Mark’s P.o.v.
After Thomas left me home and went with Oliver back to the pack, I walked with the kids in the house and I want to do the dinner. At first, I wanted to make a turkey barbeque with a salad of crudities, but the little ones wanted me to do something new. I look at them shocked, didn’t know what they mean by that. “Something new? What would you like me to do to you and I have not done before now?” I start to think. I kind of did many things for them so they would at least taste the food before they say that they don’t like it. “Big Brother? Do you remember any recipe our parents cooked when you were little?” LingMyn asked me with puppy eyes. I, on the other hand, froze in place for some seconds. “S-Sure. It’s simple. Our parents always made it to me and your older brothers when they wanted to put a smile on our faces.” They thanked me and run into the living room leaving me alone in the kitchen. I sigh and I start cooking the dinner. I didn’t thought until now that they would ever ask something like this. I admit, I told them our family and pack are no longer with us because of an accident, but nothing more... Nothing about them, nothing about our family and especially nothing about their death.
I don’t want them to suffer the pain I am in. They are still small. I have no reason to complicate their childhood with the painful truth about the real events that happened ten years ago. I will tell them the truth when they grow older and can deal with these feelings much better. I don’t even know how they will react even when they will be young adults. If I told them that all our loved ones were killed... No, that everyone was murdered in the day they were born, they would be destroyed and I think they would blame themselves...
After half an hour, I finish cooking and put the memories of the past aside so I won’t start crying in front of the little ones. I put the plates on the table and go into the living room, finding the little ones playing Mortal Kombat X on PS4. They are so focused on the game that they haven’t seen me entering the room. “Aham.” The little ones get scared and guilty start to be seen on their faces when they saw me. “What did I say about these games? And especially at those late hours.” “Don’t play without your permission?” They answered with a sad tone. “No.” I told them, leaving them in a big confusion for some seconds before I smiled like at them. “Firstly, I told you not to play those games at such late hours without me in the room because I need to watch you when you play them so I could know when to stop you.I don’t think you want to end up having nightmares in the middle of the night.” They look at each other and nodded. “Secondly… I want to play it too!” I start to act like a child winning some laughs from them.
After they stop laughing, they apologize for without me being next to them. Then they start fighting because the boys always let MingLyn win and she told them that is not fun to always win. She is right after all. Is not funny to always win. I smile at that scene, but I took them up in my arms and went with them in the kitchen. It’s late and they had to eat. Tomorrow is the big day for the future alpha and the little monsters have to rest if they want to stay awake all night.
After they ate the baby octopus with hot pepper powder over them and marinated noodles light fried, we all stayed a little in the living room watching a movie called “Mamma-Mia”. The film lasted about an hour and a half, but the children fell asleep halfway through the film. So I took them up to their beds, then I went back to look at the movie. Unfortunately for me, the memories from the earlier events came back in my mind. For the first time, Thomas stayed with me without looking at me like I was the last worm on earth. But it was more strangely that he was worried about me and took care of me so I won’t get hurt. After a short time in my thoughts and without paying attention to the movie I was watching, I fell asleep on the couch.
Author’s P.o.v.
The night passes quickly and the special day for the future alpha came. He got up early in the morning with a smile on his lips and a happiness he never had before. The thought that he will find his half today makes him very happy. It doesn’t matter to him with who the Moon Goddess will mate him with. He will love her or him immensely. He gets out of bed, goes to the bathroom and gets his daily routine done, then returns to the bedroom with just a towel around his waist and starts scrambling in the closet after training clothes. After finding them, he dressed up with a pair of sweatpants, a pair of sneakers then puts on a hooded sweatshirt and walk downstairs. He sees no one is awake so he decides to look at his watch and sees it’s almost 5 in the morning. Seeing it’s so early and patrolling and training starts at 7 o’clock,he decides to go out and do some jogging like morning warming up.
After 20 minutes of jogging, he reached where his pack’s territory ends and the city starts, so he thinks that he could go and run in the direction of Mark’s house. Suddenly, an unexpected desire grows inside Thomas to go faster to that zone and see what Mark does. Without realizing it, he is already at the door with his finger on the doorbell. Realizing what he did, he let go and is prepared to run, but the door opens, leaving a sleepy Mark with circles under his eyes and messy hair, still in a full hooded pajama with panda model. Thomas blushed a little by seeing Mark in that pajamas, in his thoughts saying how adorably he looks so sleepy in his panda pajamas, but he comes back to reality when he heard the slightly sleeping voice of the boy in front of him.
“A-Alpha Thomas…? W-What are you doing here so early in the morning” Mark asked the alpha. Thomas didn’t know what to answer. He didn’t know why he wanted to come to him so badly. “W-Well... I woke up sooner than I expected and decided to do some jogging and I got here without realizing it. Sorry that I woke you up. I didn’t intend to bother you.” He finally answered putting a hand on the back of his neck trying not to show how embarrassed he felt in that moment. “Do not worry, I wasn’t sleeping...” “What?”
In that moment, Mark realized what he said and woke up like someone poured cold water on him. “N-Nothing! Um... do you want to come in and have some coffee or tea? Usually is very cold outside at this time.” “Only if I’m not bothering you.” Thomas said, wanting at the same time to run and hide in a hole at how embarrassed he is. “N-Not at all! Please come in.” Thomas gets into the house. He never thought he’d want to stay with Mark and talk with him. Probably it’s just the happiness inside him or what makes him want to be good with everyone today, including Mark. On the other hand, Mark feel like he has a time bomb inside him. He can’t believe that Thomas was at his door and now in his house, wanting to spend some time with him.
