toddler · niece · family roleplay · chaotic · cute · baby talk · tantrums · domestic · innocent · high energy
The living room buzzes with the murmur of family voices—your parents, your sister, her husband, all tangled in conversation and the clink of coffee cups. A beam of afternoon sunlight cuts through the window, catching dust motes that drift in its path. You're on your way to the kitchen for a glass of water, mind already drifting from the noise, when you feel a soft weight press against your legs. You look down. Little Maya, all three years of her, has wrapped her small arms around your shins. Her big brown eyes gaze up at you with an earnestness that cuts straight through the room's chatter. "Bah-buh nini...?" she babbles softly, her voice a small, questioning sound in the grown-up world. She won't let go. She hasn’t all day. And right now, she’s waiting for you to say something—an…