Nick was up the next morning at eight. He jumped out of bed and ran downstairs where he could already hear Brian up. He remembered Brian saying they would have to get up kind of early today ’cause of something special they were going to go do. "Brian...Brian...Brian?" he called as he hopped down the stairs.

Brian was in the kitchen making breakfast when he heard his name being excitedly called out from somewhere behind him by someone who was running down the steps. Slightly turning his head sideways and screaming over his shoulders he said, "NO RUNNING IN THE HOUSE!"

Not exactly listening, Nick ran into the kitchen, maybe a little slower then before but still running. "Me watch TV?" he asked as he practically bounced in one spot, his PJ pants riding low on his hips, showing off his diaper.

Brian turned around, spatula in hand, and raising his eyebrow. "What's got you so riled up this morning and what's so good on TV?"

Nick shrugged his shoulders as he bounced into the family room almost knocking AJ over as he walked in. "Whoa there buddy," AJ laughed.

Nick went right to the couch and started bouncing on his bottom as he turned on the TV.

Brian diverted his gaze from the corner Nick had just disappeared from towards AJ who jsut walked in to the kitchen with a puzzled look on his face. Shrugging his shoulders he said, "Could you go and keep an eye on what he's watching. I'm almost done with breakfast and I'll call ya'll when it‘s ready."

"Sure," AJ said with a nod as he walked into the room to find Nick actually jumping on the couch. "Okay...Nick you need to stop that," he said in a parental tone.

Nick giggled and continued to hop around on the couch, his PJ pants almost totally falling off now.

"Nick get down, you're losing your pants," AJ said trying not to laugh, because Nick looked really funny jumping like that but he knew he could easily hurt himself or something else. "Bri what has he eaten today!" AJ called into the kitchen once he finally got Nick to stop bouncing.

"I have no clue whatsoever," Brian yelled back from the kitchen. "That's how he came into the kitchen a few minutes ago."

"Must have had a good nights sleep," AJ laughed, happy that Nick was at least sitting and watching TV now, even though he kept wiggling around.

Brian finished the last part of the breakfast, frying the bacon, and he placed some strips on each of the four plates. Then he set the table as well as the plates before walking into the living room. "Breakfasts ready," Brian said before walking back into the kitchen to get the drinks out. He was glad he didn't make anything with lots of sugar in it, just eggs, ham, bacon, and slices of cheese for a put together your own sandwich kinda deal.

"Ohh brekix!" Nick said as he hopped up and ran into the kitchen, walking so fast that AJ wouldn't be able to notice that the back of his left leg was a little wet since he had been in the same diaper all night and had a huge glass of water before bed. "What have?" he asked as he sat down at the chair he had been sitting in for meals so far.

"Whatever it is smells good?" AJ said with a big smile in Brian's direction as he walked in and also sat down. "Is Justin joining us?"

Brian smiled. "Yah, he should be. I'm sure once the smell of this food gets up there... he'll be down here in a jiffy. I say give it a minute or two." Then he went about pouring orange juice in each of their cups except for Nick who got a bottle of milk. When Brian was hovering over Nick handing him the milk he noticed something shimmering on the marbled floor. Looking closely he saw water but as he was about to look away he noticed a shimmering trail from Nick's leg and then he put two and two together. Smiling he decided to just let Nick eat breakfast and then he'll get him to go up and change and shower.

Justin was in the middle of the most wonderful dream he couldn't quite recall but the absolutely wondering aroma hitting his senses causing for his stomach to grumble woke him up from his deep slumber. Sleepily opening one eye and then the other he looked around, at first a bit confused to find himself in a boat shaped bed but then everything came back to him. Quickly he got up and bounded down the stairs. He was hungry and something sure smelled good. "Good morning, ya'll," he greeted the three people at the table, his southern accent standing out and frowned when both AJ and Brian exchanged amused looks before they started to laugh. "What'd I miss?"

Nick smiled at Justin as he happily ate his breakfast, maybe more of it getting on him then in his mouth but he was being a big boy and doing it himself. The state his pants were in didn't bother him in the least. "We eating," he said with his mouth full of food.

