Free (Sequel to Trapped)

Ch. 85

Ariana

Tuesday, 4:26 pm

I open the door for Aviella and she walks in. I follow her and we walk to the office looking room to the left.

"Hello, how may I help you?"

"I called earlier. My names Ariana, and this is my daughter Aviella."

"Oh yes. My cousin told me all about little miss Aviella."

"Your cousin?" I ask.

"Yep. Tessa. They go to the same school."

"Tessa's your cousin?" Aviella says.

"Yes, she is. I see she failed to mention that her aunt owns this place. My mom."

"Oh really?"

"Yep. And Tessa made sure Aviella would be in her class every day she was here."

"She did?"

"I did. Come on, Avi!" I turn around and see Tessa standing in the doorway.

"Tess!" Aviella hugs her friend like she hasn't seen her in ten years.

"Beth, can Aviella come now?" Tessa asks.

"She sure can."

"Have fun, babe." I tell Aviella.

She smiles before running away with Tessa.

"All I need you to do is fill out this paperwork then you're free to leave, if you want." Beth says.

"Okay." Beth gives me a clipboard with a few pieces of paper on it and a pen.

I sit down and fill out the information. It only takes about five minutes, and when I'm done, I give the papers back to Beth.

"Thank you. Her class is over at 5:30 so if you wanna go run some errands or go home, that's fine."

I nod and walk out of the office. I look at Aviella through the glass window in the lobby and smile before leaving the gym.

I have mommy duties to attend to. Like not being a mommy.

Justin

4:56 pm

"Bella, seriously. Mommy will be back soon. Stop crying. You're not supposed to cry when you're with me. I'm your dad."

Of course, she doesn't stop crying. She wasn't hungry and she didn't need her diaper changed. She was probably just tired. But she has issues at this time of day. And by issues, I mean she doesn't go to sleep but she doesn't stop crying either.

Now I have to deal with it, because she's usually not this loud with Ariana. I'm tempted to leave her in her room and close the door like I did earlier, but that was solely for baby training purposes.

I just lay her in my lap and hope she falls asleep soon.

Ariana

5:23 pm

After my amazing not a mommy time at Alexa's apartment, I return to the gym to pick Aviella up. She still has 7 minutes left so I sit in the lobby and watch them.

Her and Tessa were jumping off a trampoline into the foam pit with some other girls who I'm guessing were in the same class as them. It was the cutest thing ever, and I could tell they were all having a lot of fun.

After about two minutes, a girl who looks like a teenager says something to them and they start running around the floor with foam blocks in their hands.

5:31 pm

Aviella comes out of the gym with Tessa and her coach.

"Hi. I'm Aviella's coach, Brooke. Aviella did great today. She is definitely gonna be amazing. I can't wait to see her again."

"That's good. I'm proud of you, babe." Aviella smiles up at me and I stroke her head.

"I'll see you tomorrow, Tess." Aviella hugs Tessa before she leaves with Brooke.

"Brooke is Tessa's other cousin." Aviella explains as we walk out of the gym.

"Oh. Did you meet any other girls?"

"Yep. I met a lot of girls. And we're all the same age!"

"That's great." I open her door and she gives me her water bottle before getting in.

After giving her water bottle back, I close the door and get in my seat.

5:43 pm

We walk in the front door, and amazingly, I hear no crying.

"He actually managed to do it." I say.

We walk in the living room and I see Justin sitting on the couch with Bella laying across his chest.

"My babies." I smile and Justin looks up at me.

"It took thirty minutes for her to go to sleep." He sighs.

"Awe, poor baby."