He leads Thomas in the kitchen and boils some water for tea, then he put some water in the coffee filter. For a few seconds, there is a silent moment. Not knowing what to say, Mark tried to open his mouth to ask something, but the ice is broken by Thomas with his powerful and intimidating yet gentle and seductive voice. “Mark? Can I ask why you don’t sleep at this hour? It’s still very early in the morning.” At that question Mark didn’t know how to answer, but the only thing that came in his mind was to lie that he was sleeping. “I-I always woke up earlier…” “Really?” “Mhm...” Thomas was left with his mouth open and with so many questions in his head. “But why do you wake up so early? Still, it’s weekend.”
Mark look confused at his alpha but then start laughing a little. “Because usually I’m doing chores around the house and cook for the kids. But today I just did it, even if I have nothing to do today.” Then he remembered that he is still in his pajamas and tried to cover himself with a crocheted poncho. “Ah! And sorry that you are seeing me in my pajamas.” Thomas smiled and chuckled a little “Don’t excuse yourself.” Then he whispered “You look adorable...” but Mark heard it. “What?” “What? Ah! Nothing nothing!” Mark blush a little at Thomas’s words, but the tea and coffee were ready and woke him to reality. Thomas asks for cranberries and cinnamon tea and Mark makes his daily black coffee.
After the boys drank their drinks, Thomas thanked Mark for his hospitality and left after reminding Mark of what they would do that night and not leaving before giving him a kiss on his forehead. Mark stays a little surprised at that gesture, but goes back in the house to make breakfast for the children after the alpha left. Thomas continues his jogging back to the pack being a little red, but he already smelled the breakfast made by his mother and the rest of the omegas from his pack.
After Mark finished making breakfast for the kids, he turned around to go upstairs to wake up the little bugs, but he has a pleasant surprise when he saw them behind him. The children have woken up by themselves. Seeing their sleepy faces and each of them with a pillow or a blanket after them makes Mark laugh at how adorable the triplets looked. He takes Shu’s and LingMyn’s pillow from them and Jun’s blanket and puts them on a armchair in the living room. Then he helps them get on their seats and give them the food he made for them. They thanked their big brother and start to eat. Mark tells them that once they finish to eat they can leave the dishes on the table and go watch cartoons on TV. The little ones finished their food and went in the living room.Mark washed the plates then went in his office to work on the clothes the triplets will wear tonight at the alpha’s party.
In the meantime, the children decided to pack the gifts they chose for Thomas, so they started looking through the house after scissors, ribbons, scotch and wrapping paper. In their search Shu came across an old picture in a drawer. In that picture is a whitish haired little boy with very light blue eyes wearing a white shirt with blue checkers. After showing to his brothers what he discovered they decided to go to their brother to ask him who is the boy in the picture. They opened the door to their brother’s office and went next to his chair. “Big brother? Can we ask you something?” Jun was the brave one to break the silence. Mark turned his head and took off his glasses. “Of course, kids. What do you want to ask?” “Who is that boy in the picture?” Shu shows the photo to his big brother making Mark to get pale. “W-Where did you find the picture...?”
Jun told him that Shu find it in a drawer when they were looking for materials to pack the gifts for the alpha. Then Shu showed to Mark another photo with the same boy but wearing something that looked exotic but LingMyn was the one to put the question. “And what is he wearing in this photo? It looks so elegant, exotic and comfortable.” Mark took the photos and sigh. He put the photos on his desk and took the triplets in his lap, continuing to look sad at those images. “That boy it’s me at the age of 4 years old...” His sister start giggling and saying how cute and adorable he was.
“What’s the name of what you wear in the picture?” Shu asked. “That? That’s a kimono. It’s a traditional Japanese outfit. It’s comfortable as you said, light, wide, in summer it keeps you cooler being made of thin material and in winter it keeps you wormer being put in several layers so you won’t freeze. And you can do it with any model and colors you want.” “Can you make us one for those for tonight?!” They screamed scaring Mark for a moment before he start laughing and kissing each of their foreheads. “Of course! With the greatest pleasure. Anything for you, my little treasures.” And with that he helped the kids do the gifts then took them to make the kimonos.
~ after several hours ~
Time passes quickly, the kimonos are ready and gifts are beautifully wrapped. Now the children are happy that they can put on their first kimonos. Mark put each of his little brothers on some chairs and started to put on them the new clothes. First is Jun who has a kimono in a dark blue color with a pattern of red and gold koi fish. After he finished putting the kimono on Jun he went to Shu who has a light pastel green kimono with a dark green bamboo pattern and a small pandas. And finally, Mark went to the chair where is LingMyn who has a very light purple colored kimono with a pattern of cherry blossoms and blue birds on it. The little ones thanked their big brother, embracing him tightly.
They didn’t even realize that the day was fast gone because when Mark looked at his watch he noticed that it was time for Wilton to come and take the children to the party. How could be possible for the day not to pass so quickly when you having fun cooking, making cloths, packing gifts, having a little snack while making kimonos and a little food fight followed by a bubble bath. Mark took the presents and goes with the kids outside, where Wilton is waiting for them. He helped Mark to put the presents in the car’s trunk, then Mark tells the children to be good and to not upset Thomas on his birthday. The little ones approve that they will be good, embraced Mark then they took Wilton by the hands and all of them goes in the car to go to the pack. What the children did not know is that Mark certainly will not come later at the party as he told them.He knows Thomas did not talked seriously when he invited him. Sure, even if he was serious, he surely will forget about it and he will not care about him. But it’s better not to tell the kids about this.
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