Humming Witch: I started and finished this today - and UPLOADED IT AT THE SAME TIME? MY GOD, I'M SO PROUD OF MYSELF RIGHT NOW. I hope you guys like this chapter~

Kyle's POV

After everyone was dressed and we were all downstairs, I made a plain breakfast of eggs and toast with some milk.

"Thanks, Daddy!" Aria said, smiling. Seeing her smile put a smile on my face as well.

"You're welcome, sweetie."

I sat down next to Aria and ate my food quickly. I then got up.

"I'm gonna go check up on the crops outside, I'll be right back. Barrett, could you watch Aria for me, please?"

"Sure," He said, continuing to eat his toast.

Barrett's POV

I watched as Kyle's back disappear from view, and finished eating the toast that was in my hand. I could feel that Aria was staring at me, so I looked back at her. She quickly looked away and pretended like she wasn't doing anything.

"Do you hate me, Aria?" I asked, in a gentle voice.

"What? N-no! I just... Don't like new people."

"So you don't like me."

"I never said that!"

"But I'm a new person?"

"You're an ok new person. I don't hate you."

"Oh, alright." I sip at my milk.

"So you like Daddy?"

"Yeah. I love him."

"So do I, he's my Daddy!" She smiled and I smiled a bit too.

She continued eating as I finished my food and milk. I've never really been that fond of children, but, Aria seems different. Like she actually understands everything that's happening.

A few minutes later, Kyle walked back inside.

"Well, the crops are alright!"

"Aren't you cold, Kyle?" I ask, getting up from my seat and walking up to him.

"Oh, no, I'm fine!" He said with his usual smile. He started shaking. Slowly at first, but then his shaking became more rapid. I quickly pulled him into an embrace. He was freazing cold!

"My god, Kyle! You're a horrible liar."

"Haha, yeah, I know I am."

"I'll go make you some tea or something..."

"No, no, it's alright."

Kyle chuckled a bit to himself. I walked over with him to his seat at the table, and as he sat down I took a glass from the cupboard. I brewed some tea for him, then poured it in the cup and placed it on the table infront of him.

"T-thank you..."

"You're welcome."

I then went and took my jacket from the coat hanger, and wrapped it lightly around Kyle.

"There," I said, wrapping my arms around him from behind, overlapping the jacket, "Now you won't be so cold."

I kissed him on the cheek and a light pink showed itself upon his face. I went back to my chair and sat down. Aria, not really paying attention to the stuff going on around her, drew pictures of trees and rivers, and coloring them in messily like kids do, obviously forgetting about her dishes still on the table.

We waited a bit in silence - Kyle sipping at his hot tea, Aria drawing, and me staring at Kyle's face. About, maybe a half hour or more passed before the front door opened - it was Mana.

Oh great. Here comes that bitch.

I look away from her and rip my gaze away from kyle - a really hard thing for me to do. Aria looks up from her coloring, slides off her chair, and runs over to Mana, hugging her.

"Mommy!"

"Hi sweetie! Oh, I missed you so much!"

Kyle didn't say anything, but he got up as well, draping my jacket on the chair. He frowned and looked at me. I looked at him, frowning myself. He put on a fake smile as Mana hugged him.

God damn-it, get off my man!

"Did you miss me?" She asks.

I sure didn't.

"Uh... Yeah! We were lonely without you!"

"Good!"

'Good'? The hell, 'Good'?

She then looks at me.
"Oh, hello, Barrett!"

"...Hey."

Mana looks back at Kyle - my Kyle.

"Kyle, darling, I'm really sleepy, let's go upstairs and cuddle~!" She says in an annoying, high-pitched, trying-to-act-cute voice. I should be the only one that cuddles with Kyle.

"U-um, not right now... Actually I have to stay over Barrett's house, so..."

"What? Why?" She glances at me with a look of disgust in her eyes then looks back at Kyle.

"Because he... Asked me to help with something and I need to stay the night. I'm pretty sure something in his house broken and it's gonna take a while to repair."

"Oh. Well then, fine. I can spend the rest of the day with Aria, then."

She picks Aria up in her arms and goes up stairs.

"Nice cover-up," I say, kissing Kyle.

"Haha, thanks.."

"Well then, let's go fix the broken stuff in my house."

We both laugh a small bit and walk outside. It's super cold, but, if we run I guess we could make it to my house without getting a cold or something ourselves.

"Come on, let's go run so that we have a less likely chance of getting a cold?" I ask him, grabbing his hand. "I'll carry you."

"You will?" Kyle asks, surprised.

"Yup."

"Serious?"

"Serious."

"Ok, then, carry me, please?"

He looks at me with the cutest face I've ever seen. I kneel on the ground. He gets atop of me, and I stand up, grabbing underneath his thigh, his arms wrapping around my neck losely.

I smile.

"You know, I can't run now. We're probably gonna catch colds."

"That's alright. That means we can kiss without getting each other sick~"

I chuckle a bit.

I feel his warm stomach on my back, and his head resting on mine. It makes me wish that I would have told him things sooner, that I could have him instead of him having Mana. That maybe Aria would have been our child - a child we had together, and not a child that he had with her. One can only wish. But, sometimes, wishing just isn't enough anymore.