Cosset You Forever

"What's is it?" The three elders looked up at him.

Harry put down the chopsticks before he replied, "You have seen the video in which I proposed to Lola, Nicole's mother." he paused before suggesting, "So, I thought maybe you could go to A Country with me over the next few days, for dinner to meet Lola's parents." Honestly, he thought, he should just be calling it an engagement party.

Bang! the sound startled him, and he looked over at Rose. Rose slammed her chopsticks onto the table, her face dark with anger. She hadn't planned on discussing the video today; however, since her son brought it up himself, she would voice her thoughts.

"How dare you!" she began, "Did you even bother consulting the elders about this proposal? Is that woman worthy of such a magnificent and luxurious wedding?"

Harry's heart sank at his mother's criticism.

Kevin put his hand on Rose's and reminded her, "Don't be so tough on Harry. Let him do what he wants."

Harry's grandfather did not say anything.

"You may accept this but I can't. I would accept anyone except Lola as my daughter-in-law." Rose raised her voice as her frustration grew.

She thought Lola was a calculating woman and had something to do with what happened when Yolanda did not marry Harry. Rose would not abide that woman as her daughter-in-law.

Nicole looked at the elders with curiosity at the mention of her mother.

Kevin noticed and looked at his wife. "Rose, did you see how grown Nicole is now? You would not want her to leave her mother or live with a stepmother." he calmly stated.

He thought Lola was a fine choice and was happy for his son.

Rose glanced at Nicole affectionately responding to her husband, "What's wrong with a stepmother. If we can find a good daughter-in law, who treated her even better than her biological mother."

"I do not want a stepmother." Nicole added. She finally figured out what the adults were discussing. She slammed her spoon down. Her mouth turned down as she pouted.

Harry's mood immediately turned and he smiled. She was so like Lola.

granddaughter, "My little baby, grandmother

ears willfully, and shook her head, "I'm not

Nicole getting upset, he took her from the high chair and sat her on his lap, pulling

replace mommy with some stepmother."

stopped pouting, but she didn't like grandma anymore, because

without you." He would live with Lola

her son, too angry to complete her thought.

who had remained silent till now, put down the chopsticks slowly. He wiped his lips before adding to the conversation, "Harry, you

you, grandfather." Harry beamed.

no longer object to Harry's

would never go to A Country, because She didn't want

matter was resolved, Nicole refused to respond to Rose, regardless

her father to take her back to

to go to bed, Kevin looked at his wife

replied, "What did I do wrong?

pointed at her helplessly, "As an elder, you should not have reacted in such a manner." Ah, he thought, she acted like this because he spoiled her when they were younger.

Harry was engaged to another woman, I

he thought better, and rather than argue, decided to let her go through this herself. "Time

at Kevin laying as though asleep, her anger still keeping her in

Inside the mansion.

he went to

number and dialed it.

will call you back when I finish." Harry's eyes

thought of the days she was around.

breath and closed

the phone to her hand. "What's up, Boss Si? Miss me?"