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Misaki returned from Min Hee's room with Yuki while holding hands.

Yoshino looked at her and was mesmerized, she looked exactly liked Min Hee just a little older than what he remembered. The whites of her eyes were light red in colour from crying, she sat down next to Yoshiro after taking a peek at Hikari and hugging mama Mei.

Yoshino was further away from them, he was sitting upright and staring past the group of people. Misaki motioned for them to all sit down on the empty seats and after they sat down, everything was awkward.

(Imagine a square room that has 2 openings, one that leads to the hallway the leads to the nurse's desk, the other where Yoshino is now sitting, is right next to the entrance of the other door… so the doors opposite each other…[I hope this makes sense])

Since Yoshino was on the far edge of the room, while his siblings were adjacent to him. Beside him going down the row of chairs sat Yoshino's 4 friends, along with their girlfriends.

Opposite mama Mei sat Yoshino, Mr Yashuhara, Mrs Yashuharu and Erina. A table packed with magazines was in the middle of the room, Misaki looked at all the people gathered here and sighed, [How awkward can this get?]

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With folded arms in front of her, she said, "So you kids know the situation with your mother, so for now until she wakes up, you will be living with your father."

The triplets who were looking at the floor lifted their eyes and gazed at her while sighing inwardly. "But until your father gets his house ready to accommodate the 4 of you, you'll be staying at your grandfather's house."

"When are we going?", asked Yoshino.

Misaki looked over at him then her eyes moved to Mr Yashuharu, he smiled lightly and said while facing Yoshino, "When we are done here, I'll take you 4 home with me."

Yoshino never looked at his grandfather while he spoke and kept his eyes on Misaki but that did not mean he didn't see him from the corner of his eye.

Misaki's mouth twitched lightly at this, she sucked up air through her nose and said, "Yes, I'll go with your grandmother to fetch the 4 of your clothes and I'll ask the school for leave in your steed, so just rest up for now and I will update you on your mothers condition, if you want to visit her, let your grandfather know."

They slowly nodded their heads and turned to look at him, their gaze's felt off, what they all noticed was that the gaze's from the triplets moved from Mr Yashuharu to Mrs Yashuharu, then Yoshino asked, "Is my grandmother staying with us?"

"Uh… No." Mr Yashuharu hesitantly replied.

"Shino, I don't live far from them so you can just take a quick walk to my place, you've been there before so there isn't a problem there", mama Mei answered.

Yoshino sighed with an "augh" then leaned forward and rubbed his face. A smile appeared on the other two's faces. It went silent again and they all were looking at Yoshino who was still rubbing his face, a giggle broke the silence and they all looked at Yoshiro, Hikari had just woken up and as usual, he was happy.

"Shiiiirrrrro~"

"Mn", answered Yoshiro.

"Yuuuuuki-ne~"

"Yes?", answered Yoshiyuki.

"Shiiiiino~

"Hiiii-kun~", answered Yoshino.

"hehehehehe~" giggled Hikari

A smiled appeared on Yoshino's face(YoshinoSnr), "Alright alright now that Hikari is awake time for the introductions, Yoshino, uncle and all of you, that is Yoshino the eldest, Yoshiro the middle child and Yoshiyuki the baby of the triplets."

She moved over to Yoshiro and took Hikari who was happy to see her and said, "and this little one is called Hikari, Hiii-kun, say hello to everyone.", Hikari looked at everyone and smiled making his chubby cheeks form small balls on his face, he looked at everyone and he giggled, "Tehe", then buried his face on Misaki's shoulder continuing to giggle.

Everyone present heart's tingled slightly, Misaki walked over to Yoshino and bent down in front of him, she said, "Hiii-kun, do you know who this is?"

"How can you ask him that, what does he know", said Erina.

"ahem", Yoshino Jnr cleared his throat making everyone look at him, who was now sitting upright and looking at Erina.

Hikari looked at Yoshino Snr and he frowned, he held his hands out indicating that he wanted Yoshino Snr to pick him up.

Yoshino did exactly that and he held Hikari in his arms. Hikari looked at him deeply and his eyes became glossy, he then looked back at his eldest brother, then back at Yoshino Snr and said, "Shino?" with a confused expression.

"Mn, Hiiii-kun, this is your papa", said Misaki.

He looked back at her and asked, "Papa?" slanting his head to the side.

"Papa Shino?", he asked. (Is he Yoshino's father.)

"Mn", she confirmed.

"Papa Yuki?", he asked. (Is he Yuki's father.)

"Mn", she nodded.

"Shirrro Papa?"

"Mn"

"Hiii-kun papa?"

"Yes, Hiii-kun's papa", she confirmed with a smile.

He looked at Yoshino Snr then turned and covered his face smiling into his hands and giggling.

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The 4 of them went home with Mr Yashuharu with Yoshino following behind them, Misaki went back to her office and cont in contact with Jin Ha who said he'll be there in 2 days to visit the kids.

Mama Mei went with them also to help them settle in and stayed the night since she was urged to by Mr Yashuharu.

She was later asked while the children were sleep, why she never told them about the children and her answer was, "It's Yoshino's punishment for falling for Erina's tricks."

They argued back and forth about Erina's past deeds but unlike mama Mei then don't know what she did in the past to make her hate Erina's guts.

Mama Mei loved her children but enough was enough, she tolerated Erina enough till she received the wedding invitation and she felt sick to her stomach. She wanted to tell Yoshino not too but then again she was threatened to stay silent by Jin Ha on the grounds that if she ever interfered with Yoshino's life and involved the triplets then things wouldn't end well and no one would be allowed to see the triplets.

Yes, mama Mei along with many other people have been threatened by Jin Ha to keep Min Hee's kids a secret and letting her child marry that woman was very hard for her and it heartbreaking, she could have stopped it but she didn't.

Accepting Erina was something she would never do because of what happened to Min Hee in the past but she did kind of feel in control for once since she had the upper hand and the kids liked her more.