The Best Present (An ACOTAR fanfiction)

Chapter 24

One month until wedding...
Catalina and Diana had taken at least ten lessons by now, and they had gotten quite good. They made a remarkable duo. They had also grown close to Mor and Karshia. It was nice to see them all train together. Jeremiah and Ayden had gotten very close to Diana and Catalina. They had come back from their double date, all four of them grinning and bounding upstairs so I assumed it went well. I certainly noticed some sort of advancement in their relationships. I spent today at the townhouse to watch today's training. Tria and Cay had also come along. They were very young, but I assumed Fae babies developed faster than humans. Tria could crawl all by herself, and Cay could easily change his appearance. Cayden liked Amren a lot. They were really cute together and Amren was always mellow around him. Astria loved everyone. Cayden did too, but when Amren was around he would love to be with her. We had also found out that Court of Nightmares had elected their final leader. Frannisha Hanioa, the girl who reminded me of me. She was very nice, and I had a feeling the Court liked her as well. I had just put the kids down to sleep and went downstairs to the townhouse training room. Catalina and Diana were there, along with Jeremiah and Ayden. They were both sitting outside the ring, watching their girls. I crossed the room over to them, sitting down next to them.

"They are awesome. They fight really well," Jeremiah said to me, not taking his eyes off the girls. I hummed and nodded in agreement. Today, Cassian was in the Illyrian war camps, so Mor was teaching them, and Karshia was learning new moves and occasionally sparring against one of the others to practice. Catalina and Diana were both proficient with swords, and had moved on to daggers. Catalina could wield her daggers well. Diana had some trouble, but if she had to, she could fight with them.

"You guys are both ready to move on, I think," Mor said. "Catalina, clearly daggers are your weapon. And Diana, you mastered a sword easily, and you are quite good with it. I'm proud of you both. Next lesson we will move on to hunting knives, which you pretty much use like daggers, but I will teach you how to throw them accurately. We will also teach you how to use a bow and arrow, but I might have Feyre do that since she can use them much better than any of us." I blushed a little.

"Thanks, Mor," I said. "I'd be happy to do it." Catalina and Diana smiled at me. They made to leave the room, but Karshia stopped them.

"Hang on girls. There was something we wanted to ask you," Karshia said.

"Yeah?" They asked in unison.

"We were wondering if you wanted to be flower girls at our wedding. Astria is going to be one too, and we thought you guys would like to be one with her," Mor said.

"We would love too! Thanks, Aunt Mor! Thanks, Aunt Karshia!" Catalina exclaimed.

"Aww we would love to! Astria's so cute! Who could say no to that?" Diana said. We all laughed. Mor and Karshia hugged both girls.

"We're glad, guys," Karshia said. Then I stood up.

"Mor, you wanna take the guys and I'll take the girls?" I asked. She nodded and I winnowed Catalina and Diana to the KK House, Mor winnowing the boys. A lot of the kids had been adopted, as we had done three more parent interview sessions. We had also picked up a few more new kids, from the Court of Nightmares. Most of the kids who had come from the Court of Nightmares had been adopted there, but the remaining ones we brought back here. There were only four new kids, two girls and two boys. We had ultimately decided that school would start after Mor and Karshia's wedding. That was when most schools started anyway. All there was to do was to wait until then. I went back to the townhouse.

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