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"He’s not a bully!" she said

Brandon laughed "I know, but he doesn’t know his own strength He just bulldozes through a crowd of kids, so it’s better that it’s a crowd of bigger kids than s with him It’s all he ever wants to do, even with ain Brandon couldn’t help laughing "Well, we’ll just have to teach hiirls around, but with boys, it’s fine, even bigger ones"

Regina sighed, rubbing her swollen belly, then groaned "I can’t even ireed with an even bigger s for a boy after three girls Regina mentioned it would’ve been nice if her brother had had a boy and they’d named him after her brother and her dad So when their son was born, Brandon insisted she na that his middle name would be after Brandon’s dad Now that they had another boy on the way, she’d already told hih she’d balked at the suggestion that if they ever had a girl she’d be named Princess

"No way," she’d said "Girls are evil She’d probably have a irls hating on her just because of her name"

As much as Brandon had talked shit about families like the Moreno’s ay too overprotective about the princess in their fa to be a total hypocrite about it He ies How the hell was he supposed to knohat it felt like to love someone so much you’d be ready to kill if anyone ina and Artie already, and he was dairl

Now that they were going to have two bulldozing boys, ina that, with brothers like Artie and little Brandon, no one would pick on their daughter, not even girls Brandon still had tihtly ritual Regina finished changing their half-asleep little boy into his ja she didn’t have the heart to put him in the tub now as sleepy as he was

"He can take a bath in theon to Regina with one hand and rubbing his eye with his other "Say goodnight to Daddy"

"Goodnight, Daddy," Artie said

"Goodnight, cha as it always did when his little boy smiled at hiina’s hand and they began to walk away

Brandon waited to see if his smartass kid would ruin the tenderto take fro as he was, Artie already kne to ht be too sleepy Just when Brandon thought he was hootten an "I love you" from his son with no folloisecracks, Artie turned and smiled

"And Buddy too"

Brandon ju to his rooroan as he ran past her to catch Artie

"Brandon!" she whined "He was alht Oh hed as he tackled Artie on the floor, shushing him because he was suddenly wide awake "I think we’re in trouble," he said as Artie scraht s tackle onto hi Artie landed on Brandon’s sto the wind out of hiroan

Maybe they would be in trouble, but this was totally worth it