[ENG] When he left me...: Epilogue
Title: When he left me...
Pairing: Ohmiya, Jun/ ?, Sho/oc, Nino/oc
Rating: PG
genre: Romance, drama, fluff, family, AU
Plot: Nino broke up with his boyfriend Satoshi. Six years later, Satoshi discover all the truth
Warning: bad english xD
Note : Hey! This time it's really over with this fic :') thank you again to those who read it and left comments on it !! ^^
[Epilogue]
- ... that's when we moved into our very first apartment with Daddy Toshi. Says my lover to Satoe, both sitting on the couch watching old albums.
- Daddy Toshi had yellow hair?
- We say rather blond but yes, he wanted to look cool.
- I don't find him so cool.
- Ah! You see ! He said turning in my direction as I pack books in a moving cardboard box.
I roll my eyes before replying.
- I thought I was fashion, I was young and freshly graduated from art college.
- I told you for weeks that you looked ridiculous!
- We don't care, it's past. Why am I the only one contributing to our move? It's shameful to make the convalescents work ...
- You're not convalescent anymore for a month now and Satoe wanted to see our old pictures.
I sigh and leave my task where it is to settle with them, installing the girl on my lap. Kazu closes the album he was watching and pulls out another from the box where he had them stacked. This one is pink with "Satoe" written on it.
- What is it, daddy? She asks, not yet knowing how to read the kanjis forming her first name.
- Satoe, it's your name, because this album is entirely dedicated to you. I bought it a week after you were born.
- Ouaaaah ...
My lover opens the album. On the first page, a picture of the baby at the maternity ward with her name, date of birth, height and weight noted carefully below by her father.
- I didn't know you so creative, Kazu-chan.
He's blushing.
- Needless to say. He replies.
On the second page, the same information but on a document from the hospital showing in addition the fingerprints of the feet and hands of the newborn that was Satoe.
- This document, it was given to me as a memory when I was able to bring you back from the hospital.
- I had very small hands and very small feet!
- That's always the case, you know? He said with a small laugh as he presented his own hand.
- Mou! You're naughty !
- Don't worry! It's better to have pretty little hands than your father's ugly paws. He says kissing her on the forehead.
We still spend hours in front of the photo albums, so the moving boxes are still in the water for today. After a quick dinner and a bath for each of us, Kazu and I are in each other's arms in our bed.
- I didn't know it would make me so nostalgic to see these albums again. He says.
- That's the goal of photo albums, you know? You store lots of memories and when you look at them again everything comes back to you right in the face.
My lover laughs.
- I forgot she was so small. This document with Sato's fingerprints...it's perhaps exaggerated, but when it was given to me it marked for me the beginning of a whole new life.
- This is not exaggerated, on the contrary, I find it so cute and perfectly understandable.
- When Satoe was only a baby, I would say until she was 6 months old, I had her in arms almost permanently, I swear! Impossible to separate from her! Aaaah ... how I miss my baby, she is growing so fast ...
- Do you want another one?
- Eh?
- Another child.
He seems to think for a moment before answering me.
- No. We are well like that. Do you imagine all the administrative procedures? I don't want to focus for years on waiting for a second child while I could enjoy those moments with you and Satoe. I already have the chance to have an adorable daughter and a man I love to madness and that is enough for my happiness. He says ending his sentence with a kiss he laid on my cheek. Besides, since Satoe is my biological daughter, I'm afraid I don't treat them both the same way.
- I understand, you're right.
He squeezes me a little more against him and holds his head in the crook of my neck.
- Good night, Satoyan.
- Good night, Kazu-chan. I love you.
- Shut up, it's me who loves you the most ... he mumbles before making complete silence except for the sound of his breathing, which is getting slower and slower.
I close my eyes and don't wait to fall asleep too. This fingerprint story may have given me an idea.
*****
- Daddy will not get angry?
- No, we'll clean all that after. I tell Satoe, putting on her plastic blouse for the painting activities and supposed to avoid stains on her clothes.
I then get up and grabbed two brushes and a pot filled with yellow paint. I give Satoe a brush and we both sit on our improvised sheet of newsprint around a white sheet.
- First, we paint the whole sheet. I said. Then until it dries we'll eat a big piece of chocolate cake while Daddy is at work.
