Nursery

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

My day could have been less eventful, really. Good news, Isdela found Aranel. Bad, news, Sephiroth is still a villain. That last part shouldn’t surprise me as much as it does.

“So wait,” I try to comprehend. “You think that because she’s a girl, she’ll be bettered suited for what?”

I had finally confronted Sephy about what we was up too, why he was so… not himself lately. And after one of his trademark monologues…

“When I finally rid this planet of those less deserving and ride off to find a new place to call our own. Kairi will be the perfect queen. With her brother’s to protect her, we’ll be revered as gods.”

“Yeah one problem with your plan genius,” I said.

“And what’s that,” he ask.

I grab hold of his ear and pull him down to his knees, “I don’t want to be a God!”

“What do you have against mother,” he asks. “Your practically a child of Jenova at this point.”

“Okay first off Ewww,” I say. “And secondly, how many times must I tell you to let it go. Every time you bring up Jenova, Cloud drags you back hold and you spent the next three days past out on the couch.”

“I’ve woken up in bed before,” he reminds me.

“Yeah when someone else was here to help me drag your butt up the stairs,” I inform him. “Did you really think this plan was going to be any different from the four hundred and eighty two other times you’ve tried to use the planet as a space ship?”

“It wasn’t that many,” he mumbled.

“Were do you want these,” Isdela asked holding up my My Little Pony figures.

“Put ‘em on the bed with the rest,” I said. “I’ll find a spot for ‘em later.”

Isdela shrugged and tossed the little figures on the bed with the rest of my collectibles. I had convinced Izzy and Aranel to help back up my office for the nursery. Vincent had agreed to help, seems like it didn’t take long for Izzy to have him completely whipped, and Aqua had brought Terra over to help as well.

“I’d just like to state for the record. I’m don’t normally ask super personal questions on the first meet,” she had said to Terra after Aqua had introduced him. “And if you and I weren’t already taken, I could see us working out.”

Terra smiled awkwardly, Aqua’s mouth dropped open in shock and Vincent glared at Izzy.

“Feel free to ignore her,” Aranel said. “One thing you all have to understand is she has no filter. Neither do I. You have to learn to love us.” She puts a box in Terra’s arms. “That goes out to the truck.”

Between the weirdest moving crew every, four insane kids, an equally insane dog and a one year old that won’t stop crying, my day’s been just awesome… just great. And then there’s Sephiroth.

“I just don’t see how you could be against being a goddess,” he asked. “Think about it. You and I worshipped for being the founders of a better planet, the life givers of a new and better peoples.”

“Okay do you not realize how much work that sounds like? Your talking to the girl who is would rather be a stay at home mom than some adulterant nut jobs doormat,” I complained.

“I do believed I offered to “talk to him” about “reevaluating his priorities,’” Sephiroth reminded me.

“And I do believe I told you they weren’t worth the dirt below my feet,” I remind him. “Those two are lower that Krillin in the pecking order… way lower.”

Sephiroth smiles at me, “Well I will say this. I do approve of how Isdela handled him that one time.”

“Did someone call me,” Izzy popped her head inside the door.

“The one person we all hate more than Sephiroth on a good day,” I say.

“Oh… yeah… well he deserves worse than Chlamydia.”

Sephiroth and I laugh.

“Did I miss something,” Terra asks walking past the door.

“Tell ya later,” I say. “Kind of a long story.”

“Yeah and were not done yet,” Izzy reminds him. She returns to the soon to be nursery and Terra heads back down the stairs.

Sephiroth comes up behind me. “No I don’t want to be a god and no you’re not going to turn the planet into a spaceship,” I say. “How many times must we go though this?”

He plants a kiss on top of my head, “Still love me?”

“It’s true love Sephy,” I say. “I couldn’t love to hate you more.” I turn to face him, standing up on my tiptoes to wrap my arms around his neck. “Stop being taller than me,” I demand. He smiles and picks me up.

“You want these on the bed too or should I clear this stuff off,” Izzy asked.

I heard Sephiroth laugh as I rolled my eyes.

“Mom mom mom,” I heard Kadaj yell.

“What,” I whine as Sephy puts me down.

“There’s a crash out front right in front of the house. Come look,” he yelled.

We all rushed downstairs. Sure enough, three car pile up. That’s more than cars then are normal down this street. It didn’t look like anyone was hurt, but the boys looked on with great interest. I heard Zexion start crying again. He had been left sitting in the middle of the living room floor. Abandoned by his playmate who would rather stare out the window at the crash. I go over and sit down, taking him into my arms.

“There there,” I say. I hand him one of the toys and he calms down. He sure is a needy kid, but he’s a lot less of a pain then the other four. “Back to work,” I call. “That nursery isn’t going to fix itself up after all.”