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Hello! missed you guys! here's something I thought of and wantedto add to this little collection of stories :p
I'd like to appologize to you since I'm updating on a whim and I didn't get the chance to send my chapters to my beta reader, I'm sure they would've turned out better if I had, but please bear with it! please do tell if you catch any mistakes!
Ch25: Cute Little Devils.
"Kei, don't run! You'll fall and hurt yourself!" She yelled, running after the mischievous four year old.
"But okaa-san! Hisa-chan's over there!" he argued before resuming his run.
From a distance she could hear a voice yelling "Kei-nii!" and before she knew it her son was hugging his friend: a cute, chubby, blond four year old girl.
"Hello, oba-chan!" she smiled at her.
"Oh, Hisa-chan! You lost a tooth!" she said enthusiastically.
"Yes, look what the tooth fairy left for me!" Hisa showed her auntie a silver charm bracelet.
"Wow! That's beautiful! Congratulations Hisa-chan!"
"Thank you!"
"Let's go play, Hisa-chan!" Kei said, impatiently before leading his friend to the playground.
"Nice move, tooth fairy-san!" she said as she sat on the bench next to a tall man.
"You have no idea how hard it was coming up with that!" he said with an exasperated sigh.
She chuckled at the expression on his face "You did well, Kuon."
"Thank you, Kyoko." He smiled at her "So, how's it been?" he asked, directing his gaze once again at their children.
"Oh, you know… the usual. Sho came to our house again last night, drunk. He threatened to take full custody of Kei." She gazed at her son with a slightly pained smile "Poor Kei was terrified."
"Are you okay?" he looked at her with incredulous eyes, genuinely worried.
"I am now. I had to call the cops on him." She let out a bitter laugh "I'm getting a restraining order today."
"Do you need me to come with you?"he asked.
"No," she took a deep breath before she added "if you could just watch Kei-"
"Absolutely, anything to help."
"Thank you!" she smiled gratefully "So how about Hisa-chan, did she cry when she lost her tooth?" she attempted to change the subject.
"No, actually she didn't even realize it until she bit on her apple a second time and realized there's was something hard in her mouth." He laughed.
"Awww!"
"It was a bit emotional when she asked if her mommy would've been proud of her for not crying." He coughed "The emotional one being …myself."
"Aww, are you okay?" she asked, this time her being the worried one.
"Well, Kotone and I didn't marry for love, but having her around made everything easier. She was my best friend you know?" Kyoko nodded with a sad smile "When she died, I was heartbroken but I was more saddened for Hisa's loss than mine. She shouldn't have to go through growing up without her mother."
"Well at least she has you! And you're doing great with raising her." She tried to comfort him.
"Says super mom!" He chuckled.
"Oh, I wouldn't call myself that. Last week Kei almost fell off the window trying to save a cat, I spent two hours hugging him and crying." They both chuckled.
"Welcome to single parenting hell." He sighed.
"Where you're both parents at the same time." She added.
"It could've been worse though." He tilted his head, contemplating the two children.
"Yeah, we could've been left without them." She swallowed the lump on her throat "I don't know what I would do without Kei to be honest."
"Same here."
Mogami Kyoko and Hizuri Kuon were your average young people, they met because of one thing they had in common. They're both single parents.
Kuon's wife Kotone died when his daughter, Hisa, was one year old. She was suffering from cancer and the doctors only figured it out when she gave birth.
Kuon and Kotone were best friends since childhood.
They shared a common belief: Love only exists in books. They were both convinced that they wouldn't ever fall in love, which got them to get married in the first place. Ironic, but logical in some ways. If you get married, might as well do it with someone you get along with, right?
They lived happily, with minor problems, and when their daughter was born, they were both on cloud nine. Until Kotone's time ran up. However they spent their last moments together memories, taking pictures and recording videos for Hisa when she grows up.
Kyoko on the other hand, had it much less pleasant.
She had married her childhood friend, one she believed herself to be deeply in love with him.
Sho, is his name. A musician, singer and …drunk.
She got to discover the last part when they got married. After a week, he started acting harsh. He became violent, and would come home drunk on several occasions. She thought she could withstand it, after all they loved each other, and that's what love's all about, tolerance. right? So she thought until their son was born, and one night her drunk husband threw a beer glass through the room. It passed over Kei's crib, barely missing it, the shards of glass landing on his sheets. And that was it for her.
Kyoko and Kuon met in one of those single parent meetings. And bonded over the shared thought of making a run for it after coming to the conclusion that this meeting weren't gonna teach them anything they didn't already know.
They went to coffee shop, talked for a while and discovered that their children went to the same daycare center. They also got to appreciate each other's sarcasm and sense of humor.
"What is it that you liked about him anyway?" he suddenly asked after a moment of silence.
"Hum?"
"Your ex, why did you marry him?"
"I honestly don't know!" she said "I was young and stupid. I thought I was in love with him. Blinded by said love, I ignored his bad sides and thought I could change him!" she snorted "God, I was dumb!"
"I'll have to agree with that." He said.
"Hey!" she swatted at his arm.
"What? I mean, I don't even know the man and I want to kill him, I don't know how you survived with him for … how long did you stay with him again?" he asked.
"Two years…" Kyoko mumbled.
"TWO YEARS!" he raised his eyebrows in amazement "Wow…"
"Don't judge me!" she whined "You're supposed to be on my side!"
"I am…I just…wow!"
"Jerk!" she playfully hit his arm again.
On the other side of the play ground Kei and Hisa were watching their parents acting like children.
"Kei-kun your mommy hit my daddy!" the cute little girl said.
"That's because my mom is a tough cookie!" he replied proudly.
"A tough cookie?" she chuckled adorably at the image of Kyoko wearing a cookie costume, children's imaginations sure are something!
"Yes! When I'm worried about my mom, uncle Lory says not to worry because she's a tough cookie!" he explained.
"Oh!" her eyes sparkled in understanding as she looked at Kyoko "When I grow up I want to be a tough cookie like auntie!"
A/N: So that's it! My 'situation' for the day XD
I was checking the reviews on a book I was interested in reading and one reviewer said that the book didn't have a lot, that it was all a big 'situation' and it made me think 'Hey! That's what my oneshots are like XD they're just silly little situations that run through my head and I like to write down!
But now I'll have to turn one of them into an actual story with an actual plot XD
So speaking of which, here's a little update on the 5 top stories, some things changed after the last time I updated!
#1: Chapter 22: The Dream Bakery And The Fairy Within.
#2: Chapter 1: Sniper.
#3: Chapter 20: I Believe In Ghosts. Do You?
#4: Chapter 4: Reunion.
#5: Chapter 15: You're All I See.
Alright guys, so the poll will be up in two days! Remember May, 10th!
Let me explain again about what's gonna happen!
So If nothing changes, I'll put the five top stories mentioned above in a poll. You'll have to go to my profile and vote for the one you want the most, it's kind of a second chance for those who missed the preliminaries XD jk! Anyway, that poll will be up until June, 10th so it'll give you another month, of course meanwhile I'll be updating this fic so that you won't get bored XD Anyway, by June, 10th the stories that has the most votes on the poll will be turned into a long fic, with a more developed plot and all.
One last reminder, if you want a story to make it to the poll, make sure to leave a review on the chapter of said story! Because I'll be checking my sroty stats again on May, 10th and see which ones have the most reviews and put them in the poll!
I'm not sure why I feel like I should empathize on the fact that the poll will have 5 story titles in it :p
See you on May, 10th! (I'll try having a decent chapter written by then :p)
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