His Nanny

11. Hot Chocolate

Sophia's POV:

My fuzzy head starts to pull me back to consciousness and all I can hear are screams. My body goes into panic mode and my eyes shoot open. I'm sitting in a car. Where the hell am I and what happened?

I quickly look around me and it suddenly dawns on me that I'm in Adams car, so why can I hear screams?

I stumble out of the passenger seat and see Adam sitting with a screaming crying Elsie on the step by the front door.

"What's happened? What's wrong?" Elsie jumps and spins around in his arounds and somehow seems to cry even louder.

"You fainted and she's panicking. I'm trying to calm her down." Oh god! I bet she thinks something bad happened to me. Why did I faint again?

I don't even start to question it. I run over to Adam and sit next to him on the step.

"Honey I'm fine. I think my head must still be hurting from yesterday that's all. I'm fine, see!" I wave my arms around a little and the heap of crying mess jumps out of Adams arms and into mine.

She cries on me for what feels like forever. I look at Adam with worried eyes and before I even have a chance to stop it, a lone tear falls from my eyes. He lifts his hand to wipe it away but the shock of the tear seems to have unleashed my hormones and more follow.

"Sophia, what's wrong?" I just shrug, I have no idea why I'm now crying. I look at Elsie and then realise that Adam is stuck with two crying girls but for two different reasons.

He doesn't hesitate to wrap his arm around me and pulls me so that me and Elsie are leaning on him. I've managed to calm my tears, although silent as they are, I feel betrayed by them. How dare they decide to show up now!

We sit there for minutes but it feels as though hours have passed, waiting for Elsie to calm. Adam continues to stroke little circles onto my arm, I don't even think he notices he's doing it but it's calming me down better than his words could right now.

Elsie finally starts to breath evenly but I haven't let her go from my tight hug. She was so upset and it was killing me. I've never seen a child act that way, but then I've never been around a child that has seen loss like her.

"Let's go inside and get warm. I'll make us all a hot chocolate." Adams voice sounds worried and I don't blame him. I wanted to reassure him that I'm not just a blubbering idiot all the time. He probably thinks I just burst out crying because Elsie was crying. To some extent, I was, but I know the underlying cause of my tears.

He stands carefully and holds his hand out for me to take. It takes me three attempts to get up and finally he was able to yank me up with Elsie in my arms.

We walk into the house in silence, the only noice is from Elsie sniffling on my shoulder. Adam shuts the door quietly behind us and I walk Elsie into the living room, sitting down with her in my arms on the sofa. I don't see Adam for a couple of minutes and decide that he's probably making those hot chocolates.

"Fee-Fee?"

"Yes angel?"

"What you do?" She finally pulls away from my body but rests her hands on my stomach. Her legs are tucked in by my sides and I know in this moment that I would do anything for this little girl. In the short time I've known her, she's fully captured my heart, body and soul.

"Well, sometimes people can fall asleep standing up and they don't even realise. It's called fainting. I faint easily unfortunately. Some people do and some people don't. It's absolutely fine, I just need some time to wake myself back up again." I try to put it in a way she would understand but I think I might have just confused her even more.