After the amazing wedding day, everyone went their separate ways. Most families went to the airport to catch a flight home, a few families drove home, and Liz, Marshall, and Nick walked with the Connelys to their apartment. While they walked, Louis introduced August to his brothers and roused up good conversation. August immediately liked Louis' brothers and enjoyed talking with them.

"So you're almost 12, kid?" Nick asked.

"Yup. On December 17th."

"Cool. 12's a good age." Marshall added, joining into the conversation.

"Yeah." Nick confirmed Marshall's statement.

Marshall and Nick were really nice to August and he was really glad that they were his uncles. Before they left, they gave August a wonderful present...

"Hey, August, so do you like animals?" Nick asked August randomly.

"Yeah, I really love them."

"Do you like cats?"

"I guess. I hear about them at school and they sound really cute and playful."

"Good, because we got you a kitten that we thought you'd love." Marshall let out the secret.

"Whoa! No way! Wh-" August exclaimed. He was interrupted by Nick.

"She's from a really great animal shelter. She's 2 months old and she's in your room. She-" Nick didn't even need to finish his sentence because August was already racing to his bedroom to see his new "baby".

From the living room of the apartment, Marshall, Nick, Louis, Lyla, and Liz could hear August talking to his new pet.

"Thanks, bros," Louis said. "I can already tell he loves her."

August came out of his room with his kitten lovingly in his arms. She was tiny and light brown with orange and dark-brown tortoiseshell markings.

"What are you going to name her?" Lyla asked.

"I don't know, maybe..." August's kitten looked at him and meowed. He smiled. "Melanie." She meowed again and tried to jump from August's arms. August bent down and let her go. Then, August took a cat toy that he had found in his bedroom and started dragging it around the room for Melanie to run after. August let Melanie have it and she clawed at it. She looked up at August and meowed. He bent down to pet her and she put her paw on his finger.

"Thank you so much, uncles." August said as he tenderly picked up Melanie and petted her as she lay in his arms. "I love her so much."

"Your welcome, kid." Nick said.

"No problem." Marshall said.

Melanie struggled again to get out of August's arms and this time, when August bent down and let her go, she ran to her litter box which was in August's room.

"Good, she's trained." Lyla said with a loving smile at Melanie.

"Well, I better go," Liz said. She got up from the chair that she was sitting in and hugged Lyla. "Bye."

"See ya, Liz," Lyla said. Liz opened the door and waved to everyone.

When she left, Marshall said, "Well, we better go, too. Our plane to San Francisco takes off in 2 hours."

Nick said to August, "Nice meeting you, kid." Then, to the newlyweds, he said, "Congrats on the wonderful wedding. Miss you all."

The brothers left with a slam of the door as August held his new kitten and smiled at her. Melanie was just what August needed to make his day by far the best in his life.

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AUTHOR'S NOTE: This chapter is dedicated to Jonathan Fan for his idea for August to meet Louis's brothers and to my sister's new kitten, Dakota, for helping me to describe Melanie.