Our Small Miracle - Adopted by Taylor Swift

Part 54

Taylor's pov

Both girls looked at each other before getting up and walking away to their bedrooms. Neither of them had even finished their breakfast so that really pissed me off but I knew that I needed to approach this calmly. I just took a deep breath and turned to Travis who hugged me tight.

"Girls come down here please." I yelled up the stairs but only Ellie came down. I just pit my head on my hands for a moment to keep myself calm. "Harper that means you too!" I told her.

She still didn't come so I looked over at Travis. He suggested that I try to be a little more strict this time so I did. "Harper I will count to 3 and if I don't hear you moving by then I will come up there and put you in time out." I told her. I still had no answer so I started counting but I had nothing. I just sighed me made my way upstairs.

I went into her room and she was sitting in a corner just staring at the wall. I tried to say hi to her but she didn't even move or blink. Flashback. I just kneeled down in front of her and placed my hand on her arm but she flinched away. I stayed with her and helped her through it, managing to even keep her calm after too.

I carefully picked her up and got her a top up of pain medicine for her arm before heading to the living room and putting her by Ellie. I stood in front of them both with Travis. It was quite funny because I felt really important like I was making a speech or something. "Right I need to know what makes you both now want any siblings." I told them.

They both looked at me but Ellie took one for the team and spoke up. "Because it would be your biological child, we're not. It's just going to make us feel uncomfortable and like we're not as loved. And that baby will grow up having a perfect life and we have to watch knowing we didn't get that until we came to you. You haven't even fully adopted Harper yet you're still just fostering her and I'm 18 for all we know you could just prefer the baby and leave us or send us away. And Harper doesn't like change, you know that."

Understandable.

"Okay I hear you and I understand. We will come back to that. Harper, why don't you want a new house?" I asked. She stared at the floor and shrugged so I sat down to make sure I wasn't at an intimidating level. I continued to make eye contact until she looked up and met my eyes too. "You can tell me no one will be mad." I whispered.

"Don't like new places." She mumbled, adding a small shrug at the end. I nodded. Time for a big Tay Tay speech.

"Okay so, back to the topic of babies. I completely understand your concerns and why you would feel that way, however, Ithink that as a family we could get through it. It will be a big change but we both see you two as our children. We may not have had you since day one and I may not have given birth to you but we raised you. Nothing can change that. In terms of harper, we are in the process of the adoption and we are waiting for it to be finalized. When you're both adopted that means you aren't going anywhere with your mom Travis is your dad and you are here for as long as you need, even when you move out we are still your parents that aren't going to change. You're our kids no matter what it's not about who birthed you it's about who raised you. Yes the baby is being born into this family but we can't just take it out on the baby because they don't have to go through what you went through. Now I'm not saying that we are actively trying for a baby, we're not but I can't say that we're being cautious and don't want a baby. I'm just saying this so that there isn't any surprise if I was to get pregnant." I told them. Ellie nodded, she knew that it was the truth and harper just stayed looking down at her hands.

"Harper, about moving. It wouldn't be too much of a chance I promise. It's a new place and it seems scary but really it's so fun, you can chose everything for your room, we could get some more pets and we would just have more space and an extra bedroom or two. You wouldn't want to share your room if I was to get pregnant would you? No, so if we move it means you would get your own space still. We would all still go and it would be so fun. Change is scary and I know you're not too great when it comes to that sort of stuff but we would all go and we would all help you through. You don't need to worry about it at all." I told her. She finally looked up again and just nodded before looking back down. I went to continue but Travis butted in.

"I think a new place is what we need guys, not too big but just some more room. An apartment is too small for all of us even without a baby. And even if we don't get pregnant we think we might want to adopt another child, we want the family to be just a tiny bit bigger that's all. Let's not worry too much though because for all you guys know you might love it." He told them. Ellie agreed and turned to Harper who still wouldn't look up.

I asked if she was okay but she didn't answer so I asked again and she looked up with tears in her eyes. "Baby, what's wrong? What's upset you?" I asked her and she just started crying and held up her arm with the cast on. "Does it hurt?" I asked her and she nodded and reached for me.

I quickly got up off the floor and made my way to the sofa where I picked her up and sat down with her in my lap. I let her cuddle up and tried to comfort her as best as I could. I had only just given her some pain medication so I couldn't give her that, she just needed to wait for it to kick in. I hate when I can't do anything.

As soon as she cuddled up with me she calmed down and said she felt better. I think it was just her way of getting a bit of comfort. Sometimes she cries and says she's in pain just to get some attention from me which I learnt very early on to just go along with it and give her some cuddles. I can tell a difference in the way she cries when she needs cuddles and when she is actually in pain.

Thankfully she calmed down and I decided to just try to bring the topic up another time. Clearly it was a bit of a sensitive topic for her.