Little Girl Lost
By:LockedSoulsAM
Summary: Every year on December 18th, Shelby Corcoran rides around aimlessly lost in thought, mourning the death of her baby girl. The little girl that three years ago she was supposed to give up for adoption. It hits midnight and Shelby runs into something she thought she lost forever.
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee and any of the characters. I do own this story line and the ideas and new characters that come with it.
A/n: It's been a week for updates but I have a reason. Next weeks is finals and this week is makeup's and I've been trying to boost all of my grades up before last report cards. So the idea for this chapter came out of nowhere. I don't even know if it will suck or not so yeah. In my own creative way I decided to give you more Shelby/Rachel moments. To take a break from all of the drama and let you get inside of Shelby's head for a change. So it gives no real progress in the plot but I thought it would be fun and it's mostly Shelby/Rachel.
Side note if you don't want to read about funerals then skip straight to chapter. Kamari's funeral was Saturday June 7 and she was so beautiful and the little purple casket was beautiful. I think she is the only person with a purple body stone cover type thing in the cemetery and her funeral was beautiful. There were literally hundreds of people there just to say our final goodbyes. I only started to cry when Kamari's principal showed a piece of artwork Kamari did in the third grade. Let me just say she could have been the next Picasso because there is no way a third grader could have painted that. It was beautiful and she will truly be missed. Thanks for all of your support through this tough time. You all are truly the awesome ones.
So with that said it's already getting better and here's your next chapter.
Enjoy =)
Chapter 21 Dreams to Reality
"Rush this one to the NICU. She needs air stat!" A doctor yelled over the rising chaos.
"What?" Shelby thought as she gained consciousness. "What in the world are they talking about?"
Shelby began to cry and twist around to get a glimpse at her baby. The baby that she so badly wanted, but was giving up for adoption. She wanted to keep her baby no matter what the stupid contract said. She wished she hadn't signed that thing already.
After a particular twist Shelby caught sight of the baby they were quickly wheeling out of the room. The baby had ten fingers, ten toes and little wisps of brown hair on her tiny head. As Shelby looked her baby over she noticed that the little girl had a purple hue to her body.
This realization made Shelby cry even more. Her baby girl. "No!" Shelby began to chant. Not her baby. Feeling the oncoming signs of hyperventilation, the new mother began to push herself out of bed. Where were Hiram and Leroy? Why weren't they telling her about her baby? She needed to know. But again that nurse came in.
"I'm so sorry Ms Corcoran is there anyone we can call?"
At this Shelby really began to cry.
Her baby was gone and she didn't even get to hold her. Why her?
"No there is no one you can call." Shelby wasn't sobbing anymore and was trying to sit up.
Shelby looked down at herself and realized she was in a hospital gown. Why was she in a hospital gown?
Standing up on shaky legs Shelby begins to walk through a door.
"She's a beautiful one, the Berry baby." Shelby hears a nurse whisper to someone. "A shame what the men are doing. You can tell the mother already loves her."
Despite giving birth Shelby still has a little strength to walk further down the hospital hallway.
Once she turns a corner she is all of a sudden in front of an empty hospital room.
But the lights in the room tell her other wise.
Shelby takes tiny steps towards the door. Stopping just a few inches short of the door, she turns her ear towards it and listens.
It's the sound of a small baby crying.
"How are we going to get her out of here without people seeing?"
Shelby gasps, she knows that voice, and it's Daniel.
"I don't know, but we have to do it fast. Time is essential in doing something like this."
That other voice is familiar too and Shelby can't deny that she knows who it is.
"We know that Hiram we also have to be careful. I'll swaddle her and then you wrap her inside of your coat but not too tightly so she can't breathe." Nurse Jackie says. "Her breathing is fine for now and we can't do further test unless you want to get caught. A few of the others are doing something to clear our path. We need to think clearly. Hiram are you sure you want to do this?" Jackie asks.
