Valenna My Heart <3

Rushing It?

Storyline:
Val is a single father of a two year old little girl named Aurora 'Rori' Ivanka Chmerkovskiy...
BIRTHDAY: February 12th
AGE: (Almost) 2
LIKES: Chicken Fingers, Hair bows, Tutus, Chocolate Ice Cream, to cuddle, Nutella, when Val sings to her in Russian.
DISLIKES: Strangers, Being away from her dad, bees (she is deathly allergic).
OTHER FACTS: She is a spitting image of Val, she not only inherited his piercing emerald green eyes, but she also got his crazy curly hair, she is a full on Girly-Girl and a Full on Daddy's Girl, calls Val 'Dada', is a very picky little girl, but a great judge of character, it's currently Christmastime so she will turn 2 years old in about 2 months (February 12th). Val is teaching her Ukrainian, she can't sleep without her small pink baby blanket she calls 'Bankie' (it was her birth mother's).
ABOUT HER MOM: Rori gets her middle name 'Ivanka' from it being her mother's first name. Val and Rori's mom were engaged to be married and were planning a wedding for after Rori was born, however, Ivanka died during childbirth due to some complications and Val was left with Rori, its been just the two of them ever since.....that is until Jenna comes into the picture and wins the love of both Val and Rori, Jen quickly steps into the mom role that has been missing from Rori's whole life's. Val's family is completely supportive, but Jenna's family doesn't see things the same way. They feel like Jenna and Val are rushing things and that Jenna is making a huge mistake.

