After struggling to open the door to the shop, Maybelle carried an already asleep Alexandria into the warm loving environment. Carrying Alex in her arms reminded her of all the times she carried Inez in the shop as a little girl. Now her baby was almost 18 years old. As she thought of Inez she also wondered where she was. She didn't tell Maybelle with who or where she was going when they were at the station, she just said she would be home tomorrow morning to change clothes. Maybelle was not the kind of mother that would worry too much over her kids, and she knew Inez was a good girl, so she trusted her and shrugged off the thought. Maybelle swiftly carried Alex throughout the shop/house and back to her room. Maybelle laid her down carefully and got herself ready for bed before waking Alex and doing the same for her.
"BB," Alex said. BB was the even shorter name that Alex called Maybelle when she didn't feel like saying Bell, "where is daddy going?" she ask.
"I don't know baby, but he will be okay and you will be too. Okay?" Maybelle assured her as she slid an extra gown over the small, thin-framed, girl. Maybelle brushed and pulled back the little blonde's hair into a ponytail, and tucked her down in her side of Maybelle's bed. As Maybelle settled down on her side of the bed, she couldn't sleep. She couldn't help but wonder what the rest of Corny's confession was and it was eating at her brain and heart.
"BB," a small voice said. Maybelle thought that Alex had already gone back to sleep, but they both turned over to see each other and alex said, " I love you."
"I love you too Alex but it's time to go night night."
"BB, my daddy loves you too." Alex said. Maybelle didn't know wether to take her seriously or to just wave it off, but her heart said to listen. So she pulled herself to a sitting position and Alex did the same. Maybelle turned on the small lamp on the nightstand next to her bed and pulled Alex next to her.
"What do you mean 'daddy loves me too'? How do you know?" Maybelle questioned. She knew in her mind that she shouldn't be doing this and that Alex was just a 5 year old with a vivid imagination but her heart kept screaming to do it.
"Well, he ask me one night if I would like to have a mommy, and I said yes. Then he ask me if I would love to have BB as my mommy, and I said yes. He said that he loved you very much and that he would like to make you my mommy someday. He said that it might take a long time for you to become my mommy but since he loved you so much that he would try his hardest to make it happen sooner." Alex explained. Maybelle couldn't believe her ears. Corny wanted the same thing he did. He wants her and she wants him, but they both don't know how to express that to one another. Maybelle sat in silence in shock and not knowing what to say.
"BB, do you love my daddy?" Alex ask. Maybelle was surprised at the question because she had never had to answer it out loud before.
"Yes. I do love your daddy a lot." Maybelle said. She had finally told someone other than god how she felt and it felt like a thousand pound weight was lifted off of her shoulders.
"BB, can I call you mommy when Daddy isn't around?" Alex shyly ask.
"Nothing would make me happier." Maybelle said laying Alex back down but this time so close to her that Alex could feel and hear the beating of Maybelle's heart and turned out the light.
"Goodnight Mommy."
"Goodnight baby."