Happy Mother's Day! This one goes out to all the Moms out there!
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Wanda POV
I was holding onto the bottom two legs of the ladder with dear life, trying not to let it rock from side to side, but it was very exhausting work. Ian was up at the top cleaning a few mirrors in that spot, but every time that he shifted his weight around to reach another one the entire ladder swayed with the movement. It was taking every ounce of muscle that I had to keep the enormous thing still and I was pretty sure that I wasn't doing the best job on the planet.
"Hey stranger," a deep voice said from directly behind me and I jumped about a mile in my spot, which effectively swayed the ladder around and I desperately tried to stop its movement.
"Woah!" Ian called from the top of it where I could see that he was hanging on for dear life and I recognized Jared's chuckle as he leaned forwards, reaching around me to place his hands on the legs of the ladder and helped me to anchor it until it stopped shifting.
"Was there something you needed?" I asked, once he'd deemed it okay to let go and take a few steps away from me. I turned around to face him, giving him a bit of a glare; the best one that I could come up with and I was sure that it was pretty lame.
"Yeah, I'm looking for Ian," he said, glancing up the ladder where Ian had resumed working now that everything was balanced out again. I leaned back against it gently to further brace it and shrugged.
"Why?" I was very curious about what they were up to, since Ian had been pulled away by them more than one time in the last two days and I really wanted to know.
"Because I just need him. Hey, O'Shea!" Jared hollered up to Ian and I saw a few people stare at us because of his little outburst and I started flushing a nice colour of red. I looked up at Ian and saw that he was grinning at us and then I felt the ladder start to shake as he began his descent to the ground.
"What do you want?" Ian hollered once he was a little closer to the ground and I moved out of the way so that he could come all the way down. Once his feet were firmly on the dirt, he took a step towards me to wrap an arm around my waist, to which I responded by leaning into his side a little bit.
"Can you walk with me? I've got something to ask you," Jared said and the two of them exchanged a significant glance before Ian started nodded, all seriousness gone from the conversation.
"Sure. Wanda, I'll catch up with you in a few minutes, okay? Why don't you take a break and then we can continue," Ian suggested, kissing the side of my head and released his hold on me. As they started walking away from me I gathered a little courage and ran after them.
"Where do you guys keep disappearing to?" I asked and they stopped in their tracks. I saw Jared visibly sigh and murmured something about meeting up with Ian before taking off. Ian rotated on the spot until he was facing me and his expression nearly made me melt inside, but I remained strong; he was trying to woo me and I wasn't going to fall for it; I really wanted to know.
"We're not disappearing anywhere, Wanda," he tried to reassure me, but I just shook my head.
"Why are you keeping these secrets? I can handle whatever it is, I'm not as totally incapable of things as you seem to think that I am, you know," I said, getting frustrated that they were trying to deceive me like that and frankly, I was fed up.
"Wanda," Ian laughed once, purely out of disbelief that I was finally calling him on all of it and he took my face in his hands gently, pulling me closer to his warm body. "I don't think that you aren't capable of anything at all! Jared's just been wanting my opinion on something related to his wedding and I've been helping him out with it, that's all."
"And Kyle?" I asked, avoiding looking directly into Ian's eyes because I knew that they would be my undoing and I needed to remain firm with him if I wanted to know.
"Believe it or not, he needs Kyle's opinion as well," Ian half laughed and I looked at him with my eyebrows raised, not believing that at all.
"Nobody in their sane mind needs Kyle's opinion on anything to do with their relationship," I responded, biting my lip. His excuse seemed legitimate; minus the whole Kyle helping thing, but Kyle was always nosy like that and didn't like to be left out of people's business, so it wouldn't have surprised me if he was sneaking off just to know what was going on.
"Amen to that," Ian whispered, kissing my cheek and making me blush. "Okay?" I nodded reluctantly and he kissed the other cheek. "Good. I'll be back before you know it. Seriously though, sit down and relax for a minute."
"Fine," I relented and he let go of my cheeks to turn and start jogging off in the direction that Jared had disappeared in and I watched him until I could no longer see Ian's retreating back. I then decided to take Ian's advice and sat down on the ground by the ladder we were using to wait for him to return. Even though I didn't like taking a break, I didn't know what else that I could have done in that time.
