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Chapter Twelve

The next day I called in a few favors and found out that Tea's father was dying of Cancer and he wanted to see her again. Her mother was calling everywhere she could to try to find her. I didn't know what to do, so I went to the one person who I knew that I could talk to about this because he knew her better then I really did, I went to talk to Solomon.

Solomon listened to what I had to say and then he said "you really have to tell her about her father and let her make up her own mind whether or not to go back and see her parents. If you keep this from her, she'll probably end up hating you and I know that you don't want that." I have tears in my eyes as I said to him "I can't lose them, they are my world and if they leave me" I couldn't go on and Solomon put his arm around me and then he asked me "does she love you with all her heart?"

I told him "yes." Then he said "then let her go if she wants to, because she will always come back." I knew that he was right, but my stupid selfishness didn't want to tell her at all. When I got home that afternoon, I asked Tea if I could talk to her and we went into the den and I closed and locked the door and then I told her "after making a few calls, I found out that your father is dying from Cancer and he wants to see both you and Samuel again." Tea closed her eyes and then she said "Seto, what am I going to do, Samuel is terrified of my father and I don't ever want him near him again, but he is my father and oh, I can't think right now."

Seto came over and sat beside me and he held me as I cried for all the hell that Samuel and I had to go through because of my parents, but they were still my parents. Then all of a sudden as if from up above the solution came to me and I looked up at Seto and I asked "is there anyway that I can you know video tape a message that could be sent to them? I just can't forgive them for what they did to us and I promised my baby that he'd never have to see or talk to them again and I won't go back on my word." Seto kissed me and then he said "I'll have a friend of mine come to Kaiba Corp tomorrow and together we will go there and you can tape your message to them and I will have it hand delivered and they will never know where both are."

I laid my head on his chest and listened to his heart beat and it soothed me and then I reached up and pulled his head down and I kissed him, I mean really kissed him. Seto lifted his head and he whispered "we have to go slowly, I want you as much as you want me but we will be married before we ever make love, is that clear?"

I smiled and said "yes, dear." That made us laugh and we unlocked the door and went to the kitchen to get some coffee and a piece of cake.

The next day I video taped my message to my parents.

I was standing in front of a green screen and then I said:

Mr. & Mrs. Gardner, this is to inform you that we no longer exist to either of you. We have disappeared off the face of the earth as you both suggested that we did. You can stop searching for either of us because we don't ever want to see or talk to either of you again. I'm sorry that Mr. Gardner has Cancer, but what does that have to do with either of us? You might call me a bitch or even worse, well I've call both of you those things too. This is the last time you will ever hear from me again. Stop looking, stop searching, we are dead!!!!

Good-bye and go to hell!!

When I was through I had tears running down my face but I wouldn't ever let them hurt my baby again. So the man took the tape and went to edit it and then have it hand delivered to my parents. We thanked him for helping us and then we went home.

On the way home, Seto suggested that "we might take both Samuel and Mokie and see if Helga would make us a picnic lunch and we could go to the park and spend the day there?" I wanted to jump for joy myself, we got out of the car and ran inside and went to talk to Helga. When we asked her, she smiled and said "I will have something ready in one hour." Then we went to find the boys and let them know what were planning.

Mokie and Samuel were as excited as we were and Mokie asked if they could take the ball? Seto said go get what you both want to take and meet us in the living room. I went to change clothes and put on a pair of short and a blouse and tennis shoes. When I got to the living room, Seto had changed too. He was wearing levis and a t-shirt under his shirt, and boy did he look good! When the boys finally got there, Helga had the basket ready and told us to go have fun.

We got to the park and found a huge tree with lots of shade and Seto and I laid down the blanket on the grass and Mokie and Samuel rang to play catch. I said "don't go to far away" and Seto told me "I'll go keep and eye on them." I sat there on that blanket and laughed till I almost wet my pants watching Seto and the boys play ball. They would tackle him and then he would tickle them and they would tickle him. I sat there thinking to myself, this is how a family really acts. I laid down on the blanket and looked up at the sky and then I sent a prayer to Greg asking him to be happy for us, to have found someone who loves us and now we have a family to love. All of a sudden it felt like it had started to rain, I sat up and the three of them had somehow brought along squirt guns and I was getting squirted but them. I got up and stood with my hands on my hips and trying to sound stern while trying not to laugh I said "not stop that right now!"

Samuel then squirted me as he laughing said "momma is funny isn't she?" Seto and Mokie agreed as they both squirted me more. I started chasing them and they might of gotten away if they weren't laughing so hard. Seto was the first to stumble and fall and I sat on him and said "you give up?" He laughed and then he got his strange look in his eyes as he said "never, I will never give either of you up." Then he kissed me. That's when the two boys started squirting us. Finally they were both laughing so hard that they both came over to us and Samuel said "momma, I'm hungry." So we went back to the blanket and got the food out and ate our lunch. Today was the best day of my life.

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