Chapter 53

Mitch stood from the couch to follow Scott up the stairs, and Jake took his place beside Alex. Mitch quickly skipped up the stairs, before nearly crashing into Scott, who'd been waiting for him at the top step. Scott was still looking at the papers in his hands, so without looking he bent a little to hook his good arm around the backs of Mitch's thighs to pick him up and hold him against his hip. Mitch giggled as he was carried into their room, and then Scott, as gentle as one would set down an infant, set Mitch down onto the bed. Scott walked around the bed, grabbing a pen, and then took a seat at the top of the bed to rest his back on the headboard. "Come here please, baby." Mitch immediately turned to crawl over to him, sitting beside him while trying to copy his exact position. Scott glanced over for a second. "Don't be silly, honey. Sit like a normal person." "I am sitting like a normal person." "Let me rephrase, then. Sit like you normally would. Not me. You look... Terribly unco