The next day, I wake up before Jay so I just cuddle into his hair and tangle our legs more. His hair smells sweet like strawberry. I start running my fingers in his hair, massaging him, trying to wake him up slowly.

He starts nuzzling his face into my neck a bit. I chuckled as I run my hands over his back, he shrinks from it a bit so I stop. I instead start humming a bit while I restart running my fingers through his hair.

After some time, he kisses my jaw and moves to start getting up. I quickly get up before him and take him in my arms before he can do anything. Moving to his kitchen, I sit him on the counter while I put on my apron and start cooking us breakfast. Every once in a while, I'll turn to him to kiss his cheek or neck.

When breakfast is finally ready, I set up the table for us before carrying him to sit down to eat. The catch is, I sit him on my lap while I nuzzle his neck. He starts eating and feeding me as well. Each time I'm finished with my bite, I'll kiss his neck a few times before he then presents me with the next bite. At some point thought, I keep kissing his neck for a solid 5 minutes before I start whining because he isn't feeding me. I look up at him to see him turned to me, chuckling. I blush and burry my face in his neck. He coaxes me a bit before I stop hiding my face and take the bite he's feeding me.

Breakfast being done, we relax on his coach, watching Sleeping Beauty. At the end of the movie, they start dancing so I get up too. I turn to Jay and in my best prince pose, I bow to him, holding out my hand for him to take as I try to keep my face serious while I can't help smiling brightly.

"Would you care for a dance, my dearest prince?"

He silently laughs as he bows too, before taking my hand.

We then spend some time slow dancing together. In our pajamas.

...

Over the next few days at school, Jay and I had witnessed first hand Yui wooing Daniel.

I got tired of it at some point, because Jay might be hurting like hell if he likes Daniel. I've also gotten a bit more confident, so one day I got up and dragged Jay to the rooftop. I made sure to make my face stay absolutely neutral so that no matter what Jay wouldn't feel bad about answering truthfully.

At the rooftop, I sat Jay down while sitting in front of him. I placed both my hands on his shoulders and stared dead on at his face. He looked quite nervous at my suddenness but I gave him a calming smile before going back to my neutral serious face.

I'm going to ask you something and I need you to be 100% truthful about your answer. I'll support you no matter what and I promise to always stay by your side no matter what. Do you agree to those terms?"

He nodded while looking quite serious himself, so I proceeded.

"Do you like Daniel?"

He looked shocked for a while before he shook his head.

"Are you sure? Remember, I want you to be a 100% truthful. Because I've noticed you've always looked out for him, and right now with Yui swiping him off his feet I don't want you getting hurt."

He smiled at me before he confirmed that he didn't like Daniel. I sighed in relief before collapsing on myself. Curling up a bit. I took my hands to hide my face as the weight being lifted came crashing down on me and I started crying. Bawling my eyes out.

Jay quickly took me in his arms and started trying to rock me from side to side, running one hand through my hair while the other rubbed circles on my back.

We stayed on the rooftop the rest of the school day, skipping class. I just stayed in his arms, even after having calmed down. He kept patiently comforting me.

After that day, I started being more upfront than before, if even possible, about my feelings. Thought I'm not ready to confess yet. I'm not that brave. I started leaving cute cheesy poems around our places, depending at who's we lived in that moment. I also started randomly telling him my thoughts. Like how pretty I taught he was, or how amazing he is, or just random things like food I want to eat or random facts. Stuff like that. And Jay listens to it all. He also started doing it back. Like when he wants to eat something, so I'll immediately get up to go make it for him. Or he told me I looked adorable. Things like that.

...

I had just received a text from Danny.

"Sunshine, Duke and little Dan are going to be livestreaming, do you want to watch together?"

He agreed and we set up the livestream on my computer but when I got up to go get him a chair, he just pushed me back and sat on my lap, leaning himself on me. I chuckled and kissed the side of his head, as I clicked on the broadcasting room that had just appeared.

Immediately I see a flow of negative comments, so I sit up straighter and I start typing encouragements. I'm not going to fight online haters, but what I can do is try and lighten their impact. I commented about how proud I was of Duke to get the courage to start streaming. I also told of how excited I was at the opportunity to hear more of his rap. My comments were getting drowned in the flow of insults but I know he saw them because I saw a tiny smile show up on the corner of his mouth.

He ended stream soon enough.

...

We were in school, doing our usual thing when I noticed Zoe getting mistreated by her friends, so I turned to Jay and whispered so only he could hear.

