We arrive back to the mansion and enter through the front doors, while another butler takes the car to the garage.

"Daddy!" the voice of a French little girl shouts and leaps onto Alphonse, giving him a tight hug. "I missed you!"

Flashback to 3 years ago in France. (Spoken in French.)

It was a beautiful spring day, Alphonse, Tamaki, and I are out in the garden, enjoying the beautiful flowers and warm air. Alphonse prepared a delicious picnic as the two of us requested.

Alphonse keeps to himself as Tamaki and I converse with whatever comes to mind. I notice Alphonse's downcast face, as he's been doing for a few weeks now.

"Alphonse?" I call.

"Yes, Lady Tamako?" he responds to his name.

"What is troubling you?"

"I wouldn't want to burden you with my troubles, my lady. That is not what a butler should do."

"Alphonse, you are not just our butler but our friend, and when a friend is troubled a friend should be concerned. It doesn't matter what social class one is," Tamaki responds. "At least that's how it is in this household."

He lets out a sigh we can tell he's been holding.

"Tell us what's on your mind," I say.

"I'm not happy with this life."

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"I want to be able to have a family and live my life, but I was born to be a butler."

"Who said you can't have a family?" Tamaki asks.

"We want you to be happy, Alphonse. If you want to leave, we will gladly let you leave," I continue.

"I would never plan on leaving. I love this job and the two of you. I wouldn't dream of being anywhere else. I couldn't trust anyone else to be your personal butler either," he quickly replies.

"If you want to have a break, just ask," Tamaki says.

"You've never had a day off unless you got sick," I reply. "We would gladly let you have time off."

Alphonse looks at us with surprise and tearful eyes.

"You honestly think we'd be so cruel to not let you have time off?" Tamaki chuckles. "Go ahead and take a week off."

"Tell Miss Julia she can have time off as well," I say. "I know you two love each other."

Julia is our personal maid, she's the one who helps me get ready every morning.

Alphonse smiles in embarrassment. "I thought we weren't obvious..."

Tamaki and I chuckle. "Somethings you just can't hide," we say. "Now go."

He nods and dashes off to find Julia.

"So, Tamaki, want to play hide n seek?" I ask.

"Would I?!" he squeals. "You hide! I'll count!"

End flashback.

I guess he had tons of fun because little Amber is here. She two years old. She speaks in French but she's learning English and Japanese. Alphonse and I typically speak in French around each other, which usually makes my agent annoyed with us whenever we're around her. Taylor speaks English only, so she gets paranoid when we do.

"I missed you too, Pumpkin," Alphonse says, giving her a light squeeze. "Even though it's only been a few hours. What are you doing still up? It's late, you should be in bed."

"She was waiting for you and Lady Tamako," Julia says, walking down the stairs.

I give them a smile. "So cute."

Julia turns to me and bows. "Welcome home, Lady Tamako."

"Welcome home, Lady Tamako!" Amber squeals with a bright grin.

I chuckle. "Thank you. It's good to be home... even if it's not truly home."

"Shall we get dinner prepared?" Julia asks.

"That'd be wonderful," I say. "I'm going to go take a quick shower."

"I shall set out your sleepwear," Amber says. "Can I?"

"That'd be lovely," I say, taking Amber's hand. "Let's head to my room, shall we?"

She nods her head as we head up to my room. Once we arrive, she immediately heads to my dresser to pick out a nightgown. I place my hedgies on my bed and they immediately head over to their pillow to cuddle up. Then I head to the bathroom and take a quick shower. After finishing, I step out to find my nightgown delicately spread out on my bed. A simple white with a simple lace design around the trim.

(Ignore the weird girl who's staring into your soul, just look at the pretty nightgown.)

I get changed into the nightgown then head downstairs for my meal. There set at the head of the table is a dish of stew.

"Ah, you have arrived!" Alphonse says, pulling out my chair then pushing me in once I sit down. "For tonight the chef prepared beef bourguignon."

"It looks wonderful," I comment, picking up the appropriate utensil to eat the stew. "Sit with me, Al." He sits beside me and twiddles his fingers. "You can ask about Tamaki."

His face lights up and he begins to blurt out questions. "Was he happy when he saw you? Did he cry? What about your dad? Did he recognize you?"

I chuckle. "He didn't recognize me with the contacts until I mentioned Maki-chan. He cried after that. Dad teared up and recognized me after I took out my contacts."

"Wow, so how was the first day?"

"Well, we went with the story saying that I was a daughter of a servant that grew up with Maki-chan and we became best buddies. Then I moved to America and got recruited to be a model. Maki-chan's bestfriend is suspicious of me. He thinks that I'm lying to them."

"Well, he's right," Al chuckles.

"Well, yeah, but if he finds out my secret, then how far behind would grandmother be? If she finds out everything will be ruined," I sigh, resting my utensil in the bowl. "You know what'll happen if she finds out."

"Yes, you are taking a big risk here, Lady Tamako," Al says.

I sigh and begin to eat again. "So, where did Miss Julia and Amber go?"

"Julia took her off to bed," Alphonse says. "She was about to pass out."

"She's so cute," I comment.

"She's been so excited for you to finally be off so you two can finally have some time together," Alphonse says.

"I'd love to spend the day with her," I admit. "Maybe we can hang out all day Saturday."

"I think she'd love that," Alphonse says. "She sees you as her aunt but only around Julia and I. She thinks that if she admitted it to you she'd get in trouble as it's inappropriate for a master servant relationship."

I give a dry chuckle. "Then you tell her, she can call me aunt if she wants."

"She'll be so happy to hear you say that," he says with a smile.

I give him a smile as I finish my dinner, casually wiping my face with the napkin after finishing and gently setting it down by my dish. "Well, I'm ready to retire to my bedroom."

Alphonse stands up at the same time I do. "And I shall accompany you there." He takes my arm with his and leads me back to my room. We stop at my door and release our arms. "Do have a good night's sleep, my lady."

"Goodnight, Alphonse," I bid.

"Goodnight, Lady Tamako," he says, turning away and heading to the personal servants chambers.

I enter my room to see Ichy and Momo at the edge of the bed waiting for me. "Sorry, we didn't have time to play today. At least, not as much as usual. I promise that tomorrow we'll have more fun." They squeak in response and head over to their hedgie pillow bed. I settle into the bed next to them. "Goodnight, Momo. Goodnight, Ichy."

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I'm so sorry it took almost a full year for me to update this!!! I couldn't find what I should write next about so I moved on to different books till I realized what next to write for the next chapter. I know what I want to do for this story but didn't know how to do the next chapter. Hopefully this story is back on track. Sorry for the boring chapter, but I always for some reason have to do a scene of returning home.