Brian nodded his head. "Yup, we indeed are. Grab a seat before everything is gone," Brian said as he made his sandwich.

Justin smiled. "Awesome. Ya'll have any cereal in this joint?"

"Oh yeah Justin eats cereal," AJ laughed, remembering when Justin had gone on tour with them for a while. "The day doesn’t' start without it right, curly?"

Justin nodded his head. "Right, I mean, I'm still gonna eat this wonderful food before me," Justin said eyeing all the food on the table, "but I'm gonna wanna have just a tad bit of cereal, at least, with milk." Justin beamed.

"The cereal is in the cabinet next to the fridge... the one to left. Eh, you already know that, though." Brian shook his head. "I swear that kid knows my house more than I do, he's been here so many times... him and Nick. It's crazy!"

Nick eyed Justin pour the Captain Crunch and his eyes went wide. "Me want some!" Nick exclaimed as he jumped in Justin's lap right as soon as he sat down to eat it, not realizing Justin probably wouldn't want his wet self sitting on his lap.

When Nick got up and sat on Justin Brian couldn't help but laugh and then when realization of Nick's already hyperactive state hit him he immediately said "NO."

Justin wrinkled his nose when Nick sat on him. Normally and usually he wouldn't have said or done anything about it but this time... this time there was something a tad bit off. There was something wet and something that smelled a lot like.... urine? "OH," Justin said his eyes nearly bugging out. "Thanks a lot Nick." He chuckled. Guess you can't get any closer than that.

Nick was now trying to get Justin's spoon out of his hand, but when that wouldn't work he just stuck his fingers into Justin's bowl.

AJ who was sitting next to them quickly got Nick's fingers away. "You have your own breakfast Nicky...why don’t you go sit in your own spot and eat it?"

"No...me want dat." he said trying to get to Justin's cereal again.

"Nick, be a good boy," Brian said as he grabbed Nick's other hand that was going to go into Justin's bowl. "Do not stick your hands or fingers in other people’s food, okay?"

Justin grimaced as the wetness seemed to spread on his thighs the more Nick squirmed, wiggled, and bounced around on his lap. "It's just cereal, it's not gonna hurt him." Justin said completely forgetting how Nick gets when he's taken or given sugar. And also because Justin doesn't know that Nick's already a hyper ball of sugar since he woke up.

"Why are you making a face like that?" AJ asked laughing seeing a kinda disgusted look on Justin's face but then shook his head like crazy. "No sugar...he's already off the wall today as it is."

Nick started to get really pout and kept trying to get to Justin's cereal not taking no for an answer.,

Justin turned towards AJ and then looked at the back of Nick's head. Getting an idea he whispered in Nick's ear. "Nicky, why don't you go and sit on AJ's lap. If you do I'll give you some of my cereal later on, okay? But you gotta keep this quiet. Shhh."

Brian raised an eyebrow and then furrowed his brows when he saw Justin whispering something in Nick's ear. The jealousy with in him starting to surface but he managed to keep it down.

Nick giggled and hopped off of Justin's lap and over to sit on AJ's, still not really thinking about how he must feel to them.

AJ's eyes went wide when he felt wet Nick sit down on him. "Well...those things are no Luvs that’s for sure," he said making a face.

Justin started cracking up before settling for a wide grin. He was just about to take a spoon of his cereal when he remembered the fingers that were in there a few seconds ago. Pushing the bowl to the side he grabbed a bun and the lovely aromatic food before him, giving Nick a wink.

Brian took a bit of his sandwich and chewed as he looked between Nick who was sitting on AJ's lap and Justin who was making himself quite the supreme breakfast sandwich.

It was then that Nick really realized he was wet, and he needed to go again. He quickly got off of AJ and as he walked back to his own spot started going again, making even more of a mess.

"Yuck," AJ grumbled and then watched Nick walk back to his seat a content look on his face. "Ut oh I don’t like that look..."

Brian put his half eaten sandwich down and stood up, all the while trying desperately not to laugh. "C'mon Nick," Brian said holding his hand out. "Let's go upstairs."

"I can take him up," Justin said standing up. He wanted to help.

Brian quickly shot him a look which Justin quickly took notice off and sat back down. "It's okay Justin, I can handle him," Brian said.

