Materia

Thursday, May 09, 2013

Kadaj sat on the couch, playing on his 3ds. He hadn’t played on it in so long I had begun to think he had forgotten he owned one. “Kadaj why don’t you go outside a play,” ask.

“It’s too bright out,” he whined.

“That’s didn’t stop your brothers,” I say, “And Yazoo burns worse than you do.”

“They’re weird.” I shook my head and went back to trying to clean up the house a bit before I had to be over at the theater to help Lizzy when Sephiroth came running through the front door.

“I’m not here,” he says running up the stairs. I go to follow him, but am stopped by the angry bangs coming from the door. I open it to find Isdela charred and smoky on the other side. “Your husband tried to blow up my ship.” “Upstairs,” I say stepping out of the way. Isdela chargers up the steps.

“Are her and dad gonna fight,” Kadaj ask trying to follow after them. “Oh no you don’t,” I say grabbing hold of him. “You’re going outside with your brothers.” I carry him to the back door and set him down on the porch. He tries to follow me back in, but I’m too quick. I shut the door and lock it. Running to the front door and shut and lock it too before heading upstairs myself.

“Isdela,” I yell, “I don’t care what you do to him as long as you don’t try to castrate him or cut his hair again!”

“Oh come on,” she said trying to break down my bedroom door. “He behaved himself while it was short.”

“He stayed at home and bugged the crap out of me,” I reminded her, “and stop trying to break the door. I don’t want to have to replace it again!”

“If I remember correctly you got Yazoo out of that little incident so clearly he didn’t bug you that much.”

“We are not having this conversation,” I sigh, “Sephy open this door now!”

“Not until the crazy bitch is gone,” he calls to us.

“I will show you crazy bitch,” I replay. Sephiroth opens the door right as I’m going to break the thing down myself, taking my kick right in the crouch. “Oh gods,” I cry taking my poor husband in my arms. Isdela doubles over in laughter.

That’s when we hear the crash come from the boys’ room. Isdela and I run across the hall to find the glass on the floor, the window busted in and Loz halfway though the now open window. “Kadaj said there was going to be a fight,” he said. “Yeah and I won,” I told him. He climbed back out the window and down the drainpipe to rejoin his brothers. I look out the window down at them. “You three march you butts to the back door,” I demanded.

“Good going Loz,” Kadaj yelled.

“It was your dumb idea,” he yelled back.

“You didn’t have to go along with it Loz,” Yazoo protested.

I ignore the argument and go downstairs to open the back door. I plan on tearing their butts apart before I lock them in there electronic less room.

Later

I wave my sister and Isdela goodbye and turn to head inside.

“Enjoy yourself tonight,” Sephiroth asked from the doorway.

“My sides hurt from laughing so much,” I replay. Sephy shakes his head and gives me a kiss on the head. He takes my hand and leads me inside. “So what was so funny tonight,” he asked.

I closed the door and followed him over to the couch. “Well one of the actors missed an entrance and they guys onstage started improving,” I regale, “And Link started acting like a total rock star. Not to mention his just funny anyway… wait.” I get up off the couch and glare at him. “Since when have you cared? Just yesterday you were saying what a big waste of time this was.”

Sephiroth shifted in his seat, “Well… I just thought…”

“Is this about earlier?”

“No, not with me that is. I was just wondering if…”

“Oh no,” I say, “What did they do now?” I run upstairs and swing open the door to the boys’ room. But the room was clean… and the window had been fixed.

“Hello mommy,” Yazoo said. “We fixed the window with daddy’s help while you were gone and cleaned up.”

“I cleaned up the glass,” Loz said, a goofy smile on his face. I turn to Sephiroth, “What episode of the Twilight Zone did I walk into.”

“The boys’ wanted to come see the show tomorrow and they were afraid you wouldn’t let them because of the window.”

“I don’t really care,” Kadaj said. “I just got outnumbered.” I laugh, not able to hold it in. “I told you it never work,” Kadaj smirked.

“It’s not that,” I correct him, “I’m just soooo not use to this.”

“So can we go mommy,” Yazoo begs, “Pllllleeeeaasssseeeeee.”

“Yeah, of course.” Yazoo and Loz jump around in excitement. I can see Kadaj smile, though he tries to hide it. I turn to Sephiroth, “You’ll have to bring them though, I have to meet with Lizzy and Isdela to run though the cues before the show okay.” He smiles and bows his head.

“Okay bed time,” I saw refocusing. The boys crawl into bed and I go around and give them each a kiss before making my way across the hall with Sephy. “Did you really help them with that,” I ask when we’re in our room.

“We had help,” he said pulling out the gold materia and tossing it to me. “It can apparently do whatever you need it to do. I used it earlier to try and crash Isdela’s ship…”

“But that backfired,” I said.

“She knocked me to the ground and I lost control,” he protested, “Not my fault.” I just laugh. “But tonight, while we were gone, we found it can also repair.”

“Bet there aren’t to many of these babies floating around,” I say.

“From what I could find that’s the only one.”

“While I know who’s not getting it back,” I smile. “Isdela,” Sephiroth questions. “Or you,” I continue. He sighs, “or the boys,” he adds as he sits down on the end of the bed. I pat him on the head. “Good boy,” I say.

I take the materia and put it back in the safe. Then I bury the key in a box I put at the very back of the closet. “You really think I want look there,” he ask me. I’ve gotten slack if I’m letting him sneak up on me like this.

“No… I know you’ll look here,” I say, “But you won’t.” He looks at me confused. Wither he knows it yet or not… I’ve won again.