I adjusted the suit on Lucia who mumbled something about Odalia not liking her because she looks like a crack thin drug addict. "Oh shush it Lucia.. you're going to be fine."
Looking in the mirror I adjust the collar of my shirt, I look into the side of mirror and connect eyes with.. Vee? Wait what Vee??

Swiftly turning around she hold open her turquoise suit and spins "like I'd miss an infamous Blight-Noceda dinner party, your teleportation glyphs are very handy."
She approached Lucia with a look of confusion, "now who is this devilish woman? My god-" she says teasingly as she straightens Lucia's bowtie, Lucia seems to stiffen "I'm um- not into incest???" She says nervously, sweat visibly rolling down her face.
Studying Lucia's face her eyes widen "how- no this isn't- this isn't possible." Her heart jumps into her throat midway to saying that Lucia must be a ghost, Lucia looks at me with worry as tears stream down Vee's face.

Mandarin meows loudly to all the clattering emotions, overwhelmed by by how loud it suddenly got.
"I.. I went missing Vee. None of the news articles with my name stated me dead." She approaches Vee slowly, Vee shakes her head in a panicked manner. "N-no."

Lucia continues to approach Vee who repeats no, it was almost ten seconds after she'd hugged Vee did Vee realize that Lucia was here.. alive.
Burying her face into Lucia's shoulder she lets her tears slide down her cheeks, unique basilisk eyes glistening. Lucia smiles gently at her, my stomach turns as I watch Mandarin cuddle up into Amity's sweater on the bed, my eyebrows upturn "um.. not to be rude, but.. can we go? I don't like being away from Amity for too long."

Vee chuckled softly, wiping leftover tears away "aww.. papá misses her babies." I scratch at the back of my neck, nervous and embarrassed all in one go.
"Yes and no.. I just. I'm pretty sure Amelia is going to think Lucia ditched if we don't leave right now." Vee seems to be shocked then realizes that if Lucia is here, Amelia is. I begin the walk to my car, Vee chuckles and points to the Alfa Romeo convertible "a present from Amity?" I nod and get into the driver's seat, not even saying a word.

  
The whole ride to the manor Lucia played puff, puff pass with my Juul, the car smelled like a pack of spearmint gum and new leather. I know it's irresponsible but, I did test the speed with the Alfa Romeo.. it's a sports edition car, like I wouldn't see how the car rides at high speeds.
The Noceda kids, acting like outlaws racing down the highway while laughing like idiots.
Easing back into the true speed limit I pull off the highway, you can see Blight manor, lit up with lights. Inputting the pincode I begin the drive up the long driveway, pulling up next to my- very injured car I whine in despair.

The garage is opened with the large rolling toolbox hanging half out, walking to the front doors I jump when it opens before I knock.
Taking Amity into my arms I carefully lift her up and do one spin, she laughs and sets her hand on my cheek. Lucia goes to kiss her girlfriend who compliments her with a smile, Vee talks to Emira who talks about how she's going to repair my car.
I quickly kiss Amity before announcing loudly "holy shit viney finally proposed!!-" she hold up her hand to display the diamond, a blush on her cheeks.

I hear a choke, "Goddamn- the Noceda kids walk in and appear like gay runway divas." Viran is staring intensely with a soft blush, since I'd skipped the cummerbund this time and put a purple tie in replace for it, I realize I look kinda classy.
Amity discreetly pouts, I turn to her and smile. She's not in a dress this go around, but actually in a pair of black slacks and one of those white sleeveless blouses that reveal the wearers cleavage, a thick strip of skin running nearly to the waistband of her slacks.
Running my hands from her biceps to hands I say in both a flattering and complimenting tone "mm.. now you look like such a dream. Absolutely stunning miss Blight." Pulling my head down to her level she kisses me, a small giggle escaping her.

Snaking my arm around her petite waist I smile when Odalia walks in, she smiles at me before guiding her eyes to Lucia.
She seems to flich when Odalia approaches her, the woman sighs gently and guides her pointer finger along Lucia's cheek. "I hope Luz hasn't been feeding you roided up protein shakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.. those would be bad for your beautiful face."
She seems to jump in surprise, eyes wide at Odalia, who is feeling the tendon in Lucia's wrist to double check if I am or not. "I.. n-no, she isn't. Just the normal foods and vitamin water."

