Redemption | Sequel

Date

                                   A week later

"Ugh, is it my turn?" I whined to Chris. Hope was waking up in the middle of the morning, crying as usual and I was so tired, as usual. It was 5 in the morning

He didn't reply, I got up and walked towards Hope's room and I heard the crying seize.
I walked in and Layla was holding her in her arms.

"She really doesn't stay sleep does she?" She turned to me and asked

"Nope, not in the middle of the night." I said going to get a diaper and directing Layla to lay her onto the changing table.

"Why are you up anyway?"

She sighed, " Cause Justin was blowing my phone up so I woke up, called him and that was that then when we got off of the phone I heard her crying so I thought why not come and try to get her quiet."

"Oh, that was nice." I said while changing her.

"How was the movie? I meant to ask that earlier." I followed.

"It was funny, we had went to see Boo 2."

"I wanted to see that, I heard it was funny." I said and fastened Hope's onesie.

"Can you watch her really quickly while I go get her bottle?" I asked Layla

"Of course"

I jogged down the stairs and grabbed the bottle from the refrigerator and put the formula inside it, warmed it up and then went back upstairs.

"So how do you manage to make her bottle when no one is up?" Layla asked and took the bottle from me, to feed her.

"Well, I usually try and get up ahead of time to prepare it and just wake her up so I won't get disturbed but sometimes she beats me to waking up so I used to struggle to try and make the bottle with her in my arms but I'd began to fear of dropping her so I'd just let her cry sometimes while I'm preparing it or I take her down there with me and lay her in her swing."

"Why don't you wake me up? Or Chris?" She asked

"I don't wanna interrupt no one else because I'm interrupted."

"But you need help girl, and plus that's his baby too and this is my little cousin so I don't mind and I know he better not mind." She replied

"You right" I shrugged

"Why the hell yall up? It's 5." Chris said coming to the door.

"You know why I'm up, Layla was up helping me. Why are you up?"

"You know I can't sleep when you ain't in the bed."

"Right" I replied

"Lemme see her." He said while yawning.

He grabbed Hope out of Layla's arms and began singing to her and rocking her. Eventually she had fell asleep in his arms.

"It still work like a charm." He said while laying her down.

I smiled to myself, "Well I don't know what y'all about to do but I'm about to go back to sleep." I said making my way towards the door.

"Right behind you." Layla said and Chris followed too.

I laid down and Chris laid back beside me.

"Glad you finally back in here." He said while pulling me close.

"Yeah yeah." I said and eventually dozed off.

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