change

The silent months flew by. Nothing really changed, Mom and Dad still avoided each other. But one thing did change. Everyday after I finished my homework Dad and I would brainstorm ideas for some dramatic show of affection for Mom. Most, of course, were scrapped not far into the planning process.
It had been almost a year now and Dad was getting desperate. Plus Ms. Car's baby would be born soon. I don't know why but Dad felt it was important that he proved his love for Mom before the baby was born.
So I recruited the twins to help come up with something.
"You shoulda came to us in the first place, Dad." Bi-baby said this and Dad looked concerned. "I mean, really, Mare's got a horrible imagination!" Dad started laughing, relieved and mussled up her hair, to her annoyance.

The girls came up with an awesome plan only a day after recruiting them.

Dad and I were in the back yard, me playing chess and Dad playing guitar.
"You really should go with You and me by Berryhouse." I said casually.
"Ya think so?"
"Pft! Totally! If ya wanna win back Mom ya gotta use somethin' better than some whiny old man song!"

Dad laughed and finally agreed, after some debate that eventually included the twins, to use my song.
For the next few weeks the girls and I would listen to dad practice the song. I would watch him play with a big grin on my face. And the girls would cry and smile. Don't know why they were crying but, whatever they're girls.
Finally the day came, Dad felt he was ready to perform.
We grabbed mom off the sofa and told her we had an awesome trick to show her on the trampoline. We pulled her out back. And before she could start heading to the trampoline she saw Dad on the art platform with his guitar and lights set up around him (We set up the lights).
Once he saw her he started playing.

"What day is it? And in what month?
This clock never seemed so alive
I can't keep up and I can't back down
I've been losing so much time

'Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to lose
And it's you and me and all other people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you

One of the things that I want to say just aren't coming out right
I'm tripping on words
You've got my head spinning
I don't know where to go from here"

Mom walked in a daze up to the platform, tears forming in her eyes.
"'Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to prove
And it's you and me and all other people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you

There's something about you now
I can't quite figure out
Everything she does is beautiful
Everything she does is right

'Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to lose
And it's you and me and all other people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you
and me and all other people with nothing to do
Nothing to prove
And it's you and me and all other people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you

What day is it?
And in what month?
This clock never seemed so alive ..."
Dad set his guitar down and they both looked at each other for a while with wet eyes before dad said. "You're the only one I see, Ana."
Mom slowly but surely stepped onto the platform with Dad and pulled him into a kiss.
Normally I would have said "eeeewwww" but now I was happy to see them kiss.
The twins and I clapped and cheered from the deck and they smiled at us before kissing again.

That next month Mom started bonding with Ms. Carissma. They shared pregnancy stories and we got to hangout with her awesome new boyfriend, Cello. Also Ms. Car quit teaching and started writing books, she talked to Genoa about it and they would talk about their stories.
At the end of that month, Ms. Car went into labor.
We sat in the waiting room with our baby sitter (Bi-baby didn't mind that at all -gag-) and Mom, Dad, and Mr. Cello were in the delivery room with Ms. Car.
A berry of a long time later we got to meet our new half-sister, Wisteria Orchid.
Also We had to take ten minutes to explain to the girls why she was a half-sister and assure them that it was a whole baby.
They, Ms. Car and Mr. Cello, took the baby home that afternoon. Wisty would be living with them but we would get to see her a lot.

I think Mr. Cello loved Wisty just as much as Dad. I don't understand how someone could love a poopy baby that much.

Wisty got big really quick, too. She was more fun when she got bigger, she didn't drool as much.

Yeah, I guess she was pretty cool for a baby.
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Cello, of course belongs to Berry. <3
also more spammage of the Spouse drive XD

big boy now

For about a month now Mom and Dad avoided each other, and when they couldn't they pretended to ignore each other. They had told us from the beginning what was going on, that Daddy did "Mommy and Daddy stuff" with another lady, Ms. Cupid. I only knew here name because I over heard Dad telling the babysitter, a high schooler who had her as a teacher, what was causing all the tension in the house.
I took care of Mom and the twins helped when they could. I made sure she ate and took care of herself and got to work on time, but it didn't help. She wasn't our normal Mommy. Her pink eyes were flat at lifeless and she would spend hours laying on her bed crying.

On the times when she would cry herself to sleep I would walk in a flip the lights on. I would wait for her to react. She never did. So  I would say "I still love you, Mommy." Turn the lights back off and close the door behind me.

Dad wasn't doing too much better but he would take care of us and himself but mostly us. I had to make sure he ate enough too, 'cause sometimes he would only make enough dinner for me and the twins and just sit there with one of us on his lap while we ate.

My little sisters handled things in their own way.

Genoa got wrapped up in her weird vampire book she was writing.

And Biloba would watch Dr. Dill for hours and hours. She thought that if she watched it enough she would be like Dr. Dill and be able to fix Mom and Dad.  didn't have the heart to tell her it wouldn't work like that.

One day Ms. Carissma came to the house. Mom answered the door and Ms. Car was mortified. "Um..I-I need to talk with you and Merlot if that's okay." Mom's eyes widened and she knew what Ms. Car needed to talk about. I didn't though so I looked back and forth at them, completely confused.

Turns out that Ms. Car was pregnant. They broke that news to us after she left.

"Wait a minute. How are babies made?" Bi-baby Flower asked with her face scrunched up in thought. Me and Genny sat on either side of her and we both elbowed her in the stomach. "Not the best time for that!" I hissed to her. She blushed. "Oh. Sorry."

Mom gave her a weak, teary smile. "It's okay, sweetie. But you're a little to young to understand it now."

