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Night Three

Every parent knew how hard it was to raise a child, specially the infants. The mother had to take care of the baby day and night, check for any discomfort, feeding, bathing, changing diapers, etc. The father also does the same things when the mother rests, and Cross never expected to undergo the same process.

Cross let out a thread of colourful words as he stomped his feet simultaneously on the fabric he was washing.

"Father~ that is not the proper way to wash it." Baba said as he too did the laundry. Properly.

"I told you to stop calling me that!"

"And you should not smoke. The odour will stick into it."

He ignored me. Again. He thought annoyingly as another tick mark made its way out.

"Like hell I care about it!" he growled as he kept on stomping.

This went on and on until he was done with washing. He squeezed the covers one by one, threw it on the bucket, and then he carried the bucket and went to hang all the covers.

"Father~ I told you not to smoke!" Baba yelled from behind. He too was hanging the clothes.

"You never learn, do you?" Cross hissed, talking about the father thing as he hanged another cover.

"No, no father. It is you who never learn. Didn't I tell you to quit smoking? You are making the new washed clothes and covers smell like tobacco."

"Like I care about that. It's clean and that's enough."

Baba sighed as he massaged his temple. Really, Cross was giving him a headache.

After the washing the laundry, Cross went inside his room. He picked his bag up that was on the foot of the bed and fished the first aid kit out of it. He closed his bag and left it on the bed before going out of his room to Allen's. Cross didn't bother to knock on the door because he knew no one will answer, thus, he invited himself in. He sat on the bed just beside of Allen as he settled the first aid kit down.

"Let's clean your wound and change the bandages." he said and started undoing the bandages that wrapped Allen's face.

Cross' only visible eye widened. The wound was still fresh and it was unsightly yet he could tell that it was healing faster than he thought. He can barely see the form of red line and what shocked him was the inverted pentacle on Allen's forehead, just above his eyebrow. Cross was pretty sure it wasn't there when he first treated the wound.

Well, I guess he really is cursed. Cross sighed as he wrapped new bandages on Allen's face. After that, he fixed his things immediately and made his way to the door. He grabbed the knob, but before turning it to open the door he stopped to take a moment to glance at Allen. He caught the boy moved a little as he adjusted himself into a ball. He noticed that Allen's gripped on his shoulders tightened and shuddered. Cross guessed it was because of what had happen that fateful night. He wondered how long Allen will be like this and how will he get this boy back to his feet. Closing his eye, Cross left the room to prepare something for lunch.

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"How is he?" mother, reading newspaper at the guest room, asked just as Cross got out of Allen's room. They were done with their lunch and Cross went to see Allen and feed him, however...

"He doesn't feel like eating." he said and left to the kitchen.

"Didn't you feed him?"

"I tried but he kicked me out twice already. I don't know what's running in his mind now. Anyways... Can I eat now? I'm really hungry, y'know? I'll just come again and try to feed him.

"Fine."

And so... Cross helped himself and ate.

Allen didn't eat his lunch, but Cross got to feed him his dinner that night. As usual, Cross made Allen's dinner special by mixing wine on it so Allen could sleep peacefully and dreamless...

Or at least, Cross expected it to be a peaceful and dreamless night for Allen.

"UWAAAAAAAHH!"

Everyone in the house jumped out of the bed upon hearing the scream and they rushed to the source of it. There, they found Allen curled up in a ball, shaking as he clutched his head- or more like ripping his hair- and eye was dilated in fear. Cross was the first one to get to Allen's side followed by Baba and mother.

"Hey, calm down-" tapped his hand on Allen's shoulder; Cross said but was cut short when the boy flinched at the sudden contact, so he immediately got his hand off.

"Ohhh... Little Allen had a nightmare~ are you alright dear?" said Baba with worry plastered on his face as he pushed Cross a little bit hard aside who ended up planting his face on the wall. "It's okay now little Allen. Father is here to sleep with you so the nightmare won't come again~" Baba beamed and mother nodded.

"Let's leave the father and son now Baba." Cross, face still on the wall, irked at mother's statement. How dare was she to call them that?

"Oh, you are right mother! Good night little Allen! Good night father~!" and with that, the two left.

"DON'T CALL ME THAT." Cross yelled after them. Then he looked down at Allen who had yet to calm down.

"Was...was the nightmare really...that bad?"

Idiot! Why kind of a question was that?! Of course it is bad! Dammit!

Cross doesn't have an idea on how to ease the child from his nightmare or how to comfort and was really clueless at all. He thought maybe he could sleep beside Allen? Well, he felt awkward just by thinking that and probably Allen would freak out again.

"Tch. I'll just stay here for the night until you've fallen asleep, alright?" he said upon making himself comfortable on the comfy chair beside the bed and watched as Allen started to relax.

Soon, Allen fell asleep. Cross stood from his chair, walked up to Allen, and positioned the boy into a much comfortable sleeping position.

"Stay here Tim. Call me if something happens. Don't leave his side, okay?" he said to the golden golem that perched on the chair. "Good night brat." he said to the sleeping boy and went back to his room to sleep. It was already past twelve thirty and Cross was really tired, he has to wake up early tomorrow too.

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