18 April, Military Hospital, City K

Dominic nodded hearing the serious tone in his Daddy Matthew's voice and looked at Lexi.

Lexi took a deep breath.?"Dominic, do you remember my parents?"

"I sort of do mummy.?All I remember is that they never liked me, and I heard them tell Uncle Chester that he should die because he was not normal."

Lexi wanted to yell, that sounded exactly like her parents.?Stuck in their small narrow-minded view of the world.?It was that view that created this mess in the first place.

"Unlike you, who is lucky to have a mummy and your Daddy Matthew who, we think, have a less judgemental opinion, my parents had very particular views.?Your Daddy Matthew went to school with your Uncles Andrew, Paul, Steven, and John, and was a friend of your Mummy and Uncle Chester.?I think you know that your Daddy Matthew's parents did not like that he became a soldier when he finished school."

"Mummy, I have been with Uncle Chester and Uncle Phillip when they have arrived, and they yell and scream at them and ignore me."

Lexi paused "Dominic, as a.d.u.l.ts we talk about these differently, but what they are is views about how things should be.?All us a.d.u.l.ts have them, including even your Daddy Matthew and me.?Daddy Matthew's parents viewed that both your Daddy Matthew and Uncle Phillip should have gone to work in their company.?Your Uncle Phillip did, but that is not what your Daddy Matthew wanted.?They also wanted your Uncle Phillip to marry someone that they picked, but you know he and your Uncle Chester loved each other and he could not.."

"But Uncle Chester married that mean woman.."

"He did, but Mummy's parents had views about their children.?Firstly, was that your Uncle Chester was to marry the woman they picked for him with the help of my daddy's parents.?Your Uncle Chester did not want to do so, but he, your Uncle Andrew and I were taught to respect our parents.?In the end, despite not wanting to do so that is why your Uncle Chester married her.?What happened there, is not my story to tell, but let me say that she did not respect your Uncle Chester and the commitment that she made to him so in the end he had enough and ended everything."

"Secondly, they believed that they could, like your Uncle Chester dictate who your Uncle Andrew married, but before they could put what they wanted in place they died.?Your Uncle Andrew stood firm and as you know he has married your Aunty Sally.?Another thing, about them is they hated your Daddy Matthew, as like his parents they believed your Daddy Matthew should have gone to work for their family company, not do what he did.?When your Uncles Andrew, Paul, Steven, John, and Daddy Matthew all graduated from High School, your Daddy Matthew, who by the way was the smartest one to graduate, came dressed in his military uniform.?My parents treated him badly.?It does not matter why.?Despite this I kept my friendship with your Daddy Matthew."

"Not long after I finished school, I became pregnant with you.?Another one of those things that my parents hated was a pregnant unmarried daughter.?They thought, wrongly, that it was a slap in their face and that they could not go out and about with their friends.?They decided that I needed to be married quickly before me being pregnant with you became known.?That would mean, even when you were born, the argument could always be made that your Daddy and I had, what people would say, anticipated our wedding, minimising what my parents believed was a shameful thing."

"Putting it nicely your daddy and I did not really like each other.?If I had my choice and could have contacted your Daddy Matthew, I would have married him.?But I could not, and my parents made it clear that they would not let me become a wife of a soldier.?Your Daddy had someone who he really liked and if I had not fallen pregnant with you, they would have married.?But your Daddy agreed to do the right thing with my parents.?As I was not eighteen at the time, despite my wishes my parents organised and signed everything for my marriage to your Daddy."

"Despite agreeing to our marriage, your Daddy was not happy.?I made choice as I was married to your Daddy, I had to do the right thing by our marriage.?For your Daddy, that was harder.?Your Daddy had been about to propose to the person he really liked before we married.?He could not simply step away from the lady and was in regular contact with her.?That was simply because he really loved her.?Once you were born, he realised that doing the right thing was something he could not continue to do, following his heart was what he needed to do.?With that he was talking about divorcing me."

Observing the expression of Dominic face, Lexi knew that this was hurting him, but he needed to be told in a way that was age appropriate.?After kissing his forehead, Lexi continued "But do not think that that did not mean your Daddy did not love you.?He really did.?In the couple of weeks after your birth and before his death he told me, and the lawyers that he had to represent him in our divorce that he wanted to you to live with him and the lady he loved, rather than with me.?As you would be a family with them.?While it might seem mean, he wanted me to have limited time with you simply to allow the three of you to become the family he envisaged for the future."

"That is so mean and unfair mummy.?You are my mummy, not someone else."

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