NightStar Stories: Big Brother

“Everyone! We’re home!” Sheldon’s voice echoed out of the room, his son, Lucario Jr. ran to his father in happiness and excitement, happy to see his parents home from the hospital. He hugged his father, tightly, not wanting to let go. Sheldon happily hugged back at his little boy and kissed him on the forehead and placed him on the couch. “Daddy will be right back, kiddo.” He headed outside and came back with Luna, still dressed in her nightgown from the hospital, she smiled at her little boy.

Lucario Jr. wagged his tail really fast, he hadn’t been that happy to see his mother that much since then. She seemed to be holding something in her arms, it was wrapped around in a blanket. Luna sat next to her son showing him a baby Riolu. “Sweetie, this is your sister, Charlotte.” Lucario Jr. smiled at the sleeping little pup.

“Hi Charlotte! I’m your big brother!” He smiled, seeing the pup opening her eyes. Lucario Jr.’s tail wagged at lighting speed, he’d hope the pup would coo in seeing him, but instead she started crying. His tail wags immediately stopped and his smiled took the form of a frown.

“Why is she crying? I didn’t mean to wake her up.” His ears folded back touching his tiny aura sensors. Luna smiled. “It’s alright, pumpkin. You didn’t mean to, it was an accident.”

Lucario Jr. smiled at his mother as he watched her rocking his new sister back to slumber. He wagged his tail happily. Sheldon’s adopted brother, Chris, entered the room. They both talked about the new baby girl and such. Lucario Jr. barely paid much attention, all he could focus on was his newly born sister.

So many questions suddenly filled his mind. ’Why can’t she talk yet? How did she get out of momma’s belly? Why is she so tiny? Why does she cry all the time? Why does she sleep a lot?’ The questions burned in his mind and they stirred inside of his brain for an extended period of time.

Later that night as he was being put to bed, his ears twitched to his father’s singing, he sang the lullaby that he had wrote many years before Lucario Jr. was born, only he was singing it to Charlotte. His ears folded to the back of his head, touching his aura sensors.

’Why is Daddy singing my lullaby to Charlotte? It’s not Charlotte’s lullaby after all. Daddy said it was meant for me.’ Another question had burned inside his young mind, he was slightly green with envy, his eyes teared up a bit. The question repeated itself in his mind for a constant time, until he fell asleep.

The next morning, Lucario Jr. wasn’t very hungry, so he didn’t really eat anything. Luna and Sheldon were a bit worried that something was off with Lucario Jr. After breakfast, Lucario Jr. stepped outside to play for a while, it wasn’t long before he saw one of his friends, it was Jenna’s Zorua, Morrigan. He also saw another one of his friends, Rain the Squirtle, whom belonged to their other neighbor, Amber.

The younger Zorua was adopted by one of Sheldon’s friends Cotton and Napoleon due to a health condition that they weren’t able to bear a child of their own. The Squirtle was close friends with a female Lucario named Flower, whom Lucario Jr. looked up to as an older sister, other than his cloned Lucario sister, Alice, he looked up to Flower and Jenna’s Lucario, Vincent, a lot when his parents were busy and needed a babysitter.

“Hi, Lucario Jr.” Morrigan shouted in a cheerful tone was always when she greeted the midget Lucario. Lucario Jr. didn’t answer back. Rain frowned and grew worried and placed a hand on his shoulder. “What’s wrong, buddy?” Lucario Jr. finally had forced himself to answer. “Well, I got a new baby sister and my parents already like her more than me somehow...I don’t know why.”

Edith, a young female Lucario, that had belonged to a trainer named Krista, walked up to the little Lucario. “That can’t be true.” Morrigan and Rain nodded in agreement. Lucario Jr. only smiled a bit, suddenly a light bulb lit up above his head. “Guys, if my parents like Charlotte a lot ‘cause she’s a baby then if we dress me as a baby, then they’ll have to love me lots and lots!”

The three girls were confused but agreed to his plan. They rain inside Caitlin's’ house of her ranch and gathered up as many baby items as they could. Soon enough as they returned and put them on Lucario Jr., he almost looked like a diapered Lucario, Edith cooed at how cute Lucario Jr. looked.

Soon after, Lucario Jr. caught sight of Sheldon’s other friends Alex the shiny Umbreon and Austin the Jolteon, they visited Caitlin’s ranch as much as they could to see an old friend of theirs. They too caught sight of their little friend. They looked at each other with very confused expressions on their faces and they walked up to the tiny Lucario. Alex was the first to ask. “What are you doing?” Austin the second to ask. “Why are you wearing a diaper?”

Lucario Jr. simply smiled. “To get my parents to love me again, ‘cause they love Charlotte ‘cause she’s a baby and this’ll get them to love me again.” Lucario Jr.’s smile grew at the thought of his parents loving him twice as much as they love Charlotte."

Austin and Alex laid on their stomachs and looked Lucario Jr. in the eyes. “Look at me, Lucario Jr. we’ve known your parents a while now. And they’ve loved you since before you were born when they found out that they were going to have you and they’ll love you still, even if it does seem like they don’t love you.” Austin corrected him that he doesn’t have to be a baby to win the hearts of his parents. Alex nodded in agreement. “Austin’s right.”

Lucario Jr. was then deep in thought about this idea of his becoming successful enough. But it was still worth a shot. “I need to see it to believe it.” He went back into the house and sat down on the floor with the others watching from the screen door. Sheldon walked up to his son and looked highly confused. “Son, why are you wearing a diaper? I thought you grew out of those by now.” Lucario Jr. looked down. Sheldon’s ears perked up, he knew why his son was like that. “Oh, I see. You’re thinking that since you’ve got a new sister, that we love her more than you.”

Lucario Jr. looked up at his father. “Son.” Sheldon started off, looking his little boy in his ruby red eyes. “Listen to me, just because you’ve got a new sister, it doesn’t mean that we don’t love you anymore or any less.” Sheldon lifted his boy off of the floor and hugged him tightly in his arms. “Don’t you know how much you mean to your mother and me? You mean the world to us, you’re our first kid, and nothing will ever stop us from loving you.” Lucario Jr. started crying tears of joy and hugged his father tightly.

His friends, watching from behind the screen door, smiled and went back to their original routine as normal. Lucario Jr. didn’t want to let go of his father’s gripping hugs. He had promised himself to be the best brother he can be.

“Daddy?” Lucario Jr. whispered in his father’s ear. “Yeah kiddo?” Lucario Jr. blushed a bit and smiled rather nervously. “I can still wear diapers now, right?” Sheldon chuckled at his son’s question. “Of course kiddo. But I won’t be the one changing them twenty-four-seven.” With that remark, the two started laughing.