Rebecca watched from the big window that stared out into her mother's back garden as her daughter sat on a swing. Ella was bundled up like a little eskimo this Sunday morning, she opened her presents from Rebecca's Dad and played for a few hours that morning before wanting to go outside.
"What is she doing?" Annette questioned as she walked up to her daughter and looked out at the little girl
"She's got something on her mind" Rebecca nodded "I don't know what yet but it's something" she said
"It's always amazed me as a mother how you can always tell when something is bothering your child without them ever saying a word" she said and Rebecca nodded
After watching the little girl for a few more minutes she decided to go outside, she grabbed her jacket and walked out slowly and quietly, she shut the door behind her and Ella looked over at her with a small smile as her mother walked towards her.
"What are ya doing out here munchkin?" she asked as she sat in the swing next to her
"Thinking" Ella said quietly and Rebecca nodded
"You're five.. what possibly could be so important that you're not inside playing with your toys?" she asked
"I know what I wanna do" she said
"Okay" Rebecca nodded "Which toy does Daddy have to put together now?" she questioned but Ella shook her little head
"No" she said shaking her head "I know what I wanna do for life" she said
"For life?" Rebecca questioned "Once again.. you are five"
"I may be little but I still know" she said looking up at her and Rebecca could see her daughter was serious
"Okay" she nodded "What is it?" she questioned
"I wanna wrestle" she said looking up at her mother with her eyes full of hope and nervousness
"You wanna wrestle" Rebecca nodded slowly "Okay" she said and Ella could see the look in her mother's eyes
"You don't like it" Ella shook her head
"No no..that's not it" Rebecca shook her head
"Yes it is" Ella nodded "You don't want me to do it and that's not fair"
"I didn't say that" Rebecca shook her head once more "I want you to do whatever makes you happy but I want you to really think about this" she said "because if you do this and you go after it, you have to understand that you're going to have a lot more pressure on you solely based on who your parents are" she said
"Aunt Ashley did it" Ella argued and Rebecca nodded
"She did" she stated "but go ask her how hard it was, how hard it still is to make a name for herself.. and her dad was the only parent that was in the business, you would have your mom and your dad's names to live up to in the fans eyes"
"I wanna do it" Ella said again
After realizing her little girl wasn't going to be persuaded, she decided to do the only thing she could think of, she did the same thing her mother did with her.
She decided to take Ella to Clement & Pekoe, a local coffee shop that her mother took her to at 17 before she moved off to Canada for the first time.
Sitting there with her own daughter was giving her flashbacks to the discussion she'd had with her mother, all of the same questions ran through her own head.
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"I'm going to ask you a lot of questions" Rebecca said and Ella looked up from her coloring page "and if you can answer all of them I will let you do it" she said and Ella nodded
"Promise?" she questioned holding her pinky out and Rebecca interlocked their fingers
"Okay" she took a deep breath "Why do you want to do this?" she asked
"Because.. You always tell me to only do what I love.. if I don't love it, don't do it" she shook her head "I see how much you guys help people and I wanna help people too" she said
"Fair enough" Rebecca nodded "So who is supposed to train you?" she questioned
"Daddy" Ella said "I can be in class with everybody else and you can help if you want" she said
"What happens when you get hurt?" she questioned
"If" Ella corrected and Rebecca shook her head
"As much as I wish this was an if situation.. it's going to be a when, You're going to get hurt somehow.. even if it's just bruises" she said
"Then I'll get up and keep going" Ella said without a second thought and Rebecca shook her head
"You might have to move pretty far away from me and daddy ya know?" she questioned
"I know" Ella nodded "but you get to teach me everything I need until then" she said innocently
"You've got this all figured out then don't you?" she questioned and the little girl nodded once more
"Yep" she said simply with a nod
"Okay" she said "Just one last question" she said and Ella looked at her, clearly getting more and more annoyed with each question "How are we supposed to tell your dad?" she asked and Ella shrugged
"If he gets mad at me and doesn't like it then he's a hippopotamus" she said and Rebecca laughed
"A what?" she asked
"A hippopotamus" she said confidently and Rebecca looked at her with wide eyes
"A hypocrite?" she questioned and Ella nodded
"That's what I said" she said and Rebecca shook her head with a laugh
