Built On Trust

The good and the bad.

The girls are finally staring to feel a little better and instead of sleeping all day they are taking naps and playing with some of their toys. Brad and I luckily haven't gotten sick yet so hopefully soon we can all get out of the house and do something.

Brad is in the living room with them playing and watching movies whilst I clean the house. The twins room is first, so I strip all the sheets off and throw them in the hall to be washed. Next I spray all the pillows and stuffed animals with disinfectant spray then I do the same with Shay's room and ours hoping it'll get rid of all the bad germs. I take all the sheets downstairs and start doing the wash then get the spray and go around other parts of the house. This is all so exhausting, but I'll do anything to make sure that none of us get this again this year.

The kitchen is a huge mess, and I have to make us all dinner, but there's hardly any room at all on the counter. I throw every dish in the sink and get wipes to clean off the messy counter and then start the dishwasher. We don't have much food left so I just grab the bread and lunch meat to make us all sandwiches. I get the girls some juice then clean off the table so we can eat.

"Dinner is ready!" I yell into the living room and they all come in the kitchen quickly. We wash off their hands then sit them at the table and hand them their food. It's the first day that they're all really hungry so they eat it right away. "Do any of you want more?" Brad asks as he gets up to get himself more. They say yes and I tell him to just split one up because they won't eat a whole sandwich.

"Momma what that?" Shay asks me pointing out the door at a shadow.

I stay sitting but lean over to try and see what she's pointing at "I don't know, honey, just stay in your seat and daddy will look." I walk over to where he is at the fridge making sure that I can see the girls the whole time "Someone's in our yard, but they're just standing, they aren't doing anything."

"Stay here with them." He walks out of another door where he can see the person and walks back in a few minutes later "They have a camera or something, I don't know how they got in the yard."

I grab my phone from the table and call the cops letting them know what's going on and they say they'll send someone over. "It's probably a paparazzi."

He picks up the girls and has me follow him to the living room where the guy won't see us "Just stay here and I'll talk to the cops, I don't want him to see you."

I stay there with them trying to entertain them until I hear Brad talking. Looking around, I don't see anyone near us so I try to get closer to where Brad is so I can hear the conversation. The cop is asking where the guy was and if they can get to the yard to find him. Before they say anything else I hear a crashing noise outside like someone fell and the cops run into where we are with Brad following "Just make sure all of you stay in the house!" The cop warns us and they go outside to look. Brad sits with us helping keep the girls calm since at this point they're really shaken up and scared about this weird guy in our yard.

One of the cops comes back in the door "We called for backup. They'll come to the front because of security." He warns us about why someone would be knocking and before I get a chance to ask what happened he's back out with the others. The doorbell rings again and I go to answer it to find a woman cop asking to see the security videos for evidence. I walk her to a computer that she can use to see it and she thanks me and does what she needs to.

As I'm walking back to the living room I see two men in handcuffs sitting on our patio chairs and a cop is walking towards me "Mrs. Pitt?" He asks and I nod "One of the men fell out of a tree, that was the crashing noise. They're both paparazzi so that this point we don't think they were trying to do any physical harm, but we would like to search the inside of the house just to make sure there aren't any more." He goes on with details and asks Brad and I to sign an agreement form.

We're asked to stay in the living room whilst they search everywhere. Bathrooms, bedrooms, closest, hallways, the attic, the basement, kitchen, dining room, they even ask us to leave the living room at one point to search that, then they go out to the guest house to search there.

Whilst they're working on that an amblience shows up to take the guy that fell to the ER and the girls keep asking lots of questions. Luckily, the cop that is staying with us is very good with kids and is patient with answering their questions and helping us. They finish the search and come back to where we are and pull Brad and I aside to tell us what they found.

"Well, the good news is all the damage is minimal and none of you are hurt. We didn't find anyone in the house or evidence that they were here, but the tree did scrape up your house a little and one of your chairs is ruined." He stops to make sure that we're both listening and hands Brad a card "We'll be looking into all of this, but if you suspect anything please don't hesitate to call." He takes both of our numbers as well.

The cops check out the security system and do one last quick search through everything before leaving "We'll do a drive by later to make sure nobody else is around, but you should be fine." They all leave and Brad and I go into the living room where all the girls are asleep.

"I think we should keep them with us tonight." I say as we carry them upstairs "I feel like that's safest."

He silently agrees and lays them in the middle of our bed "Are we going to have enough room? I can sleep on the chair."

I move them so I have room to lay and see that even though it's a king bed, there's no room for all of us with the way they're laying "Yeah, that's probably the best. I hardly have any room."

"Come here." He says motioning for me. I put a pillow on my side so they can't roll out of bed and go sit with him on the chair "This is much better."

He wraps the blanket around both of us and kisses my forehead "Good night."