Page 28 of Daddy's Little Fighter
Frankie sucked in a breath as she let his words sink in.
“You don’t have to, but I think it might be good for you. They are Littles who also have things they were worried about. I think I’ve talked about them before. Rainey and Echo. Rainey likes things in even numbers. If she doesn’t, she gets clammy and itchy. Echo doesn’t like to be touched. When someone touches her, she has to go wash that part with really hot water or go to her Daddy and he makes it all better,” Daddy explained. “They have both had to overcome telling people and getting weird looks or people who understand.”
Something she should have done before she went out that one day to the store. She had been getting there, but she had needed more time and didn’t get it.
“Just think about it. Both of them are free this afternoon to come over,” Daddy informed her. “But there’s no pressure. I don’t want you to do something that scares you.”
Did she really want to meet them? Daddy and Dominic had both told her they wanted to, along with the other Littles, meet her desperately.
How could they want to meet her so badly? They didn’t know her.
“I guess,” Frankie mumbled.
“You guess what?” Daddy asked.
“I guess I can meet them,” she looked him in the eyes.
Frankie wasn’t too sure about this. But when was she sure about anything?
Never.
Her life had been turned upside down. For the last three years, she had been in her protective bubble, the house where no one came in, and she didn’t leave. And now she was venturing outside and was about to have two people come over to meet her for the first time.
“Take a deep breath,” Daddy gently said.
Frankie inhaled deeply before slowly letting it out.
“If you really don’t want to meet them today, you don’t have to,” Daddy told her. “They will understand.”
If she didn’t do it now, would she ever do it?
“I’ll meet them today,” she replied. “Maybe only for a little while?”
Daddy smiled. “I’ll call their Daddies and let them know that they may have to leave at any point if you get too overwhelmed. They will understand since they’ve done the same thing.”
“How do you know that?” She looked at him suspiciously.
“Because I have heard their Daddies talk about it. We talk about you guys a lot of the time. They mentioned that you might want to meet Rainey and Echo first since they have gone through something similar,” Daddy explained.
Right.
“I’m going to go tell their Daddies that they can come over. Why don’t you grab Lita and sit on the couch?” Daddy suggested as he rose to his full height.
Frankie walked into their room and quickly got Lita before making her way back into the living room and sitting down. She was really going to meet two of the Littles today. What was she thinking?
She clearly wasn’t. Who did she think she was?
“Frankie?” Daddy knelt in front of her once again.
“Your knees are going to go bad,” she mumbled.
“Are you calling me old?” he asked.
She shook her head. “Never. You just keep kneeling in front of me. You are going or wear your knees out if you keep doing it.”
Daddy chuckled and opened his mouth, but the doorbell interrupted him. Frankie held Lita closer to her as she looked at the door.
“I don’t know,” she whispered, fear coursing through her.
