Mother's Day

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Cloud and I sat outside the local coffee shop; we had been shopping all morning. Cloud was looking for a birthday present for Marlene and had begged me to come along.

“What does she like Cloud,” I ask.

“I don’t know,” He answers, “It’s funny, we live in the same house and I know nothing about her.”

“Can you really say you live with her when you spent most of your time not a Seventh Heaven?” Cloud shook his head and smiled, “I guess not,” he said.

“Well babe I have to get home. Gods only know what my boys have been up to while I’ve been gone.” I ruffle Cloud’s hair as I leave him to his thoughts. I went back to my car and headed home. I crank the car to hear…

I don't know about you but I’m feeling…

“Oh gods no,” I yell out changing the station. “Why do I even bother with that station?” It was a never-ending loop of pre-teen music; the problem was it was most likely one of the kids who had changed it. I just couldn’t put my finger on which of them was listening to that crap. I knew it wasn’t Loz, I thought once it could be Yazoo. A part of me still thought it was, oh how wrong could I have been.

When I got home, I saw Loz and Yazoo in the front yard. “Hey boys,” I said heading up to the house. “Hi mommy,” they waved back. “What are you two up to? And where’s your brother.”

“Nothing mommy,” Yazoo said, “And Kadaj is upstairs.” The boys followed me into the house and head over to the couch to watch TV. I head upstairs to check on Kadaj. As I near the boys’ room a horrible feeling comes over me as I hear that song.

I don't know about you but I’m feeling 22
Everything will be alright if you keep me next to you
You don't know about me but I bet you want to
Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we're 

There was my youngest singing and dancing to Taylor Swift. Where oh where did me and Sephiroth go wrong? Kadaj screamed when he saw me in the doorway. “Hey mommy,” he said timidly.

“That has got to be the most degusting and despicable thing I’ve ever seen you do Kadaj,” I say. I hear Sephiroth laugh come from my office. I turn my head to look down the hall, just what does he think he’s doing in there? “Turn that crap off,” I say to Kadaj. I turn from the boys’ room and make my way to my office. There I find Sephiroth reading though my unfinished book.

“Good stuff,” he says, “Love the part where he agues with himself in the mirror.”

“Sephiroth! It’s not finished,” I yell, running up to him and yanging the pages from his hands.

“I was just curious about what you’re always typing in here. You never let me read any of your books.”

“I only have the three,” I remind him, “And none of them are really finished.”

“And yet you start on the next. You should send them in, try to get them published.”

“Don’t mock me! I’ll send them in… when there ready.” Sephiroth just smirks at me and walks out of the room. Stupid villain, always trying to get in my head, mess me up. Sometimes I wonder why I married him. Sephy pulls me from my thoughts when her grabs my arm, turning me to him. He leans down and kisses me.

“Oh yeah,” I sigh when we pull apart from one another, “That’s why.” He laughs, “I mean it though. You should send one of those books off.” I smile shyly at him. “Who knows, maybe it’ll be a best seller.”

Later

We sat around the breakfast table at my parent’s house. Aranel had invited us over because she was cooking for Mother’s Day.

“Happy Mother’s Day,” my boys yelled. Loz handed me the bag they had tried to hide from me on the way over. I smiled, reaching in I pulled out a small picture frame. “I drew the picture,” Yazoo said, “And Loz made the frame.”

“And I made the card,” Kadaj said proudly. I couldn’t help but tear up. “Thank you boys,” I said giving each of them a kiss on the head. “Now Grandma,” I reminded them. They ran over to get the other bag. “Happy Mother’s Day Grandma,” they yelled running up to her. She pulled out three mugs, each very different.

“We each made you one,” Yazoo said, “Mommy said you really liked coffee,” Loz announced. My mom laughed, “Thank you boys.”

“Food,” Aranel announced coming in the back door. The boys yelled and screamed, running over to her. Mom and Dad followed them over. As I got up to follow Sephiroth came over and handed me a small box, “Happy Mother’s Day.”

I opened the box to see a beautiful emerald necklace. The gems setting had silver wings on either side. “For my Angel,” he whispered to me. I wrapped my arms around him. “Thank you love. You really are amazing sometimes,” I say.

“I try”

“Hey lovebirds,” I hear my sister call. I laugh as Sephy puts the necklace on me. “Nice one Sephy. If only you could be so romantic all the time.” He scoffs at her. “By the way, your doing dishes tonight Sephy.” I sigh… it’s going to be a long night.