21// ~Friend~

"Otay, you s'ay there." I placed button down onto one of the seats. "An you s'ay there." I put tootsie down into the other seat. "Yay!" I clapped my hands. This is going to be the best tea party ever!

Morgy and Thena and Dani had to do a little bit of work so I decided to play in my room and have the best party ever! Walking into the bathroom I stood on my tippy toes and turned the faucet on, filling up the pink ceramic tea kettle with warm water. Once it was about half way full I shut the water off and put the lid back on. Wow! It's a little heavy! I have to be super duper careful with it!

Carrying it with two hands I walked slowly back into the bedroom, watching it with every step to make sure I didn't spill any water at all.

"Hey honey can you come here for a second?" I heard Athena say from the doorway of the room.

I skipped over to her and she crouched down and grabbed my hands, smiling at me. "Wat?" I questioned, tilting my head a bit.

"You remember the other little girl you met at the store, Amelia." I nodded my head and she continued. "Well I spoke to her daddy and we planned for her to come over in a little bit, that way you guys can have a little play date, huh? How does that sound?" She said in an excited tone of voice.

I thought for a second about what exactly this entailed before beginning my line of questioning. "Her daddy come too?"

"Yep, he's gonna come with her."

"She nice?" I had already met here, but it was only for a minute and I needed to be sure that she was nice. I don't like when people mean.

"Yes, she is nice. You guys are going to have so much fun with each other! You can color, and have a tea party, eat lunch, maybe play outside." She listed.

"Otay, dat good." I nodded, making her laugh a little bit.

"I get weady!" I removed my hands from out of hers and ran around the room, making sure everything was set.

Tea party. Check!

Made bed. Check!

Ooouu we need to have good snackies.

"Scuse me mommy." I ran around her, jumping down the stairs one by one until I made it to the bottom, where I contained to run to the kitchen.

A minute later she walked into the kitchen behind me so I turned around to give her my full attention. She had a shocked look on her face, although she was smiling a little bit. Huh...weird.

"What wong?"

"Um...nothing, nothing." She shook her head. "You just, you called me mommy." She smiled at me.

She's so silly. "Ya, cause you my mommy, duh." Okay maybe that was a little bit sassy...oopsies!

"Okay missy come here!" She chased me around the counter for a minute before she caught up to me and picked me up from behind. Oh rats! "What did you need out of the kitchen?"

"Need'a have good snackies for 'melia." I pouted. If I didn't have good snacks she would never want to hang out with me ever again! This was a big priority!

"Alright, alright, calm down. How about someeee...carrots and ranch?"

"Good."

"And maybe some cookies." She whispered to me.

"Yes!"

"You have to be a good girl though when Amelia and her daddy are here okay? Oh who am I kidding, you're always my good girl aren't you?"

She pressed her finger into my nose, booping it. I scrunched it up and scowled at her for a second. "Yes mommy, I be good girl." I nodded a bit dramatically.

Leaning in until my face was extremity close to hers, she made a face of surprise. "I think someone's coming."

"Who?"

"The...kissy monster." She kissed me all over my face causing me to squeal and wiggle around. What is with all these kissy's all the time! You know what...I think I actually like it so, can't complain too much.

"Aahhhh. Don, don." I pointed to the ground to get my point across.

Just then Mama walked down the hallway leading towards the kitchen, so obviously I ran up to her. What else would I do?

"Mama, mama!" I jumped up and down once I reached her, blocking her from walking any farther. "Melia come over an we pway an we be fwiends an her daddy come an i have tea pawty an have fun!"

She nodded along with me and watched as I rambled on and on. "Wow, that's amazing sweetheart!" She sounded excited but her eyes looked like they were tearing up a bit. Oh no! Maybe I was too loud and made mama sad!

"Mama sad?"

"No, no, honey mama's not sad, just really happy for you, to get to play with your friend." She reassured me.

"Otay." I shrugged. I gave her a super tight hug around her waist.

Ding. Ding. Ding.

Aaahhhhh she's here, she's here! "I get it!" I ran to the door, but mommy said I can't open the door my by self. That made me a little sad but as long as she opens the door then it's okay. I can't wait another second!

Mommy opened the door to reveal Amelia standing in front of her daddy. "Hey, welcome, welcome, come in." She opened it a bit wider, allowing them both to walk in.

I was super excited...before, but for some reason I felt a little bit nervous now. I backed up a bit and hid behind mama so I could take a minute to myself. "You okay sweet pea?"

"Ya." I whispered, grabbing onto mamas hand. "Wittle scawed." I whispered. I didn't want Amelia to hear and feel bad that I was scared. I wasn't scared of her! More so just what she would think of me, and if we would be friends like I wanted to be. I never really had a friend before so hopefully I wasn't bad at it.

"It's okay. Want mama to stay with you while you say hi?"

