[color=f6989d]"Who even is this guy anyway? What is he like?"[/color] The small boy sat in the backseat of their tiny blue Nissan Micra hand-me-down. Supposedly, the car had originally belonged to Hank's little sister, who got it from their aunt. The car worked well enough, but since they never really had extra money for gas, the car itself wasn't used much. Luke was extremely wary of going to stay over at Mikaela's old friend's house. The directions to the out of the way cottage sat on Micah's lap, a second copy with Luke since his father was horrible with directions. If only they hadn't broken the GPS a few weeks earlier...

It was lucky that Zac was available earlier, he had given directions to a rather blushy Luke, making sure that at least the little boy near the way. And now that the problem of the route was out of the way, Luke was interrogating Micah about this 'friend' of his.

[color=mediumpurple]"Alver is the best person to take care of you! Why, when we were children, everyone called him Mother, I still call him that! Even though he scolded me for it..."[/color] Mikaela lightly touched his cheek with one hand, the other on the wheel, his face turning a little pink. The albino had pinched his cheeks twice at the party! One when he called the younger Mother and the other when he had swore at him.

Alver... he, he looked the same, yet different. The albino didn't look unisex like he did way back when, even with the long hair. His height was an added factor but... the little boy had definitely grown. Micah! Stop thinking about that-

[color=f6989d]"Turn right, Papa!"[/color] Luke squealed from the back as they passed by the turn. With a little murmur of an insult to himself, Micah turned into a driveway to turn around. Why was he getting so nervous? It wasn't like... any of those feelings between them were still around from middle school or anything.

Mikaela himself still needed to apologize about it, but the 29-year-old man never wanted to bring it up. There was nothing wrong with being gay- far from it! And... that was so mean and cruel of him...

Luke was sulking, his papa had completely ignored him halfway through the trip, blushing and lost in thought. The baka father had gone and missed the turn too! What was the little boy to do with such a wayward father? The reached the driveway of the rather large house and both of the Winters' mouths dropped open involuntarily. 

Micah had known his old friend had been doing well thanks to their talk at the party, but... Wow. Both dumbfounded, the man rang the doorbell. Luke stood in front of his Papa almost protectively. The door opened and... a giant peeked his head through!

The little boy stared up, his eyes wide at the [b] really really[/b] tall guy greeted Micah. He was super tall, but his hair was also like a girls, so flowy and shiny that Luke wanted to braid it. The color was supernatural as well, leaving Luke to watch fascinated. The Albino's eyes were only a few shades of Lavender lighter than his own, he was the most normal of the group of three. 

W-Wait! Luke couldn't keep thinking about this! He had to be suspicious- suspicious! This guy was super thin and ghostly pale, almost like he could eat a whole person, and no way was he eating Papa!

While Luke was having this inner monologue, Mikaela was staring at Alver with an apologetic smile. It wasn't that he thought Alver would reject him, but the albino might be reluctant. At the mention that he was surprised, Micah's head drooped a little bit, the man hoped he hadn't woken the other up. 

But when Alver smiled down at Luke, Micah lit up like a happy go lucky puppy. He ushered Luke in quickly, doing as the albino said and reaching to help Luke. The little boy blushed in embarrassment, murmuring about how he could take off his own shoes. After their little moment, Micah stood up and walked into the living room. [color=mediumpurple]"U-Uh um! This is Luke, my son, just turned 10. He's in fourth grade and is really good and housework and-" [/color]

Micah was interrupted by Luke pulling on his coat, oh no, he had been rambling again! [color=mediumpurple]"Well it's um..."[/color] He tried to continue talking as they made their way into the dining room. [color=mediumpurple]"I don't really have much time before my night shift at work starts, but I really need to get everything settled and..."
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Remembering the manga books he had read, and the fact that at sometime Alver had been a fan, Micah got down on his knees and exclaimed, [color=mediumpurple]"Could you um, take care of Luke a few nights this week? I'll be back by 10 pm, but Jocelyn can't take care of him- Oh! Jocelyn is my next door neighbor- And she's going on holiday with her son to Hawaii or something and I don't have anyone to watch him and-"[/color]

[@Silver Fox]