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Six

Ally opened her daughters bedroom door and quickly looked for the small toddler; seeing the small bundle underneath the sheets, causing a loving smile to erupt on her face. Ally walked into the room, but saw how the toddler shook underneath her blanket.

"Hey, baby," Ally spoke, laying her hand on Anna's forehead with a frown, feeling the heat that radiated from the small human. Anna's eyelids opened, revealing grayish eyes with gold specks, much like the first time they saw her, and whimpered when she saw Ally. Ally would make her feel better right? Or would she be mad of the yellow stain on her mattress? The thought of one of the girls being mad at her caused a sickening shiver to course through her small body. She didn't want that, in fact, she wanted the girls to sing to her while she lay in Dinah's arms.

"Come on, baby, let's see if there's some medicine around in the bathroom," Ally said, reluctantly dragging the blanket from her small frame, watching as her body shivered. Her frown deepened when she saw the soiled sheets and pants Anna wore. Ally didn't fail to see the fear roll into her daughter's blue eyes, so she opened her arms and said, "let's get you cleaned up, okay? You should had seen me when I peed the bed when I was your age; it was huge."

Anna hesitantly agreed to be picked up by Ally, not sure if Ally was mad or not. Once in Ally's arms, Anna let out a sob, her little body having difficulty fighting off whatever it was that had her sick. Ally swayed her and muttered a few words, kissing her fevered forehead.

Ally walked into her room and shook Camila awake, asking her if she could put Anna's sheet to wash and put new ones on her bed. Camila had nodded sleepily and stood, following Ally out of her room.

"Hey, babe, I see you're not feeling to good." Camila said, seeing her little girl whimper and bury her head into the crook of Ally's neck. "Do you wanna draw some awesome purple doggies later?" Camila asked with a smile, trying to cheer her daughter up, but all she got was a whimper, making her frown.

"I'm going to give her a bath real quick, can you do the bed and wake Dinah? Tell her to look for something to give Anna, and if she can't find any, to go the store and buy some kid medicine?"

Ally asked, as she went into the bathroom, searching for medicine, frowning when she didn't see anything. Ally put Anna on the floor, telling her to stay right there as she went to go get some clean pajamas. Anna nodded, but erupted in a sob when she felt her ear sting and her head to pound.

"What's wrong?" Normani asked, running into the bathroom when she heard Anna's sobs. Anna extended her hands as she let out another sob, the back of her throat aching. Normani picked her up and began to sing, trying to calm her daughter, but Anna didn't stop. "It's okay, princess, shh, it's okay." Normani whispered trying to sooth her daughter, but she kept crying.

"Okay, here are her clothes," Ally said, running into the bathroom, laying the clothes in the sink as she went to turn on the bath. Anna's cries were getting louder, the pain in her ears and throat overwhelming.

"Munchkin?" Lauren's raspy voice asked, walking into the bathroom, her face twisted with worry. Anna kept crying, not feeling well. "I'm gonna go with Dinah to get medicine, we'll be right back." The other girls nodded their heads in understanding, watching as she ran out of the bathroom and to her left, probably to make sure Dinah was ready.

Ally took Anna from Normani and began to undress her, placing her in some cool water, causing Anna to cry out, not liking the feeling of the water biting her skin. "Can you go downstairs and make some soup or something for her?" Ally asked Normani, who had been watching with horror as their little girl cried. Nodding her head, Normani quickly left to go do what she had been told, hoping she could help anyway she could.