I nodded and followed behind her, shuffling my feet little by little until we were standing next to everyone.

"Hey." Amelia waved to me.

I looked up at mama and mommy for confirmation and both of them nodded, which gave me a little more confidence. "Hi." I waved back.

"Do you want to go to your room and show Amelia your tea party set up, I'm sure she would love that." Mommy suggested.

I nodded and slowly let go of mamas hand, walking towards my room, periodically looking back towards Amelia to make sure she was walking with me still. I guess she thought that was funny cause she kept laughing a bit every time I stopped and looked back at her.

I walked into my room and stopped, letting her look around a bit. "Dis my woom." I whispered. Hopefully she heard me!

"It's cool." She nodded, looking at the shelf's of books. "I like it."

I felt a little better now that she seemed super nice. "Tank you!"

"No problem. So where's the tea party?"

"Oh, wight here!" I pointed to the table where button and tootsie were still sitting. "We can have tea pawty?"

"Ya, sounds like a good idea!" She sat down in one of the chairs. I picked up tootsie and placed her in my lap. My babies like snuggles. Okay...you caught me...I like snuggles. They do too though, they told me!

Looking over at button I picked her up as well. Maybe I should let Amelia hold her, that would be nice. I don't like sharing my studies to much but I think it would be okay if she just held her for a little bit that way we can each have one, plus mommies might be proud of me and I like that. "Here." I held her out to Amelia.

"Oh, thank you! I'll make sure to take good care of it." She promised. Phew! That's good!

"So, you have two mommies?"

"I have three, but mum is working a wittle bit. I tink she almost done. Mommy and mama down'tairs. You have daddy?"

"I have a mommy and a daddy. Mommy's on a trip right now for a couple days but she's coming back tonight."

"You 'cited?"

"Oh ya, really excited. I still get to FaceTime her every time but it's different when she's really there you know?"

I nodded. Pouring us each some tea we talked in a British accent and pretended to have a very fancy tea party. It was really fun! I think Amelia is a good friend.

"Maybe we make card for you mommy for when she come home?" I offered once we were done with our tea party

"Oh my goodness, yes pease!"

I showed where my area and crafts supplies were and she started to make her card. I didn't want to intrude on it because it was special for her mommy so I made my own card. I decided to make a thank you card for all my mommies for being the best ever!

I applied some glue onto the front in the shape of a heart and carefully poured some pink glitter onto the glue causing it all to stick and look so pretty! Eeehhhh! I love it!

Then I wrote a little wrote inside -'TANK YOU FOR BE THE DEST MOMMY'S' - and made beautiful shapes and colors all around. I hope they love it, I tried to make it so super duper pretty!

Once I was all finished with my card I looked over to Amelia's to see she was just finishing up a little bit of coloring on the inside. I waited patiently for her to finish, kicking my legs behind me as I laid my stomach and day dreamed...or more so thought random things. I do that a lot.

One time I saw a baby giraffe be born. It was so super duper cute, but actually it was a little sad because the baby giraffe after tried to walk and it was just learning how and it was so wobbly and it fell over a few times and that made me cry a little. I wonder how old I was when I learned to walk. Probably much longer than that giraffe took! How long does a giraffe stay in its mommy's belly? I don't know.

"All right, I'm all done." Amelia said.

"Woahhh, I love it!" Hers was so pretty. She proably did a better job than me cause I wasn't good at writing. Oh no! What if mommies can't read what I wrote down! I think it's right but it's proably not cause I always mess up my writing. My dad said if I wasn't so stupid that wouldn't happen to me. I don't want mommies to think I'm stupid. Maybe I won't give it to them.

"Thanks, I weally like yours too!"

"Tanks." I moved it off of the floor and put it on my desk. I'll have to throw that away or hide it later. "Wanna go down'tairs? My mommies made yummy snackies for us, dey are good!"

"Sure, I'm a bit hungry."

We made our way downstairs, me leading the way since I knew how to get there now and she proably didn't since the house was soooooo big! I still don't know a lot of ways to get places but I will learn and I know how to get to places I need so that's good.

"Mommy? Mama?" I called out as we both walked into the living room where they were both sitting with Amelia's daddy. Amelia went over to him and sat down on his lap. "We hungwy a wittle. Snackies pease." I rubbed my belly in a circle so she would see how serious I was.

"Yes sweetie I'll go get some snacks for you guys. Wait here with mama." She kissed my forehead and got off the couch to walk into the kitchen.

"You guys have fun up there?" Amelia's daddy asked and we both nodded. "That's good! Amelia honey after you have your snack, we're gonna have to get ready to pack up and head home though okay?"

"But..." She furrowed her eyebrows and turned around on his lap to look at him.

"Mommy's gonna be home soon, don't you want to be home when she gets there?"

"Oh...ya." She sheepishly smiled.

