What Have I Gotten Myself Into?

The Uninvited Guest

"You left them alone?!"

"For the third time, yes."

I was going to lecture my personal assistant once more, only to halt the second he did.

"Is someone blocking the wa..." I intended to kick anyone who was going to start a headache, but I stood confused at the entrance of my son's room. A rather quiet room that miraculously happens every once a red moon.

"What do you wish me to do about it, sir?" Sameral asks, looking my way. He doesn't reveal what kind of expression I'm making. I don't reveal either.

However, my son is in the arms of someone who keeps walking into my door like it doesn't stop her from entering, as if the door for the entrance is non-existent.

She's gotten into my son's life the easiest, smoothest way possible. It is as if he cries for her.

I look to El, he's so close you'd think he wishes to exchange spots with great-nephew. Who is this woman who I mistook a dance of seduction as a sign of help, appearing before my minions, asleep, at every given chance?

"Have you run a background on her?" I went inside the grand room of my son, Esden, and took him out of this unlucky gum of a brunette. She sleeps so peacefully each time, too, it makes me wonder if such relaxation can be a reality.

As I rocked my sleeping son, Sameral had already gotten out his tablet, reading what he found about the woman sleeping on the bed that's gotten from a secure wall. El sleeps most happily on comfort in her embrace, whom she held due to the action of searching for the disappearance of someone from her arms.

I could look away...her body language appears uncomfortable and still in search mode. My son wiggles around in his sleep while looking comfortable, but he still appears uncomfortable, soothing him the best I can.

"She comes out as an ordinary woman, your average 26 years old business owner of a bakery made with her DIY ideas, ahem, which isn't the worse. Ten minutes from your company at S st., lives in an apartment whom she shares with a woman by the name Ginni Wu, who she became roommates with." Sameral stares at her for less than a second and scrolled on his tablet for more information.

What I already know appears to be nothing special, she's just an average woman who made it through the business industry, runs a café decorated as a bakery with many DIY plans for her customers. She's two years younger than me, comes off more hyper and full of energy as if she's been walking on sand with nothing hidden for a surprise attack.

Joining back from reality after thinking things over in my head, I realized Sameral had listened off more about her than I could have catched by ear. I had him repeating them.

"This is getting my head stuck in a dark cloud, continue on the way to my office." I step forward, leading to my office with my son sleeping soundly with more discomfort. She must have been the problem. I just don't know how he calms down faster when she's in his presence.

"That's that. Boss...What orders do you give for our uninvited guest?" Sameral reminds me of Joell back in Esden's room, as we enter the office, cuddling with El who has grown attached to her.

"Who's the uninvited guest?" Appearing by the door is a blonde woman in expensive suit all over, a rather annoying invividual.

"Yourself." I spin my chair opposite of my desk as I take my time reading my son's features. It's the longest he's slept.

"El is in baby Esden's room, sleeping with a Joell." I hear Sameral say, the other must have asked.

"Joell?" They didn't stand around trying to make one understand, since the other was already getting tired of always repeating the same incident.

"Ya coming?" I feel the soft voice directed at me.

"Up we go." I got up fast and carefully before slowing behind them so I don't get asked many unnecessary questions I don't have any answers to.

The closer we get to Esden's room the louder it gets, not from the room but from the woman in front of me, her interest caught on something she's not bothering to share.

"Oh my god, hi!" Sov dragged the 'i' out so long, my ears rang along with it. I could see Sameral trying to chill her off but she's jumping around, as if she's no older than me, dragging a tired Joell who must have just woken up. The woman sure sleeps a lot.

"Mommy?" On the bed, El wakes up to a sight he's half familiar with, a sight he's witnessed his parents did before; jumping around and waking him up with loud noises.

"Hi.." Joell looks around the room, confused at who to look at. I see her eyes passing to me every second like I could get her out of a loop she's in.

"WAAAAAAAaAAAAAA! WAAAAA!!!!" I glare at Sov for waking Esden up, she smug's a sorry smile and hides behind Joell like she could get away with it. Joell looks back from her and to me multiple times, in confusion and..an expression I'm half familiar with. Is she upset?

I see her whispering something to herself but I don't catch it, now I'm only distracted trying to calm my son down.

When I look to Sameral, he's not there, a second later he's back with a maid who's carrying a tray of his Esden's warm milk. I go over, listening to how they made his powdered milk before begin feeding him. He took a few sucks before he started pushing it away from him, staring at Joell with grappy hands and swinging legs.

Sov is stuck on her, hugging her arms around her neck from behind her, but Joell's eyes are staring back at Esden's. She usually only looks at me. Something else I've noticed is, for some kind of non-verbal permission or questions, her eyes reveal them so easily. As of right now, she's only ever only looking at my son. Keeping him quiet of his tears and yellings with only her eyes. 

Esden is so special. 

Sov stares in shock, as well as everyone else. I could tell from the quietness and the silent gasps in the background. My attention is on Joell, whose attention is on Esden, still in my arms, who still won't stop trying to grab for her, a little more gently now.

With Sov behind her, Joell is forced to be pushed forward since that old woman doesn't want to be near me after angering me. Joell doesn't seem to be aware of it but her facial expressions have softened in relief and happiness to be close to my son.

At the mall she was so confident and all smiley, jokes and playing. Now she's struck so close to me, I could only take one more step and my fingers, forward from holding my son, could touch her fingers that are pressed on her chest, below her chin, feeling unsure if she should grab Esden.

She takes out her pointy-finger and nears it in front of Esden, close enough for him to wrap his tiny hand around, covering her finger a little. She looks like she'll explore from happiness.

When she looks up, a mask of stillness on my face cracked and I accidently showed a shock expression. No. I must have been startled when I looked down at her and I found her staring at me. Sov sniggers behind Joell and runs off to El but comes back and stares at Joell and Esden's interactions, using El as a human sheild, something she herself hasn't seen. A child that's roaring his throat off non-stop is quiet, hugging a stranger's finger.

"Can I hold him? I can try to feed him..." Joell asks me, only to catch it late. I'm realizing how tired I am. All those nights of not sleeping and trying to find a solution to Esden's discomfort is catching up to me.

"Uhm..." She looks around and follows my eyes, to the bed. I don't know why, I think it's the sleep and tiredness catching up to me but I walk forward and sit on the bed, dismissing everyone out leaving only Joell behind who's still in the same spot.

When she saw Esden almost crying from being...apart from her? She quickly goes outside and comes back in rush, looking confused all over. When she looked at my hand she looked relief, rushing towards me and on the bed as well before boldly taking my son out of my arms, but when she looked back to my eyes she's shy, asking if she could have the milk.

"Good, it's still warm." She smiles at Esden and feeds him airplane mood, swinging to him softly, giggling softly along him until he ends up falling asleep from being full.

I watched them until the last giggle, falling asleep at last and for the first time in almost feeling like forever.