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"Hehe, mind keeping this a secret?"

Ah, she did it again. All she wanted to do was see her kids before she had to go prepare for her photoshoot and interview in the evening but it seems that she was spotted! It certainly does look suspicious of Ai to be visiting her manager's wife's presumed apartment so many times.

"But glasses are for nerds."

“True, however that does not mean they can’t be a nerd and an idiot at the same time.”

|| 愛 || :: today’s weather was beautiful. that was the first thing the SYLPH noticed with this occasion. clear sky, warm wind --- a day that she usually would spend in a park somewhere, probably underneath the TREE while finding inspiration to write a new song. today, however, the music student was seen waiting for someone at a meeting point. hands fidgeted with themselves while her expression was painted with clear nervousness.

It was Ai's first time being intimate with Cayden, the two of them in his home to take things slow as Ai felt so...strangely nervous given she hadn't done anything like this since before she had her twins.

"Ah..." Looking down at her exposed midsection now, a scar covered up by makeup and photoshop in magazines to censor what could've become the end of her life.

Her smile suddenly faded at the memory, the sound of Ruby and Aqua crying her name as Aqua had a strange amount of knowledge to keep her from dying before paramedics arrived. Her hand instinctively reaches down, feeling herself back in reality when red doesn't stain her hands like in flashbacks and dreams.

Her eyes that looked like shooting stars darkened, one would almost think they resembled black stars from the way she looked. "It's pretty ugly for an idol, isn't it?" She tries to crack some humor, offering a smile that seemed to comfort herself rather than him.

"I had a stalker a little after I found out I was pregnant with Ruby and Aqua. The police told me that my ex told him about me having children and gave away where I lived after I asked their father if he wanted to see the twins." Not a shock, maybe she shouldn't have expected Hikaru to change after all. Looking back, she must seem to be pretty naive and stupid in that video she recorded for the twins' first birthday where she asked them to help their father if she never could.

"The day I was supposed to perform at the Tokyo Dome, I...was stabbed. It was pretty back actually, honestly, everyone said I would've died if Aqua didn't apply pressure the entire time." How a toddler his age even knew to do that was something of a miracle to Ai, but she never questioned it. "It's funny...I could bounce my body back after having the twins, so my stretch marks went away, but...This is the one thing that won't fade."

She missed Cayden and her children desperately the entire time she was in Tokyo for a film she was a side character in. Even though she called all three of them every night, she still missed them desperately.

Yet she finally came home, after an abundance of talk show interviews and photoshoots for a few brands, where she pretty much ran to Cayden after greeting Ruby and Aqua with a hug and practically gushing over them as though she hadn't seen them in years.

"Ah! Cayden, they're beautiful!" Truly better than any roses she'd been given over time as an idol. Hugging the bouquet close to her, her starry eyes sparkled like the galaxy at the bracelet. "Ah! It's so pretty! Hehe, I'll be sure to find a charm for you too. You're just as important to me as my little pink and blue gems." Getting on the tips of her toes, Ai leaves a kiss to his lips.

Much to the childish grossed face of Aqua and giggle of Ruby.

"With your blessing of course, I hope that I'll get the chance to meet them at some point." (Cayden to Ai)

She knows Cayden is a good man, he wouldn't be the type to run away, but Ai still feels touched and stunned to hear that he was okay with the fact that she had children when she was practically a child herself. Smiling excitedly, arms wrap around him in a tightly hug.

"You have my blessing the moment you chose to stay by my side instead of leaving." Reaching her hand to cup his cheek, she gently brings him down to her level for a kiss. "Do you want to see a picture of them? Hehe, here's my little Ruby and Aquamarine! Aren't they just the cutest? I named them after the color of their eyes!" Pulling out her phone, she already showed adorable photos of her twin babies, from when they were infants to their first day of school.

"They even went viral when they cheered for me, but no one knows they were my babies. How could you not think they're adorable when they cheered for me before they could even talk?" Of course she saved the video on her phone, somehow two babies able to pull off a fan dance with light sticks from their strollers.

"Hm...This collab performance with F/ACE and B-Komachi looks complicated but...It'll be fine!" Even if the performance looks a bit complicated, Ai is sure that it'll be fine.

"Do you want me to help you go over the choreography again, Tamon-kun? Hehe, dancing to me is really easy!"