Chapter 81：Distance(2)

The next morning just after 4 am the triplets woke up and so did Hikari and mama Mei, she made breakfast for them, Hikari did not sleep well last night because he kept waking up looking for his mother.

Yoshino explained to him what happen and Hikari calmed down a bit but still couldn't hide the fact that he missed and wanted to see his mother, with puffy eyes and a foul mood he ate his rice pudding and pouted the whole day.

She then discussed things with Yuki and Yoshino about their mothers business, Yuki was her mothers right-hand and she needed to sort things out. After getting things in order, time past and it was 10 am.

Yuki made calls to a lot of people and managed to arrange helpers for the store, she wasn't feeling too good and making cakes right now would just depress her, Yoshino wrote put a payment plan that would benefit the helpers and give them more motivation to work than to help out of pity.

The day went by smoothly but was somewhat dull because everyone was still gloomy, Hikari kept sleeping while the triplets sat in the lounge and watched tv while semi-ignoring their grandfather's constant care for them.

Feeling a bit flustered at talking to the walls he spoke to mama Mei and asked her to help him but he was told just to leave them alone, those kids were the same person and if 1 ignored you the other 2 would too.

She herself was slightly struggling and couldn't really imagine how Min Hee managed to deal with them and this seemed to be worse than the time when Yoshino and Yoshiyuki got into an argument and decided to break all the windows in the house including the glass sliding doors.

In the afternoon Yoshino and Erina came over with their 3 kids because he wanted his children to meet each other.

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When they arrived they were met with the triplets who were sitting in the lounge just staring at them, Yoshino furrowed his brows after greeting them and not getting a reply but still introduced his kids to each other.

"Okay, you 3 this is your eldest brother Yoshino, second brother Yoshiro and your eldest sister Yoshiyuki, uh…(He hesitated before saying), These are my children with Erina, Aria the eldest she's 13, Okino his 9 and Yui, she's a year older than Hikari."

The triplets sat up straight and looked at their 3 siblings, Yuki was sitting the nearest to them look back at her brothers and smirked, seeing this the 2 of them smiled, she then turned around and reached out to Aria's hand and said, "Do you know what?"

Aria lifted a brow and asked, "Yes?"

"Yui is still a bit young so she won't understand this but I always wanted a little sister that I could bond with."

"Really?", she asked in disbelief with a raised brow.

"Mn", Yuki nodded her head. She tried pulling Aria closer but her hand was shaking slightly to loosen the grip, seeing this the triplets felt strange, ignoring Aria's rude manners Yuki looked at Okino and said, "You look just like Mr Yashuharu."

Okino looked at her with a raised brow while Yoshino frowned behind him and he said, "You don't have to call me Mr Yashuharu."

The triplets looked up at him then looked at each other then back at him and Yoshiro spoke out, "Then what should we call you?"

"Uh…", Yoshino wanted to say daddy but it didn't sound right and father sounded to distant, what made it worse was that he was so excited to introduce his kids and spend time with his kids from Min Hee that he forgot that they met yesterday.

"Papa~", was heard coming into the lounge followed by a giggle. Mama Mei walked in with Hikari who had puffy eyes but a smile on his face, he was so happy to see Yoshino and being greeted like this out of the blue made him so happy.

He walked over to mama Mei and held out his hands towards Hikari and immediately Hikari wiggled his body out of mama Mei's grip and into Yoshino's arms, he wrapped his small arms around Yoshino's neck and hugged him tightly.

Yoshino held Hikari awkwardly because of his short body, he soon let go of Yoshino's neck and put his hands on his papa's cheeks and said, "Hiii-kun loves papa", followed with a giggle.

Yoshino was left speechless and looked at Hikari, seeing that he wasn't getting a response he tilted his head and asked, "Papa is sum ting wong?"

Snapping out of his daze, Yoshino smiled and rubbed his nose against Hikari and asked, "Does Hiii-kun really love papa?"

"Hiiii-kun loves papa thiiiis much~", he spread his arms far apart indicating how much and started giggling again.

"Hehe, papa loves Hiii-kun too", he said after he kissed Hikari on his cheek.

He turned around and crouched down in front of his other children and said, "Hiii-kun, this is Aria-onee-chan, Okino-onii-chan and Yui-chan, the 3 of you this is Hikari, your baby brother."

Yui and Hikari looked at each other and they started giggling, Okino walked over to greet the triplets and was met with very friendly smiles. Aria looked at her mother who was upset and walked out of the house after Yoshino said he loved Hikari.

Yoshino looked at Aria and said, "Why don't you get to know your brothers and sister, go have a chat with them."

"I don't want to!", she said, she turned around and went to the bathroom with heavy steps, she locked the door behind her, she walked over to the toilet, closed the lid and sat down on it.

Last night her father told her about the triplets and Hikari but she was a little sceptical, today when she saw them, she wasn't happy at all, she didn't like the triplets, and she didn't Hikari. Tears started running down her cheeks from being conflicted, last night she heard her father and mother argue about Min Hee's kids and about how Hikari came to be.

She didn't believe that nonsense of Min Hee going to the hospital to get inseminated because she didn't understand that, and her father saying that he loved Hikari yet he only met them yesterday was bullshit to her because growing up he never said anything like that to her or her siblings.

How could he love them and not his children that have been with him all this time and to make matters worse she knew who Kang Min Hee was. When she saw Yoshiyuki her heart started beating fast because Yuki looked more like Min Hee than she looked like her own mother and also Yoshino who looked exactly like her father when Okino just looked like him but didn't show his genes that presented itself like how Yoshino jnr looked.