Chapter 5 Sleep Baby Girl

"Wahhhhhh!"

The piercing cry pervaded his dreams and awoke him out of a sound sleep.

"Kathy, Robert's crying," he mumbled as he nudged the woman in the bed next to him.

When there was no response, he wearily opened his eyes. The digital clock read 3:17 A.M.

Digital clock? Something didn't make sense here.

He then remembered that Kathy had been dead for many years and that Robert was a grown man. Samuel then realized that the baby crying was Sasami and that the woman asleep next to him was Felina.

He nudged her again. "Felina, Sasami's crying." They had brought the baby home from the hospital earlier the next day.

"I fed her last time," Felina mumbled. "It's your turn."

Huh?

"Felina, um, biologically I'm not able to…"

"There's a wonderful invention called a breast pump. I made up several bottles; they're downstairs in the refrigerator. Give her one of those."

He was ready to tell her that he wasn't sure he knew how to feed a baby, but Felina was already sleep again.

"Wahhhh!" The baby's cries were getting louder.

Well, guess I'd better give it a try as long as I'm up, he thought as he slid out of bed.

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"Wahhhhh!!"

"Coming. I'm coming," Samuel said wearily, bottle in hand, as he slowly trudged up the stairs to the baby's room. When he opened the door to the nursery, Sasami stopped crying and regarded him with a "what took you so long" expression. He picked up the baby, sat down with her in the nearby rocking chair, and stuck the bottle in her mouth. She eagerly sucked for two seconds, then her face then contorted in displeasure and she started crying again.

"What's wrong, Sasami?" He then realized that in his half-asleep state that he had forgotten to warm up the bottle. It was ice-cold.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Sasami," he said as he cuddled the wailing baby against his shoulder and started rocking her. "It's been years since your old father's done this." When he noticed that the rocking motion seemed to have a calming effect on her, he started to relax, too.

What was that song that Kathy used to sing to Robert, he wondered as both he and the baby yawned simultaneously. He couldn't remember all the words, so he decided to make up a lullaby of his own.

"Jig-gly-puff, Jig-g-ly…"

Hey, if the Slumber Song worked for Jigglypuff, maybe it would work for him, too.

At the sound of her father's off-key baritone, Sasami relaxed and closed her eyes. After a couple of minutes, Samuel looked at his daughter.

Thank you, Jigglypuff, he grinned as he gently put the sleeping baby back in her crib.

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But as put her back in her crib, Sasami start to cry again.

"Felina, Sasami won't stop cry... please help honey." he said nudged at the woman sleep in his bed.

Final after fiveteen minutes of try to get her up, Felina final did. She sat up look up at Samuel like why did you wake me up.

" Samuel it 3:20 A.M, why did you wake me up?"

"It Sasami, she won't go to sleep."

"Did you get her a bottle like I toll you early."

"Yes..." he said look away for her.

"What did you do?"

"I just... Well... I Just..."

"Samuel, tell me what you did?" she said start to get up over hear the baby crying and Samuel not tell her what he did to the bottle.

"Well...I just forgot...to warm it up."

He woke me up because he did not warm up a bottle oh my... Felina said putting her hands through her hair. "You woke me up for that."

"Yes... Please Felina try singing to her she start to go to sleep when I sing to her."

He grab her the arm and try put her in to Sasami's Room. "Please Felina, Sing to her. After all you love to sing you something sing when you when pregnant with her and it put both of us to sleep. You have such a beautiful voice honey."

"Fine," as she follow him into the nursery.

Both Samuel and Felina walk to the nursery and Sasami was crying her head off. Felina walk over to her daughter crib and pick up, walk over to the rocking chair and like Samuel did early rocking her. Felina put away some of Sasami's hair out of her eyes. Slow Felina start to sing to her daughter.

"She remembers when she first got her wings

And how she opened up that day

she learned to sing

Then the colors came, erased the

black and white

And her whole world changed

when she realized

She's a butterfly, pretty as the crimson sky

Nothing's ever gonna bring her down

And everywhere she goes

Everybody knows she's so glad to be alive

She's a butterfly."

Sasami start to fall sleep again but is time in her mother arms. Samuel walk up to Felina and their baby daughter, He sat on the little foot rest, and find himself fall a sleep to Felina seond soprano voice.

"Like the purest light in a darkened world

So much hope inside such a lovely girl

You should see her fly, it's almost magical

It makes you wanna cry, she's so beautiful

She's a butterfly, pretty as the crimson sky

Nothing's ever gonna bring her down

And everywhere she goes

Everybody knows she's so glad to be alive

She's a butterfly."

Samuel had fall sleep on Felina's knee, why Felina was rocking Sasami to sleep and sing to her.

"God bless the butterfly,

give her the strength to fly

Never let her wings touch the ground

God bless the butterfly,

give her strength to fly

Never let her wings touch the ground

She's a butterfly, pretty as the crimson sky

Nothing's ever gonna bring her down

And everywhere she goes

Everybody knows she's so glad to be alive

She's a butterfly

God bless the butterfly,

give her the strength to fly

Never let her wings touch the ground

God bless the butterfly,

give her the strenght to fly

Never let her wings touch the ground."

All three of them --Samuel, Felina and their daughter Sasami -- were sleep. Samuel sleep on Felina's legs, Felina in the rocking chair hold baby Sasami in her arms.