My Dear Duke(BL) -
Chapter 193: Babysitting
Chapter 193: Babysitting
"Thank you for the meal."
After the nice meal, everyone felt refreshed and sat on the couch to pass some time.
But soon, Anne fell asleep and so did the baby who got fed.
However, little did they know a big storm was ready to hit them at night.
The baby...
She kept waking up!
No matter how silent, how comfortable they tried to make it for her, she kept waking up.
Other than Anne who was sound asleep amidst the chaos, everyone else were dumbfounded as they took turns to put the baby to sleep.
Lucas knew this was normal for a newborn.
This is the tough part of parenting.
They wouldn’t easily get sleep.
Isn’t that why they were gathered there though?
But given the day, Karl who worked hard for the dinner and was waiting for his reward, wasn’t very happy.
But...he remembered.
He was there to babysit.
"Asher, you have to rest. Felix and we will take care of the baby."
Lucas pushed Asher to ignore the chaos and sleep since he needed to rest and it was the reason they were there. But, Asher felt incredibly guilty to let them do all the work. Won’t new parents usually have to endure this pain and exhaustion? Isn’t that part of parenthood?
He somewhat got lucky to have all the privileges.
It’s almost like he has...servants.
They do everything for him...
"No. It’ll be alright."
Asher said in determined tone.
Lucas didn’t argue and let him put the baby back to sleep. Who...woke up yet again after sometime.
Till Asher got exhausted, Lucas watched and only helped him when he saw Asher looking tired and actually needed help as he realised they were pushing Asher too much. Maybe...he needed to experience the tough parts of parenthood too. That’s alright...
"When we are trying to help you, you are welcome to take it. We want you to spend a happy and peaceful time with the baby. That’s why we’re here to help. To give you the best experience. So, let us help you. You don’t have to feel responsible for everything."
Lucas gently reminded Asher as this was all planned mostly for the sake of Asher, not even for the baby.
Asher especially needed rest because he’s still recovering.
And, as a physician who had helped a lot of pregnant women, he knew more than enough ways to prevent anything bad from happening.
He remembers how more than five new mothers killed themselves as they got exhausted and started hating parenthood. All because they were overwhelmed and had no one to help.
Starting from exhaustion to depression, some women he helped took unfortunate decisions to end themselves like that.
With this experience, he always made sure and tried to meet the partner of the new mothers and advise them to treat their wives better or help them with the baby or hire someone to help them.
Now, he volunteered himself to help the lover of his friend. Because...like always, he wants this new parent to not be so stressed which might eventually lead to depression.
He wanted to be as useful as he could be in this tough situation.
Because...he needs to repay Felix’s kindness too.
He wants to give the best to Felix.
He wants all the good things to surround them.
He just wants to help.
"...Thank you."
So, when Asher thanked him, looking really grateful, he felt very happy. He was helping and doing a great job.
"No need to be thankful. I am happy to help you anytime."
Lucas reassured Asher and advised him to at least lie down which Asher obeyed and went to the room.
So now, Lucas stayed with Felix and Karl in the living room, calming the fussing baby.
Taking turns holding her till she fell asleep, the three men took turns to doze off too.
Managing it like that, they only realised the cons the next morning.
All three of them were tired and were sleepy.
Unexpectedly, it felt more tiring than just staying up all night. Must be because the crying of the baby was not very pleasant, making them more stressed.
In the end, the day felt very shitty for the three of them as none of them wanted to sleep at day time either, leaving Asher all alone to deal with the baby and also another child. And, they were not ready to sacrifice one person for this too.
It felt unfair to let one of them do more work since all three volunteered to help.
And this mess was only solved by Asher later who felt bad.
Since they wanted to help so badly, why wouldn’t they just take turns? With a plan?
"Since it’s hard for one person to take care of the baby, let’s team up and take turns in day and at night. Felix and I will take care of things at night and Sir Karl and sir Lucas can help us at night while we take a nap. It will be more convenient that way since sir Lucas and sir Karl were to have some work to do too."
After some back and forth with the strong oppositions to let Asher take part in these exhausting tasks, the three still couldn’t win since Asher did make sense.
So, in the end, they agreed to that schedule and talked about the next day, deciding Felix should get some sleep to prepare for the night that day.
So, Lucas quickly cooked them breakfast and lunch with the help of Karl. Then they had breakfast, sent Felix to sleep.
Asher held the baby, fed her and watched Anne chit chat with the baby that was staring at her with awe.
They seemed to get along well.
"So, her sleeping schedule is like this... She sleeps during the day too... I think she is on my team."
Lucas mumbled with a chuckle as he saw the little Bella sleeping sound.
"Yeah. She must be exhausted from keeping all of you awake all night."
Asher replied with a smile and Lucas chuckled again, turning to Anne who looked bored.
"Sir Lucas."
"Mmm?"
"You two can have some rest now too. I will stay with Anne. The baby is asleep. You don’t have to stay here."
Asher said and Lucas, as usual, refused to back down. Incase Asher needed any help, someone had to be around him.
So, he tried reasoning with Asher.
"We will sleep tonight anyway. So it’s alright. And, it will be best if I get myself more sleepy so someone can’t make me more tired."
Asher was quite confused by his statement but got distracted before thinking about it when Bella suddenly flinched. Fearing she would wake up, Asher patted the baby back to sleep and watched as sir Lucas seemingly stared at sir Karl who had fallen asleep on the couch while sitting with his face resting on the stand.
’Sir Lucas has a mischievous smile on his face. What is he planning to do?’
Asher couldn’t help but feel like sir Lucas was an evil mastermind plotting a war.
"I rarely get to have fun like this. I need to take advantage!"
Asher, dumbfounded, looked at Sir Lucas’s excited smile and the charcoal in his hand he rushed to get from who knows where.
Asher could confirm one thing...
Sir Lucas really loves painting...
Or...the painting surface he got today...
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