17 She is my mother, Scarlett.

At the same time, on A country, a guy in his thirty is waiting for a phone call from his son. It's been an hour, since the regular time of his son's phone call. He thought of various possibilities then called his son's landline. But no one picked it up.

Then he called the main landline yet no one picked up. After waiting for an hour, he called the principal. From the principal he got to know about the visit of Magnolia's Queen. He has heard about her, that she is a beauty and an artist. Her paintings fetch a huge prize.

But he has never seen her or heard about how she looked. No one dared to share about her features and he didn't bother much. His Scarlett was the eternal beauty in his mind and eyes. Somehow, her visit today made him wonder about her. Then he saw the ring on his hand and a smile appeared on his face.

He walked to his wife's art room from the study room, where their sketching is framed. He loved two of her paintings a lot. One was her view of him on the bed and the other was him holding her from behind with the baby bump. Those two are in his bedroom.

He thought of hearing the whole story of what happened from his son later on. Then his mind went to his Scarlett and he opened his laptop to see the pictures and videos. He envied the Vinson in those pictures and videos. He felt his heart ache when he thought that he could never become him again.

He ended up spending two more hours looking at her in the laptop. It's almost dawn and he has lots of work to do. So he switched off the laptop but her images and the way she clinged to him, the way she kissed him, the way they spent the nights together kept playing in his mind.

That is when he realised that, he never had a reaction for a who-knows-long time. He closed his eyes and visualised her being next to him. What he wanted to do to her, how she will react to him. Her crimson hair, her turquoise eyes, her plum lips, her pale skin, her soft two rabbits, her slender waist, her long legs and eventually his lower part reacted.

He looked down and mumbled, "Yeah, I want to touch her too". When he finished the deed, it was dawn. He still rolled in the bed and thought 'Its only a night without speaking to my son. This damn woman occupies my mind completely'.

He then thought of something and switched on the loudspeaker. Her lullaby played, he didn't know when he fell asleep. He woke up at noon and checked his phone. His son has send him a voice message, seeing that he didn't pick up.

He opened it, "Good morning, Daddy. Sorry, daddy Chris's and Carl's mom came yesterday, she stayed till night. We all played together and slept with her so I forgot to call you. She is such a nice woman daddy, she has told that both me and Klay can call her Mommy.

Isn't it nice, daddy? I really, really like her. She made dinner for us, she was so kind to us. She even sang to us daddy, her voice was as smooth as Mom's. I have to go daddy it is time, Mommy has asked me take care of Chris and Carl."

Vin was bit surprised to hear his son, he talked about some twins yesterday and now he talked about this Queen. His interest towards her grew but he stopped himself there as he and his Scarlett has an unspoken rule to not show interest towards a third person.

Vin thought, 'If you knew your mom in person, you will never ever think about calling another woman as Mommy, Hal. She loves you more than anything in the world. I have seen her cherish every single second she spent with us. That crazy mermaid!'

Then he stood up and went to get ready for his office.

....

From that day onwards Vivianne visted Elite Academia, whenever she had free time. All of them welcomed her. Carl and Chris were so attached to Charles now. Sometimes they will fall asleep in his room. Klay and Charles treasured both Carl and Chris.

Both of them are single child in their household. Vinson will hear daily about Chris and Carl. He wanted to meet them so badly, but they have opened a new resort and it is unstable at the moment. So he was busy with it. Vinson also heard about their mother a lot from Charles.

One day Charles and Carl were playing in the playstation, Charles landline rang. Chris went to the phone and picked it up. She asked cutely, "Who is this?"

On the other end, Vin was reading a document. When he heard this sweet voice he stopped what he was doing and then looked at the phone to check whether he dailed a wrong number. 'It is the correct number', he thought.

Chris demanded on the other line, "Hello? Can you hear me? I asked Who is this?" Vin's lips curled up and said, "May I know who this little lady is?" Chris replied like a little lady, "May I know who this gentleman is?"

Vin chuckled and said, "I am Vinson, Is this Chris?" Chris smiled and said, "Hello Uncle, Yes this is Chris. Big brother is playing with Carl and Brother Klay in PS". Vin was surprised by her clear speech and asked politely, "So little lady knows me?"

Chris chuckled this time and said, "I know the gentleman, Mr.Vinson Gregario, Father of my Big brother Charles Gregario." Vin replied, "Ohhhh... If I'm not mistaken, little lady is in 3rd grade right?" Chris replied, "Yep! and you can call me Chris, Uncle".

Vin smiled and said, "Why not? So what are you doing now, Chris?" Chris replied, "Talking with you Uncle!" Vin felt a bit uncomfortable with the little girl calling him Uncle. Vin said, "You also can call me Vinson, little lady".

"Okay, Vinson", Chris said. Vin's heart took a hit. Her voice and the way she pronounced his name, reminded him of his Scarlett. Now he understood what Charles said to him before. Carl saw her talking to someone on the phone for a while now.

He came to her and asked, "Who are you talking with?" Chris said causally, "Vinson". It took a minute for Carl to remember who he was. He gave Chris a hit on her head then he pulled the phone from her hand. He said while covering the speaker, "He is Big brother's father, you Idiot. Give him some respect".

Vin who was on the other heard it clearly. Chris who was rubbing her head and she asked, "Why did you hit me? Wait, I will tell to Big brother". Then she went to Charles.

Carl took a deep breath and talked in the phone politely, "Sorry, Uncle. If my sister has disrespected you in anyway, please forgive her. Brother Hal, has always taken good care of us". Vin was impressed by the little guy's chosen words.

Vin replied, "No no, she spoke so politely, you don't have to blame her. I only told her to call me Vinson. You are Carl, right?" Carl relaxed after hearing his reply, then he said, "Yes, uncle. I am Carlisle Aurora and that was my sister, Christine Aurora."

At that time Charles came and pinched Carl in his ears, "Why did you hit her? Haven't I told you not to hit girls!" Carl apologised and then Charles talked to his father. Then the twins talking to Vinson became a habit.

A month went by, November started. Charles was in the inner room of his art room. Carl came to see him as he is leaving to Magnolia for his birthday next week. He stood outside the inner room and waited for him to tell about their departure which was confirmed now.

Seeing that Carl was standing outside, Charles said, "Why are you standing there? Come in". Carl looked puzzled, he asked, "Is it alright to come in?" Charles looked around, smiled and said, "It has some sketches of my Mom, I drew looking at her pictures nothing much. Come in, you are my little brother after all".

Carl smiled and came in. He was shocked to hell when he saw the picture frame in the middle of the wall. He asked looking at the picture, "Is she..." Charles cut in and said, "Yeah! She is my mother, Scarlett".