Home Sweet Home?

The new day arrived with a smile on two young faces. Bianca woke up to find herself in bed with her daughter and an unidentified woman sitting over her with a breakfast tray. At first she was startled but, then the reminisce of sleep faded away just as the sun had done the night before. She looked up to see two smiles, one with extra drool and gurgles, the other just with laughter at the sight of the youngest one in the room. Bianca looked at the two intruders. They both were covered in pancake batter. This made her laugh. She was just so happy...everything seemed to be looking up. She had forgotten all about Maggie at that time, she was more interested in showing her daughter and their guest how to clean up their faces. The youngest of the three got a kiss on the forehead from the brunette, while the eldest with extremely light red hair. It was strawberry hair. It came down to about her shoulders, no bangs, and light blueish green eyes. The brunette just sat there and studied the features of the older woman. The berry haired woman was just staring and smiling at the child on the bed. Her gaze went between the tow.

Miranda seemed to be playing a game with Emily, but she couldn't figure out what it meant. Miranda put her hand behind her ear and pulled it back out opening it to see nothing there. Every time that happened the child got more antsy. She wanted whatever it was to come out of her hand. Also every time Miranda's hand came back empty Emily frowned and then smiled and put the child's hand back behind her ear to show her the movement. The brunette was now eating her food. She had to admit that this food was much better than anything she had tasted before. Even if it was just apple cinnamon glazed pancakes with a fruit salad on the side. Bianca didn't eat all of the pancake and barley touched the fruit. But the pancake she did eat she loved. It was delicious, but she wasn't hungry. She was more interested in joining this little game the two other girls seemed to be playing.

"Ok, here we go..." Emily turned her attention to the younger woman (keep in mind woman)pulling on her shirt sleeve. "Didn't like the pancakes huh?" Emily said giving a glare at the child on the bed. "The little angel over here insisted that we make apple pancakes. She kept throwing the apples at me. I felt like I was Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz." Emily said, the child seeming to understand what she said because she put her head down a little and smiled wide and large.

"No..." Bianca took a sip out of her cup spitting it right out in Emily's face, coughing.

"Is it that bad?" Emily said wiping off Bianca and the child before she bothered to wipe herself off. Bianca just looked at her and blinked and nodded her head.

"Yes...that bad!" She said as she wiped her tongue and coughed once more. Emily looked at her and frowned.

"Sorry...I don't do coffee. I can't take the smell. I'm a fruit smoothie kinda girl." Emily said as she grabbed a towel off the basket and wiped up the mess of a liquid that just came flying out of the younger woman's mouth. "Jezz how much can you hold in that thing?" Emily said as she soaked up the liquid with the towel. Bianca laughed at the comment and picked up her little girl to go and change her.

"Sorry baby, I didn't mean to soak you too." Bianca said as she walked into the hallway holding Miranda in her arms. Emily just leaned against the door frame of the nursery, watching the two lovely girls in the room. She smiled and went back to Bianca's bedroom, she picked up the tray of food and walked back to the kitchen. She saw how small this place was and she thought to herself that it was a perfect time to give Bianca and Miranda their present. She cleared the tray of the bowl still full of fruit and the plate of half eaten pancakes.

"Hey B..." she turned her head around the corner to look at Bianca and Miranda on the floor playing. Well Bianca was still trying to figure out the little game that Miranda kept doing with her hand and her ear. Emily saw that and she laughed under her ear. Miranda saw Emily and smiled and made a noise. Emily took that as a 'please help me' noise.

"Oh, ok little angel I'll come and save you from your clueless mother." Emily was now just not even trying to get Bianca mad at her. She walked over to get a slap on the head for the little comment she had to say. Then she got a giggle out of the littlest member of her fan club. Emily was still stomped at how Bianca had not figured out what Miranda was trying to do. Emily sat down rubbing the back of her head that had been hit by the brunette.

"Ok, here we go. Alright I am going to need a hand." Emily told the two as both of the girls put there hands out. "Hey that's right little beauty in training." Emily said as she blew into Miranda's hand. Giving Bianca a look that spoke a thousand words. Bianca smiled a smile of understand-meant and embarrassment.

"Ok, now let me see...nope...nope...nope...ok!" Emily said nope as she turned Miranda's hand in all sorts of directions. She blew on it once or twice to get the child to let out a little giggle.

"Ok, are you going to teach us or are you going to blow into my daughter's hand all day?" Bianca asked as she and Miranda seemed to be both getting impatience.

