Save Me

Chapter Two

The next morning I woke up to Luca sprawled across my chest snoring lightly. I smiled down at him as I stroked his dark hair. He looked exactly like me, except his dark brown hair which he got from Ethan. I wish I could give him a better father, I was so ashamed of myself that he was the one to give me my beautiful boy.

Luca shifted in his sleep then blinked his eyes open. He looked at me from where his head was on my chest and gave me a tired smile. “What are we doing today mummy?”, I gave him a shrug and pretended to move my hands towards the blanket, before attacking him.

I rubbed my fingers over his stomach and sides loving the sound of his squealing laughter. I grinned and kept tickling him. He kept begging me to stop, tears running down his face. I finally took pity on him and leaned away. His face was flushed with excitement and he was breathing pretty hard.

I was about to get up when I felt a pair of tiny hands dig into my side. He wasn't used to playing around wit me, which upset me greatly, so he was a little rough. I sucked in a breath as he hit a certain spot on my left side and started to laugh when he continued to hit that spot.

“Okay okay, you win. I submit to you.”, Luca grinned at me before sitting on my stomach. I pulled him down to me and kissed all over his face. “I love you mummy.”, I felt my heart constrict and tears gather in my eyes.

“I love you to sweetheart.”, Luca looked at me in cute confusion and wiped my tears away. “I'm happy crying baby, I swear.”, He gave me a nod before jumping off me and running out the room and into the bathroom.

I tiredly got up and pulled out clothes for the both of us. “Come on, bath time.”, I called as I entered the bathroom. I looked in and saw Luca standing there naked. He suddenly launched himself at me and giggled. He always found it funny when he was naked and jumped onto me.

I heaved a sigh then turned the bath tops on and put in the plug. “Can you come in the bath with me mummy? I don't want to be on my own.”, Luca asked looking into my eyes, with his puppy dog expression.

“But your a big boy now, and big boys take baths by themselves.”, I tried persuading him.

“Please mummy, please please please please please please.”, I put my hand over his mouth and begrudgingly nodded. I knew he had to get used to being in the bath by himself, but he got scared of the water. I undressed and folded my pyjamas and put them onto the toilet lid along with Lucas'.

I turned off the taps and poured some of the bath soap into the water before lifting Luca into it then following him in. After twenty minutes of trying to wash myself and Luca I gave up and let him splash about in the cooling water.

He finally had enough and tried to get of the bath on his own. I chuckled and stood up, I lifted him under the armpits and set him down on the rug. I pulled the plug and stepped out. I wrapped towels around the both of us and quickly dried off before putting my clothes on.

Luca pushed me away and tried to get dressed himself, he almost had it but he put his jeans on backwards. Once I helped him, I went about packing all our things away, and stuffing the rest of the food away after pulling out two bottles of water and filling one of them with squash and giving it to Luca along with his crisps and a pasty.