Hey guys! I said I would update fast and I think I'm doing pretty good. Haha….anyways, I'm glad you guys liked the last chapter and thank you for all the reviews. Below you'll see some replies to some of your reviews. I know you guys just want to get straight to the story but I thought I should add this in.

Bluestray: Thanks for the review. Tell your friend not to worry, keep reading and you'll see that I already planned something for all the girls. But out of curiosity, why does your want something bad to happen to Miriam specifically? Haha…thanks again.)

Tikytikytavvi101,Wind Archer: I'm glad you like the names. Haha, yea I like the names too. Originally, I was going to make Tala suggest a name that meant protector of the fruit baskets, but I couldn't find a middle name that meant fruit. Haha…yea the project has started, now just wait and read for what happens next! Thanks!)

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EvilTwinKae: Haha, yea that would be pretty disgusting --'…but just wait and see what happens )…Thanks!)…by the way, what does OMR mean? I've seen people use OMG but I have no clue what the R stands for S

Drackial: Thanks! Don't worry I make up words all the timeP. I know that Miriam and Ozuma's kids initials are M.O.M, I didn't plan on it, but it just happened, hehe. Yea, I'm guessing Ozuma and Tala are tied for 1st place on the pervert scale…but Kai isn't that far behind…and just wait until Rei shows his true colors )…lol…Thanks!

There you go! Now on with the story!

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Chapter 22:Baby care, Studying, and Comfort after an attack


Rei's P.O.V

"WAHH!WAHH!"

I jolted upright after hearing the sound coming from the baby monitor. I quickly shut it off and turned to Mariah, who was still lying down.

"Mariah, the baby's crying." I said, lying back down.

She turned to look at me with tired eyes.

"I went the first three times. It's your turn now." She replied before turning over so that her back was to me.

I sighed and moved the covers off my body. I got up and walked through the walk in closet, towards the attached room.

I looked down at my daughter, who was still crying loudly, and awkwardly reached in to pick her up.

I adjusted my arms and looked down at her.

'What do I do now?' I thought, unsure of how to get her to stop crying. I spotted a bottle of milk and reached out for it.

"You want some milk?" I asked showing her the bottle. She turned her head away and started crying again.

I was now thoroughly flustered. Unsurely, I started rocking her in my arms.

She started to quiet down and after a few minutes she was asleep. I placed her back in the crib and placed the small blanket on her.

I walked back into my room and lay back down. I was just about to pull the covers over me when the baby monitor went off again.

I looked over at Mariah, who didn't budge. Once again I went into the nursery to see what the problem was this time.

I looked down at the child and asked, "What is it now?"

That was pretty stupid of me though, since she obviously didn't understand.

She kept crying and eventually Mariah came into the room to see what the problem was.

I watched as she came over to stand beside me at the crib.

"Hey baby, what's wrong?" She asked

"She won't stop crying." I answered.

"I wasn't talking to you." She answered rolling her eyes before reaching down to take the infant from it's crib.

She mumbled things to it for a moment before walking to the change table and pulling out a diaper.

"Rei, come here for a second." Mariah called. I walked over and she handed me the diaper.

"What do want me to do with this?" I asked looking at the diaper and then back at her.

"You need to learn how to change diapers, so now's your chance." She answered crossing her arms across her chest and sitting down.

"You're joking right?" I said, unsure if I heard her right. I wasn't about to change any stinky diapers.

"No, actually I'm quite serious. Now, change Rose." She replied pointing to the baby girl.

I groaned and moved towards the changing table, scrunching up my nose in disgust. I undid the diaper and quickly threw it in the garbage can, before proceeding to place the new one on.

"Rei, you put it on, inside out." Mariah said before laughing at my mistake. I simply glared at her, before fixing it.

"How's that?" I asked once I had finished.

"Wow, good job. Congratulations Mr. Kon you have just changed your first diaper." She said giggling as she picked up Rose and placed her back in the crib.

"Haha, I'm laughing so hard." I mumbled sarcastically as I went to stand next to her.

She simply stuck her tongue out at me. I quirked an eyebrow but didn't say anything.

