Tyler furrowed his eyebrows as he heard a tapping on the door to the hotel room. He got up and opened it, looking down to see a little but very tubby 12 month old looking right back up at him. She had been smacking on the door because she thought the sound it made was funny.

"A baby!" He whisper-exclaimed.

"Leave it outside," Josh said.

"We can't leave a baby outside, Josh!" Tyler said, picking her up and carrying her inside the hotel room. "Look at her. She's such a pretty baby. But she looks so lonely."

"Put it back."

"She's not an 'it!' She's a she!" Tyler said. "She's a baby."

"Well it's stinking up the place with whatever is in that diaper. Put it back outside. It'll find its way home."

"Joshua William Dun!"

"What?"

"This is a missing child! We've gotta find her parents."

"Correction: you've gotta find its parents. I didn't touch it so I have no part in this."

"Josh, look. I know you don't like kids, but Maddy's pregnant. We're about to have a niece. And since you won't let us have kids of our own, I'm planning on spending a lot of time with our niece. So you're gonna have to get used to a baby being around."

Josh sighed. He really did feel bad for being the reason Tyler wasn't going to have kids of his own, he just really, really didn't want kids. Not only did he not like kids, but he also wanted Tyler all to himself. It was selfish, he knew it, but that's how it was.

"I'm gonna go take her around and ask some people if she belongs to them," Tyler said, putting on shoes and leaving the room.

He knocked on every door in the hotel, nobody claiming the baby.

He went back to the hotel room, still holding the baby. He set her down on the ground gently so his arms could have a break from holding her, the baby grinning goofily as she toddler-ran up to Josh who was sitting on the couch in their hotel room and patted his legs as a way to say hi.

"Hello," Josh said awkwardly.

The baby grinned at him, bouncing on her tubby legs gently.

"Would you like to sit by me?" He asked awkwardly again.

The baby just continued to grin.

He gently picked her up the best he could without touching her as much as possible, setting her beside him.

She squealed excitedly.

"Tyler, she's screaming."

"She's just happy," Tyler smiled as he went over to her, sitting down on the floor in front of her while she stayed on the couch, playing with her cute little hands. "You're just happy. Aren't you, cutie?"

The baby squealed again, grinning and clapping as she rocked back and forth happily.

She was making Josh incredibly uncomfortable. He didn't understand babies.

"I wonder what her name is," Tyler said.

Josh shrugged, scooting away from the baby.

"She's not gonna hurt you," Tyler said.

The baby then moved closer to Josh, plopping back down beside him.

He moved farther away again, the baby doing the same thing as before.

"Tyler, make her stop."

"Stop what?"

"Following me."

"She just wants to be your friend. She's a sweet baby. She likes giving kisses. Let her sit in your lap."

"No."

"Josh..."

"Fine." Josh picked her up and gently set her in his lap.

The baby smiled as she looked up at him, kissing his nose. "MMMMMMMMWAH!"

Josh couldn't help but smile a little. That was incredibly cute.

She giggled as he snuggled up in his lap, Josh unable to keep from wrapping his arms around her.

"I'm gonna go talk to the front desk to see what we should do," Tyler said.

So Josh and the baby stayed in the room while Tyler went downstairs.

He returned a while later. "They said nobody has checked in with a baby in the last week."

He looked up to see Josh lying down on the couch, giggling at the baby played with his fluffy blue hair.

"I don't know what to do," Tyler said.

"We should keep her."

"What?"

"I like her. We should keep her."

"We can't just 'keep' a baby, Joshua. We're going to have to call CPS."

"And leave her to maybe or maybe not have a home? With a bad family?"

Tyler sighed. "I'll call CPS and talk to them about our options," he said after a minute of thinking.

***

Two days later, CPS had said that they couldn't locate the baby's parents, so, if they wanted, they could be her parents for the time being.

Josh and Tyler had a long and hard conversation that night, weighing out everything.

They decided they would have her.

First, though, they had to give her a name.

"Hazel," Josh suggested. "Hazel Lane. We're on a street called Hazel Lane right now, where we found her."

"I like that," Tyler said. "Hazel. Hazel Hazel Hazel. Hazel Lane."

The baby turned her head and looked at Tyler.

"Do you like that name?" He asked with a smile, holding his hands out for her to grab. "Do you wanna be named Hazel!"

The baby grinned, drool running down her chin.

"Hazel Lane," Tyler said as he picked her up and set her on his lap. "You've got drool all down your chin again."

The baby squealed happily, smacking her hands together excitedly.

Josh never expected to be a parent. He always thought Tyler was the one who needed a kid.

He never knew what he needed until he had it.