Chapter 8: I love you mom
"At Eden Academy it is a tradition to celebrate Mother's and Father's day with a present made by our students. This year we asked you to bring a blank colored cup. Preferably your mom's favorite color"
Anya brought with her father a beautiful black cup, because that was Yor's favorite color.
Loid thinks it's because it's an elegant color and makes a woman look thinner. Something she doesn't really need since she was in good shape.
However, Anya knows the real reason. It was because the black and red colors hide the blood from her victims.
"Alongside with your art teacher, we wrote for you the words "The best mother" on the cups, you will paint them with the color or colors of your preference then on the other side you will paint some decorations that show your love for your mother" the kids looked amazed by the instructions but the nodded "let's begin!"
The kids started to work on it and for the first time during that school year, his students were silent and working carefully.
"The love for a mother can turn the messiest kids to be elegant. I'm particularly surprised by Miss Forger. She's working really hard and carefully" thought Henderson looking at the kids working.
"Since it is the New Moon, I can read minds so I can concentrate on my work," thought Anya, happy because, for the first time since the mission started, she didn't need to read minds.
Meanwhile Loid was picking up his present for Yor. Since the month started, he went to the tailor's shop to order a dress for her. He picked a beautiful light black fabric with roses around the skirt. And it would be easy for them since they have her measures so it should be good for them. He also got her roses and went to buy the ingredients to cook her favorite dishes that day.
This would be the first time in years that he was celebrating mother's day, and last month was her birthday so they had two pretty busy months.
Normally on mother's day he asked the Handler to give him lots of missions, to keep his mind off thinking about his mother. Same with his mother's birthday but now he has a reason to enjoy at least mother's day.
Back to Anya, she finished to paint the letters, she picked red, then the other side was full of messy drawings of her mom, dad, Bond and herself. They were at the park so she painted grass under their feet.
At the end of the class all kids were done with their cups so Henderson picked them up with another teacher and put them in the top shelf to prevent the kids from getting them.
Then they went to change their uniforms and went to have lunch. All of them were chatting about the cups and how fun it was
"So Anya, what did you do for your mom?" Asked Becky smiling at her.
"I did daddy, mommy, Bond and me at the park" she said happy and satisfied.
"I drew my mom and me together and Martha next to me. She had been there for me even when my mom wasn't, that's why I decided to get her a cup too" confessed the little girl and Anya held her hand kindly which made her blush and let her do that.
The rest of the week was pretty boring for her. Then on Thursday, professor Henderson gave them their cups already wrapped in paper and with their names on it.
Anya arrived home and left the cup hidden in her bedroom, somewhere her mother never looked in and let her dad know as soon as she arrived.
When Friday arrived Anya returned home and Bond waved his tail and licked her cheek. There was Loid cooking dinner and Yor was washing the dishes.
Loid already had his present for Yor in his room and the rose bouquet will arrive early in the morning.
"Mommy, daddy! You came early" she ran into them hugging their legs which made them smile.
"My boss dismissed us earlier because they would do some maintenance and fumigate the building" said Yor picking Anya up and kissed her cheek.
"And today was my day off so I was all morning and afternoon doing some chores around the house and going to the grocery store to buy what we needed'' he smiled and Yor let Anya go.
She left to change her uniform and started to draw and coloring the whole Bond and laying next to her.
"By the way, Yor, I noticed you brought roses and a box when you arrived,'' said Loid as he put some potatoes in the sauce.
"Oh yeah, the City Hall gave all the mothers that work there a box with makeup and skincare products and roses"
He nodded smiling "I'm glad you had a good day and I heard that they did something like that in the hospital for the mothers in there"
"That's something sweet from the bosses to give a present for a woman who has a child to take care of" he nodded smiling.
"I agree with you. Even when you aren't Anya's biological mother, you still love her like your own" she blushed really hard.
"T... thank you Loid, I do my best every day" Loid was glad because she became Anya's mother from the beginning and they seemed to get along so well, it was adorable.
When they finished they set the table Loid feed Bond then sat down and they started to eat.
Loid smiled looking at them eating, it was always a pleasure to see them enjoying his cooking. He eats and Anya told them about her day at school, Yor also shared some of her day to them and after dessert they send Anya to brush her teeth and Loid would read her a story, meanwhile Yor was reading in the living room.
