"Fluff" Speaking
Fluff Thinking
Chapter 4 – Hi mom
Mrs. Mudou's eyes shone with contempt.
"What are you doing here?" She spat.
"Hi mom, it's nice to see you too." Sara's voice was calm, much calmer than she felt inside.
A bit of sadness made its way into Mrs. Mudou's expression when she looked her daughter in the eyes.
"Why?" She whispered. "Why him, Sara?"
"Because I love him, mom. You know that, you've known it for years."
Setsuna tightened his hold of her hand once again.
"Sara, let's go, this is not the place for this kind of discussion."
"Where do you think you're…" Their mother started.
Setsuna interrupted her. "We're going out of this restaurant. If you want to talk to us, you'll just have to follow."
With her mouth wide open, Mrs. Mudou stared after her children. The insolence of her sons
statement enraged her; how dared he speak to his mother like that?
For the moment she conveniently forgot that she usually refused to associate with him.
She quickly finished the last of her meal and more or less rushed out the door.
About a block away, she saw Sara and Setsuna waiting for her. Setsuna held her daughter in his arms and locked eyes with his mother; his eyes empty of any emotion.
"What do you want?" He asked rudely.
Sara slapped him lightly on the arm.
"Behave. You don't have to be nice, just behave." She said scoldering.
Setsuna took in a deep breath and nodded.
Mrs. Mudou saw the exchange between the couple and felt her anger rise.
"How dare you? How dare you show yourselves like this - don't you feel any shame?"
Sara looked fiercely at her mother.
"Why should we? We haven't done anything to be ashamed of."
"Nothing to be ashamed of! You, you…" Their mother almostlooked like she was having a seizure. She took a deep breath to calm herself.
Sara continued arguing.
"Who are you to judge us? Who are you to decide that what we're doing is wrong?"
For a moment, Mrs. Mudou didn't know what to say. Her daughter's temperamental defence of her love stunned her, but after a couple of seconds she was able to form sensible meanings again.
"Who am I to judge you? I'm your mother, that's who I am! Besides, the bible clearly says that it's wrong!"
Setsuna couldn't help but snort, especially at the last comment. At the sound, his mother reluctantly turned her attention to him.
"And what do you want?" She spat.
"What do you know about what God wants and thinks? Have you spoken to him? No? I didn't think so…"
His mother looked bewildered at him.
"Of course I haven't spoken to him! God doesn't speak with ordinary humans, only with priests."
A quiet laughter could be heard from the young lovers.
Her mouth twisted in disdain.
"And I suppose you two know exactly what he wants?"
Now the siblings couldn't hold in their laughter anymore and it just burst.
Mrs. Mudou looked perplexed at her children.
"What's wrong with you? Have you lost it completely?"
Setsuna and Sara laughed until they hardly could breathe anymore. They wiped the tears away from their eyes.
"No, mom," Setsuna said, emphasizing the last word, "we haven't gone crazy. Thank you for the laugh though – we really needed that". He couldn't help but smirk at her.
Mrs. Mudou felt her anger rise more and more for each passing moment. She couldn't believe how low her children had sunk; they also appeared to completely have lost their minds now.
Setsuna interrupted her thoughts.
"What do you want, mom?"
The question startled her. For a swift moment she didn't know what to say.
"What I want? I want my daughter back, I want to get her away from you and your incestuous influence – that's what I want!"
A flash of rage filled Setsuna's eyes.
"Still trying to separate us, eh? Haven't you learned by now that it's hopeless? We will never, ever leave each other again!"
Sara smiled at his expression and kissed him on the chin.
Mrs. Mudou felt disgust twirl around in her stomach when she saw the kiss.
"Disgusting!" She spat.
The siblings jerked at her outbreak.
"I can't believe I've given birth to two such… Despicable beings! I'm ashamed of being your mother, I am ashamed of even being part of your family." Her eyes shone of disgust and contempt.
"Then we don't need you either. We have our own family now!" Sara unconsciously laid a hand over her belly.
Her mother's eyes widened slowly as she started to understand what Sara were implying. She clapped her hands over her mouth.
"Oh God… Please don't say that…"
Sara stood straight and proud.
"Yes, it's true. I'm having a baby, and we're going to have our own family. We don't need you."
Setsuna held her protectively, as if to protect her from their mother's outburst that was sure to come.
"Detestable. How dare you! You will be sure to burn in hell for this!"
Setsuna smirked. Here it comes, he thought. The ordinary, self-righteous outburst from mom. She doesn't even know what she's talking about. Some images of Kurai and Kira flashed by in his mind and he couldn't help his lopsided grin.
Mrs. Mudou couldn't help her rage when she saw his smile – it was the last drop for her. She rushed forward and slapped him over the cheek.
Setsuna clenched his teeth and tried to control his temper. He let out somewhat of a growl.
His mother automatically took a couple of steps back.
"How dare you!" This time the outburst didn't come from Mrs. Mudou, but from her daughter. Sara stepped out from Setsuna's embrace and slapped her mother with all of her heart.
Mrs. Mudou's head snapped back at the force of the hit. She raised a shivering hand to her hurting cheek.
"You hit me…"
Now it was Sara's turn to snort.
"So you noticed? Of course I hit you - you hurt Setsuna! I'll never let anyone hurt him ever again."
She gripped Setsuna's hand and stormed away with him. Mrs. Mudou was left behind, dumbfounded.
"I can't believe she did that! How dare she!" Sara muttered curses between her angry remarks on their mother.
"Sara... Sara, it's okay. It didn't even hurt." He tried to calm her.
She disregarded his attempts to console her.
"It doesn't matter if it hurt or not, she has no right to hurt you!"
The teenage boy let out a deep sigh.
"No she doesn't, but it happened and there's nothing we can do to change it. Calm down now, this stress can't be good for the baby."
Sara's eyes widened and she gasped.
"Ah, the baby! I almost forgot... What kind of a mother am I?"
A couple of tears made their way down her cheeks. Her brother sighed quietly.
Oh joy, the wonderful mood swings...
He put an arm around her shoulders.
"You're going to be a great mother."
She looked up at him with tearful eyes.
"Do you really mean that?"
"Of course I do. Let's go home now."
Sara put an arm around his waist and smiled.
"Yeah, let's go home. Let's go to our home."
Mrs. Mudou still stood perplexed, as though she had been glued to the spot.
How... Why...? She hit me... She hit me. She couldn't believe how low her daughter had sunk. It was all his fault!
Her little innocent, sweet angel had been depraved by that monster. She was in the middle of whining to herself about the loss of her little girl when a thought strought her.
Oh my God... My children are having a child! She felt the nausea overflowing her, she emptied her stomach in a nearby bush.
No, it can't be, I refuse to let it be true. She is not having his baby!
A wicked grin grew on her lips as she tought of a way to seperate those two for good.
In an apartment not too far away, a young couple sat leaned against each other.
As they whispered loving words against each others lips they were unaware of the hardships that waited for them just around the corner.
Right here and now, all they knew was that they had each other – and for them, that was enough.
AN: And that's it for this time. I want to thank Cerridwene (as usual) for helping me with beta-reading. I also want to thank Squall'sScar again for helping me out with the intro.
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