One week has passed since our decision and now we're standing at the Tokyo airport and looking for my mom who wants to pick us up.
!"Takeru ! Dai !"
I was looking in the wrong direction, my mom is just a few meters behind us and waves at us.
!"Grandma !"
These are the moments I really love, when my son really acts like an 8-years-old again, just like now. It's impossible to hold him back, and I really don't try, and he runs with full-speed towards my mom. How I really missed to be here and to see my son this happy. I should've never done that mistake to move to England. I don't know if I can hold back my tears, but who cares…
"Hi mom…"
After minutes filled with hugs and tears my mom speaks up:
"So You two, better we get Your luggage and then head somewhere to get some food…"
There's no other opinion, so my mom takes care of Daisuke meanwhile I pick up our luggage, to be exact the first part of our luggage, the rest will follow in a few days. We've only taken with us all we need the next days. We have some food at a local restaurant in Odaiba and head to my mom's apartment…
"So, You two, this will be Your home the next days. Dai, You'll sleep in Your dad's old room and Takeru, You'll stay at the guest-room."
Everytime we were here we had this arrangement. I know that Dai loves this, he's this proud of me although I don't deserve this. I know that he deserves the truth, and I will tell him, but not before we're settled in…
I notice Dai yawning and knowing that he hasn't slept during the flight I decide to send him sleep. We'll have whole tomorrow for us except for a meeting with the principal of his new (my old) school. I thought it was better to give him a day off before he has to go back to school. I have two weeks off before I start working here. Most of the time I'm able to work at home except for two or three times a month when I've to attend to meetings an the office. These are much better conditions than I had in London, there I had to be five days per week at the office.
"Takeru ?"
"Yes mom ?"
"Have You found an apartment yet ?"
"I want to look in two days when Dai goes to school. Yet I've got a few offers and need to check them."
"Perhaps You're interested to get this one. I wanted to sell this anyway…"
"Why ? I thought You love this apartment ?"
"Just say it this way, I'm moving in in someone's apartment and we consider marriage…"
WHAT ???? It has to be someone special that she falls again in love after my dad…
"Who ?"
I notice her smirk evilly… It can't be, can it ?
"I think You know… We both finally solved our problems, and feeling lonely helped a little…"
Yes, she was lonely after me moving to London and Yamato to Florida. She even barely saw our children, her grandchildren. And that's the same with dad.
"Congratulations… I never thought that would happen in this life… About the apartment, it sounds good but I'll ask Dai tomorrow. I made many bad decisions in his life, now I try to make my decisions with him."
"Good idea, at least You learned of my mistakes…"
"Not really, I learned after my biggest mistake, the same mistake You and dad did. If I had waited two more days I didn't have to move. Just after signing my contract I received another offer for a work here in Tokyo…"
*** Changing POV ***
"Mom ? I can't sleep."
I see my tired daughter in the door of my bedroom standing with her stuffed Patamon in her hand. I still wonder why she has chosen a Patamon-doll and not a Tailmon. But then I understand when I look in her eyes. She has the same look in her eyes than her dad. How comes that I think about him so much the last days…
"Honey, come here." I pat on the free place on the bed. I still have a big bed, just to remind me what I've done eight years ago. I can't remember why I got angry that time. He wanted to earn enough to support us all, my money wasn't enough that time to feed us. We needed his job, but I didn't want to move away from Odaiba, to be honest I never lived anywhere else and was afraid what would await for us in London. How many times I wished that I'd apologize for my behavior that day but after his departure we lost contact and I was too afraid, too chicken to ask his parents or Yamato. The worst, Mimi doesn't know her dad or that she's got a brother. I feel like a betrayer, I betrayed her of one half of her family. I know that she deserves the truth, but I'm afraid that she'd hate me after telling her or that the shock would hurt her too much. The worst for me, I still love him, I never got over him…