It was finally Wednesday and Shabnam was so excited about taking Jade out. She was slightly nervous though as she had never had full responsibility of the girl. Shabnam arrived at the hospital and was just about to walk into Jade's room.
"Ah would you like to do the honours of waking Jade up? She might not hate us for the rest of the day, if you do it" The nurse said and Shabnam smiled. She walked in with the nurses and walked over to her daughter.
"Jade" Shabnam said. "It's time to get up"
Shabnam shook the girl softly and it didn't take long until the girl was awake.
"Good morning sweetie" Shabnam said and Jade smiled. Jade opened her arms out, she was still tired. Shabnam smiled and pulled the girl into her arms.
"I missed you" Jade said snuggling into her mum.
"I missed you too baby girl, but I need you to eat your breakfast now" Shabnam said and Jade nodded. She turned around and took her tablets still in her mum's knee.
"In the morning, I take 2 red tablets and a blue tablet. Then I take these ones" Jade said showing her mum. Shabnam nodded taking note of this.
Jade started eating her toast still on her mum's knee. The nurse watched for a couple of minutes before leaving.
"So, I have a surprise for you today" Shabnam said.
"What is it?" Jade asked.
"I'm not telling you" Shabnam said.
"That's not fair" Jade said. Shabnam laughed at the girl huffing.
"Just get dressed" Shabnam said and Jade nodded. She bit her lip and looked down.
"What's up?" Shabnam asked lifting the girl's head up.
"My hair is horrible" Jade said.
"No it's not" Shabnam said.
"It hasn't been washed in like 3 days" Jade said.
"Do you want me to ask if I can wash it?" Shabnam said. Jade nodded.
Shabnam stood up and walked out the room. She found a nurse and explained the situation. The nurse nodded.
"Come on then, let's get this done" Shabnam said. Jade nodded and stood up. She walked to the disabled toilet with her mum.
"Tilt your head forward." Shabnam said and Jade nodded. She did what her mum had told her. Shabnam quickly wetted the girl's hair before massaging the shampoo in.
Once they had finished, Shabnam wrapped the girl's hair in a towel and quickly started to tidy the bathroom up a little.
"I need a pee" Jade complained.
"Go now" Shabnam said.
"But you are here" Jade said.
"I'm not looking" Shabnam said and Jade sighed before nodding. She quickly went to the toilet before they walked back to the room.
Shabnam towel dried the girl's hair before getting a hair dryer.
"You are hurting me" Jade complained as she squirmed about under Shabnam's grip.
"Jade, it is on cool" Shabnam said.
"It hurts" Jade complained.
"If you stayed still it would be a lot better" Shabnam said and eventually Jade stopped moving and the rest of the hair drying experience went a lot smoother.
Shabnam then got down clothes for Jade. She handed them to the girl and helped her get ready.
"Can you tell me now?" Jade asked as Shabnam placed the t-shirt over Jade's head.
"No, you just have to wait and see" Shabnam said and Jade sighed again.
Once Jade was dressed the door knocked. The doctor walked in.
"I'm here early today, so you can spend the day with your mum" The doctor explained and Jade nodded.
They quickly got started. The doctor started with some questions before doing some physio with her.
"Good girl, now I'll just do your IV" He said and Jade nodded. He sorted everything out before getting ready to leave.
"Just keep an eye on her today, there are a lot of infections going about between children at the moment so it might be best to keep her away from outside the hospital playgrounds" The doctor said and Shabnam nodded.
"Come on" Shabnam said as the doctor left.
"Where are we going?" Jade asked and Shabnam patted her nose. They walked outside and got a taxi.
Jade was getting nervous now and held onto her mum's hand.
"Hey, it's okay" Shabnam said.
"Where are we going?" Jade asked, her voice full of fear.
"We are going to my house, so you can met my, I mean our family" Shabnam said. Jade nodded but instantly looked worried.
"Hey, there is nothing to worry about" Shabnam said but Jade just bit her lip. She thought for a second.
"What if they don't like me?" Jade asked quietly.
"Hey, sweetie they will love you I promise" Shabnam said just as they pulled up at the square.
"Come on" Shabnam said as she got out the taxi. She helped Jade climb out.
"I don't want to go in" Jade said.
"Come on sweetie, it's going to be okay" Shabnam said. Jade bit her lip again before putting her hands up.
"Just this once" Shabnam said picking the girl up carefully.
