25// ~Color~

"Mumumumumum." Ara was babbling while climbing all over like a jungle gym. We were watching a cartoon but I guess she got bored and would rather climb me than watch it. I didn't mind.

I grabbed her from behind me and brought her to the front, tickling her belly after laying her down in my lap. "You're such a silly girl huh?" She kept giggling until I stopped and then took a second to catch her breath from the ticket attack.

"No, chu siwwy." She pointed at me, her finger almost touching my face.

I made a shocked expression and pretended to be offended which just made her laugh even more. Sitting up, she began playing with my hands until she stopped moving and just stared at my arms. I'm assuming she was admiring my tattoos. She had seen them before but I guess she hadn't taken the time to look at what they actually were.

All three of us have a decent amount of tattoos. Maybe more than a decent amount to be honest.

"Pwetty." She ran her fingers over them up and down my arm. I let her explore with her fingers and sat there admiring how peaceful and mesmerized she looked. "I cowor?" She pointed to me arm.

"You want to color on mum?" I laughed a bit.

She nodded enthusiastically. "Make mowe pwetty!" She squealed. "I go get." She ran out of the living room and I followed her as she crawled up the stairs and into her room, picking up her case of markers. She turned around after grabbing them, not realizing that I had followed her. "Oh." She said. "Sit mum pease?" She pointed to the seat that was a bit too small for me, but hey, my girl gets what she wants.

"Alright baby." Sitting my butt down on the seat I tried to get as comfortable as I could. Who knew how long I'd be here for. Hopefully this is one of those ideas she gets over quickly and move onto another activity cause this chair is not the most comfortable.

She stood next to the chair and uncapped a pink marker, carefully placing the cap onto the table and moving it a couple times after it kept trying to roll off the table. She was getting a little frustrated and began whining. She made noises of discomfort and started flapping one her hands up and down, not knowing what to do.

"Would you like mum to hold it for you baby?"

She nodded her head and calmed down a bit once I had it in my hand. Sticking her tongue out she began to color in the tattoos. She was working carefully and slowly, switching out the colors every once in a while and politely requesting that I hold onto the caps every time.

"Eeehhh." She squealed quite loudly right near my ear, making me flinch a little bit.

"Shh, shh, shh, inside voices baby please." I reminded her.

"Sowwy mum, so 'cited cause wook pwetty." She explained sheepishly.

I smiled at her and rubbbed her cheek with my hand. "I know baby, it's okay." I kissed her forehead, and she closed her eyes soaking up the moment.

"I awmost don mum, den needa do o'ter arm otay?" She said as though she was giving me directions.

"Alright sweetheart that sounds good to me." I smiled at her.

She moved over to the other side and began coloring in those tattoos. I heard the garage door opening and knew that meant Dani and Athena had just gotten home. They had to run out and get some files from Athena's law firm and Dani had to retrieve a few essays of summer work that students had recently submitted and she needed to finish up grading.

"Mama an' mommy ome?" Ara asked, her face lighting up with excitement.

"Ya I think they are honey, they'll be upstairs in a minute. You can keep coloring if you want."

"Otay!" She resumed her focus back on the task.

A minute later, Dani and Athena walked into the room. "What is going on in here, beauty parlor?" Dani asked.

Ara gasped and ran into Dani's arms. "Mama!"

"Awww hi pumpkin. You having fun with mum?"

Her head bobbled up and down. "Mommy!" She reached her arms out to Athena who picked her up and swung her around, causing her to laugh. "Chu get coworded too?" She questioned both of them.

"Oh your coloring mum?" Dani looked over at my now colorful arms.

"Uh-huh, wook pwetty!"

"I agree, it does look very beautiful. I definitely need to get some color on me huh?" Athena pulled Ara's attention back to her.

"Yesth! Af'er mum doe." She reprimanded before wiggling down out of her arms and making her way over to me to continue her masterpiece. "Sit pease mama a mommy?" She instructed them towards the bed.

They both laughed and sat down, watching as Ara finished up.

"Aw don!" She threw her hands up in the air. "Chu wike?" She looked up at me as though my answer would make or break her entire existence.

"I don't like it...I love it!" I snatched her and attacked her face in kisses. "Thank you baby."

"Elcome! Mama 'urn!" She had Dani sit down in the same seat as me, but decided to color her leg tattoo. She sat down on the floor and it stayed relatively quiet while Ara's tounge was poking out the side of her mouth and her entire focus was on making it perfect.

When she finished up she kissed Dani's leg before smiling up at her and asking Athena to come sit down. "Mommy I do 'ack?"

"You wanna color my back?"

"Uh-huh, wike it."

Athena pulled the shirt over her head and unhooked her bra so the back of it wasn't getting in Ara's way, but she held the cups up to her breasts as she leaned forward, allowing Ara to have complete access to the entire tattoo down the length of her spine.

Ara blushed a bit but got right to work making everything now look extremely girly and full of color. None of us minded cause the markers were washable. Hopefully this didn't cause a tantrum when we had to wash it off later.