After finishing the story he returned to her and smiled as he sat next to her "sometimes it is hard for her to fall asleep but today it was easier than ever" Yor giggles softly.
"I guess she had a tired day," he nodded and sighed.
"Yeah I guess so" he looked at his wife "want to watch a movie? It's Friday after all"
"Sure" she smiled and put the book away and they watched the first movie Loid found interesting.
She leaned on his chest softly with her head on his shoulder. He was comfortable and he even had her permission to play with her fingers gently as they watched the movie.
At the end of the movie both went to sleep. Yor's heart still beats fast after having him playing distracted with her fingers.
They were getting closer and she was allowing touches and him too, which led to sudden holding hands when either of them was having a bad memory.
Saturday was normal for them. Yor cooked breakfast, she learned how to make hotcakes with Camilla the other day so she tried and was glad Loid bought syrup for them.
Anya was in love with this food and ate a lot of them with her hot cocoa.
They walked Bold later and Loid cooked lunch. Then dinner was peanut pizza with chicken on it.
Husband and wife shared another movie night and went to bed a bit early that night because the movie was shorter.
The special day arrived and Loid was the first up, Anya woke up excited and helped him to have everything ready for Yor.
The bouquet arrived on time and he placed it on the table. The presents were on the coffee table and when Yor was up she found herself tearing up watching everything.
"Oh my... This is the sweetest thing someone ever did for me" she picked up Anya kissing her cheek she also hugged Bond who blushed softly and barked softly then she hugged and kissed Loid's cheek "this is lovely, thank you" she whispered in his ear.
"You don't have to thank me, I'm the one thankful for everything. You are her mother as I said on Friday" he smiled at her and she blushed.
"Mommy and daddy are flirting" said Anya out loud to Bond but this time her parents' screams came later than usual which made her smirks mischievous because actually they were.
They ate Yor's favorite dish, southern eggs with sausages and bread. He made sure to cook it just like she did the first time she introduced it to them.
It was the next day after a class with Barbara, their neighbor and she told them she used to eat this on her birthday or after finishing classes.
It was her mother's special breakfast so she wanted to share it with them. Yor had some tears in her eyes but was smiling looking down at her plate.
"Is mommy sad?" Asked Anya, ready to cry.
"No, my dear Anya. I'm just remembering my mom. She was the kindest woman you would ever meet. And Loid made this just as good as she did" she said smiling and held his hand.
They finished the food and after washing the dishes they sat around the coffee table and Anya gave her her present.
"Here's mine!" She said excited.
Yor opened the wrapped paper and there was a beautiful black cup with the message "The best Mom" and on the other side, drawings of her daughter. According to the green things under them she interpreted it to mean they were at the park.
"I love this" she said with a big smile and hugged her tightly but not too much to not break any bones.
Then it was turn for Loid's present. It was a box wrapped in paper. She opened it and she was in awe watching the beautiful dress in it. She got it out of the box. It was black and the skirt seemed to end above her knees. It had a pattern of roses around the skirt.
"Wow... This dress looks so beautiful" she looked at him.
"I asked at the tailor's shop to make it using your measures so I hope it fix perfectly"
She smiled and went to her bedroom real quick and changed. A couple of minutes later she walked out wearing it with a pair of heels on. Loid's jaw almost dropped to the ground. She looked stunning and the heels gave it the final touch.
Yor blushes softly as his eyes traveled up to down admiring her looks "I guess it fix perfectly"
"More than perfectly, I'm amazed how perfect it was made" he looked at her face.
"They are amazing at their job so I shouldn't be too amazed" she smiled then turned to Anya "what do you think?"
"Mommy looks beautiful, she should have a date with daddy" this made her mother and father blush "not today, I want us to spend today as a family"
And as she wished they would spend it as a family. She changed back to her regular clothes and they walked Bond, spend the morning at the fair for mother's day then returned home to have lunch.
While Loid cooked Anya and Yor were playing board games and laughing. They ate and watched reruns of Spy Wars on TV. At dinner Loid cooked and they went to bed early that day. She read Anya a story and before going to bed she kissed Loid's cheek and whispered "you owe me a date so don't forget it" and went to bed leaving him in shock for a split second.
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I hope you liked this one. It was a sweet one. I wanted to introduce some feelings about this day for Loid. Taking his backstory into consideration.
Next chapter will be their date.