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Chapter 25: Babysitting Misadventure
Adam nodded his head as he listened to Kelly rattle off things about Mickey. It was stuff he already knew. He knew how to make a bottle and how to change a diaper. Mickey was drinking juice as well as milk. He also knew who to call incase of emergencies.
"Kelly, it's ok he know what to do," Luke said.
"Yeah, and if anything happens I know who to call. I mean I've got a doctor living down the street," Adam said.
"Don't even joke about that," Kelly said shaking her head.
"We'll take care of her," Adam said as he shifted Mickey in his arms as she got a bit squirmy.
"Kelly don't worry we'll only be a few house down, we'll check in on them and everything," Kendall said.
"Ok, we'll be back around ten," Kelly said looking at Mickey. She moved closer and gave her daughter a kiss on the forehead. She turned to Luke and they left. Just then Jake came down the stairs with his phone pressed between his ear and shoulder as he talked. He was putting his jacket on as he talked. He looked at Kendall and James who were looking at him.
"I'll be back by curfew," Jake said to them.
"Eleven," James said.
"Got it," Jake said nodding his head. "I wasn't talking to you…yes I am on my way now," Jake said into his phone as he walked out the door.
Adam turned to James and Kendall, who were looking at him. Adam knew they were probably going to lecture him too. He really hoped they wouldn't since he had just gotten on from Kelly.
"We'll be back around nine," James said. Adam arched his eyebrow waiting for more, but it never came.
"Ok then, we'll be here," Adam said. Kendall and James left leaving Adam and Cooper alone with Mickey.
"Oh my god we're alone," Cooper said.
"Relax, I've got a way to keep her busy for a bit," Adam said. He walked towards the living room. "Bring her diaper bag," he told Cooper. Cooper nodded his head and grabbed the bag. He followed Adam into the living room. Adam turned to Cooper.
"What?" Cooper asked.
"Get her blanket out," Adam said. Cooper dug out a pink blanket with green frogs on it. Adam took it and set the blanket on the floor and set Mickey on it. He sat down in front of her. "Mickey this is Cooper," Adam said looking at Mickey. Mickey looked up at Cooper with a smile showing off her teeth. "Say hi, Coop," Adam said.
"Hi Mickey." Cooper said sitting down next to Adam. Mickey smiled.
"Coo," she said.
"Wow, she learned your name fast," Adam said.
"Sort of," Cooper said.
"Mickey let's show Cooper the game I taught you," Adam said holding his hands up to Mickey. Mickey lifted her hands as well.
"Game?" Cooper asked.
"Yeah, I taught her pat-a-cake last time we were together, let's see if she remembers," Adam said scooting closer to Mickey. Adam held his hands up. "Come on Mickey," he said. Mickey held her hands up as well. Adam started playing pat-a-cake with her.
Cooper sat down next to Adam and watched the two. Mickey was basically just hitting Adam's hands over and over and clapping when Adam clapped his hands. Adam laughed and smiled at Mickey who seemed pleased with what she was doing.
"Wow, you seem to know what you're doing," Cooper said.
"Hardly, this will only keep her busy for a few more minutes," Adam said shaking his head. "Look in her diaper bag and see if Kelly brought any of her movies," he said. Cooper nodded his head and started looking through the bag.
"We have a few Dora movies, a Diego movie, and Franklin," Cooper said.
"Grab a Dora movie. She loves that," Adam said. Cooper nodded his head. He grabbed one of the Dora movies stood up. He walked over to the DVD player and put the movie in. Adam grabbed Mickey. "Mick, wanna watch Dora?" Adam asked. Mickey's face lit up.
"Doe-wa?" she asked. Adam nodded his head. He moved to sit on the couch with Mickey in his lap. Cooper played the DVD and sat down next to Adam. Mickey climbed over Adam's leg and sat down on Cooper. Cooper looked down at her shocked.
"I think that means she likes you," Adam said. Cooper smiled as he looked down at Mickey who was watching Dora.
