Shadow x rose

[rosemilly]

Roan was so happy when Rafe brought Kai over, happily taking the baby and snuggling him in his arms. "I missed you," he whispered softly, pressing a kiss to the baby's head. "So what have you been doing when you weren't visiting me at the hospital?" Roam asked Rafe, wondering if Hikaru and Haru ended up watching Kai while Rafe worked.

"Well if you hadn't, we might not be dating now or having twins," Alex said with a laugh, watching as Alex cooked. He still had no clue what the other was making. "So did Rafe ever asked Roam about what happened while they were separated?"

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“The food will be here in 15 minutes,” Rafe said before smiling as he watched Roan with Kai before hearing the question. “Working mostly and I brought Kai over to Hikaru and Alex’s apartment for Hikaru to watch while Alex was also working,” he said in reply to it as he set the table with forks, knives and plates. “What would you like to drink?” he asked as he went over to the cupboard that held the glasses and cups. He got out a glass for himself and his love before going over the fridge to put ice cubes in them.

“Very true,” Alex said in reply before flipping the pieces of chicken that were in the pan to get the other side cooked. He then noticed that the water was boiling so he added the spaghetti noodles to it after breaking them in half before stirring them some so hat they could boil again and then went back over to the chicken and took them off before adding them to the plate with other pieces of chicken on it. He then turned off the burner underneath that pan before moving the pan to a cold burner, then got out the plates and silverware, and set the table. After he did that, he got out a smaller saucepan, got out some spaghetti sauce, opened the jar, put most of it in the saucepan before putting it on another burner with the lid on it, and then turned on the burner underneath it before turning it to low heat so that it could take its time in heating up.

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"I'm sure that Hikaru and Kai both enjoyed that," Roan said with a smile before looking down at Kai whose attention was on Rafe. Maybe they could try feeding him some fried rice, seeing as it shouldn't be long until he would be able to eat solid foods. Roan looked up at Rafe when he heard the questioning, thinking for a moment. "I'll have sweet tea. Should I go ahead and make Kai a bottle?" He would probably be getting hungry soon enough anyway.

Hikaru giggled a little as he watched Alex cook, seeing how concentrated he was on his cooking. It was like watching a real restaurant chef cook. "Alex, you didn't answer my question," he said as he leaned back in his chair and rubbed his large, pregnant belly. It seemed like it was bigger than a watermelon! "Your father and I will be taking good care of you two. I'm sure he'll cook you some amazing meals."

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Rafe nodded when he heard Roan’s answer about what he’d like to drink before getting the tea out of the door of the fridge, pouring into the glass that he had prepared for the former, and then got himself some Diet Pepsi before putting the pitcher that the tea in it back into the fridge. “I think that would be okay and sure go ahead,” he said in reply to the questions that his live asked him regarding them feeding Kai some fried rice as well as going ahead and making a bottle for him. He then smiled at the baby, seeing that his attention was on him before ruffling the little bit of hair he had and then turned toward the door when he heard the knock on it. He went over to it with his wallet, opened the door, greeted the Chinese food delivery boy before taking what he had ordered from him, gave him a tip, and then locked the door again when the boy left, and then headed to the counter with the bag.

“Hm?” Alex asked while a bit distracted before the statement that Hikaru had said registered. “Oh I didn’t? Sorry I must’ve been too focused on getting dinner ready and forgot to answer it. No he hasn’t yet but I think he’s also trying to wait until the opportune moment to ask,” he said in reply before hearing the water start boiling again. He had his attention go back to it as he stirred the noodles and then set the timer for 15 minutes for the noodles to be done. He then got out some glasses and asked, “What would you like to drink?” He prepped their glasses with ice before hearing Hikaru talk to his stomach and couldn’t help but smile a bit when he heard what he said.

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(He never actually asked Rafe about the rice, but it's alright. )

When Rafe left to answer the door, Roan went over to part of the counter and began to make Kai a bottle, holding the baby on his hip with one arm. Becoming a parent had made Roan pretty good at multitasking. He put the bottle in the microwave before looking over at Rafe when he came back in. "That smells really good," he said with a smile, taking the bottle out once it was done and testing it to make sure that it wasn't too hot for Kai to drink. He went to go sit back down at the table before giving Kai the bottle, which the baby started to drink from eagerly. It was obvious that Kai was hungry. "Has daddy been starving you while I've been gone?" he teased, looking up at Rafe with a grin. He knew that Rafe would never do something like that to their precious baby.

"They've been back together for a few months now. He's probably had many opportune moments to ask," Hikaru said with a giggle. Maybe he just didn't want to risk upsetting Roan, or maybe Alex forgot to tell him, which probably wasn't the case since Alex was usually very responsible. Once he was done talking to his baby bump, he looked up at Alex, happily smiling at him. "Is there any strawberry lemonade?" he asked. It was his favorite thing in the whole world to drink. While Alex was busy with the glasses, Hikaru got up and went over to stir the noddles every now and then, not wanting them to stick to the pot. He wished that he could help Alex out more, but it was kind of hard with his hug belly in the way.

