Chapter 8

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When the boys were in the car and the car slowly moved away, she looked after them for a moment, but she was already beginning to miss them. She pulled herself together and made her way to the bus stop.

She rang Dashi and Kei's doorbell and took the lift upstairs. As soon as the door opened, a laughing Haru ran towards her! She took him in her arms and ran towards the door that Haru had left open. 

A nervous Tadashi came up to her, "Tell me, does this look good?" he turned once in his suit, he looked really good. The suit made his thin figure look very muscular, he had always been very petite so she was surprised that he suddenly had so many muscles. Brought out his broad shoulders, he looked really good, he must have put a lot of effort into it.


"You wanted to tell me something?" Ronny nodded slowly and sat down next to him on the couch.


"Well, you know what happened to Gale and that there were 8 men who killed him, and I wanted to kill those men?!"


"Wanted? You're not going to tell me that your soulmates are his killers?" he looked at her in horror. She nodded timidly.


"And what do you do now? I take it you don't want to kill the boys or let them get away with it, do you?"


"You know me too well, Dashi, but yes. I don't know what to do, I can't hurt them, already after 2 days I'm so fond of them that I don't want to see them suffer and I don't want to drag them into my old life!"


"But look, if the boys could kill your brother, then the boys won't be so innocent. They're going to do what we used to do. Maybe they stopped, too, like we did when we got here."


"Thank you, dashi! I'll buy you fries for that!" he grinned and thought he would remind her of it

"You look very good, do you work out?" "Uh yeah, why, can you tell?"

"Yes, you are thinner but also more muscular."


"I thought I'd do a bit of workout, what Tsukki can do I can do too! Since Haru came, I just haven't had as much time, but now that he's in kindergarten, I'm even looking for a job again" he gave her a big smile. 


"Good luck with your job search!

Haru suddenly started crying and Tadashi immediately ran to him and when a panicked Kei joined him or more ran through the door and hit his head on the door, first insulted the door and then went a little slower and rubbing his head to Haru.


"I think he was just jealous of me for talking to Dashi for so long." and Ronny was right, as soon as he was in Tadashi's arms he was quiet again. And the whole room with him.


The next sound came from Ronny, who had a terrible laughing fit, she laughed so loudly that the three boys in the room winced. 


"Kei, that door!" she had to pull herself together before she could speak again. "How you banged into it!" she fell to the floor, no longer sounding like a human but more like a pig, grunting all the time because of the lack of air. 

Tadashi joined in her laughter, "It's true Tsukki, it's always funny!"

Haru, not really knowing what was happening, looked questioningly at his fathers and then decided to do the same thing as Tadashi, he started laughing too. Kei looked at the three nicest people he knew as if they were aliens. 


Ronny and Tadashi were always nice and cared about others even if they were very shy. So it's fair to say he was quite shocked to see them laughing, especially at him. He was sure, or he wanted to be sure, that Haru was not laughing on purpose, but only because his father and his aunt. (A/N: I know that she is his cousin once removed but this doesn't sound as good as aunt)

"We have to go, sweetie!"

"Coming Tsukki! So, he has to go to bed at 7pm and his dinner is in the fridge, so that you just have to-"

"She knows what to do and you wrote a note for her, it's on the fridge!" Kei slowly pushed Tadashi out of the flat. 

At the last second, Tadashi turned from Kei's grasp and ran back to Haru, only to hug him and then press a kiss on the head, after he had done that, he could calmly go to Kei's and together they left the flat.

"Then we'll be alone, won't we?" Ronny looked at the little boy, who looked at the door as if hypnotized.

 "Daddy? Dad? Why did they leave?!"


"The two will spend a beautiful evening together" Ronny explained with a bad conscience, she felt bad because the young boy missed a father.


"Come on, let's get something to eat!"

"Yes! Haru is hungry!" the little boy walked behind her into the kitchen. She warmed up his soup, but the little boy didn't want soup, so he just shook his head and then said 

"NO!" 

"Come on Haru, it's delicious. Your dad did it specially, just for you!"

"But I don't want to!"

"Why not?"

"Because I don't want to!" she sighed,

"Ok, I have a compromise, I'll eat the soup and do something else for you, in return you go straight to sleep afterwards, yes?"The little boy nodded.

"Can I have Ramyeon?" she nodded and looked in the cupboards for the ready-made dish. While the Ramyeon was getting ready, she ate the soup and Haru waited patiently for his food.

Everything went well, he ate his ramyeon and then the two of them went to brush their teeth together. The only thing that didn't go so easily was falling asleep. When Ronny had tucked him in and slowly went to the door, he called out to her again.

"You have to tell me a story!"She walked slowly back to the bed, the burning in her arm much stronger than the night before."All right, I'll tell you a story!" She sat down next to him on the bed and wrapped her arms around him.

"Well, once upon a time there was a little boy, He was like any other boy, but there was something he could do that others could not. He could see the dwarves painting the sky every night. The pink-red that we see every night, that's what the dwarfs did, they paint the sky."


"But doesn't the paint run out at some point?"

"No, never, the dwarves have a bucket where there's always paint in it."

"Imagine if there was something like that with food!"

"That would be great, then all the poor people would have something to eat." the little boy suddenly yawned, not as awake as he had meant before. She knew she didn't have to finish the story now, so she stroked his hair and slowly but surely the boy fell asleep.

Ronny slowly walked out of the room, careful not to wake Haru. 


It was only when she was sitting downstairs on the couch that she felt the burning more strongly than before...


A/N: So, the next chapter! I hope you enjoyed and leave a comment! Sorry for updating so late...

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