lilies *James Potter*

Chapter 8

"How's it going?" Pandora asks as she sits next to Liliena with only Luna running around the flat of her home. The nausea medicine that Doctor Pomfrey had prescribed Liliena worked rather well but was not entirely preventable, but from the last few days besides the days when she woke up to the smell of Regulus cooking, she had been able to hold her food down.

"Okay. I'm able to hold my food down, but still cannot for the life of me tolerate the smell of Regulus's camel cappuccino. I think it's all from the coffee smell, the beans and all. He's mad that he can't make any more when I'm home."

Pandora gives her a light smile. "It'll get better once you get into your second trimester, take it from someone with experience."

Liliena sighs, checking her phone for any new notifications she may have missed over the morning. "How did you decide to have Luna? You were the same age I am now. I can't imagine myself with a kid of my own."

Pandora hums as she looks to Luna who is quietly coloring on the coffee table in front of them. "I think part of it had to do with fear. Getting older with how people are saying the older we are as women we become less fertile, less chance of a healthy pregnancy and birth, and I think it also has to do with my taste in people."

"You mean leaning to liking women more than men?"

She nods. "Yeah. It's just... it would be much easier already having a child and finding the right one. One of the first things I do, when I go on a date, is mentioning Luna and right away I'll see the type of person they are. All by simply saying, I'm a single mum with a young daughter. And, you remember that date I went on the other day, two weeks ago?"

Liliena nods.

Pandora leans close to her with a small slime. "I think she's the one."

Liliena looks at her with surprise. Never once, has she heard Pandora say that about anyone. Not even with her longest relationship which was the first person Pandora had dated to meet Luna. "What makes you think she's the one?"

Pandora shrugs with a smile leaning back into her spot. "She has a son, from what I was told. A bookshop owner, she just... she's lovely, Ana. I'm thinking about introducing her to Luna soon, maybe setting up a playdate to see how the kids get along before we consider explaining to them that their Mummies are going to be together."

"That serious, huh?" Pandora smiles. "You have to consider yourself too, having James's baby and he has a son himself. You'll be a big part of his son's life as much as your own. Even playing a small role, that baby is a big one to the little boy. It's what will make him a big brother after all."

Liliena sighs in agreement looking over to Luna. "I think Luna would be happy with whoever you're with as long as you're happy."

"I think so too," Pandora tells her with a smile looking at Luna.

"Enough about me, how is the whole thing with management going?" She asks changing the topic.

"I had to break the news to Minivera about it first on the phone. She was okay with it I think. But she had to go deep into all the details about how it happened and come up with a storyline because from now to birth plus maternity leave after birth will be a hassle. I already expressed to her I don't want to leave the country for the pregnancy, so I'll mainly be doing shoots and interviews, or possibly consider commercial gigs or local shows that involve you or Narcissa on stage so I won't be bored to death being home all the time. And also she did a background check on James. Apparently, he's an author, which he's mentioned but you can never just know, not a big-time one but well-known in the young adult genre. Writes fantasy mostly, and Minivera told me to talk to him about the probability of doing an interview soon, together with a white lie involved."