- Yatta! She exclaims before we get down to work.
A few minutes later, we sit in the kitchen in front of our cake and a glass of milk each.
- So ? It's good ?
Satoe nods, her mouth full of chocolate.
- I think I did well to leave you your apron.
- Say Toshi? In the new house can we stop painting in the living room?
- Hum, we'll have a room to paint and draw, Daddy will have his office to work and we'll also have a garden to make barbecues and invite everyone.
- Yeah! And we can have a dog?
- That ... I have to talk to Daddy about it.
- Or an elephant ... she said with all the seriousness of the world while his remark makes me laugh.
- Where would we put an elephant?
- In my bed.
- It would be too big.
The girl doesn't answer and stuffs a huge piece of cake in her mouth.
- Will you manage to finish everything Satoe-chan? I gave you a famous piece though.
- Hum!
And to confirm her words she swallows quickly the last end on his plate and then displays a broad smile by raising her thumbs in the air.
- Well, we'll wash our hands and mouth and then we tackle the most fun part of our surprise.
- Haaai!
*****
- Tadaima. Made my lover entering the living room.
- Okaeri. I whispered so as not to wake Satoe who fell asleep against me as I drew sitting on the couch.
I close my sketchbook while Kazu comes to kiss me and sit next to Satoe. He puts a kiss on top of his daughter's head and then strokes her head with a small, peaceful smile on his face.
- She fell asleep waiting for you. She had dinner and she took a bath, still have to put her in bed.
- Hum.
Kazu then removes the book Satoe held in his hands and watches it for a few seconds before placing it on the couch next to him.
- She wanted you to read her a storybook. I add.
My lover sighs sadly.
- It's true that it's been a long time. I often work late these days.
- It's not your fault. We have a house to pay and your schedule vary more and more often than mine.
- Next week, it will be a little lighter, I can spend the evenings with you.
- Cool, it will make her happy. I say with a smile.
- And you ?
- Me too, of course. But I am a big boy and I have you whole at night and in the morning when I wake up.
- Not false.
He kisses me again and between us, Satoe changes position to try to spread out in the small space between Kazu and me. We laugh.
- Well, I'll go put the princess in bed. You waiting for me in ours? A small staff meeting is needed, Ohno-sensei. He said with a wink and a smirk.
- Of course, Ninomiya-sensei. I say getting up while my lover gently raises our daughter and installs her comfortably in his arms to lead her to her bed.
*****
2 months later.
- Otsukaresama deshita! Thank you for everything ! Says my lover to the movers who helped us with our furnitures, while they leave our house.
He closed the door and we sighed together. Finally in our new house, it's been months since we bought it but with my stay in the hospital and my recovery, the boxes had to be postponed. Kazu stretches yawning. It's true that the day has been long and the night has already fallen. Satoe spends the night at her grandmother's house, so we are only both of us.
- I propose that we eat a pack of instant ramen quickly and go to bed. I say.
He nods with a smile and heads to our new kitchen. While my lover pulled out our electric kettle from a cupboard and heated some water, I took out two bowls from another and now empty the contents of two packets of noodles in it. Tired by the move, we soon swallow our bowls and leave the dishes for the next day before going to bed.
But before I sleep, once I have changed and while I wait for Kazu to brush his teeth, I use this moment to take the surprise that I prepared with the little one for him. He finally comes back and stays still seeing the pack wrapped in my hands.
- Satoyan? What is this? It's not my birthday ...
- I know but it's something that Satoe and I prepared a long time ago, remember? A little after our evening spent in photo albums.
- A suprise ? For me ?
- Do you see anyone other than us? I ask while tending the package.
My lover smiles and climbs into our bed to sit in front of me and tear the paper. He then remains speechless in front of our present.
- Is this your handprints? In a frame ?
- Hum. It's a bit like the picture of our family, all it needs is yours. You told me that Satoe's hand and footprints marked the beginning of a new life, these too, they mark the beginning of our family life in our new home. I said.
- Thanks to you both, it's adorable. If you knew how I love you. He said with a broad smile before kissing me tenderly.
His lips finally leave mine but he does not break our embrace, on the contrary, he squeezes me harder against him without saying a word for a long time.
- Let's do it.
- I'm tired but well, we're already in bed so ...
