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The morning sun slipped through the curtains and into the occupied room Kousaka Honoka awoke that morning feeling fully recharged. That was strange…she was usually woken up around 7:00AM by a certain someone. Honoka sat up and looked at the clock on her bedside table.
11AM huh.
She turned her head to the left, looking down at her sleeping lover. Honoka couldn't help but smile, her partner had her body turned at every angle. The cover was half thrown on the floor and half tangled with her legs. Honoka had grown accustomed to her lovers sleeping patterns. Sure she would get an occasional kick to the sides or a slap to the face, but it was all worth it, being able to marry the love of her life. Honoka stretched her arms into the air before getting out of bed. She walked over to her partners side and slowly started disentangling the covers from her legs. Once she had disentangled the covers from her lovers legs, she recovered her and bent down to kiss her forehead before leaving the room.
Honoka slowly walked through the hallway and into the family bathroom, were she did her daily routine. Once done she walked out and made her way towards the stairs, maybe I could make some breakfast for the 4 of us..hum..but what should I make? Honoka thought as she made her way down, but stopped halfway when she heard the sound of a running tap.
Honoka smiled as she carried on listening, along with the sound of a running tap, she could hear spoons being tapped on bowls, the sound of pots clanging together and the smell of smoke…..wait…SMOKE!
Honoka jumped the last few steps and dashed into the kitchen only to stop at the doorway, as her eyes gazed upon the destruction that was presented in front of her. The kitchen..their kitchen…her lovers kitchen was a complete mess. She made her way towards the stove stepping over broken eggshells, flour and mixture?
She removed the frying pan off the stove before turning it off, she coughed a bit from inhaling the smoke. Just great, she quickly opened the windows and placed the pan on the windowsill. She couldn't help but wonder what was in the frying pan, once a bit of the smoke had went she looked inside, the content was too burned to make out and thus will remain a mystery.
She turned around with a big huff, after scanning the room she walked over to the counter were most of the mess had come from. crap Nico-chan is defiantly going to kill me when she finds her kitchen destroyed. Messy bowls and spoons where left lying around, a tray of broken eggshells, a carton of milk left open, bags of flour, discarded sugar. What on earth happened here?
She dipped her fingers into one of the bowls, and brought it up to her mouth tasting the unknown mixture. Wait? This is pancake mix! But why?….oh I see.
Honoka turned around scanning the empty room once more, a small smile on her lips.
"It's no use hiding you two, I know you're in here so come out" Honoka waited for a minute, she could hear small whispers coming from behind the counter until a head popped up from behind. The little girls turquoise eyes looked around the room until they meet blue eyes. The 9 year old moved away from behind the counter and walked towards the older women, still in her pajamas the little girls purple shoulder length hair was in tangles, pancake mixture was smeared across her face.
"Good morning Mama" the little girl said flashing a toothy grin
"Good morning Nozomi, where's your sister?" on mention the little girl moved away from behind the counter and walked towards the older two. The 7 year old, also wearing her pajamas, was clinging onto her toy bunny, her short blue hair almost up to her shoulders were also tangled.
"Good morning Mama" the 7 year old said hugging her mama around her waist.
"Good morning Umi" Honoka lifted her daughter of the ground and gave her a big hug.
"Now I want you both to explain to me, on what just happened in here" Honoka stretched her arms out and gestured to the messy kitchen. The two sisters looked at each other before the older of the two spoke.
"We wanted to make you and Mummy breakfast in bed" Umi nodded backing up her sisters statement.
"And you both tried to make pancakes?"
"Yes"
"Nozomi you know how you're not allowed to use the stove unless me or Mummy are watching, you could have gotten hurt" Nozomi looked down feeling guilty. Honoka could feel a tug on her arm, she turned to see Umi giving her a serious look.
"Mama its not Onee-chans fault…it was…it was the cards!"
"The cards?" Honoka asked tilting her head to the side.
"Yes Mama the cards told Onee-chan, that something good will happen today, if she does something good in return" Honoka looked at Nozomi
"If this true?"
"Its true Mama!" Honoka looked at the cards which Nozomi had pulled out from her pajama pockets, oh those cards. Honoka had taken both her daughters to a magic show not too long ago. Before going inside there was a fortune telling lady who had a stand of her own. Nozomi had been entranced by the idea of fortune telling that she had begged her Mama to buy a pack of tarot cards of her very own.
"Well if it's the cards who told you this, it can't be helped"
"Mama isn't mad?" Nozomi asked giving her puppy dog eyes.
Honoka sighed in defeat, she was after all a sucker for puppy dog eyes. She put Umi back down on the floor and bent down to their level. She embraced both of them into a hug before pulling away and planting a kiss on both of their foreheads.
"No Mama isn't mad….but Mummy might be"
Nozomi and Umi gulped as they looked around the messy room. Finally realizing the damage that they had done.
"Mama what should we do!?" they both yelled panicking. Their Mummy was the most nicest and reliable person in the world, but when she's angry, she can be angry.
"Well for starters lets quickly clean up, and then we can make some pancakes to surprise Mummy"
"OK" they both yelled in union.
In no time at all the kitchen was back to being spotless, Nozomi and Umi were both helping by setting the table as Honoka was at the stove cooking some pancakes. A few minutes later they could hear footsteps coming down the stairs.
"Ah it looks like someone is finally awake" Honoka said just as Nico entered the kitchen
"Mummy!" Nozomi and Umi yelled running towards Nico, Nico smiled and looked down at her daughters.
"Good morning Nozomi, Umi" Nico bent down and gave them both a kiss on the forehead.
"You're both up early, especially you Umi, you're a fussy sleeper" Nico said ruffling her youngest daughters hair.
"Mummy! I'm not a fussy sleeper" Umi whined pouting at her Mummy. Nico laughed at Umi's cute reaction and tickled her tummy.
"Of course sweetie"
Nico walked over to Honoka and wrapped her arms around her waist leaning into her lovers back.
"Good Morning Nico-chan"
"Morning Honoka, you're up early too"
"Humm it's a nice change don't you think?"
"Humm well I guess, but I enjoy waking up and seeing a cute sleeping face" Nico could feel Honoka tense up, she couldn't help but chuckle.
"Geez Nico-chan no teasing in the morning, plus breakfast is ready" Nico unwrapped her arms around her lovers waist and went to sit at the table.
Honoka brought over a plate full of pancakes as well as maple syrup, and chocolate spread. They began to tuck into their breakfast, as small talk was being conveyed around.
"Oh I forgot to mention that, there's a new amusement park that's opening up next week, and I thought it would be nice if we could all go together" Nico suggested, looking around at all the excited expressions, which told her that it was yes.
"Onee-chan you were right! Something good did happen" Umi yelled excitedly turning towards Nozomi, who smiled back at her.
"Mama! I told you the cards were right" Honoka couldn't help but chuckle at Nozomi's excited face and at Nico's confused one.
"Cards?" Nico turned to Honoka for an explanation.
"Sorry Nico-chan but that's a secret between the three of us"