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Dax knows his way around my house but this is Tacker’s first time, so he merely follows Dax as he leads the way to the kitchen I follow in their wake

“Where’s the baby?” Dax asks as he sits the bottle on the countertop and turns to lasses

“Sleeping right now,” I tell his of food fro to bother zapping any of it in the h, for her bottle”

Dax snorts and shakes his head “I cannot wait to see you feed her Oh, and change her diaper This is going to be epic”

I don’t even bother with an eye roll He can be juvenile at times, but secretly…I can’t wait for Charlie to wake up so I can show her off

Dax pours drinks and passes them around Tacker takes a seat on a stool on the other side of the counter I stop unpacking food a lass toward me and raises his own “A quick toast Merry Christend”

Tacker’s face actually softens slightly and he holds his glass up “Yeah…congrats, man”

“Cheers,” I say and we lift our glasses to our lips I savor the flavor going down as that’s sooing to be drunk on any night where I have responsibility for Charlie

I dish out savory food on ood I thought about buying paper plates but thought I should try to be a good host for uests

Turkey, reen beans, and cranberry sauce I got the basics but I got a lot of it, because the three of us can pack away some food Dax takes a stool next to Tacker and I eat on the opposite side of the counter standing up

“So how is fatherhood really going?” Dax asks

“It’s actually not that bad,” I ad is changing shitty diapers and the odd hours that she wakes up Like tonight, she’ll probably be up around 1:00 a schedule”

Dax shakes his head and shootsbaby ends up on your doorstep and it’s the world’s best baby Dude, you lucked out”

I laugh and turn to the fridge, pulling out three bottles of water “Don’t I know it And Pepper has also been helping me”

“Helping you?” Dax asks “How?”

I shrug and hand the waters across the counter As I twist the cap of mine off, I reply, “You knoith just stuff”