June 2029 (Castiel is 39, Dean is 41, Eden is 15, Adrian is 12, the twins are 8, Noah is 3 years old).
Almost a month had passed and Adrian and Isaac were keeping a better eye on Lily now when they walked to class in the morning. They had passed the three bullies in the corridors a few times since and the boys had glared at Adrian in contempt because the principal had given them a hard time after Adrian had told him what they did. Adrian ignored them and Lily hid behind him every time they passed them.
Adrian was twelve and a half years old and about to become a teenager. He was starting to grow faster and his feathers were already beginning to show their first signs of turning sharp, but they hadn't started molting properly yet. Since he was doing taekwondo he did have some muscles, but his appearance was still rather childlike. That was something that was likely to change in the coming years.
Adrian's friend Jeremy practiced taekwondo with him in the same studio. Their other friend Kenny didn't – he was more the nerd type, and martial arts didn't really appeal to him.
Thursday after class, Adrian and Jeremy said goodbye to Kenny and went to taekwondo practice together. It was a popular studio and others from their class attended as well, even a few of the girls. Adrian and Jeremy talked all the way over to the studio as they walked on the sidewalk. The studio was three blocks away from the school.
Adrian looked up when their classmate Mason passed them. She was a quarter part human but looked like a full blood angel, she had blonde hair and white wings with some pinkish feathers in them. Adrian had often led his eyes fall on her wings in class while he was spacing out during one of Mrs. Thompson's boring lectures, but Mason had never noticed – he had been careful to not stare at them too long because it was rude. Their eyes met when she passed them with a couple of her angel/human hybrid friends, and she gave Adrian a small smile before talking to her friends again and giggled about something. Adrian watched her quietly as she walked in front of him all the way to the studio.
The taekwondo studio was pretty big and located in a rather new building. It was only a block away from Eden's gymnastics studio so she and Adrian usually waited together for their parents to pick them up after practice. The taekwondo teacher was a 33-year-old human male. Adrian liked him a lot – he was good at teaching and he was easy to talk to.
Adrian and Jeremy headed for the locker rooms to change before practice. There were three guys from the grade above them who were on their team as well – Ethan, Jacob, and Will. Adrian didn't like them much. They were always up to no good and they bullied people they didn't like – which included Adrian, but he usually either ignored them or told them off whenever he ran into them. The three guys were making a lot of noise in the locker room; laughing out loud, yelling something at one another from across the room, throwing their dirty clothes around and annoying everybody else. Adrian quickly changed his clothes to get away from the noise.
When everyone was dressed and ready for practice they met with the teacher in the studio. They were divided into pairs to practice together, and Adrian formed a pair with his friend Jeremy. The teacher walked around between the practicing pairs, instructing and correcting them as well was giving praise.
Both Adrian and Jeremy had practiced taekwondo for a few years so they were rather experienced. They had the blue belt and were slowly working their way up to earn their black belts.
Ethan and the others were making a lot of noise again, and Adrian smirked smugly when the teacher yelled at them to shut up and Ethan looked genuinely offended by it.
"Alright everyone, let's have a break. I'll meet you back here in ten minutes," the teacher said, pointing at the clock, and disappeared from the room.
Everyone sighed in relief over having a break because they were all sweaty and exhausted by now.
Adrian went over to the wall to pick up his bottle of water and Jeremy joined him. He drank the water eagerly, feeling thirsty from practice, while watching Ethan and his gang from the corner of his eye as they approached Mason and her two friends.
"Ohh the angel hybrids think they're good, huh," Ethan mocked. "Well, the teacher didn't give any corrections on our practice." He and his two friends grinned at the three girls whom they were ganging up on. Ethan was a demon and his two friends were demon/human hybrids, and they all had the blue belt which was a rank higher than Mason and her friends' green one. It wasn't unusual for some demons and demon/human hybrids to be hostile towards the angel/human hybrids (and vice versa), just like the demons and angels would be hostile towards each other. The demon hybrids were proud to have demon in them, and the angel hybrids were proud of have angel in them, so it could create some conflicts sometimes, but they were generally more accepting of each other than the full blood angels and demons were.
Mason and her friends glared at the three boys. "The world isn't about being the best, but to do what you enjoy doing," Mason retorted. "Besides, we're doing this more for fun than to be the best at it."