- No ! I was talking about adopting a child.
- You told me you didn't want to.
- Since then, I thought about it again and changed my mind. I want this house to be filled with laughter and children's games. I want my role as a parent to last longer, I still have a lot of love to give and then, you don't think Sato would be happy to have a little brother or sister?
- I think too. I say with a smile. You're a great father Kazu.
- We're both great fathers. I could not dream better for Satoe. He said kissing me. Believe me, tomorrow I will contact an agency.
- If you had not done it, I would. I say with a chuckle.
My lover puts the frame back in front of his eyes and smiles, looking pensive.
- And when we have it, this new child will be able to add its mark to our family.
*****
1 year later.
- Be careful. My lover whispers as he opens the door to let us pass, my precious bundle and me.
We stop a little before passing the door of the living room and we both stare at the little human-being asleep in the crook of my arms, filled with joy, so much so that it is difficult for us not to cry all over the house .
- Are you ready ?
- Hum.
Kazu then slowly opens the door and we enter the room.
- Hey! He whispers to Jun and Toma who came to watch Satoe on this occasion.
They all turn to us and the same impatient smile is drawn on their faces.
- We would like to introduce you to someone. He continues as we move towards the couch and sit down next to Satoe who stares at the newcomer with a bright smile.
Kazu then stays behind me.
- Satoe, here is your little sister, her name is Kiyo, she's only 5 days old. I say.
She stares at the baby for long moments then her gaze passes over each of us without saying a word.
- So ? Are you happy Princess? Kazu asks.
She nods, making us laugh in a low voice so that we don't wake up Kiyo.
- Do you want to hold her?
- I can ?
- Of course. I say, transferring the child to her sister's arms.
- Be careful, babies are very fragile, you know? Says Toma.
But Satoe holds her well and admires her with a proud look on her face without uttering a word. Like just about everyone in the room.
It only took a few months after our, well, my application to the adoption agency to get back in touch with me. We could not adopt both, being a same-sex couple and fatally unmarried. So we decided that I would be the legal parent of our next child. Despite everything, the agency had nothing against us and we always presented both.
A couple had contacted the agency 6 months ago. They were very young and could not keep the child they were expecting so they wanted to entrust it to the best possible family. They had already refused 3 or 4 couples before us! I don't know what they liked about us, but they chose us and then Kiyo came into the world.
Everything that Kazu had told me about his feelings as a father for the first time was confirmed for me. I was nervous the first time I could see her and then a huge wave of joy overwhelmed me and I loved her immediately, as if my heart was falling in love again. Kazu was in the same state and yet he lived this situation for the second time. That's when I really understood the emotion of being a parent.
Of course I considered Satoe as my daughter almost immediately after Kazu and I started living together again and I love her just as much, but it was not the same thing. At that moment, I slipped into their lives and their routine already built while with the baby, we prepare to rebuild another little by little.
- She's so tiny. Satoe murmurs, still in awe of her little sister.
- It's normal, she has just been born, she will grow up and become tall and strong like you right now. Kazu tells her.
- And then you will fight for pairs of shoes. Add Jun to the tone of the joke.
The girl looks at him badly and pulls her tongue out.
- No, I love my little sister and I will be the best of all the big sisters! She says calmly before bending over to kiss Kiyo's little head.
At that moment, I can swear that our my and kazu's hearts have melted in unison.
*****
3 months later.
- Kiyo-chan, if you knew how cute you are!
- And I'm the gaga father ... said my lover who is active in the kitchen while I give her morning bottle to Kiyo.
- It's impossible not to find her adorable, she doesn't stop smiling at me!
- It's probably that she has gas ... said my beloved with a small smile.
- Mou ... can you hear that? Papa Kazu is jealous of us, pretty lady. I tell the baby who just stares at me and sucks her formula.
Steps on the stairs are heard and Satoe arrives in the living room, her new schoolbag on the back.
- Daddy Toshi? How do you find me ?
- Pretty. I say.
- And Daddy? She runs to join him in the kitchen.
- Wow! You are the prettiest princess in the world! Says my lover ruffling her hair.
- Mouuuuu! I need to brush my hair again now!
Our daughter leaves her schoolbag on a chair in the kitchen and runs up the stairs to her bedroom.
