The way I found you

28| Piece By Piece

She felt much more relieved after those minutes of alone-time, even if it might appear weird to other people when she was speaking to herself. It helped her think everything through and face the real world. 

"Lanaaaa!", a toddler's voice screamed through the house. "Where are you?? We have to show you something!", Leo said running around until he found his auntie, jumping into her arms. 

"What is it?", the black-haired woman asked laughingly, completely forgetting all the doubts of staying with them for the rest of her life. 

"Amélie just said your name!!", Flynn confessed, walking into the living room with Sean and the little girl behind him. 

"Alright, watch.", the seven-year-old said before turning to his sister, who got placed down on the floor. "Amélie. Amé, look at me. Say 'La-na'.", he grinned and waited for a response. 

"Nana.", Amélie laughed and pointed at Lana whilst walking with shaking steps towards the actress. 

"No. LA-NA", Flynn said again but Amélie couldn't care less about repeating some words from her older brother and just stumbled into Lana's arms to be picked up by her as Leo did before. 

Flynn sighed in frustration. "She really did say your name", he informed disappointed and Sean and Leo nodded in agreement. 

"Well, I believe you and maybe she will do it again soon. She is learning a lot of words lately because she is growing so much.", Lana said in a high-pitched voice, dedicated to Amélie, who laughed at her name. "Is someone interested in playing a game with me?", the woman asked, looking into the room. Leo and Flynn started jumping immediately before they ran into their rooms to pick out a game. There was a little fight about which game was going to be played first and who would take the blue man on the board but other than that they managed to play both of them without fighting or crying.

"I lost! Again!", Lana announced with a roll of her eyes, trying to act like she was upset. The boys started laughing at her, telling Lana that it is okay to lose like they were her parents. 

"You are fine, Lana!", Flynn assured her since he wasn't really convinced if it was acting or if his auntie really was upset because of losing the game. 

"No nothing is fine!", Lana said in the voice of a toddler, which made the boys laugh even harder. "Alright. I'll stop.", she grinned when she saw how confused Amélie looked at her. "I am fine Amé. No worries. I just pretend.", Lana explained to her before putting a large smile on her face, which made Amélie mirror her expression. 

"Nevertheless, I have to pick up Lola now.", Lana said with a sad smile. "But it was really lovely playing with you.", she grinned. 

"Can I come with you?", Flynn asked and made Lana frown because she wasn't sure since she had some other stuff to do as well. 

"Eh…. I don't know. It will take some time, Flynn. You could get bored. I need to pick up Lola, get some stuff from my house, and need to stop by the supermarket because we're running low on the yogurt you are addicted to in the morning.", Lana chuckled but Flynn didn't care how long it would take. 

So he went with Lana to get Lola from a friend and then to her house to get one of her journals because she needed to write down what had happened. After that Flynn and she drove off to the supermarket that was unbelievably full that day. 

"I like going to the supermarket.", the boy declared. "I think it's fun to buy new stuff to try.", he explained with a grin. 

"That's true… but we're not here to buy a lot, alright. Let's search for your yogurt.", Lana said.