'Wanting to face tomorrow when I do have it.'
I feel so good after meeting Kai's family.
The Royals are nothing like the Howards'.
Two different families that my man comes from but if I were to choose which one I find myself more in love with, I would say the Royals.
They are so down-to-earth people, you would think from their last name they have a way of living but really, they are nothing like their names except for love.
It is such a family with so much love to give and I love it.
Mia takes me all around Toronto and shows me all their famous places.
At a time Felix comes with us but mostly he spends some time with Kai getting the bonding and the catch-up that I know they deserve.
The few days we spend with them make it hard for me to want to depart from them because they are such people. The people you meet and instantly feel like you have known them your whole life. Although ever since Kai figured out I wanted to talk to my parents.
I don't know, I have missed them so much and I don't know if it also has something to do with baby Sumac.
I also know deep down I want to meet him very much.
"Thank you for taking your time to come over but I promise you every time I will be having gigs in Los Angeles. I will stop by to see you and that happens a lot." I nod my head at Mia.
"We would love that." She moves to say bye to her brother while I hug Felix.
"Thank you for visiting us my girl, and thank you for making my son happy." We pull away and I just offer him a smile.
"He also makes me happy." He nods.
"I know I don't spend enough time with him like I should. But in just these days I know my son has never been this happy for a long time so please accept my gratitude." I nod my head.
"What are the two sneaking whispering to one another." I turn to look at the Royal siblings.
They look like.
Mia is a very beautiful girl, she has dirty blonde hair that is full on her head with blue to grayish eyes quite different from Kai's ocean-like ones.
She is very tall definitely two to three inches to six foot tall.
She is slim with just a perfect amount of curves in all the right places with a beautiful accent of Canadian.
She is going to make it big in the fashion world.
"We are not sneaking whispering, am just sending my soon-to-be daughter-in-law with my blessings. Can't I do that?" Mia rolls her eyes.
I have learned it's something she loves to do so much in the time I have spent with her.
"Bye big brother, I love you so much." Kai nods.
"I love you too Mia." She smiles.
"I love you too Sam." I smile. "You don't have to feel left out too."
"Was that last part necessary?" Kai asks her and she nods looking at me.
"Yes, it is necessary because that girl over there is making me want to move miles away to come live with you guys in America."
"Okay, that's your cue to leave. I don't want you to steal my gem because now I would have something to hate you for." I chuckle.
God this family and its jokes.
"Come here darling, let's leave. I have a feeling now they are tired of us."
"Oh that we are." I walk closer to Kai and laugh as we make our way to the stairs of the plane.
I look back and wave at them.
"Visit us more often." I nod my head at Mia because I know I will want to come back here more often.
I would feel bad if they didn't want it but now that they do. It put me at rest.
We walk into the plane and I keep waving at Mia till she disappears.
"Thank you for bringing me here to meet your family, though now I feel like we should have started with mine and ended with yours." He turns to look at me and asks me. "Why is that?"
"Because I know with mine it's going to be a total disaster and yours could have chilled us."
"Don't say that." I offer him a small smile that I can try to come up with.
"It's the truth."
Spending time with Kai's family gave me a family fever.
They are so good people and mine also used to be like that and I wish, I wish so much we could go back to how things were.
I would love to see Dad bond with Kai and Mom cooking my favorite for him. Yarrow and Sumac having a big older brother in him.
I realize am getting in my feelings, I don't even know if this visit is going to end well and here I am caught up in my feelings. I just lean on Kai's shoulder before I do off.
Wanting to face tomorrow when I do have it.
I nap for a few hours and when I wake up Kai is also napping on the other side.
I play some movies wanting to get my mind off of things and this time we approach the skies of Rwanda with me wide awake but the feelings of coming are still as bad as the first time.
Except this time they are not bad because I don't want to come but because I drench what might be waiting for me and Kai.
Once we land, we check in at the hotel. It's in the evening but Yarrow told me Dad has not come from work yet.
It's at eight in the night that he texts me that we go see them.
Me and Kai get in a rental car and he drives with his hand clasped in mine.
He keeps kissing the back of mine and my knuckles after every five minutes.
I don't know it's it's my nerves he is feeling and wanting to soothe them or if it's his. Am not sure yet but whatever it is, I just don't care. I know am glad of such support.
It's a short drive and before I know it we are pulling at familiar streets that I remember so well. My breath gets caught in my throat.
Oh my God, we are here.
It's almost been two months whereas when Kai pulls over to the house.
The fight, my dad's disappointment, and my mom's disbelief mixed with sad eyes play in my mind like it just happened.
"Hey." Kai rounds the car and walks to my side.
"Everything is fine, everything is fine darling." He says as he hugs me.
I close my eyes wanting nothing as much as to believe his words.
"What if they don't want me? Or you? What if it's worse than the last time Kai it would break me so much."
"Shhh, then am here for you. Dad is here for you too so is Mia. Like you said we will go back to them so they would cheer us on." I pull away to look at him.
"You promise?" He looks at me and wipes my tears while nodding his head.
"I promise." That reassures me a little.
If my family doesn't want me then I guess I will have nothing but to go find comfort and love in my lover's family.
I get out of the car and Kai kisses the top of my head before holding my hand in his and leading us to the doors.
He raises our hands and kisses the back of my hand and then moves in and kisses me on the lips, the kind of kiss that has me patting in no time and only wishing for more.
"It's fine." I nod my head because now I realize that my parents don't want to be civilized and allow us to get past this.
Then what can I do?
I have so many other people on my side ready to love and care for me. Their loss, not mine.
I am in my thoughts that I don't realize when Kai knocked nor when it does happen.
I just see it while finding myself face-to-face with my mother.
"My God," tears already peeks in her eyes. "Lily Samantha is that you?" I also cry with her and I don't move until she steps forward and throws her arms around me.
"My sweet girl, oh my God." She is crying it's when I meet Kai's gaze that I know this is happening.
Mom is crying in my arms. Are they happy tears or something?
I don't know what to do except put my arms around her and cry with her.
Tears are falling on my cheeks uncontrollably but no sound is coming out of my mouth.
Everything seems to stop for a moment when suddenly in the doorway there is my father with a small baby in his arms and yarrow following behind.
I tense when we hold each other's gaze, and my mother also probably feels it because she pulls away.
I stand there staring at Dad, nothing else for a moment it's just me and him, and am wondering what he is going to do or say.
I can't tell anything by the way he is looking at me, is he going to yell at me or ask me what I am doing since he cut me out of the family?
At each minute of us staring and no one saying or doing anything, I keep being sure that he is going to lash out at me.
After all, now I might be the reason, his other daughter is not here and I know it wouldn't surprise me if his mom blamed me for it.
"Samantha, you made it." The tension and staring zone is cut by Yarrow pushing my dad away and walking to throw his arms around me.
I hug him back.
"Hey, brother." He squeezes me in his arms.
"Jesus, I have missed you so much." I laugh a little when he pulls away.
"I bet you would."
"Didn't you?" He asks me with a frown. In any other circumstances, I would have loved messing with him but not now.
"Oh, I did." I move my eyes past him back to Mom and Dad and say. "I missed all of you so much."
"We missed you so much, sweetheart," Mom says still wiping tears from her eyes. "You don't know what hell we went through once you were gone… we regr..."
"Samantha." Dad interrupts her pulling my attention to him.
"Dad." He is still standing right where he came and stood.
He still has the same look in his eyes and him calling me Samantha.
Tells me exactly what I wanted to know.
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