Second Chances

Metamorphosis

"Hey..." Amy knocks on the door of Hana's office.

"Amy." Hana nods her greeting, "What is it?"

"Tina wants you home..." Amy replied.

"Tell her I'll be there next week." Hana waves her hand.

"No." Tina waltz in with Robert and Nico, making Hana look up.

"I'm sorry, Ms. Minoru..." the assistant apologizes profusely.

Hana looks at her young assistant, Sarah Kennedy- an incredibly skilled street fighter from the New York Sanctum. "It's fine, Sarah." Hana dismissed the girl, "Go back to your training." Hana picks up a stack of files and her mother's spellbook, "Please sit." Hana gestures to the four sitter couch in the corner, "What can I do for you?" Sitting down on the leather chair, Hana sighs waiting for her family to speak up.

"Maria wants to see us about the farm..." Robert declared.

"I won't give up my rights to the farm it was おばあさん's last wish." Hana sighs.

"Of course and we don't want you to." Tina placed her right hand on Hana's hand, "But she wants something and for everyone's safety we have to go see what it is..."

Hana looks at Nico, "Fine, I'll do it; I'll go see her. Does tomorrow for her?"

"No, let's talk now." Maria entered and sat on the other leather couch as if it were her throne. "Now, I've compiled this list." she slides a yellow manila folder across the marble coffee table towards Hana.

Hana picks it up and went through it, "Kenneth Sazuki Garcia, Franklin Chau, Matthew Nguyen, Raymond Reyes; what the hell is this?!"

Maria smiles as Robert takes the file from his daughter, "It's potential candidates..."

"For what?" Tina asked.

"It has been tradition that a man inherits the farm..."

"We know that." Nico rolled her eyes.

"Anyways, a woman inheriting the farm has also been seen by history," Maria explains, "but she is traditionally married... so those young men in that file are the list I have compiled for you, Hana, to choose from..."

"My daughter does NOT need a man!" Tina screamed.

Robert tried to calm Tina down, "We have never upheld that tradition, Maria."

Hana stood up and went back to her desk, "I assume you know the way out." Hana looks up, "Please, watch your step."

Maria leaves. Nico chuckles, "Can I just say that Hana may have the best retort to sexist pigs?"

"Lemme guess," Amy sighs, "you don't care..."

Hana smirks. "Get back to work!"

As Amy, Nico, Tina, and Robert exited the office, Nico turns to her sister, "Wow! She's horrible."

Amy looks at Nico, "She is Tina Minoru's daughter."

"So, are we." Nico defended. "And we're not like that, are we?"

"Metamorphosis," Amy sighs, "we all transform into our parents at a given situation..."

"Ms. Minoru?" a person passing by called, "Is she in there?"

Amy nods, "She's pissed, right now, I'd hold off any request til she calms down."

"But the... wifi's down. It won't work on wizphones."

"Ha!" Amy scoffed, "In all wizphones?"

"Yes, only, wiztech. Weird, right?"

Amy bit her lip, "Because the people behind me are the people who made the wizphones, I'm gonna say yes, that is weird..."

"Meaning?" Tina asked.

Amy grabs the phone, "It's the latest update... here, ya go..." Amy gives the phone back.

Amy sighs and moves to grab the box labeled, "Suggestions". Amy breathed, "Let's see how many of these are actually suggestions and how many starts with 'Talk to your mother'..." Amy sat on her desk, as she picks a folded paper. "God, highlight of my day..."

Hana ran passed her sister's desk. "Whoa! Looks like someone has a date?" Nico teased.

Hana turns around still heading towards the door, "Yes, I do; I have a lunch date."

"Oh," Amy smirks, "boy doesn't have time for a real date?"

"And what constitutes as a real date?" Hana asked.

"Dinner? Dancing? Movie?" Tina suggested.

"Okay." Hana looks at Robert, "You really need to take mom out on a date..." Hana then turns heading for the door, "And another thing, not that its any of your business but Andre is a doctor so he is very busy but we make our relationship work." Hana leaves.

Nico immediately takes out her phone to text Karolina:

Let's go out?

Amy chuckles, "Hana got to you?"

"Friday?" Robert asked Tina.

Tina nods, "Friday."