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JENNA's POV
"Baby girl, would you calm down, you're gonna give yourself a heart attack!" My boyfriend of now 6 months says to me as we walk into the LAX airport. We were headed to my hometown of Provo, Utah to spend Christmas with my entire family. We had spent Thanksgiving in Brooklyn, NY with Val's family and it was amazing! Aside from it being my very first time meeting them all, things went great!
Now, it was time for Val to meet my family. Don't get me wrong, I have a great family, but sometimes they can be a little quick to judge. I am absolutely crazy about Val and his adorable daughter Rori. Maybe that's why I was so nervous to introduce them both to my family. I wanted everything to be perfect. Val and I have only been together for 6 months, but I loved Val and Rori to pieces and I was hoping and praying that my family would too. On the way to our gate, we passed a bathroom, which happened to be right across from the waiting area for our flight. I decided that I'd better go before we had to board. "Babe, I'll be right back, I'm gonna stop in the bathroom real quick." I say giving Val a quick peck on the lips and walking off to the bathrooms.
When I exited the bathroom I was preoccupied looking down at my phone. I was texting my sisters and letting them know we were boarding our flight when I hear a voice of relationship's past. "Jenna! Jenna Johnson?!" I look up to see one of my high school exes standing in front of me. "Landon!?" I say slightly in shock. "Hey! How've you been?!" He asks pulling me into a hug. "I-I've been good, how about you?" I asked still in shock but hugging back. "I've been good as well! Headed back home for the holidays?" He asks smiling. "Yeah, what about you?" I ask spotting Val and Rori and walking towards them as Landon walked with me. "Headed to my sister's in Arizona." He says "Nice, tell everyone I said hi!" I say. "So um-" Landon began until a tiny voice interrupted him. "Mama" I look over to see a cranky Rori reaching for me with tears streaming down her face. "Rori, what happened lovebug?" I ask directing my attention to the crying toddler now in my arms. "Dada" she cries. "Val, what'd you do?" I asked looking over at my frazzled boyfriend who appeared to be transfixed on the guy still standing behind me. "Mean Mean!" Rori yells at Val wagging her little finger in his direction. I again look to my boyfriend for some explaination who seems to be back in focus once again. "I-I can't find bankie, anywhere!" He says as he frantically shuffles through his carry-on bag. "That's because you left it on the couch in the living room." I say with a smirk. He stops going through his bag and immediately looks up. "You're lucky I remembered to double check we had it." I say still smirking as I pulled the old blanket out of my carry-on and handed it to the overtired toddler that was still clinging to me. "Super Mommy to the rescue!" Val says as he kisses my cheek and begins to reorganize the stuff in his bag.
"So you're a mom now?" I hear a voice say from behind me. Landon! I can't believe I had forgotten he was still there. The sound of his voice however, immediately captured Val's attention. Val had stopped fumbling around with his bag and looked straight up at Landon. "Yeah" I simply state. "Congrats! That's amazing, I had no idea!" He says. Landon and I talked for a little bit longer until our flight started boarding then we went our separate ways.
Once Landon was gone I looked over at Val. "Sometimes it's easier just to go with people's assumptions, it's exhausting to have to explain the same story over and over again." I say as we pick up our bags. "I couldn't agree more" he says, planting yet another kiss on my cheek."But I really liked the sound of it." He say still smiling over at me. "Of what?" I ask slightly lost on the true topic of our conversation. "Us. A family." He beams grabbing my hand as we boarded our flight. Utah here we come.
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VAL's POV
"Excuse me sir, I'm so sorry to wake you, but is this yours?" My eyes flutter open to see a flight attendant standing in front of me holding my hat. "It's fine, yeah it is, thanks." I say. "And just so you know, we'll be landing soon." She says smiling at me before walking away. I must have fallen asleep. Look over at the seat next to me and find Rori sound asleep and snuggled into Jenna. I allow myself to just take a moment and just stare at my girls in awe. My girls I smile to myself, they were my girls. How did I get so lucky? My smile instantly grows when I think of the small black box that I had hidden in my carry-on bag. In the best way possible, this will hopefully be a Christmas we'll never forget.
"Please buckle your seat belts and prepare for landing." I hear a voice over the loudspeaker say. "Babe, baby!" I say stroking my hand through Jenna's hair. "Baby girl wake up, we're landing soon." I say. "Hmm? Okay." My semi awake girlfriend mumbled as she shifted the sleeping toddler in her arms and buckled her seatbelt, preparing to land.
Once we landed I grabbed all our carry-ons and Jenna had Rori. She walked just ahead of me as we exited the plane. Jenna texted her sisters, letting them know we had landed. They had said they'd meet us at the luggage claim, so that's where we were headed. Okay, phase one is about to begin, meet the sisters, let's do this.
JENNA's POV
Val is getting our suitcases off of the luggage belt while I was holding a sound asleep Rori. I'm looking at the people around me and I soon spot two familiar faces headed my way. "Jenna!" They cry out. "Jill! Stacy!" I squeal before passing Rori to Val and running full force to my big sisters. "I've missed you both so much!" I say hugging them at the same time. "No way! We've missed you more!" Jill says. "Yeah, things just aren't the same without our baby sister around." Stacy agrees. "Speaking of 'baby'..." Jill trails off directing her attention to the little girl the Ukrainian now standing behind me was holding. "OhMyGoodness! I'm so sorry! Val, these are my sisters, Jill and Stacy; Jill, Stace, this is my boyfriend Val and his daughter Aurora, but we call her Rori." I say introducing them all. "Nice to meet you, Jenna speaks the world of both of you" Val says to them. "Same here!" Stacy says returning the compliment. "Aw, she is absolutely precious!" Jill coos as a now half awake Rori reaches out for me. "Stace, you brought Kade's car seat, right?" I ask my sister as I take Rori from Val. "I mean, you made it kinda hard to forget it, you texted me about it twelve times over." My big sister laughed at me. "I just wanted to be sure you'd remember it." I laughed back. "So are you guys all ready? Everyone is already at mom's and dad's and they're all so excited to see you Jen and meet Val." Jill says. "Yeah, lets go!" We all head out to Stacy's car and get in. Home sweet home, here I come.
VAL's POV
Once we got to the house Rori wanted me to carry her in, so Jenna and her sisters insisted on bringing in all the bags. I tried to protest, but three against one is not a fair match. The very second we all walked through the door all eyes were on us. "Aunt Jenna's here!" A mini Jenna shouts rushing towards us followed by twin boys and a chunky little toddler. "Val, this is my niece Hailey, her twin brothers Luke and Jake, and their little brother Kade." Jenna said pointing out one by one. "They are all Stacy's kids. And this is Gavin, Jill's son." Jenna says taking a baby boy from Jill. Jenna's brothers soon join us and her sisters' husbands. One by one, Jenna introduces Rori and I to everyone. "Aw her outfit is the cutest!" Jenna's sister-in-law gushes.