In Your Dreams

Mia's wedding

Author's POV

     It's Mia's wedding day, and Tifani is still trying to write her speech. They decided that Stevie would sing Landslide, and that Tifani would give a speech at the reception.  She didn't know it would be that difficult to write about her daughter, so she closes her eyes and goes all the way back to the day they first met.

     "Stevie, you're gonna call me crazy, but I feel that that girl is our daughter." Tifani looks at her wife and at the girl that just passed out after seeing them.  "Honey, I feel the same. It's like we have met before. It is insane! So, what do we do now?" Stevie looks back at Tifani, and her face lits up like a Chrsitmas tree. 

 "I am calling Sandy." Tifani says and runs outside the room, where she types on her phone. "Hello, sweetie, it's auntie Tiff. How are you Laila?"  She smiles while talking to the little girl on the phone. "Is your mommy around? I really need to talk to her!"

   Tifani and Sandra Bullock became friends after doing Ocean's 9 together. Their friendship was really imporant and amazingly beautiful. "Hey Tiffs, what's up?" sandra picked up the phone.

 " Hey Sandy, how are you?  I really need your help now!" Tifani says and sees Stevie getting close to her "How did you know that Louis and Laila were yours? Like, how did you feel it?" Tifani hears Sandra breathe throught the phone 

"If you look at the child and your heart skips a beat, you feel a connection, and you instantly feel that you cannot live without them. That's how you know!" Sandra finishes and all she hears are Tifani sobs. "Are you okay?" She asks Tifani, a little worried. 

 "Yes, I am fine. But I think we just found a new daughter!" Tifani looks to Stevie who is crying and nodding her head. "I gotta go Sandy, love you!"  She turns off the phone and walks hand in hand with Stevie to go talk to the social worker.

"Knock, knock!" Mia looks through the opening, seeing her mom zoomed out, with tears streaming down her face. Tifani cleans her face as soon as she sees Mia. "You know that you don't need to cry, right?" Mia says and lays down next to her mom, her head on her mom's lap. "I am gonna live literally 5  minutes away, and  you can go there as pften as you want." Tifani looks at her daughter and kisses her head. 

 "I am so proud of you, baby girl. I love you so much. I cant wait you are ggetting married in like 7 hours." She stares and the clock and stands up. "By the way, we need to start getting ready!" 

       After a while, Tifani and Mia are both wearing their robes and laughing while they sip some champagne.  "Can I join you, ladies?" Stevie shows up, wearing one of her black dresses, makeup and hair done. 

 "Someone got ready early." Mia says, handing Stevie a glass. "You look stunning as always, Ma." Stevie hugs her daughter and a tear falls down her chin. 

 "Oh baby, you grew up so fast." Stevie holds Tifani's hand and sits with them. "Lemme do your hair, sweetie!" 

 "Okay, Ma. I just wanna curl it a bit and have a braid going on the side." Mia walks towards the chair in front of the vanity, and sits down, staring at her reflction, she grabs her phone and starts to play a song. 

  "Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smileI watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadnessAnd I have to sit down for a whileThe feeling that I'm losing her foreverAnd without really entering her worldI'm glad whenever I can share her laughterThat funny little girlSlipping through my fingers all the timeI try to capture every minuteThe feeling in itSlipping through my fingers all the timeDo I really see what's in her mindEach time I think I'm close to knowingShe keeps on growingSlipping through my fingers all the timeSleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast tableBarely awake, I let precious time go byThen when she's gone there's that odd melancholy feelingAnd a sense of guilt I can't denyWhat happened to the wonderful adventuresThe places I had planned for us to go(Slipping through my fingers all the time)Well, some of that we did but most we didn'tAnd why I just don't knowSlipping through my fingers all the timeI try to capture every minuteThe feeling in itSlipping through my fingers all the timeDo I really see what's in her mindEach time I think I'm close to knowingShe keeps on growingSlipping through my fingers all the timeSometimes I wish that I could freeze the pictureAnd save it from the funny tricks of timeSlipping through my fingers...Slipping through my fingers all the timeSchoolbag in hand she leaves home in the early morningWaving goodbye with an absent-minded smile.."

