Tough Decisions

"You know if she finds out herself you're fucked right?" Luke whispered.

"Yes I'm aware," Kaname whispered back.

"How are you going to get out of this one?" Luke said with a smirk.

"I…don't know," Kaname said defeated.

"Well you might as well tell her while you're ahead, we both know it'll crush her regardless so rip off the bandaid," Luke said slapping Kaname on the back pushing him forward.

"Hey K, can we talk for a minute?" Kaname asked.

"Sure," I got up and followed Kaname to the far side of the room. "um I wanted to apologize for blowing up on you earlier,"

"No no it's fine," you'll probably blow up on me again just now anyways, Kaname thought to himself. "I wanted to talk to you about mom's condition actually,"

"Good, tell me everything you know please," I said as my eyes filled with worry for mom.

"Well for starters she has a tumor and one of the symptoms is memory loss," Kaname said.

"Ok so she'll forget a few things that's alright, I'll help her remember things," I said feeling optimistic about the situation.

"Heavens grant me a blessing, rip off the band aid already!" Luke yelled at Kaname.

"So what exactly did you want to tell me?" I said looking at Kaname.

"Well um, mom won't just forget things but people sometimes too," Kaname said struggling to get to the point.

"Third born, your mother doesn't remember getting married and having children! She doesn't remember any of you!" Luke shouted.

"Luke!" Kaname yelled.

"What? That's not true, how could she just forget 16 years of our lives and 20 years of her marriage?" I said in denial.

"He's right, earlier she had regained consciousness and she didn't even recognize me. She said she had no children nor was she married." Luke said closing his eyes.

"No that can't be," I said in denial, I refuse to believe that the woman who gave birth to me, the woman who loves me unconditionally, the woman who was always there to pick me up when I fell, had forgotten me.

"Well let's wake her up then," Luke said splashing water in her face.

"What kind of doctor splashed water in their patients face?" Kaname yelled.

"Well last time I checked I'm no doctor so the joke is on you," Luke said leaving the room.

"W-what happened?" Mom said sitting up on the bed, she looked at Kaname and I, "Oh it's you again, and you've brought a friend too,"

"No mom it's me, Karma," I said rushing over to her bedside to get a better look at me.

"I'm sorry sweetie but I think you've got me mistaken, I have no children," Mom said with a somber expression.

"But I look very similar to you, I have your white hair, your small nose, tiny ears, your eyes, even your skin tone." I said pointing out and showing her each feature similar to hers.

"Dear that must be a coincidence, we do look pretty similar I'd go as far to say you look like I did when I was in my 20s but as I said I have no children,"

"I can prove it though, I'll get a DNA test"

"Karma by then it'll be too late," Kaname said putting a hand on my shoulder. "I'm going back up to the house, you coming?"

"No I'm going to stay here," I said as I took mom's hand, at first it shocked her but she held my hand.

"Alright I'll leave you both alone, bye mom, bye Karma," Kaname said as he exited.

"Um I have a question," I said holding mom's hand almost trembling.

"Go ahead, you may ask me," mom said and smiled at me, seeing her smile put me at ease.

"So let's say you've been given a really tough decision to choose between your family and society. Choosing family would endanger society but choosing society endangers family. Not making a choice means you lose family as well so what would you choose?" I said hoping to get some guidance from her.

"I think choosing society is best, of course family should be above all else but with society endangered your present and future family are also in danger. If choosing society means losing a bit of family then so be it because in the long run you're protect them from a greater danger."

"Thanks mom," I said hugging her, she hugged me back and rubbed my head. "hey mom?"

"You know I'm not your mother but what is it?"

"Sorry force of habit, but if you did have children what would you like them to look like and how many would you like?"

"I'd like them all to be unique in a way, I'd like one that looked like me then one that looked like the father and one mixture of both of us, so three in total,"

"Are triplets ok?" I said moving closer towards her bedside.

"Of course, I don't care what time they make it into this world. I just want them to be happy and pursue what they desire most," she said smiling at me, I smiled back as a tear dropped from my eye.

"Thanks a lot, I think know what I'm going to do now," I said having my mind made up. " is it ok if we spend the entire day together tomorrow?" I said giving her hand a squeeze.

"Of course my dear but I'm not sure why you'd want to hang around me,"

"You remind me of someone special, someone who's been there for me always, I just feel as though by staying by your side I could be happy,"

"As long as your parents are alright with it,"

"Yes I know my mother is fine with it,"

"Then I'm ok with it too,"