Shelby leans into the door more and peeks through the small door window. The baby has continued to cry and Shelby knows that cry. Her little girl may only be a few minutes old but a mother knows. Shelby tries to push the door open in a panic.
This must be a crazy dream because none of this has happened in real life. Or at least she hasn't seen it. This was the moment that those horrible people kidnapped her baby girl.
This was her dream and Dammit if they took her baby this time. She could control this scenario.
Trying to push the door open Shelby realizes that her hand has actually gone through it.
So this was one of those dreams where you could see the people but they couldn't see you.
Shelby slowly takes another step through the door, realizing that her attempts to save Rachel would be futile.
Shelby walks past the three baby snatchers and over to the giant hospital bed in the middle of the room.
She glances at the others just to make sure that they really can't see her.
They are still arguing over how to get the baby out of the hospital without detection.
Shelby switches her attention back to the crying baby on the bed.
Shelby smiles down at the wiggling and whimpering baby. The newborn was truly beautiful and this time Shelby got to take a really good look at her.
The little girl had small tufts of brown hair. The baby hasn't opened her eyes fully yet but on a chance the newborn blinks her eyes. Shelby gasps again. Those are blue eyes. She guessed over time that they darkened out. She traces her eyes over Rachel's body and she notices how tiny the girl actually is. Maybe the little girl is just small in general. This is her first time seeing the baby Rachel and Shelby just wants to hold her.
Slowly she lifts her index finger and traces the tiny babies face. The baby flinches and Shelby's eyes furrow. She traces her finger over the tiny puckered lips and Rachel turns her head and tries to find the finger or what Rachel instantly thinks is a nipple. The main source of food for the newborn and Rachel is hungry.
The mother is wondering why Rachel can feel her but the others can't.
Shelby pulls away and backs up. This causes baby Rachel to cry with all of her might. Boy was that a set of lungs.
A chain reaction is set off and Nurse Jackie picks the newborn up while Hiram puts on his long trench coat and Daniel goes to stand watch at the door.
Shelby watches as Nurse Jackie's sets a cast sling around Hiram's neck and places little Rachel into it. Yes the little girl was that small but the cast sling was very long.
Hiram makes sure the baby is in place and buttons up his trench coat halfway.
"Do you have a pacifier or something to keep her quiet until we get out of here?" Hiram asks.
Nurse Jackie grabs the object in question and sets the pacifier in Rachel's mouth.
"Now Hiram I'm giving you one more chance to get out of this. To give Rachel back to her mother and we can forget all of this."
"No this is our baby and she doesn't have a mother." Hiram speaks sternly. Now let's go.
"It's clear." Daniel says from the door.
Everyone follows the Nurse out and Shelby begins to try and catch them.
"No please!" She yells. "Give me my baby."
The woman chases them down a few hallways but her pleas fall on deaf ears.
Nurse Jackie is leading the two men to the trash area of the hospital where Leroy is already parked.
Little Rachel is whimpering inside of the sling but not loudly. A few doctors give them funny looks but no one dares to question Dr. Berry.
Even though being sort of a spirit Shelby is struggling to keep up with the crooks.
As they reach the final hallway Shelby yells one last time. "You can't get away with this and you won't."
Daniel and Hiram keep walking but Nurse Jackie stops. She slowly pivots on her heels to the new mother. She peers straight into Shelby's eyes and the woman has to wonder if she can see her.
"We can and we will." Jackie smiles and confirms Shelby's suspicions that the woman wasn't even semi innocent in all of this. "Now go away."
Shelby is frozen to the spot. As the trio goes out of the door that exits to the trash lot, Shelby rushes after them.
But when she arrives at the door and pushes it open there is no car there and no one.
She sinks to her knees. She managed to let her daughter get taken a second time. She knew how this all would end, but why does it still hurt so much?
Shelby stands up and turns to walk back inside of the hospital. When would all of this end? If this was a dream shouldn't she be waking up now?
"That was so awesome. Hopefully we can make future plans later."
