it that way it wouldn't be as hot.

calum eats it easily.

in fact, ashton has to stop the little from eating because if calum ate too fast, he knew it would make him get sick. ashton wanted calum to be able to hold his food down.

so after calum finished his first plate, ashton made him wait an hour before he got to have ice cream.

"alright, here we are," ashton says, setting the bowl with two scoops of ice cream down on the table. calum smiles happily, and grabs the mickey mouse spoon out of the bowl. ashton sits next to calum, and softly pets his hair as the little starts to eat.

calum doesn't say a word as he devours his ice cream.

it makes ashton chuckle lowly. the only time calum wouldn't dare talk at all is when he had his sweets.

"done, daddy," calum says as he licks his lips and pushes his bowl further away on the table.

"i see, sweetheart," ashton says as he grabs a napkin. usually, the little would whine or try to get out of ashton wiping his face, but as ashton brings the napkin closer to face he just lets ashton wipe him clean.

"such a good boy," ashton says, then pats his stomach, "how about you go turn the tv on, and pick out something for us to watch."

"wewie?"

"really. daddy will be out in a minute, okay? just gotta clean the kitchen."

"otay!" calum says happily, and then runs out into the family room. ashton smiles, and cleans up the kitchen.

there was that tension between them still. ashton didnt know what all the little actually knew. of course, he knew he had some business with big boy calum...whenever calum would come out of his headspace.

for right now, though, calum is still his priority. it was his responsibility to take care of calum. so, ashton can keep his ego aside as long as it takes.

with a deep breath, ashton makes his way out to the family room. the little had some random movie starting, and as soon as he turned around and saw ashton, his eyes lit up in happiness.

"daddy!" calum squeals, making grabby hands. ashton chuckles, and makes his way over to calum.

"uppies, uppies," calum chants, until ashton picks him up and spins him around.

"you're a silly boy, aren't you?" ashton asks, and sits down with calum on his lap.

"no, 'ou silly!"

"nope, you're silly baby."

"daddy silly!" calum laughs, placing both his hands on ashtons cheeks. then, he smushes his daddys cheeks so ashtons making a funny face. it has calum doubling over in laughter.

"okay, silly boy," ashton says, "lets watch the movie, okay?"

"otay!"

calum laid comfortably on ashtons chest, and started to suck on ashtons fingers. in a matter of no time, both boys were fast asleep.

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