"You know, for a robot you sure are a lot of trouble." I told the child, who was now fast asleep.

Mariah started walking back towards our room, after giving Rose a kiss on the forehead.

I followed Mariah into our room and we got into bed.

"Next time, you're changing the diaper." I mumbled as I pulled Mariah into my arms.

Once again she just stuck her tongue out at me.

"You know, you shouldn't stick out your tongue unless you plan to use it." I told her with a smirk.

She looked at me in shock for a moment before tilting her head up to kiss me. We broke off after a few moments, gasping for air.

"How's that for using my tongue." She replied with a smirk. I moved in for another kiss but I was interrupted by a certain pink and black haired child, who had started crying once again.

I just groaned and dropped my head onto Mariah's shoulder. She just chuckled a little before getting up to tend to the child's needs.


Kai's P.O.V

For the past three nights I had woken up to the, now familiar, sound of crying. Tonight wasn't very different.

Paree groaned in protest before getting out of bed and walking into the nursery to calm down the crying child.

I turned my head to the side when I heard the crying turn into whimpers. I saw Paree walk in with the child cradled in her arms.

"Why didn't you just leave him to sleep in his crib?" I asked her tiredly.

"Because, I'm tired of walking back and forth every time he cries. And you aren't exactly helping either, you know." She replied glaring at me.

She placed the child in the small, rocking cradle by our bed and switched it on so that it would rock the child to sleep.

"You never exactly asked me to help you, either." I replied as she got back in bed.

"That's because I know you're too stupid to know anything about taking care of a baby." She replied before turning so that her back was to me.

"I know how to care of a kid!" I said in my defense.

Paree turned around to look at me with a smirk.

"Oh yeah? Then name three reasons why a baby would cry?" She asked, the smirk never leaving her face.

"It…uh…it's hungry. It wants attention. And…uh…it wants to eat ice cream?" I said with a confident smirk.

"Surprisingly, you got two out of three right. Where would you get the idea of ice cream?" Paree asked with a questioning look.

"I saw kids crying for ice cream at the mall a few days ago." I answered.

"Oh. But you may have noticed that they weren't the same size or age as Paulo. So, that just proves you have no idea of how to take care of a infant." Paree said, before turning away once again.

I watched her for a few seconds before an idea came to me. I moved closer to her and wrapped an arm around her waist before pulling her closer. My chest was now against her back.

"Kai, what are you doing?" she asked without turning around.

"I'm not letting you go until you admit that I know how to take care of my kid." I told her, and held on tighter.

"I'm not saying that because it would be a complete and total lie." She replied and I could tell she was smirking even with out looking at her.

I was about to say something when Paulo started crying.

Paree turned around in my arms and smirked at me.

"There's you chance to prove it. If you manage to get him to stop crying I'll apologise for doubting you." She said gesturing towards the crying child in the cradle.

"Fine." I replied, letting go of her. I moved across the bed towards the cradle and took my son out of the cradle.

The crying didn't cease. I took his little hand and noticed how cold it was. I went back to the bed and lay down with the baby still in my arms. I brought him close to warm him up.

Paree looked at me questioningly for a moment before realizing that the child had stopped crying.

"He stopped." She said in surprise before moving closer to the two of us.

"Shh." I motioned for her to be quiet. My fake child had fallen asleep.

Paree's mouth turned into an O before she moved a little closer and whispered in my ear, "Sorry, I doubted you."

She gave me a small smile before turning away and going to sleep.

I froze as realization hit me. She smiled at me! It wasn't a smirk or a sneer, a smile.

I looked down at the kid lying in my arms.

'Maybe taking care of babies isn't too hard after all. Especially if it can get me a compliment and a smile from Paree, all in less than an hour.' I thought


Normal P.O.V

Winter break was now officially over. The four couples had met up at school and gone to their classes, taking their kids with them.

Kai, Paree, Rei, Mariah, Tala, Aaliyah, Ozuma, and Miriam along with their classmates, dropped off their babies in the school nursery where they were kept until the end of school.

The first few days passed without any incidents. Until it was time for midterm exams.