Shelby lifts her head and looks around herself.
She remembers being here. She is sitting at the counter with her best friends Edith a brunette with extremely curly hair and Reign a brunette African American with short dreads.
She looks beside her and Mary is sitting there.
This would be what almost a year before she met Rachel again?
In this exact moment she didn't know what would be happening late next year.
Shelby notices the watermelon sitting in the middle of the four of them and she realizes it summer time. Still a year from the car accident with Megan and David though. That particular even was next summer if Shelby wasn't mistaken.
"You guys are so cute. Why don't you just get together already?" Mary laughs as she cuts herself a piece of water melon.
"We aren't together because someone doesn't do commitment." Reign looks pointedly at Edith.
"I want to be a free bird for a little while longer. I have to keep my options open." Edith takes a bite into her watermelon slice. "But she knows I love her."
Shelby's smile turns into a frown. This hadn't happened during their little get together almost two years ago. She promptly remembers Edith and Reign getting into an argument before they even got into the watermelon lunch. This caused them both to not talk to each other the whole meeting. These two sometimes always reminded them of Maureen and JoAnne.
Shelby stands up. This has to be the future and not the past.
"Shelby you have been awfully quiet this whole time. Wish to say anything?" Reign asks,
"No." Shelby whispers and she slips off of her stool.
She hurries into the hallway that leads to her room and Rachel's room. Maybe the little girl is in here?
These dreams were really starting to get to her.
But as Shelby walks into the room that was once Rachel's she doesn't see any sign of the three year old.
She lets out a sob. Was her whole life with Rachel really just a dream and now she is finally waking up? Or was this the actual dream?
She is just so confused right now that its beginning to get overwhelming.
"Shelby what are you looking for girl?" Reign asks.
Shelby turns around to see all three of her best friends.
"Where's Rachel? Is she with mom and dad? Why are we still living here?" Shelby questions as she runs a hand through her hair.
"Sweetie who's Rachel?" Mary steps into the room.
"My daughter Rachel. She's three years old and she's your niece. Mary where is she?" Shelby almost yells out through her cries. "She is supposed to be here."
The three women share a look.
"Shelby honey your baby died and you know that. Please come and sit down so we can talk." Edith says with a look of sympathy on her face.
Mary lays a hand on her younger sister's shoulder but the girl just pulls away.
"No I have to find Rachel. " Shelby rushes past her friends and sister and into the main hallway. She quickly slips on her biker boots and grabs her keys off the counter. She has to find Rachel. She walks out of the of the apartment, slamming the door behind her.
"I'm sorry ma'am but we have no recollection of ever meeting you or a Rachel." Amanda says as she looks into Shelby's eyes.
"But we can help you find her. We just need you to sit down and talk to us. To calm a little." Harmon says as he steps closer to her.
Shelby is at Lima Pd and she doesn't really know why she came here.
She has been trying to figure out the time frame for all of this.
Right now it's her second year living in the apartment. Rachel would be 1 or just turning two. She doesn't understand any of this little dream or nightmare that she is stuck in.
"No you can't." Shelby says as she backs up and walks away.
God this was tiring. What did this dream mean?
As Shelby pulls up to the Berry's house she knows that something is different about it.
The small yellow house with brown awnings, that's the first difference. The woman has checked three times in her memory to make sure that this place is the right one.
But she will always remember this house. This is the place where she found her 3 year old half dead with bruises all over her body.
"Hey!" Shelby lifts her head up as a woman's voice yells out.
But it's not towards her. It towards an unfamiliar man walking up the highway towards the unfamiliar woman. Shelby takes a moment to stare at the husband and wife as they embrace. The Berry's obviously didn't live here.
"Mommy!" Shelby hears the voice of a young child before she sees the little boy run up to his parents. Seeing him makes her miss Rachel just that much more.
Next comes a dog and two older children.
Shelby can't take the sight anymore so she starts her car up and begins to drive away.