"Can we adopt her? Poor baby she is."

He started choking on air before turning to me only to see me doing the puppy eyes at him. So he agreed. I got up quickly and barged into the conversation of those girls.

"Hey! Sorry to interrupt but we want to steal Zoe from you, Is that okay? Yeah thanks I don't care if it is or not."

I dragged Zoe and pulled her the chair on the desk in front of Jay, sitting her down there. We all started chatting and inquiring about her hobbies and interests. Me being the translator for Jay to Zoe.

After school, we invited her to a sleepover at Jay's since that was where we currently were living and he has a spare room. But before going to his place, we took her to karaoke and shop. Jay didn't sing but I filled in for him. I also acted on a full drama with 8 different characters by myself. We also both helped find her cute new things, we both paid for her too. She seemed to be genuinely enjoying herself. Being listened to and cared for for her, not her body or something like that, but her.

Getting back home and watching movies together in our pajamas was amazing. She's a sweetheart when she's herself.

Deep into the night, she admitted that her parents were absolutely wonderful, but slightly absent from her social life and development. So I deducted there might be a slight underline of neglect, mainly emotional. So we told her of our plans to "adopt" her under our wings. She cried and accepted. When determining the roles, I nominated myself as her mom because I decided I wanted chaos. Imagine the fear of the people if she's like, yeah I called my mom over and a six feet five (or more if wearing healed boots) goth dude shows up. Jay and Zoe laughed at that too. Jay was then nominated to be her dad.

The next day, we were all driven to school by one of Jay's driver. Arriving in class, Yui and the other bitches looked shocked at our arrival. Zoe was wearing an adorable slightly lolita but less extreme skirt instead of the regular skirt. It was still grey, just lighter, so technically counted as a modified uniform. It was also longer than her usual one as we boosted her confidence and made her understand that she doesn't need to show her body to be noticed. I also did her hair this morning for her in a half up half down style attached at the back with a beautiful ornament with pearls weaving around her hair. She looked stunning.

Everyone's jaw dropped at her sight.

Jay and I led her to the seat in front of us, it was easy to convince the previous occupant to switch with a little bribery.

So that's how she started living with us.

And how I avoided her ever getting a stalker. Because when she said she wanted to start live streaming, I cleared out a room for her to set up, with the computer being on the window and the window binds closed, so no one could ever get her location. I also raised her awareness of the dangers of it, to make sure she wouldn't say anything about her life or location.

And like that, she started streaming her interests, like sewing new clothes, designing them or like playing Warcraft. I got her into it. On those streams, I'd sometimes join her in her designing or if she couldn't figure out how to sew something to work the way she wanted it to, or to game together. Jay only joined in playing online with us, but never showed himself for the other stuff unless it was him standing off screen and trying to help us figure out what looked best, and we both respected that.

I also got myself a motorcycle license and bought the same as Jay. So he has a white and red one and a red one, I bought the same but mines are white and green and green. We promised Zoe that after she practiced enough and got super good at it too we'd buy her the same in purple.

She got excited and promised to practice hard and learn the laws of the road and safety by heart.

So that's how we've been driving to school, I drive Zoe in the morning, he does on the way back.

...

We were currently comforting this dude in architecture, we came to visit and hangout with Vasco but ended up in this situation. I gave him some cookies I brought from home and it worked to cheer him up a bit. Have was really thankful for it.

When some guys tried to hit on Zoe and I saw that she was uncomfortable, I quickly stepped in and gave them a death glare. They quickly stopped and apologized to her.

Jace started babbling about first love and all that to cheer up the guy and Zoe also shared her personal experience, with how she liked Daniel but now she got over it since she understood that he wasn't paying attention to her at all or treating her how she deserved, so she stopped liking him, she explained that it was valid for it to be hard because they still had felt something for the person, but that it was okay to move on and understand that you can do better. The guy now looked super energetic and said she was right, they then started a conversation getting to know eachother, becoming friends quickly.

I took Jay to walk over to Vasco and cheer him up. We told him about how it's fine and very normal to not always have experienced first love yet, and to not rush things, because falling in love can't be forced. You just have to keep being yourself and live your life happily.

He got cheered up too and we started joking around as well. I looked over to Jace and motioned to him that everything was going good. He mouthed me a thank you and I responded with a nod.