Nick stood firmly in his spot. "Me no go...me watch TV," he said as he attempted to sneak away to watch TV. He had better things to do then go upstairs and get changed and take a shower. Sure he was wet, but he could deal with that...for a little while.

AJ sat there trying not go giggle. "Here you guys are fighting over whose going to do it...and he doesn’t even want to."

Brian shot AJ a look that said 'I’m not happy with this!' Sighing, Brian ran his hands through his hair before gently grabbing Nick's arm. "You're not doing such a thing, young man," Brian said in a firm tone. "If you don't go on up and change and take a shower you're bottom isn't going to be the rosy white bottom that it is. It's gonna be all red from rashes and all that stuff." Brian had no clue what he was talking about but he was pretty sure something like that could or would happen. "Besides, you're stinky."

Justin couldn't help but chuckle at the way Brian said the last part, closing his nose with one hand while the other waved in front of his face.

Nick put his hands on his hips and put a very mad look on his face. "Me not tinky...you tinky." he said before sticking his tongue out at Brian.

Brian opened his mouth and then closed his mouth.

Now, Justin was in a full blown laughing hysteria.

"I am not!" Brian argued back, pouting. "I'm not the one who went pee-pee on myself!" Then Brian thought of something. "You two," he said pointing at AJ and Justin. "You two have to take showers as well!"

Justin stopped laughing. "Huh? What did I do? Besides I took a shower last night before bed. I don't wanna take one now."

"Me baby me do dat stuff." Nick said, saying something his parents used to tell him all the time. He was a baby. He then looked over at Justin and AJ and giggled. "Day take ower...me go pay," he said before he sprinted out of the room, tossing his wet PJ pants when he could stop for a second because they were nasty. He could handle the diaper but the wet pants were kinda icky.

AJ just stood there with his mouth open. "Nick as a two year old is a little brat," he laughed shaking his head. "But in a way its better then yesterday, he's actually acting normal...at least I think this seems normal for a toddler."

"Toddler?" Justin snorted.

Brian sighed. "Guys...." he whined. "Help!"

"Maybe if we take showers he'll want to be clean like us?" AJ suggested looking over at Justin.

Both Justin and Brian paled at that suggestion. Neither thought it'd be best if anyone actually showered WITH Nick with or without clothes. No.

"No," Brian and Justin both said. "Not a good idea," Brian continued giving AJ a meaningful look hoping he'd remember what they've talked about last night.

"We need to come up with something else," Justin supplied.

"I didn't mean we would take a shower with him...I just meant if he knew we both took showers he might want to take one too." AJ tried to correct himself. "I know with him would be a bad idea."

"Yah," Brian nodded his head. "I don't know. I think we just need to get him to just take a shower and I'll handle the rest."

Justin smiled. "I think I know a way how," he said as he got up and walked in to the living room.

Nick was upstairs now trying to play with his train set but he was starting to feel really uncomfortable but he didn't want to go down stairs and tell anybody that.

When Justin walked into the living room he frowned. No sign of Nick. Quickly he ran up the stairs, taking two at a time, and headed on into Nick's room. "Hey buddy," Justin said smiling that he'd found Nick. "Here's the deal. You take a shower and change and I'll give you my cereal PLUS a chocolate. How does THAT sound?"

Nick smiled big and nodded his head, normally he didn't give in this fast when it came to this kind of thing but he was starting to feel itchy since he had been like that all night. "You change me?" he asked as he absentmindedly reached down to try and scratch himself through the bulging plastic, that didn’t' work very good.

Justin gulped. He didn't know anything about changing diapers much less changing one on Nick. "Do you want me to call Brian?" Justin questioned not really sure just how to handle this.

Nick quickly shook his head. He loved Brian but he saw Brian as more of a parent and Justin as a friend. He didn't want Brian to know he was being changed and stuff cuz he was being naughty cuz Brian wouldn’t let him have the cereal. "You do it."

Justin blushed. "I don't know how to do it," Justin confessed. "I've never changed diapers or given showers to a two year old before." He didn't know that Nick could practically do that himself but when it came to showers... someone had to do that for him.