When she is a few streets away Shelby parks and shuts off the car.
She leans her head against the steering wheel and takes a deep breath. What the hell was going on right now? Was God playing some silly joke on her?
"Mommy, come on we're going to be late." A little girl taps Shelby on the shoulder.
Shelby lifts her head. Right in the passenger seat is an 8 year old little girl. Her brown hair is in a high bun and she is wearing a black leotard, pink tights and flats.
Shelby looks into the little girl's eyes and she immediately recognizes them.
"Rachel? Baby is that you?"
Rachel rolls her eyes and smiles at her mom.
"Yes Momma who else would it be. I'm your only baby."
Shelby lets out a small chuckle/sob and leans over the console to pull the tiny girl into a bone crushing hug. "Oh baby you are so grown up."
Rachel hugs back and tries to pull away.
"I'm only 8 but this year I'll be 9. I just hate that my birthday is all the way in December momma. Why couldn't you have had me any earlier? Barbra Streisand's birthday is April 24 and Idina Menzel's is May 30th. All of the stars are born in the spring, which is so cool because it won't be too hot and won't be too cold. Momma for my birthday can I have like a huge Patti Lapone cake? Even though it will kind of clash with my Barbra theme. I don't know how many of my friends will like it but I know Brittany and Santana will do anything that I want to do." Rachel rambles.
Shelby has to lean back into her chair and observe the little girl. She has never seen the little girl speak so animatedly and so much. This is definitely a big difference from her little Rachel.
"Momma did you hear me?" Rachel gets through to her mother.
Shelby shakes her head a little to clear the clouds from it and turns to her daughter.
"You didn't do you?" Rachel pouts and crosses her arms throwing herself back into her seat. "Nobody ever listens to me. It's like I'm invincible." Rachel whispers the last part.
Shelby smiles at the 8 year old.
"Sweetie I'm always listening to you and I think it's a great idea. We will go over it when the time comes. I'm also sorry I waited to have you when it was appropriately timed." Shelby lays a hand on the little girl's shoulder.
Rachel turns the other way to make sure Shelby doesn't see her smirking.
Shelby knows better though.
She reaches over and lays a hand on Rachel's back.
"Come on baby don't be mad. Come on we're late, where are we going anyway?"
Rachel continued to giggle.
Shelby noticed this and took this as the little girl crying. She grabbed onto Rachel's arm to turn the small girl and that's when Rachel bursts into laughter.
"Oh so you tried to trick me." Shelby asks.
"No Momma." Rachel laughs and straightens up. "I was simply acting."
"Acting huh?" Shelby says. "Like a complete brat." Shelby reaches her hands out and continues to tickle the small girl until Rachel screams "Uncle! Uncle Mommy please uncle."
Shelby doesn't stop though. "No baby girl it isn't that easy this time. You have to repeat after me."
"Okay….I'll do anything just please stop." Rachel manages to get out during her giggles.
"Repeat after me. I have the best mommy in the world and I love her dearly. I will never do anything to hurt her and for the rest of my life I will respect and love her. Even if she is old and gray." Shelby stops tickling the little girl to let her repeat what she just said.
Rachel is still giggling but she gets the whole message out.
"And even if she is already old and gray." The little girl adds and smiles at her mother.
"I beg to differ I'm not old. I'm only what 30?"
"Your birthday is in August so you're only 29 and that is old. Face it Momma you're getting up there." Rachel raises her brows suggestively and smirks again.
"Oh you." Shelby purses her lips and points a warning finger at the little girl.
"Now where are we going and why do you have that on."
"Well we just came from my dance recital and you said we could go to my tree and hang out until it was dark. You didn't forget already did you Momma?" Rachel holds onto her seat belt and lifts her chocolate eyes to look into Shelby's pleadingly. "This also supports my saying that you are old and gray."
"You're pushing it and my mind was somewhere else baby." Shelby plugs her seatbelt back in without even knowing that she took it off in the first place. "But yes we can still go to your tree and hangout. Do we have our picnic stuff?"
