Lucca
I stare up...this was the tallest man I've EVER seen! 6'6, muscular as hell, the most majestic man ever. I stare up. Interesting. He has dirty blonde hair, the most gorgeous greeney-brown eyes and a gentle smile. He then looks over at me and I look away. "Who's little guy is this?" He got down in one knee in front of me as I quickly wiggle around and reach for Mr.Knight. He walks over and unbuckles the seatbelt, picking me up gently. "Tall." I tell Mr.Knight like it's NOT obvious that this man is over 6'4 he's massive. "Pretty. Buh tall." I watch Mr.Knight smile and nod. "Mhm, Ethan's very tall, isn't he little one?" I nodded and looked over to the tall man, then immediately cling to Mr.Knight. The tall man...Ethan, laughed slightly and moved his hand out for either a shake, high-five or to hold my hand. I look back to Mr.Knight but decide to hold this "Ethan"'s hand. I lay my head on Mr.Knights shoulder. "Babe you ready to go home after like 4 months?" I watch Ethan nod and grab his bags. We go out to the car and I get out in the baby seat in the back. I stare at Mr.Knight and point to the seat next to me, there's PLENTY of big boy seats, why am I in here?! "Kiddo you're too little for a big boy seat, now behave, okay?" I watch as he shut the door and sat in the front seat while Ethan is in the passenger seat. I just sit there, pouting and tired. I zone out for a bit after a while but what snaps me back is something said by Ethan. "We're keeping him, right? This is the little one you talked about?" I look over but Mr.Knight quickly shushed him on it. I fall back asleep in the carseat.
Back at home
Mr.Knight
I go over to the passenger door and start to unbuckle Lucca, Ethan comes over a second later and grabs the sippy cup from the carseat cupholder. I bounce Lucca as we go into the house, everything was perfectly fine until I went to put him in the playpen from last night. He woke up just enough to know I wasn't holding him anymore. He started to cry and fuss, becoming a complete disaster. "Shhh, baby boy calm down it's alright." I stand up straight and bounce him again, however Ethan comes over and says, "Alex I'll take him, go make the little one a bottle real quick, might calm him down some." I hand him over to Ethan and go to make a bottle...but fucking mistake, little one cries even more. "Daddy! Come back!" My sweet boy shreaked, I should've-..."Daddy!" Replayed quickly. He called me Daddy? He's actually warming up to me here instead of just at school. I finish heating the bottle quickly, take him and sit down to try to feed him but he just cuddles close to me. I move my hand to his back to try to hold him still but my poor little guy was shaking. What was wrong? "Buddy it's okay, what's wrong?" I sit him up a bit and rub his back as gently as I can. He just pointed at Ethan. "What about him kiddo? I need words baby." I tell him, I had watched Ethan, he was just rocking him gently and trying to calm him down, he didn't say anything or do anything. "Scary!" I look at Ethan who looks just as confused, however we decide to let it go for now. I manage to wiggle the warm bottle into his mouth as Ethan takes a seat next to me on the couch. After a bit of the warm angel milk he started to fall asleep again. I gently messed with his hair and took him upstairs to the nursery. Ethan followed me upstairs, whispering about our sweet little Lucca and why he was crying. "I don't know what happened, he just kept screaming and crying, you know I wouldn't do anything to make him scared of me..." Ethan said. Of course I know he wouldn't, man has the patience of AND kindness of 100 golden retrievers. "He's never really met you before, it was my fault for handing him to you. Don't worry about it babe." I tell him as I carefully lay Lucca in the swinging bassinet for littles. I still can't believe they actually make these in his size but I'm not complaining. I grab a super soft Winnie the Pooh onesie and a new pull up for him. "That just a precaution or?" I hear Ethan's voice say as I carefully take Lucca's pants off, hoping he won't wake up. "Yeah, I just don't wanna risk anything, as far as I know he hasn't had any accidents." I take his shirt off, holding my breath the whole time. He stirs a bit but other than that I manage to get him completely redressed and in his onesie. I kiss his forehead once before lightly pushing the bassinet and making it swing back and forth. We both leave the room as quietly as can be and sneak to our room. "Go take a fucking shower before you get in bed. Also I need to talk to you about something once you get out. " "Alright alright...you wanna get in with me?" "No thanks, I love you but you stink babe. Not much but definitely don't smell good." He just smiled, nodded and left to go grab some clothes. I sit on our bed, staring intently at the baby monitor in Lucca's nursery. I hope he's on board with staying with me and Ethan. I don't know how she did it but his social worker already had all of his papers ready to go. I snap out of my thoughts when Ethan gets out of the shower and into bed next to me.
"We can keep him, right?"