-Landslide-
Carlos made his way to the living room with three glasses of soda and one glass four glasses of soda. Kendall and James were over visiting for a bit. They had spent the last hour talking about the good old days and about Big Time Rush. They had someone how drifted to the kids.
"Adam and Cooper are baby sitting," Kendall said as Carlos walked into the living room. Carlos set the drinks on the table and sat down on the arm of the armchair where Logan was sitting. Kendall and James were on the couch together.
"Who?" Carlos asked curiously.
"Mickey," Kendall said.
"Kelly's daughter," James added. Carlos nodded his head.
"How'd you talk Kelly into that?" Logan asked.
"It was easy, I mean Adam's had some experience with kids and he and Cooper are gonna have to learn soon," Kendall said.
"They will have their own come August," James said.
"You you just threw them to the dogs?" Logan asked.
"It's just Mickey as we'll check up on them later," Kendall said.
"Just Mickey? Do you remember how bad Jake was at that age," Logan asked.
"No because they had Adam when Jake was that age," Carlos said shaking his head, "were left to watch him, remember," he asked.
"Oh god, remember the first time we baby sat him and Adam?" Logan asked laughing.
"Which time? You mean after the wedding when we were stuck with them for a week and half, or right before the wedding when Kendall and James took off," Carlos asked.
"The second one, that was really the first time we were left alone with them," Logan said.
"We did not take off, we just went to my moms so we could sleep," Kendall said.
"How old were they?" Logan asked.
"I think Jake was almost two and Adam almost one," Carlos said nodding his head.
"They left us," Carlos said looking at the door shocked. He had just told Kendall and James he and Logan would watch the boys so they could sleep. The two had agreed and told them what to do and left.
"In all fairness you did offer to baby sit," Logan said looking over at his boyfriend.
"I know, but I said so they could sleep," Carlos said.
"They're probably heading over to Mrs. Knight's new apartment so they can sleep without any interruptions. I mean they've got a lot on their plates with Jake and Adam, and then they've got the wedding coming up," Logan said.
"Ok, so what do we do now?" Carlos asked.
"Well for starters I'd stop Jake from trying to pull the table cloth off the table," Logan said looking past Carlos. Carlos whipped around and saw Jake tugging on the table cloth. There was a vase with flowers on top as well as a few glasses over water.
"Jake no," Carlos said walking over to the small child. He grabbed Jake's hands and freed his grasp from the table cloth. Jake looked up at Carlos ad his lip quivered.
"M sowee," Jake said.
"It's ok sweetie, come on let's go play with your toys," Carlos said picking Jake up and bringing him over to the corner where his toys were. Adam was sitting with the big red fire truck making it roll back and forth. It occupied his time and he was quiet. Carlos set Jake down to play with his toys. Jake had other ideas. He ran over to Adam and grabbed the truck.
"Mine," He said clutching the truck to him. Adam looked up at his older brother his lip quivering.
"Jake," Logan said walking over to Jake. Adam started to cry and hold his hands out to the truck.
"Mine," Jake said again hugging the truck close.
"That wasn't very nice, Adam was playing with the truck," Logan said taking the truck away from Jake. Jake whined and held his hands out to the truck. "No, you were being mean to your brother," Logan said. He gave the truck back to Adam who started to play with it happily. Logan turned to Jake who was glaring at Adam. "If you can't be nice then you're gonna have to go into time out," Logan said picking Jake up. He grabbed the chair from Jake and Adam's play set and walked over to the wall.
"Logie, you have to be so harsh," Carlos said.
"He's gotta learn a lesson, it's what James told us to do when he gets like this," Logan said as he set Jake down in the chair.
"He's only two," Carlos said.
"James said two minutes in the chair when he doesn't want to share or is being mean to Adam, and he was doing both," Logan said.
"He's only two," Carlos said
"I know, all the more reason to teach him early that he can't keep getting away with this," Logan said.
"Fine," Carlos said rolling his eyes. Logan looked down at his watch and turned back to Jake.
"Sit here, until I say otherwise you'll have to sit longer," Logan said.
