High Flying (NANO CHALLENGE 2) Adam stood in their backyard watching as his only son fly around on the new broom that he had gotten for Christmas this past year. It was hard to believe that Victor was nine now. Nine. In a couple of years, he would be eleven and on his way to Sonora just as Adam and Nicoletta had done. Thinking back to his days at Sonora, Adam smiled at the nostalgia. Back then, everything had felt so life and death, long before it had actually become that way. He had Nicoletta had dated in secret because she was a princess and he was the kid from the wrong side of the poverty line. He had been a dirty secret for her and it can caused their first breakup.
Of course, then she left her family and was disowned while he dated Dalilah. He sometimes wondered what would have happened if he had stayed with the Teppenpaw rather than follow his heart. NIcoletta had been instrumental in him being able to receive the heart transplant, so he half convinced that he would be dead if that had happened and his son wouldn’t exist.
After years of struggling with Nicoletta, both with back and forth of their relationship, of her relationship with her family (as her brother took over the family and reinstated her into it), and his battle with his heart condition, he and Nicoletta had their son. They could have potentially had more children, but with Adam’s heart condition a genetic condition, he had been too terrified with the idea of putting his own child through the same pain and quite possibly, sending him or her to their death. He couldn’t do it, so they agreed to only their one child.
“Oyi Dad!” Victor called out, trying to get his dad’s attention. “Did you see me?” He shouted.
“Sorry Bud, I was daydreaming.” Adam called back, feeling guilty for not having paid attention. “Do it again for me.” Adam suggested, this time keeping his eyes firmly on his son to see what new trick he had to show for him. He probably shouldn’t be letting Victor flying around doing tricks. He was sure Nicoletta would have his head if she knew. “Oh, hey, great job Bud!” Adam called out when Victor completed the trick. “Why don’t you come in and we’ll have the elves make us some lunch?”
“Okay Dad!” Victor shouted back while landing the broom. Dad always had the elves prepare the best foods…
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Victor was flying through the air as fast as the broom would let him. His parents finally allowed him to have a broom of his own instead of a toy one and he flew it every day. He loved flying! It was one of his favorite past times. His dad used to fly but then he got sick or something as a kid and didn’t do it anymore, but he always watched Victor when he was flying. Looking around, his blue/green eyes spotted him down on the ground, sitting in the garden bench. Victor waved and smiled when she father waved back.
Sometimes, Victor wondered about things. Like, he knew his dad had been sick and because of that, they felt it best to have only Victor and Victor had plenty of extended relatives around his age that he saw from time to time, but he wondered about what was going on with everyone’s parents. His dad was always tense around his mom’s cousins and his mom wasn’t always the happiest to see them. But his Uncle Chris and Aunt Anne were cool, even if they were a little stiff for Victor’s liking. He asked them once, but they denied anything weird happening, so it was probably some long winded thing that happened long before Victor was born. He probably shouldn’t care anyway.
“Dad, watch this!” Victor shouted. He tipped his broom upward slightly, which sort of stalled the broom out and allowed him a moment of freefall before he corrected it and returned to flying correctly. “Dad! Did you see it? Dad!” Victor shouted, turning to have a look at his dad, but his father’s face looked distant and Victor knew he wasn’t paying attention. “Oyi Dad! Did you see me?” Victor called again, this time, his dad’s face turned up to look at him.
“Sorry Bud, I was daydreaming.” His dad called back, “Do it again for me.” Victor rolled his eyes, but obliged his father anyway.