Children of the Mirror 3: Acceptance
...Twenty-first Part: Dark...
I had convinced Emiko to let Krad remain in her house in peace until we found somewhere else to live. All the while, she kept trying to convince me to stay, but I wasn't going to give in. I was living with Krad and the girls, and that was all there was to it.
Needless to say, we got some awkward looks when we were out house-hunting. It's not every day two extremely sexy guys come looking for a house – in which they will live together, with their twin daughters, who are – in some odd form – psychics.
"Meikano likes this house!" she declared one day. She had figured that out just as we walked through the door of one possibility.
"Rita does, too!" Rita agreed, looking all around the room we were in.
The woman who was selling the house looked at the girls puzzlingly. "Do they say that for every house?" she wondered.
I shook my head. "This is the only one, actually."
"But... how can they know what they like if they can't see?"
Meikano turned her head up toward the woman stubbornly. "Meikano can see just fine, thank you!" she said, nodding once. "Hmph." She took Rita's hand and they went to take a look around.
"Long story," I told the realtor, who was watching, dumbfounded, as the girls ran through the nearest doorway.
The woman nodded slowly, and then began to tell us all about the house.
. . .
I may be claimed for life, now, but I was still good with women. By the end of our tour, I had figured out a lot about her, and instead of thinking our little family peculiar, she was curious. The three of us stood in the kitchen, just talking and waiting for the girls to finish their own evaluation and meet back with us.
"So... how did you guys get together?" she wondered.
"That's kind of a long story, too," Krad told her.
I laughed. "Yeah, it is."
"I suppose I have some time," she commented, glancing at her watch.
Giving Krad a contemplative look, I stuck to the basics. Looking back at the realtor, I gestured toward Krad with my thumb. "He just wouldn't leave me alone. We fell in and out of love a couple times, and now here we are," I summarized.
"Something like that," Krad said, sliding an arm around my waist.
"Daddy!" Meikano came running into the room, then, dragging her sister behind her. "Meikano thinks this house is perfect!" she exclaimed.
Krad picked Rita up and set her on the counter. "What do you think about it?" he asked her.
"Rita loves it!" she said. "And Rita found a wonderful room for Dark and Krad, too!"
"So... What's the verdict?" the realtor asked us, smiling at the girls' enthusiasm.
I looked at Krad and he nodded. "I think we'll take it," I told her.
And so... we had a house.