Chapter 2: Bad girl
"Mother, I´m leaving." Lorelai yelled from the kitchen into the living room.
"Okay, have a nice day Lorelai. Should I pick up William from the kindergarten or will Luke do it?" Emily asked and entered the kitchen with Laila on her arm.
"Luke will pick him up. He wants to play some baseball with him afterwards. I will be back around two. Bye sweety!" she said and kissed Lailas cheek. She walked through the dinning-room into the living-room where Sara sat on the floor,playing with a doll.
"Bye Sara, mumy is going to work. Behave, babe!" Lorelai smiled and leaned down to kiss her daughter. The little girl slung her arms around Lorelais neck und hugged her.
"Mummy, Sara with you!" she said and hid her face in her mothers shoulder. Lorelai kneeled down and pulled her daughter into her lap.
"Baby, mummy will be back soon. I promise. You stay with your grandma and your sister, okay?" she said and stroked her daughters dark curls.
"Noooo, mummy, please!" Sara yelled and began to cry.
"Baby, what´s wrong with you? You always stayed with your grandma while I worked. You know I will come back. Calm down sweety!" Lorelai rubbed her daughters back and untangled herself from the two year old girl, who started to cry even more.
"Mummy, no! Sara with you! Mummyyyy!" she cried and hugged her mothers leg when Lorelai stood up.
"Lorelai what´s going on here? Is she making trouble again?" Emily asked and entered the living room as well.
"She doesn´t want me to leave. Maybe I should just take her with me..."
"No, you shouldn´t. She has to learn that she can´t always have what she wants. You go, I will stay with them like always. Don´t worry, she will calm down soon." Emily said and stood Laila on the ground to take Sara away from Lorelais leg.
With an unsure look and a bad conscience Lorelai left her house and drove to the Inn.
"Sara, this is no behaviour for a little girl. At first you cry and hug your mothers leg and now you spilled all that orange juice over your dress. How does that look? Now I have to change you again. No more juice for you!" Emily said two hours later and picked up her granddaughter from the chair she sat on. Laila sat next to her sister, at the big table in the dinning-room and painted like her grandmother had told her to.
Sara was crying again.
"Juice, ´ma, juice!" she cried.
"No, no more juice for you. You never pay attention. I will change you now. Laila, you stay here and please behave better than your sister!" Emily said and walked upstairs with the crying Sara on her arm. She walked into the twins room and placed Sara on the changing table. The girl struggled and kicked, cried hysterically.
"Muumy...daddy!" she sobbed.
"Stop that crying. It´s not appropriate for a girl. You´re not a baby anymore. I told you two last month, that I officially change the rules now. You´re too old for the way you behave and we will change that now!" Emily said and unzipped Sara´s yellow dress. Sara screamed even louder and cried even more while she still called her parents.
When Luke entered his house with William on his arm, the first thing he heard was Saras crying. She was stubborn and cried a lot, so he just walked into the kitchen and sat William on the counter.
"So, son, I will give you some ice to put on your knee and then you can lye down on the couch and watch some tv. But just because you were such a brave boy." he said and opened the fridge.
They had called him to tell him that William fell of the swing and had a wound on his knee which needed stiches. So he had driven with him to a doctor and now brought his son home, so that he could get some rest. It wasn´t the first time that William had fallen off something or was hurt. He was just three, but had needed stiches for the third time now. He was a wild and curious kid, and without any fear, which sometimes caused problems.
Luke picked him up when he had the ice-pack and walked back into the living room where he placed his son on the couch. They had given him something for the pain and Luke knew that he would soon be asleep.
In the living room he still heard the crying from upstairs and raised his eyebrows. Something was wrong. When he was about to walk upstairs he saw Laila sitting on the chair in the dinning-room, a pen in her hand. He walked over to her, without that she saw him. He saw that her chin and her lips were trembling. He knew this sign too well. Lorelai looked like that when she tried to keep herself from crying.
"My princess what´s wrong?" Luke asked and scooped her up into his arms. Her huge blue eyes were filled with tears, which slowly began to run down her cheeks.
"´ma yelled Sara." she said while Luke loosed(loosened) the hairband, which held her curls , which were held back to tight. The ribbon she had in her dark blond hair fell on the ground.
"Daddy. Pick it up! ´ma angry!" Laila said and looked scared.
"It´s no big deal princess. Your grandma won´t get mad, I promise. You know what, why don´t you join your brother in front of the television and I will see why Sara is crying, okay?" he kissed Lailas forehead and walked into the living-room with her and sat her next to Wiliam, who was already asleep.
When he walked up the stairs, Saras screams got louder with every step. The last few stairs he ran. He stopped in front of the door when he heard Emilys voice.
"Sara, stop that kicking now. I told you not to spill that juice. I told you yesterday and the day before. You never pay attention. And now you are screaming and kicking, but that will get you nowhere. I will just lay you down in your bed if you don't stop immediately. Your sister would never do anything like that. You´re a bad child Sara. You will make your parents very unhappy if you..." Emily couldn´t finish the sentence, because Luke pushed open the door. His daughter was still crying hysterically, while Emily yelled at her.
He walked past Emily and took Sara away from her and hugged her, while she burried her face in his shoulder. She clung to him and sobbed. His eyes were dark with fury and Emily took a step back.
"Get out of my house! Right now! And get away from my children. I swear, if I ever see you near them again...!" Luke yelled.
Emily got pale. She didn´t know what she had done, but she also knew that there was no way to argue with Luke at the moment. So she just walked out of the room as fast as she could and downstairs, leaving the house, but not without kissing William and Laila goodbye.
"Sshhh, baby, daddy is here. It´s alright..." Luke soothed Sara, who was soon asleep, because she was exhausted from all the screaming and crying. Luke kept her in his arms when he walked downstairs and picked up the phone to call Lorelai...
TBC