Chapter 7- About a month later

Christmas has quickly come upon us. My father and Tamaki's father had decided that our families will spend Christmas together. I haven't seen my father since I told him the news, and Tamaki's father still does not know. This Christmas will be a very interesting one for sure.

A party for our two families is going to be held at the Suoh's main estate, and all the available family is expected to attend, including myself and Tamaki. I also know that quite a bit of my family has come to visit for Christmas. I am not ready to hear all their comments toward me about Tamaki and my current condition.

I am currently in the nursery organizing some things. We had a small celebration with our friends yesterday, in which we exchanged gifts, many gifts for us actually being for our babies. I set a stuffed rabbit in the corner of one of the cribs that Hunni and Mori had gotten. I step back to admire my work. We already have the nursery complete, all it needs now is two babies to occupy it. I feel them move around a lot, since this is their most active time of the day. It feels as if they're doing somersaults in there. I rub my stomach lovingly and walk out of the room back to the bedroom Tamaki and I share. Just as I walk in, Tamaki walks out of the bathroom with a towel around his waist. He smiles at me.

"I wondered where you were," he says. "I just got done showering. I was going to look for you soon."

"I was just putting some things in the nursery," I say. "I was just down the hall."

He walks over to me and hugs me, his damp hair dripping onto my shoulder. "I love you."

I smile and hug him back. "I love you too."

"Are you ready for my father's Christmas party?" he asks me. I'm not sure whether he's joking or not.

"Yes, because I'm so excited to tell your family and be insulted by mine," I say sarcastically. I see Tamaki step back from me some. I sigh. "I'm sorry, but it's true. I know my family. They didn't even accept my relationship with you, half of them still don't. How are they supposed to accept that I'm practically a freak of nature?" I feel my vision start to go blurry as I sit on the bed. I feel a hard kick, and hold my stomach with both hands as I start crying. I squeeze my eyes shut tightly. I feel someone sit next to me and pull me into their arms.

"Kyouya, it's alright," I hear Tamaki say to me softly. "Everything will be alright."

"I'm never good enough for any of my family, except for Fuyumi and my mother," I say through my tears. "Why can I never be good enough?"

"You are absolutely perfect to me," he whispers into my ear. "Don't ever think that you're not. Who cares what anyone else thinks about you?"

"I care," I say, tears rushing down my cheeks. "No matter what I do, I'm never good enough for them."

"You are better than them."

"I'm not anything like them."

"You don't have to be like them. I love you for who you are."

I fall silent and let the tears run down my cheeks. Tamaki wipes them away and touches his nose to mine.

"It doesn't matter what they think," Tamaki whispers "You're perfect to me." He presses his soft lips to mine and kisses me tenderly. My arms wrap around his neck as I kiss back. We kiss until we run out of air. He continues to whisper tender, soothing words of love into my ear until I calm down.

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After I finally calmed down, we got ready and went to the Suoh's main estate. As we near it, my nerves return.

'Remember, Kyouya. Who cares what they think?" I take a deep breath, and I feel Tamaki rub his hand soothingly across my stomach. He kisses me on the cheek.

"Calm down, mon amour," he whispers into my ear. "Everything will be fine."

I nod quietly in response. The driver drops us off, and we head inside. As soon as we arrive at the door, we are escorted in by a maid. She leads us to where everyone else is. As soon as we enter the room, everyone looks toward us. I see Tamaki's father rise, and come over to us.

"Tamaki, Kyouya, welcome." He hugs Tamaki, and then me. He lingers with our hug for a moment, and grazes his hand lightly over the side of my stomach. He looks up at my face, away from my round stomach.

"Is there something I'm missing here?" he asks me, signaling to me my stomach.

Tamaki puts his arm around my waist. "Father, Kyouya and I are expecting together through some miracle of nature. We're having twins, a boy and a girl."

He looks toward my father. "Yoshio, why did you not inform me of this?" He looks back at Tamaki. "Why did I not know that I was going to be a grandfather?"

"Well, I guess we just never got around to telling you," Tamaki replies. "We've been busy preparing."

"Mr. Suoh, you're not even questioning what they tell you?" I look at the source of the familiar voice. It comes from my elder cousin, Jiro.

Tamaki's father looks at Jiro. "I trust them. It is quite obvious after all."

"Kyouya could be faking," Jiro replies. "For attention. Since he isn't anything to the family as the third son."

I feel my fists clench tightly. I could murder him right now with no regrets.

"Wait, I recognize both of you." I glance at a girl with brown hair sitting next to Jiro. She looks familiar, like I had seen her somewhere else before. She snaps her fingers together. "I know, I've seen you two at the hospital while I was working." She looks at Jiro. "I didn't know that was your cousin Kyouya."

"It is," Jiro says through gritted teeth.

"I have seen you before," Tamaki says. "You took us to the room to wait for the doctor once."

"Yes, I did," she says with a smile.

"I've forgotten your name though," Tamaki says.

"Akira," she replies. She looks at Jiro. "How could you be so mean to your own cousin? He can't help that he is the way he is, yet you insult him."

Jiro glares at her. "Akira, stop."

"No I won't," she replies. They start to bicker. Other family members chime in with their opinions, most thinking that there's something wrong with me. Others try to defend me. Tamaki's father tries to stop the bickering. It goes on for a few minutes. As the minutes go on, the amount of noise gives me a pounding headache. I can't take it anymore.

"Everyone shut the hell up!" The room falls silent. I take a deep breath and sigh. "Thank you." Now that I have everyone's attention, I can say what I want to. For those who support my position in life, thank you. I deeply appreciate it. And to those who don't, I honestly don't give a shit. This is my life, and if you don't support how I am living it, then that's your problem. I am entirely happy with my life, I don't need anyone to tell me what to do."

The room stays silent for a while. Everyone has themselves seated on the couches again.

Akira stands up. "You have my support, Kyouya." I see Fuyumi stand up.

"You'll always have mine." My mother stands, then other family members and members of Tamaki's family stand, chiming in. My father is one of the last to stand, along with Tamaki's father. The only one who doesn't stand is Jiro. I walk over to him.

"You don't support me?" I question him.

"I stand by my life principles," he replies coldly.

"Alright," I say. "I won't stop you from standing by those life principles." Tamaki walks over to me, and wraps his arm around my waist.

"So, how have you been, father?" he asks, obviously changing subject.

"I've been well," his father replies. "Please sit you two. Get comfortable."

The party went quite well after that. Everyone got along well, and I didn't get many dirty looks. I finally feel accepted in my own family. Tamaki's family had accepted me with open arms. They think I'm a very fine young man for Tamaki. My nerves have been calmed down immensely. I have faced the fact that Jiro will never accept me. That's just something we'll have to live with. I can live with that though. I am living my life how I want, and that's all that matter to me.