CHAPTER 44 - BIG GIRL 1

I am exhausted. Ana's in bed already watching a movie way past her bed time.

"Hey, tired?" Jay asks me keeping a hand on my shoulder. Today was such a long day.

"Like you have no idea." I mutter.

"Come, let's go to bed." He says. I get up and shed my clothes. Jay sees my butt and flinches. He goes

in and comes out with a cream.

"Jay... Do you think with Carol...”?

"Let's not talk about the girls tonight."

He applies the cream and we both hit the bed and fall asleep.

I wake up next morning to find Jay already out of bed cooking breakfast. Ana is reading a book on the

kitchen counter while helping her uncle Jay prepare food and Carol is asleep on the couch in a very

awkward position. I pick her up and adjust a pillow. The TV is still on. She ate candies and cream for

dinner last night and was ecstatic that Jay did not even scold her, let alone spanked.

"Okay, you understand, baby? You'll be a good girl, yes? You won't try to emulate Carol?" I go back in

the kitchen to see Jay talking to Ana.

"Yes daddy." She tells him solemnly.

Daddy? Jay seems taken aback. I smile.

Ana's had her bottle and had her bath by the time Carol wakes up. She is startled to see herself on the

couch with the TV on. Then, she smiles to herself.

"Breakfast's ready, Carol? You coming in anytime soon?" I call her. She jumps on the chair and gobbles

down her food. Ana is looking at all the fruits on her plate with contempt.

"Baby, you finish all the fruits on your plate."

She makes a face.

I notice Carol, not eating hers even though she doesn't really hate them.

"Daddy! I like being a big girl!" Carol chimes to Jay. He looks at her, nods and smiles. I wonder what is This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

he thinking right now.

Later, Carol and Ana go upstairs to play.