Not What I Expected (Dinah/You)

Chapter 45

Y/N POV 

"Y/LN family?" We all stand up. And when I mean we I mean me, the girls, and Nicki, Chris, Royalty, and Dinah's family. "Ms. Y/LN can I speak with you?" I nod my head and grab Dinah's hand. We walk towards the doctor. "First of I want to let you know we did talk to the authorities regarding to how she looks and child services." "Why did you contact child services? She was abducted. Child services aren't needed." "It's part of our job to do so. Your daughter has many bruises on her body. Some old and some fairly new like as if they are two days old. We did a rape kit on her and-" "Please tell me that they didn't." "I'm sorry. You can tell that it has happened more than once. She has a bit of tearing in which we stitched up. She also has a broken arm that we have taken care of. I'm sorry that this has happened to your daughter. She is still unconscious from surgery. You can see her but you will have to talk to child services first."
"I'm not talking to nobody but the damn police before I see my child. My child was taken from me. She was abducted! There's no reason for me to talk to them." "She was abducted from you in your care. That's why we have handed all custodial rights to Melanie. How do we know that you didn't set this up?" A lady in a pants suit says. Dinah tightens her grip on my hand.
      I look at her like she was stupid. "Are you not aware of how stupid you sound right now? If I had the nerve of helping those bastards abduct my child do you think I would've been doing all the things that I've done to get her back?  When we were at the fair she was sitting right next to me and was gone in two minutes. I would never put my daughter in harms way." "Then why was your father and brother the ones who did it?" "Look I don't have to answer these questions from you. I just want to see my daughter." I say. "Is she okay!?" I hear fast footstep coming our way and Melanie appears next to Dinah. "No. She's not okay. I'm not okay either. She handed all the custodial rights to you and wants to claim that I had something to do with this shit! I don't even like those two fuckers why the fuck would I work them!" I exclaim. "Shh baby calm down a bit." Dinah whispers into my ear as she hugs my arm.
"She what? With all do respect ma'am, there's a reason why Y/N had rights to Cheylise. As much as I love my daughter, she's better off in   Y/N's care rather than mine. I can't take care of her like she can. Y/N has never did anything to put Cheylise in any harm, so I doubt Y/N had anything to do with Chey going missing. Y/N and Dinah have been doing a great job raising Cheylise better than I could." Melanie says sincerely looking between me, Dinah, and the dumbass lady. Now that I take a look at her she looks like a broke down Lil Kim after her surgery. And they want me to trust her with where my daughter should be placed.
      I see Richard and James come in our direction. "Hello Y/N, Dinah, and Melanie. There is no reason for changing custodial rights over Cheylise. We know she was not part of Cheylise going missing.   Mr.      Y/LN has many federal warrants for his arrest. We already had him into questioning and he already said she had nothing to do with it.  So we would like you to turn all custodial rights back to her. As for in her care of going missing she simply can't do nothing about that. Many abducted children are in the care of the caregiver. So your services are not needed." James says. "Yeah thanks, bye. Your not needed. Good luck trying to take someone else's kid and not mine!" I say as she walks away. Dinah slaps my shoulder and I look at her.
"What? They always trying to put someone's kid in the system. And today it's not going to be my kid thank you very much." I say matter of factly. "Babe that's rude. You could've been nice about it." Dinah says. "That was me being nice about it." I say back rolling my eyes. "So can I see my daughter now? I mean I talked to the lady." The doctor looks at me and nods his head. I walk towards the door and open it.
     I see Cheylise sleep on the bed peacefully when I know she's in pain. I grab the chair that was close and dragged it with me next to the bed. Melanie does the same as Dinah stands behind me. I grab ahold of her hand and start to cry. She never did anything to anybody. She was a good girl with being bad on occasions. She was dragged into a situation that had nothing with her and now she's hurt. I watch as he chest moves up and down as she breathes in her sleep. I look at her arms and see bruises up and down her arm. I move the thin sheet and look at her legs and see scratches. No kid should ever have to go through what she went through.
"She's only two. Only two years old. Who the hell does this to a two year old? One that has never did anything to anybody. All she ever did was bring joy to everyone and now I don't even know if I can bring joy to her knowing that this happened because of me." I sob out. "It's not fair. It should've been me. I would do anything for her not to be in this bed. She should be drawing pictures and playing with dolls. Not laying in this hospital bed unconscious. I love you Cheylise. I always will and I promise not to let anyone hurt you ever again." Dinah rubs my shoulders.
"Y/N don't blame yourself. You can't help who you love. I would do anything to be in Cheylise's place too but we can't sit here and put blame on anyone but the people that did it. It's definitely not fair that this happened to Cheylise but we can't do anything but help her to heal and go back to how she was." Melanie says. I don't respond back, taking in what she said. She's right. It's none of our faults but the men that did it.