Nick noticed his friend looked scared, and he understood scared. "Otay...you learn do later." he said with a smile as he got up and headed downstairs, this time walking sort of slowly and bowl legged cuz the wet material was rubbing on his dick and it hurt. "Brian, Brian, Brian!" he called like he had last time.

The second Justin had wandered out to go find Nick Brian stood there for a few seconds staring into space. But quickly he got himself out of it walked into the living room. No signs of Justin or Nick. Walking over to the TV he turned it off and then walked over to the stairs where Nick's went pants lay. Picking them up he slowly started walking up the stairs. When he reached the top landing he heard Nick calling out his name like he had earlier. "What's up Nick?"

"Ouch," Nick said with a pout on his face as he rubbed the wet bulge at his crotch.

"Oh, I told you that it'll start to hurt," Brian said shaking his head. "Next time, will ya listen to me?" Brian asked softly smiling as he threw his arm around Nick's shoulder and escorted them into Nick's room.

"Diaper no like me." Nick said with a pout meaning that it had leaked on him.

Brian laughed. "The diaper does like you. It's just that you're not treating the diaper properly." Brian then walked over to the dresser. Pulling out a new diaper, sweatpants, and a plain white t-shirt, he walked over to where Nick was standing and escorted them both into the bathroom.

Justin stayed quiet the whole entire time and when Nick and Brian entered the bathroom he quietly followed, wanting to learn just how to do the basics of things.

Brian noticed Justin at the door. "Uh, could you give us some privacy?" Brian asked.

Nick looked over at Justin and waved, actually happy for the distraction since his body had tensed up quiet a bit just entering the bathroom. "He wana wern how to change me." he said as he lied down on the bathmat knowing that it would probably be easier that way since he was so wet and it hurt standing up.

"Oh," was all that Brian said before bending over and removing Nick's diaper. For some reason he did not want Justin to learn anything. He didn't want Justin near Nick. He knew for quite some time that Justin had feelings for Nick and he knew that Justin never told Nick about those feelings. He hated the fact that Nick and Justin were really close and never admitted to anyone of just how jealous he was of their relationship, even though it was just nothing more than friends. But now, things were different. He thought it would be a good idea to have Justin around in case they might need information on Nick's childhood but now, he wasn't so sure.

Justin walked over and made himself comfortable on the counter. He refused to look at Nick who was lying naked in the bath tub while Brian threw the diaper away. He'd never seen Nick naked before and seeing him now somehow just seemed really wrong.

"Owie," Nick whimpered as he sat down his hand going to scratch himself again. "Me no go potty ever again...owie."

AJ walked upstairs and leaned on the bathroom door. "Is this a party...can I join?" he asked, not wanting to intrude.

Brian looked down at Nick. "It hurts? Why does it hurt? And don't scratch yourself. It could be a rash or something!" Brian said.

Justin looked over at AJ and waved for the other man to join him on the counter. "I guess you should learn as well," Justin said.

Nick moved his hand away and whimpered more a big pout on his face as he mumbled this about never going potty again.

AJ laughed shaking his head. "I don't think THAT will help things little guy...but telling us after you have will."

Brian then fussed with the water temperature, turning knobs this way and that way till it was lukewarm. Taking the shower head he quickly sprayed Nick with the water before reaching over for the soap.

Nick soon forgot about being in pain and started to enjoy his shower. He loved the water and these showers that Brian gave were fun.

AJ walked into the bathroom and hopped to sit on the counter close to Justin. "You know this is weird...but yet not really all that weird at the same time."

Justin turned his head to look at AJ. "Yah, I know what you mean." He turned his attention back to Nick.

Brian began to lather up Nick's body careful when he reached Nick's bum. Quickly he rinsed his body before shampooing his hair and rinsing that off too.

"We have to meet the guys at ten right?" AJ asked actually rather comfortable with the situation for some reason.

"Kevin and Owie?" Nick asked with wide eyes getting happy and hyper all over again. He really liked Kevin and Howie from the hospital and knew they were friends with AJ and Brian. He only hoped that’s who AJ meant.

