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Iris's POV

"Hey, mom..." I stop mid-sentence seeing Ava sleeping peacefully with her head on mum's lap.

I smile, feeling warmth spread through my veins to chest, seeing the view of my mom running fingers through Ava's hair, while she sleeps peacefully has something serene spreading in the air.

If I rewind everything about today's day, it was so relaxed and calm that it made me feel as if this was something, I so desperately needed, was just not aware of.

After Xander dropped me, I came to know that mom wanted to spend some quality time with both her daughters.

And the quality time we spent.

Something we never did in past.

We cooked, danced, cracked jokes, did the makeup of each other and whatnot.

I know all of this is pretty cliche and filmy, but we enjoyed. We wanted to start somewhere and we did.

We acted as if nothing out of ordinary happened in our lives.

And touchwood, I want our lives to be just like this.

I love my mom, but the way she handled aunt May and Ava si