Eleven years later
Onyx POV
I wake up in the morning as usual but since I'm on a vacation I stay in bed a bit more. I roll over to the side wrapping an arm around my wife. My pregnant wife. Nine years of marriage, four kids and we're having our fifth child now, soon. We have the twin boys,
Iker and Uziel (6), our daughter Sloane (4), another son Zyon (2) and our soon to be born Myles, she's seven months pregnant right now. Susie, my brother Knox wife, is six months pregnant. They have been married for 15 years, their four daughters are such darlings. They have Xena (12), Avantika (11), Itzel (8), Primrose (5) and they're about to have their fifth daughter, Flora. They're here too. I get snapped out of my thoughts when my wife turns to me.
Francesca-Onyx. Baby.
-Yes?
Fr-I'm hungry. Pregnant hungry.
-What do you want?
Fr-Vanilla ice cream, with honey and syrup, rainbow sprinkles, chocolate chips, oreo.
-Be right back.
I get dressed and as I turn to leave she calls me out again.
Fr-Don't forget to put a few strawberries in half on it and the cherry on top.
-I won't forget. Love you. I'll be right back.
I leave and going to the kitchen I get the ingredients and I start making her food. Soon enough my dad and sister arrive with my kids and Knox kids as well.
Sloane-Daddy.
Iker & Uziel-Dad,
Iker-Can we have some of that?
Uziel-Wathever it is your making.
-No. This one is for mommy.
Kyo-Kids, come here. You'll breakfast will be served right away. Come sit.
Sy-Come on, right away. On you go.
They all go with their aunt and they sit on the table. I smile at that and once they're all seated I see that my brother and Susie have arrived and they, her, seats with everyone as my brother comes get somethings on the fridge and starts making something himself.

Knox POV
I start preparing myself the snack for my wife and having my brother at my side I speak.
-Pregnancy, right?
On-Is annoying but I still enjoy it.
-If we do everything they want things will go well and smoothly.
On-I can tell your wife commands your house but I command on mine. I'm the man of the house.
Fr-So you are.
I smile as my brother freezes and he turns to see his wife standing there behind him.
On-Francesca. Hi, why you here?
Fr-You were taking so long with my drink. What's holding you?
On-Oh, nothing at all, is ready. Here you go.
Fr-Thanks. You're in luck, is good so you're saved.
On-Sure. Be careful here.
Kyo-Onyx, she's pregnant not fragile or breakable. You don't have to be so protective of her.
Fr-Oh no, is alright. I love doing things myself and all but I also like his very soft and sweet side. He's being protective and I couldn't be or feel safer. He's being soft, I actually like it and I enjoy him spoiling me.
Kyo-He doesn't do those things already.
Fr-Oh he does but not as much.
Sy-How exactly?
Fr-He would give me what I want most of the time but now he does it all the time and I plan to take my chance and make him spoil me even more.
Kyo-So he's you slave, bodyguard, lover and everything else all in one.
Fr-Precisely.
Sy-By force, right? Because you can't possibly be able to live with someone as annoying as he is and being as agressive as he is he could hurt you by accident.
Fr-Oh please, he's as harmless to me as a little lamb.
-Aw, my brother the lamb, what a cutie pie.
On-As if you're not the same to your wife.
I give thought to that before I turn to my wife.
-Am I a little lamb?
Susie-You are but I rather you be a teddy bear.
-A teddy bear?
S-Hmm, a big fluffy thing I like to hug and cuddle with. You're huggable.
-Of course. Huggable.
S-I'm stuffed. You drink the rest.
-I think is better if I don't and you save it for later just in......
She makes sad eyes at me and talking the cup I speak again.
-I guess right now is later and you did saved it for me so, here goes nothing.
I take it and take a few big gulps finishing the rest of it. I gulp it down and taste it for a moment before I shrug.
-Hmm, mmm, wow. I have no doubt that Flora liked that as well.
She smiles at me and I just shrug barely holding my own laugh with a smile.

I get snapped out of my thoughts when I feel a pull on the side of my shirt. I turn to see my daughters there and I can't help a smile.
-Hey, what happened?
Xena-Can we go play outside?
Avantika-With you.
Itzel-Please?
Primrose-Pretty please.
-Girls.
All-Pretty please.
They all make puppy eyes at me and I can't help a sigh.
-Let's go play.
They cheer loudly as they all pull me and push me towards the garden outside. Once there we play a sort of tag where we only run one after the other, hold them until they get away or we let them go and keep playing. I laugh and in one all of them turn on me and I laugh as I let them take me down slowly.
Xe-We got him.
Prim-Pull him down.
-Oh no, they got me.
I fake groan in pain as I go down with them lying on top of me laughing and cheering.
Xena-We got you.
-You got me.
Prim-Daddy, can you tell us a story.
Itzel-No, train us to be stronger.
Av-Or even better, teach us to be smarter.
-Why don't we go eat first? Is time for lunch.
All-Lunch.
They all cheer and run inside and running behind them I try to keep them from bumping into things or bumping them over.
-Girls, don't run. Calm down. Let me go first.
They let me through and as I open the door to go in I fall into a trap and before I even try to analyze anything I find myself hanging upside down. I hear two little voices.
Iker-We got him.
-Onyx.
On-I know, I know.
I get off the trap and so I turn towards my eldest nephews Iker and Uziel, they're twins.

