"David! Help me please! Sarah's gonna be here any minute"

I watched Daddy frantically running around cleaning or straightening things while Papa and I watched some tv. I was sitting in a playpen stacking some blocks to make an imaginary house for my horse stuffy, who I had named stuffy.

Real original, I know.

Stuffy was asleep in my crib, Daddy was going to wake him up but I stopped him, thank god. Stuffy is really grumpy when he doesn't sleep and I don't want to deal with that right now.

"Honestly Ricky I don't know what your so worried about, Sarah's place is practically a pigsty, she won't care"

Daddy stopped in his tracks

"If you say anything like that in front of her I will rip out your vocal cords with my own bare hands!"

He bared his fangs which scared me. I started to cry making Daddy's face immediately turn from anger to worry. He picked me up and rocked me

"Shh shh baby bear, I'm sorry I scared you. I'm just a bit stressed out right now, I have to go make sure we've got enough blood packets"

He passed me to Papas lap before dashing to kitchen.

"That's the third time he's checked the blood packets, your Daddy's a silly man isn't he"

Papa booped my nose and tickled me, making me laugh.

"Why Daddy so scared of Sa-ray"

"He's not scared, he just really loves your Auntie Sarah and wants to make everything perfect for her, but she really doesn't care and is just happy to see him. She's especially excited to see you too Wren"

"Why?"

"Well she has a little girl called Alex who's been dying to meet you, so they're both very excited"

"Alex good?"

"Well she's a bit odd but I'd say she's pretty good"

Our conversation was interuppted by the door bell ringing. Daddy skidded in from the kitchen, a look of happy panic spread across his face.

" Oh my god she's here!"

He gasped and threw his hand over his mouth

"I didn't clean the bathroom, there's no time!"

As Daddy's panic increased Papa yelled out

"Ricky! calm down, just breathe

I know for a fact that we could be sitting in a dumpster and Sarah wouldn't care as long as she saw you, and remember this is Sarah not Jessica ok?"

Daddy took a deep breath

"ok"

"Don't leave them at the door, go!"

I was confused

"Who Jessica?"

"That's your Daddy's other sister. She did some very bad things to Daddy and aunty Sarah that, he 'for the sake of family' forgave her, but I never will"

"What she do?"

"That's another thing I promise to tell you when you're older"

"Oki Papa!"

We stopped upon hearing screams at the door

"Uncle Ricky!"

"Bro!"

"Sis!"

David let out a breath

"May God have mercy on us Wren"

I heard the 3 making they're way to the sitting room and started to figit in nervousness. Papa squeezed my hand to let me know it was ok.

Daddy walked in

"And here's my darling husband and the precious boy you've been waiting for.."

He directed towards me and Papa as two other figures walked in, both ladies. The first, probably Sarah looked similar to Daddy with pink hair and kind eyes yet was shorter and held the hand of the second, a girl, probably Alex, who looked around my age, maybe older. She had her long brown hair in braids and her fave covered in plasters and stickers.

Sarah:

Alex:

They were both dressed quite casually, Sarah wearing a loose sweater and jeans while Alex wore a skirt t shirt and short sleeved cardigan with tigh high socks.

It made me feel kind of foolish as Daddy had changed me into a something very babish.

A pair of puffy light blue shorteralls, that even if I wasn't wearing a diaper would've looked like it, with white butterfly embroidery, a short sleeved onesie underneath with a baby block design and a pair of white thigh high socks. Not to mention the matching blue and white pacifier that was clipped to my onesie.

Sarah and Alex squealed loudly when they saw me. Sarah pulled Alex over and crouched down next to Papa to look at me.

"Hi there, you must be Wren, your Daddies told me a lot about you. It's lovely to meet you"

Normally her getting really close and talking to me would have freaked me out but she reminded me of Daddy. Her voice was soft but quick like she was constantly singing a song to herself.

I didn't respond to her and she chuckled lightly.

"I guess your not much for conversation-"

She gestured to Alex

"This is my daughter Alex, she'll probably do the talking for both of you"

Alex sprung forward getting too close than what I was comfortable with. She leaned her hands on Papa's knees and leaned in. Which made me jolt back, hitting Papa's chest. He made an oof kind of sound

"Hiya! am Alex! We're gonna be bestest friends, I just know it!"

She was practically shouting

I whimpered, feeling overwhelmed. Sarah pulled back Alex and Daddy spoke to her

"Alex you need to take it down a few notches with Wren, he can get a bit nervous so you need to careful"

Papa murmured something under his breath and Daddy shot him a deadly look. Sarah continued with Alex

"Alex just take a deep breath, calm down and try again, maybe a little quieter this time"

She nodded and took a deep breath. She spoke quieter but still embodied the same energy as before

"Hiya! Am Alex, were gonna be the bestest of friends. I just know it!"

Not really knowing what to do I have her a small wave and mumbled

"Hi"

The huge smile on her face got even wider as she started to bounce in place and took a big ol breath in

"Yay, you do talk cause I thought you couldn't talk or just didn't want to talk cause you didn't talk to mommy but it's ok now because you can talk which means we can talk, I don't have alot of people to talk to so this is gonna be so cool, I have so much to talk about like... uhhh..."

She stopped her tyrant of words to think for second. Sarah and Daddy we're snickering in the background. This must be normal. Suddenly Alex burst into conversation again.

"Bugs! What do you think of bugs??"

