Finding Hope

Chapter 6

Finding Hope – Chapter 6

It had been a couple days since Emma had met both families. Kevin and Dani found out that Emma did not like eggs and wasn't really a big fan of ham. Besides not liking anything sweet, she now did not like eggs or ham. She loved pizza and fruit. Apples were her big thing right now. She always wanted apples.

"Daddy, can I have apple?" Emma asked that afternoon before the live chat announcing the sex of the baby.

"What do you say?" Kevin said, they had been trying to get her to use her manners more and more every day. She liked to demand things.

"Please Daddy," Emma said with a smile.

"Yea, but then you have to go color with Riley and Maci, like we talked about last night, until we call you, okay?"

"Yes Daddy," Emma said as Kevin gave her a bowl filled with an apple that he just sliced up for her to eat.

Emma, can Mommy and Daddy talk to you?" Dani said the night before the live chat. Once Emma was in her favorite spot, squished in between both of her parents, Kevin started talking.

"Emma, Daddy is famous," Kevin started out saying. Emma just looked completely confused.

"What that mean?" Emma said as she looked up at her dad. Kevin looked at Dani, this was turning out to be a lot harder than they thought it was going to be.

"It means that I have fans all over the world who know who I am," Kevin said as she still looked utterly confused.

"So that knows who you are," Emma asked as she pointed at the ceiling fan in the living room.

"No Emma," Kevin laughed at his four-year-old daughter, "I have people all around the world that know who I am, that is what fans are," Kevin said as Emma still looked a little confused.
"I know who you are Daddy," Emma said.

"Do people know who Mommy is too," Emma asked looking at Dani.

"Yes, many people know who I am," Dani said as she looked down at the little girl squished in between them. "I think what Daddy is trying to tell you is that we are going to have a live chat tomorrow night to tell them about you and your baby sister," Dani said.

Emma was coloring with Riley and Maci while Kevin and Dani started the chat out. "Hi everyone, how are you tonight? So, before we announce what the sex of the baby is, we have something to tell you," Kevin said.

"A couple of weeks ago, we found a little girl in our basement," Dani said as she looked over at Kevin to finish, she didn't really know what else to say.

"As Dani was saying, we found a little girl in our basement a couple of weeks ago. She was underweighting and had been abused when we found her, so we decided to adopt her into our family, her name is Emma," Kevin said as he called for his daughter.

"Hi Daddy, I drew a picture," Emma said as she climbed on her father's lap along with her light brown bear.

"Do you want to show everyone your pretty picture?" Kevin asked her.

"Yea, it's a picture of Mommy, Daddy, me, Riley and Maci," Emma said as she showed everyone.

"Emma why is everyone else purple, but Mommy is orange," Dani asked her daughter.

"Riley ate my purple crayon, because Teddy fell over, so I had to help him sit up again, so I put down my purple crayon and then Riley came over and ate it."