24// ~Doctors~

We were all in the car on the way to the doctors. I didn't really want to go but mommies said it's to make sure I'm healthy and it's important, whatever that means.

I told them I am healthy! They said we needed proof though, blah, blah, blah. Don't tell them I thought that!

Anyway...the doctor's office was about 20 minutes away and we were half way there so I think 10 more minutes. See, I'm so good at math I guess. Okay...you caught me, mama told me there was 10 more minutes. Oh well.

"Are you gonna be a good listener when we get there, huh?" Mum asked from the drivers seat.

I thought about it for a minute. I always am a good listener, or at least I try to be. I hope she's nice though. I nodded my head. "Yes!" I exclaimed. "Emma nice?" I just had to make sure.

"Yes baby she is very nice. She's going to explain everything she does and nothing is going to happen without you being okay with it alright?" Mama said.

"Otay, dat good."

Mama smiled at me and grabbed my hand, rubbing her thumb over the back of it in a soothing manner.

When mum pulled into the parking lot she parked the car as close as she could get which was still about 2-3 rows back, but that's okay. Good exercise for my strong legs!

I couldn't get out myself because I was in a car seat. I didn't complain because it was so comfy and I liked it, and it was so pretty and pink. I like pink! Mommies like darker colors like red and black so all my stuff looked different from theirs. It was super duper funny to me.

"Alright, let's get you out of here sweatpea." Mama came over to my side and unbuckled me, taking me out and putting me on her hip.

"Don pease mama."

"Okay but you need to hold one of mommies hands when we are in the parking lot." She put me down and I held onto her and mommy's hands, swinging them back and forth as we made out way into the building.

It was soooo big! It looked super fancy and clean. We had to go into an elevator and up to floor number four.

One, two, three, four. I did it!

When the elevator opened we had to open up another door and then there was a big area with chairs and we can sit in them and wait. It's a waiting room.

Mama led us over to the check-in area before we sat down though. "Hi, we have an appointment with Dr. Pierce for Arabella Carter."

"Alright, you are all checked in, you can take a seat and she'll be right with you." The lady smiled at mama.

"Thank you."

"No problem."

We walked over to the chairs and mommies sat down each in their own chairs. I didn't want to sit by myself though. I climbed onto mums lap and layed back into her. They are all so nice to cuddle with, and their skin is so nice and soft to touch! I love it!

Mum wrapped her arms around me waist and gently rubbed my belly. We only had to wait a couple minutes before we were called back. "Arabella." The women said in a bit of a loud voice.

Mum stood up and held my hand and we all walked over to Emma. She was tall like mommies but she had blond hair that was a little bit longer than a bob. She had on some professional looking pants and a blouse with a white doctor coat on. She smiled when she saw us walking over. "Hi!" Mama said as she gave Emma a hug.

"Hello, oh my goodness I feel like it's been forever since I've seen you." She smiled at all of mommies and then she looked down at me. "And this must be Arabella." She smiled at me. "Hi sweetheart."

I hid a little bit behind mum and just stared at her. I didn't know what to say. I should have probably said hi but I was too nervous. I didn't know her well so I couldn't know if she really was nice or if she was faking it a little bit, so I was being careful just in case.

"Sorry, she's a bit shy." Mum responded for me and rubbed my back.

"Oh that's no problem. Let's head back and get you guys settled."

We walked through a door and down a hallway before we entered a decently sized room. It had a couple chairs and a medicine bed thingy that I assumed I would have to lay on. I would try and stay with mommies for as long as I could though!

Emma closed the door and sat at the seat where the doctors sit, in front of her computer. "So, what brings you in today?"

"Just a general check up. We want to make sure that everything's okay and she's nice and healthy." Mommy spoke the last part to me, tickling me a bit and distracting me from playing with her hair like I was before.

"Okay, sounds good!" She typed a little on her computer. "Ara would you mind taking off your shoes for me sweet girl so we check on your height and weight." She asked me.

I sat on the floor and undid my sandals, sliding them off of my feet.

"Wow, those are really pretty sandals!"

"Tank you." I said quietly. Even though I was a little nervous I still needed to be polite and use my manners.

"Of course, I'm gonna need to get me some of those shoes!"

That made giggle a little bit. "Mommies got dem fo' me!"

"What a lucky girl you are." She smiled. "Can you come over here and face me. Perfect, okay stand still and I'm going to move this down until it touches the top of your head very gently, and then we can see how tall you are!"

I stood still as she did her thingy. I felt it touch the top of my head but I continued to stand still, looking out at all my mommies who were watching me with  calming smiles on there faces.

