CHERISH

👀Chapter 2👀

I didn't sleep until dawn approached, despite the dizziness I felt when I sat up, I decided to get up early and prepare for the day. I showered, put on some comfy clothes, and went downstairs to maybe cook something for the boys.

I put my hair in a bun so that it wouldn't get in my way, with tendrils falling from the sides of my face since the wolf cut I did to myself already grew out, making it a hot mess.

I think the boys won't fit in my dining room with how big and burly they are, so I decided to set up two long tables and various chairs outside.

To my surprise, the twins were already awake and carrying wood, for what, I don't know. They dropped all the wood beside the house and helped me with assembling the table and the chairs.

"Tell me something." Ever since we got out of that church, the three of us were never left alone. So, I didn't get to talk to them about what I felt for them and the boys.

"Shoot."

I faced them after I finished putting up the last chair with my hands on my hips.

"This isn't a coincidence, am I right?" I asked pointedly. "The five houses. How easily you all bonded with one another as if you were brothers. Why? What is happening? Tell me."

The more questions I ask, the more I get mad.

"It was my fault," Onyx said. "When you first came to us and lived in our house, you took a bath. I decided to snoop around your things and found your map, a map that has the subdivision called Livingstone. Under it were five names, written haphazardly as if the writer would forget them if she didn't."

I remember now. Maybe I unknowingly wrote their names when I was in one of my manic episodes. I kept quiet, wanting him to explain further, and he did.

"That's when we knew," Quartz intervened, "We either let you go or agree to share you with them. There is no in-between."

He intertwined our hands together, a silent promise of love and fulfilment hidden beneath those blue orbs of his as he gazed lovingly at me.

"Because the first time we saw you at that gas station, we knew you were the missing piece that's going to make us complete."

"The fact that you willingly killed for us, not even a few days after we met, that was the ultimate sacrifice."

"The ultimate offering, the ultimate show of love, the ultimate vow. You did all that and more when you welcomed us in your heart." Quartz said.

"Though you never told us specifically that you love us, we feel it through your actions," Onyx kissed the back of my neck, "And that's enough."

I hummed in satisfaction.

"So, what now? You guys are willing to share me among them, it's that easy?"

They both shrugged.

"I don't see how it would be difficult. They're head over heels for you." Onyx said, holding my waist.

"Plus, added protection. There will be times in the future when both of us aren't present to protect you."

"I think you guys are forgetting that I can handle myself because I'm a boss-bitch."

The twins laughed.

"Yes, yes, we loved you before you were a boss-bitch, but we loved you more when you showed us how you became a boss-bitch. Now come on," a slap on my ass caused me to jump and make a startled sound come out of my mouth, to the smirk of the two, "You're going to cook us breakfast, right?"

"If I hear a joke about women belonging to the kitchen, I swear to God, I will disown you both-"

"We won't, we won't. Go cook breakfast while we freshen up and wake everyone."