Since I had no concept of time in the caves, I didn't know how long he had been gone but I was starting to get bored. I looked up and watched a few people walking by, but once they gazed down at me, I immediately turned my focus onto something else away from them. To my immense relief, Lily spotted me and came skipping over, but when I noticed that she had Paige and Andy with her I became a little wary of them. Paige was still okay towards me, but Andy had never been forgiving to me from the very start of my life in the caves.
"Hi Wanda!" Lily chirped as the group got closer to me and I smiled back, starting to stand up, but she plopped herself down on the ground anyways so I stayed right where I was.
"Hey Lily! Hi Paige," I replied, nodding towards Andy, who didn't respond and looked like he'd rather be anywhere else. I didn't blame him though; it was only his natural feelings that he was expressing and he had every right to.
"What are you doing sitting here all alone?" Lily inquired, giving me a questioning look. "Usually you're like attached to Ian at the hip."
"I know," I responded, shrugging my shoulders. "He left a little while ago to go and discuss something with Jared about the wedding or something like that. Jared's been pulling him away to talk about a lot of stuff; it kind of makes me believe that something is wrong."
"Mmmn, I don't think that anything is wrong," Paige piped up and I turned to face her as she was sitting on my other side. "It's probably just jitters or something. Jared's bound to be nervous, though he really doesn't have a need to be, you know? I mean, the hard part is over and she's already said yes. Unless he's done something completely horrendous they'll be fine."
"That's very true," I replied, nodding my head when I felt Lily's arms wrapped around the top of my shoulders and she hugged me tight.
"He'll be back soon, you know. There's nothing to worry about," she whispered and I frowned at her.
"How did you know that I was worried?" I asked, a little dumbfounded that she knew what I was thinking.
"You just had that look on your face. Anyways, we just wanted to let you know about what's happening tonight, because I didn't think that anyone had told you just yet," she continued on and I nodded as Lily slowly released her hold on me.
"No, I haven't heard a thing about what's going on," I said, looking between the pair of them before glancing at Andy, who wasn't even looking in our direction.
"Well, Jeb came and told us today that it's Mother's Day and we've decided to hold a little impromptu ceremony of sorts to sort of commemorate our mothers," Paige exclaimed and I nodded; it certainly sounded interesting. "We'll do it after dinner in the games room. Andy's been digging through our old supplies and has found enough candles for everyone, so we won't have to worry about lighting or anything either."
"That sounds great!" I said enthusiastically, and it did, I just wasn't too sure what a Mother's day was but I wasn't about to ask; I could find out later.
"Awesome, so we'll see you then?" Lily checked and I nodded in agreement; I would be there for them at least. "Perfect! Well, we've got to keep going and spreading the word, so we'll talk to you later!"
The three of them stood up and I got to my feet as well before they departed. I stared up the ladder contemplating whether or not I could finish the job that Ian had started way up there and I almost went on up, but then I decided at the last second that it would be way too dangerous, and we didn't need a casualty in the caves. Instead, I decided to help out by cleaning the lower mirrors that we were going to tackle the next day, as it didn't require someone to hold a ladder or anything. I grabbed the cloth and cleaning solution that Ian had been using and made my way over to the lowest ones that I could find. I covered the cloth with the solution, glad that I had decided on the more eco-friendly green stuff, as I couldn't stand the smell of the chemicals that were in the other stuff and tried to reach the mirror, but it was too high for me. I looked around, spotting an empty crate off to the side so I set my cloth down and brought it over; the extra boost that it gave me allowed me to get most of the low mirrors done by the time that Jeb called out that it was dinner time.
I was shocked that it was that time already, but a quick glance up at the light still filtering down through the holes in the ceiling confirmed the lateness of the day; it was nearly dusk and the sky was a reddish colour that nearly blended in with the red rock above my head. I began to slowly collect the things that I had been using and gathered them all up into the crate that I was using to stand on, leaving it just underneath the ladder so that we could pick up where we'd left off the next day. I turned around on the spot and watched as quite a few people walked through the main cavern and then down the hall towards the kitchens. I wanted most everyone to be in there before I entered so that I could grab my food and ignore their stares. I supposed that the real reason some people were a little resentful was because nobody had really been told the real story of what went down other than the people directly around me. In a way, they had a right to be wary of me.
I noticed someone waving in my direction so I turned my head from side to side to see if anyone was responding to them, but when no one else was around I realized that they had to be communicating with me. I had no idea who it was, but I began lightly jogging over to the person, not even breaking a sweat in the process despite the fact that they were on the complete other side of the room; all of my soccer practising with Ian that we had been doing was clearly paying off. Once I got closer, I broke out into a wide grin as I realized that it was Jamie who was standing there waiting for me.
