This chapter starts after a bit of a time jump. It's now 3 years into the future and Sophie is 4. I hope everyone is okay with this, but I just started to want to write chapters with a bit of an older kid. I really hope you all are still enjoying this! And if anyone has a specific idea they'd like me to incorporate let me know!

"What if she doesn't like it, Nick? What if she just cries the whole time? Oh, this was such a bad idea!"

"Baby, it's gonna be fine. Every kid goes to preschool eventually- she would fall behind if we kept her from going to preschool. This will be good for her. Even if she doesn't like it at first, she'll get used to it. I promise."

So Lorna went to Sophie's room to get her ready for her first day of preschool.

"Okay, Soph, you ready to get dressed and have breakfast?" Lorna called out as she headed to Sophie's room. When she reached her room, Lorna immediately laughed at the sight in front of her. Sophie had her head stuck in one of the sleeves of her shirt. Clearly, she had tried to dress herself.

"Here, Soph, let me help" she said as she took the shirt off of her daughter and put it on her correctly.

"I can see again!" Sophie exclaimed once her eyes were no longer covered by the shirt.

Lorna laughed. "Why did you put that on by yourself, Soph? You know we always help you."

"But I'm a big girl today! Today is school!"

"Yes, you're very big now. But in order to go to school, you need to be able to see. So let us help you get dressed next time, okay?

"Okay mommy!"

Nicky and Lorna walked on either side of Sophie each holding one of her hands on the way to her preschool.

"Do you think it's a fun place?" she asked curiously

"Oh yeah, kid, you're gonna have the best time!" Nicky answered.

"But are there boys?"

"Yes there will be boys in your class."

"I don't like boys. They're too loud all the time"

"Yeah I'm not really a big fan of boys myself, Soph" Nicky replied earning her a little whack on the shoulder from Lorna.

"Sophie the boys there will be nice to you. And if they bother you, you just have to ignore them. No biggie!" Lorna said

As they walked into her classroom, they were immediately greeted by her insanely bubbly teacher.

"Hi! Welcome to preschool!"

Sophie excitedly ran to the huge pile of blocks over on the carpet and started playing with the other kids that were there.

"Well that was fast" Lorna said

"Yeah see, baby. Nothing to worry about- she's so happy here!"

"She's not even gonna say goodbye to us?"

"Baby, I don't think we should make a big deal about the fact that we're leaving. It can only ruin how well she's taking this."

So Nicky and Lorna left. It seemed so quiet back at their apartment without Sophie there. They had said they were going to take advantage of having a little bit of free time. They would be able to finally be able to read. It would finally be quiet enough in their apartment for them to really think straight. However, once they had the silence, they did not like it.

"Is it weird that I miss having toys thrown everywhere?" Nicky asked/

"No, I do too. I really miss her. But she'll be back in like 3 hours and will, no doubt, start making a mess for us to clean up. All will be right again"

When they went to pick Sophie up, her teacher came running over to them, gushing about how well Sophie did.

They felt such pride hearing how great of an impression Sophie had already made on her teacher.

"She's a great kid" her teacher finally finished.

"Yeah she is." They both agreed.

Sophie came running up to them.

"Mommy I made this!" She handed Nicky a piece of paper with sloppy, unrecognizable drawings on it.

"Wow, that's great kid! I'm glad you had fun!"

"I missed you" Lorna said as she gave Sophie a big.

All of a sudden another little kid came running over and Sophie immediately broke the hug with Lorna and hugged the other little girl instead.

"Sammy's my best friend now!" she said excitedly.

"Oh well it's nice to meet you, Sammy." Nicky said trying not to laugh at the jealous look that Lorna had on her face.

Later that night, Lorna and Nicky were lying in bed.

"She didn't miss us at all, Nick. I mean I'm glad that she likes it, but wouldn't you think she'd miss us a little bit at least?"

"Baby, all of this preschool stuff is new to her right now. She's too overwhelmed by all of it to even be thinking about what we're doing during the day. It's better this way. Do you really want her sitting there upset and missing us all day."

"No, of course not. You're right I'm being ridiculous."

They were silent for awhile.

"I just miss it when she used to need us" Lorna said sadly.

"Baby she still needs us. She's only 4."

"Yeah but 4 is like almost 10 and then that's almost 18 and then she's gone"

"Okay now you are being ridiculous." Nicky laughed as she gave her wife a kiss. "You're adorable when you get this irrational you know that?"

Nicky pulled Lorna into a kiss. She was just about to start working her way down her wife's body when all of a sudden they heard Sophie running into their room, crying.

"Soph, what's the matter?" Nicky immediately jumps off of Lorna and asks worriedly.

"I had a bad dream!" she cries. "It was so scary!"

"Come here, it's okay, kid."

Sophie, who was physically shaking she was so scared, immediately tucked herself between her two mothers. Nicky and Lorna hugged her until she felt okay again. They both couldn't help but smile as they held her while she fell asleep. They finally felt needed again. Once she was asleep, Lorna carried her back into her room and tucked her into bed.

"Is it fucked up that I totally loved that, Nick?" Lorna asked feeling guilty for taking such pleasure in their child's nightmare.

"Hey, I loved that too, so at least you're not the only fucked up one" Nicky laughed. "See, baby, just when you think she doesn't need us anymore, she still acts like such a little kid."

"Yeah- luckily. I don't know what I'll do when she stops running to our room because of nightmares."

"Well, maybe we can show her a marathon of scary movies then so she'll be terrified enough to cuddle up to us" Nicky joked.

"Well at least we have a plan"