Chapter 1: Changing Diapers
"Just how do we do this again?" Conrad queried. Holding the crying baby away from himself, his nose scrunched.
"Lay him on the table idiot!"
"I'm not an idiot!" Conrart retorted, laying the crying baby on the table, "Besides, didn't mother say something about changing diapers?"
Gwendal paled. He had forgotten the Respiratory Horror he had faced when Conrart was born. "Connie, open that diaper and he'll turn into a Resiratory Horror."
"Aw," Conrart scoffed, opening the diaper, "how bad could it be?"
That was when the smell reached his nose. Conrart immediately opened the window of the nursery and breathed the flower scented air deeply. "How could someone so small make something so stinky?"
His elder brother snorted wiping Wolfram and getting a clean diaper. "Get use to it, you're going to do this a lot more than I am because I have studying to do."
Conrart groaned mentally as Wolfram continued crying in Gwendal's arms. Conrart watched as Gwendal put on a frown and showed his front teeth.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Wolfram screamed.
"What were you trying to do?" Conrart yelled, covering his ears.
"I was trying to make him laugh!" Gwendal yelled back, "Mother used to do this when you were a baby!"
"Gwen!" Conrart protested, "He's only two weeks!"
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"Think you can do better?" Gwendal retorted, handing Wolfram to Conrart. Wolfram instantly stopped crying.
Gwendal's eyebrow twitched as he looked at his brother. "How did you do that?"
"I don't know," Conrart murmured, "I just held him and he stopped crying."
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Wolfram yelled. Conrart swore he had jumped at least ten feet into the air before he tried rocking Wolfram to sleep again.
Imagine Lady Celi's amusement when she came in the nursery later to find all her three boys sleeping together. Wolfram in Conrart's lap, whose head was lolling on Gwendal's shoulder whose own head was on Conrart's head.
Decades later...
"Yuri," said Wolfram, "just how do we...?"
"It's supposed to be like this," said Yuri, setting the little girl down and undoing her buttons.
"Actually heika..." Conrad almost intervened, but stopped when he saw that Yuri had everything under control. Respitory Horror filled the air, Eru giggled as Yuri scrunched up his nose as he removed her diaper.
"How could anyone make it smell so bad?" Wolfram asked, holding his nose.
Conrad just chuckled as Yuri cleaned Eru with baby wipes, and said, "How do you think I felt when you were born? Our brother practically left me in your room of Respiratory Horror."
"Gwendal's evil eh?" Yuri laughed softly, "Shori told me only recently how he wondered how our mother managed to do it without gagging."
"Sometimes I wonder the same thing, heika," Conrad laughed as he handed Yuri a fresh diaper. Wolfram was beat red. Conrad and Gwendal changed his diapers?
Appearances can be deceiving. Yuri wondered what Shori might say about the Respiratory Horror if he had changed his diapers.
Luckily they did not have to change Greta's.