A New Beginning
Chapter 18-What's wrong with Mummy?
Michael's POV
Abigail was settling in really well. She has become so much more independent and a lot more confident since she first came here. When we first brought her home, she would hardly speak to us. Now, almost a month and a half later, she's like our own child.
Eve absolutely loves her! She can't keep her hands of Abi. It sounds wrong, I know but Eve has always wanted a child ever since she was eighteen and when we had Daniel... well, we thought everything was perfect. Obviously not. Now we have a granddaughter and we couldn't be happier with her. She's perfect for us.
She looks like Eve as well, which is strange. She has Eve's cheekbones and nose with mine and Daniel's eyes. She was just a beautiful little girl who we both love so much.
At the moment, Abigail and Eve were sat on the floor trying to solve a barbie and ken jigsaw that Eve got her this morning. I smiled as I watched them both laugh together. Abigail's giggle was adorable. The way she does little snorts when she laughed too much made me the happiest man ever.
I walked over to the sofa and sat down as I sipped my coffee and watched the girls play.
'Evie, no!' Abi exclaims. 'It goes there!'
'Oh yeah!' Eve laughs. 'This games getting to my head now.' Eve rubs her head and kisses Abi's forehead before standing up from the floor and sitting on the sofa with me, leaving Abigail to do her puzzle.
'She's clever, isn't she?' I smile as I watched Abi put all of the correct parts of the jigsaw into the correct places.
'She really is.' Eve sighs. She rests her head on my shoulder and hugs my waist. I put my coffee on the table and wrapped my arms around Eve. Before long, I found Abi snuggled up into my side. I smile and wrap one of my arms around her so I had Eve on my left and Abi on my right.
After a few minutes of silence, Abigail started moving so she could look up at her. 'Daddy?'
Me and Eve froze. What did she just say? I shot my head towards Eve and her expression was the same as mine. Was she talking to me? When I didn't answer, Abi frowned. 'Daddy!' She poked my arm and I gulped before sitting up straight along with Eve and I looked at her.
'Yeah...Abi?' I could hardly speak. Why was she calling me Daddy? Don't get me wrong... I wish I was... but my son was her Father...
'Why havent I seen Sophia in a long time?' Abi frowned as she looked down and started playing with her skirt.
I took a deep breath. 'Well, Sophia's Mummy hasn't been well for a couple of days and neither has Sophia so she has been staying with Shane and Claire whilst her Mummy and Daddy sort things out.' Abi nods and smiles at the end. 'Will I see her soon?' She asks and I nod. 'Good.' She smiles. 'I miss her.'
After another hour of Abigail playing with her jigsaw and me and Eve whispering in harsh voices about the whole 'Daddy' thing, I made some tea. I decided on putting two pizza's in the oven.
'I just don't understand.' Eve frowned. 'I mean.. I do.. but I dont... we're not her parents... do we let her call us that or...? I don't know Michael!'
'Hey.' I say calmly as I put both of my hands on Eve's shoulders. 'Everything's going to be fine, I promise. It doesnt matter what she calls us... maybe it would be best for her to call us that...'
Before Eve could answer, we heard someone speak from the living room, Abigail. 'MUMMY!' She shouted.
Eve's eyes widened and I made a gesture for her to answer. 'Yes, sweetheart?' Eve says, without taking her shocked eyes of me.
'Mummy, I can't find where this piece goes!' Abi shouts.
'I'll be in in a minute, princess.' Eve shouts back.
'I dont think we have much of a choice.' I sigh.
'So... we are Mum and Dad to her now?' Eve smiles.
'Yeah.' I gleam. 'Yeah, we are.'
Claire's POV
Me and Shane have been looking after Sophia for days now. Alyssa's getting really sick, which scares the absolute crap out of me. Im scared that one of these days, she going to decided she's had enough and leave us all. I don't know what I would do if that happened. I dont think I could cope in losing my only daughter. My only child.
Sophia has been asking questions, obviously. She asks why cant she see her Mummy and why Daddy won't see her. It breaks my heart to think that any day Alyssa could just... and Sophia would have never said goodbye.
