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If I could rewind time-Chapter 10
Emily lay on the cheap, rough mattress that the hospital had supplied as the broken spring dug into the bottom of her back. It was 3 o'clock in the morning and she hadn't slept a wink of sleep. The fact that the floor was comfier than her mattress, add that with worries for Grace as well as Emily checking Grace was okay and making sure the bed covers were fully over the little girl every five minutes meant Emily was absolutely shattered and still had no chance of getting some rest.
As Emily closed her eyes a scene of her life played through her mind, it was of the time when Emily had to go to a late night teachers meeting and she came home to find Naomi and Grace nowhere to be seen.
"Grace…Naomi" Emily called as she walked through the dark corridor "Naomi…" Emily called again after receiving no response. Emily walked up the stairs quietly as she thought that they might of both been asleep, that would have been an achievement and a half because it takes a lot to finally get Grace asleep. Naomi and Emily would have to tag team on doing the job of getting her to sleep, taking it in turns to take Grace back up to bed when she would come down to the living room and try and sit and watch TV with them on a night time, when it was past her bedtime.
Emily heard hushed voices and giggles coming from Graces room as she crept to the door with 'Grace' in colourful letters on. The whole house was quiet and dark, which straight away worried Emily but her worries were settled down as she opened the door to find a big bed sheet spread across half of Graces room, held up by chairs and side tables around the room. Emily saw the silhouettes of her wife and child as they were making shadow puppets of birds and making tweeting noises. She smiled at them before speaking up to alert them.
"Why are you still up? Its way past both of your bed times" Emily said pretending to be angry but truly inside she was exploding with joy at the sight of her two favourite girls.
Grace and Naomi froze at the sound of Emily's voice.
"Oh no Grace we've been caught!" Naomi joked as she dropped her hands down from the shadow puppet she had just been doing. Grace giggled as Emily stepped past the toys and books all over the room to get to them. It was like an obstacle course as she fearlessly passed by the Lego, what was extremely painful if someone stepped on it and of course Naomi and Emily had, many a times.
Emily took off her coat and dropped it down on the floor, before she crouched down to look into the opening of the shelter.
"Look mama we made a den!" Grace yipped as a massive smile was plastered on her face, what was very infectious causing Emily to smile back.
"Wow! This is amazing" Emily exclaimed as she crawled into the den.
"Mummy's idea" Grace said, not wanting to take all of the credit.
"Well isn't Mummy clever!" Emily praised as she turned her attention to the blonde women.
"We wanted to entertain ourselves while Mama was at the boring meeting" Naomi smiled as Grace made a disgusted noise when she heard the word 'meeting'.
"Looks like I have been missing out on a lot of fun" Emily moaned as she pouted.
"Don't worry Mama, you can join in now, Mummy was just about to show me how to do a shadow puppet bunny!" Grace excitedly yelled as Naomi rose up the torch light to prove what Grace had just said was right.
"Okay, move up then" Emily gestured as Naomi shuffled further up as Grace did too, to make room for Emily. The three of them lay comfortably on the nest of pillows that lay underneath them. They all looked up at the sheet sheltering them as Naomi shone the bright light up.
"So it's simple, just put your two middle fingers down and stick the outer two fingers up then put your thumb over the two fingers that are down" Naomi instructed as Emily and Grace did it.
"Like this Mummy?" Grace asked as she raised her hand up to check it was right.
"Perfect! Well done Grace" Naomi smiled as Grace gleamed, proud of herself.
"Is this right?" Emily asked as she scrunched her fist up and stuck her thumb out, being wrong on purpose.
"No silly Mama, like this" Grace showed Emily as Emily corrected herself "That's it well done!" Grace acclaimed.
They all began to watch their shadow puppets on the sheet as they giggled in joy.
"Uh oh, here comes the big scary dog!" Naomi announced as her shadow puppet morphed into a dog and she began to bark. Grace screamed and hopped her bunny away.
"No Mummy!" squealed Grace but Naomi kept barking.
"Don't worry birdie will save the day" Emily declared as her bunny turned into a bird. Emily flew her hand over to Naomi's and began to pretend to peck.
"Oh no!" Naomi cried as Emily pecked away at her hand.
"Doggys sorry for scaring bunny" Naomi apologised in a childish voice as she stuck her bottom lip out.
"We forgive you!" Grace shouted as her shadow bunny popped back up on the sheet.
"Good girl, why is important to forgive Grace?" Emily asked as she looked at Grace. Grace took a moment to think as she bit her lip in concentration.
"Because we all do things we don't mean to…" Grace said not too sure if she was right.
"Well done Grace, that's correct" Emily smiled at her child, who she was very proud of.
"Very good baby girl" Naomi praised the little girl as Grace smiled, chuffed with herself.
They went back to shadow puppets as they giggled and laughed, enjoying the moment. Emily was so happy with her family, it was all she ever needed was Grace and Naomi. Whatever they faced they would stay together.
The three of them fell into a deep sleep, cuddled together as Naomi wrapped her arm over Grace and Emily like she usually did. Smiles sat on all of their faces as they went off into a peaceful sleep, all thinking about the fun time they had just had as they stayed safely in the den.
It was like an old movie that played through her mind, reciting from her memory. Emily couldn't think of anything else as her mind was taken over by that scene. A tear ran down Emily's cheek as she remembered how happy she was then.
"Mama Cuddle" Grace pleaded as she sat up on her bed.
Emily got up off her mattress and pulled back Grace's bed cover so she could get in. The doctors strongly advised that Emily didn't sleep in Graces bed, but Emily couldn't say no to her venerable child who wanted her Mama's love and attention. As soon as Emily got in the bed Grace attached herself to Emily, nuzzling her nose against her Mama's warm chest as Emily wrapped a loving arm around her daughter.
Emily stroked Graces back soothingly until the little girl drifted of back to sleep. The words from her daughter of "Because we all do things we don't mean to" replayed in her mind like a broken record. Could Emily really forgive Naomi? Emily knew Naomi didn't mean for any of this to happen. Naomi was an amazing parent, strict and fair when she needed to be but playful and more of a friend to Grace at most time as well as being protective and careful of Graces wellbeing. Emily just had to work out if it was that she couldn't forgive her wife or whether it was that she didn't want to forgive her.
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