I'm back with the sequel! I hope you guys like it!

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"Come on Mar'i, hurry up!" An ebony black-haired and sapphire eyed four-year-old toddler exclaimed. Mar'i Leila Grayson, 11, looked at the girl behind her and smiled in reassurance.

"Don't worry, we'll get to finish it just in time," Mar'i turned her attention back to what she was doing. Beside her, standing on the floor were her siblings, Aurora 'Rory' Luanne Grayson, 11, and Kurtis John Grayson, 7. Each of the Grayson children had grown quite a bit in the past four years.

Doing the last minute touches, Mar'i brought the marker which was in her hand up and smiled impressed and happy with her result. Mar'i exclaimed quietly, "LET'S GO!" The four children ran to their room, shut the door behind them, and hustled to get into their beds. They waited until it was eight o'clock to wake up again.

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Her emerald eyes darted open at the light emitting from outside. Waking up groggily, Kori Grayson tried to find herself to keep her eyes open. Falling back onto the bed, she snuggled into what seemed like a well toned body. She looked up and saw her husband, Richard, sleeping peacefully with his eyes open and with steady breaths. She smiled instantly as she snuggled deeper into his arms. She never would have thought four years ago that she would be in his arms once again. Ever since the trip to Toronto, Richard had finally realized his true feelings for Kori, but couldn't stop the wedding because of Barbara's threats of hurting Kori. However, it was Xavier who revealed that Babs was just marrying Richard to get his money. Ever since then, Barbara was in jail and Richard and Kori were finally together, married for the second time with their children.

Kori felt a sudden movement and she looked up and found herself staring into absolutely perfect cerulean eyes. Smiling, she muttered, "Hello handsome."

Richard smiled when he saw his wife's eyes twinkle, "Hello beautiful, or should I say tiger?" Kori's eyebrow raised and he pointed to her face. Holding her nose, she yanked the blankets off of her and Richard, exposing Richard's boxers and muscle shirt, and ran to the bathroom. Fumbling with the lights, she finally turned the light on and saw what was on her face. Her face had orange and black stripes on it, very much like a tiger.

She screamed her lungs out, "MAR'I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Four children came single file into their room and stood there in front of Richard. Richard looked into the bathroom, on the other hand, and said, "Honey, they're here."

Kori came out of the bathroom with a moist towel in her hands. She glared at her children and demanded, "What's on my face?"

"Marker," declared the littlest and newest recruit to the family, Selene Rosalie Grayson. Kori's glare softened when she saw her baby girl. She looked at the others and raised her eyebrow.

Rory and Kurtis instantly exclaimed, "It was Mar'i idea."

Kori's glare and frown deepened as she heard Richard behind her mutter, "Big surprise." Turning around to glare at her husband instead, Richard held his hands up in defence, "Hey it wasn't my idea."

Groaning, she turned her eyes at Mar'i and glared her down as her daughter shrunk. Her daughter, who always had a confident look like her father, now looked small and defenceless. She remembered instantly a small girl with ebony black hair smiling and jumping on a bed. Shaking the thought out of her head, she still couldn't believe her children had grown up so much in only four years. Her eyes softened when she heard her daughter mutter, "April Fools."

Richard smiled as he watched Kori lean down and give her oldest daughter by two minutes a tight squeeze. "Don't worry, Mar'i," Kori replied, "I'm not mad, just…frustrated. Why don't you help me get this off and we both get breakfast ready?"

Mar'i seemed happy with her consequence and hopped happily behind her mother into the master bathroom the clean the marker off her face. Rory, Kurtis, Selene, and Richard looked at each other and shrugged before getting ready for breakfast.

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When Richard came down to the kitchen after spending twenty minutes in the shower, he could already smell breakfast cooking. As soon as he entered the kitchen, his mouth watered from the variety of selection. There were scrambled eggs and toast and bacon and much more. As Richard sat by Rory who was eating her favourite cereal, Kori and Mar'i continued to make more toast for Kurtis and Selene, their favourite breakfast item, which they both liked to eat with butter.

Richard was the one who started a conversation, "So, uh, what are we gonna do on this Saturday?"

Rory replied, through a muffled mouth by food, "I'm doing homework."

