The Hook-Up (Part Two)

Chapter 253

About two hours later Lauren turned around hearing noises from the baby monitor. It's just Zyah. She thought to herself. They're in the same room. And then she heard her son's signature tears. "Damnit." she groaned pushing herself over Bruno to get to him.

"Laurrrr..." Bruno moaned.

"I need to get to the baby." she whispered watching the dogs follow her. She stepped over sleeping children to get to her son watching him hold himself up holding onto his gorilla tightly. "What's wrong, bubba?" she asked picking him up bouncing him gently. "I feel that....what kind of diapers did your dad use?" she asked feeling the bottom of his diaper. "Not the good ones, obviously..." she talked to her son turning on the night light near her making sure she didn't wake up her nephews. She leaned down to talk to Ezra as she changed his diaper watching him smile at her. "I love you, Ezra. I love you, I love you, I love you." she said pulling him up to her chest rocking him to sleep in the one rocking chair humming to him. As he drifted back to sleep she closed her eyes starting to fall asleep to the soft heat coming through a vent mixed with the cold air near the window. In what felt like five minutes she heard her daughter start to move and make the noises she made when she was about to wake up. "Shhh, Evee. Shh..." she soothed her daughter from a distance placing Ezra in his crib exchanging babies. "Dang. Your dad really did buy the bad diapers..."

"Lauren! Laureeen! Laurreeenn!" she heard a little boy's voice. She opened her eyes seeing Njah standing next to her with his hair all over the place holding onto a blanket. "You were snorinnnggg. I can't sleeepppp."

"What time is it?" she asked him forgetting that he couldn't tell time yet.

"Too early." Njah told her flopping onto the faux bed they had made for the boys.

"Okay, okay. I'll go to bed." she told her nephew that had already fallen asleep. She placed her daughter back in the crib kissing the top of her head placing the same gorilla, but with a pink nose with Everlee turning around to go back to bed. She carefully stepped over Bruno moving back to get into the bed.

"I thought you had left me." he said pulling her back toward him.

"I just fell asleep with them." she replied closing her eyes falling asleep in his arms.

"Laurennn...." she heard Bruno whisper to her later in the morning. She squinted her eyes to see Bruno standing in jeans and a t-shirt with his hair wet and thick rimmed glasses on. "Good morning..." he smiled holding onto a plate of food.

"What time is it?" she asked.

"It's 9:30." he said sitting down on the edge of the bed.

"Did the babies eat yet?"

"They're fine. Tiara has everything taken care of." he told her.

"Well, that's what I thought until I had to change them in the middle of the night." she said smirking at him sitting up against the pillow.

"I know. I didn't get the right ones. I was in a hurry." he said putting the plate down on the table not noticing Geronimo at eye level of the food. "I can go get some of the good ones."

"I have the good ones in their bags...." she said moving her eyes to the food seeing it all gone and a trail of grease on the floor leading to a giant Geronimo devouring the sausage and bacon Bruno had brought her.

"Nooooo!" Bruno moaned seeing the dog eating them.

"It's a lost cause, Brunz." Lauren told her struggling to get up. "I have to pee." she said to him almost running to the bathroom.

"Thanks. I didn't think you did that until just now." he answered sarcastically trying to figure out how to clean up the mess the dog had made.

"I'll clean it up later!" she yelled. "I know you're freaking out..." she said looking at herself in the mirror eying the heaviness of her eyes at the same time she held onto her chest feeling the heaviness of them at the same time. "Maybe it's just because I'm not breastfeeding anymore..." she told herself reaching for her toothbrush.