"Well, if you're not good then you don't get anywhere with your life," Ethan snapped.
"You're such jerks," one of the girls said and turned away from them to leave.
"What did you say?!" Ethan growled. Jacob and Will stood behind him and they both spread their wings threateningly at the girl. The hybrids' wings weren't as big as a full blood demon's and the feathers couldn't turn completely sharp, but the girls still jumped back in surprise.
"C'mon, guys, quit it…" one of the others said, but quickly backed off when Jacob and Will glared at him.
"She said you're jerks! Now leave us alone," Mason hissed and pushed at Ethan's chest to make him back off. It only pissed the demon boy even more off and he gave Mason a hard shove in reply, sending her to the floor.
The others gasped in horror as Mason hit the ground, and her friends immediately came over to help her.
Adrian growled. He had been watching the scene quietly so far, not wanting to interfere and get into trouble, but now he had had enough. He put his bottle of water back on the floor and stalked over to Ethan and the others.
Jeremy gasped. "Adrian, don't—!"
Ethan turned his head to look at him when Adrian suddenly came over, and in the next moment he was shoved back harshly by an angry Adrian. "What the fuck?!" Ethan snarled in response and spread his wings.
Adrian growled and got between Mason and the three boys who were somewhat taller than him. His wings were spread out slightly to show he wasn't kidding. "I've had enough of watching you terrorize this team! And only a coward shoves girls!"
Some of the others snickered a little at that, making Ethan see red.
"You calling me a coward, you filthy crossbreed?!" Ethan snarled. He was about to charge but Jacob quickly held him back.
"Whoa!" Jacob exclaimed and put his hand on Ethan's arm to hold him back. "The teacher is gonna come back soon – he'll be furious if he sees you fighting with someone."
Everyone stared at the scene warily, silently hoping that the demon boy would drop the matter and back down. Mason had slowly gotten on her feet again and seemed uninjured from her fall. She stood behind Adrian, watching them anxiously.
Ethan snarled and wrestled free from his friend's grip. He charged at Adrian in rage over having been humiliated in front of the others, and tried throwing Adrian to the ground. Adrian quickly blocked his attempt to throw him over and shoved him back instead.
The team watched wide-eyed as a fight broke out in front of them. Adrian blocked every attack and didn't really make any attempts to fight back besides shoving the other boy – he didn't want to get into trouble for punching Ethan so he was simply waiting for the other boy to grow tired. His hesitation to fight back only made Ethan even angrier, and Adrian soon had trouble blocking and dodging the attacks. He held back a pained cry when Ethan managed to pull a few of his feathers out.
"Hey, what's going on over there?!"
Adrian looked up in surprise when the teacher suddenly entered the room, and for a moment he forgot to pay attention to Ethan. He was hit right in the face by Ethan's fist and fell to the floor, blocking the fall with his hand as he fell down. He cried out when he felt his right wrist snap at the hard impact and at the pressure of suddenly having all his weight on it in an awkward angle. Adrian writhed on the floor in agony and gasped in pain while holding his hand close to his body and bit his lip to hold back pained cries.
The others gasped in horror and the teacher quickly came over.
Ethan took a few steps back, staring wide-eyed at Adrian like he was shocked that the other boy had been injured.
"You okay?" the teacher asked, kneeling down in front of Adrian and tried to inspect his hand.
"Yeah, but it hurts like hell," Adrian groaned. His wings flapped against the smooth wooden floor in pain and his tail was twisting around like mad.
"We should probably get you to the hospital…" the teacher muttered. He turned his gaze away and glared up at Ethan and his friends. "And you! Into my office, all three of you, and stay there," he growled. He helped Adrian stand up, saying he was going to call his parents about it, and slowly took him over to the wall to sit down.
Jeremy followed, staring at Adrian in worry, and Mason and her friends seemed equally worried. The teacher left to make a phone call to Dean while Ethan and his friends had gone into the teacher's office with their heads hanging low.
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The taekwondo teacher had called Dean about Adrian's accident and that he suspected that the wrist was broken. Dean had immediately driven to the studio to get Adrian and drove him to the hospital for an x-ray.
Adrian had been pretty calm at the hospital, only wincing and hissing in pain when the doctor touched his hand. The x-ray revealed a fracture in his right wrist so the doctor put his hand and arm in a cast before he was finally released and could go home.
