Tale of Two Lovebirds

Chapter 7

Deepika entered their room slowly without making any sound. All their lights but a lamp on his nightstand were off. He was watching TV, on mute. It was only 9 PM.

"Finally, she wouldn't fall asleep." She said tiptoeing over to their bed and quickly getting on top of him, straddling his hips with her legs.

For the past few days, darling Ria had been having sleeping problems. Every single day she woke up in the middle of the night, went to her parents bedroom and woke whichever one of the two up, crying because she was awake and couldn't sleep.

At the beginning, Deepika would carry her back to her bed and lay with her in her little bed for a while until she fell asleep, only to have her return later, upset because she couldn't sleep again and because she was in her bed, again. Ranveer suggested to just let her sleep between both of them and sometimes that was easier if they really wanted to sleep. That way, she wouldn't wake up again until the morning.

But this turned out to be a problem if they had other bedroom plans.

...

"What are you doing to mommy?"

One day they heard her little voice, in their bedroom, while they were just getting in the mood. Of course she noticed Papa on top of Mommy. She never missed a thing. Luckily they were just kissing but her pajama top was gone. He jumped off Deepika and off their bed the moment they heard her.

"Ri! You're up!"

"I can't sleep."

The girl looked up to her Papa and Deepika hurried to put her top back on.

"I... I was just kissing mommy goodnight..."

"I want to sleep here."

After that incident, they had to be really careful. Their morning fun became nearly impossible to be had as well.

"Why do we even need contraceptives anymore? We have Ria." He joked once.

Back to the present, Deepika straddled him on their bed. C'mon, it's been too long...With work and their daughter, it barely happened anymore.

Ranveer couldn't risk his little girl walking into them again. She didn't really see anything before but he would make sure she didn't get to see anything, ever.

"Let's do it in the bathroom..."

Better than nothing, na?

~

"I thought you're a big girl now, Ri." Ranveer teased his daughter. It was early in the morning and she was hugging her teddy bear and in their bed, between both of them. Deepika tried not to laugh, she knew where he was going with this.

"I am a big girl." Ria retorted.

"I don't think so, baby. You're still our baby. Right, Deepu?"

Mommy Deepu nodded and Ria frowned.

"You still sleep here with us like when you were a tiny, little newborn." He added.

"Big girls have their own beds." Deepika said.

"I have my bed." The toddler argued.

"Yes, you do but your papa and I were thinking of donating it to a big girl who needs a bed because you don't use it..." Both parents were now holding back the urge to laugh. This was all improvised.

Ria contemplated the idea for a second. She liked sleeping with them more than on her bed but she didn't want them to give her bed away! It was hers and pink and white and so pretty!

"No, mommy!" She whined.

"But you never use it, Princess. We shouldn't waste a good bed like that. Let someone in need have it."

Ria stayed quiet for a second, she looked like she was actually considering giving it away. That was not what they wanted...

"No, papa. I love my bed."

Phew!

"You can give her my baby stuff." Crib, high chair and all that stuff they still kept in another room of the house. They have been saving all that for baby number two.

"She doesn't need baby stuff, sweetie. Big girl stuff."

"I'm a big girl too."

"OK. If you sleep in it, we won't give it away but if you don't use it, we'll give it to the other big girl." Deepika tried to negotiate and Ria nodded, not too convinced but she didn't want to give away her bed.

~

It was time to go to bed again the next day and Ranveer heard Deepika laughing out loud in Ria's room.

"Look at what your daughter did." She said pointing to the bed. Ria stood next to it highly amused.

"Shh! They sleeping." Dolls and stuffed animals were tucked in all along the width of her bed.

She's incorrigible...

"That doesn't count! Those guys have always slept in that basket over there." Ranveer pointed out.

Ria giggled.

"They sleepy, papa."

"It's their bed now? Maybe they should go to the big girl too."

"No, no, no, no!" Ria climbed her bed and snuck in the middle with all her toys around her. She loved her toys, she couldn't let that happen!

"That's my big girl!" He tucked her in, kissed her goodnight and both stayed with her, reading her a story until she fell asleep.

~

She needed some sort of convincing for a few days but eventually she started sleeping in her bed without waking up in the middle of the night. It was easy because she was never scared of anything to begin with, she just didn't want to be alone.

They praised and encouraged her every day, and as soon as they both got a few days off from work, they took Ria on her first big girl trip as a prize, to Disneyland in Paris. There was no going back, she's a big girl now.

~

To be continued...

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