Sephiroth hires a Nanny Chapter 2
Why was he surprised? Why did he felt hurt? Was Kairi more to him than he realize? Kairi gasped when she saw Riku. "Riku… I can explain-"
Riku looked away and said lowly, "There's nothing to explain."
"Wait, Riku, you have to understand-"
Riku looked up and yelled, "What is there to understand!" Riku took a deep breath to try and subdue his rising anger. "I trusted you and… and you go and do something like this?" Riku didn't notice when his two other brothers came out of their bedrooms in order to see what was going on. Riku turned and walked right passed them without saying a word. He ran down the stairs and went to walk out of the house but walked right into his father.
Sephiroth dropped his stuff when his son ran right into him. "What's going…" Sephiroth stopped when he saw the nightmare before him. His house was a mess. Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo ran down the steps and stopped when they saw their father. Sephiroth glared at his four sons and said, "Dining room. Now!" He picked up his things and went upstairs in order to put them in his room.
The four boys all walked into the dining room waiting for their father to come down the stairs. Yazoo whispered to Kadaj, "What do we do now brother?"
Loz responded, "Yeah, father will be pissed off when he finds out that this was our idea."
Kadaj responded, "Everything will be fine. Let me do all of the talking."
Riku was too furious to care what his brothers were talking about. Kadaj always ruin everything for him. Kadaj always makes a point to remind him just how pathetic his life is every single day. He wanted to leave before his father came home. It probably would've been a better idea if he left through the back door. But he was too angry to think straight. Why him of all people? Why was he, the victim of his brothers' games. Each and every time it reminded him just how lonely he was. Each and every time it reminded him how he didn't deserve any friends and how he always has to rely on himself. He should've never trusted Kairi in the beginning. He felt like an idiot for opening up to her in the first place.
Why are people so cruel?
Their father walked into the room and there was a moment of silence. Sephiroth began the discussion with, "Well Riku, I escorted your girlfriend out the house." Sephiroth crossed his arms and continued, "So who wants to start?"
Sephiroth surveyed his sons for a moment. He noticed that Yazoo was biting his lip, Loz had his hands in his pockets, Kadaj leaned against the wall with a hand on his hip and Riku… Riku had his hands in his pockets and was looking out the window. Clearly no one wanted to start.
He'll go with the most honest one, "Yazoo?" Yazoo looked down towards the floor, in order to avoid eye contact.
Guess he'll go with the most emotional one. "Loz?" Loz took a deep breath and shook his head no.
Guess he'll go with the trouble maker. "Riku?" Riku kept starring out of the window as if he never heard him. "Riku, are you list-"
"I'll start." Sephiroth turned his head to Kadaj, the other trouble maker. Sephiroth knew Kadaj was an excellent student, but even he knew that he could be a pain in the ass sometimes.
Sephiroth sighed and said, "Go ahead."
"Riku had a couple of friends over last night and I guess things got hectic."
Sephiroth turned to Riku and asked, "You know drinking under age is wrong Riku."
Riku eyes widened and asked, "You believe him?"
Sephiroth responded, "Unless you have a different story."
"Clearly the three of them had a party yesterday and wasn't able to clean up before you came back."
Sephiroth looked over at the triplets and asked, "Is that true?"
Kadaj responded, "Of course not!" Both of his brothers nodded in agreement. "It was Riku's girlfriend walking out of the house this morning."
"You son of a bitch!" Sephiroth eyebrow raise a bit from the language his son was using. "You of all people know she's not my girlfriend anymore!"
Kadaj asked innocently, "How would I know that she wasn't your girlfriend anymore Riku?"
Sephiroth grabbed and held onto Riku when he saw Riku lunging at Kadaj. "Hey! Get a hold of yourself!" Sephiroth yelled. "That's your brother, you support each other, not hurt them!"
Riku jerked out of Sephiroth hold and glared up at his father. "I need to take a walk." He left the room and out the door. Sephiroth called out, "Riku!" He frowned when he heard his son slam the front door. Sephiroth sighed and looked at the rest of his sons. "You're cleaning this mess up."
Kadaj responded, "But-"
"No buts! Clean it now!" Sephiroth left the room to make a phone call.
"I heard that you were in a sticky situation and were in desperate need of a job."
His friend, Aerith, smiled and said, "Well it seemed like my husband had a big gambling problem and now I'm in serious debt."
