The “Something Old” - 2031 - Part 9
“YOU’RE NEVA GONNA CATCH MEE SUCCA”
If you’re expecting me to tell you that this was a once in a life time occurrence, reduce your expectations to zero. Oh? What, you may ask? Did a 3-year-old Jessica Pierce screaming you’re never going to catch me… er… sucker not give it away? Well, let me set the scene.
Imagine a crazed toddler running, jumping, squeezing herself through the doggie door, and then proceeding to run some more out into the backyard. And why? Well, I forgot to mention that said toddler was very strongly clutching a jelly donut. Truly, the clutch was so tight, that she had more than a little jelly all over her school clothes. But, to Jessica, that was irrelevant. After all, why go to a private preschool. (… yes… you heard me right… private… they have those… ) when you could be eating a beautiful, large, sugary jelly donut. This was clearly more important… and look, could anyone really blame Jessica? The nannies had placed her and her sister on a strict no-sugar-diet. WHO DOES THAT? Like what the hell, she’s three… let her have some sugar for gods sake… and see, this is exactly why Jess preferred the cooks in the house than the nannies. The cooks could be manipulated with a few bats of her eye lashes and her big brown puppy dog eyes. The nannies… those not as much. Taking a seat in the dirt on the garden bed, Jess gave a big smile to the gardener before taking one… ONLY one… big bite of the donut. It was quite literally the best bight in her life and the second bite probably would have been better if she didn’t hear these words:
“JESSICA SOPHIA PIERCE, YOU BETTER COME OVER HERE RIGHT THIS INSTANT.”
Sigh. It seemed that the nanny had realized where Jess had run off too. They likely had taken her sister to school already, seeing as they both had individual nannies which sucked because Jessica would rather be sharing this amazing donut with her sister. And why they had one nanny for each of them? Well, because clearly the two got into more than enough trouble when they only had one.
In any case, Jess wanted to take another bite. It was a deserved bite… but alas, the nanny was far too close… so she begin running agin. Jess’ nanny attempted to grab her, but look, Jessica was great on her feet. Her and her sister were even in soccer class now and JESS WAS THE FASTEST ON THE TEAM. PROBABLY THE FASTEST IN THE WORLD. Yes she was. Yes. STOP ARGUING WITH HER IMAGINARY THREE YEAR OLD DORIAN SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD ALSO TAKING SOCCER LESSONS. Watch out world, she’s gonna be a great star one day… either in soccer or eating. As of right now, it is undecided. Come on she’s three, she has a little time to figure it out.
Running back towards the closed door, Jess once again crawled through the doggie door made for Holly which was her mama’s dog… though Jess liked to think it was her own personal escape door. And for the second time, Jess had almost escaped… if only they weren’t WAXING the living room floor which is why in her rush, Jessica Pierce fell.
THE WORST PART? No it wasn’t the fact that her knees were now bleeding because of how she scraped her feet. That was irrelevant. What was relevant was the fact that her donut was far in front of her, on the floor, with all the jelly pooling out. HER DONUT 
Could anyone blame the tears that came out of Jessica’s eyes at her lost donut? No… no they couldn’t and if anyone reading this says otherwise, YOU’RE A SUGAR AND DONUT MEANIE AND JESSICA DOESN’T LIKE YOU.
All of it only got worse when Jess tried to scoot over to her lost donut to… er… possibly lick the top. You know, 20 minute rule or whatever right? That was a thing? BUT BEFORE SHE COULD HOLLY BEAT HER TO THE PUNCH. YEP HOLLY WAS EATING IT AND IT’S NOT FAIR.
So… yeah more tears. She couldn’t help it.
Honestly, Jess didn’t know how long she was crying, she heard a commotion around her but she truly wasn’t listening, the next thing she knew however, someone had grabbed her from behind and was walking her up the stairs. COME ON NANNY, SHE DIDN’T WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL WHEN SHE WAS MOURNING THE LOSS OF HER DONUT… but when she opened her eyes, Jess found herself sitting on the edge of the bathroom sink and her mommy was there, putting a bandaid on her leg. That was weird - Jess hadn’t seen her mommy in… one…two…five…er more than the fingers on her hands.
“What happened darling?”
Jessica’s eyes opened from her dream… or technically it was a memory she hadn’t thought about in a long time. As a child, her mother truly wasn’t around much. But… when she was… her mother was kind. Well… for the most part from what she could remember. Jessica’s relationship definitely had gotten better over the years, but there was a handful of memories that she had of her mother as a child that weren’t her and her dad telling her she had another event to attend, or a modeling job to do, or something else of that nature.
