Two Years Later
"Okay open your mouth Heaven," she said, frustrated and tired of it. "Heaven what the fuck are you doing," and she watched her daughter fist her mashed potatoes and squish the potatoes like slime. "Seriously?"
She grinned, with two teeth in front and nothing else, and threw potatoes everywhere. "You're a disaster," she told her. "An actual disaster."
"What the hell happened here," Amé sighed, looking all around. The kitchen looked like a potato murder scene. Actually, a potato mass murder. A potato genocide. She saw mashed potatoes on the roof.
"She won't eat her potatoes because she thinks they're slime or something," Ina grumbled, frustrated. "She's eaten six carrots, but she won't eat her potatoes."
"Give her more carrots then," Amé laughed. "No wonder she's got such big front teeth."
Amé and Ina laughed at that. Amé approached her and kissed her sister on the cheek. "How are you doing?" She asked her.
Ina nodded with a soft smile. "We're good," she said. "It took us– well, me, a while to cope with it. But... I got Heaven. I'm alive. And we're about to have another child," she grinned at that last part. She tried not think about it, but it was always there, that she'd have another baby.
Amé grinned and nodded. "Is Heaven excited about her new baby brother?"
Heaven spoke nonsense on and on by herself, opening her hands to reveal the mess she made. Ina grinned and at times, looking at Heaven, she felt such a pain where her uterus used to be, but... she also felt herself lucky, too lucky.
"And you?" Ina asked her. "How's Washington University treating you?"
Ina didn't finish her masters. She dropped out and took care of her baby, her fiancé, and her new home in Florida. She never thought she'd ever leave school but she was happy, she was a business partner to her significant other, since she brought his business up from the very dust during hard times, and they were wealthy. It may not show in their five bedroom house, with a simple backyard and not as elegant as the mansion in Russia (although they kept it for whenever they'd visit), but she was happy. This was the perfect place for her children.
"It's good," she nodded. "I'm almost done for this year."
"And Damon?" She winked.
Amé bit her bottom lip, trying to contain a smile. "You know," she grinned, "we made this dumb bet two years ago..." Ina lifted a single brow. "I said I'd get in his pants first, and he said I'd fall in love with him first."
"Let me guess," Ina smirked, "you both took a giant L."
The sisters laughed. Ina stood up and picked up Heaven, wiped her face and latched her to her waist. Amé looked back at Heaven, who's eyes hadn't changed from when she was born, and she was 75% ocean and 25% land. She rested her head on her mom's chest and her eyelids begun to droop as she got swayed.
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Rewriting the Game
ChickLitTattoos, body chains, and dark lipstick. Ina and Amé are two women who rewrite the game. Follow them into their never ending world. Written by Ina Seele and Amé Fengári