Help Me

I woke to the sound of one of the most beautiful things in the world! Without even thinking, I grabbed my phone and started recording, I got up and followed the sound of my daughter’s voice…

“When you cry I wiped away all of your tears! When you scream I will fight away all of your fears! I will hold your hand through all of the years! And you still have all of me!” Evelyn sat in the bathtub with all her rubber duckies lined up, floating around, in front of her. She held the bar of soap in front of her face like a microphone, her face and arms covered in little lavender colored bubbles, her eyes shut tight, and her cheeks in a rosy tint from the heat of the water.

I stood there speechless, almost unable to breathe, and I let the tears flow. Evelyn opened her eyes and smiled widely.
“Hi mommy,” she said sweetly, waving at the camera. “I’m singing for you mama! See?!”

“I won't give up on us! Even if the skies get rough! I'm giving you all my love! I'm still looking up, still looking up! Well, I won't give up on us! God knows I'm tough enough! We've got a lot to learn! God knows we're worth it!!!”
I sniffed and wiped my nose with the back of my hand. “That’s beautiful baby girl,” I said through my tears. “You’re the most beautiful little girl in the world, you know that baby?”
Evelyn giggled and splashed the bathwater and bubbles. “You’re beautiful too mommy,” she squealed. “I’m gonna find you a Prince Charming, and you’ll give me a baby brother and baby sister! And he’s gonna be handsome, and you’re gonna love him a lot!”
“I’ll love you first baby girl,” I said. “I’ll love you always.”
“I love too mama!”
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AAAAAAANNNNNNNDDD we were on the road!!
Evelyn and Tiffani were screaming lyrics as loud as they could, and I was loving every minute of it! My baby girl looked so adorable! Today she was sporting her white flats, the new white Metallica tee, red leggings, and a red bandana tied in a pin-up style on her head. She refused to wear her new jewelry until the concert, so Abby put her old pearl earrings on her and gave her a little smudge of red lipstick since she couldn’t say no to Evelyn’s puppy dog eyes.

Since Evelyn set the tone with her little pin-up style, we all decided to follow her suit and do the same, and we look cute as fuck, if I do say so myself. I was matching Evie with the red, wearing a long, red, knee length sweater, a white tee, a white head band over a simple up-do, black skinny jeans and black flats. Abby kept it real simple with a black Avenged Sevenfold tank top, and lime green capris with her straightened hair and black converse, and Tiffani had on a nice, flowy blue button up, with black shorts and sandals, her hair was in a bun and pin-curls. Surprisingly, none of us took very long to get ready and we figured, Hell. If we’re gonna get all cute, why not go out and do stuff. So Evelyn was going to dictate the events of the day.

First we were off to do find a good mall. Evelyn said Grandpa had bought her a pool so she could go swimming, but we ended up forgetting her swimsuit. From there, we went to see a movie, Abby and Tiffani gushed over the hot guys in the cast while I watched Evelyn get into a little poke war with the old lady next to her, which was one of the most adorable things I had ever seen! After the movie, the old lady had ended up giving me a phone number, since we found out that she didn’t live too far away from us and was retired, living alone, and had fallen in love with Evelyn. She offered to babysit her whenever I needed and even invited us to dinner next Tuesday. Lastly, Evelyn decided on spending the rest of the day at the zoo. Evie had yet to be to one, and it had been so long since we had last visited the zoo, so we were all for it. So there we had a really big meal since we missed lunch, and let Evelyn run rampant.

As we were walking around, Evelyn made a whole lot of friends, both young and old. It was so wonderful seeing my baby girl getting the interaction she had been craving, and it was great seeing that beautiful smile back on her face. It was about to be 6:30, and we were informed by one of the employees that the zoo closes in about 30 minutes so we were getting ready to leave. I looked around and saw Evelyn running around, holding hands with another girl who couldn’t have been more than two to three years older than her. As Evie ran around, the girl mimicked everything that she did, instead of it being the other way around.

“Oh my gosh,” Abby said. “That is so freaking cute, dude!”
We all laughed as the girls’ game of “Follow the Leader” continued. “Evelyn,” I called. “Come on, baby! It’s time to go!”
“Wait mommy, wait,” she begged. “Just a little longer! I’m playing with my friend Amber!” Amber, the little girl next to Evelyn, looked at her confused for a second, then smiled hugely.
“Okay fine,” I said. “But just a few more minutes. The zoo is going to close in a bit.”

