A Healing Heart

Chapter 3

"Ellyse please just stop and get ready." Meredith sighed.

Today was Ellyse's first day in kindergarten, she kept Meredith up all night crying because she didn't want to go. Even at the age of 5 she was extremely attached to Meredith and they couldn't seem to find a way to lessen it but both Meredith and Scott knew they had to. She had been fighting with her daughter for the last 30 minutes to get her ready but she was making no improvements.

"No mama!" She shouted back.

"Yes, it's your first day at kindergarten, you'll have so much fun." She said trying go excite her daughter.

"You come too?" She asked innocently with sad eyes and a pouty lip.

"No baby, mommy can't come with you."

Her response only made her daughter cry even more.

"We need to get you dressed so we're not late."

"Don't want to!" Ellyse cried.

"Ellyse, you need to go. Come on let's get ready and maybe we can get ice cream later." She tried to reason with her daughter.

If there was one thing that she had inherited from Meredith other than her green eyes, it was her stubbornness and the two of them together were like adding fuel to fire.

"Not going." She said before running out of her bedroom.

"Ellyse Sienna Shepherd!" Meredith shouted loudly.

"Woah, what's going on?" Scott asked in confusion.

"She won't get ready, she doesn't want to go! I told you she wouldn't go!" She pushed him away from her.

"Meredith you need to calm down." He frowned holding the top of her arms.

She was stressing herself out and usually when she was stressed, she made herself sick.

"No, I can't because I have to get her ready for kindergarten or she'll be late and she can't be late because it's her first day. Do you know what happens to kids who make a habit of being late? They become the kids who start skipping school in high school to smoke weed with their friends under the bleachers and she won't be doing that so she needs to get ready-" she rambled because he cut her off.

"Mer, listen to yourself, you need to calm down okay, I'll get her ready." He said in concern.

"You won't be able to, she doesn't want to go Scott." She teared up.

"She has to." He smiled.

"I feel like the worst mom in the world." She shook her head.

"Your a good mom Mer, she just has to adjust, she needs to do this. I promise she'll be fine."

She just nodded and Scott went to follow Ellyse who had ran into the kitchen. Meredith turned back into the room and starting making Ellyse's bed which was a complete mess from the tantrum she'd threw this morning. She sat on the bed and picked up the small photo frame that was on the bedside table, in the frame was a picture of Meredith and Ellyse when she was learning to walk, she smiled at it because putting it back down and tidying up the room.

She could hear her daughters cries from the living room as Scott tried to reason with her and after a while she heard them begin to subside.

"So, go and say sorry to mommy because you don't want her to be upset do you?" She heard Scott say.

"I made momma sad?" Ellyse whined.

"A little sweetie. You need to listen to you mom, okay?" Ellyse nodded. "Good, now go and say your sorry." He smiled.