FOURTEEN YEARS LATER.
"Hana have you gotten all you need for your trip next week?" Ava asked her daughter.Ava had moved back to Japan with her kids. While they were in Japan both girls got new name. Arabella became Hana and Seraphina became Yuna."Haha(Mother in Japanese), you have asked me a billion times and I have responded a billion times that I have everything ready and my bag is ready for my trip next week" Arabella said."I just want you to be extra ready. You have never been away from home before" Ava said.When Ava moved back with her girls from Crescent Bay City she held on to them with her dear life and never allowed her out of her site."And I would be with Aunty Everly all the time" Arabella responded.After her university Arabella began applying for jobs all over the country in the bid to escape from her moms constant prying gaze. She loved her mom but every time she tried to do something her mom was constantly breathing down her neck.After she lost her husband she became overbearing and constantly on every matter. Seraphina had gotten into the Japanese entertainment sector and was doing well. Since Arabella was in the book publishing business world she applied for jobs far away from her mom she wanted freedom.Arabella got a job at a start up firm in Crescent Bay, it turned out to be a coincidence that she was returning to the city she spent half of her child hood. It took all of the families to convince her mother that her going away doesn't mean she is dying. Her mother reluctantly agreed to allow her move back for work only because she agreed to stay with her friend Everly."Don't you dare sass my young lady" Ava said when she heard the sarcastic tone of her daughter."Haha let her be" Seraphina said coming into the room where both Ava and Arabella were seated on the bed. She overhead their conversation and decided to intervene to save her sister."I should let her be? I wonder what is wrong with all the start up business here in Japan that she could not chose from. She has to travel half way across the world to give her mother a heart attack" Ava said."She promised she would be home for all the major holidays" Seraphina said rolling her eyes at her mother."Why have daughters they would only cause you heart ache" Ava said with intense exaggeration."One has refused to marry and the other decided to abandon their family because of work" Ava added."Why do you have to bring up marriage now" Seraphina groaned. She was doing well at work and was not ready to settle down because she knew settling down would result in a decline in her career and she was not ready for that yet."Look at your cousin Ayumi get married over the weekend and she is just twenty two years of age" Ava said."Ayumi can get married all she wants I would get married when I want to" Seraphina said sitting and holding her mom."Is it when I no longer belong to this world?" Ava asked again.A brief silence fell on the room. Death was still a touchy subject for the three they were healed and better. But don't they say that scars don't heal fully?"Hana, Yuna all I ask is for grandchild. I'm sure your father would have wanted the same" Ava said holding her children closer."I would give them to you" Seraphina murmured as she buried her face in her moms neck."I love you mom," Arabella said hugging her mom."I am so happy for you," Ava said as she stood with Kieran and Arabella; they had just got married, and it was truly a joyous day. Kieran had been so quick with the preparations that it took them barely two months to put everything together. "I just couldn't believe that my little one had found love," she added, tears welling in here again."Mom, you need to stop crying; seeing you cry makes me cry as well," Arabella said, blinking back the tears. Her make-up artist had retouched her make-up multiple times because she knew she was getting annoying already, but she could not control the burst of emotions flowing from her body. "Mom," Seraphina said, coming from behind and putting her hand over the shoulders of her mother. "It is a happy day; why do you keep crying? Someone, I mistake you to be mourning." "I am just thinking of how proud your father would have been to witness today.""I am sure he is watching over us from above," Arabella said, holding her mom's hand tightly."Mom, let
1 YEAR LATER Arabella was meeting Kieran after work; she had moved out because she was not comfortable with being there while dating him and had found herself a new job where she seemed to function much better. She was even on her way to write a book of her own. Kieran, who started a book publishing house solely for the money, now began to learn about this thing so he could help her out with the publication.She was glad that she had given in and tried to date him, or else she would never understand what this kind of relationship meant. Kieran was so attentive and made her feel like his entire world revolved around her. She learnt to drive and even bought her car.Sometimes she believed that he was going to propose to her because he would bring up discussions that centered around their future home, but then after that, it would be like they were back to base one. She liked base one, but she hated living all by herself. She wanted to move back in with him, and she wanted to begin havi
"A trip?" Arabella asked, taking up the blanket and covering herself. "Yes, a couple's trip," he said, dropping the phone back on the table and walking to her. "What about work? Aren't you going to work again?" she asked. "Are you afraid that you would live broke?" he asked in a teasing tone."Of course I am," Arabella said before tilting her head. "I am jobless now; at least one of us needs to work so we can live a happy life," she added."You know that I do not mind you still thinking with us," Kieran said. After the trial, Arabella decided to stop working there even though Aurora was no longer there. How could she work there after everything that happened? She would be able to face her co-workers if that were the case. "I am sure I will get an offer soon from one of those companies," she said, and he sat beside her. "And you know you do not need to work again; I can take care of you and as many children as you want to have," he said with a wink. "Children?" she said flustered
Arabella rolled over, and she landed right into Kieran's hands. She looked at him like it was an offence for her to do so. She peered at him and then covered her eyes with her hand. She could not believe what she had done over the night. If her mom heard she was going to give her a long lecture and then have her head afterwards. She looked at him, and she was tempted to trace her finger across his face in frustration. "Sleep so much more," she was startled to hear him talk as his mouth moved without even opening his eyes. "How long have you been awake?" She muttered, feeling shy that he had caught her staring so much that she could drill a hole into his face. "A while now," he said, his eyes framing open like a princess that was cast under a spell but was now liberated all of a sudden. He pulled her closer as he wished they could somehow get closer and maybe even mesh together. "Should we go home? Everly must be worried searching for us," Arabella murmured into his chest. He opene
"Somewhere, like where?" she asked shyly, dropping her head so their eyes would not meet. "You would see," he said, lifting her head gently. "But we have to make sure that the ride ends first," he said, looking around. He had thought that they were going to have a moment there, but seeing how things turned out, he could not wait to be out of there. Finally, the ride was over, and he drove out of the amusement park to a hotel. "You brought me to a hotel?" she asked in shock as they drove into the underground parking lot. "Why?" she asked now that her tone was in a hushed whisper. "I told you we should come somewhere, and you agreed," he said as he drove by the cars looking for a place to park. "That was because I thought you said that we should go someplace nice," she muttered, looking around like they were sneaking around. "Why are you looking around like we are committing a sin?" he asked, noticing how uncomfortable she got. "It is not that...""Am I being clueless? Am I jumpin
Kieran paid the operator to let the ride go in a loop three times, and Arabella wondered why he did that."Why?" she whispered to him."To have some alone time," he replied with the same wink from earlier. She gulped down hard, wondering what he was thinking.As the ride got into the tunnel, Arabella held the hand of Kieran tightly with her eyes closed. She had no time to think of what he might have meant with the wink and statements because the ride was definitely scarier than she had expected it to be. She looked at him when she felt his firm hand hold her face and turn it to him. "Are you scared?" he asked, dropping a kiss on her lip. "Kieran," she said in a hushed whisper as she looked around. "There is no one here, and I have been waiting all day just to get that," he said before dropping his head for another kiss. She placed her hand over her mouth because he could kiss her and therefore kissed the back of her hand. He took her hand from her mouth and began to drop multiple k