Chapter 5
"Hi guys, welcome back to our channel. Thank you for all of your comments on our last video, if you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend it, we did take you on a tour of our new house and showed you what we love about it and you got to meet our new cat Millie. She was a stray and we took her in, don't forget that you can still donate to "every meow counts", because Millie is super cute and so are her brothers and sisters, BUT none of them is as cute aaaaaaas...", Rachel quickly got up behind the table, slid the door to the living room back open to leave he patio and stepped into the cozy warmth of the house. She focused the camera on herself again, with Chloe in the background sitting cross-legged, back turned towards Rachel and the camera in front of a giant fireplace.
When she noticed Rachel right by her side, Chloe half turned around and smiled her widest smile. There in her arms was a tiny baby with dark hair and dark eyes, staring into the red bright light of the recording camera.
"... this little oneeee", squealed Rachel.
"Meet Josie" said Chloe quietly and rocked the little girl in her arms.
"Yes guys, we have a baby now", said Chloe and Rachel narowed her eyes, shaking her head no.
"We have a friends baby for a day. Or actually tonight and then some time until her mom picks her up in the morning. We will watch Josie and make sure, she is okay. As you can tell from the title of this video, we are not babysitting her, we are trying to parent her. Whatever that means. But this is just a teaser, so stay tuned and watch as we fail terribly, or at least I will because honestly, I think Chloe has her shit down."
Chloe playfully kicked Rachel in the shin. "Don't say 'shit' in front of my baby."
Rachel laughed her pretty laugh into the camera and went for a marker to note a montage of them doing things wrong with the baby had to follow this announcement, also she had to bleep the bad words out.
She was terrified, but at least this was good content.
Before going back out, she changed the battery of her camera, she already captured five hours of Chloe holding Josie, Chloe singing to Josie, Chloe feeding Josie, Chloe calling for gloves that Rachel had to get from her small built-in-closet-dark-room, to change Josie, Chloe playing with Josie and the cat at the same time, Chloe clearing out Josie's nose, which was disgusting as fuck, Chloe giving Josie a bath, which was the cutest thing ever, Chloe having to change, because she got peed on by Josie, Chloe cradeling Josie, Chloe sweet-talking a high pitched screaming Josie, Chloe emergency calling Josie's mom, just to get confirmation everything was fine and Chloe kissing all over Josie.
Rachel picked up the camera from her desk and went back out to the living room, aiming for the kitchen to make herself some cocoa, she felt a little frosty tonight.
Two days until December, they had to set up the Christmas lights, maybe tomorrow, when the baby was gone. Tonight would be hell.
Two cups of hot chocolate later, Rachel passed by Chloe swaddling Josie. She set the cups down and started recording again.
"What are you doing?"
"I'll get her to sleep, it's late."
"Looks like you are packing her up to ship her somewhere."
"I am", laughed Chloe. "Right into your heart, babe."
Rachel said nothing, she zoomed in on the babies face.
Chloe picked her up and put her lips against the tiny baby forhead, while patting Josie's back gently.
"Mmh, uhmm", said the baby and her head fell against Chloe's chest, her strong little fingers still holding Chloe's hand.
"She's snoring", giggled Rachel, "that was so fast, guys, Chloe knocked her out."
"I did everything today", murmured Chloe and Rachel wasn't sure, if her wife was talking to the camera or to her. "Tomorrow is your turn, or tonight, when she cries."
"I didn't sign up for that."
"Haha, we'll see."
Rachel turned the camera one more time to her face. "Okay guys, I think that's a wrap, we're going to sleep now too. Goodnight, byeeeee."
"Okay, so I read somewhere that babies shouldn't be in car seats for too long, because their backs are curved in that position and so you should rather put them on a flat surface or on the ground, so they don't fall down, because you know, if you are down already, you can't fall any further."
"Did some research babe?"
Chloe wiggled her brows and built a fort of pillows and placed them in a circle around the baby, after that, she put down a fluffy carpet and placed the sleeping baby on it, then slowly got up, grabbed the sleeping bag for Josie and gently pulled her arms through, she secured the binky and rest her head on one of the pillows.
"Are you going to sleep next to her?", asked Rachel, whispering to not wake Josie up.
"Just watching her for now, I'll come to bed in a few."
Rachel, knowing Chloe, went to their bedroom and got a blanket to pull over Chloe, there was no fucking chance her wife would join her in bed tonight.
She connected her laptop with the camera, took one sip from her cup of cocoa and started editing, just to get halfway through the material, before her head sank down on her arms, drifting to sleep, until a high pitched scream an hour and twenty minutes later had her almost falling off her chair.