Second Chances

The Next Day

Tina cried herself to sleep and was awoken by the strong aroma of coffee dancing in the air. Forcing herself to get up, Tina made her way down the kitchen. "Morning...." she yawns as she poured coffee in her cup and wrapped her arms around Robert.

Robert smiles, "Hello to you too."

Tina sat down, "So what are we looking at?" she stared at the window.

Someone was plucking weeds in the front yard, the man stood up and turned around. Tina looks at her husband, "Is that your doctor?"

"Yeah;" Robert chuckles, "last night, he brought Hana back home..."

"Wait Hana," Tina shocked, "she came back last night? Why didn't you wake me?!"

"Cause," Robert took a sip out of Tina's cup, "you cried yourself to sleep and I know that if I wake you; you'd cry some more..."

"Where's Akari?" Tina asked.

"I unsummoned her..." Hana yawned, grabbing a mug out of the cupboard.

"We unsummoned her." Nico corrected.

Hana gave her sister a mug, "Might I remind you that it was my spell..."

"And may I remind you," Nico nodded, "if you hadn't summoned her, there'd be no need to unsummon her."

Hana made her way towards the window, "I still can't believe you actually asked him to pull weeds."

"I didn't," Robert explained, "he volunteered."

"What?!" Hana turns her head.

"Yeah, he said something about getting close to one of my daughters..." Robert smirks.

"Dad!" Hana whined.

"He offered to clean the yard for free," Robert explains, "why on earth would I refuse?"

Nico squints her eyes, "Maybe because you're being asked to pimp out your daughter?"

"He just wants to be friends again..." Robert sighs.

George takes off his sweatshirt, revealing a tight-fitted short sleeved shirt. "Ooh..." Nico leans in the window, "you hook up with that?"

Hana shook her head, "Nope, I didn't hook up with him."

"But you, two, made out..." Nico questions.

"Yes, but 'hooking up' entails no strings and with me and Andre there was always something..." Hana sighs, "Strings? Rope? Or chains? The point is we felt something..."

"Okay," Tina stood up, "you, two, upstairs."

Hana and Nico walked away.

"Still think he just wants to be friends with Hana?" Tina turns to her husband.

"Remember when we were young? I did things to be closer to you." Robert asked. "Let's just say I feel bad for the boy, he has it bad... just like I do..."

"Yeah," Tina nods, "and three months after our first encounter I found out I was three months pregnant. I know you feel bad for him, I do too, but is this really necessary?"