- Aaah, girls ... sighs Kazu putting their bentos on the big table in the living room. So ? Has this young lady finished her breakfast? He asks, coming closer to us and stroking Kiyo's head.
- Just now. I say, handing him the empty bottle.
I'm about to put the girl against my shoulder to make her burp but he stops me and gives me his apron.
- Satoshi, you're wearing clean clothes to go to your daughter's entering elementary school ceremony, I remember you. I don't want your clothes to be a complete mess because Kiyo threw up on it.
- Yes, you're right.
He then puts his apron on my shoulder and beckons me to continue. Fortunately for me, Kiyo doesn't throw up on my shoulder.
- Safe, sighs my lover, relieved. It will be less in the washing machine tonight. Come on, give her to me, it's time to go.
I hand the girl to Kazu, he puts her in his arms and kisses her small chubby cheeks. No doubts, we are both stiff crazy of love for her.
- Come on princess, it's time to go to the new school of onee-chan. He says leaving the room, taking the little one's changing bag in passing.
I follow him to put on my shoes while he installs the baby in her cozy. Once done and before doing like me, he leans towards the stairs.
- Sato! It's time !
- Haaaai! The little girl screams from the 1st floor before tumbling for the third time down the stairs.
- Your lunch is on the table. Kazu said.
Our eldest run to the living room and returns to the entrance with two bento boxes prepared by Kazu.
- Dad, you forgot yours! She says, handing it to him.
- Ah! Arigatou! What would I do without you, darling?
He hastens to stuff the wrapped package in his bag and seizes the cozy while Satoe finishes putting on her shoes.
- Let's go girls! Kazu says happily by opening the front door. Satoyan, don't forget to take Kiyo's changing bag !
- Hai.
He gets out of the house with Kiyo and Satoe follows them. I turn to take the bag left on the furniture of the lobby. My gaze then falls on the frame I gave to Kazu when we moved in, hanging just above the famous furniture and I can't help but smile in front of our four hands painted on it, truly happy with the little family we are forming.
- Satoshi! We're going to be late ! I hear my lover screaming from the outside.
- Hai, hai. I say before going out and close the door behind us.
THE END
Pairing: Ohmiya, Jun/ ?, Sho/oc, Nino/oc
Rating: PG
genre: Romance, drama, fluff, family, AU
Plot: Nino broke up with his boyfriend Satoshi. Six years later, Satoshi discover all the truth
Warning: bad english xD
Note : Hey! This time it's really over with this fic :') thank you again to those who read it and left comments on it !! ^^
[Epilogue]
- ... that's when we moved into our very first apartment with Daddy Toshi. Says my lover to Satoe, both sitting on the couch watching old albums.
- Daddy Toshi had yellow hair?
- We say rather blond but yes, he wanted to look cool.
- I don't find him so cool.
- Ah! You see ! He said turning in my direction as I pack books in a moving cardboard box.
I roll my eyes before replying.
- I thought I was fashion, I was young and freshly graduated from art college.
- I told you for weeks that you looked ridiculous!
- We don't care, it's past. Why am I the only one contributing to our move? It's shameful to make the convalescents work ...
- You're not convalescent anymore for a month now and Satoe wanted to see our old pictures.
I sigh and leave my task where it is to settle with them, installing the girl on my lap. Kazu closes the album he was watching and pulls out another from the box where he had them stacked. This one is pink with "Satoe" written on it.
- What is it, daddy? She asks, not yet knowing how to read the kanjis forming her first name.
- Satoe, it's your name, because this album is entirely dedicated to you. I bought it a week after you were born.
- Ouaaaah ...
My lover opens the album. On the first page, a picture of the baby at the maternity ward with her name, date of birth, height and weight noted carefully below by her father.
- I didn't know you so creative, Kazu-chan.
He's blushing.
- Needless to say. He replies.
On the second page, the same information but on a document from the hospital showing in addition the fingerprints of the feet and hands of the newborn that was Satoe.
- This document, it was given to me as a memory when I was able to bring you back from the hospital.
- I had very small hands and very small feet!
- That's always the case, you know? He said with a small laugh as he presented his own hand.
- Mou! You're naughty !
- Don't worry! It's better to have pretty little hands than your father's ugly paws. He says kissing her on the forehead.