Amity gently flinches in my arm, bringing my hand to her stomach my skin erupts into goosebumps when they kick rough, not impatiently but more like in excitement.
Their first.. true kicks.. their..
I stand there with slightly widened eyes, feeling them kick into my hand. Amelia nudges Lucia who practically slaps Vee, Odalia raises an eyebrow to my pure shock filled face. "Luz?.. Are you oka-"

I take no hesitation in saying firm "nobody speak to me- my kid is giving their first kicks."
The room fills with laughter as they realize why I looked so shocked.

  
Sitting down at the table Odalia says simply "may I announce my greatest welcome back to the family Lucia." Lucia smiles warmly, Odalia turns to me and Amity "and that I'm genuinely happy that you two are back together, in a couple other ways aswell." She sips her wine with a blank face, Alador trying to understand in pure, oblivious confusion.

I reply with a seemingly desperate tone "oh, sweet jesus, has nobody told Alador that he's going to be an abuelo for three whole months??"
Odalia flashes a small, mischievous smile past her wine. The confusion flushes from his face, he looks at his wife in betrayal "I'm sorry dear, but I was truly hoping you'd realize after Amity rejecting wine and energy drink high levels of caffeine."
He sets his face in his palm, seemingly realizing his own obliviousness. Amity runs her fingertips over her lips, eyes staring into nothingness as she smiles "and my.. ultrasound.. well, I have no doubts that she's going to love you all."

She takes my hand to stop me from jumping up at screaming 'a girl?!' In excitement, Odalia leans over and pats my hand, I look down to see the table cover bunched up in my fist.
Letting the fabric it falls in neat waves where it was.

   
Amity took my hand and dragged me down the hallway as dinner ended and mingling begun, the garden was just as beautiful as it was the last time I saw it.
Frowning at a singular rose wilting I pick up a Mason jar, fill it three quarters of the way with water then set two tablespoons of fertilizer beads in the water. Shaking the closed jar till the beads are dissolved I uncap it, Amity looked in awe as I pushed a moat into the dirt around the small bush and poured the now slightly yellow 'pep up water' into the moat, grabbing the slug responsible for wilting the flower I open the window and as careful as possible, toss it into the grass. Then give it an angry middle finger.

Amity smiles, looks down at her stomach before smiling wider and setting her hand on her baby bump. I tilt my head and let out a small, loving smile.
"Luz, come here.. come and say hi to her.." Amity says quietly with a little chuckle, approaching her I set my hands on her stomach, little tiny kicks hit my hands. Resting my head on her shoulder I sigh lovingly, she giggles softly and kisses my cheek. It was nice, being able to feel the two girls I love most.

We stood in the garden a long while, tending the plants and talking about baby names, I somehow in between was given permission to also name our second child.. if we have one in the future.
I sat down on the stool, my eyes looking around the room. Amity ran her hands along my shoulders before telling me to go up to her room, so we could watch shows and cuddle. As we walked down the hallway I gazed at the- some centuries old- family portraits, blights from fifteen-hundreds England, a lot of the men looked like Alador, but also had respective features of their own. I looked around to see the current painting rolling in, Odalia going from no children and looking actually pretty miserable.

Then.. to Alador and Odalia with the twins and Amelia, the twins are straddling Alador's sides, smiling nine month olds and Amelia a brand new newborn with curious eyes and a drooled on hand in Odalia's arms.. Odalia looks so much happier which indicates that she might've had a miscarriage before the twins which resulted in her back to back pregnancy with them.
I stop abruptly, Amity looks over at me confused before noticing what I'm looking at. A playful energied painting of Odalia kneeling to let both two year olds Ed, Em and Amelia look at their new baby sister. A laugh on her face as Alador leans forward with a smile, how.. petite Amity looked as a newborn, frightened eyes with a timid look, staring at her overexcited older siblings.

