“I’m Itty,” she told him.
Rohan shook his head at her. “No, you aren’t.”
“Just checking that you won’t forget.”
He picked her up and tossed her as well. He thought it was funny that they only tried to confuse him when he used their nicknames. The twins were identical, but that didn’t make it hard to tell them apart. He first learned their mannerisms and used those; then, it became second nature.
It was close to four when they got out of the pool, and he had intended for them to get out sooner than that.
“Mikal, can you wash your own hair?” Rohan questioned.
“Yeah, I can,” she responded, drying off.
He nodded as they all headed into the house. He asked his mother if she would be okay with him taking the twins to her bathroom since it had the largest shower. Rohan knew shewouldn’t mind, but wanted her permission. He walked both girls to her en suite when she gave it to him.
He started the shower, turning the temperature to warm before looking under his mother’s sink to find shampoo. She had a few different ones, and Rohan looked at the ingredients, deciding on the shea butter one. He’d remember seeing Jalen use a shea butter spray on their hair and figured it would be safe.
“Rohan, can we get in?” Nathan asked.
“First, I’m going to wash your hair, and when I’m done and leave, you can take your suits off and shower, okay?”
Both girls nodded at him, and they stepped into the shower. He’d just started washing Omari’s hair when his mom walked in. She grabbed her blow-dryer and some ponytail holders.
“Rohan, don’t get any shampoo in their eyes,” she informed him, and he refrained from rolling his eyes. It wasn’t the first time he’d washed a child’s hair.
When finished, he got each a set of towels and gave them some vanilla body wash from under his mother’s sink before leaving them to get undressed and shower, telling them he’d put their clothes on the bed.
He knocked on the guest room door where all the girls had changed. He called Landon’s name, and when she didn’t respond, he knocked again.
“Yeah?” she called after a moment.
“Can you hand me Omari and Nathan’s clothes?”
“Okay, one second.”
Rohan waited, and it wasn’t long before Landon opened the door, dressed, with a towel draped over her head, and she handed him their clothes. He thanked her and returned to his mother’s room, placing the clothes on the bed and closing the bedroom door as he walked out.
With the twins situated, Rohan went into his bedroom, which hadn’t changed from his teenage years, and into the Jack and Jillbathroom it shared with Trent’s room. He started the shower, stepped inside when it heated, and washed his hair before bathing.
Once he’d dried off and got dressed. His hair still damp from its towel dry, he went into the living room to find Landon combing through Mikal’s hair.
“Rohan, do you know how to braid?” Omari asked as he sat on the couch.
“I do not, but I do some pretty cool space buns.” He knew what they were called because Alynn had gone almost six months when she was five, wanting nothing but those done to her hair.
“Okay, you can do space buns,” Omari approved with a nod.
Landon handed him a brush that didn’t look like a brush. Rohan knew that Jalen and Kodi used it to detangle the girls’ hair.
Omari stood in front of him, and Rohan put the brush down, grabbed the comb between him and Landon, and sectioned her hair gently, then detangled each section before putting it up in two buns.
“Wow,” Landon started. “I won’t lie. I thought they would look bad, but they’re cute.”
He laughed. “Have some faith in me.”
“Can I have space buns too?” Nathan asked.
“Of course,” Rohan responded.