Rachel looks into the back seat and turns back to her mother with a smile that shows her two missing front teeth and two thumbs up.
Shelby smiles and starts up the car to drive again. As they begin to drive Rachel mutters "You could still get a touch up on those grays though. I mean that is so last year."
Shelby whips her head to look into the rearview mirror. There are no grays. She looks over to her smirking Rachel and back onto the road.
Since when did she begin to raise a smart ass?
It only takes 30 minutes to reach the part of the park that is still secluded and where Rachel's tree is located. On the way there Rachel plugged her iPod into the radio and a Barbra song came on. The mother and daughter had a sing off. Shelby was thoroughly impressed with her little girl. She has only seen Rachel sing not even a handful of times.
The little 3 year old Rachel was not as confident and talkative as the 8 year old version but hopefully with a little time they could reach that point.
As they continued to drive when the Barbra song went off Rachel told her Momma of her dreams of being on Broadway. The little girl told her plan of how she was going to bring back the classical entertainment. All the while Shelby listened and wondered how her little girl came to be so smart. She was always a smart little girl but now this was different.
As Shelby pulled onto the dirt road she took a glance at her little girl. The 8 year old was curled into the passenger seat and her flats had fallen off. Her small face was being frames by a few baby hairs that had escaped her bun. Shelby noticed that even in her sleep Rachel still pouted.
Coming to a complete stop Shelby unbuckled her seat belt and turned to wake Rachel. But upon reaching her hand out she was met with air.
Looking over to the seat the mother thinks.
"Oh no not again." Tears fill her eyes. That wasn't enough time with the little girl and she was looking forward to their little picnic together.
Shelby steps out of the car and runs over to the small indoor gazebo and Rachel's tree. It has been 5 years but the tree looks like more time has passed.
Shelby inspects the tree and notices on a piece of the bark there is a heart carved with initials and something else.
It read:
Rachel's Lion + R.C. 4 EVER
Shelby smiled at this and wondered how long it took for Rachel to carve this into the tree.
Shelby knew some time had passed in her dream but she didn't know how much.
She slowly leans into the tree and closes her eyes for a second.
She can't for the life of her figure out why she is having this dream.
A few tears slip out of her eyes. She really misses her baby girl Rachel. Its great seeing what Rachel could look like in the future but she kind of misses the cuddles they have together.
She doesn't want Rachel to grow up anytime soon.
She wipes away a tear and sniffles a bit. She wishes she had a napkin.
"Mom?" A voice calls out behind her.
Shelby hears a young girl's voice and stands up straight while wiping her eyes.
"Look mom I'm sorry I ate your grapes I assure you that I will buy some more."
Shelby turns towards the voice calling her mom and her heart stops in her chest.
It's a fairly older Rachel though she doesn't know by how much.
The girl is slightly taller than the eight year old version of her self. Shelby would guess that the young girl is taller than 5'3, but when Shelby looks at the girl its almost like looking in the mirror. There is no denying whose child this is.
"Rachel baby you are beautiful." Shelby whispers out .
Rachel stops her walking and looks at her mom curiously.
"Are you okay? And thank you."
Rachel continues to walk until she is standing right in front of Shelby.
"Yes I'm fine. Can't a mother just admire how much her baby girl has grown?" Shelby wipes a few more stray tears away.
"I've been 15 for a while now mother. I don't think that's something to admire. "Rachel walks past her mother and towards the riverbank. "I mean I don't even have boobs."
The teen, despite being in a skirt, sits on the grass next to the water and crosses her legs.
Shelby sits next to her and says "You don't need breasts to be attractive and no matter how old you are I will always think you are beautiful."
Rachel snorts. "But I have loved breasts since I was three and I was looking forward to getting my own. Sophomore year is just 3 weeks away and I don't want to be the only girl in high school who doesn't have them. I already get crap for being a year younger than everyone else."