Sephiroth sighed and asked, "Well how is he doing anyways?"
"Apparently, he's been dead for the past two years, so I don't know what he was up to before he died. I just know that, now, collectors have been harassing me for the money when I haven't seen him in ten years."
"Ten years?"
Aerith nodded her head sadly and said, "Yes ten years. Sora was only five years old when his father left."
"How is Sora doing anyways?"
Aerith smiled and said, "He just finished his first year at Destiny University Prep. He has a partial scholarship going there but I don't know what to do now. My flower shop isn't enough to cover everything." Tears started to form in her eyes. "Please Sephiroth. I desperately need your help."
Sephiroth smiled and said, "Actually… I'm in desperate need of your help."
Confused, Aerith responded, "…What?"
"It's my sons… I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I feel like my sons are always at war with each other. It's far worse than I ever imagined because this morning, Riku looked like he wanted to kill Kadaj. I'm never home now and I don't want my sons to grow up to be… horrible people." Sephiroth sighed to himself and thought for a moment. "Sometimes, I wonder where I went wrong. But no matter how much I try to fix the situation, I end up making it worse. It's probably because I'm never here. Riku is going through the most trouble and I'm not sure why. I tried talking to him but he never seems to trust me. I'm going on a tangent. What I'm saying is that I want to hire you as my nanny."
"…As a nanny?"
"Yes."
"Aren't your boys, 16 and 17 years old?"
"I know. But, I'm grounding them for the summer and you're the perfect person to try to help fix their relationships."
Aerith frowned, "That's an awful lot of responsibility."
"If you can't, then I'll be more than glad that you tried and most importantly I would be more than happy because I helped you out."
"…what about Sora?"
"He'll be taken care of too. You'll have the master bedroom, and I'll make one of the guest bedrooms as Sora's room. He can decorate it as much as he like. I want him to feel at home here. Not only that, but I'll give you all of my son's allowance money because I don't plan on giving them any for the summer. Also, I will have a separate bank account created just for you, with at least $500,000 for the necessities of the house, and if you run out then, I'll refill it with more money. I'll take care of the rest of Sora's scholarship, and I'll even give you a weekly paycheck in order to help you pay off your dead husband's loans. If you experience any problems, just give me a call or text me, both is fine with me."
Aerith jaw dropped. "Sephiroth… that's too much-"
"I'm more than happy to help Aerith. I really need you to help fix my family because if I don't…" Sephiroth frowned at the idea.
Aerith smiled and put her hand on Sephiroth's shoulder. "I'll try my best."
Riku walked back in the house later in the evening. He sighed and closed his eyes for a moment. Today was really frustrating. Namine called him ten times but he never picked up. He didn't feel like talking to anyone today. "Riku?" He heard his father calling his name from the living room. He probably wanted to finish their conversation from earlier. Riku sighed again and walked into the living room. He found his three brothers already sitting on the couch.
"Sit." Sephiroth said. Riku took a seat in the reclining chair. Sephiroth scratched his head and said, "Well the company has been really busy lately and sadly I can't be home much anymore. I'm not sure what happened yesterday, but I decided to ground all of you." Sephiroth waited for some response and received none. Well that's a first. "There will be no allowance, and no traveling this summer."
"What!" Kadaj declared. Now that's the response Sephiroth was looking for. Loz groaned and Yazoo pouted. Only one who didn't responded was Riku. "We can't do anything without any money? Dad please tell me you're kidding."
Sephiroth responded, "Actually, you can do a lot of things without any money, but that's not important here. I hired a nanny to keep an eye on you guys and you guys would have to give her the utmost respect. If I hear one complaint from her about any of you then there will be some serious consequences. Is that clear?"
Kadaj, Yazoo, and Loz were in complete shock but they still nodded their heads to show that they understood. Sephiroth looked over at Riku and asked, "Did you hear me Riku?"
Riku looked up to his father and responded, "Yeah… I understand…"
"Good. Aerith, you can come in now with your son." Riku looked over to the side, not caring about this whole 'Nanny' situation. He figured his brothers would dupe her into believe that they were angels and he would probably be there scapegoat for everything as usual. "Aerith, Sora, these are my sons, Kadaj, Yazoo, Loz, and Riku. Kadaj, Yazoo, Loz, and Riku, this is your Nanny, Aerith, and her son, Sora."
