Devans P.O.V
"Devan. Wake up dude. Trust me." I groan and rub sleep from my eyes as I roll over and see dad looming over me. "What's dad talking about?" He gently puts his arms around me and picks me up. I shiver and curl into his chest.

"Sorry for waking you up early" I whimper "do I haf to go back?" I feel a few tears forming. It seems like I've been woken up early again, just like yesterday.

Dad rubs my back "Speaking of the daycare, Collins said that you didn't have a very good day. He said you were sobbing and got very clingy to him and wouldn't let him go anywhere without you when you guys got home. He also said that the teacher said that you sat in the corner alone all day." I nod into his neck and I can't see his face but I bet he looks concerned.

    He sighs "Devan..." "Do I haf to go back?!" I ask persistently, even though my voice cracks. He kisses my temple and I let out a sob. "When they don't answer that means yes." Suddenly I feel cool air surround me and I can't help but shiver again and snuggle deeper into dads chest. "Why are we going outside right away?"

    "Devan, look" dad tells me. So I open my eyes and twist around in his arms to see six deer eating about 20 feet away from us. Collins is taking a picture while mom is watching them in wonder. I can't help but stare in awe. "Deer never come this close"

    The youngest one looks at me and I stare right back. Eventually one of them moves into the trees again and the rest follow. By this time I'm shivering like there no tomorrow. Dad tightens his grip on me and walks back into the house with Collins and mom following.

    We get inside and the warmth of the house engulfs me and I relax. Dad sets me down "so I don't haf to go?" I ask hopefully. Collins ruffles my hair and walks past us towards the bathroom as mom chuckles "no Devan. Not today." Feeling a huge grin crossing my mouth I give them both a hug "thwank you!"

    Mom picks me up and starts to smother my face in kisses. Giggling I try to push her away, but in all honesty, I don't really care. It's nice. She laughs and kisses the tip of my nose. "Mom!" I squeal and wipe my face. Collins comes back and starts to laugh his head off.

    "It's not funny!" I yell at him and look for something to throw at his face. Mom, sensing the start of roughhousing, puts me down and I run over to a paper towel roll I see. Picking it up I throw it in his direction. "Hey!" Collins yells and picks up the roll to throw at me. I turn away and the roll hits my back. Grabbing it I run towards him.

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Time skip
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    "Breakfast!!" Dad yells and brings our attention back to food. Normally Collins and I would race to the food, but there's just no way I can beat him. Still I run as fast as I can and Collins goes the long way around. We get there at the same time. Collins helps me climb up onto the chair while mom and dad sit down. My stomach growls "bacon, eggs, toast, orange juice. Delicious."

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Time skip after breakfast from clueless writer
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Collins P.O.V
    Breakfast was great. It rare that we all actually get to sit down together with Devan as a baby. Devan crawls across the table into moms lap when we're done. "What are we doing today?" he asks. Mom strokes his hair "well, I was thinking we should go to the park or something before our appointment."

    Devan looks up at her confused and I have to admit, I'm confused "what appointment?" Devan asks for me "what appointment? Do I haf to go back to the doctors?" Dad shakes his head and smiles. "No. It's for all of us, but you two will have to wait and see."

    I frown with Devan "...what does that mean?" Mom and dad share a look as I look exasperated at Devan, who looks back the same way. "Don't worry about it. You'll like it." Mom reassures us. I must still look doubtful because mom sets Devan down and starts to do the dishes. As she passes me she quickly places a kiss on my hair.

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Time skip.
P.S. Sorry about all these. Idk what to do
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    Devan and I have been running around for probably the last hour outside and we're sweaty. "Boys! Come in and have some water, then we're going to the park!" Mom yells out the back door to us. "Ok mom!" I shout back and race Devan inside.

    "It's so cute how Devan has to hold the cup with two hands." I watch Devan down his water as I drink all mine. "Colwins, can I pwease haf more water?" I bend down and pick him up with one arm. Holding him at the right level I let him get his water from the fridge as I finish mine.

"Let's go" mom comes into the kitchen "mom, a little help please" I ask when I realize I don't know how to safely put Devan down. She takes Devan off my arm and puts him on her hip. Mom looks over at Devan, who's still downing his water, and after watching him for a bit takes his water away with a amused smile.

