Love : Picked up love (1)

Dinner

Magnolia and her mother had arrived for over three hours, Magnolia had finished putting their clothing away and as she was almost done dressing her mother a knock came at her door, she quickly put the socks on her mother before she walked towards the door. 

"Yes?" Magnolia asked as she opened the door but once the door swung open she met eyes with Pierre who was sitting in the wheelchair 

"Can I help you?" Magnolia asked him since he wasn't saying anything at all but he only smile at her as he shook his head

"I've come to bring you down to have dinner." Pierre said to her and she nodded as she glanced at the maid that was pushing his wheelchair 

"Give me a moment." Magnolia said as she went in to bring her mother out to go down for dinner. Magnolia's mother who used to sit in a wheelchair had been walking more and more in the house so she's able to walk now but she still needs help guiding her. 

Pierre kept on looking at her mother while they were making their way down to the dining room, as they were making their way down through her phone rang. When she take out the phone in her pocket it was Beatrice who was calling her

"Hello?" Magnolia asked her friend since she doesn't usually call her but text her instead

"Why are you whispering?" Beatrice asked her and a smile played on Magnolia's lips 

"I'm heading to dinner, I'll call you back later." Magnolia said

"No need to worry, I just need the address to your patient's place. Sabina and I are going to drop by tomorrow before we head to the airport." Beatrice said

"Okay, I'll send it to you before bedtime." Magnolia said to Beatrice and they hung up on the phone, they headed towards a wheelchair elevator and they arrived right around the corner of the dining room.

"We make a turn here and we will be in the dining room." the maid said and they soon arrived at the dining room, there was a young man who look similar to Pierre. An older man who looks like an older version of the two of them but with lighter hair color due to old age and an older woman who looked like someone that she remember.

"............" Magnolia stared at the older woman for a long time but she finally remembered

"Auntie Misa?!" Magnolia asked her but and the older woman smiled even brighter at her 

"Maggie?!" the older woman said to her and looked at her mother who also showed more emotions than she had to remember

"Bess!?" the older woman called out to her mother and hugged the two of them, Magnolia's name is Bessy but her mother's friends call her Bess. The auntie next door and her mother were friends since they were kids and when they both had kids they moved close to each other.

Her mother hugged her old friend, the two older women pulled apart to look at each other for a long time. Pierre's mother looked at her mother for a while and turned to look at the rest of her family 

"Pierre! Remember? This is Maggie and the auntie from next door." his mother said to him but he was still confused at the situation. 

".....Wait this is Maggie? The little girl that you played with when you were younger?" His brother asked him but she kept staring at her 

"Ah." Magnolia said as she take out the necklace from under her shirt

"When the older brother from next door moved he gave me this, I was young but I think I called him Pear." Magnolia said, a big smile playing on Pierre's lips and he walked over to her. 

"It's really you!" Pierre said and pulled her into a hug, the two of them hugged for a long time and his mother cleared her throat.

*Ahem*Ahem* " Why don't we sit down for dinner?" His mother said and the two of them break up from their hug but they still stood next to each other.

"Right. Right, come this way." Pierre said as he walked over to the dining room to pull the chair for her to sit, Pierre sat on the seat on his father's left side while his mother sat on the right side of her father. Magnolia's mother sat beside her friend and in between Pierre's mother and brother while Magnolia sat next to Pierre. 

"This turns out to be a reunion, I'm glad that we all got this chance to meet." Pierre's father said to them and Pierre helped scoop food into her plate.

"Try this." Pierre said to her and he turned to look at his father 

"That is true father, mother and I had been trying to find them but we couldn't find them. It even turns out that the little girl from the past even became my lifesaver." At the last few words, he returned his attention back to Magnolia who was eating but smiled back at him

"But why does she call you pear when you were younger? Did you look like a pear brother?" his younger brother asked him 

"This is Astor by the way." Pierre ignore his brother 

"It's a pleasure to meet you, my name is Magnolia." Magnolia said and his younger brother dip a nice bow to her 

"It is my pleasure to meet you, I am Astor." Astor said and Magnolia chuckled 

"But, no. I couldn't pronounce his name when I was younger so I kept calling him pear to the point that I forgot his real name." Magnolia answered Astor's question and he chuckled 

They all enjoyed their dinner, they talked after dinner over some sweets and they talked until late that night. That night her mother and Pierre's mother kicked out Pierre's father so that they can spend time together while her father had to go sleep in a guest room, Astor and Pierre walked Magnolia to her room. 

"Thank you for walking me back to my room." Magnolia said to them

"Good night." Pierre said to her, she smiled at him 

"Good night." Magnolia sad and headed into her room, she looked down at the necklace that he had given to her when they were younger and she smiled. He was someone that she had to look up to since they were young