The eight teens sat in Chemistry class reviewing the notes they had taken and copying the ones they had missed from other people.

"Miriam, can I borrow your notes on the properties of elements?" Aaliyah asked as she flipped through her notes.

"Tala, I need your diagram on atom structure." Rei said

Physics class wasn't any easier. The eight teens looked ready to pull their hair out.

"Hey, I was going to study that!" Paree exclaimed as Kai took her velocity vs. time graph.

"Yea, well you're still studying motion described in words." He replied.

"Rei,I need your diagram of motion." Miriam said.

Finally the day came to an end with Biology class. The eight teens looked less uptight than they had in the other classes. Biology wasn't as hard as chemistry and physics, so they took their time going over things they had already memorized.

"Mr. Roy, we're done recopying our notes can we please be dismissed early?" Mariah asked the biology teacher when he passed by the desks of the eight teens.

"Of course, but stay out of the hallways other people need to study as well you know." He replied before walking off.

The all packed away their books and quietly walked out of the classroom. They went to their lockers to get their jackets and then walked towards the nursery.

"Hey honey, how are you?" Miriam said as she picked up her child.

Melanie giggled a little as Miriam tickled her. Ozuma brought the car seat over and Miriam placed Melanie into it.

Paree smiled at her baby boy and shook the little rattle in front of his face, getting a smile from him.

Kai just shook his head at Paree's antics, before picking the kid up and placing him in the car seat.

Aaliyah kissed her boy on the cheek before placing him in the car seat. She turned away for a second to pick up the baby bag and her back pack. When she looked back she saw Taren holding on to Tala's index finger. She watched as Tala smiled down at the child before brushing some of the kids hair away with his finger tips, careful not to use his injured palm.

He looked up and smirked when he saw Aaliyah smiling at him. Aaliyah went a little pink before she picked up the car seat and walked out of the room.

Rei held Rose in his arms while Mariah took the baby's jacket out of the baby bag. They placed her in the car seat and followed their friends out the door towards the parking lot.

"Hey Tala! Where are you going?" Kai yelled when he saw that his friend was driving in the opposite direction of his house.

"We're getting a bite to eat before we go home. You guys want to come?" He told them.

Kai looked at the others, and they agreed to go. They all drove to the Ice cream Parlour, the restaurant where Kai and Paree had sang for music night.

They got a booth and ordered their meals. They ordered special food for the babies.

"The chemistry and physics exams are on the 22nd and 24th right?" Aaliyah asked the others as she pulled out her planner to write the dates down.

"Yea, and the biology exams are on the 23rd." Miriam answered.

"It's a good thing we don't have any science next semester. Chemistry is not something I want to go through again." Tala said, taking a sip from his soda.

"Yea, did any of you get your schedules for next semester yet?" Mariah asked, feeding some strawberry flavored baby food to Rose.

"I got mine yesterday. We have homeroom, Sociology, History, Psychology, and Economics." Paree said after taking a bite of her spaghetti.

"Economics, Sociology and Psychology are university courses right?" Ozuma asked.

"Yea, they are. So that means we only need to go to university for one year to get the bachelors degree in business management. Then we can work full time and sit in on important business meetings at Hiwatari Corporations, Ivanov Inc, Mariano Industries and Kon Industries." Kai said.

The girls looked at each other for a second before they burst out laughing earning strange looks from the boys, the babies, and other people in the restaurant.

"What's so funny?" Rei asked with a frown.

The girls finally managed to stop laughing.

"The fact that you guys are talking all seriously about business and stuff. We thought you were too immature for that." Paree said with a look of mock surprise on her face.

"It's weird. Go back to your stupid selves now." Miriam said jokingly.

They started laughing again when they saw the glares the boys were giving them.

"We wouldn't expect idiots like you to understand." Kai answered indifferently.

"Yes, this is a matter much too complicated for you bird brains to comprehend." Tala added crossing his arms across his chest.

"I concur." Ozuma said mimicking Tala's action.

Rei simply looked at the girls with mock anger and disgust on his face.

"Uh…" Miriam said nervously.

