There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 739

Chapter 739: Side Story 4. Endless Journey - 22

After all the drama, a concession was made in which the children promised each other that they would meet up at least once a week--whether it was in the lakehouse or the cliff house.

And so, once a week, a small table would be set on either house. And no--they didn’t do fake stuff like fake teacups and fake plates to have fake houseplay. No, no--they’d have juice boxes--and milk in a sippy for Byul--and mini cakes for their afternoon tea meeting. Like grown-up.

And it was an exclusive meeting too. No grown-ups, because they talked about children’s business. Which snacks tasted the best these days, which lotion didn’t make them itch, how to cheat nap time--which they knew they shouldn’t do, but why should they sleep when they didn’t feel sleepy was something they could never understand--stuff like that.

Adults wouldn’t understand, so it was strictly for children.

Unless Nari or Byul wanted to use the bathroom, then they would call the nannies.

Sometimes, however, there were exceptions. Like Auntie Rina, because she could make them fun playground like the ice skating rink and ice dolls.

"How’s school, boys?" she asked them while sipping on her fruit juice from the glass, not a box--because she was an adult.

"Fun!" Asa replied. "Asa can rread well now!"

Oh, Rina missed when the boy still called himself ’Aca’. No wonder Bassena was feeling down these days. Apparently, the twins also started feeling embarrassed about calling their fathers ’Dada’ and ’Baba’ because the teachers kept calling them ’fathers’ instead.

"Asa can read well," Kar nodded in support. "And he’s not crying anymore."

"Karr! Asa stop crying long time ago!" the younger twin pursed his lips in protest.

Rina pressed her lips to hold back her laughter. "But why did Asa cry?"

"Because everryone kept looking at Asa and Karr," Asa frowned. "Childrren and parrent and teacherr all look at Asa and Karr lots."

"Have you told the teachers that you don’t like it?"

"Ung," Kar nodded. "Dada also tell them, and teacher stop staring, and tell other children to not stare at us, but adult picking other children still stare a lot..."

Rina smiled wryly. Poor children...they were bound to become the center of attention the moment they stepped into society just for who their parents were. But even without their parents, it was inevitable. They were big for their age, with Zein’s devastatingly high-visual gene. Even those who didn’t know the twins’ parents would want to stare just for their striking appearance.

"So Kar and Asa are popular," Rina chuckled. "But you know they don’t mean harm, don’t you?"

Kar and Asa glanced at each other before sighing. "Yeah, we know..." Asa propped his chin on the table, copying his Baba during stress. "But still uncomfortable."

"I guess you’re just like your Dada," Rina patted the twins’ heads.

That got them perked up. "Like Dada?"

"Your Dada also didn’t like being stared at," Rina nodded, reminiscing about the past while sipping her juice. The children followed her and sipped on their juice--except for Byul, who had his milk. "But he got used to it in the end. There’s nothing to be done--your Baba and Dada are very famous, very popular, so people always want to look at them."

"Hmm..."

"But you’ll get used to it someday," Rina told them with a smile. "You won’t care about people’s stares anymore after that."

"Oh," Kar and Asa nodded with narrowed eyes, making a serious expression copying the adults.

Rina laughed inwardly looking at these boys. Perhaps that was why Zein and Bassena decided to enroll them in regular school instead of calling educators to their house. They knew how it would be for their children in the future, so they wanted to make the twins got used to people’s interest and curiosity.

The stares they got in the future might be more sinister than they could hope, but the interest and curiosity they received from the children were mostly innocent. Hopefully, that would help ease the burden when they entered the real, harsh society that their fathers had to endure in the past.

"Oh, but I heard you also made friends?" Rina asked innocently, but it made Nari and Byul flinch and gasp and bow their lips sadly. Rina looked at the toddlers in panic. "Huh? Huh--why? What’s wrong?"

Byul’s lips trembled and he dove into Kar’s lap, hugging the older twin’s waist while his sister hugged her plushie with a sulky face half-buried in the fluffy bear head. Asa patted her back while grinning awkwardly, and Rina couldn’t help but laugh.

"Oh my~! Are you jealous because Kar and Asa have new friends?"

"Hmph!" Nari turned her face away, puffing her cheeks adorably.

Rina wanted to laugh out loud but she didn’t want to make the princess sulk further. It was fascinating, because Nari didn’t even feel jealous when Byul and Lucy were born. Perhaps she felt threatened because it was the friends the twins made somewhere she didn’t know?

"Unfaiy! Nayi wanna go skool wit big byodel too!" the little girl pursed her lips aggressively.

"But you still get to meet once a week like this, don’t you? And you can visit more often too--it’s just half an hour ride."

"Nayi wanna meet big byodels and Lucy eveyiday!"

Zein was beside himself with laughter, while Bassena was busy interviewing his sons about their replies. But the twins’ answer was simple: No.