I know Im thinking of the negitives but its all I can think of. Justin would be broken, he loves Alyssa and Sophia so much and it would pain him to watch Sophia grow up without a Mother.
We try to get Sophia's mind of everything like her mum and dad and the fire. We took her to the park because it was a sunny day and we didnt want to be stook inside. Sophia was still a bit burnt from the fire, but it wasnt that obvious. She hardly had any burns on her face it was just mostly on her back and chest. She now has breathing difficulties so we try to calm her down when she gets too excited at the park.
When Shane was pushing her on the swings, she didn't look like herself. She wasn't giggling like crazy like she normal does. She was just staring at me as Shane pushed her. Shane stopped pushing and got infront of her to make sure she wasnt paralysed or something.
He frowned, 'What's up, chick?'
Sophia bit her lip and looked her me. She put her arms up so I got her and took her out of the swing. I walked over to a nearby park bench where it was quiet. I sat Sophia down and gave her a juice pouch. 'So, whats the matter baby?'
Sophia shrugged as she sips her drink. She sighed. 'I want to see Mummy.' Her shoulders slug down. I look at Shane who was looking at me too. I sigh and rub Sophia's back.
'Hunny, I know you miss Mummy and Daddy but they are trying to sort things out at the hospital and I promise as soon as they do you can see them, I promise you that.'
'But Mummy is sick!' Sophia exclaims. 'I don't want her to be sick.' She shakes her head rapidly. 'When I was sick Mummy was there for me so why cant I be there for her!?'
'I know hunny...' Shane says softly. He seemed lost for words. 'Its really hard right now. When you were sick, Mummy and Daddy were there so you didnt feel lonely but Mummy isn't lonely because she had Daddy and... Mummy doesnt want you to see her right now because it might scare yo-'
'Mummy doesn't want to see me?!' Sophia gasps as she lip quiveres. Tears looked like they were going to erupt any minute.
'No, no, no!' Shane says as he brings Sophia up onto his knee as she started crying. 'Mummy wants to see you every single day! She loves you so, so much! Its just that she... doesn't want you to catch the...the cold she has.'
'She has a cold?' Sophia says as she wipes her eyes. Shane's nods. 'Pretty bad cold then..' Sophia says.
'Yeah, pretty bad.' Shane frowns as he looks at me. I smile slightly and pick Sophia up. 'Come on sweetheart. We can go and see Mummy now if you want?'
'Really?!' Sophia widens her eyes.
'Yep.' I smile. 'Lets go.'
Justin's POV
'What the hell happened to me?!' Alyssa said harshly as she looked at me, then back to the blood pack on the table. I take a few steps back, just incase.
'Sweetheart... I can explain...'
'Explain how I became a freaking blood sucker?! JUSTIN!'
'Please...Lyss.. calm down..I... you were dying... dead, even... I had to...'
'You did this?' Her face said it all. Hurt, anger, betrayal...
'I didnt want to loose you...I..I love you Lyssa..'
'It doesnt mean you can let someone change me into a freaking vampire!' She was crying now.
'I know... I just...'
'Did you ever think that I wanted to die?!' Alyssa boomed. I froze in my place. Surely... surely she didnt want to die.. she has me... and Sophia.. she couldn't.
'You couldnt..' I say aloud.
'Justin I was in pain!' Alyssa throws her hand towards the bed. 'I was dying! There was nothing anybody could do, you knew it was going to happen! Maybe I didnt want to live through the pain anymore!'
'But.. Sophia..'
'Yes, it would have been hard for Sophia, I know. But she isn't the only child who would have lost a Mother!'
'I cant believe you just said that.' My face suddenly became solid. 'So just because some other kids have lost one of their parents makes it alright for Sophia to? She's had a hard life as well Alyssa! What would I have told her when I went home the day you died! "Oh Hi Soph, your Mummy's dead, sorry." I couldnt do that Alyssa! I couldn't break her tiny heart like that!'
Before Alyssa could reply I felt someones hand clasp into mine. A tiny hand.
'Daddy?' I look down to see a very scared Sophia clinging onto me. 'Whats wrong with Mummy?'
What was I going to do now?
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