I had a bad day which is why this chapter ended in a not so happy way...The A/C in my car decided to crap out on me and it's insanely hot outside. And I have no money to fix it...and then i broke my review mirror with my head...which hurt. So my car's falling apart of me thus making today bad.

Chapter 5

"Make him stop!" Sophie pressed her small palms firmly to her ears shutting her eyes tightly wishing away the sounds of the baby in the next room.

She didn't want to be here. She didn't want to live with Ryan or Taylor or their new baby, that she had already dubbed 'stupid.' She didn't like the yellow walls of her new bedroom. She wanted her old pink walls back. She didn't like the new clothes Taylor bought her, she only wanted to wear the clothes her Mommy bought her before she died. She didn't like how when Ryan took her to ballet practice he didn't look as interested in what she was doing as her Daddy had.

"Sorry, Soph." Ryan ruffled her hair as he ran past her from the kitchen back into the baby's room. Sophie rolled her eyes crossing her chest with her arms. She started scowling thinking about how the new baby was getting everyone's attention.

Sophie decided to stump her way into Caden's nursery.

"I want Mommy and Daddy to come back!" She yelled to her brother and his wife. Taylor and Ryan were trying to both stop their week old baby from crying. "I don't want to live with you anymore!"

Ryan looked over at her and his face dropped to see the tears running down her small cheeks. This had been the most hectic week of Ryan's life, more like three weeks. With taking in Sophie, making their family of two go into a family of three and then with Caden only giving them two weeks before coming into the world making their family turn from three to four in a matter of seconds. Ryan was more than overwhelmed.

"Sophie! Don't be so loud!" Taylor scolded once Caden's cries got a little louder. Taylor instantly felt sorry for scolding her. "I'm sorry…" Before Taylor could finish Sophie had ran out of the room still crying.

Taylor glanced up at her husband hoping he would give her some sort of answer as to what she should do now. She decided to let Ryan handle Caden this time and she would see what was going on with Sophie.

She wanted this to work. She needed for this to work. She couldn't let Sandy or Kirsten down. They had trusted her and Ryan to do a good job at raising their little girl, of course no one would do as good of a job as they would have done with her.

Taylor knocked softly on the closed door that was Sophie's bedroom. She could hear sniffles from inside as well as a 'go away!' Instead of listening to the girls yells she opened the door. Sitting in front of her was a sight that Taylor never liked seeing Sophie in.

The seven year old blonde was sitting in the middle of her bed that was covered in pictures of her parents. Whenever things got tough from Sophie she would run to her room and pull out her parents pictures and just stare at them for hours.

It broke Taylor's heart to see her miss her parents this much.

"They weren't supposed to leave me…" Sophie whispered not looking up at Taylor when she entered the room. "They were supposed to never die…Why did they leave me?" Sophie finally looked up at Taylor as tears ran down her cheeks at a much more rapid pace than before. Taylor needed to feel Sophie close so she walked over and pulled the girl up off of the bed and held her close to her body.

"I don't know why they left, Sophie." She whispered as tears ran down her own cheeks. So much for wanting to be strong for Sophie's sake.

"Maybe…they didn't die maybe they are playing a joke on us and they'll come back." Sophie looked up at Taylor with hopeful eyes. Taylor shook her head at the girl.

"I'm sorry, Sophie…baby they aren't coming back…"

"Stop saying that!" Sophie pushed away from Taylor. "They are coming back!" She cried out.

"Sophie…" Taylor tried reaching for her but Sophie pushed her hand away.

"Leave me alone." She folded her arms across her chest furrowing her small brow at Taylor.

"Don't do this, Sophie." Taylor pleaded trying to pull her close again.

"No! You're just going to keep telling me they aren't coming back to me! They will, Taylor! They have to!" She screamed the loudest she ever had at that point. Sophie was fighting her will against being in Taylor's arms when Taylor latched herself around the girl and refused to let go despite Sophie's small fists hitting her over and over again.

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"I've never seen anything like that before…" Taylor whispered once Sophie was sound asleep in her bed. It had taken Taylor two hours to calm the girl down and she still wasn't okay. She ended up crying herself to sleep. Taylor had cleaned the pictures up and laid down with her until she her body had stopped shaking and her breathing evened out.

"I'm sorry." Ryan ran his hand through his hair as he looked down at his sleeping son with his arm around his wife's shoulder.

"She's so young…God, Ry I can't imagine that if something happened to us and Caden had to go through this…" Taylor looked up at Ryan hoping he would reassure her that everything was going to be okay and that their son would never have to know the feeling that Sophie was going through every day since her parents were dead.

"I know what you mean." He whispered before placing a kiss on her temple.

"Maybe…maybe we should get Sophie a therapist…" Taylor suggested quietly knowing this wasn't going to be something that Ryan wanted to hear. He tensed up and removed his arm from her shoulder.

"Her parent's just died, Taylor. She's sad not crazy!" He said a little too loudly.

"Ryan…I know that…but it might be good for her to talk it out…" She could see he wasn't liking what she was saying especially since he was gripping the railing of Caden's crib so tightly that his knuckles were turning white.

"No, that's final. I am not sending my little sister to a shrink! No!" He kept both hands firm on the crib as he spoke.

"I'm sorry…I'm so sorry…" Taylor tried to put a hand on his back but he only pushed it away removing his hands from the crib and walking out of the blue nursery.

This was really not the way Taylor had wanted her night to end.