keeperofwords: Small Rachel wakes up from a dream, goes to Shelby and Cassie's bed, catches them in afterglow and wonders where their pajama's are.
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Afterglow
Little six year old Rachel tossed and turned in her bed, having a nightmare. People were being mean to her Mommy, people were being mean to the whole family.
you'll never make it,
why are you together?
One man was beating up Shelby, her Mommy.
Another was beating up Cassie, her Mama.
Because they were different, and they didn't understand.
Rachel was frightened
. . .
Shelby and Cassie had been tossing and turning in bed, too-not having a nightmare. They breathed heavily against each other and Shelby fell off to her side, wrapping her arms around Cassie. "I love you," she whispered, kissing Cassie's cheek lightly, letting her lips linger. Cass let out a soft moan and turned to kiss her back.
"I love you too." she whispered, breathless.
Their skin touching was like fire-electricity. Sparks.
They fell asleep in that position. Skin against skin. Together. As one.
. . .
Rachel shivered in her sleep, her little heart pounding fast with fear.
One man had her Mama's arms in his, pulling her away from Shelby, shoving her into a car. So they couldn't be together. Rachel loved her Mama-she didn't want her to leave! Rachel cried in her sleep and then screamed when she woke up.
Frantic and in the dark, she had to know her mommies were okay.
"Mommy! Mama!" she yelled out. When neither one opened her bedroom door she figured they were asleep and she didn't yell it loud enough. She got out of bed and felt the wall to lead herself down the hallway towards Shelby's room. Once she got there, she climbed up on the bed and on top of Shelby (who was a slightly heavy sleeper and didn't feel her on top of her).
"Mommy," Rachel shook her.
Shelby let out a disappointed groan upon being woken up. However she didn't hear the word "Mommy", she just knew she was being woken up. She knew she hadn't been asleep very long, either.
"Noooo, Cassieeee," she held onto her. "We really need to sleep now..."
"Mommy." Rachel said more firmly. That woke Cassie up. She nearly jumped at the noise, opening her eyes.
Shelby slowly fluttered hers open. "Oh, Rachel, sweetie, what's-Rachel!"
Cass pulled the blankets over top of her frantically, to cover herself up. But she was too late. Rachel had noticed her absence of clothing. She scrunched her nose.
"That's silly, Mama. Why aren't you wearing pajamas?"
"Well, um, uh, Mommy and I got hot, and um...sometimes when adults get hot at night they um...take their clothes off?"
Shelby covered her face with her hands, mortified but laughing at Cassie's explanation. She had tried, bless her heart, to make it not sound bad, but...well she failed.
Rachel still didn't understand. "Why didn't you just take the blanket off?" she wondered.
Shelby smacked Cassandra's arm. "Our little girl's smarter than us, Cass! Why didn't we think of that?"
"I don't know, maybe we were just too tired to think STRAIGHT." Cass glowered at Shelby teasingly and Shelby tried her very best not to laugh. STRAIGHT. There was nothing straight about what they had been doing.
"Maybe you're right."
"What are you doing awake, Rach?" Cass asked her. Rach was still on top of Shelby but turned her head to look over at Cass.
"I had a bad dream and had to make sure you were okay," Rachel answered.
"Oh. I'm so sorry baby girl," Shelby said softly. "You can sleep in bed with Mama and me, just go get Babs from your room and let us get dressed real quick, okay?"
"Okay," Rachel climbed off of Shelby and off of the bed. "But I still don't see why you couldn't have just taken off the blanket." Babs was Rachel's favorite stuffed panda.
The little six year old could be so condescending.
"We'll take that into consideration next time," Shelby said into her hands.
Rach left the room and Shelby made a quick scene of getting up to shut the door behind her. She put her hand over her heart. "Holy hell." she mumbled, fumbling in her dresser for something to wear. Hastily, she threw a t shirt and shorts on and threw some over to Cass, who was still on the bed.
Cass raised her eyebrows. "There's going to be a next time," she practically hummed.
"Always. Just next time Rachel won't see the after math of it. Or ANY of it. Ever."
"That was hilarious." Cass laughed, pulling the shirt over her head.
"That was horrible," Shelby blushed, getting back into bed and cuddling up against Cass. "Our afterglow was showing to our six year old daughter."
"She'll be scarred for life," Cass laughed. "At least we were just SLEEPING."
"Damn those nightmares," Shelby agreed with a laugh.
Rachel returned and crawled into bed with them.
Shelby had hurriedly changed the sheets before Rach got there.
Rach cuddled up against her mommies and scoffed. "It's not hot," she pointed out. "You two are silly."
"Silly indeed," Cassie agreed. "I don't know what we were thinking."
"Mmm. Neither do I." Shelby laughed.
They all drifted off to sleep and Rachel's dreams were nightmare-less for the rest of the night.
Cass and Shelby however, were not so fortunate. They were now paranoid of ever sleeping naked with Rachel anywhere near the house.
