Misunderstood and hurt.

Linphea, Flora's home.

Flora and Stormy were coming home from Sparkx and they had been planning what they were going to do during the summer. When they reached Flora's home Stormy hesitated at the door.

"What is it sweetheart?" Flora asked.

"Well I don't know but do you think your parents will be happy to see me?" Stormy replied.

"I don't know but we will see what happens if I introduce you to the family. I have to warn you about something: mum is not too happy with the fact that I 'm dating you so if she comes down on you please let me handle it." Flora requested.

"I won't promise you that I can keep my cool but I 'll try not to react to everything she throws at me." Stormy assured her as they went in. Once they had entered the house Stormy was amazed by all the flowers and plants that were inside. It seemed like the entire garden stretched from outside to the inside of the place. She never figured it to be possible but it seems like the people here in this realm were able to do this. Flora looked at her girlfriend's face and almost started to laugh as she saw the amazement on it. Stormy looked at Flora who tried her best not to laugh making Stormy laugh.

"What? You don't dare to laugh at me?" Stormy said " I can imagine how my face must have looked to you." Then Flora burst out in laughter holding Stormy in her arms. Right at that moment Flora's mother walked in and saw the two of them laughing. Flora caught eye of her and then she let go of Stormy and pulled a straight face as did Stormy when she looked at the face of the woman. When Stormy studied the face she saw where Flora got her good looks from.

"My name is Greta, I 'm Flora's mother. Nice to meet you Ms ..." She introduced herself to Stormy as she held a distance to her.

" I am Stormy, nice to meet you Greta." Stormy introduced herself trying to make a good impression.

"You 're a witch aren't you?" Greta asked.

"Yes I am." Stormy replied as fear was creeping into her.

"Flora a word please." The woman said as she walked into a room.

"Mum!" Flora replied following her leaving Stormy alone. Stormy decided to wait in the hallway as she studied the plants and flowers. She had to get used to living like this if she was going to stay with Flora. She smiled when she thought back at the few nights they spent together. Flora always smelled like flowers and she liked that smell in the morning although she couldn't keep a plant alive herself. Stormy just didn't have what it takes to be good at gardening. That 's why she loved Flora so much. The patience she had with her up till now was unbelievable. Flora in the meanwhile was in the room with her mother.

"When you said that you had fallen in love with a girl you never said she was a witch. What is it with you lately? Is it not enough to go against nature and start loving girls? You have to make it a witch? You know damn well that witches and fairies don't mix." Greta said to her daughter who was now looking at the floor.

"Mum, I didn't tell you because I knew you would react like this. I don't want you to approve it but at least try to understand me. I am happy with things being the way they are right now."

"What is wrong with boys? Or did you write them off because of one bad relationship?"

"It just happened. I know it is difficult for you to grasp but I fell in love with Stormy and not with a boy. If Stormy had been a boy I could have been just as happy. I fell for who she is and not for what she looks like. Although she looks great too."

"What is it you like about her looks? Her legs? Her chest? Her.."

"Stop it mum. You make it sound as if I 'm a pervert. Well if that's how you think about me then I wonder why I believed that we might possibly work it out between us. I 'm out of here." Flora burst as she turned around to leave the room.

"Have you slept with her?" Her mother asked making Flora stop and turn around.

"Yes I have and you know what? I loved every minute of it." Flora screamed at her mother while she turned back and out the door to see a surprised Stormy in the hallway. She grabbed Stormy and told her they were leaving. Making Stormy stop.

"Wait we 're not moving out of here until you tell me what is going on here. I heard you scream in the hallway. So out with it, what happened in there?" Stormy tried to calm Flora down.

"Mum has this idea that we are a couple of perverts who love each other for the sex. I don't want to stay where you aren't welcome as my girlfriend. I love you for who you are and not for how you look. My impulsive yet attractive witch. You may suck in the field of nature spells and you will probably never grow a green thumb but that is what I like about you. You want to learn it just to help me out from time to time and to be with me. I learned a thing or two from you too. I was never interested in the old languages until you showed me it could be fun to translate them. We have done a lot together as a couple. You 're my better half." Flora burst out into tears while Stormy held her into her arms. At that moment Flora's father entered the house and wondered what had happened this time. In the past two weeks he had a lot of intervening to do between his wife and daughter. Now that he saw Stormy he started to get an idea what might have been the matter this time. He walked up to the couple and surprised his daughter.

