Chapter 10
Feels Like Home
Taroo smiled as he came home after work, it had been nearly two months since Aydle and Kyan had moved in with him and Aydle's words couldn't have been any truer, his home hadn't been the same since they moved in. He looked down and smiled as he set his keys down on the small hall table by the front door, Kyan's small brown leather school pack sat neatly under the table, ready for tomorrow.
Everywhere he looked he found some little feminine touch to the once plain home: a vase of flowers on the kitchen table, a few pictures here and there, the curtains in the living room and the smell of incense. He breathed deeply and smiled as the smell of incense came to him; Aydle was very fond of incense. Kyan's presence was all over the house as well; a stray toy or book would be on the floor every now and then, the room that had once housed his study was now the little cub's room. He had cleared out the storage room and moved his study there and the large basement now held the junk from storage and a few of Aydle's things from her small apartment. The cooling unit in the kitchen, once bare except for a few small notes and reminders, was now littered with crayon drawings, a data calendar and even more notes and reminders.
Taroo felt something collide with his legs and looked down.
"Hello there." Taroo said with a chuckle as he smiled down at the little cub that was hugging his legs.
"Hi." Kyan greeted with a smile.
"How was nursery ring?" Taroo asked as he lifted the little cub up and hugged him.
"Good. We're doing a project now. We're supposed to bring in three pictures tomorrow and tell about them. Mama's helping find pictures. Wanna help?" Kyan asked.
"I'd love to help." Taroo said as he put Kyan down and followed him to the living room.
"I thought that was you I heard you." Aydle said with a smile as she sat the box down on the floor and hugged him.
"I like this one." Kyan said as he held the picture out for Aydle to see.
The picture was obviously of Kyan as a seven month old. He was wrapped in a blue towel with only his head sticking out, his fur spiky from a bath.
"I remember that. I went to go answer the com and when I came back you were sitting in the dish water. I still have no idea how you got up there." Aydle said with a laugh.