My Pace

Chapter 46

Holt's POV
She started inhaling her fries.

"Hey, hey slow down. I don't want you to get sick."

She started eating slower.

"Thank you."

I felt someone running their fingers through my hair. I looked up. I saw Anabelle. She kissed my forehead. I put my head down and went back to eating.

"Do you feel better Holt?"

"Kinda. I think, I had to realize, she was home."

Ariella started falling asleep at the table.

"Guess, she's still tired."

"That makes two of us."

Anabelle picked up the plates.

"Oh, I was gonna do that."

"It's fine. You might wanna, pick her up before, she falls off the chair."

I stood up and picked Ariella up.

"Wha-what's going on?"

"You were falling asleep at the table. Ani? I'm gonna go in the living room. We've been in a bed all day."

"Okay. That works."

I walked over to the chase part of the couch. I laid down and put Ariella next to me. I turned on the tv on.

"Can we watch one of your superhero thingys?"

"Yeah. Which one? DC or marvel?"

"Hmmm. What's the one that, has the purple guy?"

"That's marvel. Are you talking about Thanos?"

"Oh! Oh! What about the one with the crazy lady?"

"Are you talking about Harley Quinn?"

"Mhm! Oh! Oh! I wanna watch Tom Holland!"

"Oh? What movie? Spider man?"

"The one with the man and the fishbowl head."

I started laughing.

"That's Mysterio."

"No. He's "Fishbowl head."

I kept laughing.

"Wow. I've missed hearing you laugh like that. What's going on?"

"She's calling Mysterio, "Fishbowl head". Oh my god, I love this kid."

"So, no fishbowl head?"

"No. We can watch fishbowl head."

"Yay!"

She started hugging me.

"Don't tell Jake Gynllehaal this."

"She's 5. I doubt, he'd be mad."

I got up and grabbed a few things than, started the movie.

"Daddy? How can he see? It's cloudy."

"I'm not sure."

Ariella started crying. She curled up into a ball.

"It hurts daddy!"

"Ani?! Can you get Ari's meds for me?!"

"Sure!"

"Get her, a stuffed animal too!"

Anabelle ran onto the living room with everything. Ariella took her pain meds and started holding her stuffed animal.

"It's okay."

When she calmed down, we went back to watching the movie.

"Fishbowl head is mean now." She said as she yawned.

After a while, she stopped talking. I looked then  moved hair out of her face. She was sleeping.

I'd feel bad if, I moved and woke her up.

I should stay here.

I grabbed the remote and started watching something else.

"She okay?"

"Yeah. She's asleep."

"Okay. Hopefully, she feels better when, she wakes up."

"I hope so."