"M sowee," Jake said looking up at Logan with his big green shining with unshed tears. Logan sighed and shook his head. He walked over to the couch to sit and watch Jake.
"Logie, he's only two," Carlos said again.
"I am just doing what James told me to do," Logan said firmly. Carlos sighed and turned his attention to Adam. Adam was playing with the fire truck again.
Logan eventually let Jake out of his time out and Jake ran over to the toy box and grabbed a toy to play with. He stayed away from Adam though. He would send glare at his brother though.
"I don't get why he doesn't like Adam," Carlos said to Logan as they watched the two.
"I don't know either," Logan said shaking his head. Over the months since Adam's birth Jake seemed to get a bit mean. He was always mean to Adam and taking toy away from him. He even hit Adam once.
Soon it was time for Dinner. Logan and Carlos both grabbed a kid and brought them to their high chairs. They set them both down and Logan got mashed peas for Adam while Carlos got a fruit cup for Jake. Carlos opened the cup and gave Jake a spoon. Jake had been learning to feed himself and was happy he could eat on his own.
Logan saw down in front of Adam and started to feed him. Everything seemed to be going fine. Carlos was heating up some hot pockets for himself and Logan and the boys were eating.
A piece of fruit hit Adam on the side of the head. Adam looked over at the fruit. Logan looked over at Jake who was using his hands to eat the fruit.
"Jake, no throwing your food," Logan said taking the fruit and tossing it away. He turned back in time to see Jake launch his whole fruit cup at Adam. The cup hit Adam on the side of the head and Adam started crying as the juice from the cup got in his eyes.
"Jake," Carlos said shocked. Logan moved to pick up Adam. He grabbed a napkin and started to clean his face off and look for any sign of a bump as Adam wailed.
"M sowee," Jake said looking at Carlos with his big green eyes.
"Your supposed to eat the food not throw it," Carlos said.
"I'm gonna give him a bath," Logan sighed. Carlos nodded his head. Logan left with Adam to give him a bath and get him cleaned up.
"I remember that whole night we spent telling Jake to leave Adam alone," Logan said shaking his head.
"Yeah that and Jake constantly apologizing and give up those big puppy eyes of his," Carlos said laughing.
"Jake was so jealous back then," James said shaking his head. "It didn't help that you let him get away with everything," he said looking at Kendall.
"Boy will be boys," Kendall said waving his hand. He then looked down at his stomach. "That's why this one has got to be a girl," he said.
"We'll find out next week," James said nodding his head.
"So, I take it you want a girl then," Carlos said looking at Kendall.
"Yeah, it'd be easier than another boy," Kendall said nodding his head.
"I wouldn't really know if one or the other is easier, we've got two girls," Logan said.
"It's all we need," Carlos said placing his hand over Logan's hand.
"It's not like we planned on so many kids," Kendall said, "the only pregnancy we planned was the twins and we only wanted one," he said. James nodded his head in agreement.
"Yeah, but you love your kids," Logan said.
"All five of them," Kendall said placing a hand on his stomach. He smiled at the thought of his baby. The further he got on in the pregnancy the happier he got. He was almost eager to have his baby now.
-Landslide-
Jake ran up to the mall and to the theater. He knew Damien was here. He had been a little short with him on the phone. Jake spotted Damien standing over by the small games they had in the theater for kids before the movie started.
"Jake," Damien said walking over to him.
"Sorry, I'm late," Jake said noting that Damien didn't greet him with the quick peck he usually did when they were on dates.
"I've got a problem," Damien said slowly. He looked over his shoulder quickly before looking at Jake again.
"What?" Jake asked.
"Well when I got home today my aunt and uncle were there," Damien said.
"You're not cancelling on me. I mean I did drive all the way here," Jake said.
"No, no," Damien said quickly.
"Day-day are we gonna go see the movie now?"
"Is this your boyfriend?"
"Day-day?" Jake asked as he looked down and saw two little curly brunettes at his sides. They both looked a lot like each other, except their clothes. One looked a bit more tomboyish in a t-shirt and jeans and the other looked a bit girly with a tank top and skirt.
