The Trouble With The Truth

Lifetime

It was Sunday and I usually slept in a bit while Emily made Lauren breakfast. Slowly I woke and once I was lucid enough, I noticed there was a card and an iced coffee on my nightstand.

I sat up and smirked to myself at how sweet she is. As I opened the envelope a few papers fell out along with a card that read,

Good morning beautiful ;) I know you've been burning the stick at both ends and we're in desperate need of a little getaway. So....I'll let you look at the papers now. I love you Y/n.

<3 Emily

I looked at the papers and there were a few photos of an adorable cottage like house about two hours out of Virginia. On the last page in black sharpie wrote: Join me?

I kicked the covers off and rushed to the kitchen to find the two most important things in my life giggling away.

"Look who's up" Emily said excitedly to Lauren.

"mama" she smiled wide, melting my heart for the millionth time. "look" she pointed at Emily who was covered in cut up strawberries and blueberries.

"Hi sweetheart" I kissed her head. "how's breakfast going" I asked as I looked at Emily trying to hide a smile.

"well, she's making a bit of fashion statement out of me," she laughed as she looked at her shirt. "still deciding how we feel about it"

I laughed and kissed Emily before holding up the papers.

"are you serious?"

"Dead. This weekend, just you and me" she smiled.

"what about our little fashion designer here" I couldn't help but give her another kiss.

"Rossi wants to watch her" Emily laughed as she shrugged her shoulders.

"What?" I gave her a look of concern.

"Don't worry, Joy and Kai are visiting for the week so at least she'll have a buddy and a mother who knows what she's doing" Emily laughed at my instant panic.

"Oh, ok," I sighed and shot her a smile.

"and you're so excited to see Kai aren't you" Emily said while attempting to giver her some more fruit.

"no" Lauren said sternly. "mama no" she repeated while pushing the fruit away again.

"Alright, well we're gonna take that as a yes" Emily smiled while helping her out of the chair.

"Lauren go" she laughed while waddling into the living room.

It was incredible how quickly she had picked up on words in the past six months. At 18 months she was doing doing pretty good and speaking, granted a lot was jumbled and needed to be deciphered by Emily and I but speaking nevertheless.

End of week and Emily and Y/n are dropping Lauren off with Rossi and Joy:

"alright, be good ok" Emily kissed her for the tenth time.

"bye bye" Lauren waved before walking off with Kai.

"she's pretty mobile now so maybe put a bell on her something" I teased.

"she's in good hands" Joy assured us.

"oh what little faith you all have in me" Rossi said sounding offended.

With that Emily and I were on the road.

"I feel weird without her" I sighed as we drove away.

"me too"