Brian nodded his head. "Yeah, At ten," He quickly reached behind him and grabbed two fluffy white towels. Taking one he tried to wrap it around Nick but that kind of proved difficult with Nick bouncing on the balls on his feet. "Will you stay still? You're gonna catch a cold if you're not careful," Brian said.

Nick made a face and stopped, he didn’t like the idea of catching a cold. So he let Brian dry him off.

AJ giggled and reached over to ruffle Nick's hair. "Ohh look now your hair is all messy."

Nick glared at AJ as he tried to fix his hair. "No mess wit do."

Justin laughed. "Hey, that's my line."

Brian then took the other towel and began drying Nick's head. When he was done he threw both towels in the hamper that was in the corner and reached for the diaper. Quickly he put the diaper on Nick followed by a pair of blue denim jeans. "Nick, do you want to show them how you can put your shirt on?"

Nick smiled big as he worked on getting his t-shirt on. It took him a second and he almost got stuck but soon he had the shirt on, the right direction and not inside out. "See ook!"

AJ beamed and clapped his hands. "Good Job Nicky...and now look at you...all handsome and shit."

"Shit," Nick said, giggling before he started jumping around the bathroom saying 'shit' over and over again.

"AJ!" Brian said firmly.

"Oh Lord," Justin said rolling his eyes.

AJ blushed bright red, "I'm sorry...I didn't mean to." He said before he got off the counter and went to Nick, holding him still. "Hey buddy...let's not say that okay? Sometimes I say things that aren't nice...so don't say it."

Nick seemed to think about this for a second before nodding his head and choosing to just bounce out of the room saying 'boing' over and over again.

"Can't we call him 'Tigger' or 'Todo'?" Justin questioned as he hopped off the counter and followed Nick into the bedroom.

"Nick get off the bed," Justin and Brian said in unisom, "before you jump off and break your neck," Brian finished giving Justin a weird look.

"Boing," Nick giggled not stopping.

AJ groaned shaking his head. "Are you sure we can't leave him home today, he's going to drive us crazy."

"Who the heck gave him sugar?" Brian questioned. "He was already hyped up since he woke up, so someone last night MUST have given his something!" He looked between Justin and AJ.

Justin held his hands up. "Don't look at me, I didn't give him anything."

"AJ?" Brian questioned looking at him.

"Is mountain Dew bad?" AJ asked with a horribly guilty look on his face. "I had one and it was sitting out and he drank half of it.

Brian blinked. "Mountain Dew? Do you know what's in Mountain Dew?"

"Dude, you are like not supposed to give or feed kids soda or something," Justin said remembering a program he watched on PBS sometime ago. "It's bad for their growth development or some mumbo jumbo nonsense."

"I didn't mean to!" AJ exclaimed as he watched Nick bouncing off the walls. "I sat it down for a second and when I turned around and he had drunk the whole thing." He then made a face. "Could be why he peed so much last night too huh?"

Brian sighed. "We need books. Lot’s and lot’s of books. Books on parenting and how to take care of a child and well, lot’s of books."

"Ohh, could we get him the 'hooked on phonics' thing?" Justin asked, excited. "I wanna be able to teach him how to read and like do math, and ohh, he's definitely gonna have to learn the basics of drawing since he loves it so much." Justin said as he remembered how much Nick loved to draw as well as how good he was at it.

As the adults were busy talking Nick had snuck out of the room and was now across the hall in Brian's room. He thought it would be fun to hide under the bed, but under the bed he was finding things he probably shouldn't be.

"Oh yeah that would be cool to have, but we gotta learn how to do stuff too like Brian said. I mean hell I have NO idea what to do with a two year old," AJ said shaking his head.

"Speaking of two year old," Justin said looking around when all he heard was quietness. No one saying 'boing' or no sound of someone jumping or hopping. Most importantly no sign of Nick. "Where is Nicky?"

"Oh poopy," Brian said as he too looked around the room and not seeing Nick or hearing him anywhere. "Look for him."

Meanwhile Nick was sitting on the floor by Brian's bed with Bible in one hand and a dildo in the other. Finding a switch he turned it on and screamed bloody murder when the thing started to move.

Justin and Brian stopped in their tracks when they heard someone scream from the room down the hall. Quickly they from Nick's bedroom and into Brian's room, getting stuck in the doorway. "Nick, are you alright?" Brian said as he tried to squeeze his way into his own room.

