Chapter 6
I walked into Crystal’s room around 4pm to see her crashed out on the floor, lying across her dolls.
“Crystal, Crystal, Crystal.” Sara said shaking her head, while heading towards her.
Sara picked Crystal up and put her into her bed. She decided she would let her sleep until dinner was ready, which she hasn’t even started.
‘It may be a long night.’ Sara thought for a moment as she stood there admiring her daughter. She then turned towards the door, and headed to the kitchen.
Sara was just about to start dinner when she remembered she needed a babysitter tomorrow. She picked up the phone and dialed RJ’s number. The phone rang 4 times, and then there was a voice on the other end. It was Kay.
“Hey Sara.” Kay said.
“I was wondering if you guys could watch Crystal tomorrow, I have some things I needed to do.” Sara lied.
“Sure, we are gonna have Carter over anyway. So Crystal will have a friend.” Kay said.
Carter was Kay’s friend Haley’s 6 year old son. Sara thought he was adorable with his sandy blonde hair, and bright blue eyes.
“Why are you guys babysitting him?” Sara asked.
“Haley’s boys Anthony and Hank have a basketball game.” Kay replied. She then shouted “The towels are in the dryer still! Don’t take a shower without getting one first; I don’t want water tracked throughout the house!”
Sara figured she was screaming at RJ because he started the shower. He did that when he was younger too.
“Still doesn’t know to get a towel first?” Sara said laughing.
“How did you guess?” Kay said laughing uncontrollably.
“The boy hasn’t changed one bit since he was younger.” She replied, “Well, I should get going I still have to cook dinner.” She continued, looking into the refrigerator looking for the ground beef.
“Bye.” said Kay hanging up the phone. Sara sat the phone done on the counter and began to boil water. She had decided they would have spaghetti for dinner. As she finished up the dinner she heard little noises coming from Crystal’s room. ‘Crystal must have woken up, and just in time!’ Sara thought.
“Hi momma. Do I smell ‘getti?” She said.
Sara laughed at the way she said spaghetti. “Honey, it is ‘Spaghetti’, not ‘getti.”
“Oh…Well, is it ready? My tummy is making funny noises. It wants food.” Crystal replied with a shy giggle.
“Yep. I am making your plate right now.” Sara said grabbing a plate from the cabinet, and started to put the food on it.
“Okay!” Crystal said sitting on the floor waiting for her food.
“Why don’t you go sit at the table, or have you decided to eat on the floor tonight?” She said looking at her daughter with a smirk across her face.
“I wanna sit on the floor!” Crystal said crossing her hands over her chest and sighing heavily.
“If you say so, I suppose you can.” Sara said shaking her head. ‘What a handful, I don’t even wanna know what it is gonna be like when she is a teenager.’ She thought. “Oh boy.”
“What mamma?” Crystal said as Sara handed her the plate to sit on the floor.
“Nothing Honey, just thinking.” She replied.
“Oh, okay!” Crystal said digging into her food.
Sara made her own plate and sat down at the breakfast nook to eat. Well, she tried to eat. She barely made a dent into her pile of spaghetti; instead all she could think about was the future. Wondering if Crystal was going to be too hard for her to handle, and that she is going to forget everything about her father.
“All done!” Crystal said interrupting Sara’s thoughts.
Sara looked down at her daughter; it looked like she had more spaghetti on the floor and on her clothes than she did in her stomach! The once white tile will have a reddish tint to it.
“It probably would have been best to let you eat shirtless, wouldn’t have it?” Sara said taking off Crystal’s clothes, and beginning to clean up the giant mess she made.
“The ‘getti was yummy, Mommy!” Crystal said clapping.
“Did you even eat any of it? Or were you having too much fun painting the floor red?” Sara said with a smirk.
“Uhh… both!” Crystal replied jumping up from the ground.
“Now let’s get you cleaned up.” Sara said putting the dishes into the sink and picking up Crystal holding her out as far as possible so she wouldn’t get spaghetti sauce on her clothes.
By the time Crystal was cleaned up it was 7pm, so Crystal watched TV while Sara did the dishes.
“Mommy, come change the channel, I don’t like Dora, because it’s for babies.” Crystal said sitting on the couch.
“Well, then what do you want to watch? Is Charlie and Lola fine?” Sara said clicking through the channels from the kitchen.
“Ugh… I guess so!” Crystal said with a sigh. Sara put the TV on Charlie and Lola and continued to do the dishes.
The dishes were soon finished and it was time for Crystal to get to bed. Sara tried her best to get her daughter to go to her room to sleep, after thirty minutes she had Crystal asleep. Now she had to get in the shower and get ready for bed, she had a big day tomorrow; a day without a loud toddler ruining her chances for loving.
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