A Little Piece of Heaven

~~~~ Dec. 24th, 2009 ~~~~

~~~~ Midnight ~~~~

I walked inside my house and set my son down on the kitchen counter while I grabbed my phone and gave Brian a call.

He answered the phone and I could tell he was about to pass out.

“We made it safe and sound. I’m gonna put him to bed then collapse myself”

“Make sure the monitor is on”

“How parental sounding of you Brian”

“Good night Jimmy”

Brian hung up on me and I just chuckled. Whether he wanted to admit it or not; that boy was going to make an awesome dad one day.

My son made a little noise so I looked down at me. He just stared up at me with his blue eyes.

“Ready for bed”

He just stared at me and blinked.

“Yeah me too”

I picked him up in his car seat and headed for the stairs. I passed the living room and stopped short.

“Wow”

The girls and guys had out done themselves this time. There was a huge tree in the living room all decorated with lights and ornaments and tinsel. There were two stockings hanging on the fireplace mantel. There was garland and red and gold bows everywhere. Lights were strung along the walls near the ceiling and they were all on for me to see. There were other misc. christmasy/wintery things all over.

“What do you think son?”

My son was just staring into the room with wide eyes.

“Yeah I feel the same way”

I left the living room and headed upstairs. I walked into my room first and dropped my bag off then walked next door into his room. I set him down on top of the changing table and set his bags down. I pulled out his pjs and a fresh diaper and put them on the table next to his car seat.

“Okay…let’s see if I can figure all of this out”

I set the car seat down on the floor and I bent down and undid the straps and picked my son up. He made a little noise and laid him down on the dressing table.

He just looked up at me.

“Stop staring at me. I know I’m gorgeous but come on, let’s not be so obvious about how much you love my good looks”

I laughed to myself and took off my son’s current outfit carefully. All the while he just stared at me. He was probably wondering who this crazy haired, tattooed man was.

“Don’t worry you’re safe with me Lil Rev”

I was about to put him into his pajamas but I stopped short.

“I should prolly change your diaper first huh?”

So I did just that. After he had a clean diaper on I put him into his pajamas and disposed of the dirty diaper into the magic genie I had. That thing was gonna be a life saver I just knew it.

I picked up my son and held him in my arms and walked around with him until his eyes started to close.

I walked over to his crib and laid him down in it like his grandparents had shown me. I covered him up with a blanket and placed a stuffed animal near his head. I turned on the sound machine and double checked to make sure the monitor was turned on and all the way up.

I walked out of his room, shutting the door softly behind me. I walked into my room and immediately turned on my monitor. I heard the music playing clearly so I made sure it was turned up all the way before I unpacked my bag and changed into a pair of shorts for sleeping in.

I crawled into my bed and promptly passed out.

~~~~ Dec. 25th, 2009 ~~~~

~~~~ 3am ~~~~

I was awoken to the sound of my son crying. I bolted out of bed and into his room. He was crying at the top of his lungs. I picked him up and tried to calm him down.

“What’s wrong buddy? Do you need a new diaper?”

I felt him but he wasn’t wet.

“Um….are you hungry?”

I put my finger up to his mouth and his little mouth closed around it and started to suck on it but he quickly started to scream even louder.

“I take that as a yes”

I made my way downstairs and into the kitchen. I turned on the light and grabbed the formula out of the pantry and set it on the counter grabbing a bottle from the cabinet. I did my best to make a bottle one handed while my son screamed at me.

“Hang on I just gotta heat this up for you”

I walked over to the microwave and turned it on. I bounced around the kitchen with him trying to get him to calm down a little bit. The microwave beeped and I took out his bottle, screwed on the cap and tested it on my arm.

“Okay I think it’s good. Not too hot.”

I held the bottle up to his mouth and he immediately started to suck on it, instantly becoming quiet.

“There we go. See I got this under control. We’re gonna be good. I’m gonna be okay at this”

I quickly realized I was reassuring myself more than him. This was my first experience with him by myself and I let him scream for so long. I should have made a bottle a head of time so that he wouldn’t have to wait.

