Unexpected

Unprepared

Marisa carried little Lyra in her arms as she walked reaching her building, one of the doormen held the doors open for her, tipping his hat.

"Ma'am"

Marisa smiled politely at him before reaching the lift, Lyra moaned in her sleep shifting in Marisa's arms in efforts to get comfortable. Lyra had slipped her arms around Marisa's neck hugging her with her head on the woman's shoulder.

Marisa stilled as Lyra moved in her arms, she feared the girl would awake from the noise of the doorman. Marisa made shushing sounds as she stepped into the lift, hoping the sounds wouldn't wake Lyra from her peaceful sleep.

The girl was quiet, content and allowed Marisa to hold her which she surprisingly found she wasn't against. However, she preferred holding Lyra in her arms.

Lyra loosely gripped Marisa's hair in her sleep causing Marisa to take Lyra's fingers away releasing her hair from the girl's little fingers. Suddenly the lift opened to her flat where she juggled Lyra in her arms lifting her, adjusting her hold on the girl as she barely gripped her purse in one of her hands.

Marisa looked around her empty flat as she got a handle of Lyra and her purse properly, she realized as she did so that she doesn't have the guest bedroom made up for a guest so she had nowhere to place Lyra so she could sleep.

Eventually, she figured Lyra could sleep on the couch for the present moment, she would have her staff make up the guest bedroom for Lyra in the meantime. Marisa carried Lyra over into the living room where she placed her purse down, before making her way over to the couch and went to gently place Lyra down.

Marisa leaned Lyra down onto the couch very softly careful not to wake the little girl, as Marisa set Lyra down Marisa raised herself to stand back up only to find Lyra had not let go of her. Lyra still had her arms around Marisa's neck, Marisa then slowly and delicately released Lyra's arms from around her neck placing Lyra fully onto the couch where she laid comfortably still asleep.

The whole ordeal was a tense affair, as Marisa nervously made sure not to wake Lyra. When Marisa finally got Lyra to let her go, Lyra rubbed her eye with her closed hand sleepily making Marisa tense.

Lyra simply shifted on the couch in her sleep noticing the lack of Marisa now, Marisa breathed out a breath she hadn't known she was holding. Marisa then grabbed a throw blanket from her bedroom before placing it over Lyra covering her, tucking her in comfortably.

Marisa sat on the part of the couch where Lyra wasn't on and brushed the stray hair away from Lyra's face, tucking it behind her ear. Lyra laid peacefully upon the couch asleep, only moving slightly in her sleep every other minute or so in attempts to get comfortable.

Marisa had sought to go over correspondence in her study, however, as she sat in there she kept thinking of the little girl alone in the living room asleep. So there she was now, sitting at the living room desk table glancing at Lyra fast asleep on the couch.

The little girl's chest rising and falling with each breath, Marisa found herself relaxed and at peace having the little girl in her company.

Suddenly as Marisa was writing further into her research is when suddenly a light buzzing ran out from the lift, causing Lyra to moan in her sleep causing Marisa to spring up to stop it before it woke Lyra.

One of the members of staff came out to see if Marisa needed assistance, it happened that the buzzing was Lyra clothes and various items that they purchased at Woodorfs arriving. The staff quickly took over the delivery, having the package that was nicely packed in designer boxes with tissue paper wrappings brought up in the lift.