"Lau, be a dear, and pass the pork buns."

"No."

"No? What do you mean 'no'?"

"I mean that your cholesterol levels are going to skyrocket if you don't alter your dietary habits."

"Aiya! Lau, how many times have we been over this, I am your mother, so you need not be mine!"

Leon (very intelligently) chosen to eat on the couch beforehand, as to not get caught up in the fray. His mother and half-brother were like this, all the time. He turned around to face the dining table behind them. "Mum," he spoke to his brother monotonously, "Lau's right. It's not good for you."

Lau hummed looking very self-satisfied at the younger boy's comment.

But Leon continued. "However, Lau, you need to stop being such a grandmother."

"Hah!" their mother cried, jumping up and pointing a tiny finger in her elder's face.

Lau rolled his eyes at the immaturity of the woman who raised him. "Well of course I have to act motherly," he explained. "Because our own mother acts like a child."

"Hey!" said mother pouted, plopping herself back down on the cushioned dining chair.

Both Lau and Leon smirked.

"Thank you," Lau said airily.

"For proving his point," Leon finished for his older sibling.

Chun-Yan Wang just pouted some more. It did nothing to help her case.

…

Chun-Yan had a penchant for getting knocked up by total bastards who leave her as soon as the child is born. In her defense, Chun Yan was both a successful entrepreneur and a nympho. She'd had sex with so many different people from so many different places, that the odds of a broken condom were pretty high. It was a wonder that it only happened twice, but in the opinion of her younger sister Sakura…that was two times too many.

Sakura was one of those perfect people. Pretty, smart, caring, kind, athletic, every single adjective you could think of that would accurate portray her ability to be good at anything and everything. She was the epitome of flawless. Her and her Greek boyfriend of who knows how many years (Chun Yan couldn't remember a time when they weren't together) were getting married next spring. Of course Sakura would never understand what her older sister was going through.

First it was that idiot Portuguese. Lau's father. Chun Yan didn't know where the hell he was, and that might have been a good thing, because if the Chinese woman knew his whereabouts, it would result in a murder and a jail sentence for the man and the woman, respectively.

Armando, his name was. Chun Yan lost her virtue to him, and it got her pregnant.

But then there was Leon's father. The seemingly oh-so-sweet Britannia Angel, whom, if you got to know him well enough, could possibly be the offspring of the devil. Chun Yan should have asked him to get a DNA test.

Arthur Kirkland.

Now, if Arthur Kirkland was any other random guy, it would be fine. But Chun Yan and Arthur used to be in a long-term relationship. But in the end, what did she get out of it? A baby, an opium addiction, and then a broken heart when her bisexual boyfriend left her for a buff American male model cum pilot. In that order. Well, at least she got started on the drugs after Leon was born, because then he would have come out one seriously messed-up child.

The worst part was, Chun Yan couldn't simply forget Arthur Kirkland. Sakura happened to be best friends with Arthur's boy toy, Alfred F. Jones, as well as Arthur himself. She saw them all the time at those dreaded dinner parties that Sakura hosted.

Sometimes, she kind of wished that it worked out between her and Arthur.