Dean hadn't called Castiel about it before going to the hospital because he knew the angel wouldn't be able to concentrate on work if he knew what had happened. He had only texted him to say he was going to be a bit late.
Castiel was waiting outside on the sidewalk a block away from his work when Dean and Adrian finally arrived in the Tahoe to pick him up. Dean got out of the car and walked over to Castiel who frowned at him.
"What's wrong? You're not usually late… And why is Adrian in the car?" Castiel asked. He could see Adrian sitting in the backseat, which was unusual because Dean never picked up the children alone.
Dean glanced over at the car which Adrian was currently getting out of before looking back at his mate. "Uh, well, there was an incident at Adrian's taekwondo practice…"
Castiel gasped in horror when Adrian finally got out of the car and revealed the cast on his arm. The boy walked over to him and the angel rushed over to meet him. "What happened? Are you alright?"
"One of the guys on the team punched me so I fell to the ground and broke my wrist, but I'm okay." Adrian muttered. His cheek was a little red from where Ethan had hit him and it ached a bit.
"What?!" Castiel exclaimed. "Why? What happened?" He looked between Adrian and Dean, worried and shocked.
"The guy was harassing some girls and I stood up for them. He didn't like that," Adrian explained. He was still pretty bitter about Ethan and his friends and that he now would have trouble taking notes in school because his dominant hand was broken. At least there was only two weeks left of school before the summer holidays started.
Castiel continued looking worried, and Dean came over and put a hand on his shoulder to relax him. "It's okay. Adrian is doing quite fine and he isn't getting into trouble over the fight since he didn't even hit the other boy."
"How can you say he's fine when his wrist is broken?" Castiel snapped at him, still feeling upset about the whole thing.
"Hey, I'm okay, papa, really," Adrian intervened. "It doesn't even hurt that much; the doctors gave me some painkillers. I'm only annoyed that I can't write notes in class anymore…"
"Maybe someone will be kind enough to give you theirs," Dean spoke and gave him a reassuring smile.
"I bet Kenny would, he writes good notes. Jeremy probably would too, but he writes so clumsily that I can't decipher what the hell he's writing…"
"Oi, language," Dean scowled.
Adrian chuckled guilty. "Sorry."
Castiel stepped forward and put a worried hand on Adrian's shoulder. If he had a tail he would have brushed it against Adrian's for reassurance, but he didn't have one. "I'm glad you seem alright and that you stood up for someone else, but you need to be more careful…"
"Jeez, Cas, alphas get into fights, it's always been like that." Dean rolled his eyes.
Castiel glared over his shoulder at him. "I know that, but he's only twelve and I don't like him fighting."
Adrian grinned and briefly brushed his tail against his papa's leg. "I'm okay, papa, I promise I'll be more careful and stay out of fights if I can, okay? Can we go now, please?"
Castiel smiled and placed a soft kiss on Adrian's forehead. The boy blushed and squirmed away slightly, feeling a little too proud to be kissed in public by his parents. Castiel chuckled softly, and they got into the car to drive off and pick up the others.
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Adrian's siblings had been rather shocked that he had broken his wrist, but they had been proud to know that it had happened while he was standing up for someone else.
Ethan had been kicked out of the taekwondo club because the teacher had had enough of him. He had previously given him warnings because of his bad behavior, and he didn't tolerate anyone bullying others or picking a fight with others in his club. Jacob and Will hadn't really done anything besides backing Ethan up so they were simply given one final warning rather than being kicked out. Adrian had noticed that they were actually quite different people when Ethan wasn't around.
Almost three weeks had passed and the school holidays had just begun. Adrian hadn't been able to write any notes in class because of his broken wrist, but Mason had come over to him the following day in class and offered to copy all her notes for him when school was over. Adrian had blinked at her in surprise but accepted her offer. It seemed it was her way of saying thank you to him for having stood up for her and her friends when Ethan had ganged up on them.
Everyone in class had been eager to write their names on his cast and Adrian had let them. Now his cast was full of his classmates' signatures and random drawings, and although some of them were pretty silly Adrian still grinned when he looked at his cast. His siblings had drawn on it as well, and Adrian had been less thrilled when Isaac drew a dick on his cast which was completely lacking in skill. He made Lily draw something else on top of it and it turned out as a flower instead. Adrian wasn't sure about how she had managed to do that so successfully.