"You know I think that I see something on you." Emily said as she saw Bianca looked at her saying 'I'm not falling for it'.

"No really there is..." Emily went by her ear and took off a piece of pancake that must have gotten entangled in her hair. When Bianca saw the small piece of food in her friends hand coming off of her she just sighed. "No need to thank me but um...yeah here hold this." Emily handed Bianca the piece of food that had been in her hair as she went to go reach another piece of something out of it. But this one seemed to be behind her ear.

"Get it out..." Bianca said as she saw her friend come back with what looked like a small jewelry box. When Bianca saw this she let out her breathe. She didn't even realize she had been holding her breathe until she let the gasp of air out of her throat. Emily just smiled at this, and they both saw Miranda's eyes go wide when she saw the shinny box come from behind her mother's ear. She also started to giggle and make cuing noises.

"Yeah...I know you only got a quarter or a small flower...but this box is special. This box is going to change a lot of things little angel." Emily said as she brought her finger to trace the child's cheek. Bianca was just staring at the box and the woman that was holding it.

'Oh my God is that a...no it has to be some sort of jewelry. Yeah well a ring is jewelry honey.' Bianca thought fighting with herself over what was in the box. 'I can't...we can't! We haven't even told anyone about us...it cant be a ring...well if it is have you thought about what you are going to say to the question that follows the opening of the box?' Bianca's thoughts were now getting too hard for her to take. Emily saw the look that she was being given by the younger woman sitting next to her on the floor. She took the brunettes hands in hers and she put the box down to the right of them.

"Look, B it is not...if you will just hear me out...I" Emily wad cut off.

"yes...(gulp) yes!" Bianca said as loud as she could. Emily heard this and got very confused. Then she looked at the box and back at Bianca. 'She thinks that it is a ring! Oh my God...I don't think that I...did she just say yes!' Emily sat there in thought and she gulped herself. Miranda was now sucking on the box. Drool now dripping off of it. Then Bianca looked at what her daughter had done. The box had opened, and inside she looked at what looked nothing like a ring. It was s key.

'A key?' Bianca thought as she looked at the key. She took the key out of its cushioned little spot in the box and just held it in the palm of her hand.

"What...what..." Bianca couldn't speak. She held a key in her hand, not a ring but a key. She was now confused and she was upset. She was upset that she didn't get a ring, and that scared her.

'Did I want it to be a ring? Do I really think of having a life with Emily? We haven't even decided what we are yet, and I wanted this KEY to be a ring? What is going on? Do I really have feelings for Emily like that. Yes, I care about her but do I love her like that? Well you must...you just said yes to her. But it wasn't a ring! Yea but you didn't even let her finish the sentence before you chose to say yes. So the real question is would you have married her if it were a ring? Not do you love her because you know you do!' Bianca was fighting the voice inside her head. Emily saw that look on her face and she saw a lone tear fall down the brunette's face. It was soon followed by many more. Emily went forward to wrap her arms around the crying young woman but was stopped when she pulled away.

"B..." Emily said as she saw Bianca get up and stand holding Miranda in her arms. She walked with Miranda to the play pen and put Miranda inside. When she saw her daughter smile up at her she smiled back through her tears and lifted her head to look at the older woman. Who was now standing in the same spot she had just been sitting in. Bianca looked down at the key in her hand and then back at the berry haired woman. Emily had concern and fear evident in her eyes. She went toward Bianca but stopped when she saw Bianca take a step backwards. This broke Emily's heart.

'She's pulling away from you. What did you do now!' The voice in her head yelled at her.

"What the hell is this!" Bianca yelled at Emily.

"Bianca..." Emily tried to say something but the only word that would make it out of her mouth was Bianca's name. She lost all other words. Not that it would have been a bad thing before, but at this time it was a very bad thing.

"Don't Bianca me! What the hell do you think you are doing? Huh...what!" Bianca said with a glare that could kill. She calmed down a bit seeing that her daughter was now looking at her scared. "Please tell me." Emily just stood the way she had been, she still was trying to say anything but now the only thing that would come out was hot air.

"..."

"Please just...what, why!" Bianca turned around and put her hand to for temples. Her head was now starting to kill her. "God! What the hell are you giving me this for! Are you trying to..." Bianca said as she looked down at the key. She noticed on it there was something engraved. It read;

'Bumble Bee & Little Angel

Home sweet home'