Our little brother

Chapter 67

Hunters POV:

I look down at Noah, with his huge innocent smile on his face. "What's got you so happy?" I ask him. "Aaron m-mommy say give looootttsssss hugs a-and kissies!" He tells me, and I smile down at him. "Lots of kisses you say? You better run then." Bellamy says wiggling his fingers at Noah, who's eyes widen. Giggling, he makes a run for it, but doesn't get far, being scooped up by Bellamy. "Mwah mwah mwah mwah!" Bellamy says exaggerating his kisses. "What did he bring for dinner?" Reid whispers to me and I have to stop my laugh from escaping me. Were they not just all in here eating snacks? How is he already thinking dinner? "Is everyone already ready to eat dinner?" I ask, and the five teenagers all whip their heads to me. "Yes! I'm starving!" Alex says. "Same." Sebastian says after him. "Me too!" Spencer and Aaron both say, while Reid bashfully smiles at me, obviously excited to eat dinner right now, at 4:00pm on a Friday, usually they can manage to wait until 6:30 for dinner.

After their early dinner, Hunter took over the job of washing dishes, letting the boys go continue the twin weekend plus everyone or whatever they were calling it. Their options were limited, since they were all grounded, but Bellamy was with them so he'd make sure they weren't up to anything they weren't suppose to be doing. "So when are we talking to Alex? Should we talk to him alone? All of them together or separately? Should we talk to him alone first and then with everyone?" Nick rambled on, still stressed about what Sophie had done earlier. "We should talk to him separately first, or at least bring it up, and give him the option if he'd like to talk with everyone around. Either way we're telling all of them, but since he heard it from her first, he should get the choice." Atlas says and I agree. "I'll go grab him, see what he wants to do, it's better to do it now than to let him sit on it." I say heading upstairs.

When I get upstairs, I find Bellamy and Alex facing off in a push up match. Reid sits on Alex's back and Aaron on Bellamy, obviously not a fair match, but Noah is cheerfully counting for them as Spencer and Sebastian timing. "Doing more pushups than a teenager isn't exactly an accomplishment Bellamy." I say rolling my eyes at him. "He's a cop, he's supposed to be fit for like chasing criminals and stuff, but he's already breaking a sweat!" Alex says determined to beat him. Falling flat on his stomach, Bellamy gives up. "Chasing criminals? Is that what you think I do all day at work?" Bellamy asks and I shake my head at them. "L-Lex win! Lex win!" Noah says jumping up and down. "Noah t-turn please!" He says lying down and doing some weird snake movement. "H-how do?" He asks not knowing how to do a push-up. "Bellamy can teach you how, I need Alex for a bit okay? And when he comes back, then you can show him how strong you are." I tell Noah who nods, muttering that he's gonna be stronger than Alex. Alex follows me out, walking slowly, and I slow my pace to match his.

"What do you need?" He asks nervously as we walk down the stairs. "We just wanted to talk to you, I know I said earlier that we can talk when you're ready but—" I say but he cuts me off. "I'm not ready." He says quickly and panicked, so I stop us from walking further. "Okay, I just—we do need to talk about it, because I don't want you dwelling on it and thinking of every worst case scenario in your head. If you'd rather Sebastian, Reid and Spencer be here too, that's fine too." I say slowly, slightly blocking his path from running back upstairs. "No!" He says, his eyes darting back and forth between me and behind my head. "I mean no, not Reid, and uh Spencer too. Maybe just Seb?" He says more calmly and I nod. "Do you want to go grab him? Or do you want me too?" I ask him. "I'll go, we'll meet you in the kitchen?" He says and I nod, letting him go. Hopefully he actually comes back with Sebastian though.

I head to the kitchen and Nick and Atlas look behind me seeing no one. "He kind of freaked a bit and so I already asked him if he wanted anyone else to be around, he only wanted Sebastian." I say and they both nod. Alex and Sebastian walk into the kitchen, and take a seat at the table with us, Alex's leg bouncing a mile a minute, nerves. He only stops when Sebastian puts his hand on his knee. "Are you still our guardian?" He blurts out, and Sebastian visibly cringes at this. It takes me a second to take in his words and I don't know how to respond.