Our innocent baby.

Chapter 4

𝐊𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢

When I woke up, I didn't see Tamika beside Crystal. Then I smelled food. I looked at the time to see it was 9:20. She was cooking breakfast.

I looked at Crystal's facial features and man she was beautiful. She still had her pacifier in her mouth, bobbing up and down. Her hair was all over the place. So I took a picture of her.

I knew it was time to get up because Tamika walked in as soon as I heard footsteps.

"Good morning baby," Tamika said kissing me
"Good morning," I said kissing her back.

"So how are we gonna wake sleepy head up?" Tamika asked me.

" I don't know but lemme try this," I said sitting up on her headboard.

I picked Crystal up by her armpits and sat her on my lap. Tamika was right she was very light. Too light.

I rubbed her back to wake her up and started stirring. She stuffed her head into my neck and tried to go back to sleep.

"Good morning Pooh," I said rubbing her back.

"Uht Uht" she grumbled. I giggled.

" What do you mean uht uht," I said.

"Sleep," she said behind her pacifier.

"It's time to get Mama," Tamika says as she opens the blinds.

Crystal didn't say anything until I heard soft snores. I took her pacifier out of her mouth and she immediately looked at me with her eyes watering, lips pouting, and started whining.

"Oh, I'm so mean for waking you up, pooh," I said wiping her tears. "But we finna eat Mama," Tamika said sitting down and trying to look at her.

"No, eat eat. No hungry" Crystal said wiping her eyes. I looked at Tamika and she looked at me smiling.

"How old are you, Pooh?" I asked hoping she would say 1 or 2.

She put her head on my chest with her eyes closed and put 2 fingers up. I smiled so hard while looking at Tamika. She slipped. I didn't know it would happen so fast. I guess she trusted us and let her little side relax.

She's been holding it in for the longest so. Now we gotta fix this eating habit. "Why you don't wanna eat pooh?" I said

"Me not hungry" She mumbled.

"Well you're not missing a meal," Tamika said ushering me up with Crystal. Crystal started of course whining again but I shushed her while we were walking toward the kitchen.

When we reached the kitchen I saw food across the table. Everything you can think of was on the table.

I tried to set Crystal in a chair but she wouldn't let me go so I just sat down with her on my lap. While Tamika fixed our plate Crystal started to wake up more. She started telling me she's not hungry.

But Tamika put her foot down and said she had to eat something. When the food came, Crystal turned her head around. I broke up a piece of sausage and gave it to her.

She slowly ate it with her face in my neck. She turned her head reached for more sausage and ate it.

After she ate a cut-up sausage patty. She turned her head away again. I gave her an already cut-up pancake. After she ate the pancake, she turned her whole body in my lap looked at her windows, and laid her head on my shoulder.

"Well we had to start somewhere," Tamika said finishing her food. "Yeah, but think we need to talk to her. The big her" I said

"About what," Tamika said grabbing my plate.