We still spend hours in front of the photo albums, so the moving boxes are still in the water for today. After a quick dinner and a bath for each of us, Kazu and I are in each other's arms in our bed.
- I didn't know it would make me so nostalgic to see these albums again. He says.
- That's the goal of photo albums, you know? You store lots of memories and when you look at them again everything comes back to you right in the face.
My lover laughs.
- I forgot she was so small. This document with Sato's fingerprints...it's perhaps exaggerated, but when it was given to me it marked for me the beginning of a whole new life.
- This is not exaggerated, on the contrary, I find it so cute and perfectly understandable.
- When Satoe was only a baby, I would say until she was 6 months old, I had her in arms almost permanently, I swear! Impossible to separate from her! Aaaah ... how I miss my baby, she is growing so fast ...
- Do you want another one?
- Eh?
- Another child.
He seems to think for a moment before answering me.
- No. We are well like that. Do you imagine all the administrative procedures? I don't want to focus for years on waiting for a second child while I could enjoy those moments with you and Satoe. I already have the chance to have an adorable daughter and a man I love to madness and that is enough for my happiness. He says ending his sentence with a kiss he laid on my cheek. Besides, since Satoe is my biological daughter, I'm afraid I don't treat them both the same way.
- I understand, you're right.
He squeezes me a little more against him and holds his head in the crook of my neck.
- Good night, Satoyan.
- Good night, Kazu-chan. I love you.
- Shut up, it's me who loves you the most ... he mumbles before making complete silence except for the sound of his breathing, which is getting slower and slower.
I close my eyes and don't wait to fall asleep too. This fingerprint story may have given me an idea.
*****
- Daddy will not get angry?
- No, we'll clean all that after. I tell Satoe, putting on her plastic blouse for the painting activities and supposed to avoid stains on her clothes.
I then get up and grabbed two brushes and a pot filled with yellow paint. I give Satoe a brush and we both sit on our improvised sheet of newsprint around a white sheet.
- First, we paint the whole sheet. I said. Then until it dries we'll eat a big piece of chocolate cake while Daddy is at work.
- Yatta! She exclaims before we get down to work.
A few minutes later, we sit in the kitchen in front of our cake and a glass of milk each.
- So ? It's good ?
Satoe nods, her mouth full of chocolate.
- I think I did well to leave you your apron.
- Say Toshi? In the new house can we stop painting in the living room?
- Hum, we'll have a room to paint and draw, Daddy will have his office to work and we'll also have a garden to make barbecues and invite everyone.
- Yeah! And we can have a dog?
- That ... I have to talk to Daddy about it.
- Or an elephant ... she said with all the seriousness of the world while his remark makes me laugh.
- Where would we put an elephant?
- In my bed.
- It would be too big.
The girl doesn't answer and stuffs a huge piece of cake in her mouth.
- Will you manage to finish everything Satoe-chan? I gave you a famous piece though.
- Hum!
And to confirm her words she swallows quickly the last end on his plate and then displays a broad smile by raising her thumbs in the air.
- Well, we'll wash our hands and mouth and then we tackle the most fun part of our surprise.
- Haaai!
*****
- Tadaima. Made my lover entering the living room.
- Okaeri. I whispered so as not to wake Satoe who fell asleep against me as I drew sitting on the couch.
I close my sketchbook while Kazu comes to kiss me and sit next to Satoe. He puts a kiss on top of his daughter's head and then strokes her head with a small, peaceful smile on his face.
- She fell asleep waiting for you. She had dinner and she took a bath, still have to put her in bed.
- Hum.
Kazu then removes the book Satoe held in his hands and watches it for a few seconds before placing it on the couch next to him.
- She wanted you to read her a storybook. I add.
My lover sighs sadly.
- It's true that it's been a long time. I often work late these days.
- It's not your fault. We have a house to pay and your schedule vary more and more often than mine.
- Next week, it will be a little lighter, I can spend the evenings with you.
- Cool, it will make her happy. I say with a smile.
- And you ?
- Me too, of course. But I am a big boy and I have you whole at night and in the morning when I wake up.
- Not false.
He kisses me again and between us, Satoe changes position to try to spread out in the small space between Kazu and me. We laugh.