I hadn’t noticed the family of the other little girl watching the kids play until we all started laughing when Evelyn hopped up from her weird, four-legged stance, and made a “scary face” while beating her chest doing a Tarzan scream. We were almost laughing to the point of tears as she ran in circles around Amber, who was also laughing loudly, still doing her Tarzan impersonation.
“Rah, rah, rah,” Amber yelled, once she composed herself from her hard laughter.
Evelyn stopped and did a “Captain Morgan” pose. “I will not be beaten evul fiender!”
At this declaration, which had all of us adults laughing even more, the girls charged each other and started what looked like a cuddle fight. Just as I was about to step forward, one of the men that was tagging along with Amber’s family, swooped down and yanked the girls from their current positions. That was when I recognized who they all were.

“I am the ultimate,” he screamed at the top of his lungs, drowning out the crazy laughter coming from the girls. “I will defeat you both in a tickle fight TO THE DEATH!!!”
“Oh no,” Amber yelled. “No Uncle Jimmy! Don’t!”
“Muaaaahahahahahaaa!!” Jimmy laughed maniacally as he set the pair of laughing girls on their backs on top of a near-by picnic table and began to tickle them both, blowing raspberries on their stomachs, and making weird noise that heightened their laughter.

Evelyn wiggled out from under Jimmy and climbed onto his back, wrapping her tiny arms around his neck and hoisting herself onto his shoulders, covering his eyes with her tiny hands.
“Get him Amber,” she screamed. “Get him! Get the evul, evul man!!”
Jimmy reached up to hold Evelyn to keep from dropping her, and just as Amber went to attack Jimmy with her little hands, Zacky snatched her up from the table and attacked her face with kisses. Jimmy swung Evelyn down from his shoulder over his head, holding her up so that her stomach was in his face. Evelyn squealed and wiggled her little feet as he pretended to eat her tummy.

“No! Mommy,” she yelled. “The bad man is eating me! Oh no! Save me please!”
Abby pushed me when I didn’t move at first. “I’m coming to save you, baby!” I started running to her in slow motion. Jimmy turned to see who was coming to her rescue and laughed at the sight of me running to her dramatically.
“Hurry mom,” Evelyn yelled. I fake punched Jimmy in the stomach, and he “dropped” her into my arms and fell to the floor.
Evelyn kiss my cheeks and squealed in victory, then she jumped out of my arms and ran to Abby and Tiff screaming like Tarzan again while I helped Jimmy back up to his feet.

“Thank you m’lady,” Jimmy said, bowing to me and kissing my knuckles. In that moment, I think I almost exploded.
“No problem,” I said, glad that my voice didn’t betray me. “Thanks for playing with my kid. She needed the pick-me-up.”
“Nah,” Zacky said, walking to us, letting Amber run off to the rest of the group standing over to the side. “The thanks goes to your kid. My niece needed the pick-me-up as well. Bad days at school.”
“Aw, no problem,” I said, waving it off. “It’s good to let ‘em be kids every once in a while.”
Jimmy shook his head sadly, catching the deeper meaning to my statement, but saying nothing to elaborate on the detail which I was extremely thankful for. Zacky shook my hand after some small talk, and walked away, leaving Jimmy and I in a comfortable, yet kind of awkward silence.
“So are you and your friends coming to the show tomorrow,” he said, nodding towards Abby who was in fact, wearing her A7X shirt.
“Ha, yeah,” I said shyly. “We’ll be there. It will be Evelyn’s first concert. We all love your music.”
“Wow,” he said, with a wide smile. “That’s fucking awesome. Well, maybe I’ll see you… guys there?”
I laughed at the small pause he left there and nodded. “Yeah, you will. I’ve got to go though, so until next time.”

Jimmy grabbed my hand again and shook it before letting me walk away from him.
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Evelyn was bathed and asleep finally and Abby and Tiffani were in the kitchen with my parents going over, FOR THE THIRD TIME, my encounter with Jimmy ‘THE REV’ Sullivan.

“Well,” my mother said slowly, staring at the picture of Jimmy that Abby was showing her while Tiff was laughed loudly. “At least he’s rich…”
I snatched the phone from Abby after she showed it to my father who also began to laugh. ‘Oh my goodness…’ I thought, being met with a picture of Jimmy as “The Reverend Tholomew Plague”, in a bright purple kimono, red knee length socks, his blonde hair standing on end with some shades.
“Stop laughing,” I said through giggles. “He gorgeous.” This made everyone laugh even harder.
“Damn,” Tiffani said, trying her hardest to breathe. “Sure it is. If you’re into that kind of stuff.”
My stomach was starting to hurt as I began to laugh harder. “Whatever,” I snapped through my laughter. “I’m going to bed.” I pretend stomped all the way to the room that the girls and I would be sharing and curled up next to my daughter. I need my rest for tomorrow!

Notes

Song credit:
My Immortal-Evanescence
I Won't Give Up-Jason Mraz

I really LOVED writing this chapter! I hope you all like it too!!:D