The sound of someone getting sick hinted at where she was and the teasing between Trev and Will immediately stopped. “Is she okay?” Trev looked towards the hallway and then back at Will.
He nodded but jumped up. “Would you mind sitting with Brooke?” He quickly left the room and Trev sat down on the floor in front of her.
She studied him for a moment, looking like she wasn’t sure she was happy that he took her daddy’s place, but when he flashed her his gigantic grin, she smiled back up at him and continued to hit her block.
“Can you say Uncle Trev?” He asked her in a babyish voice and I tried not to laugh. At first she ignored him, continuing to hit her block on every surface she could reach, but when he asked her again she looked up at him and blew bubbles with her lips until a sound came out. “Bababa.”
She repeated her favorite syllable and Trev nodded at her. “Good enough. Uncle Bababa it is.” She smiled up at him and repeated her “bababas” before trying to make her block fit into every hole but the one that it went in.
He chuckled at her response but suddenly stopped, becoming self-conscious, and turned to see if I was watching them. Instead of a teasing smile or me trying to hide a laugh, he saw the warmth in my eyes and smile that I felt in my heart from watching them together, causing any embarrassment he felt to melt away.