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“Why are you wearing my hoodie?” Carina asked as she caught her youngest with her hand on the front door about to leave for school
“Your hoodie?” Maya questioned her wife
“Si” Carina smiled
“Carina that’s mine” Maya laughed pointing at Emilia
“What’s yours is mine” Carina quipped back with a mischievous grin
“Hmmm potato, potato” Maya replied playfully
“Stop calling her potato” Carina groaned rolling her eyes
“I wasn’t calling her potato” Maya laughed
“It’s just a saying Mama” Emilia laughed
“Go find something else to wear” Carina spoke to Emilia
“Buts it’s cosy” the 13 year old protested
“Exactly that’s why it’s my hoodie” Carina replied
“But it completes the fit it’s vintage it’s so 2012” Emilia reasoned with her own grin
“I’m going to ignore the use of the word ‘vintage’ and 2012 really wasn’t the year for fashion you think it was Emilia, take it off” Maya replied pointing to the stairs
“No” Emilia smiled
“Emilia” Maya laughed
“Maya” Emilia replied with wide eyes raising her eyebrows
“Carina say something” Maya whined
“Emilia, go put my hoodie back” Carina replied emphasising the ‘my’
“It’s my hoodie it has Bishop on the back” Maya whined laughing at the incredulity of the situation
“Bishops my name too” Emilia grinned
“You’re so possessive” Carina smirked looking back at Maya
“Yes I am!” Maya laughed “…my girls keep taking my stuff. Between you and Eleora I barely have any station lounge wear and now my youngest is stealing my hard earned team USA stash” Maya pouted defending her possesive nature
“Calmati Maya it’s not like you paid for it” Emilia replied
“1. I paid for it with my hard work and training” Maya groaned “…and 2. Stop calling me Maya it’s weird I don’t like it” the blonde wiggled her finger at Emilia who just laughed
“Shall I call you Bishop instead?” the young teenager asked knowing she was pushing her mother buttons
“No you can stick to Mom or Mommy, whatever you prefer” Maya pouted back “…I prefer mommy but I will accept that you’re growing out of that”
“Okay I gotta get to school” Emilia smiled before she opened the door and ran off down the path towards her ride
“Emilia” Maya called after her from the door step
“Sorry mommy don’t have time to change” Emilia called back “…ti voglio bene, ci vendiamo” the brunette shouted before climbing in the car, Maya stood in the doorway feeling defeated laughing at the situation when she felt two arms snake around her waist
“You wanted a third” Carina whispered in Mayas ear
“Whatever” Maya grumbled closing the door and spinning around to face Carina
“So what shall we do today, no kids, no work, it’s like we’re newlyweds again” Carina smirked
“We are newlyweds again” Maya confirmed as she pushed Carina backwards onto the couch
The women had spent their summer in Sicily, towards the end of the trip they had a very romantic ceremony on the beach to renew their vows surrounded by Carinas family and close friends.
Many of the firefighters from 19 had flown out to join them in their last week to be there for the ceremony. With the added addition of Carinas family and three Tiny Italian Olympians the renewal was arguably bigger than their original wedding
“Exactly, and we had lots of sex when we were newlyweds, care to repeat history with me” Carina smirked
“I want my clothes back” Maya huffed as she straddled Carina
“I’m not wearing your clothes but you can still undress me” Carina flirted shamelessly earning a loud belly laugh from Maya as she heard the cringyness of the statement
“I love you so much” Maya smiled bending down to take Carinas lips in her own
“We share a wardrobe bambina, your clothes are exactly where you left them” Carina replied running her hands up Mayas thighs
“Oh sweetie, I know you like to think that, but I’m well aware that that wardrobe is 90% full of your Italian designer” Maya smiled
“È vero” Carina laughed
“So couch sex or kitchen sex” Carina asked seriously
“Carina” Maya laughed holding onto Carinas hand admiring how her Nonnas ring accented her wedding band
“Patio sex, al fresco” Carina raised her eyebrows
“It is broad daylight” Maya scoffed
“Shower sex?” Carina asked to which Maya just laughed feeling an unbelievable amount of love for Carina
“I love you” Maya whispered
“I know you’ve said, now show me” Carina grinned as she moved to pull her wife into a bruising kiss, one that was interrupted way too soon by a knock at the door
“Who the hell is that?” Maya grumbled as she swung her legs off her wife to answer the persistent knocking
“Did she forget her key again?” Carina asked thinking about Emilia
“Emilia how many times have I told you- oh” Maya started as she swung the door open, however it wasn’t her daughter on the other side
“Not Emilia” the voice laughed
“Vincenzo, hi” Maya spoke the shock evident in her voice
“Hello Maya” the tall Italian smiled pulling Maya into an unexpected hug
“Papa” Carina exclaimed as she jumped up from from the couch
“Carina” Vincenzo smiled as he pushed his way into the house
“Again, all the way across the world without uttering a word” Carina laughed under her breath accepting her fathers short embrace
“I like surprises” Vincenzo reasoned
“I don’t” Maya mumbled
“What’s the problem Papa, why are you here” Carina asked
“To see my grand babies”
“We only left Italy 4 weeks ago” Carina replied
“So? You’re my family Carina” Vincenzo replied taking off his coat and draping it over the couch “where are they?”
“Who?” Maya questioned. It wasn’t the first time Vincenzo had showed up without prior warning yet she never got used to it
“Andrea, Eleora and my favourite Emilia” Vincenzo replied nonchalantly
“Did he just favouritise our children” Maya whispered to Carina noticing her father-in-law was paying no attention to them instead too preoccupied in looking around the downstairs of their house
“They’re at school” Carina replied
“When are they home?“
“Today? 4pm” Maya smiled
“Excellent, then I shall wait” Vincenzo smiled back before sitting in the middle of the couch
“It’s 8am” Maya mumbled
“Should you not be in work?” Vincenzo asked his daughter
“I have the day off, so does Maya” Carina replied
“Even more excellent” Vincenzo smiled
“Why’s that?” Maya asked
“We can spent some quality time together, it’s been so long since I’ve seen you both” Vincenzo replied
“It’s been 4 weeks?” Carina replied confused by her fathers repeated statement
“Carina tell me where is Andrea?” Vincenzo asked
“He’s at school, I just told you they’ll be home around 4pm” Carina replied
“Andrea graduated high school 2005 Carina, why is he in school” Vincenzo asked as Maya and Carina shared a look
“Papa, who is Andrea? What is his relation to you?” Carina asked sitting on the coffee table infront of her father
“He is my son, your brother of course” Vincenzo replied waving off Carinas concern
“Papa, Andrea’s dead, he died a long time ago” Carina spoke calmly feeling tears well up her eyes
“No he isn’t, I spoke to him just last night, he’s going to help me with my research. I’m growing a baby in a bag” Vincenzo replied
“Va bene” Carina exhaled as she closed her eyes to compose herself feeling the need to walk away