"We were just joking." Aaliyah added, waving her hand in front of Tala's face.

"Come on. You didn't take that seriously did you?" Paree asked looking at Kai and then at the others.

"Sorry if you felt insulted by our comments about you being stupid." Mariah apologized to Rei, who simply turned away.

The girls tried to get a word or two out of the boys but they seemed genuinly upset.It was quiet for a moment as the girls finished their food and fed the babies, while the boys just sat there with their food already finished.

The boys left the money on the table and got up without saying a word to the girls. The girls looked at each other unsurely and followed the boys out of the restaurant.

Right when Mariah let the doors close behind her the boys jumped out and yelled, "GOTCHA!"

The girls squeaked in terror almost dropping the babies in their arms.

"Hehe, you guys should've seen the looks on your faces!" Tala said before bursting out into laughter.

"So, you were just pretending to be mad back in the restaurant?" Miriam asked, while running a hand through her hair, and holding on tightly to the infant in her arms.

"Yea, we were planning on getting you back for laughing at us. You know, to teach you a lesson." Ozuma said with a smirk.

The girls simply glared at them before walking up to them thrusting the babies into the boys arms and walking away.

The boys stared after them with the kids in their arms.

"Where do you think they're going?" Ozuma asked the others.

"I don't know but I think we might have seriously crossed the line this time." Rei replied, staring down the path Mariah and the others had just gone.


"The nerve of them!" Paree shouted furiously.

"They actually had me believing that we might have seriously hurt their feelings." Aaliyah said.

"I know. I was actually starting to feel a little bad for laughing at them like that." Miriam said with a frown.

"And then they go and pull a prank like that! I was seriously scared for a moment. I mean it is getting dark out and they just snuck up and scared us. I thought it might've been Boris's men." Mariah said shuddering a little. It was getting cold out and the girl's were still in their school uniforms with jackets that didn't do much to keep the cold out.

They kept walking and muttering furious comments about the boys, until suddenly Paree stopped. She turned around to look at the other girls.

"Guys, where are we?" She asked, looking around at her surroundings.

The other girls also looked around the deserted street before looking back down the pathway they had just come from.

"I think we went through the park behind the restaurant. Remember all those trees on one side of the parking lot." Miriam reminded the others.

"Yea, but I know that by now we're probably way further then that. These trees don't look like the ones in the park." Aaliyah told her.

"So, in other terms, we're lost!" Mariah said in a worried tone.

Paree look like she was about to say something when they heard some noises coming from some trash cans behind her.

She moved closer to the other girls.

"Did you guys hear that?" She asked. The girls nodded and looked at the trash can. They flinched when it rattled even more. Then, they saw a furry little rope like object appear from behind it.

"Hey, wait a minute." Mariah said, walking to the trash can. She kicked it aside and a small dirty cat ran out from behind it. It looked at them all for a second before running away.

"It was just a cat." Miriam said, breathing a sigh of relief.

"Well, well, well. What have we got here?" Came a Scottish accented voice from behind the fence that the trash cans were placed in front of.

A man around the same age as the girls, walked out from behind the fence. The man was red haired and had a bandana tied around his head. Aaliyah looked at him in confusion for a second.

'I know him from somewhere.' She thought trying to remember.

"It appears that these girls are a little lost." Said another red haired from beside the first.

"Maybe we should help them out." A blonde said appearing beside the red heads.

A lavender haired boy joined the other three and grinned at the girls.

'That's it! Wait…Oh shit! This is bad, this is really bad.' Aaliyah thought when she remembered the two red heads from the luau in Hawaii

"Guys, these are Boris's men." She whispered to the other three so the men in front of them wouldn't hear.

The girls looked at her in shock.

"When I say 'handsome' run." Paree whispered to the other three.

The boys were eyeing them as if they were some kind of treats.

The girls stepped back slightly, leaving Paree where she was.

Paree smiled seductively at the boys and twirled a piece of hair around her finger.

"Hiya boys. It's so kind of you to help us out. What were you boys doing out anyways?" She asked sounding a lot like the bimbos from Christmas ball.

