Unknown Child

part 9.4

Michael
We made it to Mama Cissy house and we sort of all sat in her living room. I was waiting for my lawyer while Whitney sat across from me staring at Michaela who she has spoken to since we were at the Orphange. She was still sleeping my arms.

"You think I'm a bad mother?" She asked me. I brushed Mya's hair back.

"I didn't say that Whitney." I told her.

"But you thinking it." She said. By this time Mama Cissy stood up.

"I think I'm going to let you guys talk. You want me to take her Michael?" She asked me.

"No she said fine. She's can sat with me." I told her. So Mama Cissy went into the kitchen.

"Whitney I think she should live with me when she gets cleared." I told her.

"I love my daughter Michael." She said.

"I know Whitney." I responded to her.

"I just want to get through this." She said. Just then the doorbell rang. I saw Mama Cissy answer it. And in came a women in a blazer with short hair.

I stood up as she and Mama Cissy approached me with Mya in my arms.

"Michael this is Karen she was Mya's pediatrician." Mama Cissy said as I shook her hand with my free hand.

"How you doing?" I asked.

"Im good. Oh my God she's gotten so big and beautiful." She said.

"Thank you." I said.

"Well whenever you guys are ready we can go into one of the rooms here and I can start he exaamination." She said.

"Take her into her old bedroom Whitney." Mama Cissy told her.

We followed Whitney to the backroom. It looked the exact same as it did when she left. Birthday gifts on the bed from family praying for her safety return. Her old clothes folded and clean on the bed.

Karen sat her bag down on the dresser and removed a stethoscope.

"I think it would be better if she were awake and you sat her down on the bed." Karen said. So I sat down with Michaela in my lap and gently rubbed her back.

"Mya- My wake up for daddy." I said. Her eyes fluttered opened and she looked around and clenched me tighter.

"Hey its okay. That's your doctor Ms. Karen. Can you say hey to her?" I asked Mya. She waved her hand then tucked it back between her and I.

"Awe hi Mya I'm just gonna give you a quick check up." Karen said as she stood infront of us.

"This is my stethoscope. It's going to let me hear your heart." She said.

She jumped a little when Karen put her stethoscope on her chest under her shirt. I rubbed her back the whole time.

"Sounds good. Dad did you guys bathe her yet?" She asked. Whitney spoke first.

"No we haven't." She said with her arms folded leaning on the wall. Karen nodded.

"I have to take a look under her clothes. Did you guys want to go ahead and bathe her while I do it?" She asked. Whitney went to the bathroom down the hall and I heard water running.

I looked down at Mya as I saw her lips start to shiver.

"Hey its going to okay." I told her as she wrapped her arms around my neck.

"Michael it's ready." Whitney said coming back into the room.

"I think we should do this together Whit." I told her. We walked to the bathroom together with Mya in my arms. I sat down on the toilet and stood her in front of me facing me except she had eyes on Whitney the whole time. I was holding her hands.