Eleven Months

Dil and Ji Yeon had just finished music class at the library and were heading to the park since the weather wasn't to hot yet. There older siblings had recently gone back to pre school, so they were going to the park until it was time to pick them up.

"I like the turtle song." Dil commented happily as they played in the sand box while their mother's watched them nearby.

"Baby Shark is better." Ji Yeon insisted quietly putting some sand into a pile."The turtle song only says turtle a lot of times."

"Yeah, but Baby Shark is old." Dil pointed out.

"Is not." Ji Yeon shouted growing some sand.

"What's wrong?" Dil asked."You never acted like this when we don't agree before."

"My cousin is going back to school tomorrow which means I gots to go someplace new called dayscare." Ji Yeon explained looking down at the sand.

"I can't say I know how you feel cuz I never been to dayscare nieither, but I know somebody who has." Dil told her.

"Who?" Ji Yeon asked looking up at Dil.

"Chuckie and Kimi went once and from what I heard from Tommy they had a lot of fun." Dil told her."Chuckie was a little afraid like you are, but by the end of the day he had a great time and even got ice cream."

"I still don't want to go." JI Yeon said.

Dil felt bad for Ji Yeon. He wished he knew how to help her. He then remembered when he first spent the night with his grandpaernts. It was the longest he had been away from home. He then had an idea. He figured dayscare was basicley like a sleepover only in the daytime.

"What's the longest you stayed away from your parents?" Dil suddenly asked.

Ji Yeon thought for a minute."It was afore I turned one, and it wasn't to long ago. I had spent the day with my daddy and was waiting for my mommy to come home when my daddy got a call on the phone talking thing. That's when I finded out that my mommy wouldn't be coming home for bedtime and I had to stay over at my auntie's all night all alone for the firstest time ever."

"Why didn't your mommy come home?" Dil asked.

"I'm not sure, but my daddy said something about a overnight shift. Whatever that is." Ji Yeon answered.

"Anyways my daddy packed some of my thing into my Minnie Mouse bag and bringed me to my auntie's house. I stayed with Mun Hee til my auntie came home."

"While we waited for my auntie I got to play a game on my cousin's phone. I popped lots of balloons in the game. When I got bored of that game we listened to some music and that's when I heard the Baby Shark song for the firstest time. After the music my auntie came home and we had cereal for dinner with bananas in it."

"You get to eat cereal for dinner?" Dil asked in shock."We never get to have breakfast for dinner."

"My auntie can't cook. That's why we get cereal or pizza." Ji Yeon explained.

"Did you do anything else?" Dil asked.

"Well we watched a lot of tb and falled asleep on the couch. I waked up sometime later feeling thirsty so I got off the couch and reached up to the table where my diapie bag was. I pulled it down and finded my bottle. I sat on the floor drinking and watching tb. I knowed I sposed to be sleeping but I couldn't fall back asleep even after drinking all of my bottle. To make things worse Pj Masks came on. I don't like that show so I decided to asplore since I was crawling better then I had been afore. I crawled down the hallway and into what I think was the bathroom. I couldn't really see cuz it was dark and I can't reach to turn on the light. I opened some drawers, but couldn't see what was in them so I went back to my diapie bag and grabbed my glow worm for some light."

"Did you find anything good?" Dil asked.

"No. I only seed towels. I pulled all of them out to see if there was anything hidden underneath. There wasn't so I shutted the drawer and was going to look in the other one, but I ended up shutting my finger in the drawer. It hurted really bad, and I couldn't get it out. I guess my crying waked up my cousin and auntie cuz the next thing I knew there was light and my finger wasn't stucked no more. My auntie looked at my finger and then said we had to go to the hopsickle. We gotted there and my mommy tooked me to a room where I got something on my finger to help it be back to norman."

"Well aside from you getting hurted it sounds like you had fun." Dil commented as Ji Yeon finished her story.

"Yeah, but what if I get hurt at dayscare?" Ji Yeon asked.

"You'll already be at the hopsickle and they have peoples to make the owie go away." Dil reminded her.

"I guess you're right." Ji Yeon sighed.

"You can do this, and when you come back you can tell me all about the fun I know you'll have." Dil assured her.

It wasn't until the weekend when Dil and Ji Yeon met up again at the park.

"So how was dayscare?" Dil asked when he saw Ji Yeon.

"It's fun." Ji Yeon answered."We get to color pictures and play with all kinds of toys and play with bubbles."

"Wow." Dil said sitting down beside her.

"And I still get to see my mommy sometimes, but that usaully means I gotta get my treatment, but after that we go home." Ji Yeon explained.

"I told you it would be fine." Dil said.