Bi-baby nodded her head solemnly. "Okay, Mommy."

The next day while, Mommy was at work, Dad gathered us in the living room to talk. "I want you kids to know that just because Ms.Carissma and I are having a baby doesn't mean I don't love you three and your Mommy." Dad looked like he was close to crying but held it back. I sat with my book while he said this, he had already spoken to me last night but he didn't want to make the twins feel like they had been left out.

"We know, Daddy." Genoa looked up at him with a sad smile. "And we still love you."

"Yeah, we just don't like you very much." Biloba said. She never did know how to edit her words. Genoa glared at her. "I-I mean we just aren't happy with what you did." She corrected herself.

Dad looked shocked at my sisters' words, he told me he expected it would be harder for them to still love him because they were younger.

"Yeah Dad, we still love you." I stood to put away my book. "But you're gonna hafta do something pretty spectacular to make Mom love you again." I shrugged and left the room, leaving Dad very puzzled. ---------
Since I have pictures for a good chunk of chapters these will be coming out fast, so hopefully another one tomorrow ☺

mistakes

In life there will always be something you regret, some little mistake some slip in judgement that costs you your life, or close to it.
I never meant for it to happen, I'm not a player, I'm a good guy, I was married. Well, I still am but I don't know how long that'll last.
This is pretty confusing right? Let me start at the beginning.

I have a goofy yet beautiful wife, Anakiwa. Us meeting was my first little lapse in judgement, one I will never regret. My car broke down and hers was the only house with lights on, so I knocked and knocked. No one answered. Here's the part where my good judgement ceases. I tried the door and it was open. So in I went, looking for the owner of the hot pink house. Well, I found her in the form of a screaming fangirl.

Ya see, I had been on a soap in my teens and Ana was a soap fan-still is- she recognized me instantly and let's just say that darlin's got a set of lungs on her.

Not long later we were married and 5 months after we married our son, Mariner, was born.

And a year after him came our twins, Genoa and Biloba Flower.

My life was complete, not perfect but complete. Three tots at once isn't perfection,darlin' but once you get past the clingy-ness and random shedding of diapers, it was great.
But it didn't last long. When Mariner was 8 and the girls 7, I made the biggest mistake of my life. By that time Ana had become a stylist, not a well known one but a stylist just the same, and I had become an elementary art teacher at Strawberry Shortcake Elementary. It was my second year teaching and we had a county conference at some rinky dinky little hotel. That's when I met Carissma Cupid, a Math teacher from Kit Kat Bliss Bar High School.
Carissma was a beautiful berry and as the conference wained on my mind became more muddled and formed a dense ball of confusion in my skull. At the end of the conference I was only partly sentient.
I can't really remember what triggered it or how it started, but Carissma and I ended up in one of the hotel rooms, to my shame.

I can't say that wish it never happened, because I got something out of it that I wouldn't give up for the world. Of course I wish there was a way that I could keep that and not have hurten Anakiwa, but it doesn't work like that.  When all was said and done and I had recovered my sentience and clothes, I told Carissma all about my family, how this shouldn't have happened. She paced the room for a moment the started crying. "It's all my fault  Your family will get torn apart and it's all my fault!" she heaved heavy tears. "I'm so sorry!" I grabbed her by the shoulders. "It's not all your fault, Carissma. It takes two to tango right?" I looked her in the eyes hoping I had helped calm her, of course I didn't.

I went home that night and I knew I would tell Ana. I had to tell her or it would eat away at my soul.
I waited until the kids were in bed.
"A-Ana, we need to talk." She turned to me, concern all over her sweet face. "Is everything okay?"
"No, darlin', its not." I frowned at the floor, as if blaming it for the impending doom.
"Lo.. what's-"
I did something bad-no grotesquely awful." She reached out to me and I stopped her, she wouldn't want to touch me after hearing this. "I just slept with another woman." My voice broke and I peeked up just in time to see the life drain from her face.
"Merlot..." She said on a thin breath.
Tears started draining from my eyes. "I'm so sorry. I know you don't want to hear that but you need to know that I regret what happened, I never meant for it to happen." The look on her face killed me.

She didn't say anything for a while. I didn't either. We each weeped silently on opposite sides of the hall for a long while.
After what felt like an hour of crying, she wiped her eyes and came back over to me. "I think it would be best if you sleep downstairs for a while." Her voice broke several times. "A-And you sh-hould spend some time with the kids."
We both silently went our separate ways, her to our bedroom and me to the living room sofa.
I lay on the sofa, still in my clothes, still wearing my reading glasses and felt my world fall down around me, then on top of me, crushing me.
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Thus ends the very first chapter of Lost in Love.
It was going to be longer but it seemed way to long to be one post. opefull the next chapter will be up during the weekend as well <3

the begining

Before this kicks off you must know the background of this story/ semi-legacy. It all started on a day like any other...
XD jk jk
It started on the OMB Merlot thread. (if you don't know Merlot by now you have lived a sheltered life) I made Anakiwa so I could participate in the Lo-liciousness of the thread and while playing them a story started to form in my head, and then stories for their kids, too many and too long to be a Puff. So I figured that a legacy was in order!
Well not quite a legacy...

• there will be no color order
• no heirs, all of their stories will be told
• no Lacelot, I know I know but this is and AU and instead of Lacelot we will have Merkiwa
• there will be spouse drives a little later (i will be needing one for Biloba soon ;3) so feel free to participate when those go on

The first chapter will be up very soon so keep and eye out  <3

Merlot is the sexy shared property of her Berryness(and so is someone else~)