The Nanny

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Luciano's POV

Me and Emi sat in silence and I snuck a glance at her. Her curls were stuck to her face from the heat as she sat in a big t shirt giggling to herself or gasping as she watched the children play as she ate ice cream. She was beautiful I couldn't help but stare.

"What should someone do if you have an epileptic fit" I questioned out of genuine curiosity. She turned facing me sighing as she put her cup of ice cream down. As she raised up her wrist showing me a bracelet. I had noticed it before. It looked old and worn and I so badly wanted to replace it for her.

"It's a medical band." There goes my plans. "If I have a seizure it will beep so that if I'm in public people are alerted to my wrist." She continued as she unclamped the bracelet. She held it out to me and I took it. I began to read as she spoke again. "My name and my condition. If seizing do not hold person down but instead stay with them they may wake up confused...if after three minutes she is still unresponsive contact 911." She finished-reciting in a robotic voice at the same time as me. " pass me your phone" she took my phone typing away at the screen before opening an app and handing it to me. All her stats and heartbeat were on there. "You can know when one is happening." She said with a smile as we fell into another silence

"When was the last time?" I questioned looking solemnly at the device. She took the bracelet back fiddling with it in her hands. " a week before I got this job. I was at a cafe. I was stressed and Loai was crying and I had an episode it was quite embarrassing flopping around like a fish, but I've taught Loai to shout epilepsy as well as he can when I seize. That was tough to teach so I had to fake fit a lot so he would be less scared when it happened. It's sad that to him it's normal. His grandma would scream it and so he copied. Sounds more like epilepshy though." She sighed with small smile.

It seemed scary not knowing that at any point in time such an event could take place and for her son to see it as normal was truly horrible.

She was a strong woman and I admired the way she took care of our kids. I-I mean my kids. To say she was attractive was an understatement and she has so many intriguing attributes. She was annoying sometimes as her stubbornness caused us to butt heads.

I quickly broke from my thoughts getting to my feet as her head snapped towards me. My own thoughts scared me. "Beach time" was all I said as I tried to shut down my thoughts. Emotions are bad for business.

The kids were lined up in front of me the sound of light snores piercing my ears as Emi lay snoozing on our blanket. She was tired and I understood why. I grabbed the bottle of sunscreen lathering up the twins and collecting their dummies before moving to Loai. He timidly walked up to me. "Daddy's nice Lowaiiii no worry" Xavier reassured him. I quickly lathered him up patting his back telling him to have fun and he smiled at me running off. Progress.

I turned back to were Emi lay back on our blanket she took up more than half of it. I shoved her body lightly scooting her over and lay on my front next to her so I could see the children. For once this week I didn't feel stress or pressure from my work but I felt free and human. I would never have suggested a day out but Emi needed one. At that moment Emi rolled over, her cheek and arm using my back as a pillow. I knew in that moment that for Emi I would do whatever was necessary to give her just that.