Baby, baby.

T W E L V E

"This house..." Ana trails off, looking completely in awe as I place the car seat on the floor and lock the door behind me. "Massive."

"Right?" Ana marvels around and wanders at the very sleek looking house while I unbuckle Maria, who whines quietly and thrashes in my hold. "Honey," I kiss her cheek gently and place her on my hip, leading Ana up the stairs.

"Can I hold her?" Ana blurts and I chuckle, placing Maria in her arms. Ana stares down at the fussing baby with a look of admiration and love in her eyes. From the fact that it's David's baby and that she can consider her my child, meaning she has a niece which is something she's always been very open about wanting.

"So this is my room." We enter my bedroom to see that it's very clean, I spent most of the day picking up the house and cleaning so that it'd be nice for when David got home. Trisha left for her appointment and promised to return with dinner since I'd spent the day cleaning and cooking sounded like an entire extra mile.

"It looks like something straight off of a roomspiration blog." Ana laughs and makes her way around my room, Maria tugging on her shirt angrily.

"That room right there is Maria's room," I point to the door next to mine. "Down there is David's room. And the 75 thousand other rooms are extra rooms. And David has a filming room, and a storage room back there." I explain quickly, trying to get the tour over with as soon as physically possible so I could tend to whatever was wrong with Maria.

"So, he's really giving us a house? Like a whole ass house?" I nod in reply and take the fussing baby from her arms, who isn't at all anymore pleased to be with me. We make our way to the living room and sit on the couch. "He's such a sweetheart. We talked for hours the other day." She says dreamily. "I'm so in love with him." I roll my eyes at her and try putting the bottle in Maria's mouth only for her to reject it immediately. "What's wrong with her, Lay?"

"I'm not sure." I furrow my eyebrows and flip her in my arms, checking her diaper to see if there's anything in her diaper which my mother just changed before we left. But as I guessed it was empty.

"Do you think it's serious? David would freak out." She bites her nails nervously. I shake my head try placing the bottle back in her mouth but she moves her head around and avoids it like she did earlier.

"Honey," I lay her head on my chest and try calming her, which fails. "What's wrong baby?" I say quietly and gently pat her hair flat.

"Do you think she's getting a tooth?" Ana suggests, which I highly doubted.

Regardless of how much I doubted that she was getting her teeth I laid her down beside me and ran my finger along her gums, and there it was. Her first tooth was making an appearance.

After putting Maria down, bringing Ana back to her house, and having dinner with Trisha, I laid in bed exhausted. Maria was upset the entire day, and seeing her in pain was officially my least favorite thing. And when David gets back it's going to be his least favorite thing as well, and he'll be more stressed than he is right now, which as much as I didn't want to admit would make me slightly upset.

"Hey," David's voice is soft as I hear him typing on his laptop. "What's up? How was your day?"

"I just thought you should know-" before I can tell him what actually happened hes thrown into a frenzy.

"What happened?!" He begins to panic and I hope that he's alone in his hotel room because he's probably sweating or something. "Oh my- if anything happened to my daughter Layla,"

"You're overreacting." I say calmly, trying to be reassuring. "She's got her first tooth."

"Wait really?" The excitement is evident in his voice but it quickly turns to sadness. "My baby got her first tooth and I'm not there?"

"David, you should be glad you're not here. She's been in pain all day." I sigh deeply, feeling slightly upset for Maria. It hurt me when she hurt, and her emotion reflected into me massively effecting my mood.

"I should be here for her if she's hurting, Layla. I shouldn't have left."

"You'll be here tomorrow. It's fine." He's silent for a moment and if it weren't for his breathing I would have thought that maybe he hung up.

"I've been thinking.." he trails off.

"About?"

"Maybe I should not leave." He suggests. "I've been looking at pictures of her every five minutes. I miss her so much, Layla. I thought I was ready." i hug my blanket closer to my body.

"David, that's your job. You need to get back in the game somehow."

"This is not my job, this is just something fun I agreed to. I do this for my fans. But now I'm thinking there's something more important. I make enough from my videos and merchandise and sponsors, it feels wrong being away from her." I pinch the bridge of my nose in aggravation. David is such a woman.

"I don't think that's the solution. You made a commitment." I press.

"I don't care, that's my child. I just missed a milestone in her life. Its bad enough her mom is going to miss all of it, I should be there for her, seeing all of this."

"Well.." I try to give him some encouraging words but can't find any so I trail off awkwardly. He hasn't mentioned Alexandria in awhile and I assumed it was an extremely uncomfortable topic. Him talking about her must mean that he's more upset than normal.

"There's two shows in California next, one in four days and the next one directly after that. They're a few hours away so I'm going to bring you and Maria to the hotel with me."

"That's fine." I nod as he talks, but i have no clue why since he can't see any of it.

"And then the one in Hawaii, in a month." My eyes widen at the fact that the shows jump around so much.

"Wait, What?" I gape. "How do you even have a show in Hawaii? that's like super out of the way."

"It was designed as a vacation for us, but we have a few meetups during the week. And I want my baby to be with me." i rub my temples and try to sooth the headache I felt coming on but it doesn't exactly work.

"Can we just talk about all of this in the morning when I pick you up?" He hums in response and it's silent again for a moment. It's not necessarily awkward, but it's slightly uncomfortable.

"Yes."

"Goodnight David."

"Goodnight Layla."

-

Oh hi, another update. But hey, it's been like 5 days since I hit 1k reads and I'm at.2k already ahah love me a popular book.