"We were just walking around for a bit, before we spotted you beautiful ladies." The taller red haired boy replied giving a cheesy grin.

"Oh you're too sweet. You know there's only one word to describe you boys." Paree said stepping back towards the girls as she did so.

"Oh, and what's that?" The same red head said, raising his eyebrows.

"Handsome….NOT!" Paree yelled as she and the other girls ran back through the trees into the park.

"Hey!" They heard one of the boys shout, before the girls heard the sound of people running after them.

"Faster guys!" Aaliyah yelled.

"AAH!" Mariah screamed as the blonde haired boy almost managed to grasp her hair.

The girls ran as fast as they could before the trees lessened and they found themselves back in the clearing by the restaurant.

Paree, Aaliyah, Miriam, and Mariah ran towards the parking lot with Boris's men on their heels.

The red head with the Scottish accent caught Miriam by the hair and pulled her back, while the other boys kept chasing after the girls.

The girls looked at Miriam helplessly as they ran.

"RUN!" Miriam shouted waving for them to keep going.

The man tightened his grip on her hair and pushed Miriam to her knees.

"Think you and that friend of yours are pretty smart eh bitch!" He yelled, spit flying out of his mouth.

Miriam's eyes watered in pain as he pulled at her hair.

She saw a blurry figure come up behind the man and watched him reach out to tap the man on the shoulder.

The red head let go of Miriam and turned around to see Ozuma standing there.

"I think she is smart." Ozuma said quickly before punching the man

The man fell to the ground holding his face while Ozuma helped Miriam up. Miriam embraced him for a second before letting go.

"You okay?" He asked in concern.

"Yea, I'll be fine." Miriam answered. They turned to walk away, when Miriam stopped and walked back to the man still on the ground.

She kicked the man in the stomach and then in the face.

"That's for pulling my hair." She said before walking back to Ozuma.


Aaliyah, Paree and Mariah stopped in the shadows of the restaurant to catch their breath.

"Think we lost them?" Paree asked, panting for breath.

Mariah peered around the corner and quickly looked away.

"Think again. They're just around the corner." She replied.

Aaliyah suddenly felt a pair of arms around her waist.

"Found you." She heard the person whisper in her ear. She held in a scream, closed her eyes and slowly turned around. When she opened her eyes the first thing she saw was red hair.

"Get away from me! You freak! Don't touch me! Guys help!" Aaliyah screamed to Paree and Mariah as she pounded on the man's chest.

"Aaliyah that's Tala!" Mariah said.

Aaliyah looked from her friends to the man holding her and saw that it was Tala. She placed her arms around his neck and hugged him tightly.

"Oh my god! I'm so sorry. But I saw your hair and I thought you were one of the men chasing us." She told him before letting go.

"What men?" Tala asked her, as Kai and Rei appeared at his side.

"Boris's men they're just around the corner of the building. We got kind of lost and they saw us. We recognized them and ran." Aaliyah explained.

Tala, Kai, and Rei left to look around the corner of the building and came back about a minute later.

"There's no one there." Rei said.

"B-but they were their just a minute ago. One of them got Miriam." Mariah replied.

"I'm back now." Came Miriam's voice. The six teens looked up to see Miriam walking towards them with Ozuma, who had his arm around her waist.

"Miriam!" The three girls said before rushing to hug their friend.

"Hey guys, don't worry I'm okay!" She told them as they started questioning her.

"Let's go home. You can tell us what happened." Kai said looking at Paree and then the others.

They went to their cars and saw the babies were already asleep in their car seats. They all drove to Hiwatari mansion.

They went into one of the family rooms where the fireplace was lit with a warm fire. They got comfortable and Paree asked one of the maids to brings in some snacks.

"So, what happened?" Rei asked them.

"We were mad at you guys so we just walked off and we didn't pay much attention to where we were going. And then Paree stopped and asked if any of us knew where we were. We figured that we had walked through that park behind the restaurant and ended up at that deserted street. And then these four guys came out from behind this fence and Aaliyah recognized one of them from the luau. So, we made a plan to distract them for a moment and then we ran for it." Mariah explained, resting her head on Rei's shoulder and leaning against him a little.

