Foster Troubles

Chapter Four

Adelaine woke me up later, around 4pm, almost 5.

"I have to head off to dinner with Desi's family. I'll call you later, how you doing?" Adelaine held out a cup of water for me.

"I'm fine, you go. I'll be fine. Thanks." I drink the water, and she goes out, with all her stuff. I wash up, and go back up to Leo's. He was in Frankie's room, playing pretend with her. I smiled at him, as he looked up to see me. Frankie runs, and hugs my legs. I pick her up, and carry her back to the little rug, that they were playing on. I sit down on the floor with her on my lap.

"You doing alright?" Leo asked. "What's wrong?"

"I've been better, I don't know. I guess I was tired, a little dizzy?" He looks at my arm, where it's wrapped.

"That's probably why. Let me grab you some water." He kissed me on the cheek. Then he went and came back with three bottles of water, and Frankie's little bottle. He gave Frankie her bottle, and sat down. He handed me a water bottle, and opened one for himself. He put the last bottle on his desk.

"Is Leila coming back or ..?" I asked.

"That depends. Do you want to stay here or do you want to go home?" Leo answered.

"I'll stay, then. What's for dinner?"

"I don't know. You want to cook? Or should I?" Leo questioned.

"I don't mind. I'll start now." I got up and went into the kitchen, I started making a salad and I cooked some fried rice for Frankie. Around 6:15pm, I had finished cooking and setting the table. I called Frankie and Leo in for dinner. I fed Frankie her rice, and then helped her take a little bath, and change into her unicorn pajamas. I set her to bed early, and went back down to eat dinner.

"Why salad? Are you a vegetarian?"

"I felt like making it, you know I'm not."

"You're weird. I'm not hungry anymore. There's only salad?" Leo asked.

"There's some rice left in the pot? You can eat that. Picky much?" I sighed. He ate it all, including the rest of the salad. I slowly ate my salad. He finished eating and sat there watching me eat.

"What?" I asked, looking at him.

"Hurry up, slowass." He teased.

I rolled my eyes. "Why?"

"I'm bored." He said, as I quickly finished my dinner. I put it in the sink, and washed the dishes.

"Why do you gotta do all that?" He said, as I completed that task. I went into his room, as he followed behind me.

"What are we going to do?" I asked, and in a blink, he has me against the wall, kissing me, and the door is closed. Of course, I kiss him back, and it slowly moves to his bed.

I wake up in the middle of the night, with my clothes on (we didn't do anything), to hear Frankie crying. I quickly walk into her room. I pick her up, onto my lap.

"Hey, babygurl. Did you have a bad dream? Frankie, baby?"

"There was monsters," she cries. "And they run after me and eat me."

"Aww, sweetie, don't worry. Go back to sleep. I'll be here with you, okay?" I watch her slowly fall asleep. When she falls asleep, I stay there a couple minutes, before kissing her on the forehead, and returning to Leo's room. He was awake. I crawl into bed next to him. I close my eyes, trying to sleep. I woke up in the morning, and Leo comes in with a tray with a plate of eggs and pancakes, and a cup of coffee. Frankie walks in beside him.

"BREAKFAST!" Frankie shouts.

"Aww, thank you, baby." I start eating.

"You're welcome." Leo says, and kisses me on the cheek.

"Was I thanking you, bitch?" I say.

"Me! Me! Me! Me! Me!" Frankie shouts, and jumps onto the bed.

"Yes, darling. You already ate?" I smile.

"Yes. Ice cream, too." She starts jumping on the bed, and doing a little dance.

"Why are you feeding her ice cream in the morning?" I glare at Leo.

"Why are you swearing in front of her?" He asks back, glaring at me. We stare at each other for a long time, until his face is moments closer to mine, and he plants a kiss on my mouth.

"I'm telling Marie that you fed Frankie ice cream in the morning." I said.

"I'll tell her you swore in front of Frankie." He sets the tray in the kitchen.

"Yeah, okay. You do that. Let's see what happens." I say. He gets some of my clothes that I had previously left here, on other nights that Marie and my mom would go away to meetings.

"I love you, too." He responds. I grab the clothes and go into the bathroom and change. He had given me a galaxy sleeveless crop top, and light washed skinny jeans. I go back into his room, and he's spinning Frankie around.

"Wheeee!" Frankie cheers. He sets Frankie down, after a few more spins.

"What are we doing today?" I ask.