Hey folks, sorry its been a ong time since i last updated, i'm just finding it really hard to fit the time in to type up my story, but i promise i will try my best to try and update as much as i can. Thanks for reviewing my previous chapter for those that did, please review if possible, i like to know what everyone thinks. so enjoy (hopefully)
Chapter 18:- A Long Day Ahead
The sun was beating down through the gap in the curtains in Ronnie's flat, the birds singing could be heard early morning, showing signs that today was going to be a beautiful day.
Danielle twitched slightly, as the beam of light, shining between the curtains, hit her face, her eyes flickered open after feeling the weight of feeling someone else's arm wrapped around her. Ronnie lay beside her, head level with Danielle, fast asleep. Danielle couldn't help but smile at the sight infront of her, Ronnie was so beautiful, she looked so peaceful when she slept. Her glowing blonde hair lay naturally flowing over the pillow, her rosy pink lips lightly pouted and her head resting on her one hand as the other was wrapped around Danielle's waist protectively.
Danielle hadn't gone to sleep with Ronnie there, so why was she there now? Maybe Ronnie had felt the same way as Danielle had and wanted to fall asleep with her daughter close, for the first time. Not that Danielle minded, she liked the fact, that Ronnie had came in, in the night and wrapped an arm protectively around her. Danielle liked the warmth of her mothers body close to her, she liked the scent of her mothers skin and clothes lingering in her nose and she liked the closeness that they shared at that moment.
Danielle wriggled gently closer into Ronnie's body and wrapped her own arm carefully around Ronnie's waist, trying not to wake her, she just wanted to lay in her mothers arms as close to her as possible. As Danielle lay there watching her mother sleep, she thought about the future that herself and Ronnie would share, just as Ronnie had done the night before. Danielle watched as Ronnie yawned gently, snapping her eyes open, fixing her gaze automatically with Danielle's. 'Oh God', Ronnie hadn't meant to have been there when Danielle woke up, was Danielle annoyed? Did she mind Ronnie being there? Ronnie's face dropped , she felt the weight of Danielle's arm around her waist and smiled lovingly at her daughter, Danielle was in close to Ronnie and had her arm around her, of course she didn't mind Ronnie being there. Both stared lovingly into each others eyes when Ronnie spoke "my beautiful baby girl" Danielle's smile widened, she had never classed herself as beautiful, not even pretty at that, but now the most beautiful woman in her world, was telling Danielle that she herself was beautiful. Danielle squeezed Ronnie tightly, then loosened her grip, moving herself closer into Ronnie, wishing she could stay here forever.
Feeling safe in her mother's arms, Danielle decided she needed to know more about her, even the small little things, so she decided to start with small things, the first little thing that popped into her head, she would ask. "Ronnie?", Ronnie twitched nervously, what was Danielle going to say? "yes? sweetie" Ronnie replied cautiously. "What's your favourite colour?" Danielle knew it was a stupid question, but wanted to know every last detail, it was the little things that mattered afterall. "I like black" Ronnie stated looking a little confused from Danielle's question, Danielle let out a little giggle, "black, that's a bit gloomy isn't it?" Ronnie herself laughed slightly "ok haha, I like purple too, infact no I love purple...what about you?" Ronnie returned the question, also wanting to know every last detail about her daughter. "erm... I like blue, yellow, pink and green, I don't have one favourite colour, I have loads" Danielle explained as Ronnie watched Danielle fascinated. Ronnie thought about the day ahead, of course she wanted to spend it with Danielle, but did Danielle want to spend it with her? They seemed so happy and close, but Ronnie couldn't help but feel scared, there was a chance that no matter how much she tried to keep Danielle close , she would end up slipping away, leaving Ronnie alone longing for her daughter once again.
"Danielle, sweetie, what are you doing today?" Ronnie asked stroking Danielle's hair out of her face, "well, I have the day off, so I thought maybe if you weren't working, we could do something together... if you wanted that is" Danielle explained nervously, what if Ronnie didn't want to spend the day with her, before Danielle's thoughts continued, Ronnie interrupted "of course I want to sweetie, I was going to ask you the same thing", Danielle smiled at Ronnie "thanks, I just didn't think you'd want to", Ronnie squeezed Danielle close with one arm, "don't be silly, I couldn't think of anything better, spending the day with my beautiful daughter, so what would you like to do sweetie?" Ronnie asked placing a kiss on Danielle's cheek mid-sentence. "I don't mind as long as it's with you" answered smiling at Ronnie, "thanks, well we have to go see Roxy and Amy at some point, but otherwise the day is ours" Ronnie explained to Danielle, watching Danielle's face light up at the mention of Amy, Amy was the closest Danielle had to family in the Mitchell's in the past months, she was grateful for her company. Danielle smiled, nodding over at Ronnie in agreement.