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((oh you’re right. sorry ))

“Yes it does and I would never starve Kai,” Rafe said in reply to both Roan’s question and statement before looking over at the latter. “Maybe I forgot to feed him earlier before we went to pick you up.” This last statement he said was a suggestion of why their baby seemed to be hungry before he got out a couple of big silverware spoons to scoop the food out of the cartons before emptying each of the cartons into a big bowl that he had also gotten out for them. “Want to cuddle a bit on the couch after dinner and after we put Kai to bed?” he asked Roan as he got started on spooning out his food onto one of he plates he had gotten out earlier.

“Well since it might be a delicate matter he doesn’t want to risk making him upset and he’s already made a few mistakes by saying things he shouldn’t have so he might want to handle how he asks about this topic differently,” Alex said in reply before hearing the question about his favorite kind of lemonade. “Yes I think we do,” he said in reply to it before looking in the fridge and finding it shortly afterward. He then poured some of it into the glass that he had gotten out for Hikaru and then put water in his own glass before noticing that the latter was up and stirring the noodles. “Thanks babe but you shouldn’t be walking around,” he said before placing a soft and gentle kiss against his temple and then having his attention go back to being on the pan with the noodles in it as well as the timer.

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"He would have let us know if you forgot," Roan said with a laugh, angling the bottle so that Kai wouldn't be able to drink all of it in just a matter of seconds. He didn't want his baby to end up getting sick. Thankfully, Kai slowed down. "I think he's just a hungry, growing boy." That's the reason why most babies where constantly hungry anyway. They were growing quite fast, and they needed to eat to keep up with their growth. At the question, Roan couldn't help but smile. It's been quite awhile since he's had some alone time with Rafe, and today seemed like it might be a good day try it. "Yeah, that sounds nice."

"Well I know it's a delicate matter. I've been best friends with Roan for quite awhile now, and he won't even talk to me about it," Hikaru said, letting out a soft sigh. He knew it was something bad because Roan would start breaking down every time he tried to get him to talk about, so Hikaru ended up giving up. It made him miserable to see Roan so upset. When Alex came over to the pan with the noodles, he wasn't expecting to be told he shouldn't be up. Of course he knew that, he just wanted to help out and do something. Being pregnant could be boring at times if there was nothing that he could do besides sit down and watch t.v. "Can I help do anything?" he asked as he went to sit back down in his chair, smiling when he felt a bit of movement in his belly.

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“You’re right and that’s probably it,” Rafe said in reply before nodding in reply to what he said in reply to the question that he had asked earlier about them cuddling. He put the other plate in front of him before spooning some more food onto it. “There you go,” he said with a small smile as he put that plate in front of him and then took the plate he had put together a few minutes earlier to put in front of himself before starting to eat.

“No everything’s almost done but I appreciate the offer,” Alex said in reply to Hikaru’s question but then remembered what he had said earlier regarding the matter that they had brought up earlier about Rafe asking Roan what had happened during the time they were apart. “Then maybe that’s why he hasn’t brought it up because’s he’s afraid to make him upset. He’s made him upset accidentally before and he probably just wants to tread lightly in order to makeup for past mistakes,” he said before stirring the noodles a few more times before the timer went off for them. He put a few of the noodles in the pan’s lid, brought the lid over to the sink, let them slip off the lid’s surface and into the strainer before rinsing them off in order to cool them, and then taste-tested one to see if it was ready or not. “They’re ready,” he said before going back over to the stove to turn off the burner and to pick up the pan before carrying it carefully over to the strainer. He then emptied the rest of the pan into it and let the steam rise from it for awhile. He also then turned off the burner that the pan with the sauce was in before putting it on another burner that hadn’t been turned on. “Okay everything’s ready. I made Chicken Parmesan. You get the noodles first and then put the chicken on top before adding the sauce.

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Once Kai was done drinking his bottle, Roan moved to burp Kai. When Kai finally burped, he set him down in his high chair so that they could focus on their meal. "Thank you," Roan said with a smile once Rafe gave him his plate. He took a bite of his food and smiled. "It tastes really good. It's a lot better than hospital food, that's for sure."

"Sounds good," Hikaru said with a smile as he stood up, grabbing his plate before starting to dip it like Alex said to. It smelled really good, and he really wanted to eat that. Once his plate was put together, he waited at the table for Alex before he would eat. "I sometimes wonder what it's like to carry one baby. Would carrying one be a lot lighter than two?"

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“You’re welcome and I bet anything tastes better than hospital food,” Rafe said in reply to all of Roan’s statements with a smile after Kai was set down in his high chair and before he started eating his food. When he swallowed the bite that he had been eating he hesitated a bit before saying, “When we have a moment to ourselves after Kai’s been put in his crib there’s something that I’d like to ask and discuss with you that I’ve been told was a sensitive subject. I can always wait if you prefer to discuss it at a much later time than now but I’ve been dreading asking it because I don’t want to make you upset again.” He went back to eating but at a much slower pace than before.

Alex nodded before putting his own plate together and then sitting down at the table with Hikaru. He started to eat the dinner when he heard the next statement and question the former said and asked him. “I’m guessing it would be lighter to carry only one baby versus carrying two but you’ll have to ask Roan the next time we see him because he’d probably know the answer to that question.”