It was Saturday afternoon and the house was full of noise as the twins ran around chasing each other and annoying their older siblings. Molly joined them in the running, so now there were two kids and one dog running around. Noah didn't like it when the house was too noisy so he whined and sought comfort with Castiel who was preparing lunch for everyone in the kitchen.
"Hey, slow down, guys! You're not alone in this house," Dean scolded when Isaac and Lily passed him. They were running between the living room, the corridor, and the entrance hall in circles all the time. Molly was wagging her tail and eagerly joining them in their activities.
"But Isaac's got my pony!" Lily yelled at him as she ran after Isaac into the entrance hall and then back into the living room. She almost tripped over Molly in the doorway.
"You can't catch me anyway!" Isaac mocked and waved the pony in her face. He shrieked and kept running when she came after him and tried to grab her toy from him.
Dean growled and grabbed a hold of Isaac's shirt the next time he passed him, forcing him to stop.
"Hey!" Isaac protested and tried to wrestle free. Lily finally caught up to him now that he was standing still, and she quickly snatched her pony from his hands and stuck her tongue out at him mockingly. Isaac growled in frustration and fought against Dean who was keeping him in place.
"You are just one second away from not getting any candy for a month, pal," Dean growled.
Isaac stopped struggling and turned around to pout up at Dean. "Why can't I ever do anything fun in this house?"
"Because all your running scares Noah, and it wouldn't be the first time you've knocked him over while running around carelessly. Besides, running around like that isn't tolerated in this house." Dean stared at Isaac with a firm look and didn't let himself be affected by the boy's offended pouting.
"But Noah is always scared by something…"
"Well, that's because he's still so young and doesn't fully understand what's going on."
Lily smiled and went over to Noah who was still taking refuge behind Castiel's wings. "Noah is such a cutie-pie," she giggled and pulled him into a hug. Noah struggled a little at first, confused about the sudden hug, before finally hugging her back. Lily grinned and pulled away to see Noah grinning up at her as well. She shrieked when he touched her wings curiously. "Noah! No wing-touching," she giggled and squirmed away.
Castiel chuckled at them and started setting the table for lunch.
"Hey, does anyone know where Eden is?" Adrian asked. He had been watching a TV-series while the twins ran around, and now he came over to the others now that lunch was almost ready.
Dean frowned and looked around. "Don't know, haven't seen her since this morning." He looked down when Molly came over and nudged against his tail and feathers. He gave the dog a few pats, smiling when she seemed pleased and panted up at him.
"I heard her talking to someone in her room earlier. She's probably on the phone with Ariel or something," Isaac muttered. His lips curled into a teasing smirk before adding, "Or maybe with her secret boyfriend."
"Whoa, let's hope she doesn't have any of those yet," Dean chuckled and ruffled Isaac's sandy-blonde hair as he walked past him and Molly and over to the kitchen to help Cas.
Castiel smiled when Dean came over. He giggled when Dean leaned in licked at his earlobe from behind and he quickly squirmed away from him. The demon grinned smugly.
Eden came downstairs a few moments later, apologizing for being late, and they all sat down and enjoyed lunch together.
Afterwards, Adrian walked back over to the TV to see if there was anything interesting on. His arm was still in a cast but he would be getting it off in a few weeks. He couldn't wait to be able to do other things than just watch TV or read books (which he found kind of boring), and he wanted to return to taekwondo practice soon.
The doorbell rang all of sudden but they weren't expecting any guests that day.
"Adrian, can you get the door, please?" Dean yelled at him from the kitchen where he and Cas were doing the dishes and Eden was taking food off the dining table. Noah was playing on the couch and the twins were running back and forth with Molly.
"Sure," Adrian said and went into the entrance hall. He stood up on his toes and peered through the door spy to see who it was. He almost fell back in surprise when he saw that it was Mason ringing the doorbell. The doorbell rang again, and Adrian slowly opened the door.
Mason looked up at him with her bluish green eyes, and a small smile formed on her lips when she spotted him. "Hi," she said shyly. "I, um, brought you copies of my school notes like I promised." She held out a whole stack of notes towards him while she looked at him with a shy smile.
Adrian blinked at her and looked down at the notes offered to him. He was surprised by the many papers, because it was only the notes for a little over two weeks and yet there were so many of them. He always knew that Mason was good at writing notes, but he didn't think she'd write this much.
