Yuna Inspired: Our Virtual Family

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Hana closed the bathroom door behind her after washing up for bed. She and the family had gotten home from the park after the long and fatiguing party, so everyone was exhausted. Before she had washed up, she had put Gordon and Avi to sleep in their rooms while Omar, Lucas, and their father were downstairs to play video games.

However, to her surprise, her husband greeted her at the bathroom door with a hug and a smooch on her forehead.

"You look so tired," he said, not even sounding worried at all but more like teasing her.

She glared at him. "Because someone became a kid and didn't help with anything."

He chuckled as he dragged her to the bedside and had her sit on his lap. "You can't blame me—you did it to yourself."

"What did I do?" She side-eyed him, not impressed with his blaming.

He leaned in closer to her face, and almost at the sound of a whisper, he said, "You gave me four brats to play with." He pretentiously gasped and put a hand over her stomach. "I'm sorry. I mean to say five."

She recalled what Hailey had said earlier about her popping out kids, so she told him.

"Of course, I'll have a big family!" he exclaimed, pouting. "But you know, I'm tired of having boys. I. Want. A. Girl."

She laughed out loud. Because she had yet to have a girl, her husband doted on Holly like she was his. He had jokingly tried to teach her to call him "papa" when she was learning how to speak. Because of this, Hailey and Seth feared to leave her alone with him.

"I want my very own princess to spoil too. It's not fair I don't have a princess, and I don't want to keep feeling jealous every time Holly cutely calls out for her Dad and not me." He pouted even more.

"I can't be your only princess?" she asked him with her puppy eyes, showing minimal disappointment.

"But you have a harem, and I don't."

She giggled to herself at his cute commentary. "Why would you want that?"

"More than a harem, I want...the universe."

She raised a brow. "Universe?" Her husband had always had a mind of his own.

"I already have the seasons, so next are the stars in our sky." He tightened the grasp around her waist and rested his chin on her shoulder and wore a solemn expression. "When I had Lucas, I thought I couldn't get any greedier with what I want to give you. On our wedding day, when I saw you in front of me, holding my hand and making your vow for our eternity together, I promised to give you all the stars, the moon, and the universe to represent how much I love you...because I've always revolved around you."

She shyly smiled and turned pink.

"I also want to give Lucas the big family Marianne desired to give him."

She sent him a light smile.

He pulled back and brought a hand to caress a side of her cheek. "I don't want him to experience what it could be like to be an only child. I want him to know and have the warmth he innocently gave me. And I especially want you to partake in his sunny rays of sunshine. Without you, I'll have no home to take shelter under, no arms to rest in, and no love to give to. I can't imagine marrying anyone other than you."

As she attentively listened to his honest and romantic confession, tears of love filled her eyes. "Me too," she uttered. She momentarily lifted herself to kiss him on the lips. She locked eyes with him, and they sparkled at him. "And I can't imagine loving anyone other than you."