“I’m sorry little guy. Your dad’s new at all of this”

My son just looked up at me while he sucked on his bottle. I managed to wipe away his little tears with my finger while I held his bottle for him. I started to walk into the living room and sat down on the couch.

It was then that I noticed the time and realized it was Christmas.

“Merry Christmas son”

Once he had finished his bottle I burped him and took his empty bottle to the sink before carrying him back upstairs. His eyes started to drop.

I placed him back in his crib and walked out, shutting the door behind. I went to collapse back in bed but changed my mind. I grabbed the monitor from my room and headed down to the kitchen. I cleaned up my mess and made a bunch of bottles and stuck them in the fridge. I wasn’t going to be unprepared again.

I’m going to be a good dad

After I had done that I turned off the kitchen light, grabbed the monitor and headed for bed. It didn’t take long for me to pass out again.

~~~~ 6am ~~~~

I woke up once again to my son crying. I walked over to his room to find him with one stinky diaper. I laid him down on the changing table and pulled off his pajamas and took off his diaper.

“OH MY GOD WHAT DID YOU EAT BOY!!!!????”

His diaper smelled horrible! My god I hope his poops aren’t ALWAYS this god damn smelly. I quickly dumped his diaper into the genie and wiped him up and put a fresh diaper on. Then put his pajamas back on. I looked down at him to see him almost smiling at me.

“Yeah bet you enjoyed that didn’t you”

He just waved a little fist at me and I couldn’t help but smile.

I put him back in his crib and went to wash my hands before passing out once again. I still had a few hours before Brian came over and not long after he got here everyone was coming over for our Christmas party.

~~~~ 10am ~~~~

I woke up to the sound of my phone going off. I answered it groggily.

“What?”

“Hey Jimmy get up.”

“No”

“Come on Jimmy I’m on my way over. It’s already 10 and everyone else wants to come over soon to see the new addition to the Avenged family”

I bolted upright into bed.

“It’s 10!”

“Yeah…”

Suddenly panic started to kick in. My son hadn’t woken up yet…or did he and I didn’t hear him.

“Shit”

“Jimmy?”

I was out of bed and next door in seconds. When I saw my son I reached out and touched his face. He moved a tad bit and I let out a loud sigh.

“You okay Jimmy?”

Oh crap Brian’s still on the phone

“Yeah I just had my first heart attack has a dad.”

“…do I wanna know?”

“I freaked because he hadn’t woken up in four hours but he’s good, he’s warm, and sleeping still. I’ll get changed so that I’m not in my underwear for you though you know you love it”

I could just see Brian rolling his eyes at me.

“Yeah because that’s exactly what it is. See you soon man”

I hung up the phone and looked back down at my son.

“Lucky you get to still sleep now”

I leaned over and gave my son a kiss on his forehead and went back to my room to change. I pulled on a pair of jeans and a random t-shirt. I went to the bathroom and almost screamed when I saw what my hair looked like. Then I went to the bathroom and headed back to my son’s room.

He was still fast asleep so I just left to go clean up my mess of clothes everywhere in my room. The doorbell rang soon after and I grabbed the monitor and headed downstairs to open the door. There stood Brian in a pair of his ripped jeans and a plain black v-neck with a hoodie over it.

“Hey man come in”

I stood back to let him in. Brian walked in and took of his sunglasses. He immediately saw the living room and walked towards it.

“Hot damn look at all of this”

“Yeah they outdid themselves again”

“How’d you do last night?”

“Good I think”

Brian looked at me.

“You think?”

