While I sat eating, I listened to the conversation. Appearantely, Teresa was coming with us tomorrow to shop for my room and she was gonna help decorate. I also learned that Adam and Bill had to go into a town 4 hours away so me, Angela and Teresa were gonna go in our car and meet them there that evening. The things you learn when you have big ears.[] I also learned that my father’s funeral was being taken care of by Angela and it was gonna happen in 2 days, that I wasn’t so happy to hear. I was getting tired and was falling asleep at the table. Angela picked me up and took me upstairs to another room with a fouton in it. She pulled it out and gave me a pillow and blanket to sleep with. After checking to see if I was dry she kissed my forehead and sat next to me and rubbed my back until I fell asleep. As I lay there dreaming Angela and Teresa were in the living room talking about me.
“Isn’t she precious?” Angela said.
“Yeah, she is really cute, like a little doll, but why is she wearing those pull-up things?”
“She has had a few accidents and appearantely wet the bed, it’s a way to keep her dry. I would get her actual diapers so she didn’t have to change as much but I doubt she will want to go into public in them.”
“So get them for when she is sleeping, or car trips, stuff like that” Teresa suggested
“That is a good idea, it will probably cost me less.”
“Yea, and you won’t have to change her as much”
“True, but diapers or not, she is just the sweetest little thing, but she is acting younger than a 13 year old.”
“Her father just died though Ang, be glad she is looking to you for comfort. I would rather have my daughter act younger than she is rather than have her rebel against me or something equally as terrible”
“That is also true, I am already attached to her”
“Hehe, she is a clingable person, she has a aura about her”
“Yea, she does”
The two went on and on about me until the boys got home and Teresa and Bill left. Angela and Adam went to bed an hour later.
I woke up in the middle of the night, afraid of the dark, especially in this unfamiliar place. I cried in my bed, rocking myself back and forth, trying to get back to sleep. I heard a light go on, a toilet flush and then saw Angela in my doorway. She didn’t say anything, nor did I. She wrapped her arms around me and rubbed my back and rocked back and forth until I fell asleep again. Angela went back to her room to also sleep until the morning.