"Thanks," he said, and took the notes. He almost dropped them because the cast on his right hand made it hard for him to get a proper hold of the notes, but he quickly balanced them half on top of his cast and kept them there with his left hand. His face was red from embarrassment over almost having dropped them in front of Mason.
Mason giggled in amusement. "You're welcome. I hope you get your cast off soon and can join us for taekwondo practice again."
"I'm getting it off in a few weeks so I'll come back then." Adrian gave her a small smile which she returned. "How did you get here? I don't spot your parents' car outside…" He peered around the neighborhood but didn't see any cars he didn't know.
"Oh, I live only ten minutes' walk from here, so I walked."
Adrian blinked at her. "Oh. I didn't know you lived this close…"
Mason smiled at him again, but they were soon interrupted when Isaac's head suddenly popped up behind Adrian's right wing.
"Who's that?" Isaac asked and frowned at the girl.
"Isaac!" Adrian hissed and pushed him back with his foot since his hands were occupied. "Go annoy Lily instead," he snapped.
"Why? Is she your girlfriend?" Isaac asked with a teasing grin.
"No! And scram already," Adrian hissed, blushing like mad. He glared at his little brother when Isaac laughed and finally walked back to the living room.
Mason peered inside curiously. "How many siblings do you have?"
"Um, four."
She gaped at him in surprise. "Four?! I only have one. Wow, that's a big family you have."
Adrian shrugged. "Yeah, it gets kinda loud here sometimes, so…" He cringed when Isaac and Lily screamed inside the living room, but was surprised when Mason just laughed at it.
"I can hear that," she chuckled. "Well, I gotta go now, so I'll you see again when you return for practice…?"
"Yeah, see you then," Adrian smiled.
She waved goodbye at him before going back home, and Adrian used his wing to push the door shut again. He sighed heavily before going upstairs to drop off the notes in his room.
When he came back downstairs he was met by his family's curious stares.
"Who was that?" Castiel asked curiously.
"Um, a classmate. She came by with her notes from class."
"Ahh, the girl you protected in your taekwondo class back then," Dean smirked. Adrian had told him about Mason wanting to give him her notes when school was over.
"Yeah, so what…" Adrian blushed and averted his eyes.
Eden laughed. "Adrian is blushing!"
"Shut up! I'm not blushing!" Adrian denied which only made Eden laugh once more. He glared at her before saying, "I'll go outside and play ball or something…" He quickly disappeared from the room and Molly quickly followed after him, hoping he would play with her outside.
Dean just chuckled and turned to look at Castiel. They two shared a smile before finishing up their cleaning of the kitchen.
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Later that evening Castiel put Noah to bed at 7:30pm when the boy got sleepy. Lily and Isaac went at 8:45 when Dean ordered them to bed because he wanted them to keep a regular sleeping pattern, and Adrian took a quick bath before bed.
Dean, Castiel, and Eden were watching TV in the living room, and Molly was lying on the floor under the couch table and was asleep. 'Ghostfacers' was on TV again, and Eden really liked to watch the show. It was a team of ghost hunters going to known haunted locations to see if they could film anything paranormal in the area, but so far they had never actually caught anything on tape that could be proved to be real. Eden liked the show because the guys always screamed like girls when they heard a noise in the haunted houses, and she thought they were entertaining to watch. Castiel quite enjoyed it as well but he still thought it was too scary to let Noah watch.
"Can't believe I made you eat popcorn, papa," Eden grinned next to Castiel. Castiel was seated between her and Dean, and they were all sharing a bowl of popcorn together while watching TV. Adrian had been there with them earlier before he went to take a bath.
Castiel glanced down at his little collection of popcorn that he had gathered in his shirt so he didn't have to lean forward all the time to get them from the bowl. "What do you mean?" he asked and furrowed his brows.
"I mean that I rarely see you eat any kind of candy or sweets," Eden smiled. She crossed her legs and sat Indian style on the couch and leaned forward to grab the popcorn bowl from the table. It was difficult to get comfortable with your wings on a couch but it was manageable.
"Oh. Well, I don't like to eat such things very often…"
Dean smirked. "Why not? Afraid you'll get fat?" He poked his elbow into the angel's side (and the feathers which covered the side of his body) to tease him.
