chapter 3 : familial issues

' it's truly a miracle that I'm still an only child ' I thought while I took my seat at the dinner table,

trying to ignore the sweet atmosphere. unfortunately my parents made that utterly impossible by seating me between them every meal , and so my daily overdose of sugar is coming.

First a high dosage of " juli my baby, you look so cute in that " followed by a hug from mom .

my father is ... well , at least I know who I got my light narcissism from .

" of course dear he is OUR son how can HE not be handsome ? " he always uses me to feed his ego and compliment my mom making her smile even sweeter ugggh .

mind you , this is not a 9ne time thing , this happens every time they are together, and I know for a fact they are truly Madley in love with each other, ' but does love decrease the brain cells? are all people in love the same and why do the maids looks hurt so much damn it !! '

they continued their banter for a while and I had to take out my Trump card to silence the annoying love birds .

" mom , dad , you promised me a little sister, where is she ? " and finally some much needed silence.

I started eating like nothing happened and left everyone frozen in place and all eyes turned to my beet red squirming mess of a mother , while a weird smile formed on my father's lips.

when I notice the strange silence and didn't receive the usual answer ' sweetie, we are working very hard on that , so very soon ' I turned to my mother and apparently that very soon finally came and mom said " you will have a sibling very very soon honey, so you won't feel lonely anymore " .

... I guess they took my words seriously

' not what I intended , but hey I can finally leave the only child status behind and become an elder brother to a cute sister... or brother, let me send a prayer to whoever is up there to get a sister' .

I and all the servants in the room were truly happy and I huged my parents with a great smile on my face while praying for a sister .

don't get me wrong, I want a brother as well but when I close my eyes and imagine a mini version of mom tottering her way to me calling me and smiling, It just changes my priorities.

I'm glad that my parents truly love each other and me , I'm glad to finally get something I didn't have in the past, a true harmonious family .

After a quick celebration and my father announcing that he will pay the bill for every Inn, tavern and food stall for the rest of the night, everyone was tired so my mother went to sleep first while my father pulled me to his study for some reason.

and the first thing he told with serious mask is

" son , there alot of things you don't know about your mother and a lot of things you are too young to understand, but know this , in case something happens to me , you must take care of your mother , no matter what "

I've honestly never seen him this serious, it brought shivers down my spine but I nodded non the less .

After a brief silence he continued " in the next few months it's highly likely that we will face the wrath of ceto , and this city will be folded with the starving sea monsters that come to have their feast of blood , so I will be busy preparing for that day " . and after seeing me nod my head he took me to my room .

along the way I was plagued with questions

'where did this all come from ?'

'wrath of who now ?'

'oh right it's that event where the sea monsters stat rampaging and our territory fleet must repel them and protect the kingdom.

but why was he so serious, I heard from mother that's more of a fishing festival than a fight with my dad being here ' I was puzzled but decided to put this aside for now cause I knew I wasn't getting any answers today

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(A/N) Well this chapter is all over the place 😐

I'm really not satisfied with the jarring shift in tone at the end but it was necessary cause I plan for the next few chapters to tie it all together

I'm also thinking of cutting out the info dump bullshit out of future chapters and just making a glossary that will be updated when necessary.

I'd love some feedback as well , thanks to everyone who stuck with me and I wish you all a happy day