"Hey Jamie! What are you doing here?" I greeted him, slowing my pace to stop right beside him.
"I was on my way to dinner and I wanted to make sure that you were coming, that's all," he replied. "So are you going to join us? I heard that Lucina was going to make her famous spaghetti!"
"Of course I'm coming down, I was just hanging around to see if Ian was going to come back or not, but I don't see him yet," I replied, looking around us one more time before I shrugged and Jamie held out his elbow for me to slip my arm through. I obliged and together we made our way up to the kitchen area.
"How come Lucina's spaghetti's so famous?" I asked Jamie as to my knowledge she had never made it whenever I was around, and I'd been in the caves for a significant amount of time.
"Well, she only really makes it when there's a raid or something, so I'm not sure if you've had it or not," Jamie explained and I shook my head. "It's really good! Although it never has any meat in it or anything like a real meat sauce, she makes it with those canned tomatoes, which she says aren't as good as fresh ones, but there's only so much we can do you know?"
"Sounds good," I commented, my mouth watering a tiny bit at the mention of her cooking; anything that Lucina made was really good and I was all of a sudden hungry as ever.
"Oh, and don't worry about Ian, he'll be there!" Jamie said, nodding his head and smiling at me. "There is no way that he or Jared would miss spaghetti night for the world, especially since they're home for once when she's making it. But I bet that he will be mad that he didn't get to walk into the mess hall with a pretty girl on his arm."
"Jamie!" I said while laughing and I knew that he was just teasing me. "Of course he will be." It was funny to see Jamie growing up so fast; the way that he talked and acted, he just wanted to be considered a part of the adults' group, but neither Melanie nor I wanted him to act more than the child he was. The time would come eventually when we'd have to accept that he was indeed a grown up, but none of us were ready for that time just yet.
Jamie and I talked and laughed about our days until we reached the kitchen and I immediately started looking around for Ian. I spotted him almost immediately, and just about at the same time that he saw me, for we both broke out into silly grins at about the same time. Ian rose from his seat beside Kyle as we got closer to him and wrapped me up in a giant hug.
"What was that for?" I asked as he gently set me back down on the ground. "Not that I'm complaining or anything."
"That was for being away from you for too long, and for leaving you to do the rest of the mirror work. I hope that you didn't scale that ladder though," he said with a stern look on his face and I rolled my eyes while shaking my head at him.
"I considered it for a minute," I admitted, shrugging my left shoulder. "But then I decided against it, seeing as how you probably wouldn't want to scrape me off of the dirt floor when I fell or something."
"Good," Ian said, kissing my forehead. "And just for the record, I don't want you to ever have to climb up that ladder; it's too rickety and I don't want to take that chance with you. You're too precious to me to risk that."
"Get a room!" Kyle hollered out from behind Ian and I immediately began to blush a deep shade of red. It was then that I noticed that the room was essentially silent and all eyes were on our little interaction. Ian swirled around at that point to give Kyle a piece of his mind and I closed my eyes to block out the other's stares.
"Well, now that Wanda and Jamie are here, let's eat!" Mel said enthusiastically, standing up out of her seat before reaching down to tug on Jared's arm. She also reached for Jamie's hand and pulled them all towards the front of the room where Lucina was serving the dishes up.
Once Ian finished with whatever he was saying to Kyle, he wrapped an arm around my waist and led me up to the little line behind Jamie to wait for our food. As he nuzzled his nose in my hair, I looked over at Brandt, who was glaring at us until I stared right back and he dropped his gaze to his food. I turned my head towards Ian's so that my lips were right beside his ear.
"Did you get everything sorted out?" I whispered and I felt Ian's head nod up and down before he pressed a small kiss to my neck. Luckily my hair covered what he was doing, but I still nudged his head up with my hand all the same.
"Yeah, we did for now. Jared's just getting nervous about everything, that's all," he whispered right back and we took a step forwards as the line moved ahead a spot.
"Paige doesn't know how he can be so nervous about everything," I said and he smirked.
"Oh yeah? Why is that?"
"She thinks that because Melanie's already said 'yes' to him that he's got nothing to worry about. There's no way that she will ditch him any time soon, she's wanted this with him for too long," I added the last part on, as I had known it from the time that I spent in her body.
