Life's Little Surprises

Chapter 1

Copyright © 2013 by Veronica Anderson

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Chapter 1

Veronica POV

"Can you say momma?" I asked my little girl, "Say momma!"

I looked down at my little bundle of joy, Anastasia. She is 8 months old. And full of energy. Katie and I adopted her when I started 12th grade. She was born on September 15th to a teenage mother. Oh. Yeah. We're baaaack! Anyways. Ana's full name id Anastasia Elizabeth Rivers.

I was currently doing homework. Ok. I was supposed to be doing homework but then Ana woke up and crawled over to me. Now I was trying to get her to say 'momma' but she just giggled. Then she heard Katie laugh and looked over towards the doorway.

"What's momma doing? Is she being silly?" Katie asked in her adorable baby voice.

Anastasia laughed and held her arms out. Katie walked over and took her from me, "Come on. You can help mommy cook while momma does her homework like a good girl."

Oh. I live with Katie and Anastasia. We have to be careful about it though because I do have one more month of school left. I sighed and looked back down at my homework. I've read the same question about 7 times and I still haven't processed it yet. I read it again, but I wasnt really paying attention so I read it another time. Yeah, no.

"Bring back my distraction Katie!" I yelled.

"Nope! She's mine. Oh yeah. Just leave me and go to her. I see how it is. You only wanted to brownie mix huh?" Katie asked Ana.

I looked over and laughed when I seen Ana's face. It was covered in chocolate. She sat down next to me and smiled. She was so f*****g cute. I love her. My mom loved the idea of getting a grandchild and kicked me out the moment we talked to her about it. No seriously. Her exact words were, 'Get the f**k out of my house and don't come back until you have her. But don't worry honey, I'll come visit.'

And she really did not let me come back into the house until I had Ana in my arms. I'm being for real. Every time I tried to walk, she chased me out with- are you ready?- a broom. She literally got a broom and chased me to the door with it. After being hit like 3 times I did not walk in that house until I did in face, have her grandchild with me.

Now I was looking down at Ana and she was touching random answers on my homework. They were all multiple choice. f**k it, my baby wants those answers, my baby is getting those answers. So for the next 15 minutes I only wrote what Ana said to. Even for the short answers when I asked her what it was and she mumbled away. Sure, I was going to fail. But I don't care. I put my homework away and then played with Anastasia until Katie called for dinner.

"What's for dinner tonight mommy?" I asked, putting Ana in her high chair.

"For Ana-rocket, we have- what ever is in these jars I grabbed." Katie said.

I took them and read them, "Apple Strawbery Banna- Your favorite- and Vegetable Turkey dinner. Yum."

Ana giggled and opened her mouth. I opened the jars and started to feed her, "So. How was work?"

Katie laughed, "Fun. 12th graders are too rowdy. I had to send a couple out."

"Who? Do thay need the Devil Spawns on their asses?" I asked.

"No baby. And it was no one. Their just excited for the field trip tomorrow. I'm sure you guys are too." Katie said, taking a sip of her Pepsi.

"Well yeah, but you have enough trouble at home with me and Ana-rocket. You don't need them being morons on you." I said.

"Its fine. Awe. Look at that yawn."

"She's tired mommy. She helped me with my homework and I took her to the park earlier. We had fun. We missed you though."

"She go down the slide?"

"Yeah, I went with her though. To many kids at the park to let her go by herself."

"Oh. Hey, maybe we could get her one of those play sets for the yard. She loves the slide and that way we don't have to worry about any kids knocking her over."

"Yeah. We can do that. Oh big yawn."

"Do you want me to order it online?"

"If you want to."

"Ok. Go get her in a bath. She's so tired. I'll clean up down here."

"You sure?"

"Yeah."

"Alright see you soon."

"Mhm."

I took Anastasia upstairs and got her bath ready. I washed her up and let her play for a little bit then took her downstairs to get her bottle. Katie was in the middle of making it so I let her go for a second before I walked over and took it from her. I gave it to Ana and hummed to her until she fell asleep. Then we put her in her crib and went to sleep.

The next day...

I walked into school and went straight to Katie's class where my group hung out. Everyone was there. Sammie and Justine were making out in a corner. Justin was reading something about football and Faith was talking to Skylar. Her girlfriend. I walked over to Katie's desk and sat down on it. She looked up at me.

"What's up? Not a good morning?" She asked.

"No. It wasn't. She threw a fit." I told her.

"Awe. What happened?"

"I don't know. I told her that we'd see her later and she threw a fit. I called her Ana-rocket and everything. It got to the point where mom told me to just leave her that she would be fine." I sighed.

"My poor baby." Katie said.

The bell rang and everyone sat down for homeroom. Stupid homeroom. I sat at the back with the gang. We were all talking when Katie's cell went off.

"Miss Rivers, no cell phones in class." Landon said.

He was an ass. I hated him. He was constantly flirting with Katie.

"Shut up ass face." I said.

"Yeah, She can do whatever she wants." Sammie said.

"Ok girls." Justine said.

"Ooo. Momma bear spoke." Landon smirked.

"I was talking to you too Landon." Justing said.

The whole class burst out laughing. Katie put her phone down and I mouthed 'ok?' She shook her head yes and the bell rang for first period. I sat still cause this was my next period. I have Katie for 3 out of 8 classes. I have her for homeroom and two study halls. So she's stuck with me for alot of the day. At lunch we both leave to go see Ana-rocket. Your probably wondering why we call her that. I forgot to tell you. Anastasia's a very fast learner. You teach her something and she catches on fast.

Katie taught her her shapes, colors, and different animals. She can't say them yet but she can point them out to you when you ask her to. She learnt them each in a day or 2. So we call her Ana-rocket. Not to mention she moves super fast. And she can say baba. but not momma. Grrrr. Yeah I probably should be apying attention but Katie will just fill me in later about what went on in class. The perks of dating your teacher.

Anyways she handed out a paper adn when she got to me she looked me in the eyes and said, "Pay attention."

I watched her walk away then looked down at the sheet. Say what? It was a cross word puzzle. I looked up at her like 'wtf is this' she just smiled and started explaining it. I only heard 'questions' and 'back' but when I flipped it over no only were the questions on the back but the answer sheet was under it.

I'm a lucky son of a b***h. Yes I am. I filled them in while pretending to think about the questions and when I was done I went down to hand it to her. Being very careful that it looked like I only had one sheet.

"Here you go Miss Rivers." I said.

She looked up and raised a brow, "Were you not paying attention? Even after I told you to? I said we were going over it together."

"Oh."

"Yeah. Go sit down." She smiled.

So for the rest of the day I payed attention in all of my classes and actually tried to do the work. Even though most of it was really hard. And I got all of my short answer questions right on the homework. Thank you Ana. Momma loves you. Now it was time to go get my baby girl and go home and relax for the rest of the night with my 2 favorite girls. Life can't get better than this.