“I thought I hesitate. “I thought i might want to stay over one time and 1 kw you like to lie together,
“Can we stay over innight?” Lucis anks excitedly,
“Not tonight, but maybe if Dom wants to maybe Saturday night?” Bom looks around the room as if assessing every detai.
“I could sleep on the floor in here if I meah, if you wanted to have a campout,” Loffer hopefully.
Dom gives me a half hearted smile and nods “Okay” “Okay?” Excitement s through me.
Lucia goes to the box in the earner that the stuffed animals came in and reads the address written on it.
“What’s Ferrar…?” “Terrara. That’s my surname.” They both stare at min hlankly.
“Look.“1 scroll through my phone, bring up a photo of my office, and show them the sign written across the building.
FERRARA
“See, that’s m
‘s my surname. This is my work.”
“Woooah, that looks cool,” Lucia says. “Do you like it, Dominic? He studies the picture and nods.
“My dad has the name Ferrara, and his dad has the name Terrara. Way back in history, my family all had the name Ferrara.”
me an opening.
1 stare at them for a moment and I was going to have this conversation much later, but I feel like the universe has given me an
Would you like to add Ferrara to your name?” I ask, “Because you know, you’re my kids, and kids have their dad’s name on the end.” Loris smiles broadly.
“What would it be?” Dominic asks,
“It would be Dominic Locke Ferrara. That way you would have Mom’s name and my same.” I smile softly as I look between them. “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had the same name?”
Seraphina
I sit in the clean house and watch the clock
It’s been a weird day, no school dropoff, no school pickup, no dinner to cook, no kids to watch,
Just me and all this horrible
sparet
etime.
I’ve been for a walk, vented for an hour to Deb on the phone, folded all the washing and cleaned the house, not sure what to do nen.
I see the headlights shine up the driveway. They’re home.
Tjump up and open the door in a rush and walk down to meet them. Gabriel gets out first and I smile. “Hello”
He looks right through me and doesn’t respond before opening the back door of the car
Great
“Here we go. Home time.” He smiles to the children.
The kids bound out of the car and he bendy and hugs Lucia. “Tu see you Friday,” he tells her, he turns to Dom and messes up his hair. T’ll see you
Friday, buddy”
Dominic smales up at him all starstruck.
FREEDOM
Gabriel turn back to the ca
He’s completely tenni ling me
“Goodbye.” I my hepehilly, surely we can at least be civil.
He waves without looking and gets into the car and pulls out. The kids bounce happily Inside, and I watch the car at prifle away
Ugh… I follow the kids inside,
“Mom, we had the best time” Lacia brams,”
“Upstairs and into the shower, it’s pretty late,” I say. We walk up the stairs with her talking a million miles per minute.
“We had brownies and then we played baseball and then we played catch”
helped light the fire,” Dominic chimes in. “And we got new beds and are staying over on the weekend,” he says the beges to undres
“That sounds.” I smile sadly, I hate that they’re making plans that don’t involve me, “-great.”
“Oh, and we have stuffed toys,” Dom saya,
“And we had hamburgers for dinner and fries, Mark made them he’s a good cook and he’s very funny.” Lucia tells me as she rushes her hair.
“Oh.. and we’re changing our name to Ferrara,” Dominic says casually,
“What?” frown.
“We’re changing our name to be the same as our dad’s.” Lucia smiles as she steps into the shower. “Isn’t it great?” I see red
“Back in a moment.” I storm down the stairs like a woman possessed.
Oh no he didn’t…
Idial his number and he answers first ring. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” I spit.
“Whatever the fuck 1 like.”
