Our Small Miracle - Adopted by Taylor Swift

Part 36

Taylor's POV

Harper came into our room in the middle of the night, she couldn't really tell us what was wrong. She was whining for hours and hours and just wouldn't really settle. Eventually I reached over and laid the back of my hand on her forehead. She was quite warm. "Are you feeling okay? Do you feel sick?" I asked but she shook her head.

"So you feel okay?" I asked and she nodded.

"Come cuddle baby, let's sleep." I told her, rolling over to face her and opening my arms for her. She immediately whined more and rolled away from me and into Travis who wrapped his arms around her. She smiled a little and cuddled closer to him so I just presumed that would be her out for the night.

Wrong.

She was awake again 30 minutes later.

She doesn't seem to wake us up though, instead she just lays between us fidgeting and trying to get comfortable. This normally leads to us either getting kicked in the back or stomach or getting a hand or arm to the face. None of those are a great feeling.

Eventually I got fed up with being kicked and hit so I turned on my light and sat up. "Harper, it's bed time you need to sleep. Try to stay still then you might fall asleep. Do you want to cuddle or not because you can't keep changing your mind? It's very late and we're very tired." I told her, I was being strict but making sure to still use a gentle tone.

"Do you need to go to the bathroom?" I asked, wondering if maybe she was just too scared to ask. She shook her head and just looked at me. I sighed and got up pulling the covers back. "Travis if I have to be awake you have to be awake too." I told him, throwing a pacifier at his arm.

I watched him grab his arm and roll over before sitting up. "What the hell Taylor that hurt!"

"Don't you start whining, get your child to sleep. I'm sleeping on the sofa." I told him as I put on one of his hoodies and grabbed a fluffy blanket as well as my pillows. Harper then decided to start crying because one person isn't good enough. There really is no winning.

I groaned a little and turned back around, putting everything back in place and climbing back in. "Right, Harper, where is your bear and your blankies and your pacifier that I threw at Travis." I asked her and she shrugged a little. I sighed and looked on the bed, collecting anything that could comfort her.

It shocks me how we sleep with so many things just laying  around in the bed. In the process I found about 4 pacifiers, 3 blankies, 5 stuffed animals and an empty bottle. And she's only been back for one night. I handed it all to her but she just pushed it away. I sighed and just picked her up.

"Are you too hot? Shall we get you in some other pajamas?" I asked her and she nodded a little, rubbing her eyes. It was clear she was tired but she just couldn't seem to settle at all.

I took her to her room and put her in some shorts then changed into a short sleeved top but she shook her head and tried to take it off. "Harper you need a top on, come on please just cooperate." I told her. I started to get frustrated.

She managed to get it off and just made her way back to bed so I gave up. As we were walking back to our room I noticed a few little spots developing in her back but I didn't really think much of it. I just assumed she had bed bugs at her old house or something stupid like that.

I helped her back up on the bed and Travis was already asleep again. I just rolled my eyes and decided that I needed to be strict because she was just getting annoying at that point. She knows I like my sleep. "Right Harper you either have your comfort things or they go on the floor for the night and you choose who you want to cuddle with, no more playing around now it's really late and this isn't funny."

I watched as her pout formed and she started to tear up a little. I just groaned again and put a pillow over my head. "Travis, you deal with her!" I yelled before turning off my light and going back to sleep.

I got a few hours of sleep then at about 4am I was disturbed again.

"Peek-a-boo!" I heard as the pillow got lifted off my head and I was met with harper's face. I was honestly so close to snapping at her and it really did take everything in me not to. I took a deep breath and tried to roll back over but Travis' hand stopped me. "It's your turn, Tay."

"Right that's it, if you're not going to sleep then you're going in your own room, Harper and you can scream and cry all you want but you can't keep us up." I told her as I got up and picked her up. She started screaming and crying but I was persistent this time. I placed her down in her bed and started walking back to my room to grab her stuff but she just ran after me.

I grabbed her things and picked her back up, this time tucking her in and leaving on a light. Again she got up and followed me. "Harper, go back to bed, I mean it now. Bed!" I whispered and took her back to her room. This time she sat on her bed screaming and crying for me but I closed my bedroom door so that I couldn't hear it and turned off the little monitor on my nightstand.

I always leave her bedroom door open and the hallway light on so it's not too dark for her and our door probably wouldn't be enough to block out the crying if we were in any other room in the house. Thankfully me and Travis had actually put thought into the construction of the house and I'd never been so grateful to have put soundproof walls in our bedroom.

As I got back in bed I felt Travis sneak up behind me for some cuddles so I got myself comfy against him and let out a huge sigh. "I'm buying a baby gate." I told him and he chuckled a little.

I already knew that she probably wouldn't sleep at all without us but she had to learn to sleep in her own bed anyway and she was taking it all as a joke. Harper's tiredness was just something to deal with in the morning, when we have actually had some sleep.

A/N

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