Through the Open Door || Change My Mind Sequel || SP

Anxiety

Continued.

In the office of Dr. Madigan, Elora sat on the floor with her doctor next to her. "Daddy says that he's not going to let anything happen to me or my sister or brothers. But the thing that happened to me, happened to my mommy and my GG," Elora said, playing with the doll.

"How do you know that happened?" Dr. Madigan asked. Elora picked at the little doll's dress.

"My mommy and GG were talking about it. The police people came to my GG's house when I was hurt. And they came back when my GG got hurt. And my mommy told my daddy that she didn't feel safe since the same thing that happened to her, happened to me and my GG. But, my daddy said he was gone," she said. Dr. Madigan nodded.

"Okay. Well back to your sister. Does Ella make you feel safe?" Jada asked.

"When Ella's with me he wouldn't get me. When Ella was around he didn't like to separate us," she said looking up at Jada. The doctor took some more notes and continued the talk, just trying to get Elora back to her place of comfort and rambling.

12:32 PM

Sam and Gene sat in a bakery eating sandwiches down the street from her daughter's therapist. "He is moving a lot right now," Sam said wiping her hands in her napkin. Gene raised her eyebrow, sipping her coffee.

"Does he not normally do that? Aviella did that a lot closer to the end. Yours didn't?" She asked. Sam shook her head.

"At this point with the twins, they were too big and had no room and I had given birth to Zeek by this point. I haven't made it past 8 months with my kids, so this is definitely new territory," she said, running her hand along her bump. "I asked the girls what they wanted to do for their birthday, you know since it's Monday and Matt and I are bad parents and are doing this last minute, and they had no idea. They want to open the pool, but I'm like it's literally not ready and won't be for at least four days and we wanted to do a party on like Saturday. So, I'm thinking trampoline park. Maybe a party, invite their friends and rent it out for a few hours and be done. I'm too exhausted to deal with this. Like, they are about to be six, Zeek just turned five, and Baby E is six weeks out. I need a vacation. I'm thinking Florida for a week, just me. And I guess Matt can come too," Sam ranted. Regina giggled, taking a bit of her sandwich.

"If you need a babymoon before Baby E get's here, go. I will watch your littles and in return, you and Matt can keep Avie for our honeymoon," Gene proposed. Sam sat back, taking a sip of her drink.

"Yes. A thousand times yes. Oh my god, yes! You're- yes!" Sam agreed, chuckling. "Wait, can I drop this baby first?" she laughed, "And leave him here too?" Sam asked. Regina shrugged with a grin.

"Deal. Only because you are very pregnant, and it would be hard to travel, will I accept this deal. But you have to be back before Thanksgiving,"

"Thanksgiving?" Sam exclaimed. "Bitch! No! I have to wait six weeks!" She said, forcing Gene to shrug.

"Then I guess it'll have to be soon," she smirked. Sam's mouth gaped, as she rolled her eyes.

"So obviously, I'll be doing this before Halloween, which means I need to book something now," Sam said, pulling out her phone. She was probably going to call Matt's parents to see if they had any plans for the house in two weeks. She would be 34 weeks, but she was sure her son was not coming until her induction day. But if he did, there was a 50/50 chance that Baby E would have the same doctor as his sister's.

"Are you and Matt going to talk to Lo?" Gene asked. The eldest Pauly picked at her sandwich and sighed.

"Honestly, I don't know. I want to but I don't want to trigger her," she replied. "I will talk to her therapist and see what she advises moving forward." Regina agreed. She knew that if Avie was in the same situation, she would want to help in the best way. But, she also knew that because the same thing happened to her, and she could barely process it, she wouldn't even know how to steer her daughter in the right direction.