-Iker. Uziel. Come here, give me a hug.
Uz & Ik-Why us?
-I was victim of your trap so now you two are going to comfort me. Come now, hug away.
They share a shrugging look before they come hug me and I hug them back and so I take my chance and put two little somethings on their back pocket before I send them off to play again and once they're away I turn to my brother.
-Onyx, would you get angry if I say something I want to say but shouldn't say?
On-Just say it.
-To me, you're bad news but also to me those twins of yours, really bad news.
On-Are you really insinuating that my boys are bad boys!?
-Oh shush, that is not what I said or meant for that matter. They're not bad boys themselves.
On-Good.
I take off my glasses and I speak again.
-Is not their fault they're both as wild as their father used to be.
On-Used to be. What exactly do you mean and don't say something that makes me want to break your bones.
I turn to him and I smile.
On-Oh, you want me to fight and/or train with you. Don't you?
-Yes.
On-Then why don't you said so from the beginning?
-Where's the fun in that?
He laughs and going outside we train for about an hour before we let the oldest kids join us and we go from training to playful fighting and then finally to play.

Two years later
Onyx POV
I wake up to a rhythmic soft singing and sitting up I see Francesca on her seat holding our youngest child Myles.
Fr-Good boy. Good Myles. Good night my sweet baby boy.
I keep looking as she puts him back on the crib and standing I go look at our son from behind her.
-What a sweetie he is.
Fr-He is. Very much like you.
-Hmm, as much as I would like to agree with you. I think he is like his uncle.
Fr-Like Knox?
-Of us, he was the safe brother, the good boy, the educated one. And also, don't tell him I said this but, he's also smarter than me.
Fr-Do you hate him for that?
-No, if anything I want to be as smart as him.
Fr-But you're smart too. You only need different motivations or a different environment to solve things. That sounded better in my head.
-I get it. Come here, give me kiss.
We laugh and so we kiss before we finally get on the bed together.
Fr-I want you but I want to sleep more.
-Sure. We have to sleep as much as we can while we can. Next time I'll go.
Fr-I'll wake you if he wakes.
With that we turn to sleep at last and as predicted I wake up later by my son crying and I get up to get him.
-There we go, I'm here, daddy's here, come here.
I baby talk him a bit as I check his diaper. I sigh relieved when I see he's pee only.
-Time to freshen you up.
I go to the nursery in the bathroom and I get everything ready to change him. I make faces at him as I change him and he laughs cheerfully.
-Myles. Baby boy Myles. Look at the baby boy. So handsome, just like me, right? You're handsome like me.
I laugh tickling him as I get him back on the crib and he starts crying on the crib and he only stops crying when he's on the bed with me and Francesca. That makes me laugh.
-Look at your sleeping mother.
Myles-Ma. Ma. Ma.
Being sneaky I turn to him excited and I take him on my lap.
-Hey can you say papa. Mama. Papa.
Myles-Mama.
-Papa, say papa, can you say papa? Papa.
Myles-............
I sigh and grabbing him to me I sing him a lullaby and after a while he falls asleep again and I follow his lead and go to sleep again.

Knox POV
I am at work one Saturday and I have my four eldest daughters with me while my wife Susie has Flora with her. The girls are happy on my office playing between themselves. I can afford them here because they're my daughters in my restaurant. I go by the kitchen checking the dishes and so on when I hear my eldest daughter speaking and I see she's by the door speaking with the chefs of the desserts.
Employee-And? What do you think?
Xena-Is good but I don't know. Maybe the way the flavors are combined. I think it changes suddenly from one flavor to the other making them unable to mix together. I'm not sure how to explain it.
-You did good. Let me try.
Employee-Here you go.
He hands me a spoonful and tasting it I am impressed.
-Wow. I'm impressed. Allow me, Xena, these two flavors are not supposed to mix together. They're supposed to taste like that but good job, you're gifted.
Xena-I'm a mini chef in training.
-Are you now?
Xe-No but if you let me I can be.
She swings herself front and back looking at me innocently and I sigh.
-You can be the chef in training but be warned, most of the things here you can't do but others you can and I will be close to supervise those. Come help me with the rest of the day today.
She nods and so we go of to work and train together.

To be continued............................