As I sat on the bed with Dani, watching Ara do her thing I noticed that she had a pillow layed in the corner of her room with a blanket covering it, and something that looked a bit....structured, underneath it.

"Honey what's over there?" I pointed to it.

"Sshhhh, hava be qu'et." She put her finger up to her mouth.

"Oh, and why do we need to be quiet?"

"Cause pickle sweep." She said like I should already know the answer.

"Really? Wow! And who's pickle?"

"Chu sewious mum?" She said with a bit of an attitude, placing her hands on her hips and rolling her eyes. The sass with this girl right now.

"Yes I am in fact serious." I tickled her. "Who's pickle?"

"I show chu people's." She walked over to the blanket and pulled it back slightly. She had the dog book open wide to the page with the Cane Corso and layed down onto the pillow. "My doggy!" She clapped. "He sweep dere!" She pointed to the pillow.

"Wow, he's such a good dog I didn't even hear him!" Dani exclaimed.

Ara nodded before tucking him in again and returning to her task at hand, coloring in Athena's back. "Ya, he be qu'et a wot." She pouted.

I looked at Dani and Athena, silently communicating that we needed to get this girl a dog.

They responded by silently nodding their heads, completely agreeing.

Apparently Athena was supposed to be staying completely still and Ara did not appreciate that move. "Mommy s'ay sill pease." She paused her coloring for a second to make it known.

"Oh, so sorry baby, I'll stay still." Athena responded very seriously before smiling and trying to hold in her laugh.

"Aw don!" Ara said a few minutes later, clapping her hands enthusiastically and hopping around the room like a jumping bean. "I take pic'tur!" She grabbed the Polaroid camera that we had gotten her off of the dresser and instructed us to stand still so she could photograph us.

We let her take her photos, staying still and posing in the ways she requested.

Athena's bra had slipped down quite a bit at one point, her nipple slipping out of the top. Ara stared at it, completely fixated and not planning to take her eyes off of it at any point soon. "Mommy booby." She pointed at Athena.

"Oop, sorry baby." She pulled her bra up a little higher, making Ara pout.

She tried to hide it but it was very apparent. Setting her camera down she ran into Athena's arms, giving no warning for her to cover up a little bit more.

She wrapped her arms as far as she could make it around Athena and laid her head down onto her breasts. An almost purring noise left her mouth and she nuzzled in until her face was almost completely surrounded by breast tissue.

Athena just let her do her thing and silently laughed, stroking her hair as Ara shifted around a bit.

I leaned over and connected the back of her bra so it wouldn't be slipping off as much as before. "Thanks." Athena looked back and whispered. "What are you doing down there sweetie?" She teased Ara.

"Mmhhhh."

"Oh, ya?"

"Sof an wawm." She smiled and made no indication she was moving any time soon.

Dani and I tried to hold in our laughs at the situation. It wasn't that it was funny necessarily, it's just the way she went about it I guess.

"Okay, come on." Athena stood up from the seat she was sitting on and held Ara as she did so. Ara wrapped her legs tightly around her waist and closed her eyes as Athena walked around the room, sending her to sleep.

It was her nap time anyway really soon so it worked out for us. Athena sat down into the rocking chair placed in the corner of the room. "I'll just stay here." She let us know.

God I couldn't wait until I got to contact nap with her too. She was just so cute and cuddly. "Alright, I'll pick up these markers and get started on dinner." I put the markers back into the pink sparkly case Ara kept them in and placed them back onto the shelf.

Kissing both Ara and Athena on the head, I made my way out of the room with Dani and we walked downstairs. She typically naps for about an hour an a half so we didn't have to start on dinner right away, so we decided to lay on the couch and watch an episode of some random show beforehand. We couldn't watch greys anatomy because we were all watching that together and Athena was upstairs with Ara right now.

I had been contacting a tutor to come and see Ara so I finished scheduling an appointment while we finished up the show. She was aware that Ara had ADHD and most likely dyslexia, but again I couldn't say for sure that was what was wrong cause I'm not qualified too. I only assume because it's a textbook case in my eyes.

I may or may not have also started looking at dogs.

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I was trying to put a couple pictures of what I would imagine there tattoos to look like, but every time I put a picture, Wattpad crashed and closes the app and deletes the photo so I'm not sure what's going on with that. I'll try to upload them later when I go back and edit after I finish the whole book! I wish I could color in someone's tattoos hahaha! 🙈

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Heyyy guys! Hope you are doing good and I hope you like this chapter!! Thank you so much for 27k reads now, eehhhh!

If anyone has any questions or comments about the story or about me I can answer them like a little q and a lol! 🫶🏻

Question for this chapter:

What is your height?

I am actually 5'8". Most of the time I hate being tall and I wish I was like 5 feet tall but sometimes it's all right. Both my parents are tall and I had a growth spurt after 8th grade where I grew like 6 inches in less than a year...a lot of growing pains haha! I've always had a tall and thin built though.

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- lauren 💕