"I'm scared" She said leaning her head on Shabnam's shoulder.
"You don't need to be scared" Shabnam said as she walked to the front door struggling to carry her bag and Jade.
She opened the door and they went into the living room. Shabnam put Jade down but the girl instantly tried to cling on and tried to hide her face in her mother's shoulder. When she realised her mum wasn't going to pick her up again. She hid behind her.
"Jade, this is my dad" Shabnam said.
"Hello Jade, it's nice to meet you. You can call me whatever you want – Masood, Grandad, Papa whatever you wish" Masood explained and Jade nodded before looking at the other person in the room.
"You know Kush don't you?" Shabnam asked and Jade nodded. She was slightly confused as to why Kush and her mum kissed but he wasn't her dad. She decided to ask about that later.
"Hi Jade, it's nice to meet you again" Kush said and Jade just smiled. She hadn't let go of her mum's trouser leg the whole time since walking in.
"This is my brother Tamwar, you can call him Tam or Uncle Tam" Shabnam explained and Jade nodded.
"Hello" Tamwar said awkwardly.
"And this is Nancy. She is Tamwar's girlfriend" Shabnam said and Jade nodded.
"Hi, I'm also your cousin but it's kind of complicated. Your dad is my uncle" Nancy explained and Jade nodded nervously. She didn't like thinking about Dean. He scared her.
Once all the introductions were over, they all got on with what they were doing. Kush disappeared to work, Tamwar and Nancy went up the stairs and Masood sat down to read his papers.
"Take your coat off" Shabnam said and Jade did as she was told. She was still very nervous.
"Come on let's go and sit down" Shabnam said as she guided Jade to the sofa. She sat down and the girl sat down next to her. She couldn't get any closer to her mum and Shabnam could feel her shaking.
"Hey, calm down" Shabnam said before placing the girl on her knee. Jade wasn't sure what came over her but she just threw herself at her mum and couldn't stop crying.
"Hey, it's okay" Shabnam said trying to calm the girl down. She rocked her gently. Masood looked up and noticed the girl.
Instantly he moved towards them, wondering how he could calm the girl down.
"Hey, am I really scary?" Masood asked. "I don't mean to be. I know you have been through a lot but we do love you. I only found out about you a couple of months ago and since then I have been so excited to meet you"
Jade sat up and looked at Masood. He didn't seem so scary now.
"Can I have a hug?" He asked and Jade nodded. She leant over to her grandfather and allowed him to hug her before hugging him back.
Shabnam smiled. She was glad Jade was starting to relax.
"How about we head to the minute mart and you can pick up a magazine and a sweet?" Shabnam asked and Jade nodded.
They got their jackets back on and headed out. They went to the minute mart first and Shabnam was speaking to Denise.
"I want to go to the park" Jade said as Shabnam and Denise were speaking.
"Jade, I am speaking" Shabnam said and carried on speaking to Denise.
"I want to go now" Jade said.
"Jade, I am speaking. Now stop being rude" Shabnam scolded. Jade glared at her mum before running off. Shabnam sighed.
"I'm so sorry about this" Shabnam said before running after her daughter. She had no idea where her daughter would go so headed home first to check if she had gone there.
Jade ran to the park, it was one of the few places in the square that she knew. She was nearly at the community centre when she heard someone shouting her name.
"Jade" Shirley shouted. Jade looked about. She wanted her mum more than anything just now. Dean was behind Shirley.
"Jade what are you doing here?" He asked. Jade was starting to worry now. She looked around for her mum.
Meanwhile, Shabnam had just been home and realised that Jade wasn't there. She was trying to think of another place she could have gone. Then she remembered.
Jade looked about, Shirley and Dean were getting closer to her now.
"No" She said stepping back. While looking around, she noticed her mum in the distance running towards her.
"Mum" Jade shouted and she jumped into her mum's arm as soon as she was in sight. Shabnam pulled the girl into her arms. Her heart bleed, the girl had just called her mum.
"Jade, it's me. It's Shirley" Shirley said but Jade just snuggled closer into Shabnam.
"We need to go, you are scaring her" Shabnam said as she walked away with the girl.
"Stop, she is my daughter too" Dean shouted.
"Dean, she is scared of you" Shabnam said.
"No, she isn't. Come on Jade, it's me. We had her first and then you just come in and waltz in and take her away" Dean said.
