Disclaimer: It still isn't ours.
A/N: This chapter is really short, but the next will be up soon.
Enjoy!
VIII. One Step Closer to a Family
Jaz sat at the dinner table, looking at her parents in confusion. They never talked at dinner. It was usually a quiet affair of forks clinking against plates, the sound of chewing and swallowing.
Today they were talking, they were laughing and smiling at each other, something Jaz had not seen before. They were usually cold and reserved towards each other; they usually sat at opposite sides of the table. Tonight they were completely opposite of the usual.
It scared her a bit.
After dinner, they took the dishes off the table and went to the kitchen to wash them together. Daddy never did that, Daddy usually took Jaz to bed after dinner and read her a bedtime story. She walked into the kitchen after her parents and pull on her father's pant leg. "Daddy, it's time for my bedtime story," she said.
"Can you wait until I finished helping mummy?" he had the audacity to ask.
"Go ahead," her mother said to her father. "You can dry when you get back."
"You sure," he asked.
"I don't want you breaking your promises to Jaz just because a little has changed between us," she smiled and Jaz realized that mummy didn't want to take him away, mummy was going to share and that meant that she would have to share, too.
She wouldn't have Daddy as much, but at least now mummy would be part of the family.
Strawberry Lemons!
Brittany and Amber