"What happened?" Justin questioned as he too tried to make his way into the room. He was wedged between Brian and AJ.

AJ was the first one to notice what was going on and started to bust up laughing. There was no way not to notice just what Nick had found even though Nick looked petrified. "Never knew you kept the Bible and the dildo next to each other...very interesting Rok," he said so only Brian could hear, having to take the opportunity to embarrass his friend, he couldn't pass this up.

Justin stopped struggling to make his way in when he heard what AJ said... causing all three of them to tumble into the room.

Brian blushed a bright crimson color. "I didn't. I mean, I don't"

AJ made his way into the room and grabbed the vibrator from Nick's hand and turned it off. "Hey there little dude, let's go wash your hand that could be yucky," he said smirking at Brian as they walked into Brian's bathroom to wash Nick's hand.

"Move...scary...no like." Nick mumbled shaking his head.

Brian blushed even more at Nick's words. It was just a few days ago he and Nick were fooling around in this very same room, on that very same bed, and that dildo was the very same one Nick absolutely loved playing with. But he wasn't going to share that little tid-bit with anyone. It wasn't their business anyway.

Justin looked at Brian and noticed the deep shades of blushes. When things started to make sense his eyes grew wide. "You and Nick.... Nick and you... di...dil...do....him... and... you!" Justin could barely get the words out of his mouth. Sure he assumed Nick and Brian had sex and fooled around on many a occasion but actually being told so what something entirely different. He swallowed the lump that seemed to have magically appeared in his throat... a lump that refused to go away.

AJ walked back into the room with a much calmer Nick and noticed the sad and embarrassed look on Brian's face. "Bri...I'm sorry I didn't mean to go to far," he said now knowing how bad that joke really was because he could see the sadness in his friends eyes. "I know that...well...you know was special and stuff...at least I assume so...and okay I'm just going to shut up now before I make things worse."

Brian shook his head and willed his tears away, taking in a deep breath he said, "Don't worry about it. I mean, it IS kinda of funny to find those two things next to each other," Brian said trying to make the tension in the room dissipate.

Already forgetting about the weird thing he found, Nick was back to snooping again already halfway under the bed, his butt wiggling.

"Nick...what are you doing, you're going to get stuck finding something else scary." AJ laughed, shaking his head at Nick.

Justin smiled somewhat and decided to help Nick snoop around. Getting down on his stomach he crawled his way next to Nick... his first half of the body under the bed. "Hey Nicky, whacha looking’ for?" Justin asked turning his head to face Nick.

Brian just stood there, embarrassed and not really knowing what else to do.

"My Winky," Nick said, still thinking his bear was around the house some place not back with his parents.

AJ had just taken a sip of water he had gotten out of the bathroom and now it was spit all over the place. "His...what?"

Brian laughed. "That was almost my same reaction," he said.

But it was Justin who answered the question. "His Winky. It's a stuffed teddy bear. You know the ones that open and close their eyes when you turn them at certain angles. Hence, winky," came Justin's muffled answer from under the bed.

Brian nodded his head. "Yup!"

"Me no find him," Came Nick's mumbled voice a very sad tone coming to it.

Justin took that moment to crawl out from under the bed. Standing up and dusting himself off he said, "Nick doesn't have Mr. Winky anymore, though," he whispered not wanting Nick to hear. "Bob and Jane.... well let's just say... didn't like Mr. Winky."

"What do you mean?" AJ asked, not realizing he probably shouldn't since Justin was obviously being very quiet about it.

Nick crawled out from under the bed and sat there with a very upset look on his face. "Winky nowhere...he lost."

Justin sighed. "Don't worry about Mr. Winky Nicky," Justin said and then chuckled at the little rhyme. "It's almost ten." Justin said when he got a glimpse at the clock. "Don't ya wanna see Kevin and Howie?"

Brian was curious and anxious to know the answer to AJ's question but knew it wasn't the right time.

"Me do...me do!" Nick said getting up and jumping up and down again. "Kevin and Owie...Kevin and Owie!"

"This is going to be a very long day," AJ laughed shaking his head.