Everything I Ever Wanted

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'Goodnight, my gorgeous girl. Mama loves you.' I couldn't help saying it. And I didn't hear any complaints from her.

'Na-night Mam-Lizzie.' She said lightly. This time I was too happy to dwell over it. I had my baby in my arms and I knew she would say it soon.
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Now: No One's POV because I couldn't decide what worked best

MK walked quietly into Lizzie's room, trying her best not to wake up Eva, even though that was the whole reason she was going in there. She made her way over to the bed, where the sunlight lightly shined on the small child's sleeping form. Eva was curled up in nine other than Lizzie's blanket. Most people would have thought she was cold and the blanket just happened to be closest, but for her it held a comforting, safe scent, the sweet scent of her Mama.

The twin sat on the side of the bed and stroked Eva's back, planning to wake the eight-year-old gently. It was half past eight in the morning and the child had slept the best she ever had. A whole twelve hours, only interrupted by her seconds of wake beds when she had requested sleeping in her mother's bed the previous night. That was a full ten hours more than she was used to.

See, sleep was not a term the child was familiar with before her new life. She had frequent nightmares that Lizzie had had heard of on her first night. She struggled to fall or stay asleep when surrounded by the numerous children who seemed to hate her. Night after night, she would wake up in cold sweats or shaking from fear of the monsters that lurked in her dreams and sometimes her reality. Though, that's a subject for another time.

'Hey, babes, it's time to wake up.' The aunt softly told her niece. Yet, she simply received a small groan in response.

Laughing lightly at the response, MK tried again. 'I know, I know. Waking up sucks, but you have to or you'll sleep all day and I won't get to see my favorite little girl. That would make me sad and you don't want that, do you?'

The child reluctantly opened her eyes, shortly before speaking. ' I don't want you sad, but I'm sleepy.'

'Yeah, I can tell. Come on. The sooner you get up, the sooner I can brag to your Aunt Ashy that I'm the better aunt because I woke you up without you hating me.' This peaked the girl's interest. Hate. A word she knew well, but refused to use against others. In her mind, she could never hate anyone or anything, no matter how awful it or they could be, somehow she always found a space in her heart big enough to fit everything.

She sat up tiredly, yet fast. 'I could never hate you, or Aunt Ashy.'

Smiling at her success in getting the child up and the sweetness of the child's response, MK spoke. 'We'll, I'm glad to hear that and happy that you're up, now let's get out of bed.' This time she only received another small groan and a child flipping back on the mattress.

MK sighed knowing this was going no where and decided it'd be easier to just drag Eva out of bed. In a nice of course. She stood up and leaned over, picking up her niece and walking out of the room. Despite expecting a groan or whine, she only got a child laying their head on her shoulder. She walked to the kitchen to meet her twin who was standing at the island with her coffee in one hand.

'Ah, I see my monkey has finally left the jungle.' Ashley said.

'Yeah, but somebody still doesn't wanna wake up.' MK informed her twin.

'Not even for her Aunt Ashy.'Ashley played, pretending to be offended.

'I'm sleepy.' The child whined. Her other aunt made her way over to the pair and rubbed the back of the tired child.