The next few days Alphonce started to spy on his step-mother. Watching her move around the house, making phone calls, and in the kitchen cooking an extra-large dinner in case the others were working late and were hungry. Other times he watch her while she was busy drawing inside her black notebook. Alphonce tried to sneak a peek inside, but quickly look away when her head turned to see him. She smile at him, but Alphonce soon turn to the other way looking at nothing and wouldn't stop until she was back focusing on whatever she was drawing in her notebook.

When the phone rang Kim quickly got up and left her notebook behind on the semi-broke chair. Alphonce quickly opened the notebook and saw drawings of people. He notice some were of his father's friends, cartoonish figures, and something other miscellaneous things he couldn't tell what it was. Alphonce notices one figure that brought him both a happy and sad feeling. The same figure appeared the most often across the page and several other pages.

Meanwhile, Kim was in the kitchen, speaking to her mother on the phone while she checked on dinner. Putting the stove heat low, she was careful when speaking to her mother about Alphonce. Kim felt guilty not telling her parents about her marriage to Murdoc the first time she told them when she and Murdoc entered her parents' home and told them about their eloping. She knew that they were still getting used to Murdoc after the first time they met him when they visited their daughter when she was working for Gorillaz. At first they thought Murdoc was a dirty man and slave driver for making their only daughter work so hard with simple chores any maid could do for cheaper pay. When she first took the job it was to help her study for her major between illustration and film, and mention in the job was to study production but instead it was Murdoc's plan to find someone to clean and cook for his band.

Still they trusted Kim on her decision to stick it to the end, what they didn't plan was that on their next visit was to hear she and Murdoc were dating. Again, they put their trust on Kim. When it came to their daughter eloping that pushed them away to see if they even know who their daughter was anymore. To their surprise Murdoc took the blame and asked that they don't be mad at Kim. He gave a heartfelt honest speech that he loves her and she loved him, that was true. Finally it won Murdoc and Kim, her parents' blessing, even if it was a little late. Now that Murdoc was gone, it was not as shocking for them to hear he had son and Kim was going to raise him. They still trusted Kim.

"I don't know, mom. Maybe he's not comfortable knowing that his father married before telling him anything. I mean," Kim stop her train of thought.

"Kim, you were a married woman and now you're a mother." Her mother spoke with a heavy accent. "Of course, does he seem alright," she asked.

"Russel said he might not be happy about the move," Kim answered. "I can't help think of staying or moving. New Jersey is my home and most of my jobs offers are close to New York and here, not so much."

"Then stay where you can get money to pay or do you just don't want to leave us because you think your dad and I would be free babysitters," her mother joked.

"Both," Kim answered truthfully while she stirred a bowl of cake mix for a surprise dessert. "Anyway, I want to be a good mother, but also I think maybe being away could help Alphonce about Murdoc."

After a few minutes passed and Kim hung up the phone. She poured the batter into the pan and placed it inside the oven to bake. Unknown to her, Alphonce was under the kitchen's table. He overheard the entire conversation. Alphonce didn't want to leave, but seeing how it upset Kim about being away from her parents, well he wasn't so sure now.

During dinner, everyone was home early because Kim had a special announcement and wanted them to be there to hear it. When she came back with the decorated cake, she served a piece of paper on a plate first. At first everyone was confuse until Russel picked it up and reads it. At first he couldn't believe it and then re-read it again until he was on his feet.

"You got Paula? You got her to sign!?" Russel exclaimed. 2D and Noodle got up in surprise to look at the paper. "How?"

"We just ran into each other. We talked and she was in a good mood and signed it," Kim answered.

Everyone cheer and shouted with excitement, except Alphonce. After a night a cheer and celebrate everyone was more relax knowing Alphonce was now safe. Alphonce was alone upstairs in his room. 2D came in and saw the boy under the covers.

"Alphonce, you alright?" Alphonce didn't say anything. "You went up so soon, you didn't even eat much. Are you sick?"

"You, Uncle Russel, and aunt Noodle don't want me here and it's because I look so much like my daddy," he sadly answers.

"What? No. We love you, very much," 2D told him. "We're just happy cause now you can get everything you need and Gregory have no holds on you no more."

"I want to stay here, with you and daddy," Alphonce openly pleaded.

"Aw, Alphonce. I know you miss your dad, so do we, but we're busy adults and Kim's a busy adult too. We can't always be there now since we're out working, with the money put to fix the flat and the bills, even if pooled what we earn together we can't afford much, like school," 2D truthfully answered.

"I can read and I'll learn to write. I don't need school, daddy said smarty people are wankers that don't fit well in this world. Another thing, why didn't daddy tell me anything about her? How do you know she won't turn out like Gregory," Alphonce asked.

"We've known Kim long before she and your dad started dating. In fact they couldn't stand each other. Murdoc would try to find many things for her to do and we thought it was unfair. It was bad enough she had to do all the laundry and cooking, but we all argued to him for making her pick up the dead zombie bodies we shot," 2D remembered.

"Really?" 2D pulls Alphonce to his boney lap, "Listen we love you very much and if you stay here, you might not get the things a good kid like you deserves, a loving home and a mother to raise you. I only hope you can understand."

"But I have a home and people to raise me, you," Alphonce cries a little.

"I know things with Gregory and Paula haven't been well, but we're telling the truth that things will be different if you go with Kim. Besides she knows a lot of things about your dad and I'm sure she'll tell you lots of stories about him," 2D told him.

Alphonce still wasn't too sure. Even if Kim could tell him things about his dad, Alphonce didn't felt good about leaving him. 2D tugs Alphonce to bed. "You'll be doing things your daddy would have wanted for you," 2D tried once more.

"Would daddy mind if I do go with her?" "I think he would be happy for you to have a loving mother, he might even wished he was that lucky. You know that he grew up without one and to tell you something else I'm surprise Paula let you go too," 2D confessed.

It was true when Kim confessed to them that she called her, they pictured things different, but Kim only told the truth what happened. Kim wanted to talk, one mother to another kind. At first Paula acted she didn't care, but Kim sense maybe she was lying to protect herself from being hurt. They shared a few drinks, Paula smoked and offer one for Kim, but she decline and tried again. Paula insisted she knew that when she left Alphonce to Murdoc, it was for the better, but when he was gone she needed another father to replace him, thus Gregory. She said things went well at first but with Alphonce back in her care things changed. Gregory become rough and Paula want to change that, so she left them to be looked after by the reminding members of the Gorillaz band. Paula admitted that since Gregory is in jail, she's thinking better, and she got curious about Kim's relationship with Murdoc. Kim only told her, that they just bonded and that grew into something more. Paula said she was surprise to hear Murdoc knew the word 'marriage' or 'commitment'. As they talked Kim went back to the papers she brought to sign. Paula tried to grab the pen Kim held, but Kim pulled back fast and asked Paula one final question, would you like to see Alphonce before he takes off. Paula didn't say anything. Kim couldn't read the expression on Paula's face. She could guess if she was thinking of an excuse to use or shock to hear Kim giving her permission to see Alphonce once more.

Paula reached for the pen and signed her name across the dotted line. She looked at Kim and made her promise not to tell anyone her answer. Kim promised.

"I don't know what I thought of it, but I thought maybe Paula would be a little heartbroken to see you go, but then again she always think differently," 2D sadly spoke.

2D stayed until Alphonce was asleep. He looks around the room, something told him to look through a trash bag left behind. Carefully he shifts through the rubble inside until something caught his dark pitch eyes. He cleaned it up and pick bits of wood splinters and glass off. He smiled at his find and leaves the room.