Lena POV
I got up because I had to tinkle. Mommy's right never drink water right before bed. I opened my door and I saw my daddy coming in. "Where did you go?" I asked "Where's mommy? Why is Aunt Maureen here?" I looked at both of them, and then I ran to the bathroom. When I came back daddy held me in his arms and answered my questions.
"Aunt Maureen was here because mommy and I took a walk" he said. "Where did you go?" he giggled "How can one five year old have so many questions?" I shrugged 'cause I didn't know the answer. Maybe I'll ask Uncle Marky that question tomorrow.
"Well, pipsqueak" he said "Mommy and I went to Aunt Angel's grave to talk" "About Aunt Angel" I asked. I saw Uncle Marky's video Aunt Angel was really a boy but he made a pretty girl. "No, sweetie" "Was it about what I found today?"
Daddy tickled me "What is this 20 questions?" he asked. I nodded because it seemed like the right answer. The look one his face changed. He seemed sad, and when ever I am sad daddy would kiss my nose. So I took daddy's face in my hands and kissed his nose. He smiled.
"Alright" he said as he picked me up "Enough questions my head hurts". Daddy tucked me into bed, I knew I should have gone to bed right away because Santa was coming. But I heard the door slide open and closed.
It was my mommy, I heard her crying. I crept out of bed and listened by my door.
"Roger, I never meant to hurt you or Lena" I heard her say. "I started again because Lena started kindergarten and she wasn't home and by November I need something to do".
"But why this, Mimi?" my daddy said. This was getting good, what were they talking about? I opened my door a tiny bit.
"Where is the stuff?" my daddy asked. My mommy reached in her coat pocket. It was little bags with white stuff in it "After all we've been through, losing Angel, I almost lost you" my daddy sad. He held my mommy's face in his hands.
"Almost Roger, you almost lost me, but you didn't" "But I didn't and you've been clean, and we've had Lena, but I almost lost you, and you're smile, and your brown eyes". My mommy burst into tears and my daddy hugged her. "Roger, I'm scared" "I know baby, I know but I lost April and I don't want to deal with the same pain, it was you Mimi who let me love again, so I don't want to lose you"
I don't understand what they're talking about. I closed my door and went back to bed because Santa knows if you're awake.