I looked up at mama from where I was sitting on her lap. Leaning up I cupped my hands around mouth and whispered into her ear. "Melia pway 'gain 'nother day?"

"Yes sweet girl she can come play soon again as long as that's okay with her mommy and daddy."

Just then mommy walked back into the room and placed a board with some snackies onto the coffee table. "Oh...I need mum be with us. Be wight back!"

I hopped off of mamas lap and down a few hallways to get to mums office. I knocked once I got there and opened the door once I heard her 'come in'. "Mum you have a come meet 'Melia and eat snackies 'fore she go!" I tumbled out.

She looked as though she froze for a second before she collected herself again and stood up from the desk. "Okay, okay, I'm coming!" She smiled and grabbed my hand and we skipped together back to the living room.

"Melia dis my mum." I pointed and let go of her hand, rubbing back to the couch to sit down.

"Nice to see you again Amelia." Mum smiled. Oops...I forgot she already saw her. Eh, it's fine, I still want all my mommies here right now. More like all the time! Mwah ha ha! Just kidding, that's a evil laugh and I not evil!

I munched on some carrots and ranch doing my happy dance while everyone chatted among themselves. I didn't listen to much to the conversation as I was too focused on my dancing! Wiggle wiggle!

Once the snacks were mainly gone, Amelia's daddy said it was time for us all to say our goodbyes. That makes me sad. I'm happy she gets to go home and see her mommy get home though!

Amelia's daddy urged her to say her goodbyes and me and her walked back to my room so she was able to grab her card she made before we walked back downstairs. All the grown-ups were standing by the door, Amelia's daddy holding her shoes.

"Bye 'Melia." I waved with a small pout on my face.

She put her shoes on and leaned in to hug me tightly. She was a bit taller than me but not by much so it wasn't too awkward. "Bye Ara, I liked hanging out with you."

Aaaaaahhhh! She liked hanging out with me! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Breathe! Okay, respond missy! "Tanks, I wiked it too!" I flapped my hands up and down, too excited to keep my body and wiggles still.

All my mommies chuckled and Amelia and her daddy waved as they walked out the door and got into the car.

"We're so proud of you." Mum knelt down and hugged me before grabbing from beneath my armpits and lifting me in the air, causing me to let out a little giggle and scream before she placed me onto her hip.

"So, you want to have more play dates with Amelia?" Mommy asked.

"Uh-huh she nice." I layed my head down onto mum's chest.

"Awww is someone sleep?" She rubbed my back and rocked me a little bit back and forth.

"No no." I mumbled. How dare she say i am tired! I am never tired! Never ever! Well maybe sometimes....but not now!

"If you say so." She laughed and continued to bounce me up and down. I felt her cover the ear that was exposed with one hand and speak to mommy and mama. "I'm gonna go lay her down for a nap."

I grumble and pushed her hand off of my ear, but didn't lift my head. Okay maybe I was a little tired. Maybe I could just take a little nap. A little, little one.

Mum walked up the stairs and to my room, but stoped at the desk. I saw her pick up the card and I reached out grabbed it, hiding it between mine and mum's bodies. "What is my silly girl doing huh?"

"No wook."

"I can't look at it?" I shook my head back and forth. "Why can't mum look at it?" She laughed.

"Bad."

"It's bad?" I nodded. "Oh honey it's not bad I think it looks beautiful. Can mommy and mama look at it." I shook my head again.

"Stupid." She stopped her bouncing and walked one to the bed, sitting down on the edge.

"Can you look at me baby?" I didn't move my head, but instead just looked up with my eyes. "Tell mum what's stupid." I pointed to myself and opened up the car so she could what i was talking about. My bad writing and coloring. "Baby, I need you to look me in the eyes." She grabbed the sides of my face and lifted my head. "You are a smart, caring, wonderful, beautiful girl and I don't want to hear you talking about yourself like that. I don't let anyone talk bad about my little girl and that includes you, okay?"

I layed by head down onto her chest again and placed the card down next to her. "Otay mum, sowwy."

"You don't need to be sorry baby I just need you to know that you are so so smart and there is no reason that you should ever doubt that for even a second."

I nodded. "Sweepy now." I rubbed my eyes. I tried to my hardest to fight the sleep, but mums rocking and soft rhythmic heartbeat won the battle.

That's okay, I'll win next time!

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Ara's outfit!

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Okay guys it's almost 2 am and I'm so tired I have to go to bed now! Thank you for 21k reads and I hope you like this chapter!!

Also I have health problems and I have to go to the doctor every other week and every time I write down sweet girl all I can think of is my doctor cause that's what she always calls me lol.

Question for this chapter:

What was the funnest place you've ever traveled to?

For me I think would have to say Bermuda! It was so nice and I went with a bunch of other families on a cruise and I just loved it!

Bye-bye!

- lauren 💕