Chapter 199 - 198 – Choosing A School

Ren caressed Fang's beautiful face with gentle fingers. "What happened? Why are you suddenly so antsy about this, my big darling?" he asked softly. Ren cared much less about public opinion in general than Fang, and as far as he was concerned, the timing of their marriage was left entirely to the sole discretion of Fang. Whether Fang wanted to get married at the age of twenty one or twenty two or seventy one or seventy two – Ren was all right with everything. After all, they lived together and worked together and raised their babies together – Ren had nothing to complain about at all. Yes, it would certainly be good to have an official title of being the legally married husbands of each other – but that was a mere formality and Ren was happy to let Fang decide on it.

Fang hesitated for a moment, and Ren waited patiently for him to speak up, and continued to stroke Fang's fair cheeks with his feather like movements. Fang could feel his heart calm down by Ren's actions.

"I don't like people eyeing you," Fang grumbled. "Or me. Everyone knows we're together and they're still sending these shameless invitations..."

"But we're not accepting them anyway," Ren said. "What's there to worry about?"

"I want to get married," Fang mumbled. "I want it legally documented that you're mine and I'm yours."

Ren smiled and kissed Fang's brow. "As you wish, my big darling," he said. "We'll announce our wedding tomorrow and we'll get married whenever you want after the new baby is born. It won't be fair for the new baby to miss out on being present in our wedding pictures, right?"

Fang was slightly mollified. "I want a grand wedding!" he said.

"Sure," Ren said easily. He'd happily invite the whole world if Fang wanted.

Fang was finally satisfied. "I overheard some people gossiping about us," he confessed. "They said we weren't getting married even after being together all these years, so something must be wrong with our relationship..."

Ren frowned. "Since when do you pay attention to random gossip?" he demanded.

Fang flushed.

Ren pinched his cheeks playfully. "See? This is why I should still call you my little darling instead of my big darling!" he said in a teasing tone.

"I'm just afraid that you may leave me one day," Fang murmured, looking away.

Ren sighed. "You're not allowed to let me leave," he said firmly. "In the unlikely event that I ever want to leave, just hold me tight and put your beautiful face in my line of sight so that I can't see anything else... and I'll forget everything except you."

Fang nodded obediently.

Ren glanced at his watch. "We have some time before we need to go to the hospital...how about I make you breakfast?"

It had been a long, long time since Ren had a chance to cook! They had been really, really busy in the last few months, and the two of them finally had some space to breathe now. SIMS and Zephyr and Sirocco – everything was going well at the moment, and the young couple was looking forward to taking some time off and spending some quality time with their precious little babies.

The discussion about the babies going to school had also progressed a fair bit. Pax and Prince Uno had volunteered to help on this subject, and all six babies had immediately stuck to their Uncle Pax and Uncle Uno and declared that they would be visiting potential schools with Uncle Pax and Uncle Uno. Later, Rudy snitched and told Ren that Uncle Uno had actually bribed the babies on this matter because he wanted to spend more time with Pax and the errands for the babies were the best excuse ever to get Pax to step out of Sirocco and take his mind of the affairs of Sirocco!

They were all very busy people, after all.

Hearing Ren's offer, Fang's purple eyes glowed with delight and immediately, he started listing out everything he wanted to eat.

Ren didn't comment on the ridiculously long list at all; he was happy to indulge Fang anytime and anywhere, and even now, Fang rarely asked for anything. And whenever Fang did ask for something, Ren would make it happen – no matter how big or how small it was. So, this time, Ren simply went to the kitchen and started cooking right away! Fang came over to offer his help, but Ren shooed him away and told him to rest for a while instead. Fang ignored him and propped himself on the polished marble kitchen slab, and watched with soft warmth pooling in his purple eyes as Ren bustled about the kitchen, cooking.

An hour later, the entire dining table was laden with dishes that Fang had named.

Fang was happy as well as embarrassed that Ren had actually done this for him, even though there was no way he could eat it all. However, he need not have worried, because the babies came back with Pax and Prince Uno soon after Fang and Ren sat down to eat. Pax had taken them out to look at some play schools for the three furballs and the baby dragon and a kindergarten as well as an elementary school for Sylvia and Rudy. Prince Uno had tagged along under the pretext of accompanying his little nieces and nephews – but everyone knew that he was simply trying to get back into Pax's good books again.

Pax and Prince Uno had officially started dating some time ago, and Prince Uno was over the moon. However, the two of them often had clashes, since their personalities were almost opposite to each others' – Pax was serious and reserved and measured his words as well as his actions, while Prince Uno was outspoken to the point where it was considered that he didn't have a filter at all, and, on top of that, he seemed like he was not serious about anything at all. It was inevitable that they fight occasionally, and the two of them did have a disagreement a couple of days ago, and Prince Uno was trying to rectify the situation.

Shadow, who was giving competition to Ray as the biggest glutton amongst the kids, immediately turned into his canine form and rushed to the table.

"Daddy cooked? Smells so good!" he said, drooling.

Smoke, Snow, Ray, Rudy and Sylvia followed quickly, as if afraid that their gluttonous brother would finish everything before they had a chance to eat! In fact, the babies were very wary in general when Ray and Shadow were in form – Ray ate the most of them all, and Shadow lived in the eternal hope that he would one day wrest back the title of the most gluttonous baby amongst the siblings from Ray some day. It had led to a couple of incidents when Shadow had overeaten to the point that his tummy ached, and Fang had to bring out the ultimate weapon of 'Daddy will cry' to browbeat Shadow into eating what he could handle and no more.

"Grab a plate if you want some, before the little ones make everything disappear," Ren told Pax with a chuckle, while casting a doting eye on Fang and the babies.

"I won't be polite, then," Pax said, and quickly helped himself.

All the food really did disappear in minutes.

Everyone sat back in their seats with bulging bellies, looking very satisfied.

"How come you cooked today?" Prince Uno asked curiously, arching an eyebrow with Ren.

Ren caressed Fang's cheek with gentle fingers. "My big darling wanted to eat these things," he said simply.

Pax groaned. "You are a bad example of romance," he complained. "If I bring my future marriage partner to meet the family and they see you behaving like this, won't they expect me to dote on them as much, too?"

Ren and Fang laughed and Prince Uno glared at Pax.

"Ren is the best," Fang declared loyally.

"No one can be your future marriage partner except me," Prince Uno growled.

"Yes, yes, I know," Pax said, throwing up his hands in a gesture of surrender. "Do you want to hear about the schools we visited today?"

"We found one we liked, Daddy!" Sylvia said enthusiastically.

"It's a nice little private school, which only accepts a limited number of children to maintain a stable teacher-student ratio. They have a playschool, a kindergarten, an elementary school and a high school, and they also have tie ups with a number of top universities around the world," Pax said. "It has everything you could possibly need or want for the babies. Also, the faculty is really good and supportive and they think very highly of both of you."

That sounded awfully familiar. Fang raised an eyebrow. "Aren't you talking about the school I graduated from?"

Pax laughed. "Blame your babies," he said. "They wanted to go there the moment they heard it was where their beloved Papa studied. Did you know that your desk has been preserved as the good luck totem for people appearing for exams?"

Fang was nonplussed and Ren burst out laughing.