There was another moment of silence until I realised she wanted me to speak

"I don like spiders"

"Me either, but spiders aren't bugs, at least I don't think so. I like to think spiders are aliens! but I was thinking more like cat-a-pillars and butterflys-"

She reached into her skirt pocket

"Like this"

She pulled out a huge fat caterpillar which surprised me and everyone else. Sarah spoke

" Oh god Alex, where did you get that?"

"The ground, duh"

Sarah held out her hand

"Give it here"

Alex huffed

"Fine!"

She handed the caterpillar to her mom and she set it outside a window.

"Sorry lads, I didn't know she had that"

"Tis fine sister dear, "

Daddy crouched next to me and Alex

"Do you guys wanna go play in Wren's nursery. Alex you know where it is and Wren you can show her your stuffie"

I really wanted to show her my stuffie. This is a completely unbiased opinion but it's the best stuffie ever. Alex seemed to wanna see it too cause she started bouncing again

"Come on Wren!"

She grabbed my hand and pulled me off Papa's lap making me squeak. She dragged me away, Sarah calling out after us

"Alex be careful!"

"I am mommy!"

Papa also called out

"Wren if you need anything just screech"

I couldn't respond as we had rounded the corner and were out of eyeshot. Running was hard as I had been carried for the last few days. The diaper also didn't help, it was thick between my legs so instead of running it was more of a haphazard waddle.

"How do you know where ma nursery Is?"

"Your Daddies showed me ages ago, when it got builded"

We reached my nursery and Alex grabbed some pillows and blankets off the armchair and my crib and threw them on the ground. She sat on them and directed me to do the same.I sat opposite her.

"So since we are now bestest friends, I need to know more about you!

wait

you need to know more about me! ask me questions first"

"Um ok"

I thought of some questions

"Are you a vampire?"

"Yep!"

She opened her mouth and showed her fangs before quickly covering her mouth

"Sorry mommy says showing fangs is rude and means you wanna fight but I don wanna fight. I swearrrr"

"It ok"

Alex's fangs were kinda scary, not nearly as scary as Daddy's. I don't wanna even think about Papa's

"How old are you?

"I like saying 3 but I guess 32"

That certainly shocked me, she looked my age, this is weird

"You said you are scared of spiders, anything else?"

"Spiders aren't too bad but I can't stand the dark.Mommy put up glowing star stickers all over my room to make me feel better"

"Dat sounds real cool! I love the night sky, it's so pretty"

"Have you always been a vampire"

"You ready for a backstory and a half?"

"Sure"

"Ok ima do this quickly

My old mom and dad died when I was 9, i lived in loads of different foster homes for a while but kept running away. One night when I was wandering the streets I got attacked and bitten by a vampire. They left me to die but mommy and Daddy found me, they made me a vampire and I became their baby"

I got a bit confused

"Where your Daddy?"

Alex's face dropped a bit but she stayed cheery

"Mommy said Daddy fought bad guys in far away places. She told me that he saved everyone he could but couldn't save himself"

I saw a tear slip out of her eye. I scooched over to Alex and hugged her.

"Am sowy Alex, no mean to make you cry"

Alex hugged me back but with bone crushing strength. I squeaked, trying to get her to stop. Alex eventually relented

"So what's your backstory?"

I told her a quick summary of how daddy and Papa found me

"I hate your Aunt!"

I giggled

" Me too"

Alex giggled and tackel hugged me, I landed on the pillows on the ground.

"You wanna see stuffie?"

" Ok!"

I stood up and toddled over to my crib, reaching though the bars and slipping out stuffie, who was grumpy that I didn't wake him up on time for guests. There's no pleasing this horse.

I proudly showed it to Alex

"This is stuffie, Papa told me he very special"

"Dats cool, my favourite stuffie is bananas, he's a build a bear monkey"

I tilted my head in confusion

"what's a build a bear?"

Alex gasped and raised her voice

"You've never been to build a bear!"

I spoke quietly, a bit afraid of what was happening

"No"

"MOMMY!

UNCLE RICKY

UNCLE DAVID"

Her screams ran out and no sooner as they had been called, the three appeared

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We all heard Alex scream our names, put down the blood packets we were drinking and dashed to Wren's nursery.

We ran in to find Alex and Wren sitting on pile of blankets and cushions. Wren looked a bit scared and Alex looked angry.

"Mommy we have a problem!"

I was of course worried

"What's wrong sweetie?"

Wren took the moment to stand up and toddle over to Ricky, who picked him. Alex dramatically pointed at Ricky and David

"They're criminals!"

David responded

"I'm sorry we're what?"

Alex put her hands over her face and screamed. Her face was turning red

"Criminals! They no let Wreny go to bill a bear!"

It was clear she was getting too worked. Alex messes up sentences and words when she gets worked up.

"Alex sweetie, Uncle Ricky and Uncle David are not criminals, Wren only just arrived the other day and they haven't gotten a chance to go to build a bear"

Alex's breathing evened out and after a few more reassuring words that no one was mad at her she calmed down.

"Am sorry i called you criminals"

Ricky smiled

"Its ok Alex"

David was stroking Wren's hair when he spoke up

"Hey do you guys want to go to build a bear?

Dinner's not going to be ready for a while and there's a shopping centre real close that has one.

Alex's eyes lit up in that magical way they always do.

"Can we mommy!"

" Sure, I don't mind. But you're not getting another teddy"

Alex huffed and Wren giggled. Ricky tickled him, making him giggle more.

"Are you ticklish baby bear?"

"Nooo Daddy stawp"

Ricky was right, he was adorable.

David cut off the moment

"Come on, everyone can get in out car"

Alex ran off in front of everyone to the front door

" To build a bear!!"