A/N: Hi. Um... Thanks for the favs and follows! I don't really have much to say, so on with the story!

It was exactly one day after they were married. They didn't hold a big fancy wedding. They didn't invite all of their friends and family. No, all they did was sign the legal documents. There was no ceremony at all. They didn't need one.

It was one day after the marriage, but the third day since Summer moved in. As you'd expect, there were several... awkward incidents. You'd think it would be normal to expect such incidents when you live with another person, but they never expected such things. You could say they were naive, but they simply didn't expect it to be this hard since they had lived together before in Beacon.

Well, anyways, it was one day since the marriage. Summer seemed to be settling into the role of a mother for Yang pretty well. Yang loved Summer too. She'd always smile whenever she saw Summer. And Summer seemed to genuinely love Yang as if she were her own.

Tai smiled as he watched Summer hold Yang high above her head, the both of them laughing loudly.

After spinning around a bit, Summer brought Yang down, holding her against her body. She looked at Tai, and as soon as their eyes met, she gave him a bright smile. However, instead of smiling back at her, he frowned. When she saw that, she dropped her own smile, replacing it with a puzzled expression.

"You alright Tai?" she asked, slight concern present in her voice.

Tai snapped out of whatever trance he was in, shaking his head before replying.

"Yeah, sorry. I'm fine." He smiled at her.

She eyed him suspiciously for a few seconds before smiling back at him.

"Okay," she replied, not entirely convinced he was telling the truth. She turned back to Yang and... "Well little Yang, do you want to help mommy find the cookies daddy hid?" Yang looked at Summer with a huge smile, and gurgled in response. "I'll take that as a yes."

"Good luck trying," Tai scoffed with an arrogant look.

"You couldn't hide them from me when we were at Beacon, and you won't be able to hide them from me now."

"Ha! I've learned a lot since then, Shorty!" He folded his arms and stared at her challengingly.

"Shorty!?" Summer was taken aback by the long forgotten nickname. "You do remember what happened all those times you called me that, right?"

"I'm not worried." Tai put on a proud look. "You can't do anything since you're carrying two children." She puffed her cheeks at that.

"Come on Yang, let's go find those cookies." With a, 'Hmph!', she turned away from Tai. She went off, with Yang in tow, to find the hidden treasures.

He watched her fleeing form, the smile that hung on his lips now replaced by a frown. He let out a long sigh and shook his head, going back to what he was doing.

There was a crunch as Summer bit down on the cookie. Her and Tai were sitting on the couch, him eating a cookie with a look of defeat on his face, and her eating several cookies with a look of triumph on her face. Needless to say, Summer found the cookies and was now indulging herself in the spoils of war.

"Don't feel bad Tai, I'm just really good at finding sweets."

"Please, we both know Yang was the one to lead you to them."

"I'll admit that she did help, but most of the work was done by me."

They looked at each other with a smile. However, as soon as their eyes met, Tai once again frowned. Summer took notice of it.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

He turned his head away from her and softly replied...

"Nothing."

"Hmm." Summer turned her gaze away as well, humming in suspicion.

All of the sudden, a thud brought their attention to baby Yang. It was pretty late, and they knew she was tired. As a result, she fell flat on the floor, completely asleep.

The both of them chuckled at it.

"I'll go put her to bed." Summer said, getting up and walking to Yang.

She picked Yang up and started on her way out of the room.

"Thanks," Tai said as she left. She gave a small nod and a quiet hum as a reply.

Tai was frowning as he watched her leave.

When she returned, she plopped down on the couch right next to Tai, sitting next to him as she had been earlier. She let out a long, quiet sigh.

"These past few days have been really fun," she said with a grin.

"Yeah." Tai leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees and clasping his hands together. He kept his face straight down, concealing his expressions from her.

"I'm glad we did this." She leaned back, fixing her eyes on the ceiling.

"Yeah."

"This has been really fun."

"Yeah."

"I'm really happy." She expected him to agree, but instead...

"Don't," he said softly.

"Huh?" She looked at him with a puzzled expression.

"Don't," he repeated.

"Don't what?"

"I can see it." He lifted his head, fixing his gaze into her eyes. "Every time I meet your eyes, I see the tears you're hiding in them. Every time I see you're smile, I can see it's just a mask. That behind that smiling mask, you're really screaming in pain."

She forced another smile, "I don't know what you're talking about, Tai."

"Stop it. I can see it... because I've lived it." At his words, the mask she wore slowly started to fall off.

"Tai..." Yet, despite his words peeling off her mask, she desperately clung onto it. She kept her forced smile on her face, but the tears in her eyes were impossible to hide now.

"Don't hold it back in front of me." The tears in his eyes as he spoke... at that... her mask shattered.

"Tai..." Her face slowly twisted and contorted, expressing the pain she felt inside. "Tai..." The tears she held in her eyes finally started to flow out. "Tai... it hurts so much..."

He pulled her close to him, wrapping his arms around her small body.

"I know it does," he said softly. "You don't ever need to hold it back in front of me." She released sobs into his chest after he said that.

That night, Tai held her as she cried.

That night, Summer fell asleep in his arms.

That night, Tai held her till morning.

A/N: I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! I feel like I'm being really cheesy with this story, but I hope you guys are enjoying it nonetheless. (Interesting fact, 'Nonetheless', is actually three words, 'None the less', combined into one. The earliest known use of the word is 1533 (Sub fact, 'Nevertheless', is said to be more popular))

Anyways, next chapter in five months. Be patient until then, my readers!