"Perfect, good job! Okay you are 60 inches, so that's 5 feet tall." I thought I was taller. Oh well, nothing I can do about it. "Can you turn around now and stand up on here so we can get you weight?" I did as she asked, watching as the numbers moved a little bit until they settled on one. "Okay all set, you can hop off sweetheart." I jumped off and landed on my feet, running back over to mama and climbing on her lap. "80.2 pounds." She said as she typed on her computer. Mama smiled at me but it looked a little bit sad. Oh no, maybe I did something to make her sad!

I gave her a hug to make her happy again and she smiled down at me, looking a little happier. Yes! I made mama happy! Good job Ara!

"I'm going to step out of the room, if you could have her change into this gown I would appreciate it." Emma handed mama a blue gown thingy and went out the room for a second. "You're doing such a good job baby!" Mum said. "Let's get you changed into this gown, we can leave your pull up on and your bra, so we just have to take off these jeans and your shirt and sweater, alright?" I nodded and let mama change me. I didn't really pay attention as she was doing it. I was too busy looking all around the room. There were pictures on the wall of people and medicine stuff and a cabinet on the wall that had stuff in it. I don't know what it was but it looked fancy.

When mama was all done changing me, she picked me up and sat me onto the bed. It had crinkly paper on it that made a funny noise when I moved around. I moved a little too much and it ripped. "Uh-oh." I pointed to it and looked up at mommy. I was scared that i wasn't supposed to rip it.

"That's okay baby, the paper gets replaced after every person and it rips really easily. They don't mind if you rip it." She reassured me.

Emma knocked on the door before entering again. "Look at you in your fancy gown." She said.

I laughed because it was funny. The gown wasn't fancy, she was so silly! I think she was okay, and I like her.

"So, I'm gonna wrap this around your arm and it's going to squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. It might feel a little tight but it won't hurt at all and it'll be super quick." She had me sit up and she did exactly what she said. It did get tight but it didn't hurt me, and it was quick just like she said! "106/62, perfect!" She smiled at me.

Taking off the string thing around her neck, she put it in her ears and grabbed the end of it between her fingers. "I'm gonna put this on your chest and I want you to take some deep breaths for me in and out okay? Can you do that for me like a big girl? Oh who am I kidding, of course you can!"

Good thing she thought that cause it was write. I am good at following directions like a good girl!

She put it against my chest and I breathed in and out slowly. She moved the cold circle around my chest a little and then did the same thing on my back while I kept breathing. "Sounds good." She put the string back around her neck and went back over to her desk to grab more stuff. So much stuff!

Mum made a silly face at me with her tongue sticking out and her eyes crossed towards her nose which made me giggle. Mum was funny!

"Alright I'm gonna look in your ears, eyes, and throat now. Nothings going to hurt." She smiled. "So what's your favorite color?" She asked as she looked into my ears.

"Umm...pink!" I shouted.

"Pink? That's a good color." She smiled, before whispering into my ear. "I like pink too." That made me smile. She likes pink just like me!

She brought the thing that was shining into my ear in front of my face and told me to open my mouth and say ahh. I did just like she said. It kind of looked like my binky. I want my binky. I closed my mouth around it and suckled on it a bit. "Oh, baby." Mama said before laughing a little bit. "Sorry." She said to Emma, digging through her bag for a second.

Emma smiled at me and held the thing so I could keep sucking on it. It's a little cold and not as good as my binky but it's okay. "It's alright." Emma laughed.

Mama took a binky out of her back and Emma removed the thing from my mouth causing me to whine for a second before mama slipped my binky into my mouth.

Then Emma shined the thingy into my eyes which made me close them before slowly opening them again. I brought my finger up to cover the light on it. "Bwight." I mumbled around the binky.

"It is bright isn't it? Can you follow it for me for a just a second and then you can close your eyes again?" Emma compromised and I nodded, following the light for a second before closing my eyes once she told me we were all done.

She went back to her chair for a second and typed a little bit. "You doctwor." I pointed to her.

She looked up from her computer and smiled at me. "I am a doctor, wow you are so smart! What a smart girl you are!" That made my cheeks get just a little pink and I looked over to mommies to see them smiling at me. I waved at them and they waved back, laughing a little bit.

"Alright." Emma stood up and clapped her hands once. "Can you lay down for me honey?" I layed down and she checked me over, pressing on my belly a little, and she even looked at my little boobies and checked my private parts. I'm not sure why but it was okay cause she asked and she's a doctor so she was making sure everything is okay. "Alright can you hop down and stand over here for me."

She helped me off the bed once she saw I was having a little trouble and I stood where she wanted me to, facing away from her. "Can you reach down and touch your toes for me honey." I leaned down and grabbed my toes. I felt her hand touch my spine gently before she patted my back. "All right good job sweetheart, you can stand up for me."

