Disclaimer: I do not own any characters including: Bobby Manning, Jack Hudson, Myles Leland the third, Lucy Dotson, Tara Williams, Ted Garrett, Sue Thomas, Howie, Levi the Dog, or any other characters that were created by anyone other than me. If any character is similar to others it is a mere coincidence and not intentional. I also don't own the book Cinderella, just to make that clear.

Chapter 4

Chloe jumped out of the car the second Bobby stopped it. Tara and Bobby climbed out and laughed.

"Tara – I mean Mommy – the house is huge!" Chloe exclaimed.

"Yeah," Bobby agreed. He walked around the back and opened the trunk. He pulled out the luggage.

"I can't believe we'll be living in there," Tara said amazed. "Hey, Bobby, I can help."

"Nah, don't worry about it, Tara."

Tara walked up the stairs to the porch and unlocked the front door reveling a huge Grand Room with a chandelier on the high ceiling. She looked up and could see the sky through the large skylights. Chloe ran past her up the elegant staircase, "I'm going to go find my room!"

"Okay," Tara said, mostly to herself. She heard Bobby walk up behind her and drop the bags on the hardwood floor.

He whistled in amazement. "Whoa."

"Yeah," Tara whispered. "Am I expected to clean all of this?"

Bobby wrapped an arm around her waist, "I'm sure Chloe will be happy to help."

"Ha! And you think you're going to get out of it that easily?"

"Yep," he said and walked up the stairs, "I'm going to go find Chloe, our little sheila will want her stuff. Do you have any idea where our rooms are?" he called back.

"Ask me in a week." Hopefully I won't be still getting lost. She caught her breath, Our little sheila. It sounded so…natural. Tara looked around as she tried to decide which part of the house to explore first. She turned to the right. There she found the elegant dining room, her dream kitchen, the welcoming living room, a huge main bathroom and near the back an entertainment room.

She turned around, amazed at the size of everything. On the left side of the house she found two bedrooms, which she figured were the guest rooms, another bathroom, plus the ones in each of the guest rooms, and just when she thought she had seen it all she opened on last door. It opened to an indoor pool! Not a huge one, but she noticed that the glass wall was actually a large sliding door, the pool continued outside, well, almost, there was a wall underwater that separated the two, but Tara wasn't worried about that. "Wow." With wide eyes she turned around and walked back into the Grand Room and was taken by surprise when she heard squeals coming from upstairs.

She took the steps two at a time and followed the sound. Tara was lead to Chloe's room. A little girls dream; a queen sized canopy bed with pink and white sheets stood at in the center of the west wall. A beautiful cushioned bench sat at the foot of it. A window 'hanging' out of the wall with large windows and flowing curtains was the perfect place to read. The little white table in the corner was covered with a light pink table cloth, on it stood the perfect tea set, where Chloe and one of her many teddy bears could share cookies and tea.

Bobby was running around the room, holding Chloe above his head, giving her airplane rides in her little green overalls. She laughed even harder when Bobby bent lower, the swooped even higher. Tara cleared her throat and they looked at her, "Hey kids," Tara said.

"I'm not a kid!" Chloe complained.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Chloe." Tara laughed.

"Time to land, little sheila," Bobby said, letting her down on her bed. Tara unpacked Chloe's things.

"Aww," Chloe whined, "do I have to?"

"Yes," he tickled her, "I think it's time you go to sleep."

She yawned, "Nuh-uh."

"Yu-huh," Bobby said, smirking. He kissed her on the cheek and she gave him a goodnight hug before she let her legs go from under her and dropped on the bed. "Nighty-night."

"'Night!"

Tara took out Chloe's pajama's, toothpaste and toothbrush. "Change and then wash up, okay sweetie?"

"Fine," Chloe granted, grudgingly.

"If you want, I can read you a bedtime story when you're done," Tara offered.

"Really?" Chloe jumped out of bed and ran to find a bathroom. Tara heard her exclaim, "Whoa! The bathrooms huge!"

Tara laughed and went to the bookshelf. Bobby came up behind her. "If I ever had that many books, I might have actually considered opening one."

"Ha!" Tara laughed, "You?" She looked around the room. "The F.B.I. really outdid themselves didn't they?"

"Yeah, but we're supposed to play the role of a wealthy family."

"Are we really going to be able to pull this off?"

"We better. But we should probably be prepared, in case we meet our neighbors."

"Okay," she sat down on the cushioned bench by the window. "So, where did we meet?"

"Uh, I spilled my coffee on you and we just clicked."

"Okay, how long did we date before we got married?" Tara asked.

"A year and half?" Bobby said. "And Chloe is 4 and a half years old, so maybe we should have been married a little over two years before we had Chloe?" The sentence sounded odd to Bobby, their marriage, their kids.

"Okay, so we've known each other for a total 6 years?"

"Yeah. I guess so."

Chloe came running in minutes later dressed inher pajama's princess night gown flowing around her feet, "I'm done! Can we read a bedtime story now?"

"Absolutely, Chloe." Tara said, "Which one do you want?"

"Cinderella!" Chloe jumped on the bed.

"No jumping on the bed, Chloe," Bobby said. "We have a trampoline for that."

"We do?" Tara and Chloe asked at the same time.

"Sure, I saw it through the window."

"We have a trampoline!" Chloe screamed.

"It's time to settle down now, Chlo'," Tara said. Bobby's cell phone rang and he excused himself as Tara and Chloe crawled under the sheet and opened the book, "Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom, there lived a…"

He walked down the stairs and answered the cell, "Manning."

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