Sick

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Cough! Cough! Tina looks at the door, "You hear that?"

Robert looks at Tina worried, "Sounds like Hana... Has she ever gotten sick before?"

"No." Tina gets up and walks towards the door.

Hana walks in:

a  briefcase under her right arm and a Starbucks coffee cup on her right hand

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a briefcase under her right arm and a Starbucks coffee cup on her right hand.

Robert looks at Hana, "Rodulph, isn't it too early for Christmas?"

Hana frowns, "Seriously dad?!" Hana coughs covering her mouth with a white Kleenex. The Kleenex had burnt hole in it.

"You are not going." Tina declares.

"What?!" Hana looks up.

"You are sick," Amy reasoned, "I hate to admit it, but mom's right, Hana; you are in no condition to go anywhere. Much less make an opening speech in front of people. One sneeze might set the whole place on fire."

Nico nods, "They're right, Hana."

Hana looks at her sisters, "We can't postpone this opening..."

"And we won't..." Amy smiles.

"What?" Nico turns to Amy, "How?"

Amy looks at Tina, "Mom."

"Oh!" Tina shakes her head, "No. No. No, I won't do it. Hana said it herself, they want somebody who doesn't look like she'll kill them..."

"This could work..." Hana thought.

Robert looks at Tina, "Just go a little lighter on the makeup..."

"Or you can go with no makeup on?" Nico suggested.

"That's a scary thought..." Amy chuckled. "She'll never be able to pull off the no-makeup look, like Hana does."

"You, two, do realized that your sister and I have the same face, right?" Tina asked her two younger daughters.

"Yeah," Hana nods, "but it works on me."

"I'm gonna let that one slide," Tina frowns, "because you're sick."

"Is that what we have to do to get away with stuff," Amy smirks, "be sick?"

"And be Hana." Nico joked.

Tina sighs, "Okay... so what am I even supposed to say?"

"Just say how thankful you are for the newly built West coast Sanctum..." Amy advised.

"Just speak from the heart, mom." Hana declared.

Nico chuckled, "Wait, do you have one?"

"Oh c'mon Nico," Hana looks at her sisters, "mom has a heart... it's just very small. Think about it, if she didn't have one, do you honestly think any of us would be alive right now?"

"She has a point." Robert smiled.

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