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CHAPTER 3

Nick walked over to the couch with James in his arms and Baylee on his heels.

"Uncle Nick..." Baylee sighed.

"Yeah?" Nick questioned as Baylee sat next to him.

"I'm board." He complained.

"Why don't you watch some TV. You can pick the Chanel." Nick said.

Baylee picked up the remote and clicked the 'back' button. Suddenly an image of two half naked girls kissing popped on the screen.

"Shit!" Nick said moving his only free hand to cover Baylee eyes.

"Uncle Nick!! You said a bad word...again!" Baylee said.

"Right, I'm sorry...and I need to change the channel so close your eyes for me, okay?" He said.

"Okay." Baylee said as he closed his eyes under Nick's hand.

"Closed." Baylee said.

Nick grabbed the remote and changed it to a basketball game, "You can open them."

Baylee opened his eyes.

Nick looked down at Baylee, "Don't tell your parents about this either, okay?"

"Okay."

Nick took a deep breath in then let it out slowly. The night had only just begun and he was tired.

"Uncle Nick?" Baylee questioned.

"Yeah little man?" Nick replied.

"I'm bored." 

"You're bored? Uh, how can I make you... un-bored?" Nick was almost afraid to ask.

"HIDE AND GO SEEK!!" Baylee cheered.

"Ohh...sure..." Nick said relieved, that was an easy enough game.

"I hide and you seek, 'kay?" Baylee said.

"'Kay." Nick said.

"Okay you can count to a million!" Baylee said grinning.

"A million? No fuc- no way." Nick said correcting himself.

"A thousand." Baylee questioned.

"How about a hundred?" Nick said.

Baylee shrugged, "Okay."

"Okay...Now go hide!" He said.

"Close your eyes first silly!" Baylee said.

Nick chuckled, "Okay." and closed his eyes.

"COUNT!" Baylee yelled.

"OKAY! ONE...TWO...THREE...FOUR...FIVE...SIX...SEVEN...EIGHT...NINE...TEN!" Nick yelled back then stopped when James threw bottle on the ground.

"Here buddy. Chill out in your pack in thing for a while." Nick said standing and moving toward the play pen.

James didn't respond.

"You aren't counting Uncle Nick!" Baylee yelled from somewhere in the house.

"ELEVEN... TWELVE... THIRTEEN..."

"Are you eyes closed?" Baylee yelled.

"YES... FOURTEEN... FIFTEEN..." Nick lied but kept counting and placed James inside his play pen

Once Nick reached eighteen his cell phone began to ring so he stopped to answer it.

"Hello?" He asked.

"Hey Nicky, what's up?" AJ's voice asked.

"Not a lot. Just babysitting James and Baylee." Nick explained.

"How's that going?" AJ asked.

"The Baylee part is a piece of fucking cake." Nick said after looking around for Baylee.

"And the James part?" AJ asked.

"Uh... once I figured out the whole bottle thing it seemed to get better."

"Uncle Nicky!" Baylee screamed.

"TWENTY FOUR... TWENTY FIVE... TWENTY SIX..." Nick shouted out and AJ laughed.

"Shut up, man...you try taking care of these kids...Baylee's easy but James, is so damn picky..." Nick said.

"YOU STOPPED AGAIN!" Baylee screamed

"I gotta go man...I'll call you back later." Nick said.

"Alright, man. Have fun." He said then hung up.

Nick hung up and started counting again, "TWENTY NINE... THIRTY... THIRTY ONE!"

James looked up at Nick and giggled.

"Don't you start." Nick warned.

James just laughed again.

Nick sat down on the couch closed his eyes and kept counting untill he reached his goal.

"ONE HUNDRED! ALRIGHT BAYLEE NOW WHAT?" Nick called out.

Baylee didn't respond.

"BAYLEE?" Nick shouted a little louder.

Still nothing.

"BAYLEE WHATEVER THE HELL YOUR TWENTY MIDDLE NAMES ARE LITTRELL!"