How Could You Not Tell Me?

New York City

Avia's POV

"Wow Mommy, is this all mine?" I ask as we entered the apartment.

She chuckled and set me on the ground, "Hah, it's ours baby!" she exclaims throwing her arms up in the air. 

As we entered into the city, it was so loud. There are a lot of tall buildings and also many cars, I spotted a lot of yellow cars also!Mommy led me to my room and it was pretty plain, but she said we can start planning out how I wanted it to look later tonight. 

I set down my plushie from Grandma and Grandpa on the couch and explored the apartment, it was so big, what if I get lost. 

"Avia! What do you want to eat for lunch?" Mom asks me as I looked out the big windows.

"Hey, don't make yourself too noticeable babe, there might be a lot of people watching" She said picking me up and walking away from the windows. 

I frowned, we were so up high!

I didn't really know what I wanted to eat, so she cooked spaghetti, I love her spaghetti, it's the very best. I watch as she plated up my portion and set it in front of me as I sat at the new dining table. It was just Mommy and me, I liked it. 

"Good babe?" She asked as I chewed and I gave her a thumbs up. 

The whole afternoon, I watched as she ran around the place unboxing our things and frantically searching for items, it was funny. I sat on the couch while I watched Bluey, I'm too small to help.

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Taylor's POV

I watched from a far as Avia sat on the couch, fully engulfed in Bluey and laughed, she was too cute. I started unpacking the boxes of items to put into the living room and kitchen, me being me and being very organized, I'm already sweating. 

When I had moved back into my parent's home I had taken most of my belongings with me, so bringing it all back was a suck a hassle. The only thing was to design Avia's bedroom. She had the most boxes with her name on them. 

"Avia, can you come here and help me with your toys?" I asked her before bringing a box upstairs and I heard her quickly run behind me. 

"Mommy, why are there so many toys?" She asked in an exhausted voice, the audacity...

I sighed, "Babe! These are all of yours and you insisted that we bring, everything!" I tell her and she sighs as she pulled another toy out of the box and went to put it on her shelf. 

As I helped her organize her toys and games, I felt my phone buzz and saw that Harry was trying to call me, I ended it. I wasn't dealing with him today, I don't want to deal with him anymore actually. 

I looked over at Avia and she looked so content, she looked like a healthy little girl, and she was so loved, she didn't need him, she never has. 

"Phew! That was a lot of work" Avia sighs loudly, falling onto her bed and I look at her shocked.

"Yeah right baby, we will have even more to do tomorrow!" I tell her, falling next to her and she giggles as she starts jumping on her bed. I would've normally told her to stop, but I loved watching her giggle and that big smile on her little face. 

After all these years, of calling her my little sister, I'm finally living with her as my daughter and her knowing me as her Mom. 

For dinner, I decided to just get take out and ordered Chinese food, she ate noodles and fried rice while I ate sweet and sour chicken. She would occasionally take stabs of chicken off of my plate, thinking I wasn't looking and quickly stuffing it into her small mouth, making me chuckle. 

When we finished eating our dinner, I insisted that we get to planning some ideas of what she wanted her room to look like, but she kept telling me that she was too tired. I looked at the clock and it read 8:30 PM, crap her bedtime is 8 PM. 

I finished giving her a bath, brushing her teeth, and she changed into her Bluey pajamas. At first she told me that she was going to sleep in her new room, but from how empty it actually was, she was too scared to and ran into my room, jumping onto my king bed. 

"Oh, so you're going to take my whole bed?" I say as she laid right in the middle and nodded at me.

I climbed in next to her and stroked her hair, we were both to tired to do anything else today. After scrolling through my phone, updating people on what we did today, I looked down to see her fully passed out. I smiled, pulled the covers over her, and turned off the lights.