"Well, all the same, I think that it's normal for any guy to get nervous as the date gets closer. You know, they don't want the girl to end up being a runaway bride or something," Ian said, shrugging his shoulders.
"I'm sorry, a runaway what?" I asked, frowning in confusion and Ian chuckles at my expression, taking his thumb and smoothing out the creases between my eyes.
"Runaway Bride was my mom's favourite movie. It was about a girl who would run from her fiancé's at the last possible second, basically. My mom would always cry whenever Julia Roberts ran out on Richard Gere at their wedding. And then again when they actually got married in the end," he added, looking far away and seeming to remember that time in his life.
"And I'm assuming that Richard Gere and Julia Roberts were actors or something?" I asked, trying to recall if I had ever learned anything about them, but I was drawing up a blank.
"Yeah, they were. My mom loved every movie that Julia did, so we had her entire blue-Ray collection in our living room and she would have 'chick-flick' days to herself where she'd sit with an entire bowl of popcorn and a box of tissues and watch as many as she could," Ian recalled, smiling in remembrance. "My mom really needed another girl in the family, really."
"I'm sure that she loved you both all the same though," I pointed out and Ian nodded as we took another step closer to the counter and I heard his stomach rumble a bit and he laughed a little embarrassed at the fact, but I simply shrugged.
"Yeah, she did. Probably loved me a lot more than my idiot brother though," Ian said a little louder and we were both shoved forwards by Kyle then and I laughed. I loved the camaraderie between the brothers when they weren't trying to rip each other's throats out about something. Together, Ian and I stumbled to the counter as Jamie had moved out of the way then.
"Two please," Ian said a little breathlessly to Lucina, who smiled and nodded at him before skipping her eyes over me entirely and fixing our plates. Ian reached over to the bin by his side and grabbed two buns out of it, ready to place them down on our plates.
Lucina placed the two plates on the counter in front of us and Ian put the bun down on the first plate before frowning down at the second plate that was in front of me and then glaring at Lucina. I looked down at them, not seeing what was clearly making him upset about something until I looked at the portion sizes; his was a bit bigger than normal as it usually was, but mine probably averaged out to a little less than half a cup. Just as he was about to open his mouth to argue with her, I took the bun out of his hand and scooped up my plate, along with cutlery for the two of us and walked out of the line, standing off to the side to wait for him. Ian gaped at me before he shook his head, grabbed his plate and made his way over to me. As he got nearer, I turned and started to head back to where Mel, Jared, Jamie and Sunny were seated.
On our way back, Ian stopped to say hi to Geoffrey, Travis, Ruth Ann and Violetta. He greeted them and they responded, but did not look in my direction at all throughout the short conversation that he had with them. I had tuned them out and wasn't paying attention at all when Ian nudged my side and I started listening again.
"Wanda would be a great help with that, I'm sure Violetta. She knows exactly where we keep that," Ian said and I had no clue what they were talking about, but I nodded all the same.
"It's okay," Violetta responded, keeping her eyes locked on Ian's so that they were away from me. "I'm sure that I can find it on my own."
"Nonsense! If you just went down with her after dinner, then..."
"No, I'll really be fine," she interrupted him harshly and I took that as my cue to tug him away and back to our table. I finally peeled him away from them and noticed the stares in our direction and I could feel them on my back the whole way to our seats. Ian sat down first and proceeded to take a fork from my hand and scoop some of his pasta onto my plate.
"What are you doing?" I asked, trying to push him away and stop it, but he was still stronger than I was and scooped a few more strands out.
"I don't know what the heck is up with that, but you definitely need more food than she gave you," he responded, shaking his head. "That was ridiculous! Do you always get small portions from her?"
"I'm not going to be able to eat that much, take it back," I replied, ignoring his question and moving my plate closer to his to put it back, but he just slid his out of my reach.
"Yes you can eat that," Mel piped up and I rolled my eyes at her.
"If you don't I'm sure that we could easily find someone else to help you out," Kyle added and I sighed, admitting defeat as I forked a bit of food and started chewing on it. I had to admit; it certainly was delicious and a welcome change from the normal boring pasta that we had every once in awhile.
"Why is everyone glaring at you?" Ian asked and I looked up at him before following his gaze to see Travis, John, Stanley and Carol whip their heads back down to their food at the sight of me spotting them. The same thing happened with a few other people and I just shrugged.