Richard raised his eyebrow, but listened to Kurtis and Selene say that they were going over to Mark and Dove's house to play. Mar'i shrugged, saying that she didn't have a plan to do anything. Richard smiled and offered to take her to a movie, just the two of them.

"Consider it a date," he added as he winked at his eldest daughter. Kori rolled her eyes whilst Mar'i accepted the offer.

"Sure, what movie?" she asked as she sat down beside him, grabbing a piece of toast.

Richard shrugged, "We'll see when we get there." He turned to his wife, "What about you?"

Kori replied, "I'm going to read this story. See." She handed Richard a novel and he read the cover.

"Turn Over A New Leaf, by Raven Roth?" He looked up at his wife in doubt, whilst she just nodded. He opened to the first page and began to read.

Beautiful violet haired, formerly black haired, Roxanne Storm sat at her desk with one pen in her mouth and one hand on her head, thinking hard in frustration. She put down the purple Stanford pen on her ivory coloured desk and looked with her glistening amethyst eyes out the window. Grey clouds hovered the city with patches of clear blue sky eager to come out. It had been raining hard for the past couple of weeks, depressing everyone who got affected by the weather, including Roxanne, in her special way.

Surprised that there were still rain drops on the window, she walked over to her window on her white tiled floor and looked out the window. Picking up her ring pointer finger, she traced the trail that the rain drops left as they flowed down the side of the window. She sat in front of her window on her cream seated chestnut chair in a trance, thinking of her present situation.

She was a world famous author, for her dark stories and poetry. Many would buy her books from all over the world. Many people wondered what inspired her to write such talented books and poetry. She would only say that people around her and experience are the only inspiration. Recently, she was supposed to come up with a story by the deadline her editor gave her. Roxanne knew that she would be inspired for a new story by her deadline but that's where her problem starts. She didn't have a story or plot or anything. With just a few poems, Roxanne still had no clue what to write for her next book.

Breaking out of her trance, Roxanne blinked twice to reassure herself that she was not dreaming the rain drops and the gloomy weather. Frowning at the weather, she stood up from her seat and decided to have a cup of herbal tea.

Walking through the halls of her two-storey house, Roxanne looked around, taking in what her house was like. Even though she liked her privacy in her elegant home, she sometimes felt lonely. Glancing at her right, she saw two guest rooms; each painted a different color, red and blue. In fact, the rooms had a matching theme to both of them. She continued to walk through her hallway until she reached the staircase which midway broke into two separate staircases. Walking down the right one, at the base, she turned around into her kitchen. Her kitchen itself was a different story.

Richard looked up from reading and declared, "This Roxanne is based off Rae's character, isn't she?"

Kori shrugged, "I tried to ask her about it, but—" She was interrupted when the doorbell rang. Standing up from her seat on her chair, she went to open the door. She smiled when she saw a familiar face behind the door, "Come on in Xavier."

Xavier smiled at her, "Thanks Kori."

Mar'i knew that her uncle Xavier was there so she ran to the front and asked, "Hey Uncle X! How's Ray doing?" She blushed at her outburst.

Kori laughed, knowing that her daughter had a major crush on her best friend's stepson, Ray Markov. Xavier had finally found a woman who he wanted to spend his life with. Her name was Tara Markov and she had a son, from her previous marriage, her husband being Malcolm Kiore, Raven's ex. Tara, as well, was the ex of Gar, but that didn't bother Xavier. All he cared about now was his new wife and son. The two had been married for four years, just like Richard and Kori. As well, the newly married couple, X and Tara, were both expecting their first child together.

By now, Richard had come to join with his children following closely behind. He smiled at Xavier and said, "Hey."

Kurtis, Selene, and Rory went to hug their favourite uncle which Xavier graciously accepted. Kori smiled as she watched the happy gathering. There were many days like this ever since the marriage between her and Richard. Xavier broke off the hug and smiled at them in an affectionate manner.

Returning Richard's greeting, Xavier nodded as a sign of greeting and turned his attention to Kori. "Kori, I need to talk to you."

Kori looked at him in surprise, "What is it? You look nervous."

"Well," Xavier looked down, "you see. Barbara is out of jail."

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