"Mama?" I hear a faint voice say. I look over at the little girl in the bed. "Yeah baby it's mama." "I got booboo mama. It hurts bad." I cry hearing my baby girl complain. "I know baby girl. I can kiss it to make it better. Look mommy is here. So is Mami." "Hi mommy. Hi Mami." "Hi mamas. Mommy missed you a lot. I'm glad your okay." "Mama scary guy say mean things. I no like him." I chuckle. "Mama doesn't like him either baby. But you don't ever have to see him again. He go bye bye forever." "Mommy can I have ice cream?" "You can have as much as you want baby girl. I'll go get some okay?" Cheylise nods her head and Melanie gets up and kisses her forehead leaving to get what our daughter requested.
"Mami I draw you pictures but I no know where they are." I look back and see Dinah crying. "It's okay Chey. I'm just glad your okay. I can't.... I'll be back." Dinah sobs out as she leaves the room. "Mama why Mami cry?" "Because baby your hurt and we don't like to see you hurt." I say as I wipe my tears. I kiss her arm and her face. "I love you Cheylise." "I wuv you mama."
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"I know it's too soon to say this but we are going to need Cheylise to talk to a psychologist. We want to start this case as soon as possible. We've checked the house in Boston and indeed there were the other children that was missing. Mr. Y/LN is going to be in jail for a long time. We have evidence from them, but we need Cheylise's part as well. We know she's young but she still is a victim." Me and Melanie both nod our head as I look at my sleeping child and girlfriend next to me. "Can we give her at least a week? She just came back and is sore. I don't think me nor Y/N would want her to move around to much." Melanie says. "We can give her a few days but that's it we want to get it while everything is fresh on her mind. Remember she's still young she will forget soon." I nod my head understanding.
      I'm just scared of what Cheylise is going to say. The more that I find out about my sperm donor and the things he did to my daughter the more I want to kill him. She did absolutely nothing to him and he brought her into this. I want to be in the room with Cheylise when she's tell the psychologist about it but then I'm scared that I will do something when she speaks about what was happened to her.
       Ever since Cheylise was one I always told her places where someone shouldn't touch her unless it's me, Melanie, or one of the girls when we wipe her seeing as she's still potty training. She knows that nobody is supposed to touch her there. And I know that hearing that the person that once loved having me as their daughter and is supposed to love Cheylise is going to hurt me the most.
"You can do it tomorrow. As much as I don't want to hear anything he did she needs justice. And that nigga needs to be locked up quick-" "Y/N! She just got checked out today I don't think she's ready to have someone all up in her face." "Melanie, the sooner she speaks about it the sooner she is left alone and we can take care of her back to health. I know you want to know what he did to her just as bad as I do. Think about Chey. She's not going to remember anything in a few days. The sooner it's done the more she will tell." I explain to Melanie. "Fine then let's do it today. Give her a couple of hours. Just make sure my baby gets justice." Melanie pleads to Richard. He squats down in front of her and grabs her hands. "That's what we are going to do. That's all we want. I personally want him to be in jail for life." Melanie nods her head and looks him in the eyes. She leans forward and places a kiss on his cheek. He gets up and smiles. "I'll be back later with the psychologist." I nod my head and he walks out.
"I approve." I say. Melanie looks at me with confusion on her face. "What?" "I know you have something going on with him or you like him. And I approve of him. I can see he cares about Cheylise. He's a good guy, we talked a couple of times. You deserve to be happy and if he makes you happy, I'm happy." I say smiling at her. "Your changing for the better and I see it."
"Yeah I stopped stripping. I'm going to school for being a lawyer. Thank you actually. Without you coming to me that day about changing for Cheylise I don't think I would've realized there's something better than quick money. So thank you. And I approve of Dinah. She's teaching Cheylise how to be a beautiful smart little girl. She stepped up to the plate at which I should've been at to raise my child and I respect her for that." Melanie says truthfully. "Your welcome. We're doing good at this co-parenting thing huh?" I ask her she nods her head smiling. "Yeah I think so." I get up and hug her and she hugs back.
       I hear someone clear their throat and me and Melanie pull away and I look over to see Dinah with confusion written over her face. "What's going on?" "Nothing baby. Me and Melanie were just talking as co-parents. Nothing more. Just had a heart filled moment, but we are going to have Cheylise talk to the psychologist in a little while." "What why?" "Because they need everything while it's fresh on her mind. If they do it later they won't get enough evidence from her. Since this is her case and it's about her they want most of the information from her." Melanie explains. Dinah sighs and nods her head. She looks down and kiss Cheylise's head.
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Knock Knock
       After the knock Richard and another man in a suit came in. "Hey this is Dr. Brown, he's going to be the psychologist for Cheylise. He works with the government with us so it will be confidential unless we use it as evidence. Is that okay?" Me and Melanie nod our heads. "Cheylise this man is going to talk to you okay? You have to tell him the truth. If you tell him all that he wants to know mama will get you ice cream okay?" Chey smiles and nods her head.