"Dean, you weren't even interested in her at the start. I didn't realise how selfish I was being until everything with Zaair" Shabnam said.
"Mummy, I want to go home" Jade cried into her mum's shoulder.
"We are going home" Shabnam said trying to calm the girl down. She walked passed Dean and Shirley and gave them a look.
"Come on Shabs, she is my daughter too. I didn't force you to have sex with me, let me see her" Dean shouted. Shabnam blushed at the announcement of sex. She hoped that Jade hadn't picked up on it or ask her about it.
They arrived home and Shabnam knew that she needed to get both herself and Jade away from everyone else. She walked up the stairs to her room, starting to struggle to carry the girl at the same time but she managed. Shabnam put Jade on the bed. The girl didn't want her mum to held go of her.
"It's okay" Shabnam said as she lay down next to the girl. Jade instantly curled into her mum and just continued to cry. Everything was just getting too much for her. This was the second breakdown she had had today. Her first one being with Masood and know just now.
"Mummy's got you" Shabnam said. She wasn't sure what came over her but it just seemed like the right thing to say. She rocked the girl in her arms and just let her cry. After about 15 minutes of solid crying, the girl started to calm down but her breathing was bad.
"Take a couple of puffs" Shabnam said handing the inhaler to the girl. Jade nodded and did what she was told.
"Is everything just getting too much for you?" Shabnam asked and Jade nodded.
"I understand that it is hard but we will get through this together okay?" Shabnam explained and Jade nodded.
"I like it when you are cuddly like this" Shabnam said and Jade smiled.
"I don't get to be cuddly like this a lot because I have no one to cuddle to" Jade said.
"Well that is going to change, I promise" Shabnam said and Jade nodded.
"Can I call you" Jade said before biting her lip. Shabnam looked at her daughter.
"Can I call you Mum?" Jade asked and Shabnam smiled.
"Of course you can, you can call me whatever you feel comfortable calling me. I don't mind if you call me Mum sometimes and other times Shabnam just whatever you wish" Shabnam explained and Jade nodded.
"It felt right calling you mum earlier" Jade said and Shabnam nodded.
"Then you can call me Mum" Shabnam said. Jade smiled.
"Do you want to talk about anything that happened out there?" Shabnam asked.
"I don't want you worry about things" Shabnam explained and Jade nodded.
"I can't think of anything" Jade said and Shabnam nodded.
"Okay, if you ever do then just write it down and then ask me next time you see me" Shabnam explained and Jade nodded.
"Shall we go down the stairs" Shabnam asked and Jade nodded.
"Mum, why isn't Kush my dad if you kiss him?" Jade asked.
"Em, well I only met Kush this year" Shabnam said and Jade nodded.
"I like him, I wish he was my dad" Jade said. "If he was my dad, I might not have been ill. Would you have kept me if Kush was my dad?"
"Oh baby, listen when I had you I was very young. In my religion it's not right if you have a baby before you are married" Shabnam explained and Jade nodded.
"But you had two babies without being married" Jade asked confused and Shabnam nodded.
"I wasn't meant to and some people got annoyed with me" Shabnam explained in the best way she could.
"Well I'm not annoyed at you" Jade said and Shabnam smiled.
"I'm glad" She said.
"Shall we go and get something to eat?" Shabnam asked as she noticed it was after 3 o'clock. Jade nodded.
"I'm starving" She complained and Shabnam smiled.
They went into the kitchen and Masood was making curry.
"I have curry" Masood said and Shabnam smiled.
"It's mild, do you think you'll like it Jade?" Masood asked and Jade nodded.
"I love curries, I like spicy things too" Jade said.
"She is certainly your daughter Shabs" Masood said and Shabnam smiled. They dished up a plate and Jade took her tablets before they started eating.
Jade spoke happily with Masood and Shabnam until they were finished.
"I think we should head back now" Shabnam said and Jade huffed.
"But mum" Jade complained.
"Come on" Shabnam said holding the girl's hand.
They got everything together and headed back to the hospital.
"I had a really good day" Jade said and Shabnam smiled.
"I did too. I think you should get changed into your pyjamas and then we can watch a film before I have to go" Shabnam said and Jade nodded.
Jade quickly got changed into her pyjamas before climbing into bed. They snuggled down and watched a film and by the end of the film the girl was sound asleep.
"See you on Friday" Shabnam said kissing the girl on the head before leaving.
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