 The three women hug, and after that, Tifani and Stevie finish helping Mia.  "You look gorgeous baby girl." Tifani smiles and twirls her daughter around. 

 "We love you, sunshine!" Stevie says, grabbing a camer a and taking a picture. "We have something we would like to give you!" She opens the drawer and takes out of it a little box, with a bow on it. Mia opened it and saw a set of 3 new moon neckalces, with diamonds on it, and there was a little note that said "To our 3 special babies! With love Mamma and Mommy!"

 "That's beautiful!! Thank you so much!!!" Mia throws herself on her moms' arms and starts to cry "I don't even know how to thank you for eveything you have always done for me! I don't know where I'd be today if it wasn't for you!" Stevie and Tifani clean her face and fix her makeup. 

 "Enough crying, sweet girl. Nobody chooses family, we just feel it, and that's what happened. We just found each other. It was meant to be. From other lives!" Stevie says and hands their daughter her dress. "Go get this dress on, and go get married! Your wife-to-be is waiting!"

 "Okay Boss Mamma!" Tifani laughs at Stevie's face and they patiently wait for their daughter. 

    When Mia comes out of the bathroom, both of her moms are out of breath. She is wearing a folkish silk wedding dress, with red high heels. Her veil is tied around her flower crown, that Stevie personally helped with, gathering roses, gardenias and lavender from her garten. "Woah, you look stunning, honey!" Tifani says and goes towards her daughter to help her to close her dress.  "Let's get you married! Let's go." They have a final glass of champgne before going down the stairs, where the bridesmaids were waiting. 

     The ceremony was beautiful, both women wrote amazing vows to each other, and Allana's fammily was super fun to be around. They had planned a small wedding, but both of thir families was super huge, so they decided to have 400 people including family, extended family, friends and co-workers.

  The reception was also in their backyard. Stevie and Tifani planned everything. They set up a tent, and had everything the way Allana and Mia wanted, a simple bohemian wedding, which made Tifani relieved because she was gonna nail it. 

    Tifani's POV

       Once everybody is set up, I stand up and head over to the little stage we had planned. 

     "Hello everybody, and welcomed to our little party." I start and Mick yells form the little crowd. "My wife and I are verry happy that you all could attend to the beautiful wedding that our daughter deserves more than anything. Mia, my baby girl, I can't believe that you are getting married! How time flies.... I remember when i first saw you, when I hugged you for the first time, the first argument, the first love, the first heartbreak... " I have to pause for a second, trying not to cry.  "I didn't get to witness your first years of life, so you better be sure to allow my grandbaby to come visit at least 5 times a week!" More laughter coming from the people. "Just kidding, I am too old for that, but we will take the baby when you and Allana need some time alone, and trust me, you will need it! But now, I wanna thank you. Thank you for being an amazing daughter, for being kind and patient with your siblings, well, most of the time, for teaching all of us how to love unconditionally, and for being you! I remembe when you were scared of coming out to us, because of all the frenzi the media would make, to quote you 'You know mom, they are going to attack you, saying that I am a lesbian because of you guys.' , and you were right, there was some backlash, but nothing compared to the love and happiness of being free brought to your face. " I feel the tears coming down my cheeks, so Stevie hands me a tissue. "It was a long journey for us to adapt to  teenager, not gonna lie, but it was all worthy, just look at you today, a great psychologist, married to a wondeful woman, and expecting your first child! We are so proud of you, and I am sure that your other parents, and your other little brother are with us today, and they gave us this wonderful day, to match our wonderful daughter. We all love you guys so much, and we are thankful we were the choosen ones!" I dry my eyes and say "Now y'all can go eat, dance and get drunk!"