“Alicia! Come here, honey,” Tony called out his 6 year old daughter as he finished putting whip cream on top of the cake he had just baked. It was Alicia’s sixth birthday and this time, Tony and Mike decided to celebrate it at home – just the three of them.

“How do I look, daddy?” Alicia asked Mike as she turned around, showing off Mike her favourite pink dress that she was wearing (although Mike was the one who bought her that).

Mike gave his daughter a huge grin and said, “Lovely as always.”

Alicia let out a small giggle and ran downstairs, to where Tony was. Mike followed afterwards. Alicia squealed when she saw a beautifully decorated pink cake on top of the kitchen table and immediately climbed the chair (with Tony’s help), stood on top of the chair and squealed again as she took a closer look on the cake.

“Do you like it?” Tony asked with a hopeful look in his eyes.

Alicia nodded as an answer, her eyes still glued to the beautiful cake in front of her. No longer after that, Mike got into the kitchen, joining the two. He stood beside Tony, with his arm wrapped on Tony’s shoulder, feeling happy with his sunshine’s happiness.

Earlier, they’ve been called by the orphanage that Alicia’s birth mom would like to see her – which made Tony confused and scared because she was the one who register Alicia to the orphanage yet now she wanted to see her (but if Tony were to tell the truth, he was scared as shit because what if she wanted to take his sunshine away?).

So when the door bell rung, Mike wasn’t surprised to find a young woman standing in front of him, very well dressed. The woman looked up to him and smiled; Mike returned the smile and invited her in.

While his husband was inviting Alicia’s birth mom inside to the living room, Tony picked up Alicia and kissed her cheek. The thought of losing her truly scared him to death.

“Baby?”

“Yes, papa?”

“Your real mother wanted to see you, honey. She wanted to see how beautiful you’ve grown,” Tony whispered. He hoped Alicia knew what he was talking about. She was just six for fuck’s sake, how could she understand that her mother didn’t want her but now wanted to meet her?
Alicia didn’t answer but she looked excited as ever.

Mike was talking to Ria (Alicia’s real mom) about Alicia and Ria seemed to be pleased that her daughter was in a good hand of a good father. However, Ria’s smile frowned when she saw Tony coming in with who she assumed was her daughter on his arms.

Tony put Alicia’s down and instead of running towards her mother, she stood behind Tony, unsure whether she was the woman who gave birth to her.

“Tony, this is Ria,” Mike introduced. “And Ria, this is Tony.”

“Hey,” Tony smiled, offering a hand. Instead of shaking his hand, Ria just stared at him as if she had never seen a man before.

“Is he your –”

“Yeah, he’s my husband,” Mike answered.

“Oh.”

Tony sensed that Ria didn’t like him at all. Or maybe, she didn’t like how Alicia’s parents turned out to be. Tony began to felt uncomfortable. Unknowingly, his hand reached out to stroke Alicia’s hair, as if that would calm him down. Alicia looked up at him with her big brown eyes and he looked down, forcing a smile.

“If you guys don’t mind, can I talk to Alicia alone?” Ria asked.

“Sure,” Mike answered and then turned to Alicia, “Baby, we leave you with aunt, um, Aunt Ria, okay?”

Alicia didn’t answer, she didn’t even nod. All she knew was she wanted to eat that cake and celebrate her birthday with her fathers but instead, she was going to talk alone with a very intimidating woman and she was scared. But eventually, she nodded.

Tony bent down and kissed her forehead as if it was going to be the last time they’ll ever meet. Mike ruffled his daughter’s hair and exited the living room with Tony.

The couple went to the kitchen and sat on the chair. “What did you guys talk about?” Tony asked Mike.

“We talked about Alicia. She actually wanted to name our Alicia Mandy, do you believe that?” Mike asked with a chuckle.

Tony nervously laughed. He was worried sick. What would that woman want from Alicia? Was she trying to convince that she was her real mother? Well obviously she was her real mother but what the hell did she want?

Tony couldn’t stand it anymore, he stood up and instead of getting into the living room, he stopped and decided to eavesdrop. Mike wanted to stop his husband but he ended up following him and eavesdropping with him.

“Alicia, honey, you are aware that I am your real mother, right?”

Tony didn’t see and know what was going on but Alicia didn’t answer.

“Look, honey. When babies are made, there are two people involved and it must be a man and a woman. When you have a family, you must have a mommy and daddy, do you know that? You must have two parents.”

“I have two parents.”

“But, sweetie, they are both men.”

“Sometimes I call papa mommy.”

“Don’t you see, sweetheart? They’re bad parents.”

Tony could feel his heart stopped beating for a while but he continued to listen. Mike only raised his eyebrow and did what Tony did, he continued to listen to their conversation.

“But they love me. You don’t love me. You’re the bad one.”

“Oh, sweetie, I do love you. I’m not a bad mommy. I don’t have tattoos. Look at your dad, they have a lot of tattoos. People with tattoos are bad people and bad people shouldn’t have children. You see, honey, you should have a mother and a father, you can come back to me –”

And that was when Tony’s eyes actually got teary.

“What the fuck,” Mike cursed and without warning, he walked into the living room and scooped Alicia and carried her, causing Ria to jumped in surprise.

Tony was shocked with Mike’s sudden behavior. Panicked, he got into the living room to stop Mike but before he could stop him, Mike handed Alicia to him. Tony hold her close, kissing her cheeks and murmuring an ‘I love you’.

“Look, you bitch,” Mike began and Tony immediately asked Alicia to cover her ears, “I don’t care what you think and I don’t actually give a fuck about why you are here. If you’re going to take my fucking sunshine away, I suggest you to fuck off because she’s ours now.”

Ria’s eyes widened by his sudden speech. “What in the – she’s my daughter, you dick!”

“No, she’s OUR daughter. We were there when you weren’t. Is it wrong that she has two father? What’s the use of having mother who doesn’t actually give two fucks about her? Now if you don’t mind, please fuck off. You can exit using the fucking door there,” Mike spat as he pointed at the main door.

“Unbelievable!” Ria rolled her eyes and as she was about to walk out of their house, she gave them a disgusted look and slammed the door shut.

Mike groaned out loud and then began to curse while Tony tried to block the words from entering Alicia’s ears. Alicia giggled and then asked loudly, “Why do I have to cover my ears?”

Tony gave her a smile and pressed their foreheads together, “Daddy’s mad so you have to do that.”

“Fuck that bitch! I shouldn’t have agreed of the idea her coming here,” Mike ended then stared at his two sunshines who were giggling.

Without realizing, Mike’s lips curved into a smile softly and then walked towards them. “Why are you two having fun without me, eh?”

“Daddy is the one who’s mad,” Alicia pouted.

“Yeah, you listen to your daughter.”

“Can we just go back to celebrate Alicia’s birthday? I’m actually starving from all the cursing.”

Notes

crappy. but comments, please? c: