Chapter 37: Fina Gets a New Dad

Chapter 37:
Fina Gets a New Dad

 

WHEN I CAME BACK from going to buy my mom something good to eat, Yuna wasn’t there anymore. Apparently, she went home. I hadn’t thanked her enough, and even though we bought the food using Yuna’s money, I hadn’t thanked her for that yet, either.

When I looked at my mom and Mr. Gentz, they were blushing for some reason. I wonder what happened?

“Um, Fina, Shuri. Well—how do I put this—would you like a new dad?”

“A dad?”

It was a weird question. My dad was dead.

“I’m not sure. I don’t really remember my dad, so I don’t know what to think about a new one…”

“I dunno,” Shuri said.

Mr. Gentz scratched his head and looked at us. “Your mom and I are going to get married. Fina, Shuri, would you give us your blessing?”

“Married?”

“I want to become your dad. I want to protect the three of you. I don’t think I’ll be as good as that bear girl, but would you let me protect you guys?”

“Mr. Gentz?”

“Fina, Shuri, would you be okay with Gentz being your dad?” my mom asked us.

I didn’t really get it. But…

“If that would make you happy, Mom.”

Shuri nodded too.

“Yes, that would. And I’ll make sure you two are happy too. Um...thanks, Fina and Shuri.”

Mr. Gentz hugged us. He and Mom did seem happy.

 

Everything that followed was a mess. My mom tried to get out of bed now that she was better, and I had to get her to lie down, and then keep doing that every time she tried to make food, clean, or go out. Yuna told me to make sure she rested for a while. I had Shuri stand watch over Mom. She seemed happy to spend time with her.

Daddy Gentz was looking for a house where the four of us could live together. I had to get ready to move, little by little.

 

A few days after Mom was cured, we found a new house and decided to move. I got approval from Yuna for my mom to leave bed. The day we moved, Yuna was going to help, too.

Normally, moving takes a lot of time and money. We would have had to rent a wagon and trailer and make a whole bunch of roundtrips, but Yuna could fit anything in her bottomless bag, no matter how big or heavy it was. When we went tigerwolf slaying, I’d been shocked to see her pull her house out of it and put it back.

Since we got the things in the house ready ahead of time, we were done with everything before the afternoon. We went to Mister Gentz’s house next. It was ridiculous. I don’t know if he ever cleaned it. Mom was super upset. She asked Shuri, Yuna, and me to go to the new house ahead of her and clean up.

When we got to the house, I asked Shuri to clean. I had Yuna bring out the furniture and beds. Usually we would need a lot of people to bring the beds from the first floor to the second floor, but Yuna just pulled them out of her bear glove and then we were done. After Yuna finished pulling out the things, she went to Dad’s house.

Shuri and I gave cleaning the new house our all. When the sun started to set, my mom came back with the other two, and we started talking about food. The house still wasn’t clean, and we couldn’t make food there. When Dad said that we could go out to eat, my mom got mad at him since it was a waste of money.

In the end, Yuna took care of us and we went to her house. I wonder why Yuna is so kind?

 

We ate and ended up staying over at Yuna’s house. Since we were staying over and were dirty from moving, Yuna let us take baths. Yuna’s bath was so big that even the four of us could go in together. We made Dad wait outside.

Yuna was slim and dainty, and really pretty, especially her hair, which was black and went all the way to her back. I wondered if mine would be that pretty if I let it grow too.

When we got into the bath, we started talking about breasts. Yuna said she’d end up bam, shwoo, bam. I wonder what she meant by that? I wanted my chest to be about as big as Yuna’s. I saw a lot of adults with big breasts, but they seemed like they would get in the way.

I looked at my own chest and asked my mom, “Do you think mine will get bigger?”

For some reason, Yuna looked at my mom’s breasts, then mine. “You’re free to dream,” she said.

My mom got a little mad when Yuna said that. “You don’t need to worry. Yours will get bigger, unlike mine.”

“I’d like mine to be the same size as Yuna’s.”

The second I said that, Yuna hugged me. For some reason, it had made her happy.

Dad got in the bath after us. While he was doing that, we dried our hair. Yuna’s hair was long and it looked like it would be hard to dry. When I was drying my hair with a towel, Yuna brought out a round, long tool that was in a weird shape. Yuna told me to turn around, so I was good and did that. I felt hot wind blowing on me from behind. I was surprised and made a weird sound.

Yuna told me it was a tool to dry hair by blowing warm wind. The wind was nice, and my hair was dry before I knew it. My sister got her hair dry, and then my mom, and Yuna dried hers at the end. Yuna is so amazing for having such a useful tool like that.

Right when we finished drying our hair, dad came out of the bath, so we decided to sleep, since we were tired from moving. My dad slept alone, and I slept with Shuri and my mom.

Yuna talked about stuff I didn’t understand. Since mom and dad would get the sheets dirty if they slept together, she said they couldn’t be together. I guess they wouldn’t get the sheets dirty if they were apart?

I’ll ask Mom about it next time.

 

The next morning, I got up alone. Mom and Shuri were sleeping. I went down to the first floor as quietly as I could. When I was making breakfast, Dad came down to the first floor. He ate ahead of everyone and went to the guild; work there starts early in the morning.

Yuna came down to replace him. Since I was done making breakfast, I went to wake up the others. While the four of us ate breakfast together, Yuna asked me something weird.

“Do you know where they sell eggs?”

Did she mean bird eggs? When I told her she couldn’t get them from a normal store, she looked disappointed. Did she really want eggs that much?

After we finished breakfast, we went back to our new house to finish cleaning up. Shuri picked up the small things, and mom and I picked up the big things. It would have been nice to have Dad around to help, but we couldn’t do anything about that. We finished putting away everything that we’d brought from our old house, but we struggled with Dad’s stuff because it was all just crammed into whatever boxes they fit in.

All of these changes—Mom being healthy, getting to eat good food, having a new dad—were because of Yuna.