"Ok, that's enough. Let's go to the park now." She quickly adds the last part seeing Devan was about to complain. His face brightens "ok!" We walk over to the car and of course Devan starts screaming and fighting.

I sigh and hold him down "when does he ever not fight about this." "Stop it." I firmly tell Devan "this has become to much on my head." He looks at me surprised then opens his mouth. "Wet me out then." I shake my head and he screams again. Groaning I buckle and tell dad to hit it.

Devans mood changes as soon as he's unbuckled. He smiles and squirms out of dad arms then runs to the playground. Dad rubs his head as mom follows Devan yelling out various things like all moms do. "One would think he would understand what that seat is there for." I hear dad grumble to himself and I smile.

We find mom sitting at a bench watching devan. "Don't worry about him." Dad says as he sits down next to her. "I'm not, it's just nice to see him play again." I look over at him and at the same time he looks back over to us. He makes eye contact with me and shouts "colwins! There's woods! Wet's go explore!"

I look over at mom and dad who nod. "Just be back by 1:30." I look at my phone 12:12 "we've got plenty of time." So I walk over to him as he goes down a slide to meet me. "Wet's go!" He yells and pulls at my hand leading towards the woods.

Smiling I humor him and break into a jog "come on slow poke!" I tease and he runs after me. We run into the shade and escape the 90 degree weather. "This is coowl. I wike this." He comments turning in a circle to take everything in. "Look dev, a trail." I say pointing to a small path heading off deeper into the woods.

    For a while we just run and jump over logs. Whenever devan got tired I would pick him up and carry him for a bit. We laughed, we talked, sometimes we would just walk in silence and take in nature and each other's breathing. It wasn't awkward, it was relaxing. Just to be with each other in one of both of our favorite places. It was nice.

    My timer goes off saying we have 20 minutes to be back so we turn around. "You look green bro!" I comment to Devan as I see the green glow that's surrounding everything resting in my brother. He looks up at me and smiles "you are too!"

    We get out of the woods to see mom and dad buying ice cream from the ice cream truck and of course Devan and I run over. "Back just in time" dad smiles and hands us both an ice cream sandwich. "Thanks!" we say in unison and dig into our ice cream.

    Out of the corner of my eye I see mom and dad exchange a look of humor and maybe...jealously? "What are they jealous about?" Devan leans against my leg and it hits me "they're jealous of our bond? I mean I guess that makes sense, not many sibling have the type of bond we do."

    I stop eating and stare at the ground "not many siblings have the bond we do. That's cool. That's really cool." A hand rests on my arm and I look up "you ok?" mom asks. I nod "yeah, I'm fine." She nods "ok. Finish your ice cream, then we got to go." I nod and dig back in.

    We throw our wrappers away and I laugh when I see Devans face. He has ice cream all over. "What?!" he demands but I just laugh again and grab some towels. "Stop it! No! Colwins!!" He protests as I wipe his face clean "bro, you got it everywhere!"

He sticks his tongue out at me as dad grabs his hand starts back towards the car. I stick my tongue right back out at him then give a guilty smile to mom. She rolls her eyes and smiles. "Dad, can I not wide in the seat?" I hear Devan ask and I laugh along with mom. Dad smiles and shakes his head "no you have to, but you really hate that seat don't you?"

Devan says nothing and actually doesn't fight that much as we get back in the car. Instead he starts to run away, in a flash I reach out and grab him. Instantly he starts screaming and twisting to get out of my grip. I push him down and buckle him with dads help.

"So mom, can we know where we're going tonight? Or is that still a secret." I look over at mom. She hesitates then says "ok. You guys can know. We're going to a photo shoot." I frown "like an actual photo shoot. Like Instagram worthy pictures?" Dad snorts from the front seat and I shoot him a what?! look.

Devan and mom laugh. "Yes." Mom says "like Instagram worthy. Though I don't know if you should post any of the pictures on Instagram." I tilt my head confused "why?" She opens her window "because I don't know if your brother would want those kind of pictures to go public. I mean I guess you can but its up to your broth-"

Mom's cut off as dad serves the car without any warning to avoid a car who ran a red. There's several thumps and bangs as everyone tries to catch their balance. "Is everyone ok?" Dad asks as he stops the car. I see the other car stop as I gasp and nod in a little shock. Mom nods too. "Devan?"