"Rachel that means you skipped a grade and was smart enough to do so. That's great and any boy…or girl that truly likes you will accept whatever you have. Breast or no breast even though I hope there will be no eye ogling of breasts." Shelby scoots close to her little girl.
Rachel simply scoots closer to Shelby so that she is almost fully in her mom's lap.
"My significant other and I have taken a break. This person who shall not be named I simply need some space from."
"You're in a relationship?" Shelby sits back onto her hands to look into Rachel's chocolate eyes. "With who? And do I know them?"
"Mom of course you know them. I and this person have been dating for almost 6 months now. I guess they just weren't ready for a commitment yet, considering we are only in high school. We decided that a little space is best right now." Rachel explains. "In the coming weeks we will meet and go over if we want to continue this mutual relationship into the school year."
"You have been together 6 months and now you're doing this?" Shelby thinks in her head.
Rachel shrugs her shoulders and mutters. "Teenagers. We all don't know what we want."
Shelby didn't know she said that aloud but Rachel wasn't making a big deal out of it.
The teen leaned back and buried her head into her mother's neck while looking at the clear water of their spot.
"I love you Momma."
"I love you too Tink."
Rachel sits up and furrows her brows.
"What?" Shelby asks.
"Nothing, it's just you hasn't called me that since I was ten." Rachel says.
"Oh well are you okay with it…" Shelby begins.
Rachel holds up a hand and says. "No keep it. I like it always have." Rachel simply smiles at her mother and Shelby returns the smiles.
She pulls the teen back into her arms and they just cuddle. It's amazing how the little girl can still fit inside her arms.
Before she knows it the sun has set and Rachel is still curled in her arms.
The teen had fallen asleep some time ago and was softly snoring into her mother's neck.
Shelby knew that all of the creepy crawly and night things would be coming out. She didn't want to have to deal with Rachel whining of mosquito bites.
"Rach baby wake up." Shelby lightly taps the little girl on her bare thigh.
Rachel sleepily opens her eyes and looks into Shelby's.
"Momma do we have to go?"
"Yes baby but I promise we'll come back." Shelby says as she taps Rachel's thigh again to get the girl to move faster.
Rachel stands up and stretches to loosen up her muscles. Her shirt rises up and Shelby notices the long faded jagged scar across her belly button.
Rachel yawns and reaches down to rub her belly. She finishes her little stretch and stands back at normal height which is like 2 inches shorter than Shelby.
"I'm really glad we can do this. It's not always just me and you anymore and this alone time was great. I can't wait until we come back..." Rachel surprises her mom with a hug.
Shelby hugs back and takes in Rachel's scent. Vanilla and strawberries plus a small hint of grapes which Shelby finds odd but it fits the young girl.
They trail off towards Shelby's car and Rachel leads her mom, All the while pretending to announce presenting her self for her first Grammy win.
"And now for the diva you have been waiting for…. Rachel Berry!"
Rachel screams and pretends to clap as though the crowd is going wild.
"Rachel Berry, our valedictorian." TH crowd cheers and waits for the young girl to get up on stage.
Shelby stands up and looks around. It's Rachel's high school graduation.
Shelby turns her attention back to the front where her daughter is apparently giving her valedictorian speech.
The girl stands there and smiles while taking in the standing ovations around her.
As the clapping dies down and everyone sits in their seats, she begins her speech.
"Lastly I would like to thank god and my mom who has been the best mother ever throughout all of these years and I love her so much." Rachel continues. The girl puts her hand to her head while blocking out the sun. "Mom where are you can you please stand up?"
The crowd begins to look around for Shelby.
"Mommy?"
Shelby begins to stand up again.
"Mommy? Mommy? Mommy pleases?" a voice whimpers.
Shelby doesn't recognize that voice as a teenaged Rachel but as a little baby Rachel. Her current Rachel in reality.
"Mommy where are you?" the little girl voice speaks again.