I climbed back onto the bed and sat near mommy who was in the closest chair to me. She held my hand like I wanted her too and I played with the rings on her fingers.

"Okay, first of all, she is severely underweight. I would like for her to gain about 15 pounds within around the next 4 months or as soon as possible. I would recommend breastfeeding too if she was interested cause I know that's something you've wanted to do and would help cause some extra nutrients and calories in her system." I didn't really listen too much as she was talking cause she was talking to mommies and not me so I didn't need to. Mommy had really pretty rings on her fingers. One of them spun round and round and I loved it! Another one was a snake. That's usually scary but I'm brave and I know that the snake isn't real so it didn't scare me! "I think she might have also not gone thought puberty which is unusual at her age and is most likely caused by the malnutrition. The reasons why I think this is that her breast growth is very minimal and she has a lack of body hair, as well as her short stature. That's not going to cause her any harm though and that's fine." Mommy got me dressed into my clothes again as they finished up their grown up talk. Boring.

"There's one more thing. Arabella, honey, can I ask you something?" Emma asked me, I looked up at her with a questioning look on my face. "I noticed some marks, on your back, do you know what those are from?" Oh no, I forgot about those. I wasn't supposed to let anyone look at those.

"Mommy." I reached my arms out, wanting her to pick me up.

"Ssshhh come here baby." She rocked me back and forth as I sat in her arms. "Marks?" She asked Emma.

"Yes, they almost look like whip marks. They are extremely faded and easy to miss which is why I'm assuming you didn't notice, but they are still there. I was just wondering if she knew what they were from."

"Father." I whispered. "Bad man."

Mommy stopped rocking and moved so that I was sitting sideways and was able to speak better. "Oh, baby." Mum and mama looked sad. I looked at mommy and she looked as if she was almost crying.

"Your father made those marks sweetheart?" Emma continued her line of questioning.

I nodded. "My fault. I be bad girl a not wisten so he have a punish me." I whispered it, not wanting to admit it to loudly. I didn't want them to know that I was actually a bad girl.

"No baby, you are not a bad girl at all. What he did to you is not okay, no matter what you did. You know that right?"

I didn't respond. I wasn't sure.

"Seeing by your reactions I can tell you didn't know about this." Emma said in a sad tone of voice. "I'm going to put in a referral for a physiologist that I would like her to go see. Her name is Anna and I've worked with her before she's really good. I think she'll be able to help her out."

I heard some more typing as mommy rocked me in the chair back and forth. I liked when she did that, except it did make me sleepy which wasn't good in public.

"I think that someone here was a very good girl and needs to come pick out a toy from our special treasure chest!" Emma said when she had closed her computer and packed her stuff away where he belonged.

Was she talking about me? She was looking at me. I looked around at my mommies and then back at Emma, pointing at myself to make sure she was really talking about me. She nodded her head and laughed a little bit, holding out her hand for me to grab.

I looked up at mommy to make sure it was okay first. "Go ahead honey, we're right behind you." I held Emma's hand as she walked me out of the room and back through the hallways, mommies walking right behind us, and led me to a big treasure chest. There were so many toys! She held it out for me and I looked around at all the toys there were before i chose out a sparkly pink squishy ball. "Tank you!" I held it up and ran back to mommies to show them.

"Wow, that is amazing!" Mama said.

"You must have been a very good girl!" Mum kissed my head.

Mommy went over to talk to Emma again and schedule another appointment or something in a couple months.

"Well it was great seeing all of you, and it was especially great meeting this little girl." She smiled, ruffling my hair a bit causing me to laugh. "I'll see you guys soon, text me so we can get together some time and have dinner or something."

"Definitely, thanks again." Mommy hugged her and so did mum and mama and then we were all done!

I waved at her as we walked out of the area we were in and walked back out the door and into the elevator.

That was better than I thought it would be cause Emma was so super duper nice!

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I wasn't planning on posting so much the past couple days but I had the time and I wanted to so i figured why not lol.

I hope you guys like this chapter! Thank you for reading! Thank you for 25k reads! Woot woot!

Hope everyone had a good day!

Question for this chapter:

What color hair/eyes do you have?

My hair is dark brown, like very very dark brown that it almost looks black, but its natural lol. I've never dyed my hair because I haven't felt a need to but I feel like I also want to dye it like a natural red/ginger color one day just cause why not, you only live once! For my eyes I have green eyes! In the light it looks like a very light seafoam green but in normal lighting it looks like more of a deep forest green. I also have a lot of freckles which is why i think I want to dye my hair a ginger color one day cause i already have the green eyes and freckles lol.

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