~Hush Little Baby (Rock?)~
Shannon giggled in excitement as she finished adjusting the blankets on the toddler bed she had set up in the spare bedroom of the apartment – spare no longer, the redhead thought to herself as she gently cast her glance over to the stone sitting on the dresser. Soon, this room would be his... or hers, but she rather thought the little one that would come from the queerly shaped stone would be a boy, like her little son that she had never gotten to meet. She knew enough about these stones to know that he wouldn’t emerge as an infant, but she didn’t know exactly how developed he would be, or if he would be able to talk – and if so, how well? So much of it was a mystery to her, but it was an exciting kind of mystery.
She didn’t know how she would manage raising a child in between working at the library and going to classes, but she knew she could do it – even if she had to drop down to half hours, or start working more, she would manage to do it, somehow. She knew she could make it, just a little hard work and she would be able to make ends meet for the both of them – maybe even be able to splurge now and then on her little one. And she wouldn’t need to bother her parents with the knowledge that she was a single mother of a child that wasn’t even human – if she was lucky, they wouldn’t find out until the dear child she was taking care of was old enough to handle the potential rejection he or she might face.
After she finished adjusting the blankets on the small bed (a lovely blue with spots on it that resembled bubbles, that kept with the water theme of the room), she walked over to the dresser and scooped up the stone, holding it close to her chest and mumbling soft words to it. “Oh, baby, I can’t wait until you come out and I can meet you, I love you so much already, and I hope you’ll know that soon. I’ve finished your room up, so it’s ready for whenever you want to come out,” she said softly, stroking the odd stone and rocking it almost as if it were already the child her heart had been longing for ever since she was a teen.