"Jake meet my eleven year old cousins Marissa and Clarissa," Damien said pointing to each as he said their names. "Girls this is Jake," he said pointing at Jake.
"Oh, hi," Jake said smiling at the two.
"I'm Marissa," the tomboy one said.
"I'm Clarissa," the girly one said.
"It's nice to meet you," Jake said smiling at the two girls.
"Hey, one more game and we'll go," Damien said holding a dollar out to each girl. They both snatched a dollar and ran from Damien. "I am so sorry about this," he said.
"You got roped into babysitting?" Jake asked.
"Yes and it sucks, you can leave if you wanna we're just gonna see some lame unicorn princess rainbow thing," Damien said.
"Well we can go, but we don't have to watch, I mean the girls can sit a row ahead of us, they're old enough, and it's not like we'll be that far away," Jake said.
"God I like the way you think," Damien said smiling.
"Did you buy the tickets already?" Jake asked. Damien nodded his head and held up four tickets. "Ok then I'll buy snacks and we can go," Jake said.
"Maris, Cris," Damien called out to the two. They both looked over at Damien and held up one finger signaling they were almost done. They finished their games and ran over to the Damien.
"Are you gonna watch the movie with us, Jake?" Marissa asked. Jake nodded his head.
"Yep, we're gonna get some snacks and go get our seats," Jake said.
"I want candy," Marissa said.
"Me too," Clarissa.
"Let's get in line then," Jake said. The four of them walked over to the concession stand and got in line. Jake bought the girls the candy, popcorn, and soda, combo and bought him and Damien a large popcorn to share and sodas. They then headed to the theater. Clarissa and Marissa sat a row a head of Jake and Damien. Jake and Damien settled into their seats. Eventually the movie started and Marissa and Clarissa were absorbed in the movie.
"I am sorry about this," Damien whispered.
"It's alright."
"We're watching a kid movie about a unicorn princess with my two little cousins," Damien said looking at Jake.
"So things didn't turn out like I had hoped, but at least we're together," Jake said as he rested his head on Damien's shoulder. Damien turned his attention to the screen. He knew making out with Jake would be hopeless. There were more people in the theater then he had though would be there, plus most of them were kids. He put his arm around Jake and settled in for the movie.
-Landslide-
"A-gin," Mickey clapped her hands as she repeated herself.
"No, Mickey that's enough Dora," Adam said shaking his head.
"Doe-wa," Mickey whined.
"No Dora," Adam said. He looked up to the door way as Cooper walked into the living room with a sippy cup of juice. "Look Mickey, want some juice?" Adam asked. Cooper walked over to them and held the cup out to Mickey. Adam opened his mouth to ask Cooper if the lid was on tight when Mickey started shaking the cup and juice spilled form it all over Adam and Mickey.
"The cover was on tight I swear," Cooper said.
"This isn't a no spill cup," Adam said. Cooper grabbed the cup.
"Sorry, it was the only one in her bag," Cooper said apologetically.
"I know I don't blame you," Adam said. He stood up and held Mickey out to Cooper who awkwardly took her from Adam. "Change her clothes while I go change my shirt," Adam said.
"What?" Cooper asked.
"There should be a change of clothes in the diaper bag," Adam said.
"You want me to change her?" Cooper asked.
"Yeah, it's not rocket science, now I'll be right back," Adam said as he walked out of the room.
Cooper looked down at Mickey and set her down on the blanket Adam had laid out earlier and moved to the diaper bag. He dug around and found some clothes. He pulled them out and turned around. Mickey was gone.
He heard footsteps in the hallway and jumped up. He ran out to the hallway and saw Mickey heading down the hall. He walked over to her and picked her up.
"Oh no you don't," Cooper said shaking his head. He brought her back to the living room. She grabbed the clothes and sat down on the floor with her. He took her, shoes, pants, and shirt off. He set them aside and grabbed the clean shirt. He got her head in but she started waving her arms and whining. "Come on, let me put your shirt on," he said. Mickey just squirmed.
