"Why didn't you ask me about it?" I shook my head in desperation, both of us sitting naked in bed after the night's hot episode, "You should've asked me! How could you organize something like this without talking to me first?"
Chris grinned as if I had complimented him, "I wanted it to be a surprise."
I sighed, grabbed my hair and fell back on the pillows, I couldn't help but giggle a bit in excitement, even if I was mad.
I tackled Chris in bed, getting on top of him.
"You're going to get me hard again." Chris laughed.
I hugged him, wanting to thank him for what he had done but not daring to, I rolled back to my spot.
"What about Sophie?" I asked him, "She's so young." I told him.
"Sophie is going to be fine, it is going to be ten days." Chris said it as if it was no big deal, he tucked my hair behind my ear, "Look at you. You need rest, we both do."
It was true, I was awfully tired, and so was Chris. But just here, between us, being a mother is harder than being a father. I tried not to laugh out loud at that thought. To clear things up, Chris had just given me a white box, telling me it was a present. I opened to box, to find two paper like objects. Two tickets to Hawaii.
"Besides" Chris started, "We still have more than a month to organize ourselves."
"But our anniversary isn't until like three months…" I told him.
"I know, but I was checking the weather, and I want us to get the best weather possible there, and that is in one month. The summer, its pretty hot there." He smiled.
A squeal came from Sophie's crib, I managed to slip some pants and a pajama top, I picked her up and gave Chris a nudge, "Go put pajamas on…"
"Hey sweetie" I touched her nose gently with the tip of my index finger. She shook her tiny arms in excitement and then wrapped her fingers around my one finger, I couldn't help but smile. She opened her mouth, exposing her gums and then pulled my finger into her mouth, and then biting it with her teeth less gums. I let out a soft chuckle, "Someone's starting to grow teeth, yes?" She continued sliding her gums on my finger, "Your gums itch, don't they, baby? Aw, I'm sorry." I told her as Chris joined me. Chris reached to grab her from me, I didn't want to, but I let him hold her.
I wasn't sure of what Sophie was going to do, both my daughters were very close to me. Her eyes searched the room. I thought she was going to cry and bite Chris or attempt harming him, but she didn't. "Put her in bed."
Chris lied her in bed on her back, and we sat beside her, one on each side. She rolled a bit, and then stopped, looked at Chris, looked at me, stared at the ceiling for a while and out of nowhere, opens that tinny mouth and lets out a giggle and a huge smile from ear to ear.
We couldn't help but laugh too, she was so pretty, so beautiful in fact.
"Clarissa looks more like you than Sophie does." Chris told me.
"She doesn't look like you either." I rolled my eyes, "Okay, a bit…"
"They look like each other, if you pay close attention." Chris stroked her black thin hair.
They did look a bit similar, they both had huge eyes, with curled eyelashes, and plump lips. But Sophie's hair was black like a very dark night sky, and big light blue eyes, her skin was also more like my mother's family, the french, with whiter skin. And Clarissa, had big blue eyes, just like Sophie's but they were of a caramel color, with chocolate brown hair like mine, and lips like Sophie's, her skin on the other hand, was more of Chris's family, Hispanic, as it was tanner than Sophie's fair skin. Both of them had beautiful hair, a wavy hair with perfect ringlets, that formed mostly halfway down their hairs, but Sophie's was still pretty short, so you couldn't see much of it, but I guessed it would end up like Clarissa's.
"There's formula in the fridge." I told Chris, he kept staring at me, "Go get it."
Chris got up lazily and walked towards the kitchen. I held Sophie's stomach gently with my hand and looked at the tickets to Hawaii, it was a good present for an anniversary, and we needed it of course. But was it really a good idea? I guess that didn't matter, did it? As Chris had already payed it anyways. There was always the monsters problem, and now, besides that, we had Sophie to worry about. Clarissa would be fine, but I felt like leaving Sophie behind was making me a bad mother, since she's kind of sick. With that in mind, I tickled her softly, "Mommy loves you so much. I love you more than anything in this world, yes, I do. Mommy does." She smiled at me and let out a small shriek.
Chris brought the bottle of milk, and I handed him Sophie. He placed her comfortably in his arms and started feeding her. I dimmed the lights, making it a sleepy environment for Sophie.
After a while, she was back asleep in her crib, and Chris and I, were lying in bed.
"Clarisse" Chris whispered, when we were back to darkness, "Do you think I'm hot?"
"What kind of question is that, dimwit?" I asked.
"Well, now that we have babies, I haven't had time to practice as much as I did before." It made me angry, because when he was out, wrestling, in capture the flag, anything like that, I stayed home watching our kids. I was the one who nearly didn't remember any fighting moves.
"Of course I think you're hot." I ran my hands over his muscly arms, they were well defined, and so were his abs.
"Come here" Chris put an arm around me and pulled me close to him, his smell was so good.
I sighed, worried about my other daughter. "Were do you think Clarissa is getting those cuts and bruises?"
Chris didn't say anything. "I was thinking…" I started, "Every time she hurts herself, we give her attention. And you know how Sophie's taking most of our attention, specially mine. I was thinking, do you think she might be hurting herself to get attention?"
"Self harm at two?" Chris asked me.
"No, just her instincts maybe. She's doing what it takes to get attention." I buried my head on Chris's chest, "I can't believe we are causing our child to self harm… She thinks we don't like her. We are such bad parents." And before I finished my sentence, we heard a loud thump, I shot up straight.
"Did you hear that?" I asked Chris.
"Yeah, don't worry about it, its probably some couple just having sex outside." Chris told me, and I chuckled, thinking of all the times we fucked, lying on the grass.
I ignored Chris's comment and stood up. I opened the window, curious about what could have caused the thump. I looked outside, all I saw was the night sky, lots of stars and other cabins. I saw no horny couples enjoying themselves, actually there was no one outside. I looked towards Clarissa's window from outside. I heard footsteps, but I didn't see anything outside. I shook my head, thinking I was crazy. But I knew I had heard the footsteps and the thump.
I went back to bed, Chris looking at me as if I was crazy.
"I hope its not what we think." I said worriedly.
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