“Yeah well first time on my own”

“You’re a new parent. You’re allowed to make your mistakes and take your time to figure it all out”

“Yeah well…”

“Come on let’s go check up on Lil Rev”

~~~~ 3pm ~~~~

I had just changed my son’s diaper…again!

It was then that I realized I needed a shower despertly.

“Hey man I need a shower. Can you watch him while I jump in real quick”

The look on Brian’s face, you would think I asked him to give up a limb.

“Um….”

“Come on I’ll be real quick. He was just changed! Pick out an outfit, dress him, and just put him in his crib or swing thing or something. I’ll be quick. Please man I’m starting to reek”

“Fine but only because I can’t stand to smell your funk anymore”

I just glared at Brian before giving my son I kiss and running for the shower.

Brian should be able to handle this

~~~~ Brian’s POV ~~~~

I looked down at Jimmy’s son who was just looking up at me.

“Guess it’s just us two for right now”

He just continued to stare at me. I looked away and walked over to his dresser and started to go through them looking for something to put him in.

“Geesh what’s with all the staring?”

I finally decided on a onesie that had Avenged Sevenfold on it and a pair of black pants. I tentatively put on his clothes.

“You good in this?”

He just looked up at me with wide eyes.

“Man your eyes are just like Jimmy’s”

I found a pair of black socks for him and put them on his tiny feet.

“Well that’s done”

Suddenly the doorbell rang.

“Um…shi….crap”

What do I do?

The doorbell rang again.

“Okay looks like I have no choice”

I carefully picked up Jimmy’s son and headed for the door. I opened it to see the hottest girl alive.

And DUH I’m talking about my girlfriend, Kaydence.

My mouth dropped open at her. She was wearing this dark red dress with a plain black coat over it. She was killing me in those heels of hers. I couldn’t help but look her up and down multiple times. She smelled amazing and wore simple jewelry and her hair was down and simple. She looked hot needless to say. And the fact that she was carrying a tray of what I knew to be her famous cookies was enough to make me want to have her right then and there.

“Woah”

Kaydence just smiled at me.

“I like woah”

“Me too”

“Can I come in?”

“Oh yeah”

I stood back to let her in and she headed straight for the kitchen where she set her tray of cookies down. I shut the front door and followed behind with lil Rev in my arms. Kaydence took of her jacket and set her clutch down on the kitchen counter. She turned around and looked at me a smile on her face.

“I see you’ve gotten over your fear of holding a baby”

“I didn’t have a choice. Jimmy needed a shower to save ALL of us and you showed up. I couldn’t just leave him up there in case something happened. So I just brought him along.”

She just smiled at me then subconsciously bit her lip.

Oh God

I knew that nervous gesture of hers. It meant that she had something she wanted to say but was too afraid to say it.

“What do you want to say Kaydence?”

“Nothing”

“Kay I know you. You bit your lip, what is it?”

“Just…you look good holding a baby I’m sorry okay don’t be mad at me!”

“Why would I be mad?”

I admit I was shocked and kind of wanted to hand him off to her but I couldn’t just not know what she thought about me.

“You…I don’t know”

“Kaydence you know you can tell me anything”

“I know I know I know”

“Woah look at you three all standing there together”

I turned around to see Jimmy standing at the bottom of the stairs.

“Hey Jimmy! Care to take your son back”

Jimmy shook his head and came over and took his son into his arms. He started to sniff the air before breaking into a huge grin.

“Are those the famous cookies of Kaydence?”

“They sure are”

“May I have one?”

“Only because you look so cute holding that baby”

Jimmy smiled and quickly un-wrapped the tray with one hand and grabbed a cookie, popping it into his mouth and moaning.

I just laughed at him before leaning over to kiss Kaydence.

Man what was I going to do now?

~~~~ Jimmy’s POV ~~~~

I couldn’t help but laugh to myself at Brian’s face. He looked so panicked when I came downstairs. Guess Kaydence must have said something about how great Brian looks with a baby. He’s really freaking out about Kaydence and what he wants to do about their relationship.

I think that he just needs to ask her to marry him already. They’re practically are already married. He AT LEAST needs to ask her to move in with him. I mean come on; they just about live with each other anyway.

But it’s not my place to say anything on what he should do with his life. All I can do is watch. I looked down at my son to see him looking up at me.

“What you say we go see what Santa left you”