23// ~Accident~

The next morning I had woken up first, rolled over to look at the clock and realized it was almost eight o'clock. It was odd since someone was usually up in the house by that time, but I assumed it must have had something to do with our...activities, last night.

Swinging my legs off the bed and standing up I decided to go check on Ara and see if she was awake. I didn't hear any noise coming from her room so I assumed she wasn't but who knows with that girl. She could wake up and stare at the ceiling quietly or sneak out of her crib and get into some mischief. I loved that girl.

Opening her door completely I stepped into the room and peeked into the crib, seeing her laying there on her belly with her legs scrunched up beneath her sleeping soundly. Her pacifier still tucked in her mouth making slight clicking noises as she suckled it in and out slightly.

That's when I noticed it. The wet spot beneath her. I had a feeling she wasn't going to like that information. I was going to try and wake her up and get it taken care of without her even knowing, but I doubt she wouldn't realize the wetness that was soaking her undies and pajama shorts. At least we had already planned on a bath this morning.

I rubbed her back up and down slowly, trying to gently wake her up from her deep sleep. She blinked open her eyes very slowly and looked up at me with wide innocent eyes. She smiled around her binky and lifted her hands up using them to push her upper half off of the mattress and sitting up on her bum in a w shape.

Once she was fully sat up she made a face of confusion and looked down below her, realizing what had happened.

She looked back up at me, almost scared of my reaction, and her binky fell out of her mouth, a pout forming along her lips, and her eyes tearing up.

She cried out and stood up with her feet separated a bit as to not let the wet shorts any closer to her skin.

"Ssshh you're okay. It's okay." I smiled at her, trying to let her know I wasn't mad or disappointed with her or the situation.

"Wet." She mumbled out.

"I know baby. It must be a little uncomfy huh? A little cold."

She nodded her head and toddled over to the edge of the mattress. "Sowwy mommy." Her sobs coming out even more now.

"Oh honey, come here." I picked her up, not caring that her soaked shorts were now getting the front of my shirt wet. "It's okay, it's just an accident right? Accidents happen and we can fix them. We're gonna go take a nice bath and get you nice and clean and warm, and mommy will take care of the clothes and sheets and everything will be good as new." I continued to smile at her, bouncing up and down as I paced the room to keep movement.

She didn't respond but rather buried her head into my neck. I could feel the wetness from her tears running down her cheeks now.

"Let's go baby. Let's go get you nice and comfy." I out of the room and into the bathroom down the hallway. I sat her down on the edge of the counter and turned the water on, making sure it was warm but not too hot. "Is it okay if mommy undresses you?"

She nodded her head, using her fists to rub her eyes and wipe away the tears that were silently falling down her cheeks. They had let up a little bit now as she calmed down and realized everything was going to be okay.

I removed her pants and undies first, placing them into the laundry basket. "Can you lift up your arms for mommy please?"

She did as asked without any hesitation and raised her arms up the air. After removing her shirt I picked her up off the counter and placed her into the tub. I always knew she was very small but looking at her like this I realized I could almost see her ribs poking out through her skin and she was very very thin. I'd have to talk to Dani and Athena about that. We might want to bring her to the doctors just to check on that. Obviously it could just be how her metabolism and body is but I'd rather check and be safe than sorry.

Moving over to the bathroom closet I opened it up and pulled out a basket of toys, bringing it to the edge of the tub and kneeling down in front of it. She watched my every move, her eyes following me around, not having any reactions as I did so.

"Do you want to pick out some toys to play with while you're in the tubby?" She looked down at the basket but made no move to grab anything, just staying quiet. "Woah, look at this!" I took out a mermaid with pink me purple hair out of the basket. "I would love to play with this one, it looks so cool! The hair is so soft, you wanna feel it?" I held it out to her. She very carefully lifted up her hand, touching the hair, before looking up at me. "You can hold it baby."

She took it from my hands and laid it in her lap, submerging it under the water before pulling it back out and touching the now wet hair.

"Oouu look at this, I think she has a friend." I pulled out another mermaid, holding it out for her to take as well. She grabbed it and did the same with this one as she has done to the first. I out the basket to the side for now, not wanting to overload her with too many toys at the moment.

She was moving them around in the water as if they were swimming in the ocean with each other. "Tank you." She said while playing with them.

I smiled at her, even though she wasn't looking up at me. "Of course pumpkin. Alright I'm gonna wash your hair now but you can keep helping them swim around okay?"

"K mommy." She responded nonchalantly.

I pumped out a little bit of the shampoo, lathering it up in hands before working it through the top of her hair, scrubbing and massaging it. She sighed out in relaxation and her movements stopped as I shampooed her hair. It was a dark brown color and was decently long, I'd say to the lower part of her back. It was also incredibly soft and had a little bit of a natural wave to it. Not like a curl but more of a soft contained beach wave. She rarely had it down though, always wanting it pulled back and out of her face as she ran around and played.

Grabbing the shower head off the wall I brought it down and gently rinsed out all the shampoo from her hair, using my hand to block the water so none of it would fall into her face as she leaned her head back.

I did the same with the conditioner, instead this time only running through the ends of her hair as she continued to play around with her mermaids.

"We hava save dem!" She moved one as if it was the one taking. "Otay, wat we do?" She pouted, moving the other mermaid. "Don know, maybe we use ma'ic?" Her eyes widened like she had just solved the biggest mystery. "Good 'dea!" She nodded.

