@ A Drop On the Window
Lila smiled as Mikkie kept catching her eye. She finished her food first just as Orion started to cry and she deflated a little. She closed her eyes and sighed. Mikkie made to get up and she shook her head. "I'll get him. He's hungry." she said and moved to Mikkie her hand rubbing over his back. She kissed his cheek before moving off to get Orion.
Lila sat in the rocking chair with him and helped him attach to her breast. She rocked him looking down at him. She was having a hard time relating to him but she loved Mikkie and there was so much of Mikkie in Orion. "You are looking more like your father everyday." she said softly and ran a hand over his head gently tussling the little soft baby hair. She furrowed her eyebrows and then looked up at the ceiling where they had placed little glow star stickers on the shape of Orion consolation and the big dipper up so that Orion always where where to find himself and how to get home. That had been the first night that made Lila cry. She had cried herself to sleep and she knew it had worried Mikkie but she hadn't been able to talk about it yet. Lila closed her eyes and started to
sing softly. Once the song was over she hummed softly until she placed Orion back in his bed. She closed the door and ran a hand through her hair. She could be a good mother right?
Lila moved back and found Mikkie sitting there with the baby monitor near. She knew he had heard her singing to Orion. "My mother didn't sing to me as a baby but I wanted to be able to one day so years back I started to look for lullabies I would want to sing to my children." she explained. It was a sad song but it was hauntingly beautiful. She had sang it just because it was pretty back then but hadn't planned on singing it to her child but now she was.