Castiel turned his head to glare at Dean. "No, I don't gain weight that easily. Gabriel has always tried to force me to eat candy and junk to fatten me up but it never showed on me. But it doesn't show on him either…"
Dean laughed softly and placed his arm on the back of the couch behind Castiel's shoulders. "Yeah? Would be a shame to ruin those lovely, pointy hip-bones of yours anyway." He hummed and leaned in to nuzzle Castiel's cheek with his nose, breathing in his scent.
"Dean!" Castiel scolded and squirmed away shyly.
Eden scrunched up her nose. "Ew, do you mind? I'm trying to watch a show here." Dean barked out a laugh in response and Castiel shoved him in annoyance.
Suddenly Adrian came storming down the stairs after having taken a bath upstairs, and rushed into the living room urgently. "Dad!"
They all turned their heads to look at Adrian who had a scared and terrified look on his face. Molly woke up, startled, and looked over at him as well from under the couch table.
"What's wrong?" Dean asked and immediately got up from the couch to walk over to him. Castiel and Eden stared over at him in worry, getting ready to get up from the couch as well if needed.
"Dad, something is wrong with me – when I got out of the bath I noticed that the bathtub was covered in feathers! Like fifty to seventy of them! And they keep falling out," Adrian said, looking rather upset and scared about the whole thing. He shook his still wet wings to state his point, and the others watched as three more feathers fell out and descended to the floor.
Dean blinked at him a few times before laughing. Adrian frowned at him in confusion.
"Nothing's wrong with you, your feathers are just starting to molt. It's pretty normal for alphas your age that the wings go through a little puberty of their own and start molting so that new and sharper feathers can begin to grow instead. That's how it is with demons so I'm not surprised that you're experiencing it as well. Your feathers falling out simply means you're going to have sharper feathers now," Dean explained. He grinned at Adrian and patted his shoulder when the boy blinked and seemed to slowly begin to understand what was going on now.
"Oh," Adrian spoke. "You never told me that."
"I told you once that your feathers will fall out when they start becoming sharp. Guess I just didn't tell you that a lot of them fall out at the same time…"
"Yeah, you missed that part," Adrian muttered and gave his father an annoyed glare.
Castiel sighed and leaned back against the couch, relieved that nothing serious had happened. Molly seemed to understand that nothing serious was going on as well, so she lay her head back down on her paws and closed her eyes again.
Eden grinned over at her brother and said, "Aww, little Adrian is growing up." She grinned teasingly at him and laughed when Adrian gave her a dark glare.
"Speak for yourself, stupid," he grumbled.
Dean chuckled at them and said, "Hey, play nice, kids."
"What am I going to do with all those feathers? The bathroom is covered in them, and I've only got one hand that's working…" Adrian glared down at his right arm which was still in the cast. It was annoying how useless it was at the moment.
"I'll help you clean them up. Let's go," Dean smiled and began heading up the stairs. Adrian followed.
"Can you please check that Noah is asleep?" Castiel shouted after him. He was worried that Noah may have woken up when Adrian ran down the stairs as loudly as he did.
"Sure," Dean replied from the stairs.
Castiel sighed and turned to look at Eden who was watching him with a smile.
"What is it with you and dad? You're so bad to warn us about scary things that happen when we hit puberty," she said. Castiel knew she was hinting to the fact that they hadn't managed to warn her in time about her getting periods.
"I know, I'm sorry. I should have had that talk with you earlier but in this busy house I never found the time for it, and when I did have time I had forgotten about it again. I'm sorry," Castiel said sincerely and gave her an apologetic smile.
"That's okay, I've gotten over it. But maybe it's best if I'm the one to warn Lily about it… Don't want her to get freaked out like I did."
Castiel chuckled. "Yes, that would be a help. Let me know when you do."
"Sure," Eden smiled. They leaned back against the couch once more to watch the show to the end while Dean helped Adrian out with his little feather problem upstairs.
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Author's notes: Sorry for the kinda late update, both my beta and I were a bit busy. I decided to write a chapter focusing more on Adrian since I feel that I've been neglecting him a bit. The chapter is a bit shorter than the past few chapters because it was originally so big that I had to divide it into two and add new scenes to the divided chapters. Chapter 40 will be up some time next week.
And the story has got over 600 reviews now! Wow, thank you so much, guys ^_^ I know the story is past its climax but I'll still be writing more about the kids' lives for those who are interested, and there will be more smut scenes.
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