Room Sixteen

19/Silence and heartbreak

Iris's pov

"Come on," I grab Dahlia's little hand and pull her with me down the corridor and out of the spot we were just hiding. I held two pillows, one for me and one for her so we could jump Soren.
"Here," I handed her the sofa throw pillow since it was smaller.

"Three." She started the count down and then we jumped out of the hiding spot to start hitting Soren with the pillows.
"Pillow fight!" She shouted and I started laughing because it was so cute how she tried to hit him but she barely could do anything and I was just doing the most work.
The laugh made me get weak and that was an opportunity for Soren to grab my waist and pin me on the couch, little miss Dahlia ran off to hide again when she realized her help was attacked.

"Wow, what a friend." Soren shook his head with a smile on his face, his head lowering down inch by inch and kissing me a couple of times before frowning at me.
"Really?" He said.

I bit my lip to prevent the big grin on my face. God, he looks so handsome right now.

"It was your idea, wasn't it?" He asked and I nodded.

"She was begging me to do it after I mentioned a pillow fight and I couldn't help it, she's so cute and manipulative, just like her uncle." I show him my tongue and he smirks.

"Well too bad her uncle is marrying you, isn't it?" He says and I hold back a smile, butterflies exploding in my stomach.

"Not bad at all," I confirm and wrap my legs around his waist.

"Mhm?" He leaned down to kiss me again until Dahlia's little voice came from the door.

"Oh no! bigfoot got Iris!" She started screaming and we both fell into a fit of laughter, Soren collapsed on top of me and wrapped his arms underneath me.
His face was shoved in my neck and that made me want to hug him back and caress him too, just like he felt the need to do to me I felt it as well.

"Come hug, Dahlia," I called her and she didn't even hesitate to come and jump and climb on top of Soren's back.
How cute.

...

"Are you okay?" Soren was sat on the sofa with Dahlia next to him, he caressed her hair as she cried softly.
She had a bad dream and Soren was trying to comfort her but it was hard to do so.
"Do you need to talk to mommy?" He was hesitant to say but he didn't feel like he had other choices.

"No!" She denied.

"What do you want me to do, Dahlia?" He asked and pulled her on his chest, she wrapped her little arms around his neck and cried some more.
Soren finally made eye contact and like he was trying to tell me it was going to be okay from afar, I nodded and continued to type in my laptop.

"I don't want mommy," she whined.

"Okay fine, we won't call her then, just stop crying will you." He tried to calm her but he was doing it a little aggressively it seemed, she's probably not used to this but he'll get used to being softer with her.