Hey guys! Sorry if this chapter is so short. Today is my last final, so I will be able to post more (Hopefully), but if I don't before then, Mele Kalikimaka iā ʻoukou! Merry Christmas to you all(:

I made a little Flashback for you folks, hope you enjoy this chapter.

Tasia and her father just finished having dinner together. Being that the older man works on the other side of the island; he spends the week there and comes home for the weekend. It's been a few months since her father started working in Ka`u, and at first her mother was home, but as weeks went by, the older woman was slowly walking away from Tasia's life.

"Can we take food to mom? I don't know if she's been eating," the eleven year old Tasia asked her father on the way to their car.

The older man nods his head and drives to their destination once they got in.

They got to Wailoa state park, and Tasia jumped out of the car with a take-out bag of food then she walks across the green grass. Her father shone the headlights so she could see as she makes her way towards the biggest pavilion in the park where she's sure her mother is.

She walked closer to the other end of the pavilion where there was a group of people. She grimaced at the smell of alcohol and even more so when she saw a couple in the corner that seemed to be making out, but it was too dark to tell. Tasia shook her head with a disgusted frown and adjusted her eyes to see if she could see her mother.

"Hello hun, who you looking for?" a woman asked gently to the young girl.

"I-I'm looking for my mom, Terri."

The woman sits up straighter and lightly back hands at another woman, who happens to be one of the two in the corner.

Tasia furrows her brows and shakes her head, thinking to herself, 'no way!'

"Terri! It's your daughter!"

The other woman jumps up from her spot and the man she was sitting next to turned his back to the girl, "Tasia! What are you doing here?" she said walking to her daughter, wrapping an arm around small shoulders and pulling her away back to the entrance of the pavilion.

"I-I wanted to bring you something to eat…"

"That's sweet honey, thank you."

As they were walking back towards the car in the parking lot the older woman asks her daughter lowly, "Did you see anything?"

Tasia shook her head, "See what?"

The mother nods, "Nothing."

The young girl sits back in the car, trying to hold her tears while her mother greets her father as if they were still the happy couple she remembered, but she knows now what's really going on.

"Basically, I caught my mom having an affair with another man. I later found out he was also my father's first cousin. My parents still don't know to this day that I found out on my own. But eventually, we got used to it. Although my father wanted to get a divorce, he knew that this other man couldn't provide my mother with what she needed, so he didn't have the heart to let her go in that sense." During Tasia's story the younger brunette's head was comfortably nestled on her companion's shoulder while Ruby's arm found its way around her imprint.

"Wow, that's crazy. How are your parents with each other now?" Ruby asks gently, unconsciously rubbing her hand over the younger woman's shoulder.

"My mother passed away a year after I graduated, and my father, he moved to Kaua`i once he retired."

"Do you have any siblings?" keeping the conversation light, yet Ruby wanted to know everything about her imprint.

"I have an older brother, and, he has a family of his own. We don't really talk because he's always busy with his own life. I get it though."

The raven haired woman gave Tasia a soft smile, "Do you miss them?"

"Of course, but like I said, they have their own lives and so do I. But I do wish I could call them up to say Hi, but your Mayor magically grounded me from using my phone, so I don't blurt out my situation," the younger woman pouted, crossing her arms.

With a giggle Ruby pulled her imprint closer, "Everything will work out eventually."

Tasia sighs in content, and closes her eyes as her head is still laid on Ruby's shoulder.

Looking down at the younger brunette, the blue eyed woman blushed lightly at the contact, but made no move and instead, took advantage by laying her head on soft brunette curls. And for the next few hours, both women stayed in that position, enjoying each other's company until it was time to go to work.

Just like the day before, the two women walked into the diner with their arms linked and giggling lightly to each other.

"Hey Tasia!" Henry hops off of his stool at the bar and skips over to his housemate with a grin.

"Hi Henry, what brings you here so early? Where are your moms?"

"Ma told me about what happened earlier today and I wanted to see how you are doing," the young boy says with a shrug.

"That's so sweet of you. As you can see I'm perfectly fine," Tasia says and ruffles his hair, making Henry chuckle as she walks pass him to grab her apron, "You want a cinnamon hot cocoa?"

"Yes please!"

Emma walks into the diner just as Henry is finishing his beverage and homework, "Hey kid, you almost done here?"

With a nod and a close of his books, he puts his belongings away into his backpack, "Hi ma, just finished."

"Hey Emma, how's it going?" The young brunette waitress walks over towards the duo.

The blonde smile with a wave, "Hey, Regina has decided to make dinner tonight, I'll make sure to leave some out for you."

"There's no need, I'll probably eat something from here, but thank you though. Maybe next time."

Emma nods, placing a hand on her son's shoulder as the he gets down from his stool, "Sure," the blonde says with a smile and they both mother and son walk out of the diner.

Shortly after Emma and Henry walked out of the diner, Snow and David comes in with their little prince and almost immediately, the younger brunette rushes towards the stroller then lifts him up (with the permission of Snow of course), "Hello Handsome!" she coos. The two royals laugh at the woman's enthusiasm and watching at how great she is with Neil. With little squeals of happiness from their son, Tasia kisses his chubby cheeks, "Who's a cutie?" she asks the baby, holding him out at arms' length and bringing him back to rub her nose against his with her own giggles, "You are!" she hugs the child tightly, but with gentleness before laying him back into his stroller, "Hi MM, David, just let me know when you folks are ready and I'll help you out alright?"

The couple smiles at the younger woman and Snow says, "Thank you Tasia, we'll wave you down," and they made their way over to their usual booth straight ahead.

With a nod Tasia moves on to another customer with a skip to her step.

"She looks a lot more carefree today," the pixie haired brunette says to her husband, and with a nod David agrees.

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