"Hello my little sunshine, who is this beautiful lady here with you?" He said trying to lift her mood.

"Hello dad, this is my girlfriend Stormy, Stormy this is my dad Jonah." Flora introduced them to each other.

"You may call me Joe" Jonah said to Stormy who smiled back at him. "Did you have another argument with your mother?"

"Yes I had. She is unbelievable, every time I think we can work it out she just has to point out that I shouldn't be in love with a girl. She is so traditional and doesn't even want to open her mind for the possibility of me being happy with Stormy. I 'm already happier than I was when Helia and I were a couple." Flora told her father.

"Oh, you seem happier now than you did last year. I think that your coming out of the closet has something to do with it." Jonah replied.

"What do you mean dad?" Flora asked.

"In the past few years I noticed that you were always more passionate about girls then about boys. When you came home with Helia I wondered what you saw in him until I got to know him better. He was not as all the men I know. He had this softer side which you only find with women. He is a very rare breed of man. Unfortunately he has changed his mind about you and is now together with this Diaspro or what was her name again. You always had this problem with boys. They were either not to your liking or you compared them to your female friends. So I knew it would only be a matter of time before you revealed your true nature instead of what you were not." Jonah answered.

"You knew all along that I was gay?" Flora wondered.

"Yes I did, and I think it isn't that bad." Jonah told her.

"Thanks dad," Flora said as she hugged him. Stormy had tears in her eyes when she saw how Flora and her father were close to each other. She wished that she could have been this close to her parents but her mother never wanted to spend any time with her and her father was gone before she was even born.

"Why don't the two of you freshen up and change clothes. The two of you look as if you have been through hell." Jonah suggested "I will have another talk with your mother, Flora. I think I can change her mind about the two of you being together." Then he walked into the room where her mother was looking out the window in anger.

"Hello Greta, I just had a little talk with Flora. Aren't you being to hard on her? She is just eighteen and wants to have a relationship like everyone else. So what if it is a girl she has fallen in love with? It isn't that bad. Okay it is not the natural way of things but these things happen. So why don't you give them a chance on happiness." Jonah asked his wife.

"I 'll never accept it that she is a lesbian slut."

"She 's not a slut. She 's a girl in love."

"She already slept her girlfriend."

"Good thing that they are both girls. There is a very low chance of them getting pregnant."

"You see a silver lining in it, do you?"

"Yes I do."

"Well I want her to behave like MY daughter."

"Funny you mention the word 'my' because we both know who's daughter she really is."

"Don't you go there Jonah. You know it was the right thing to do at the time."

"No it wasn't and you know it. I married you because of Flora. Leia only got pregnant because of my mistake. I misinterpreted her intentions towards me and slept with her. She didn't object but in the end she didn't love me either. She loved someone else, a woman."

"Yes she did and she was pregnant of your baby. She should have married you instead of going around with this Astrid. It was the natural thing to do after all. You never went for it but you did want to be a father to Flora. Well at least you got that."

"It was enough for me. You seduced me and I fell in love with you. Leia didn't mind that but once Flora was born you wanted more. We got married and after a while you wanted Flora. After a long lawsuit you got your wish and she killed herself. I still haven't forgiven myself for what I did back then but you..."

"You never had much of a backbone until Flora told us she was dating a girl. Why are you growing one now."

"Because I don't want to loose my daughter the same way as we lost Leia."

"So you think it is alright for her to date girls?"

"Yes I do." Jonah said as he walked up to his wife. She looked in his eyes and saw the anger in them. She now knew he meant it. Since they had married they had only slept with each other only twice. The moment she started the lawsuit against her twin sister he never looked at her again. She could have had more children if she hadn't been so eager to get Flora so she would grow up in a normal environment.