"I'm going to make breakfast sweetie, you stay here and I'll bring it through" Ronnie told Danielle, she didn't want to leave Danielle, but wanted to be a 'proper' mother to Danielle, she needed to make sure she ate properly. Danielle's face dropped after taking in what Ronnie had said, she knew Ronnie would only be in the other room and would be coming back, she just didn't want to be pulled out from their hug. Danielle nodded, flashing a false smile, trying to hide the upset in her face. Ronnie gave Danielle a squeeze, and gently planted two kisses on each of her cheeks, one on her forehead, then one on her nose. She pulled herself away from Danielle and slid out of the bed, tucking the duvet in around her daughters body before turning away to exit the room. Danielle watched as Ronnie turned away from her and disappear from the room, she couldn't help but feel her heart sink. Ronnie filled up the kettle, switching it on, she pulled out two mugs and put four slices of bread into the toaster.
Danielle lay alone, once again, boredom and loneliness surrounded her, she felt like crying, Ronnie had only gone into a different room but she felt like she'd been abandoned. Danielle pulled back the covers and hung her legs over the edge of the bed, placing her feet softly on the floor, she carefully tip-toed over the other side of the room, where her bag lay propped up in the corner. Getting onto her knee's, Danielle opened her bag and began to search through, after a couple of minutes, she pulled out a pale blue fluffy dressing gown, she neatly tucked the rest of her clothes back into her bag, then zipped it up.
Danielle stood up and slipped her dressing gown on over her shoulders and tightened the strings around her waist, covering the nightie below. Danielle made her way to the door quietly exiting the room, she made her way along the hallway and stopped outside the kitchen. Ronnie was busy frying bacon sausage and eggs in several different pans, she knew she was doing too much food and Danielle would probably only eat a little bit, but she wanted to make it special for them both, plus there was the fact that Danielle had absolutely no idea what Danielle liked. Danielle stood watching Ronnie, push the piles of food onto plates, she was too busy too even notice Danielle was there, Danielle made no effort to make herself noticed, she just stood watching Ronnie making a fuss over breakfast, blowing her fringe up out of her eyes, as it dropped over her face.
Ronnie turned to see Danielle hovering in the doorway smiling at her "hey you, I thought I was bringing breakfast to you" she spoke letting out a little laugh at the end. Danielle broke her gaze and looked down at her hands and fiddled with them uncomfortably. "yeah, it's kinda lonely without you, sorry" she spoke quietly, her nerves around Ronnie were back, at that moment she couldn't look Ronnie in the eye, scared she may burst into tears. Ronnie picked up on Danielle's nervousness and spoke quickly trying not to leave too much of a gap in silence between them "hey, its ok, no need to apologise, it's lonely without you too" Ronnie made her way over to Danielle and pulled her into a hug. She was right it was lonely for her, without her newly found daughter, as soon as she had left Danielle alone earlier on in the bedroom, she just wanted to run back in grabbing hold of Danielle and never letting go.
Both broke from their hug at the same time, Ronnie pushed Danielle's hair out of her face and pulled out a chair from under the dining table "right, breakfast" Ronnie stated soothingly as Danielle sat down, pulling the chair in underneath her. Ronnie sat down opposite and watched as Danielle looked cautiously at the food infront of her eyes, "erm, there's a lot of food here, Ronnie" she spoke carefully trying not to upset Ronnie. Ronnie nodded looking down at the piles of food that lay on the table below, allowing her hair to cover her face "i didn't know, what you liked, so I just did everything I had" Ronnie stated, forcing back the tears as she spoke, it was shameful to admit that she barely knew anything about her nineteen year old daughter.
Danielle reached out across the table and placed her hand over Ronnie's "well there's plenty of time to find out" Danielle spoke boldly, crunching on a piece of toast. Ronnie nodded, shaking the hair out of her face, revealing very glassed over eyes, she flashed a smile over to Danielle, showing her that she was fine and tucked into her breakfast as did Danielle, they needed a big breakfast now as they had a long day ahead.
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