Our Little Family. {Our Little Series 3} (COMPLETE)

Chapter 43

Good math people I need you!
If it's 2016 when Adrien and Marinette are 15,
2019 when they're 18,
What year is it now for them? They're 26
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Marinette woke up the next morning and looked at the painting of her family at the top of the stairs of when it just started. Adrien smiling, Marinette smiling and Emit smiling, even though he was asleep. She walked down the hall and saw how with every picture she was slowly disappearing. She came to the end of the hall, the most recent picture of them. Adrien was holding Lucas, Scarlett smiling next to Emit. Adrien was standing by himself behind his children and Marinette sighed.

She wasn't in the family anymore. "Oh Marinette." Conner walked down the hallway and stood next to her, not looking at the picture. "You have a nine o'clock with Madame Celina about her private collection, a ten o'clock with Mr.Gargoyle about his daughters ballet recital uniforms and then the afternoon-"

"Cancel all of my appointments." Marinette walked down the hallway to Emits room where he was asleep.

"What?!" Conner followed her, scrolling on his tablet. "I can't cancel all of your appointments! Most of them were scheduled weeks in advanced!"

Marinette took down the picture and showed it to him. "Conner, what do you see in this picture?"

"A loving family." Conner looked up and then back down.

"Right but what's missing?"

He looked at it again. "A mother."

"Right! I'm not in my family's life anymore!"

"And you think canceling all of your appointments will fix that?"

"Maybe? I'm not in their lives anymore, I need to get back in touch with my kids."

"I'll tell you one thing, that won't work. You're trying to hard. Small things will work." Conner crossed his arms while Marinette put the picture back up.

"Then what do you think I should do?"

"Small things. Make them breakfast, play games with them, take them to the park, but not all together. Take Emit to the park one day, then play tea party with Scarlett the next. Take care or Lucas the next. Make them feel special on their own, not together or else it seems like you don't care."

"What do I do with my meetings?"

"I'll move half of them to tomorrow and the day after. I'll keep your morning ones." Conner walked away and Marinette sighed. "Madame Celina will be here in twenty minutes!" Marinette walked to her office to find Scarlett doing something on her desk.

"Scarlett, sweetie what're you doing!" Marinette ran to her daughter and Scarlett stopped what she was doing.

"I just drawled you something!" Scarlett smiled and Marinette looked at her desk and saw a drawing of her family.

"Who's who?" Marinette asked as she in her chair and Scarlett sat on her lap and held it.

"That's Emit, that's Daddy, that's Lucas, that's me and then that's." She pointed to a stick figure on the other side of the paper. "That's you."

"Why am I so far away?"

Scarlett folded the paper and Marinette was next to them. "Daddy says that no matter how far away you are, you'll always be right here!" Scarlett smiled and Marinette hugged her.

"How about this, wanna work with mommy today?"

"Can I!" Scarlett smiled and Marinette nodded.

"Marinette, Madame Celina is here." Conner said and Marinette nodded.