- Well, I'll go put the princess in bed. You waiting for me in ours? A small staff meeting is needed, Ohno-sensei. He said with a wink and a smirk.
- Of course, Ninomiya-sensei. I say getting up while my lover gently raises our daughter and installs her comfortably in his arms to lead her to her bed.
*****
2 months later.
- Otsukaresama deshita! Thank you for everything ! Says my lover to the movers who helped us with our furnitures, while they leave our house.
He closed the door and we sighed together. Finally in our new house, it's been months since we bought it but with my stay in the hospital and my recovery, the boxes had to be postponed. Kazu stretches yawning. It's true that the day has been long and the night has already fallen. Satoe spends the night at her grandmother's house, so we are only both of us.
- I propose that we eat a pack of instant ramen quickly and go to bed. I say.
He nods with a smile and heads to our new kitchen. While my lover pulled out our electric kettle from a cupboard and heated some water, I took out two bowls from another and now empty the contents of two packets of noodles in it. Tired by the move, we soon swallow our bowls and leave the dishes for the next day before going to bed.
But before I sleep, once I have changed and while I wait for Kazu to brush his teeth, I use this moment to take the surprise that I prepared with the little one for him. He finally comes back and stays still seeing the pack wrapped in my hands.
- Satoyan? What is this? It's not my birthday ...
- I know but it's something that Satoe and I prepared a long time ago, remember? A little after our evening spent in photo albums.
- A suprise ? For me ?
- Do you see anyone other than us? I ask while tending the package.
My lover smiles and climbs into our bed to sit in front of me and tear the paper. He then remains speechless in front of our present.
- Is this your handprints? In a frame ?
- Hum. It's a bit like the picture of our family, all it needs is yours. You told me that Satoe's hand and footprints marked the beginning of a new life, these too, they mark the beginning of our family life in our new home. I said.
- Thanks to you both, it's adorable. If you knew how I love you. He said with a broad smile before kissing me tenderly.
His lips finally leave mine but he does not break our embrace, on the contrary, he squeezes me harder against him without saying a word for a long time.
- Let's do it.
- I'm tired but well, we're already in bed so ...
- No ! I was talking about adopting a child.
- You told me you didn't want to.
- Since then, I thought about it again and changed my mind. I want this house to be filled with laughter and children's games. I want my role as a parent to last longer, I still have a lot of love to give and then, you don't think Sato would be happy to have a little brother or sister?
- I think too. I say with a smile. You're a great father Kazu.
- We're both great fathers. I could not dream better for Satoe. He said kissing me. Believe me, tomorrow I will contact an agency.
- If you had not done it, I would. I say with a chuckle.
My lover puts the frame back in front of his eyes and smiles, looking pensive.
- And when we have it, this new child will be able to add its mark to our family.
*****
1 year later.
- Be careful. My lover whispers as he opens the door to let us pass, my precious bundle and me.
We stop a little before passing the door of the living room and we both stare at the little human-being asleep in the crook of my arms, filled with joy, so much so that it is difficult for us not to cry all over the house .
- Are you ready ?
- Hum.
Kazu then slowly opens the door and we enter the room.
- Hey! He whispers to Jun and Toma who came to watch Satoe on this occasion.
They all turn to us and the same impatient smile is drawn on their faces.
- We would like to introduce you to someone. He continues as we move towards the couch and sit down next to Satoe who stares at the newcomer with a bright smile.
Kazu then stays behind me.
- Satoe, here is your little sister, her name is Kiyo, she's only 5 days old. I say.
She stares at the baby for long moments then her gaze passes over each of us without saying a word.
- So ? Are you happy Princess? Kazu asks.
She nods, making us laugh in a low voice so that we don't wake up Kiyo.
- Do you want to hold her?
- I can ?
- Of course. I say, transferring the child to her sister's arms.
- Be careful, babies are very fragile, you know? Says Toma.
But Satoe holds her well and admires her with a proud look on her face without uttering a word. Like just about everyone in the room.
It only took a few months after our, well, my application to the adoption agency to get back in touch with me. We could not adopt both, being a same-sex couple and fatally unmarried. So we decided that I would be the legal parent of our next child. Despite everything, the agency had nothing against us and we always presented both.
