Bloom/Flora

Romance

k or T

Bloom and Flora come out about their relationship to their parents... unfortunately their parents are too supportive

Submitter: Dragon's Blaze

Dinner with the Parents

"Are you ready?" Bloom asked as she turned towards Flora.

They were standing outside of one on the best restaurants in Magix. Flora was looking at the door and taking deep and slow methodical breaths. Inside of that restaurants were her and Bloom's parents, completely in the dark about why they were there.

Flora turned to Bloom, "Yeah, just nervous."

"You have nothing to be nervous about but we have to tell them."

"I know but...what if they aren't as supportive as we want them to be. What if my parents disown me?" Flora looked in Bloom's bright blue eyes.

"Flora, your parents are going to love you no matter what." Bloom then took Flora's hands softly in hers, "Come one, let's go in. The faster we tell them, the faster we can have the whole ordeal done with."

Flora took one last deep breath before she and Bloom walked into the large restaurant.

In a small corner of the restaurant were Marion, Oritel, Vanessa, Mike, Alyssa, and Rhodos sitting at a large table sipping wine and water, waiting for their daughters.

"Why do you think that they called us all here?" Alyssa asked.

"I don't know but I hope that everything is alright." Marion replied.

"I'm sure everything is fine. If it wasn't, the school would have called us. Wouldn't they?" Mike said.

"Ah, there they are." Marion said as she saw Bloom and Flora walking into the restaurant, no longer holding hands. "Over here!" Marion shouted across the restaurant to get the two girls' attention.

Bloom and Flora walked up to the large table where their parents were sitting and sat down next to each other.

"Would you like anything to drink?" Oritel asked the girls, holding up the bottle of wine.

"Just water for me, dad." Bloom replied.

"Flora?" Oritel asked.

"No thank you, I will have some tea though." Flora said, indicating to the pot of tea that was by her father and mother.

"So, I guess we should just come out and ask it, why did you call us here today?" Vanessa asked.

Bloom and Flora looked at each other and sighed.

"Well, it is funny that you should mention coming out." Flora timidly began to say. "You see, Bloom and I have been friends ever since the first day that we met. We have been roommates and that means that you have to be friends. Well, you don't have to be but we are. Well more than that, best friends really. We had boyfriends too and we told each other everything, and I mean everything. We..."

Bloom cut off Flora's rambling, "Flora and I are together."

Their parents looked at the two girls.

"As in, we are dating." Bloom clarified.

There was silence as Flora and Bloom looked at their parent's unreadable faces. It was then that the silence was broken by Alyssa falling back in her chair.

"Oh thank God. I thought there was something wrong." Alyssa gasped in relief.

"Wait what?" Flora cocked her head to the side and then shared a quick glance at Bloom who was about as confused as she was.

"Is that all?" Vanessa asked.

"We thought that you two were in trouble or that something bad happened." Oritel said.

"But," Bloom was about to interject.

"Honey, we have known about this for a while now?" Rhodos smiled as he sipped his wine.

"What? About me and Bloom?" Flora asked.

"No, about you well...not being 100% into boys."

"But I went out with Helia for years."

"So? That doesn't mean anything." Rhodos took another sip of wine, winking at his daughter.

Vanessa turned to Bloom, "We knew too."

"How?" Bloom looked at her mother in shock.

"When you were little, there was this little girl that lived down the street that you would play with and every day, you would insist that she would give you a kiss. Now, one cannot assume purely on the actions of a three year old but when you were growing up, the suspicion grew. When you brought Sky to the house, that was the real shock." Vanessa explained.

"What about you, mom? What do you think?" Bloom turned to Marion.

"A mother knows her child." Marion smiled.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Bloom raised an eyebrow.

"I'm not surprised. I saw the way you looked at Flora during Daphne's coronation." Marion vaguely answered.

"I...I was...I was with Sky." Bloom stammered as she looked at her mother with wide eyes.

"Alyssa," Vanessa turned to Flora's mother, "wouldn't it be fun to be family?"

"Mother!" Bloom shouted as she snapped her head towards Vanessa.

"We would have quite a large family. It would be interesting to have two sets of in-laws. It's like the joining together of three families." Alyssa smiled.

"I can't believe this is happening right now." Flora groaned as she buried her head in her arms.

"Grandchildren would have to be another issue we would settle out." Oritel rubbed his short beard.

"Give me that wine." Bloom snatched the wine from the table and poured herself a large glass.

"Make that two glasses." Flora looked up at Bloom.

"We are not talking about children yet!" Bloom shouted across the table, "Flora and I just started going out a year ago."

"A year! And you didn't tell us?" Mike gasped.

"We didn't know how you would react." Bloom replied.

"And we certainly weren't expecting this." Flora gestured to the parents.

"What did you expect, dear?" Alyssa asked.

"Well, we didn't know if you would accept the relationship and would be disappointed." Flora shrugged.

"We would never be upset. We love Bloom and all of your friends." Rhodos said.

"You wouldn't stop loving me?"

"Of course not! Nothing you do could ever make us stop loving you. You are our daughter." Alyssa smiled.

"That goes for us too, Bloom." Marion reached to touch Bloom's hand then looked at Oritel, Mike, and Vanessa, "All four of us."

Bloom and Flora looked to each other and smiled.

"Thanks, mom." Bloom said.

"Great, now that we know you aren't in danger, let's eat! I'm starving!" Mike exclaimed.

Flora leaned over to Bloom and whispered in her ear.

"Good thing we didn't tell them that we are engaged."

"WHAT!"

For those asking, REWRITES WILL BE DONE AFTER I FINISH WITH SUBMISSIONS I RECEIVED BEFORE I RECEIVED THE REQUEST FOR A REWRITE.