It was a normal summer afternoon when Sora, Riku, and their daughters Molly and Holly were heading to family therapy.
"Remind me why we have to go to family therapy?" asked Holly
"Holly, we're going to family therapy because I feel this family is breaking apart." Sora answered back
"Yeah, but Mom it's summer. I don't want everyone thinking I come from a crazy mixed up family. It's already enough embarrassment being related to the goth freak."
"Oh keep it in your bra beauty queen." Molly snapped. Quicker than you can say "Santa Claus went mad" the twins were fighting as usual, and that meant a twelve hour headache for Sora and Riku. Riku's erge to yell coming in 3,2,1...
"WILL YOU TWO GO ONE MONTH WITHOUT FIGHTING? I MEAN C'MON YOUR SISTERS FOR GOD SAKES. LET'S JUST GO TO THE THERAPIST'S IN PEACE AND QUIET! THAT INCLUDES YOU TOO SORA!" Riku shouted. Wow, no one's ever seen Riku THIS mad since he bought a faulty used car when the twins were born, and he was fired up that day.
They finally reached the therapist's office in peace and quiet. They were finally called into the office.
"The Strife family." When they walked in the therapist, Tifa Lockhart, was in a grass skirt and a bathing suit top. The whole room was Hawaiian themed. As usual Sora and Holly were amazed, Riku was regretting agreeing to this, and Molly was halfway ready to vomit or hurl a brick at Tifa.
"Well sit down, make youselvees get comfy. Hope you don't mind the Hawiian theme, but I just came back from a vacation in Hawaii so thus the theme. So anyways what brings you four down here?"
"I feel that my whole family's slowly breaking apart." Sora answered
"My whole life is breaking apart." Molly said
"Save it for both your online diary and knife goth princess." Holly shot back
"Shut up Holly!"
"So you DO cut yourself at random!"
"Do you see any scars on me?" As the girls fought Sora was trying his best to stop the fight while Riku was thinking of a way to forget this therapy setion ever happened. Eventually the fight ended and Tifa could continue.
"Sora, I wanna ask relationship wise what has happened since the twins were born?"
"Well, nothing happened with me and Riku. We were so busy trying to keep Molly from playing with sharp things and keeping Holly from putting anything chokeable in her mouth, but now since they're sixteen, nothing's happening now."
"Girls, here's a piece of paper, go outside, i need to ask your parent's questions you probably wouldn't wanna hear."
"We get it, you wanna know about their love life." Molly said sarcasticly, then they left.
"Okay, any financial problems?"
"No, we're doing great."
"How come you asked about our financial problems?" Riku asked.
"Fighting sixteen year olds like that tend to get overly sensitive about bad news. Anyways, anything new in your lives?"
"No." Sora answered.
"Time to get the girls back in here, now I need to interview them without you two in here." When Tifa went outside to fetch Molly and Holly, she found Molly shoving Holly's face into the mud.
"What happened to you two that made you two fight a lot?"
"We started fighting when Holly got her first bra, she just started being mean to me, and when i went goth two years ago, and when I started to hang out with the goth kids. That happened last year. Everyday I wish we could go back to being frends."
"I didn't know you felt like that Molly."
"Yeah, have you heard me in my room crying everytime you called me goth princess, or everytimr you told someone that i secretly cut myself, or everytime you say that I'm a freak?"
"Sorry sis. From now on, I'll always have your back even if we are opposite of eachother." Then they hugged. The family was heading home. Surprisingly the twins weren't fighting. Sora was surprised, while Riku was puzzeled.
"Why aren't you two fighting?" Riku finally asked.
"Dad, I realized how mean I was being to Molly and we settled our diffrences."
"Wow, Sora I guess that therapy setion helpped, but we have to go back. There are still some bumps in the road sure you two may have settled your diffrences, but we still have to figure out why Molly went goth." It was two years ago that Molly went goth, to everyone it was a phase, but to her it was a desperate plea for attention.
Since their family therapy setions were once every two weeks they had two weeks to improve for when they met with the therapist again. Holly wanted Molly to tag along with her and her friends to the mall.
"No way Holly. This time you've gone full blown crazy."
"Relax I'm sure they'll accept you into the group." They met up with Holly's friends who just looked at the goth twin wierdly until one of them said something.
"Relax Molly, we need to have a sisterly bond. You know the bond Mom and Dad have wanted us to have since last year."
"Hey Holly!" said one of the friends "You have a goth puppy following you. Better dump that thing into the eternal darkness it came from."
Then Molly ran into the bathroom crying. Holly followed Molly, but was stopped.
"Holly, what are you doing?"
"Jennette, as much as I'd like to laugh I can't, she's my twin sister. You hurt her you hurt me too." When Holly got into the bathroom Molly was crying in a stall. She hasn't seen her sister this upset since the first goth joke she made about her.
"Are you okay?" Holly asked.
