Nox's POV:
Right as the announcer finished, we were approached by the ginger lady from that sham trial. I got up to see what she wanted only for her to pass me by and steal my seat next to the Crybaby.
"I heard you were in town, so how come you didn't pay me a visit Lexy?" She said as she hugged him by the arm and gave the biggest puppy eyes I have ever seen on a human. Seriously, her pupils got freakishly big
"Uh, well!" Suddenly he turned to look at me for help, and I was more than happy to interfere in my kids' love life.
"Your Leah right?"
"Huh?! Get lost, can't you see we're in the middle of something!" she said as her demeaner did a 180 the moment she turned to look at me.
"Nice attitude! Hey Crybaby! Is this my future daughter in law?" I said as I gave him a thumbs up.
My son ended up face palming in joy at my intervention while Leah seemed to make another switch as she went from giving me the stink eye to nervously looking back and forth between me and the Crybaby.
"Crybaby? Daughter-in-law? Wait aren't you that dude from that trial?"
"Oh right! Where are my manners? My real name is Nox Manus and that crybaby over there is my adopted son Alex!"
"OH MY GOD! I am so sorry for yelling at you sir!" She said as she started to apologize in a panic.
Meanwhile my son was trying to sneak away, but my future daughter-in-law showcased a promising amount of grip strength as she pinned him in place.
"Nah! Don't sweat the small stuff. I just wanted to know if I should be expecting grandkids any time soon, and if you wanted to see the images I kept from when he was little?"
"YES! I MEAN NO! I mean I wouldn't mind that!" She said in a fluster while giving my crybaby a shy look.
"NO LET ME GO! STO-!" The crybaby cried as he knew what came next.
So, I shut him up with a magically enchanted pacifier that latched onto his lips and muffled his protests, as I pulled out an old scrap book enchanted with spatial magic. Every page had an inbuilt compartment that held either a crystal ball recorder or a floating ball of light that played a 3D image on loop.
I spent the remainder of that day showing my new favorite child-in-law pictures of my firstborn's crying face as I regaled her with embarrassing tales of my baby boy.
"Oh! This is where I adopted him! He was about to be eaten by a big dog! You can still see the terror in his eyes as he bawled his eyes out. It's why I call him a Crybaby!"
"Pft! *giggle* Look! he wet his pants!"
"Haha! You're right he did!"
*BANG*
We spent so long making fun of my kid that before we noticed the sun had gone down and the ending ceremony was about to start! We only realized how much time had passed once we heard the sounds of fireworks going off in the distance.
*Pop*
"Oh, would you look at the time! I have got to go! You two lovebirds have fun! Bye!" I said as I pulled out the pacifier from my teary-eyed son and ran off to get ready for the big event.
"Lexy! How come you never introduced me to your dad! He's so fun!"
"Ugh! Because he was dead! Also, he's not my dad he is my mom!"
"What?"
"Just don't ask and would you get off of me already!"
"Nope!"