I took her hand and let her guide me upstairs, we both halted as I heard a loud giggle. I thought for a moment Amelia and Lucia were watching Atypical on Netflix because of how Casey like the giggle was until the voice said in a giggle "be careful Amelia, I'm fragile now.."
Me and Amity exchange glances, not really uncomfortable expressions on our faces but more like 'oh-'faces, both of us quickly realizing Lucia is probably about to get topped... or something probably close to cowgirl position.

We quickly take a right and go down the end of the hallway to Amity's room, I smile at ghost who emerges from the darkness. Amity smiles at her cat but frowns, knowing she can't take her to Hexside until the soro house is finished.
I laid flat on my back to stare up at the ceiling, my eyes looking at the starry design it had, Amity laid snug up against me and sighed. We said nothing to each other, just laid on the bed and snuggled up to each other. Exhales.. inhales, that's all that was heard. Our little girl kicked and adjusted herself as Amity curled into a loose ball right up against me, her face settling to a calm expression.

I felt like a whole galaxy, my heart was pounding though despite how calm I was. I summoned up my wings and cocooned her, she mumbles a noise before resting her head on my chest.
Ghost licks my hand before nibbling on it, I chuckled and pet her softly. She purrs to my touch as I scratch the back of her ear, after that she doesn't need help, she rubs into my hand of her own accord. Closing my eyes I listen to my surroundings, Amity's faint, quiet breathing.. ghosts soft purrs, the mini fan running in the corner as it creates white noise.
The rustling of my grey tshirt and shorts I'd replaced my suit with, all the way to the sound of leaves scraping against Amity's window from the tree that was outside.

I felt drool spill down my chin before my arm limply fell ontop of Amity, sleep engulfing my mind.

  
Then I woke up to Amity adjusting far too much, her face was knit into a look of discomfort as she mumbled something about being too hot.
Retracting my manticore features I pull the blanket down so it is at her hips, the sheet a little bit above the blanket.
Feeling her temperature I frown, she's beginning to run a mild fever. Standing up I make my way through the manor, somehow eventually finding the kitchen I pull out a refillable ice pack actually labeled with Amity's name.

Filling up the rubber inlined pack I pull open drawers and close them until I find fabric covers for the refillable ice packs.
Heading back upstairs, I open Amity's bedroom door to see her practically soaked in sweat, eyes open and dazed. Gently sitting beside her I pull her carefully towards me to set her head on my lap, setting the ice pack right on her collarbone I lean down and kiss her forehead. The ice pack will "cool" her breath as she inhales and exhales so her brain doesn't overheat.

She shivers under it, trying to pull it off her body as it's cold "no, mi hermosa princesa.. you're running a fever.. you need it to cool you down." She whines and squirms to adjust herself, I sigh, my face frowning deeply.
"Amity.. it'll pass by days end.. it's just mild. Please endure this." Her eyes suddenly look up at me, studying my face with the intensity of a lion. Holding out her hands to my face she mumbles needily, but also in a whiny tone "gimme kisses please.." leaning down I connect my lips with hers, she sighs as if it's stripping her pain away like waxpaper on double sided tape.

Brushing her hair out of her face I pull away, she whines loudly. All before falling asleep, her cheeks flushed red from fever and a neutral expression showing she's calm not stressed.
And we stay that way for awhile, hour to be exact, and by the time Amity wakes up her fever is gone. I smile at her tired face, shrouded in sleep which causes her slurred, almost drunken voice. "Mm... I feel a lot better now."

Laughing quietly I pull hair out of her eyes, she smiles as I take her hand and kiss it's palm.
"Luz.. I love it when you're clingy but, give me a minute to wake up." She stretches before relaxing into my form, I frown, my eyes however are smiling at her. Sticking out her tongue at me I scrunch up my face, every bit of happiness radiating from my expression turning herself over she hugs my waist. Burying her face into my shirt she mumbles tried against the fabric, running my fingers through her hair I twirl locks of hair around my finger, a soft smile on my face.

" you are going to be SO grumpy in the morning.. but, who cares?"
Leaning down I kiss the top of her head and giggle, this woman is so precious.