I let the conditioner sit in her hair for a minute while she played and then rinsed it out. "Okay mommy needs to wash your body now, is it okay if mommy does it or do you want to?" I offered her, making sure she was alright with me touching her.

"Mommy do pease." She pointed to me.

"Okay baby. I love your manners!" I booped her on the nose, causing her to scrunch it up and shake her head. I squeezed the soap onto a washcloth and began cleaning her up, making sure there was absolutely no pee residue left.

"Doggy cwean in baf?" She asked as I finished up washing her body.

"What honey?" I was confused on what she was asking.

"Doggy in baf an get cwean when have doggy?"

"Would we have to give a doggy a bath to get clean?" I made sure I was understanding her right. She nodded enthusiastically, presumably happy that I understood what she meant. "Yes we would have to give a doggy a bath to get it clean. The doggy you want though might be too big to fit in the bathtub!" I smiled. "It might have to go in the shower if we got one."

This caused her to giggle uncontrollably while she covered her mouth with both of her hands and almost fell over from laughter. "Funny." Is all she said through her laughter.

"It is funny isn't it?" I smiled at her and she nodded. "All right, we're all done with our bath." I clapped my hands together, before standing up and going to the closet to get a towel. "Can you stand up for mommy so she can wrap you up in the nice warm towel."

She placed her mermaids onto the edge of the tub, kissing both of them on the head and saying bye before she stood up letting me dry her off and wrap her up. Her arms were trapped in the towel so I picked her up and carried her like a burrito back to her room to get changed.

When we entered the room I realized someone had already stripped the sheets and they had been brought out of the room. I'm not sure if it was one or both of them but I'm assuming they didn't enter the bathroom cause they weren't sure if Ara would be comfortable with all of us in there while she was in the bath, and with all of us knowing that she had just an accident.

I layed her down on the ground and went to her dresser, opening it up and grabbing a dress and some shorts. "Ara baby can I ask you something?" I said gently after I had already picked out her clothes. She looked a little bit scared but nodded her head. "Mommy thinks it would be a really good idea if you wore a pull up under your shorts just in case. That doesn't mean you need to use it, if you know you have to go potty you can still go and use the toilet alright? Mommy thinks it would be good just incase, and nobody will be able to tell so nobody but mommies would know if you didn't want them too."

She reacted better than I thought she would. No tears and no whining. She just looked at me for a minute before nodding her head very slowly. I grabbed a pull up out of the top drawer of the changing table and walked back over to her. Helping her stand up, I made she was completely dry before I had her step into the pull up and shorts, then pulling the dress over her head. "Good girl." I pulled her into me and she rested her head down onto my chest. I kissed the side of her head. I didn't mind that her hair was getting my shirt slightly wet. I already needed to change it anyways since I had gotten some pee on it before, which had dried by now.

"I wuv you mommy." She said. I'm telling you, I almost cried right then and there. I placed my hand onto her head, soaking in the cuddles and enjoying the peace.

"I love you too baby." I kissed her head again. "So, so, so, so much." I kissed her head over and over again causing her to giggle and squirm around in my lap.

That's when Morgan and Dani walked back into the room. "What is all this giggling I hear coming from this room?" Morgan asked in fake confusion. "There's no giggling allowed in this house." She smiled at Ara who looked up at her in admiration from where we were sitting on the ground. "No, no giggling." Morgan began tickling Ara which only made her laugh even more.

Morgan picked her up from out of my arms and threw her up the air a few times before settling her down onto her hip. "You want mum to brush out this hair baby?"

Ara nodded her head. "Pease!" She smiled.

"Of course. Come on pipsqueak!" Her and Ara left the room to go brush her hair and finish getting her ready.

Dani watched as they walked out of the room before turning back to me. "She had an accident last night?" She confirmed. I nodded as I threw the towel into the laundry basket. "She seem upset?"

"Not to bad. She cried a bit but seemed fine after I got her in the bath. She even agreed to wear a pull up for now just in case and she seemed fine with it." I shrugged.

"That's good at least."

"Oh, also, when I was giving her a bath I noticed that she looked a little...malnourished, if you will. Her ribs were kind of sticking out and she looked really thin and I know it might just be how her body is but I think we should make a doctors appointment just to check everything over and make sure that's the case." I let her know.

She nodded along, looking a bit concerned. "Ya, I've noticed it a bit as well and I agree. I'll call Emma and see if she has any openings soon."

Emma is our friend who is a pediatrician, and even though Ara is technically an adult, she is only 18 and with her being a little Emma would be better suited with dealing with her and reassuring her every step of the appointment which is necessary. "Thank you love." I kissed her before we walked out of the room together to go find our other girls.

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Ara's outfit she got changed into after her bath!

Minus the heels obviously lol. Just the dress.

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Ok first off did anyone notice that last chapter the word count was 2222! I couldn't write it on the last chapter or

It would have changed the word count lol.

Guys, what the flip, how is there 24k reads now??!! When I started writing this I thought I would be happy if it got even 100 reads but now there's 24,500! Like what?! Thank you! 🫶🏻

Also wanted to let you guys know I've been saving all the chapters onto a document in case it got deleted or something, and it is about 150 full pages and around 55k words! I just thought that was cool and I should share lol.

Question for this chapter:

How old are you guys?

I am 18, turning 19 this year!

Bye-bye, have to go do laundry now lol!

- lauren 💕