🌺🌷**SHAILENE WOODLEY AS ADALYNN LYNCH**🌺🌷

Everything in my life

was happening so fast, yet I couldn't seem to bring myself to complain about it.

With mixed feelings i had packed all my clothes and important stuff, making sure that I brought the only two photo frames I have with my mother.

I sighed as i took my last scan of this place.

It was depressing and damp as the rains of last night soaked over the place.

I smiled softly when a black vehicle stopped in front of my place.

I wasted no time in picking up my suitcase and walking to the car.

When I was settled in I sighed and relax.

Here we go.

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I had fallen asleep and when I woke up my eyes landed on Three little jumping around excitedly in a huge concreted yard.

When the car came to stop i quickly came out and grinned kneeling and stretching my hands wide open. They wasted no time in crashing straight into my arms.

"Laura!" They screamed excitedly.

"Hey girls!" I chuckled as i stood up.

It was safe to say that they were living in a big ass house with lots of windows.

Ross came and gave me a tour of the house with his nieces following behind giggling. I met the house cleaner Mrs.Michelson and the two Chihuahua's Shimmer and Shine which Victoria told me were named after Two animated genies.

"This is the girl's room" He said pushing the door open to pure pinkness.

"They have their own bathroom right over here and walk in closet's divided into three sections for them." Ross said.

I stared amazed at how much space they had to play and how adorable it was.

"Next is your room. It's right across the hall from mine" He said before he pushed the door entering the room what was now mine.

I was amazed at the size of it and everything in it.

"I hope you like it, it was originally designed for Mrs.Potts, well the girls help decorate. I had to take out all of the pink." He chuckled.

The girls giggled before jumping on the bed.

"It's beautiful. thank you so much." I said.

He excused himself as he left for a conference leaving me with the three little girls.

"Do you want us to help you unpack?" Cathy as as i took a seat on my soft bed.

"No, It's okay. So what do you girls want to do?" I asked. them smiling.

"We could carry you to see the pool and garden." Tory said.

"Oh yeah! We have two. One out back the other is in an inside pool and Uncle Ross has a Jacuzzi in his bedroom. Uncle Ross says We can't go there unless an adult is with us. "Arabelle said frowning.

I smiled at her cuteness.

"Sure!" I said.

Before we could get up Ross walked back in.

"Sorry i forgot to give you this." He said handing me a smart phone. "It has all important contacts already on it. like the girl's school, and teacher's, Mrs.Michelson and mine. Their doctor's number is on there too. You've been added as emergency contacts for them and stuff. but i'm late, so we'll talk about the other stuff some more when i get back." He said.

I nodded "Is it okay if i carry them by the pool?"

He looked at them "Sure." He smiled

"Bye Uncle Ross!" The said in union.

"Bye girls."

He turned to me "Goodbye Laura."

I smiled "goodbye Ross."

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When Ross came back home I had already gave the girl's their bath, fed them dinner, read them a story each and sang them to sleep.

When he walked in he found me sitting in the living reading City of bones. His tie was gone, his first few shirt buttons loosed and his hair ruffled as if had been running his hands through it.

He smiled when he saw me "Hey."

"Hi." I smiled back at him as he took a seat on the leather black sectional sofa.

"The girls are asleep?" He asked relaxing in the sofa.

"Yeah, i had to sing them to sleep, or else i would have been reading all the bedtime stories in the world." I said making him chuckle.

"Are you hungry?" I asked marking my page and placing the book aside. "I covered our dinner, I was waiting for you to come home to eat, since we had to talk and all."

He grinned "very much so." he said standing.

I followed him into the kitchen and heated over the Andouille Sausage Pasta i made for dinner.

When we sat down to eat he groaned "Wow. Laura, this is just- Mm- wow. Amazing. I honestly can't tell the last time i had home cooked food."

I laughed before saying "I'm glad you like it." The cooking, was something that came natural to me, I didn't have Hundreds of practice. but the ones i had, i could say was gifted.

When we settled down and enjoyed the meal, i finally asked the question that has been itching at me. "Ross?"

He turned to me "Yeah?"

"Where are the girls' parents?- You don't have to answer me, it's just a question that been bugging me since yesterday." I explained myself.

"No, It's okay. it's you're going to be their Nanny you should at least know. The girls' mother was my sister. " He said. I didn't miss the way he said was.

"We grew up with two strict parents. My sister was older than me by four years and she always felt that they favored me more. But in all truth they loved her equally, but the fact that she was a girl made them have a tight leash on her." He spoke softly.