"No, I wish those monsters you for some reason call friends would die."
"Well, you know Molly, I unfriended them."
"Why?"
"They were being mean to my sister. And I wanna meet that cute boy you're always hanging out with."
"Do you mean Ventus?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Well, I'm happy for you, afterall he has a twin named Vanitas."
"Can you turn me into a goth?"
"First I'm gonna see what his girl type is. He says he likes goth girls, then I have to make over. If he likes girls just the way they are then when you meet him just be you, except for those gothic insults you make about us, leave that out."
"Thankss Molly."
"No problem Holly." The sisters had fun at the mall. Holly was learning about Ventus, Molly was warming up to her sister and they were learning about eachother more. Meanwhile...
Sora and Riku were cuddling on their bed the way they do whenever their daughters were out of the house. Sora was constantly checking his phone waiting for the expected call from one of the mall cops while Riku was relaxing on the bed.
"Sora calm down I'm sure that they are finally learning to get along."
"Riku everytime they say they are going to get along they end up fighting again."
"If I were you I'd enjoy this time." Then Sora got a text from Molly.
"SLEEPING OVER AT VEN AND VANITAS'S HOUSE BE BACK 2MORROW" Sora sent a reply message
"B SAFE LUV YA 3"
"What happened this time? Cat fight by the fountain? Stolen necklaces?" Riku asked assuming the worse.
"They're sleeping over at Ventus and Vanitas's house for the night which means that we have the whole house to ourselves." After and hour of kissing, they got into a conversation about their lives.
"Riku?"
"Yeah Sora?"
"What would you do if I said I was going to inherit my grandfather's money?"
"Then I'd have to say that you were the sweetest thign in the world. Why?" Sora gave Riku that look that let him know what he was telling him something.
"That's wonderful!"
The next morning...
Riku woke up to the sound of his husband vomiting in the toilet. When Sora finally turned around he was sweating up a huge storm,
he hadn't been this sick since he was pregnant. Riku ran over to the man he loved worried of what was happening. Sora tried standing up on his own only to fall over unconsious, luckily Riku was there to catch him. Scared Riku put Sora in the car and quickly drove to the hospital.
"Riku, what's wrong?" asked Kairi who was their best friends since they were teens.
"It's Sora he was vomiting when I woke up, and when he tried standing he just fell over."
"Okay, bring Sora in here we'll have to take him in for a checkup to see what's wrong with him." He did as he was told he wanted to go in the room with Sora but he couldn't due to the fact that he had to go in alone.
"Might as well text Molly while I'm outside."
At Ventus and Vanitas's house...
"Holly!"
"Yeah Molly?"
"We have to go to the hospital now!" Molly said with a panicked tone in her voice.
"Why?"
"Mom's there something happened this morning and now Dad's there waiting for us."
"Oh my God, does Dad know what happened?"
"Mom was puking, and when he tried standing he fell over!" They went out to Holly's car and rushed to the hospital as fast as they could only to get caught in traffic. Great, now we'll never get to see Mom, Holly thought as she texted her father to let him know that she and Molly were going to be coming about an hour late.
At the hospital...
Riku was pacing back and forth waiting for news about his husband, waiting for his daughters to come, and praying that everythings alright. That's when Kairi came up to him and told him he could go and see Sora. When he got in the room Sora was wide awake,
he turned his head towards Riku and let out a small groan.
"Shhhh Sora, it's alright you're in the hospital now."
"What happened?"
"You were vomiting your guts out, and when you tried standing you fell over."
"Where are Holly an Molly?"
"They got caught in traffic so they'll be here whenever they can." Just then the doctor came in.
"Hello, I'm Doctor Fair. Wow Sora, it sure was scary in there, it almost looked like we were were gonna have to take out a lung. Well, enough about that. Congratulations Sora, you are pregnant." Sora and Riku couldn't believe their ears, Sora was gonna have to get used to looking at himself in the mirror again while Riku was gonna have to pull out one of the old baby cribs.
"How are we going to tell the girls?" Sora asked slightly scared because last time he was pregnant he was almost close to dying, but what was gonna happen now?
"I don't know."
"You don't know what?" Molly asked in the doorway.
"Your mother's pregnant."
"That's wonderful, so why are you guys looking down int he dumps?" Holly asked as she was walking to Riku.
"Girls, when your mother was first pregnant with you two... Well, he nearly died giving birth."
"I was in a coma for the first three months of your life. Who knows what will happen?"
"Mom, don't talk like that. Even if that happens, you'll live on in our minds and hearts." Molly reassured. Now they had to wait until the new addition to the family would arrive, but with Sora' life on the line who knows what will happen.
That was the end to the first chapter of Family Therapy, what secrets will be revealed in chapter two when Sora and Riku tell the girls about something they don't know about, or when Holly finds out what Ventus think of her? Find out in chapter two.