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"I go by Dan or Danny," Dan informed her.
"Where the HELL HAVE YOU BEEN ALL THESE YEARS!" Mrs. Benson screamed, immediately beginning to hit Dan with her purse. Freddie stared in shock. Carly and Spencer exchanged looks. Mrs. Benson never cussed.
Dan winced and dodged the blows from her purse before finally grabbing the strap. Mrs. Benson glared at him, yanking the purse from his hands.
"You are grounded for three months young man!" Mrs. Benson yelled at him.
"I'm a full-grown man!" Dan argued. "You can't ground."
"TO YOUR ROOM!" Mrs. Benson ordered, pointing to her apartment.
"Yes ma'am," Dan said in a small voice, walking through the door of his old home and into his old room. Which was now a room for Freddie's techno-geek gear.
"How could you do this to me!" Mrs. Benson wailed. She was standing in the middle of the room, with Dan sitting in a computer spinny chair.
"Mom, I-"
"YOU RAN AWAY!" she shrieked. "WHY DID YOU RUN AWAY!"
"Mom, if you would stop screaming, I-"
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN FOR ALL THESE YEARS?"
"Mom?" Freddie sighed heavily.
"What is it Freddie?" Mrs. Benson asked, turning to face him, sounding hurt and disappointed.
"Mom, Dan's almost thirty. He's legally an adult," he explained.
"And I was legally an adult when I left," Dan added.
"You shut your pie hole!" Mrs. Benson snapped at Dan. "You were always a little smart-mouthed punk. Where did I go wrong with you?"
"Mom! Would you relax?" Dan groaned.
"Seriously Mom, you need to calm down," Freddie added a bit hesitantly.
"Go check yourself for ticks!" Mrs. Benson ordered Freddie. He hesitantly glanced at Dan, who just motioned for him to go. He quietly slipped out of the room. He just moved behind the door frame to listen to the conversation.
"Mom, my life is fine," Dan continued.
"Where have you been? JAIL!" she panicked again.
"Japan!" Dan hissed back.
"You've been in a Japanese PRISON!"
Dan rubbed his eyes. Freddie rolled his eyes.
"No, Mom. I am a citizen of Japan. I live there, I go to work there, I pay taxes there, I have a new life and home there," Dan informed her.
"You're a Japanese Mobster!" Mrs. Benson wailed dramatically. "I knew it! I should have been more strict!"
"I am NOT a mobster!" Dan yelled. "I'm a manga author and artist. I am the co-owner and founder of a manga company."
"Manga?" Mrs. Benson questioned, glaring at him. "Is that Japanese slang for drugs!"
"It's a Japanese comic book for the love of Peter!" Dan groaned. "I draw the pictures and Mitsuki does the writing. I have a copy of one of our mangas in-"
"Mitsuki? Is that the Drug Lord you work for?" Mrs. Benson panicked.
"I JUST said I owned a manga company!"
"You can work part-time as a drug dealer you know!"
"NO Mom. Mitsuki is my fiancee and writer."
"...You're marrying the drug lord?"
Dan slapped his forehead, sighing heavily. Freddie bit his lip from behind the door.
"What she like?" Freddie asked, standing in the doorway.
"I told you to check yourself for ticks!" Mrs. Benson shrieked.
"I did," Freddie lied, walk in and taking a sit in an old dining room chair backwards. "So what's she like? Your fiancee?"
"Awesome," Dan replied, looking a tad dreamy. "Beautiful eyes, soft black hair, super-smart, funny, amazing writer."
"And a DRUG LORD!" Mrs. Benson wailed.
"She's NOT a drug lord!" Freddie and Dan both said at the same time.
"Then where did you meet her?" Mrs. Benson demanded to know.
"College. She was majoring in English and I was majoring in Art. We met, started the company, fell in love, then I proposed. We're getting married in three weeks," Dan told his mother, trying his best to stay calm. He then stood up and took a deep breath. "Mom, I want you to come to my wedding. It's in Japan."
"Absolutely not!" Mrs. Benson yelled.
"Fine. Don't come then," Dan snapped back. "Freddie, do you want to go?"
"Sure!" Freddie replied cheerfully.
"Freddie!" Mrs. Benson almost wailed, turning to face him and looking at him as if he completely betrayed her.
"Cool," Dan told Freddie. "I'm going to go ask Spencer if he can be my best man then head to the mall and pick up Mitsuki. She's fascinated with America."
Dan walked into the other apartment, leaving the other two Bensons alone.
"Freddie, I forbid you to go to this wedding!" Mrs. Benson immediately said.
"Mom!" Freddie exclaimed.
"I FORBID IT!" she yelled.
"Mom, this is my only brother!" Freddie yelled. "Your first son!"
"He's not my son," Mrs. Benson insisted moodily.
"Mom, you need to get over it," Freddie grumbled.
"And why should I?" she hissed.
"Do you want grandkids?" Freddie asked. "Do you want to be back in Dan's life?"
"Well...yeah."
"Dan and Mitsuki are going to get married whether you like it or not," Freddie continued. "In a few years, they're going to have kids. At the rate my love life is going...I'll be lucky to have a steady girlfriend. Anyway, if you want to be involved in their lives, then you need to get over this. If you keep pushing them away, they're going to stay in Japan forever and he's never going to come home."
Mrs. Benson didn't reply. She just stared at the floor.
"If you're lucky Mom...he may move here...to Seattle again so we can be a family again."
Later a knock came at the hotel room door. Mitsuki, a pretty, average-looking Japanese girl stared at it before opening it.
"Danward!"
Mitsuki looked a bit surprise at her future mother-in-law burst into the room.
"Mom?" Dan said, standing from sitting at the desk, drawing on a piece of paper. "What are you doing here?"
"I came to meet your fiancee," she said, giving Mitsuki a Look.
"I'm his fiancee," she said a bit shyly, giving her her hand to shake. Mrs. Benson took it before she stared at her ring finger.
"Where's your engagement ring?" she asked.
"Oh, Danny cannot afford a ring right now. Our manga company is still a bit new and business isn't really taking off quite yet," Mitsuki replied, smiling and turning around to kiss Dan briefly after he walked up to stand beside her. "But Danny is a good man and I love him so I said yes anyway."
Mrs. Benson stared, sighing heavily.
"I...will go get some ice," Mitsuki said aloud before quickly moving out of the hotel room to give the two a chance to talk in private.
"Mom, about earlier-" Dan begun, but Mrs. Benson cut him off.
"I'm sorry," she mumbled, staring at her own hands. "You're grown up...and I guess you do need to live your life...Obviously you really love this girl."
"She's the second best woman in my life," Dan said, hugging his mom and kissing her cheek. Mrs. Benson looked like she was about to cry as she stared at her hands after the hug. She pulled off her ring.
"Honey, your father gave me this engagement ring," Mrs. Benson said, admiring it before giving it to Dan. "Give it to Mitsuki. For some reason, she loves you and you can't let a girl like that go. She seems pretty nice...I guess..."
Dan smiled and kissed his mom's cheek again before smiling at her.
"I'm going to go give this it to Mitsuki," he said, beginning to move past her. "Wait, you going to come to the wedding?"
"Well, I have to work and-" she began, but one look at her son caused her to sigh heavily. "Yes, I'll come."
Dan grinned and walked off to find Mitsuki.