Second comes marriage then a baby in a baby carriage

Kai

He was asleep or, so he thought. Something seemed to have awoken him without really waking him up. He fought the urge to open his eyes but the need to see what was different was to strong. Kai opened his eyes and looked up at the dark blurry celling of his bedroom. He felt to his left and met Cinder's back, her breathing still relaxed it wasn't her that had woken him up. He turned to his side, and there in a dark outline was a short figure.

He sat up letting his eyes a just, then recognition. "Yue? Is something wrong?" He asked the now four-year-old who stood by his bed.

"We're going ice skating today!" She said excitedly. Cinder stirred next to him and he look at the time, 5:47.

"Not until its day time." He leaned down to pick her up, she was already dressed in a floral pink dress, not button up and shoes on the wrong feet.

"But it's my birthday." She pouted.

"But it's still night time, no place is open." He explained.

"I want to go now."

"Yue its to early. None of your friends aren't going to be there." Cinder spoke. "If you go back to sleep now then it will get closer to the time of your party, okay." Her shoulders slumped but she crawled into her mother's chest. Kai removed her shoes and the three of them snuggled together under the blanket. "Happy Birthday Yue." Cinder whispered into her hair. Kai looked at his wife and daughter, people often commented on how much she looked like him, but he only ever saw Cinder in her. Her warm tan skin, her button nose, smooth brown eyes. Yue was turning four today, it was one of those things that when he thought about it, it seemed impossible to be true. But here she was all dress up and ready to go ice skating. He put his arm around the both of them and they fell back asleep.

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Kai was the first to wake up at a more reasonable time. Yue's excitement that had gotten up so early seemed to fizzle out as she snored away while he got up. It was strange for him to not have to rush and get ready because he had some meeting or conference to attended. They had Yue's party later in the afternoon and the Imperial photo they would have to take today but that was it. They had most of the morning to themselves.

He was going to make breakfast. Contrary to popular belief the Imperial family did not have servants waiting on them twenty-four hours. Breakfast was normally a do it yourself type of job. But because they were often rushing it was normally something quick and easy, left overs from dinner, a sticky bun and milk but he had memories of when his dad and even older ones of his mom making a special breakfast for him on his birthday. Yue was starting to hit that age where she would remember these things too.

Heading to the kitchen he found the things he needed. He was going to make one of Yue's and his favorite meals, Dou Fu Nao. He began preparing the broth and grilling the tofu when two arms wrapped around his torso.

"Good morning." He said running is free hand over Cinders.

"Going all out for breakfast I see." She rested her head on his back.

"Its rare for us to have mornings like this. Is Yue still asleep?"

"Yea, she'll probably sleep till noon with how early she got up."

"She's excited this is her first party with friends."

"I know can you believe she's four already. It's like we just brought her home, next year she'll be starting school. Before we know she'll be a teenager."

Kai scuffed turning off the second burner and turned to Cinder. They had been married for thirteen years but seeing her right after she had just woken up, her hair a mess and still in her night clothes felt like a privilege, one that for awhile he thought he'd never get. "A little dramatic, aren't we?"