Triple update in a day! I'm so proud of myself *cries*.

WARNING - Kinda boring chapter ahead.

Ryan's POV:

"Where are you bringing us to, Adrian?" Trish asked questioningly as we sat buckled up in his car as he drove us to god knows where.

"You'll see." He replied simply with a wide grin on his face while he kept his eyes on the road.

After work, he picked both of us up from the kindergarten. Trish is the lunchcook for the kindergarten while I'm the teacher there. She was on leave beforehand as she had caught a flu and didn't want to spread it to the kids so she decided to stay home instead.

Turning into a small road, we stopped in front of a beautiful cottage house where Adrian asked us to get out of the car.

"Why are we here, Adrian? Are we meeting someone? Oh dear, I don't think I'll look presentable wearing this." Trish fretted anxiously, making Adrian chuckle lightly before digging into his pants and fishing out a set of keys. Taking Trish's hand in his, he opened her palm gently before placing the set of keys on her palm.

"W-What's the meaning of this Adrian?" Trish said with slightly trembling voice as Adrian closed her fingers around the keys.

"This is my gift for you Mum. You've always told me how you'll like to have a cottage as your dream house so I've bought it for you as a thank you for everything gift."

"You don't have to do so, Adrian! I don't need it."

"Please accept it, Mum. I want to pay you back for all the times you've taken care of me somehow."

"But this is too much! It must have cost a bomb!"

"Don't worry Mum. Dad has left me a will that if anything is to happen to him, I'll inherit all his things."

"But he's not dead..."

"That's the thing. He did not state what it meant by if something ever happens to him so the lawyer came to find me to sign some files as they've estimated that he'll not be of sound mind by the time he comes out of jail and wouldn't like to wash their hands off his case. So now... the house and his assets are mine?"

"What will happen to the house back there though?" I questioned curiously making him shrug nonchalantly.

"I'll be selling it. We don't need such a big house filled with unpleasant memories." True but... what about his dad? Although I hate him, he's still Adrian's dad nonetheless.

"What about your dad though? Where will he stay when he comes out? He's still your dad after all." He looked at me with soft eyes before sighing lightly.

"I'll buy a studio apartment for him. Don't worry. You're seriously too kind-hearted, my love."

"I can't help it...." Mumbling under my breath, he ruffled my hair lightly before asking Trish to take a look inside the house to see if she likes it.

After a few moments, Trish came out with joy-filled eyes as she nodded touchingly at him. "Thank you my son. I really love it. It's beautiful."

"No worries, Mum. I'm glad you like it."

"But where will you and Ryan stay now?"

"I've got that covered too. Let's go."

Getting back into the car, he drove us quickly to another destination as he stopped his car in front of a metal gate. This is... our house?

"Come on out Ryan. Stop staring at it from inside the car." Nodding numbly, I staggered out of the car while staring with wide eyes at the building in front of us. It's gorgeous.

"What do you think?"

"It's breathtaking."

"I know right? Let's go in." Taking my hand in his, he pulled me past the gate and into the compound, making my jaw drop when I realised how big it actually was.

"T-This is yo-yours?"

"Ours. We'll live here from now on. It's nearer to your workplace and only a 10 minutes drive from Mum's house."

"How about you though? Won't it be much further for you like this?"

"Nah. I'll be working from home from now on." He said casually with a shrug.

"Is that really alright?"

"When do I ever lie to you?" He never had...

"Thank you, Adrian."

"No problem, my love. Now, this is yours." He handed me a card attached to a key as he kept one set for himself. "Now...let's have a housewarming party after renovation, shall we? Let's say...maybe next month?" He asked with a wide grin as Trish nodded eagerly.

"I'll make the food!" Trish volunteered without hesitation as Adrian nodded in agreement.

"Okay. I'll order some food too."

"How about me?" I asked, feeling left out as I have no idea how I could help.

"You can help by eating." They said in union before grinning at each other.

"Ehhh?! Seriously?" I questioned, taken aback by their words.

"Yup." They said in union once again, making me sigh loudly. To think that he's my soon-to-be husband. Oh well, I still love him nonetheless. 

"Well then, should we start packing up?" Trish suggested excitedly as Adrian nodded in agreement.

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"Ryannn! Which is the box for my undergarments?!" Adrian hollered loudly for me, making me facepalm internally.

"At your right!" That's what he gets for not labeling his boxes at the start.

Folding all my clothes neatly, I stacked them up in columns before placing them carefully into the large box, before sealing the box and labelling it with large bold words. Done.

"Ryannnn! Where my box for my documents?!" He called for me once again from his room, making me give up and decide to help him to pack in the end.

"You're sitting on it." I pointed to the box under his ass making him 'oh' before opening it up and throwing a loose folder into the box untidily. No wonder he needs so many boxes.

"Give me all your boxes. Lay them in a straight line against the wall." Nodding quickly, he arranged them neatly within a few minutes before standing aside for me to check the boxes.

Opening the individual boxes, I almost fainted at the mess inside. None of it is packed nicely. He just simply dumped all his items in without even organising them. Starting with the first box stacked with his documents, I poured all of them before arranging them in stacks of 20.

"Pass me a pair of scissors and a roll of strings." He nodded quickly before speeding off and back into his room with the items in hand. Pulling a long string out, about 1.5 meters, I tied it securely around the folders before placing it on the ground.

"Continue to do this until all are tied up. Them arrange them neatly into the box. Got it?" He nodded once again seriously as we moved on to the next box. It's filled with clothes with are not folded. Before I can even pour them out, Adrian stopped me immediately as I gave him a quizzical look.

"I'll p-pack this m-myself." He stuttered slightly while keeping a firm grip on my shoulder, making me raise a brow at him.

Ignoring him, I poured them out, only to hear a loud thud. Huh? I digged around his messy pile of clothes only to feel a... rod? Pulling it out from the pile, it revealed to be a black coloured tail sort of thing with a weird cone shaped thing at the end. A cat tail? How do you even wear this? I don't see any clips or hooks to hook it onto the pants... ( I'm not going to search for the pic. That will be so weird...)

"You cosplayed as a neko before?"

"Um...y-yeah. I d-did." Oh...I didn't know Adrian was into cosplaying. I should try it sometime too.

"Cool. We should try it sometime."

"Uh-huh." He nodded hesitantly before taking it away from me. Does he not want me to cosplay?

"Okay, for your clothes, fold the sleeves in first before folding them in thirds then stack them neatly into the box." He nodded slowly with slightly tinted cheeks as he threw the tail into the box quickly.

Showing him an example, I moved on to the next, doing the same for the rest of the boxes. Seems like we'll spend a long time packing from how I see it.

FYI, Neko = Cat in Japanese