"I don't want Flora to date that girl, you hear. I want you to support me." she demanded.

"Then I want you to leave this house now. I already have my lawyer drawing up the papers. I should have divorced you the moment Leia was dead." Jonah said to her making her look at him. She was surprised by the news that he had filed for a divorce.

"Honey, you can't do this. We had something good going here for the last eighteen years. Are you going to blow it all away over Flora and her choice in life partners?"

"You blew it, not me"

"So this is the thanks I get for helping you raise her?"

"Something no one ever asked of you. You should have given Leia a chance at raising her daughter. She might have turned out differently. Now it seems like she is like her mother after all. Good thing she hasn't got a sister like you. I always thought she would come home some day with this Bloom. Stormy is someone completely different compared to Bloom but you know I like the girl."

"She is a witch with a criminal past. Flora could stray from the trail and become a criminal herself."

"Or Flora could have a good influence on Stormy and help the girl to stay on the right path."

"Either way, I 'll not be seeing it happen. Maybe divorcing is the best thing to do after all."

"I think it is the best thing for us. I already arranged a good compensation for the years you lost with me. You won't have to worry about money or where to live or anything else as long as you stay out of my life. I also want you to stay away from Flora's love life. I'm not going to cut you of completely from her since you still are family."

"As if I want to have anything to do with the little lesbian now. She is NOT family." Greta said as she left the room. Jonah turned to the window with tears in his eyes. He couldn't believe that he now was finally free to tell Flora his terrible secret. He wouldn't blame her if she would not believe him or even walk out of her life too but she had to know that she was not the daughter of Greta. She had regularly asked why she never had a sister like other people. Now she would find out why. He walked out of the room and went up to Flora's room.

"Flora,there is something I have to tell you." He said as he looked at his daughter who was sitting next to Stormy on her bed. Flora looked at his face. She had seen him like that only once in the past and that was when she asked him about aunt Leia. He never told her how she died neither did her mother. She wondered what he had to tell now.

"What is it dad?" Flora asked as she got up but he told her to sit down again as he joined her on the bed.

"You asked me once how aunt Leia died, well.. I killed her." He said as he looked at Flora who looked at him with a surprised face.

"How did you do it?" She asked.

"By helping Greta during a lawsuit against her. Leia was actually your mother not the woman you called mum all these years. Greta wanted to take you away from your mother because your mother was a lesbian. She never considered how Leia would feel about it and once the judge ruled that you were better of with me and Greta your mother lost it. She could visit you but never reveal that she was your mother. In those days it was considered that a child growing up in a homosexual environment was not stable and since I was married to Greta instead of your mother she lost all parental rights. Astrid called me two days later to tell me she was dead. I never wanted her to take her own life but it happened. I did this to her. I told the judge that I wanted to raise you but I didn't want to split you and your mother up. I wanted to get shared custody over you but Greta pushed the boundaries and told them your mother was an instable person unable to take care of a child. In the end she got what she wanted but it came with a price for her too. I never slept with her again since our honeymoon. Now you know why you never had a sister. I 've decided to divorce Greta since she may do to you what she did to your mother." He told her. Flora was looking at him with a very surprised face. She couldn't believe what her father just told her.

"Dad this is not true, you 're lying." She gasped

"I 'm afraid he isn't Flora." Greta said as she entered the room "I didn't want you to grow up to become a lesbian like your mother. Well now that you are one like her I see that I have failed in my life's mission. I don't care about your dad walking out on me anyway. If he wants to stay with his lesbian daughter and let her stay with her little slut well that's his choice. I will never accept it. If you ever want to see me again break up with your girlfriend and find a decent husband. Then I will welcome you again in my life. Otherwise don't bother."

"But we 're family." Flora said

"Not any more." Greta said as she went out. Everyone in the room looked at her leaving Flora had tears in her eyes. In less then two hours her life as she knew it was turned upside down. She looked at her father knowing that he must feel bad about it too but now she was hurt too much to say anything. She laid her head on Stormy's shoulder and started to cry. Jonah went out of the room leaving them alone for a while.