"Is there someone that she's comfortable around? It'd be easier if they was in the room." Dr. Brown says. "Cheylise you want someone with you mamas or are you a big girl to stay by yourself?" "I want Mami." She says as she points at Dinah. Dinah, Melanie, and I look at her shocked. "You sure you don't want me or mommy?" "No I want Mami. Mami you stay pease?" Cheylise asks looking up at her. Dinah looks at me and Melanie for help. I just nod at her and so does Melanie. "Yeah I'll stay princess." "Remember baby girl tell him everything and I'll get you ice cream okay?" She nods her head and I get up and kiss her and Dinah's forehead.
"Tell me what happens?" I whisper with my face hovering over forehead. She nods her head and looks up and pecks my lips. I stand up straight while Melanie kisses Cheylise's forehead and hugs her. Me and Melanie leave out the room and go to the waiting room. When we get there we see the girls, Milika and Melanie's mom, Serena. "Hey Serena. Where'd everyone else go?" "Chris had to bring royalty home but said that August is on a flight out here. Gordon brought the kids home and Auntie Barbara, my mom, and nana are on a flight out here." Normani says. Ding. Normani looks down at her phone. "Actually August just got here. Where's Dinah?"
"She um in the room with Cheylise. They wanted Chey to talk to a psychologist so they could get some evidence and basically a statement from her. They asked her who she wanted in the room and she picked Dinah." Everyone looked confused except for Serena and Milika. "You guys don't understand why she chose Dinah do you?" Milika and Serena says. We all shake our heads. "Do you wanna start or should I?" Serena asks Milika. "Go ahead." Milika responds back.
"You see between you and Melanie as you guys are both her biological parents, Cheylise sees Dinah as her mom as well. As much as she trusts you two she trusts Dinah just as much. Y/N, Cheylise has been left alone with Dinah right?" I nod my head. "Dinah and Cheylise have built a bond over the course of time you guys have been together. You guys have been dating for what 8 months now? Cheylise is still young and she's innocent so she sees Dinah as more than a step mother say the least." "Cheylise only draws pictures for Dinah right?" Milika asks and I nod my head once again. "So Dinah is obviously someone she loves. When you perform or had an interview Dinah would always watch her. Thus creating time for that bond to grow stronger. So it's just a bond that she has with her. She's not necessarily loves her more than you guys. It's just before everything happened she's been with Dinah and has been comfortable with her. And honestly after hearing your little altercation with the lady of child services, Y/N, she kinda chose the right choice at picking Dinah." Milika finishes.
     It makes sense now and they're right. Dinah and Cheylise have been spending a lot of time together. And now that I think of it I'm glad that they have that bond. It makes me feel a lot better that they have such a strong connection. "So what your telling me that my daughter has a stronger connection with someone that she has no relation to?" Melanie asks. I hope Melanie doesn't start anything.
"Melanie please don't start anything right now. Hold that shit in. You was just telling me that you approved of Dinah while them two were sleeping. Don't go back on your word because either way I'm not breaking up with Dinah because of your selfish needs and wants." I say turning to look at her. "So your not upset that Cheylise chose your girlfriend over her own parents?" I shake my head no. "Not really. Be honest Milika is right if either one of us went in that room and was listening to what happened our reactions would've gotten us kicked out. And plus I find it cute." I say shrugging my shoulders. I go and take a seat next to Milika and grab ahold of one of her hands. August walks in and walks over dapping me up. "Where's lil mama at?" He says as he goes to hug the girls. "In the room talking to a psychologist with Dinah." He walks in front of me and hold his hand out. "Where's my $100?" I sigh and reach in my pocket and take my wallet out taking out a crisp hundred dollar bill. "What did you guys bet on this time?" Camila says.
"Well dis was way befo' any of dis mess happened. I made a bet wit' her that little Chey would chose Dinah ova' her and Mel in any situation." August says as he sits next to Ally and grabs her hand. I look at him and raise my eyebrow. "Why did y'all make this bet?" Normani asks. "Because he believes that she has a stronger bond with her now. Which I don't think is right because she always chooses me over Dinah." "Oh well ya lost patna'." August says as he shrugs his shoulders.
     I see Dr. Brown walk over to us. "Any of you guys have crayons and paper? I asked the nurse and she said that they gave out the last pack." "Here Regina left her crayons and stuff." Milika says as she hands him the bag. He bids her a thank you and goes back to the room. "Who was that?" "The psychologist " "Why does he need that if he's a psychologist ?" I think about it for a second. "Dinah! Chey always draws pictures for Dinah every single day. He probably couldn't get enough out of her and Dinah told him how she draws her pictures." I say. "This is gonna be a long night." Ally says. We all nod and agree.