"What did they look like?" Kai asked with a thoughtful look on his face.

"Two were red heads, one of them had a Scottish accent. One was a blonde and another had lavender colored hair." Paree described.

"The Scottish one was Johnny McGregor. I recognized him when I punched him out. The others were probably Michael Jameson, Bryan Tolsh and Ian Vladik." Ozuma said with a frown.

"From their descriptions, that's what I was guessing." Rei said.

"Well, now you know not to run off like that again. How did you distract them anyways? " Kai asked leaning back into the sofa he and Paree were sitting on.

"Paree acted like those bimbos you flirted with at the Christmas party." Aaliyah replied, sending Tala a glare at this.

"Oh, I see." Kai said eyeing Paree curiously.

"Should we tell the elders about this?" Paree asked the others, ignoring the look Kai was giving her.

"No. They worry enough about us already. If they find out that we were attacked again they'll be even more worried. We should just keep this to ourselves for the time being. And just try to prevent any more attacks like these from happening." Tala said.

"Yes, that would be the reasonable thing to do." Aaliyah agreed.

"Well, I have to study for my exams so we'll see you guys tomorrow." Mariah said getting up.

"Yea, I guess we'll be going too now." Ozuma said picking up the car seat which held his daughter.

"See you, tomorrow." Aaliyah said getting up and following the others out the door.

Paree walked them out and closed the door behind them. She turned around to see Kai standing there with Paulo in his arms.

They walked up the stairs, to their bedroom and got ready for bed. Paree placed the sleeping Paulo in his crib and walked back into the room to see that Kai was already changed.

She quickly changed into a silk tank top with matching shorts and got under the covers with Kai.

"So, how exactly did you distract Boris's men?" Kai asked, turning to face her.

"I acted like that bimbo you were flirting with." Paree answered sending Kai a glare.

"Whatever. You shouldn't have run away like that though. What if they had actually managed to catch you?" Kai asked.

'Is that concern I detect?' Paree asked herself

"I don't want to think about that." Paree replied, looking away from Kai.

She felt Kai wrap his arm around her and felt his torso against hers when he pulled her closer.

She looked up and noticed how close their faces were.

"Do you know how worried you had me?" She heard him whisper. She shook her head to say no.

"You care?" Paree asked in return.

Kai didn't say anything but simply tilted his head down. Paree froze as she felt his lips touch hers. She felt like their were fireworks exploding in her and her stomach kept doing flip flops. She kissed him back after a moment. It was sweet, gentle kiss. They pulled apart after a moment.

"What was that?" Paree asked in a quiet voice.

"My claim to you. A proof to you that I don't hate you. I do care for you. And a proof that I'll kill anyone who dares to even touch you. You're mine." Kai said before rolling over so he was on top of Paree.

"I'm not a possesion. But I'm too tired to argue about that right now. Promise me, no more pranks like that?" Paree said placing her hands around Kai's neck. Kai simply nodded.

This time there lips met in a not so gentle kiss. They released all the emotions in the kiss. It was full of hunger, lust, need, want, care, passion, and another deep emotion the two couldn't place. They broke apart and Kai pulled Paree tighter into his arms, and the two fell asleep.


Ozuma and Miriam returned home and left Melanie to sleep in her crib. They got ready for bed in complete silence, which was odd since normally they would be arguing over something.

Miriam got into bed next to Ozuma and they just lay there staring at the canopy of the bed. Miriam looked over at Ozuma and saw that he had his eyes closed. She moved closer and placed one of his arms around her waist as she snuggled against him.

"Hey." She heard him whisper and looked up in surprise.

"I thought you were sleeping." Miriam said, turning red when she saw the way he was looking at her.

"I wasn't. You still shook up about what happened back at the restaurant?" Ozuma asked, while rubbing a comforting hand along her side.

"A little. Thanks for helping me out back there." Miriam whispered back.

"Your welcome. Now, go to sleep, we have to study really hard again tomorrow." Ozuma told her.

Miriam moved up and gave Ozuma a peck on the lips before whispering, "Goodnight."


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