"When my sister turned twenty one she ran away from home and fled to my mother's birth place and childhood home, England. She hadn't contacted us for an entire year. and when she did she came back pregnant. Pregnant with Victoria. My parents were so hurt they practically exiled her. So she ran back to England. I was seventeen years old. so there wasn't much i could do other than beg my parents to let her stay but they wouldn't hear me."

I sighed i turned my body to his.

"After that she secretly sent messages to me and I responded until one day they just stopped coming. I never heard from her til four years later and she had already had Catherine and was pregnant with Arabelle." He chuckled awkwardly "When i did see her she was weak and very much British; she drank tea and all that. I had just finished university and moved out on my own. I took her and the two girls in and she had Arabelle, but unfortunately....She died during childbirth. When my parent's found out what happened they were so shaken but still, they refused to take in the girl's because they were dad said and I quote 'bastard children.' When i told them that i would take care of them, they threaten to take away my inheritance but of course i knew they would. I was their only living heir."

"So they didn't take away anything from me, but refused to come see their granddaughters'." He ended.

When he did I took it all in.

Wow. these little girl's had been through so much with even knowing.

"So, do your parents talk to you?" I asked curiously.

"Yes. but i must never speak of the girls when i'm talking to them." He said sadly.

I frowned "So what happened to their father?" I asked.

"They each have different fathers and they each didn't accept responsibility when she told them." He shook his head sadly "She was twenty eight, when she died. so young."

"Here." He said picking up a photo frame of a beautiful young woman. "That's her on her eighteenth birthday. I barely saved it when my parents burnt all her pictures."

I stared a her for a while in awe.

Beauty definitely ran through this family.

"Wow. she was beautiful." I said.

"Very." He said "She was a wild child. An old soul." He smiled.

"Do you blame your parents?" I asked softly and immediately regretting it. This was something personal.

"To some extent. They suffocated her." He answered. " She wanted to go out there and live and be free. you know my parents even had a fiance for her. They were a bit horrible to her.but they're my parents, I could never hate them. yes. I'm angry at they way they handled certain stuff but...it's years too late."

"Does the girls know?" I asked playing with my fingers while looking at him.

"They know she's not alive yes. They ask about her often- and their father. Arabelle...calls me dad sometimes because i'm all that she's known and sometimes Cathy. Tori barely remember's her mother." He said sadly.

I had already taken out wears and washed them while he spoke before we moved back into the living room.

"All, they've ever wanted was a family. To have that love of a mother and A father..and there's so much that i can do by myself. That's why i need your help Laura. To teach these girls what it feels like to be loved, not just by myself but someone else. I'm not asking you to be their mother- but just, to show them that motherly love that they crave for. They're young girls and they need a roll model." He said.

I nodded smiling my eyes teary.

"You remind me of her a lot. You have a slight resemblance to her. you're definitely way shorter than her. but you look like her." He smiled at me.

"What was her name?"

"Adalynn." He smiled.

"That's a beautiful name." I smiled.

"Yeah." He answered.

"Uncle Ross?" A soft whisper called behind us.

When we turned around Cathy was standing rubbing her eyes. her light pink blanket and her big pink teddy bear she called Mr. Cubbaloo.

She walked up to us and sat in her Uncle's lap.

"Why aren't you in bed sweetie?"' I asked rubbing her feet.

"I got up because i got the tinkles." She said. I had learnt that, that was the word they used when they need to pee.

And Dookie for when they had to poop.

It was so adorable.

I was extremely relieved when he told me that they didn't pee their beds.

"Come on let's get you back to bed." Ross said lifting the little girl.

"Laura please sing to me." She said her eyes closed.

"Sure sweetie." I said getting up and following Ross to the kids bedroom.

When we got to the room her two sister's were sound asleep and tucked in their individual beds.

Ross dimmed Cathy's bed light and we tucked her into bed.

The both of us on each side of her bed she smiled up at us while snuggling up to Mr.Cubbaloo.

Ross dimmed the light even more before rubbing his hands on her hair as I began singing to her the lullaby my mother always sang to me when i was younger.

Deep in the meadow, under the willow,

A bed of grass, a soft green pillow

Lay down your head, and close your eyes,
And when they open, the sun will rise

Ross smiled at me when he saw her eyes closing down and I smiled at him.

Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.

-Katniss Everdeen - Rue Lullaby Lyrics