Hey guys, here's the next chapter! Thank you to all who reviewed, it makes me really happy to see you all liked the start of the story and gives me the motivation to continue.
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29th December 2005
The front door to the cosy two-story house swung open as Kendall barged through, eagerly anticipating his parents behind him. He was trying to be helpful, taking their coats from them, putting them on the hooks and promptly closing the door once everyone in the small family was finally inside.
"Welcome home, Logie!"
William smiled at his eldest as he brought the child carrier into the living room. Kendall raced passed Jennifer and plopped himself on the floor beside the carrier, gently clutching the sides and peering over at the sleeping face of his baby brother.
The one thing he couldn't understand was just how much Logan slept. It was crazy! He slept more than he was awake and Kendall knew he had been born recently, which must take a lot out of you, but he wanted to play with him.
"Logie...Logie...are you gonna wake up soon? We need to play together and I need to start teaching you stuff."
"Kendall, don't do that," Will admonished as he watched his son subtlely rocking the carrier back and forth in an effort to try and wake the sleeping baby, "he's sleeping, don't wake him up."
"But he sleeps all the time, Daddy! I want to show him how to play on the slide and how to ride on my tricycle and lots of the other cool things that we can do together! If he would wake up, I could teach him!"
"Kendall, baby, do you think Logan would be able to do those kind of things?" Jennifer asked, taking him up onto her lap so that he was facing her.
"Uhuh," he replied, nodding his head so hard that his bangs fell in front of his eyes. He blew out a big breath afterwards, trying to get the strands of hair back in their proper place.
Jennifer chuckled lightly and swept the blonde locks back into their normal place. "Logan is a baby, sweetheart, he's too little to do any of those things right now. Do you really think he could climb up the slide or pedal a tricycle? You only learnt how to do that last year. Babies need lots of sleep, it's how they grow. And Logan needs to be bigger before he can do any of those things."
"But then how do I play with him? If he can't play anything like that, then I can't play with him at all!"
"You play games that a baby can understand. You can play peek-a-boo and tickle him to make him giggle. As he gets older, that's when you can play more big boy games with him. Can you do that?"
Kendall smiled triumphantly. "Of course! I am the bestest big brother ever and I'll play with Logie all the time, but only the games that he can play because he's a baby."
"That's my good boy."
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11th April 2006
"Hi, Logie!" a newly turned 4-year-old Kendall beamed down at his brother in his crib. The baby looked back up at him with big brown eyes and a big, gummy smile. He kicked his little legs at hearing his brother's voice and gurgled loudly.
"You want to get up, huh? Well I think Mommy and Daddy will be coming in soon and even though I am now a really big boy because I'm four, I'm not tall enough to take you out." As it was, Kendall was on his tiptoes, clutching the bars of the wooden crib just to see in through the side, there would be no way that he could reach in over the top and get Logan out.
Kendall grovelled to himself for a moment as his short stature compared to his parents, but was broken out of it when Logan stuck his hand through, gripped his pyjama shirt and pulled it towards him.
"Logie, I already told you I can't get you out!" Kendall stated matter of factly, but Logan didn't let go and instead used all of his meagre strength to pull himself up so that he was sitting face to face with his big brother. He paused for a second, wobbling, and Kendall was afraid that he might fall down again and hurt himself, but after a minute or two he righted himself.
A big giggly grin met Kendall's own smile as Logan looked to him, as if he were saying 'look at what I just did.'
Will and Jennifer Knight made their way down the hallway, blinking the sleep away from their eyes. Having Logan now meant that Kendall wasn't always coming into their room at goodness-knows-what-time, but instead went in and sat with his little brother until he too woke up. But they couldn't leave the little ones too long, no doubt Kendall would end up actually trying to climb in if they were too long in coming, if finding Kendall piling plushies up beside the crib like a ladder just last week was anything to go by.
However, that morning was different. When they entered the room, they stopped abruptly. Today, Kendall wasn't looking down at his brother lying in the crib. No, he was sitting beside him because Logan was sitting up.
"Oh my goodness," Jennifer said under her breath, bringing a hand to her mouth, "Will, get the baby book," she turned to her husband, "get the book! Our baby is sitting up all by himself!"
Will didn't need any more prompting and dashed off back to their own bedroom to find the little red book where they documented every milestone that Logan reached.
"Mommy! Logie did it all himself, he just gripped my shirt and sat up!" Kendall exclaimed excitedly, very proud of his little brother, his Logie, for achieving something that he hadn't been able to do before. Now Kendall would be able to talk to Logan face to face, rather than up above him. He could teach him patty cake!
"I know, and what a clever little boy he is," Jennifer cooed as she walked over to the crib beside Kendall and stroked Logan's cheek, causing the baby to flap his arms and gurgle back at his mother's voice.
"But," she started, "he did it when you were here and you know what that means?"
"What?" the little boy asked curiously.
"He did it because of you, because he knows you're his big brother and he adores you. You're his favourite brother."
"I'm his only brother," Kendall replied confused.
"Yes," she nodded, "but out of any others on this planet, he would pick you any day. I'm so proud of you too, sweetheart."
Kendall beamed, hugging her quickly before his father came back into the room, the desired book in his hands. He passed it to Jennifer, picking Kendall up and whirling him around like an aeroplane.
He really liked being Logan's favourite brother.
Even if he was the only one.
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