A couple had contacted the agency 6 months ago. They were very young and could not keep the child they were expecting so they wanted to entrust it to the best possible family. They had already refused 3 or 4 couples before us! I don't know what they liked about us, but they chose us and then Kiyo came into the world.
Everything that Kazu had told me about his feelings as a father for the first time was confirmed for me. I was nervous the first time I could see her and then a huge wave of joy overwhelmed me and I loved her immediately, as if my heart was falling in love again. Kazu was in the same state and yet he lived this situation for the second time. That's when I really understood the emotion of being a parent.
Of course I considered Satoe as my daughter almost immediately after Kazu and I started living together again and I love her just as much, but it was not the same thing. At that moment, I slipped into their lives and their routine already built while with the baby, we prepare to rebuild another little by little.
- She's so tiny. Satoe murmurs, still in awe of her little sister.
- It's normal, she has just been born, she will grow up and become tall and strong like you right now. Kazu tells her.
- And then you will fight for pairs of shoes. Add Jun to the tone of the joke.
The girl looks at him badly and pulls her tongue out.
- No, I love my little sister and I will be the best of all the big sisters! She says calmly before bending over to kiss Kiyo's little head.
At that moment, I can swear that our my and kazu's hearts have melted in unison.
*****
3 months later.
- Kiyo-chan, if you knew how cute you are!
- And I'm the gaga father ... said my lover who is active in the kitchen while I give her morning bottle to Kiyo.
- It's impossible not to find her adorable, she doesn't stop smiling at me!
- It's probably that she has gas ... said my beloved with a small smile.
- Mou ... can you hear that? Papa Kazu is jealous of us, pretty lady. I tell the baby who just stares at me and sucks her formula.
Steps on the stairs are heard and Satoe arrives in the living room, her new schoolbag on the back.
- Daddy Toshi? How do you find me ?
- Pretty. I say.
- And Daddy? She runs to join him in the kitchen.
- Wow! You are the prettiest princess in the world! Says my lover ruffling her hair.
- Mouuuuu! I need to brush my hair again now!
Our daughter leaves her schoolbag on a chair in the kitchen and runs up the stairs to her bedroom.
- Aaah, girls ... sighs Kazu putting their bentos on the big table in the living room. So ? Has this young lady finished her breakfast? He asks, coming closer to us and stroking Kiyo's head.
- Just now. I say, handing him the empty bottle.
I'm about to put the girl against my shoulder to make her burp but he stops me and gives me his apron.
- Satoshi, you're wearing clean clothes to go to your daughter's entering elementary school ceremony, I remember you. I don't want your clothes to be a complete mess because Kiyo threw up on it.
- Yes, you're right.
He then puts his apron on my shoulder and beckons me to continue. Fortunately for me, Kiyo doesn't throw up on my shoulder.
- Safe, sighs my lover, relieved. It will be less in the washing machine tonight. Come on, give her to me, it's time to go.
I hand the girl to Kazu, he puts her in his arms and kisses her small chubby cheeks. No doubts, we are both stiff crazy of love for her.
- Come on princess, it's time to go to the new school of onee-chan. He says leaving the room, taking the little one's changing bag in passing.
I follow him to put on my shoes while he installs the baby in her cozy. Once done and before doing like me, he leans towards the stairs.
- Sato! It's time !
- Haaaai! The little girl screams from the 1st floor before tumbling for the third time down the stairs.
- Your lunch is on the table. Kazu said.
Our eldest run to the living room and returns to the entrance with two bento boxes prepared by Kazu.
- Dad, you forgot yours! She says, handing it to him.
- Ah! Arigatou! What would I do without you, darling?
He hastens to stuff the wrapped package in his bag and seizes the cozy while Satoe finishes putting on her shoes.
- Let's go girls! Kazu says happily by opening the front door. Satoyan, don't forget to take Kiyo's changing bag !
- Hai.
He gets out of the house with Kiyo and Satoe follows them. I turn to take the bag left on the furniture of the lobby. My gaze then falls on the frame I gave to Kazu when we moved in, hanging just above the famous furniture and I can't help but smile in front of our four hands painted on it, truly happy with the little family we are forming.
- Satoshi! We're going to be late ! I hear my lover screaming from the outside.
- Hai, hai. I say before going out and close the door behind us.
THE END