As Jess blinked a few more times, attempting to get herself out of the groggy state she was in, she could hear another voice beside her. Did she know what time it was? No… but the voice was easily recognizable. Well, specifically, two voices were recognizable.
“”What did you say?”
There was a mumble from Shay in response to which Dorian immediately responded "So that’s why you don’t want to go to sleep… I told you there are no monsters in the dark.”
This had become a frequent occasion - Dorian talking to Shay, responding as if he understood ever single word that came out of her little mouth. Well, Dorian would say he did understand, but even if Jessica wasn’t too sure about that, she did know that this was the cutest little thing. Jess stayed laying on the bed, her eyes closed as she listened to the exchange. Part of her just wanted to hear them interaction because Jess just adored it. She adored her husband… her baby girl… the life that they were building together… everything. ANNNNnd maybe she also wanted to see if the idiot was being SNEAKY and getting her daughter to try and say “Daddy or dada” while she was asleep. SO GO AHEAD DORI.
”Janxkahasah aadajap,”
If Jess had to guess what Shay had said (which is what she was assuming Dorian was doing when he talked to their daughter), it would be nuh uh dad, you’re wrong. Which he probably is - GO CHECK UNDER THE BED DORI, THAT’S CREEPY SHT. The kid was probably explaining all the creepy stuff she’s been saying so CHECK DORI because to hell with it if Jess was going to. She was more of a chicken then Shay, let’s be real.
”No way. What else do they do?” ”Psvosj asskspp.” ”Really?” ” ”Dasddsdaap.” ”Nooo… you’re just messing with me,”
Jess opened her eyes slowly, unable to keep them closed any longer. She was sleeping in a way that she could see Dorian seated up, with Shay in his lap. She watched as he tickled her and kissed her cheek… and honestly her heart couldn’t take how adorable this was. She knew Dorian was scared to be a dad… but honestly, he was a bloody amazing one.
”Abbbabp dbjjjp.” ” No, no, you can’t say sorry now” ” ”Dpaaddpa aadajap.” ”Mommy says I should forgive you? She told you that?”
Obviously Dori. Listen to Shay, she’s always right. Though, when she heard Dori mention mom - Jess closed her eyes… maybe not hiding her growing smile but she couldn’t help it as she felt Dori hovering Shay towards her. Jess subtly touched her daughter’s foot for a second before Dorian took her back towards him. Hey RUDE.
“How bloody dare you assume she doesn’t want her mom?” Jess mumbled, pulling herself up and near Dorian as she placed a kiss on Shay’s chubby cheeks. Clearly an awake mom got Shay excited as she started bouncing in Dorian’s arms as she previously was with him.
”I didn’t assume, it’s what Shay said. Isn’t that right?”
”daaammma cadddaea.”
”See, I’ll translate. She siad, yes dad, you’re right.”
“She did not, she said you’re wrong and she want’s her mom’s love now.”
With those words, Jess kissed her daughters cheeks again, tickling her as she did so before placing her head on Dorian’s chest so she could look straight at her daughter who was sitting on his lap.
”I guess if you want to believe that you can… but I’m telling you I’m right… though I guess I can’t blame her if she did want mom’s love, even though mom should be asleep right now.”
Jess felt a kiss on her head and she smiled before pulling away and placing a kiss on his lips. ” ‘Mom’ needs to do a little more research before she interrogates her mom in two hours darling. Oh and before I forget, I just had a lovely dream darling, and I wanted to remind you, I’m actually a very bloody good soccer player. My three year old self agrees.”
”da dabab eseam.”
” 'Annnnnd so does Shay.”
With those words, Jess didn’t listen to Dori’s nagging about how she was wrong before grabbing her mom’s journal and opening where she left off. ” 'Do you want a story to go to sleep, my love?.” Jessica asked, placing her hand near Dorian’s lap so she could hold her daughters hand.
𝓙𝓾𝓷𝓮 1𝓼𝓽, 1999
𝒮𝑜 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒’𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔… 𝐼 𝓀𝓃𝑒𝓌 𝑔𝑒𝓉𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑒𝓃𝑔𝒶𝑔𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝐿𝑒𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓇𝒹𝑜 𝓂𝑒𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓂𝑒𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓎. 𝐼 𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝓈𝓉𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓂𝑒𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓂𝓎 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝒷𝓊𝓉… 𝐼 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒷𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒’𝒹 𝒷𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀 𝓂𝓎 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉.
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