Our little brother

Chapter 25

Noah's POV:

When we get home, Hunter let's me look at the big box with moving pictures! He called it a tv, I thought it was just a nice looking square they used to decorate, but then he made it light up and play pictures and sounds! He put on something called blues clues and I like it lots! Have to help the blue doggy find the blue paws, and there's a pink doggy too!! Reid is looking at it with me, and every time I find a clue I show Reid in case he didn't find it yet. When Blue goes away, Hunter comes back holding papers and a bag, and a bowl with fruit, yummy!

Hunter puts all his things down and gives Reid the bowl, and then he shares with me! He picks up two fruit and then asks me what it is, "s-silly R-reid, that's a-a nana, a-and that's sperr-ry!" (He's trying to say strawberries) I tell him, maybe he forgot. "Oh right! Thanks for telling me I couldn't remember which one was the apple." He says. "S'ok, N-noah mem-ber f-for you!" I tell him. Reid and I share the yummy fruits and Hunter puts on something called Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

Hunters POV:

Grabbing my laptop and some paperwork, I make a quick call to Nicholas to see how things are at the office. Heading to the kitchen to cut up some fruit, Reid will definitely snack on it, but I want to try and see which fruits Noah likes and which he doesn't, so far he eats anything we give him, the only problem is that he'll eat it even if he doesn't like it. Until he's comfortable enough to tell us, we'll just have to look at his expressions as he eats, although I did hear he didn't like Alexander's breakfast smoothie, I don't blame him though, they're disgusting.

Giving them the fruit, Reid quizzes Noah about the fruit and I look through some emails. I turn on the Mickey Mouse clubhouse tv show and Noah is completely hypnotized by it, he loves it and it's only played the theme song so far. I guess we'll be seeing a lot of this show.... I sigh, thinking about how this stupid Mickey Mouse theme song will be stuck in my head all day now and then get to work. Noah seems to like bananas and strawberries, keeps calling them sperrys though. He doesn't like blackberries at all, or raspberries. Reid gives all the strawberries to Noah, and eats all the blackberries and raspberries, really only sharing the banana slices. Once they finished, Reid pulls out his work and finishes it all in just over an hour, plus getting a head start for the rest of the week, honestly, smart kid problems.

I get a call from the school, an automatic voice saying that Spencer was absent in all his morning classes. I shake my head go to the kitchen and start calling him, it's almost lunch time where the hell is he? He doesn't answer but I text him a bunch, asking for just a response so I know he's okay, and he texts me back "👍🏽" rolling my eyes I text him telling him he's going to be in deep shit if he doesn't get his ass back to school now.

Noah's head starts dropping every so often, but I want him to try and stay awake until 11:30 at least before I put him down for a nap. Before a third episode can play, Reid brings out his triangle and maracas, which I look oddly at him. "Noah look do you wanna learn to play music?" Oh. That's why he got them out. Silently I thank him because this wakes Noah up a little, but also mentally throwing all the instruments out the window because the last thing I want to hear right is maracas.

Reid's POV:

I hand Noah the maracas and tell him to shake it, when he does it rattles and startles him. "No it's okay, it's supposed to make that sound, see?" I show him shaking the other maraca. His eyes open so wide they look like they'll pop, and he shakes his maraca again. He laughs and has the biggest smile on his face and I give him the other maraca so he can shake both. Hunter takes a video and tells us to say wake up Nicky and wake up Atlas in a second video, so he can play this loudly for them when they're asleep. I laugh wanting to see them wake up to this audio. I toss Hunter the triangle since he can't play music to save his life and this is the easiest instrument I own, and open my keyboarding app on the iPad. "What song should I play Noah?" I ask, and he says "M-mickey!" Obviously he chooses Mickey, I was planning on him choosing that song. Hunter closes his eyes probably annoyed but how could I deny Noah?