Wishing for the Future

Chapter 3: What To Do

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

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"What?... We - I," Tori began to stumble in her words as i fight the urge to smack her to make her talk normally.

" Maui is in the kitchen and she's eating the cookies in the cookie jar," the boy exaggeratedly explained. You know, if i'm not in a bizarre situation, I would think he's adorable. (And that's too much for me, seriously. i don't go hiding in a closet and calling a strange child cute. That's so not my style.) But I think this kid deserves a compliment from me. I mean seriously, the boy has amazing brown hair shaved at the sides and the top flows to one side. His pale skin is more gorgeous than mine, I admit, but he's only a child so no competition there. I think he'll win by default anyway. He has mesmerizing green eyes, too. I tried to look closer and realize that his eyes have brown specks. What a weird combination, huh? But it is beautiful nonetheless.

But what made me in total awe, is his prominent cheekbones. I only saw those perfect cheekbones once, and it's from an enemy of mine. And i never thought prominent cheekbones could be this endearing in a child.

"Maui?" Tori started to calm down but we remain inside the closet. I looked at her and saw her face flushed. Hopefully, I'm not the only one thinking that this situation is so unreal. " I- I believe that I don't know you. Who - who are you?"

The boy gave her a funny look. " Very funny, mommy. I'm hungry and Maui's eating the cookies! We didn't have breakfast yet. It'll ruin her appetite. I can't let that happen. It's too dangerous if her appetite, right? You have to go down before it's too late! Mommy! Momma!" he said genunine concern for this Maui.

"Maui?" I repeated Vega's question. Maui is the name of the character Tori's playing in my play. If my hunch about this situation is right, why would Vega name her daughter Maui? "And who the hell are you calling mommy and momma?" I asked just to be sure.

The boy looked at me like I did some serious sin. " You spoke a bad word, momma!"

"Jade! Don't swear in front of the child!" Vega scolded me in which I just rolled my eyes.

Okay, my first hunch was wrong. Tori is not the only one who has claim with this kid and Maui.

I ignored her and asked the boy, "Why are you calling me momma?"

The boy rolled his eyes and said " You're my momma, duh!" like it's the most obvious thing in the world.

I felt myself paled; yeah my second hunch was right. But Tori tried to play along."Hey buddy," she kneeled in front of the young boy." Why don't you go downstairs? I need to talk to Jade."

"Who's Jade?" the boy asked clueless before it clicks, " oh! Momma!"

"Yeah..." Tori rubbed the back of her neck, cautiously looking up at me but quickly averted her gaze back to the little one. " Momma."

At first, I thought that mommy and momma was the same person. I thought it was just Tori. Oh no.

"Okay, then," the young boy said without too much argument as he made his way out of the room. I stepped out of the closet as Vega did too. I crossed my arms and faced her.

"Vega," I started, anger growing inside of me. "If this is a prank - "

"Jade, I don't think i could pull a prank like this," her tone is a little anxious, " I mean, do you think I can hire a kid to lie like that? And I don't even know this place," she said, looking around the room once again. " And ... and I can never photoshop a - a family picture of us in one night."

"This is so fucking unbelievable," I sat down on our bed when I saw Tori do the same. Her gown hitching up a little bit and I can't help but give it a look or two. Tori Vega has nice legs; I can't miss a chance to look at it. And psh, we're married right?

Crap. We are married!