"Don't worry about it," I replied, touching his arm lightly.
"No, seriously though. What is up with that? I've noticed it for about the last month, but I thought that it was some petty little thing that a few people had going on. Now it seems to be the majority of the group," Jared added and I closed my eyes. I was really hoping that Ian would never notice them and it would all just disappear, but luck was never on my side.
"What do you mean a month?" Ian asked incredulously. "Why didn't anyone say anything to me? This is very silly if you ask me."
"Yeah, well," I said lamely before Ian pretty much growled and shoved his half-eaten plate aside at me. Luckily I caught it just before it smashed into mine and I poured the rest of my food onto it so that I could stack them on top of each other. Just as I was about to ask what was going on, the rocky table thumped as Ian stood on top of it facing the room of people and it was instantly silent.
"Hey! What the heck is going on here with Wanda?" he shouted out so that everyone could hear him and his voice echoed off of all the walls. "Why are most of you glaring at her behind her back? I don't get this; I thought that everything was fine."
"Maybe for you!" Maggie's voice shouted back at him and I groaned; this was going to turn into a fight, I just knew it. "The rest of us don't know what to believe, so sorry for acting wary around her!"
"What do you mean you don't know what to believe, it's been like five months since that happened!" Ian replied, exasperated and I ran my hands through my hair looking at Mel for help, but she just shook her head.
"Who is it really in there?" Carol asked and most people murmured in agreement and then it all clicked; they weren't mad at me for what happened, per say, they were just scared about who was actually living with them for all that time.
"It's Wanda!" Ian said, looking down at me.
"How do we know that for sure?" Lacey asked, and I saw Jared visibly roll his eyes at her comment before he stood up on his seat between Jamie and Melanie.
"Did anyone explain to you what happened?" he inquired and the crowd answered 'no' for the most part. "Wanda?" he looked down at me and I shook my head; there was no way that I was getting up there to explain everything.
"Well shit," Jared swore and I heard Sunny audibly gasp at the language, but I only flinched a little bit. "Mel, will you help me explain it?"
"I will!" Jamie said enthusiastically, but we all answered no before he could get his hopes up even further.
Melanie agreed and stood up with Jared while Ian sat back down beside me and they began to tell the story about what had happened since I was taken to the point where they rescued me and I came back to the caves. The whole time, Ian held my hand and his thumb traced circles over my knuckles, but I was pretty sure that it was more for his sake than mine; I wasn't really nervous about anything. After they finished, I chanced a glance around and saw more than one sympathetic face looking at me and I knew that they were over it. A few, mainly Sharon, Maggie, Brandt and Andy, still showed some resentment, but I was sure that it would never change, no matter how long I lived with everyone down there.
When everything was cleared up, both with my situation and the dishes from the meal, we all began to walk down to the games room. Jamie and Mel ran ahead, excitedly racing each other to see who could get their first and Jared followed, but at a slower pace. We lost Sunny and Kyle somewhere in the crowd, but it didn't really matter; w would all end up in the same space. Ian didn't say much to me the whole way down there, but nothing much needed to be said between us and I didn't really want to talk when we were surrounded on all sides by people. At the entrance to the cave, we were handed a white candle stick by Doc, who smiled at us as we filed inside. Ian chose a spot for us to sit over by the door a little ways away from anyone else, so we were kind of on our own. Lily joined us, as did Kyle and Sunny eventually and I could spot Mel and Jared a few feet away in the darkness with Jamie close, but not too close to them.
As soon as everyone was situated in a spot, the candles started being lit until the entire cave was filled with the glowing light. It was kind of a magical look and the way that the light glowed off of the walls and the ceiling gave everything a bit of an eerie aura to it. I was a bit excited to see what would happen next. Doc's voice began to float through the space then, addressing everyone.
"As you all know, it's Mother's Day, so we thought that we would take the time to honour our mothers as many of us do not have them here with us today," he started off with a sombre tone. "It doesn't matter if our mothers were alive or not during the takeover, they still should be remembered in the best way possible."
Doc continued to speak, but I couldn't concentrate and I began to look over at the people around me. Some of them had their eyes closed, their heads bent down to the ground and I could see pain etched onto their faces. Others were listening to Doc speak, nodding their heads at what I was assuming was the right times. From where I was sitting, I could see that Heidi was crying. I instantly felt sick and stood up from where I was seated, running from the room as fast as I could while blowing out my candle at the same time.