Adam returned to the room and saw Cooper struggling with Mickey's shirt. Adam walked over to him. He sat down beside him and grabbed Mickey's arm and got it into the right hole. He then did the other.
"Thanks," Cooper said. He grabbed the pants and put them on her as well.
"Yeah, get her shoes," Adam said. He grabbed a shoe as well. They both grabbed a foot and put her shoes on.
"There all better," Cooper said smiling. Adam nodded his head. He pecked Cooper on the cheek.
"I told you we could do this," Adam said looking around the living room. In the last few hours they had played games with Mickey and had to chase her around. The place was a mess and there was still spilled juice on the coffee table.
"Yeah, I'm just making this up as I go. I have no idea what I am doing," Cooper said.
"That's what parenting is."
Adam and Cooper both jumped and turned around. They saw Kendall and James standing in the doorway.
"What happened here?" Kendall asked looking around the room.
"Tornado Mickey," Adam said looking at Mickey as she ran over to James and Kendall. She held her arms up to Kendall. James bent over and picked her up. She made grabby hands at Kendall. Kendall smiled and took her from James.
"Hey Mickey," Kendall said smiling at the little girl. Adam and Cooper stood up and sat down on the couch together.
"Ok dad, I get the point, Cooper and I aren't ready for this, but we'll work on it," Adam said tiredly.
"Yeah," Cooper nodded his head.
"Good, because once your daughter is here you can't give her back at the end of the night," Kendall said as he looked at Mickey who was giggling.
"I know," Adam yawned. He knew Kendall wanted him to have a duaghter and Adam often referred to his baby as a girl anyways. He was really hoping it was a girl too.
"She's gonna take up a lot of your time," James said.
"She'll cry and need to be changed and you'll have to feed her," Kendall said.
"It's gonna be hard work."
"You can't push her off on others either. She will be your responsibility."
"Sometimes you'll want to scream."
"But, you'll love her and she'll mean the world to you," Kendall said looking at Mickey. He was thinking about his own possible daughter now. He wished she could get her soon.
"Ken," James said. Kendall looked at James. James pointed to the couch. Adam and Cooper had fallen asleep.
"Wow, she tired them out," Kendall said. James nodded his head. He walked over to the couch and woke the two up.
"Go on up to bed I'll clean up and we'll watch Mickey until Kelly and Luke get here," James said. Adam and Cooper nodded their heads. They both left and James turned to Kendall. Kendall walked over to the couch and sat down with Mickey.
"You're a handful aren't you, little missy," Kendall asked.
"Keep her busy I'll clean up," James said. He started to pick things up and put them back in their places. He cleaned up the mess that was the living room and walked over to the couch and sat down next to Kendall.
"I think we should have them take a class or something," Kendall said.
"Yeah, it'll help them," James said nodding his head.
-Landslide-
Jake walked out of the theater with Damien, Marissa, and Clarissa. The twins were complaining about being hungry. Damien was getting annoyed with them.
"Why don't we just go to the food court before we leave and get some pizza," Jake said. The twins both jumped at the idea. Damien looked over at Jake.
"Fine," Damien said knowing the twins would rat him out for not feeding them. The four of their made their way to the food court. Marissa and Clarissa running ahead. Jaker laughed at their eagerness.
"So, Day-day did you like the movie?" Jake asked grinning.
"Don't," Damien said his face going red.
"I think it's cute that they call you that," Jake said laughing.
"I don't," Damien said.
"Lilly and Layla used to call me Jakey," Jake said smiling.
"Jakey?" Damien asked an eyebrow arched. Jake nodded his head. "I like the sound of that," he said.
"Don't you dare," Jake said knowing where Damien was going with it. Damien just laughed and shook his head. They arrived at the food court and got some pizza. Damien paid and the four of them sat down at a table.
"This was fun," Marissa said.
"Yeah, thank you Day-day, thank you Jake," Clarissa said.
"You don't have to thank me," Jake said quickly.
"But you do, you were nice to us and put up with us," Marissa said.