"I'm right here baby." Shelby sits up on the bed and observes her surroundings,
She hears a whimper from beside her and looks down. She finds a 3 year old tear stained Rachel who was pouting staring up at her.
"Momma?" The little girl's shaky and tired voice whispered out.
"Oh baby. I missed you." Shelby pulls the tiny toddler into a bear hug.
"Me missed you too Momma. Where did you go? Me thought you was dead." Rachel says into her mother's neck.
"No baby I won't be dying for a long time. I never went anywhere. I was always right there and I always will be." Shelby hugs Rachel a little tighter and combs her finger through the little girl's brown locks.
Rachel coughs in response and whimpers. She nuzzles her nose into Shelby's neck and sniffles. "Momma I not feeling good at all. My tummy hurts."
"My poor baby let me see." Shelby says in a baby voice while sitting the little girl up.
Rachel leans over pitifully but she doesn't fall over somehow.
Shelby does a once over of her little girl. Rachel is definitely pale and after kissing her forehead she can tell the little girl is hot.
"You're hot so baby I don't know where a thermometer is but in the morning we can go to Dr. Olsen and maybe she can help us." Shelby says as she rubs the little girl's arms.
"But we gottsa go to Mr. Charlie's work in the morning." Rachel whines reminding her mother.
"I know we do but we are going to have to reschedule baby. I'm sorry I know you wanted to be a brave girl and do this but we have to get you to 100% first." Shelby leans Rachel back into her.
The little girl simply nods. She doesn't feel good at all and she doesn't want to talk.
Shelby looks down and notices her shirt is unbuttoned and Rachel's forehead is lying against it. This causes her to really feel how hot the little girl is.
She's thinking Rachel has a cold/fever.
There has been so much going on these past few days she hasn't even thought about her baby getting sick.
Rachel whimpers again and rubs her forehead into Shelby's chest. She was uncomfortable and hot.
"Mommy. Me take all dese clothes off peez?" Rachel asks. She doesn't even lift her head because of pure exhaustion.
"No baby we have to keep them on but we don't have to have a cover if you don't want it." Shelby says.
Rachel happily kicks the cover away and curls into Shelby even more.
Shelby knows that is sucks being sick and that it's going to be a long night. She hasn't experienced a sick Rachel yet but she knows that this will be a bumpy ride. She wishes there was something to do that can help her little girl right now.
Rachel whimpers again but pushes Shelby's top away.
She latches on and closes her eyes. She doesn't feel too good but she knows her Momma will make her feel better. If she was sick and with her daddies it wouldn't be so good because they wouldn't take care of her at all. She would just be sick and miserable which then they would call lazy.
She is truly grateful for her mommy at this time.
Shelby just holds Rachel as the girl weakly suckles at her breast. She has a little idea of the symptoms Rachel is feeling. There is no chance that the little girl will unlatch now and let her Momma go and get the children's Tylenol.
Shelby knew that was a no and so she just rocks the little girl and sings to her as the little girl continues to suckle and whimper. The dream Shelby had told her that there would be a lifetime of sickness and happiness between her and Rachel and she couldn't wait for any of it. But then again she could because she doesn't want Rachel to grow up just yet. Shelby gazes at her daughter for a while and just enjoying the little girl's size until the toddler drifted off into a fitful sleep.
Tomorrow was going to be a brand new challenge.
A/n: Awe poor Rachie. She's sick. That totally came out of nowhere. So did you like my chapter of kind all Rachel and Shelby? This chapter does not show the future of the sequel but maybe it could. Everything that happened here in this chapter won't necessarily happen in their future lives. But can you guys guess who Rachel's Lion is? I can tell you that a lot of people say that this person is like a lion and they have nicknamed the character with Lion on several occasions.
P.s. You guys are now reading the work of a working teen. I got a job at this place called the Harriet Tubman center and I start July 7. My orientation is Saturday and we have a bunch of meetings sort of like training I guess through out this month. Plus 5 more days of school Yay!
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