I continued to run up the maze of the passageway that led to the room until I got to the moonlit main room that opened up in front of me. I stopped running then and leaned against the wall beside the entrance, sliding down the whole way to the ground until I was crouched there. I dropped the candle, letting it roll away from me as I thought about what I had just witnessed; they were essentially mourning in there. The majority of the inhabitants of the cave didn't have their mothers with them, just the memories from before everything happened and it cut me to the core knowing that. I heard footsteps rapidly coming closer to me and I tried to stay as quiet as possible so that they wouldn't notice me there and continue on their way. Unfortunately, I didn't have much luck as they slowed once the person entered the main plaza.
"There you are, Wanda!" Ian said breathlessly and I looked up to see him walk around to my right side and sit down beside me. "Care to explain what that was about?"
"I couldn't stay," I croaked out, looking up at him. "When Lily mentioned the Mother's Day thing to me, I didn't know what it was, so I went mainly out of curiosity. I didn't think that it would be like a massive funeral for everyone's mothers."
"It wasn't though; it was just a time to remember our mothers as they were before..."
"Before everything happened, right?" I interrupted and he nodded.
"Well, yeah. Nobody can remember a time before that, unless they were there when their moms were taken or something. And nobody wants to replay that in their heads, trust me," Ian said gently. "But why couldn't you stay?"
"Don't you see? The reason that you're not all with your mothers is because of me!" I said to him, trying to make him get my point. "If we hadn't invaded this planet and done everything then..."
I stopped speaking when Ian clamped a hand down over my mouth, effectively stopping all speech from me. He looked down at me, biting his lip and I knew he was trying to figure out how best to respond to that, but he didn't need to; it was the truth after all.
"First of all, you specifically had nothing to do with what happened to our moms; you weren't even on the planet when it happened to most of us. And second, it was not your fault. I don't know how many times I have to say that to you until you understand, but I will keep doing it as much as I have to, Wanda," Ian said and I crawled closer to him.
"I'm sorry," I apologized. "It's a wonder that I was even invited to that; you all should hate me for everything..."
"Stop!" Ian breathed, shaking his head. "You are trying to blame yourself, but the truth is that you had no hand in anything. You can't help who you are, Wanda. And I could never hate you, because I love you too much."
His words seemed to hang in the air between us as I let them sink in and when it did a huge smile spread across my face. He really had just said what I had been waiting for him to say for a very long time.
"Shoot," he said, running a hand through his hair as I looked up at him and he looked a little mad at himself. "I'm sorry Wanda, I didn't mean for it to be said like that; I wanted to make it special and everything, not just blurt it out like that."
"I don't care," I told him honestly, sitting up a little higher. "I've just been waiting so long to hear you say that."
"really?" Ian asked and I could see a small smile forming on his lips as I nodded.
"Really, really," I replied before tilting my head up and kissing him lightly. "And just for the record, I love you too."
"You'd better," Ian teased before pressing his lips to mine once again and I giggled. "In all seriousness though, you had every right to be there you know. You had a mother too, did you not?"
"Well, yes I did, but I never knew her. I only know the information that gets passed down from her, not actually anything about her like you guys all do," I replied, shrugging and folding myself into his side. We sat there and cuddled for a few minutes and I leaned my head on to Ian's shoulder as his left arm wrapped around me.
"You want to hear about my Mom then?" he offered and I shrugged.
"If you want to tell me about her, I'd love to," I replied. "But only if you feel like it. I don't want you to think that you're obligated to tell me or anything."
"Relax, love," Ian said, leaning his head on top of mine. "It's totally fine."
"Well in that case," I teased and I felt him shake with silent laughter before he composed himself.
"Well, aside from my mom really loving all things Julia Roberts, she also really loved to come and support us whenever we play sports and stuff. She was the one who would yell and scream and cheer the loudest at my soccer games, and was never intimidated by the other parents around her who wanted her to be quiet. If nothing else, she was very passionate about what we did," Ian started and I smiled, trying to picture it in my mind.
"You played soccer?" I asked and he chuckled a bit.
"Course I did, how do you think that I got so good?" Ian replied and it was my turn to giggle there.
"No idea."
"It was from years of training both with my team and with Mom and Kyle," Ian explained and I nodded. We spent the whole rest of the time that everyone was in their little mass talking about Ian's mom and I felt just a little bit closer to him than I had ever felt since he'd opened up so much to me in one single night.
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