"His other boyfriends aren't always nice," Clarissa said.
"Shut up," Damien said glaring at his cousins.
"The only one who was nice to us was Adam," Marissa said. Damien opened his mouth but Clarissa cut him off.
"We know, he was only a friend," Clarissa said smiling.
"Adam's my brother, that's how Damien and I actually got to know one another," Jake said. Damien nodded his head smiling at that. The four of them sat there talking for a bit. Marissa and Clarissa seemed nice and Jake was glad he agreed to stay with Damien and help watch them.
-Landslide-
James and Kendall both settled into the now clean living room. Mickey was sleeping in her playpen. They were just waiting on Kelly and Luke to pick her up. They were also waiting for the other three to get home. They had given them an extended curfew. They heard the front door open. James walked out to the hallway. Jake was tossing his jacket in the closet.
"Oh hey pops," Jake said once he saw James. He was smiling and seemed happy about something.
"How was you're date?" James asked.
"Great, odd, but great," Jake said.
"What do you mean odd?" James asked. Jake walked down the hall to talk to him better.
"Well Damien got roped into babysitting his cousins, so we had to sit through that new unicorn movie, but afterwards we went for pizza," Jake said.
"Unicorn movie?" James asked.
"That kid one, his cousins are like eleven, but I don't really remember the movie much," Jake said smiling, more to himself than to James.
"Cause that's what I wanna hear my son say," James said.
"Sorry, but you didn't think I actually wanted to watch the movie did you?" Jake asked arching an eyebrow at James. The door opened and Leora and Kyle walked into together. They were laughing.
"Kyle, Leora could you two come here a minute," James said. Jake took that as he cue to leave. He made his way up stairs to his bedroom. Kyle and Leora looked at one another. They knew they had been busted. They walked down to the living room and joined James and Kendall. Mickey was in her playpen in the corner laying down sleeping.
"Hey, so what's up? Is this cause we're just getting in? You guys said we could stay out late remember?" Kyle asked.
"This isn't about that," James said.
"What is it about then?" Leora asked.
"You know what it's about," Kendall said.
"Well you didn't really give us much choice," Kyle said. Kendall and James both turned to Kyle giving him a 'you've got to be kidding me' look. Kyle shrunk back. "It was her idea," he said pointing at Leora.
"We have rules set in place for a reason," James started.
"Look, we're not you guys, we're not gonna make the same mistakes as you," Leora said.
"The fact that Adam is already pregnant really weakens you're argument," Kendall said his arms crossed over his chest.
"Look, we're gonna date whether or not you like it," Kyle said.
"Fine, but there are going to be rules," James said.
"Fine, what are they," Leora asked.
"We have to meet whoever you are dating," Kendall said.
"Fair enough," Kyle said grinning.
"You're only saying that because they know Lilly," Leora said shaking her head.
"You've got to be home by nine," Kendall said.
"Ok, sounds fair," Leora said.
"If you are late you will be grounded," James said.
"If you lie about dating you will be grounded," Kendall said.
"Fine, fine anything else," Kyle asked looking as Kendall and James. Kendall and James looked at one another before grinning.
"No movie dates, until you're seventeen at least," James said.
"What that is so unfair," Kyle said.
"Unless," Kendall said cutting of Leora's protest.
"Unless we're there," James said. Kyle and Leora gaped at the two. "Take it or leave. Just know that if we find out you lied about a date again you'll be grounded, got it?" James asked. The two nodded their heads.
"Bed," Kendall said pointing to the stairs. The two nodded again and ran up the stairs. Kendall smiled and turned to James.
"I think that should stop them for a bit," James said.
"A little bit," Kendall said nodding his head. He yawned and stretched.
"Go on up to bed, I'll wait for Kelly," James said. Kendall nodded his head and headed up stairs.
Ok so I've taken what you guys have said into consideration. I will try to do some more Cargan and some more Jamien. That seems to be what most of you wanted. Also I will keep up with Cadam and KAmes. I may lay off the others a bit though. They will still have thier parts in this though. Just let me know waht you think in a review.
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