    I look over to his seat. "....Devan?" He's not there. I hear the whimper that comes before crying and I look down to see Devan sitting on the car floor in shock, which I quickly wearing off and turning to crying. "Devan!!?" We all yell at the same time. "Collins, give me him." Mom instructs me with panic in her voice.

    Obeying I reach down and pick up Devan, whose sobbing at this point, and hand him over. Part of me wants to disobey and hold Devan myself, but I hand him over and watch mom comfort him. "Are you ok baby? Are you hurt?" Devan nods "where"

    When he doesn't answer mom starts to touch him in various places. It ended up being that his head, arm, side, and leg hurt the most. The other car has stopped and the drivers running over to us. Dad gets out and mom follows his lead, taking Devan. Deciding I might as well I get out and walk to my family.

    Dad and the man are talking and it seems their having a hard time hearing each other because of Devans crying. "Mom, do you want me to take him?" I reach out my arms towards Devan. Mom hesitates and I can see she really doesn't want to let him go.

After a minute she nods and hands Devan over. "Try to take him to where we can hear each other." I nod and walk away with Devan. He clings to my neck tightly and sobs. "Shh. It's ok dev. Everything's ok." I tell him and rub his back. "Your ok."

Eventually his crying slows to a stop. I press a kiss on his temple "what happened bro?" He buries his face in my neck like he's ashamed. "I'm sorwy." "What? What do you mean?" His face is now tightly pressed into my neck "I unbuckwled." I sigh. "I'm sorwy!"

I can't help but sigh again and he cowers down like he's scared. "This is why you need to be in there. Do you get that now?" He nods timidly. I pull back to see his face and wipe away his tears. "Hey, I'm not mad at you. I sorry if I sounded like I am. I don't mean to say I told you so, but I kinda did. I guess it's just something you have to figure out for yourself though." I kiss his forehead "are you ok?" He nods.

Mom and dad come back. "What happened?" I ask when they get close enough. Dad makes an annoyed face "he just wasn't paying attention. Are you ok?" I nod. "What about you Devan? Why did you fall?" Devan buries his face back in my neck. I sigh "he unbuckled." Mom and dad both sigh "Devan..."

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Time skip
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    "Boys lets go!" Dad yells at us as I try to get Devan to hold still so I can put his put his shirt on. "Coming!" I yell down and turn back to Devan. "Bro come here." He ignores me and laughing runs over to his paints. He open them and I grab his small torso to pull him back. "No! Bro you can't get paint on you!"

I grunt as he slips down to get away from me. I grab his legs and bring him closer to me for better leverage. He giggles and tries to slip sideways. I grab his arm and struggle it into a sleeve. Then his other arm and before Devan can think I slip it over his head and quickly tuck it into his pants.

"There." I pant "now let's go." I grab him before he can run away again and walk downstairs. I pick up Devans shoes and hand them to him "you can put those on." "What took so long. We've got to go!" Mom says as she rushes past towards the car. I bounce Devan up so I can get a better grip on him. "Him. Wouldn't hold still."

We rush into the car and I let Devan go to see what he'll do. Surprising us all he climbs past the car seat and to the middle seat, next to me. "Woah, even after you fell you still don't want to sit in the car seat?" He shakes his head and put on his shoes. Dad nods at me and I pick him up and he yells in protest then starts to struggle.

Once he's buckled he sighs and gives up. "Colwins, I can't put my shoes on now!" I shoot him and are you serious?! look, knowing he's being lazy, and sighing I reach over to put his shoes on but he starts to kick and move his feet out of the way "hey! Give me your foot!" I whisper yell at him. He giggles and avoids the shoes.

Mom turns from the front seat "boys, please don't fight and be good when we get there ok?" We both nod and I grab both shoe laces and tie them together. "Hey!" I laugh as Devan struggles to reach his feet "colwins!" Tears are streaming down my face as I untie them. He glares at me, but I see a hint of a smile.