And that is how we got adopted into burnt knuckles and got known as honorary members, despite not carrying the logo like them. We even started eating with them. Not all members were too happy about it, but I made sure to let them know that even if I did respect them and that they had the freedom to not like us, I would not tolerate any action made against us and would retaliate by both beating the shit out of them, but also by spreading the blackmail material I have on them. I made sure they understood I wasn't joking around and they took it seriously. They started respecting us after that too.

I also busied myself with making sure to glare as threateningly as I could at Yui every time she looked condescending at Zoe. She quickly learned to not do it and just started ignoring her.

In that time, Zoe's streams rapidly started rising in popularity. At first there was mostly creeps, but now the creeps were being overwhelmed by genuine fans, so whenever a creep would rise, they would mob him and beat him down, going as far as stalking all his social medias and finding personal information to shame him everywhere.

We also kept watching Duke's streams on a regular basis, always encouraging him. We let him know at school how much we enjoyed his streams too. Zoe being the most music understanding, she could actually tell him the specifics she liked and stuff she taught he could work on. She also tried promoting him a few times on her own platform. He was now at a steady 30 viewer count, instead of the webtoon's usual 3. Only one of which was us. Also, unlike the webtoon, only a fourth of those were making fun of him, the rest were like us, supportive fans that enjoyed his rap and wasn't ashamed to admit it.

Jiho still ended up proposing for Daniel to help him like in the webtoon, but like in the webtoon, Duke refused, wanting to break through on his own. But unlike the webtoon, the chat erupted in emotional fans, encouraging him, saying that they believed in him and that he could do it. Balloons kept falling on him. I also decided to send some myself, with the message "Never give up king", and I saw Jay's username drop balloons, without a message right after. He dropped one cent more. Zoe laughed at the face I was making. I turned to him and he just silently laughed before pecking my cheek, making me forget  what I was joke mad about.

Zoe laughed and only then did I see that she was recording us, I turned bright red and buried my face in my hands.

...

We were now all sitting in the living room, waiting for Duke's usual stream with our snacks. We set it up so we could watch it on the big screen. It's more comfy.

Jay and I were cuddling, with me laying down with Jay laying on top of me, our legs tangled together. Zoe got used to it quite quickly, teasing us about it every now and then, like ;

"Aww mom and dad are being romanticccc, so heartwarming."

I always blush at the comments but it's never stopped us from doing it at all, quite the contrary. Jay will now team up with her to make me embarrassed as much as possible.

Zoe now barely went back to her house, we met her parents about it and showed and explained the living situation to them, and her mom accepted it. She admitted to feeling guilty for not being too present or not knowing much about her daughter's life or struggles, and Zoe and her had an emotional reconciliation. We now go over to their house for dinner every week and make sure to keep in touch very often so they know how she is. It's going great.

So the stream started and we see Daniel sitting with Duke. Zoe pipes up at this.

"That's nice of him to do this for Duke!"

We agree as we keep watching. The viewer number soon skyrockets, with us contributing to the donations as we usually would. We can't even comment with how fast the chat is going.

Jay doesn't go on a war with Lala with the donations, we just let her be. Thought some random other person goes on the war in our place and she probably ends up broke like in the webtoon.

...

We decided to go out to the convenience store, seeing as we were now 3, the snacks went down faster, we also needed to buy things Zoe specifically liked too.

Going out, we entered as Zack was confronting Yui about her cheating. It was quite the scene, we all just stood back a bit, letting him deal with it.

Dude then suddenly punches her, but before he can kick her, I step in and hold him back.

Zack does his speech and the dude I'm holding back suddenly elbows my stomach really hard before breaking free and rushing Zack, the fight that ensues is like in the webtoon.

Jay comes over to me while Zoe goes to Yui, Daniel handing them the first aid kit with the bruise cream and some tissues for Yui's nose, thankfully not broken.

...

The creep never started harassing Zoe so naturally, he never had any reason to stalk her. So I had perfectly avoided this part of the webtoon. But I did send an anonymous tip to the police with collected evidence that he was neglecting his disabled father, harassing young girls online and stalking Yui, with possible plans to hurt her found in his computer search history.

He got arrested in front of Yui's streaming apartment the same day as the incident. Judging by the signs, he was about to go buy a knife to jump her and her boyfriend, but seeing that they just broke up, if I hadn't tipped the police, she'd have replaced Zoe. And Daniel might have gotten hurt.

...

I went to bed that night, cuddling with Jay as usual, with Zoe safe in the next room.

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