Regressed Matthew.
Today was a hectic day, Nick had to edit a video for Friday and it was already Thursday and so far he hadn't edited anything. He was stressed because they never missed a Friday and he couldn't let that down right now. He grabbed his laptop and made himself comfortable in his room, he scrolled through pre recorded footage, editing what he could. As he was editing a part where they had to relocate, he heard faint crying. He sat up and followed the crying, leading him to Matt's room. He lightly knocked on the door as he entered, "What's going on?" He asked as he spotted Chris rocking Matt back and forth in his arms. "He won't stop crying and he's not telling me what's wrong!" Chris shouted, obviously overstimulated with everything going on around him. " Hey, hey, hey don't yell! Look, give me him and take a breather Chris, it's going to be okay." Nick sighed, Chris nodded in agreement, he needed to take a moment and calm down. He passed Matt to Nick and left the room, Nick rocked Matthew side to side and surprisingly he calmed down. "There we go sweets, see everything is okay!" Nick smiled, "Now that you calmed down, I have to get back to editing my love." Nick tried to place Matt back into his bed, but he held onto Nick and pouted, "nuuuu!" Nick glared at the little, he couldn't waste time, he had a video to edit! "Fine. To my room then it is." He sighed.
Trying to get in a comfortable position to edit, Nick went to lay Matt down on his bed, but received cries from the younger. Matt cried, latching onto him, and digging his fingers into Nick's arms in an attempt to not be let go. "Matt please I'll pick you back up just let me sit you down so I can move the computer, okay?" Nick pleaded, however it seemed like he wasn't going to let that happen.
After many failed attempts Nick sat Matthew down and tried to work over the horrific cries coming from the other, but he just couldn't do it. At this point Nick practically gave up, "Fine, fine, fine. I get it!" Nick sighed, picking Matthew up. He sat down with Matt on his lap, allowing him to do what he felt like, Nick was just tired of fighting the little.
Matthew grabbed at Nick's hands, playing with his fingers. "Dada! Ahhh!" He excitedly shouted, pointing at an empty bottle on the floor. "Bottle?" Nick asked confused, he nodded greedily, trying to reach forward himself to get it. Nick laughed at his antics, "Sweets, my love. Poor baby." Nick cooed, reaching forward to grab it himself. He grabbed the bottle and sat up with Matt on his hip, "you have to be good baby, okay?" Nick told him, Matt nodded with a shy smile, "yes!" He giggled bouncing. Due to the height difference it was struggling enough to actually pick him up and his bouncing was making it worse. He knew Matthew couldn't help it, he got over excited sometimes and would burst into fits of energy. While Nick would agree that the little was adorable, the pain he was causing in Nick's hip was growing, "Baby calm down." Nick tried, he grabbed Matt's side to try and keep him still, but it wasn't helping. "Baby?" Nick groaned, "I might have to put you down if you keep hurting my side." Nick frowned, that sure got his attention.
Entering the kitchen Nick tried to sit Matthew down on the counter so he could rinse the bottle and Matthew began getting upset again, "aye, aye, aye, calm down. I just need to rinse your bottle babe. Don't you wanna have some milk?" He asked. Matthew nodded, "then you have to let me sit you down for a minute." Nick said, slowly backing away to get Matthew used to the feeling of sitting alone. Matthew didn't like not having the sense of security around him, but he pressed his cries down and let his caregiver make his bottle.
The whole time Nick was worried Matthew would have fallen off the counter, but to his luck Matthew didn't. He stayed still for the majority and listened to everything Nick had told him. As a reward Nick took Matthew back to his room, he crawled him in his arms, and turned every bright light off, only leaving dim night lights on. He held the bottle up to Matthews mouth and waited for him to accept the nipple, which he gratefully did. Nick awed at his little brother, poor baby was probably hungry the whole time. Matthew's baby bright blue eyes stared up at Nick as he was fed. Even though his eyes started dropping he continued to stare at Nick, giggling lightly. Nick was speechless, was Matthew really making fun of him right now? He went to look away, but felt the other shift upwards catching his attention. Matthew smiled, "love ou!" He giggled once more. Nick's heart clenched, "I love you too sweetheart." He smiled. Nick loved moments like this with his brothers, he wanted to cry at the thought that one day this would all be over.
He just wanted to stay in this moment forever.