The End of a Contract - Xiao X Reader

37 : Celebration

am back and have c1 yoimiya hehhehehehheheehh p.s. just a heads up, this is a long chapter !! 3K words !!

Y/N'S POV

I am suddenly awoken by someone shaking me awake.

Who dares disturb my sleep...

I crack open an eye to see Qiqi beside me shaking my arm and telling me to wake up. I try to get up but the sweet warmth of the bed calls me...

No ! I must be a good parent and see what Qiqi has to say... so, even though I didn't want to, I sat up on my bed and asked Qiqi what's wrong.

She only smiled at me and jumped happily.

I tilted my head in confusion before she finally answers.

"Did you forget ? Today's the Lantern Rite !"

Although her excitement is infectious, the festival doesn't start until the afternoon a quick peek at the clock says it's only 7 in the morning.

I tiredly sigh at how she woke me up so early but can only smile and laugh it off. Who am I to blame her for being excited ? But if I'm gonna suffer from waking up early, I'm not gonna be the only one !

I come closer to Qiqi's face and quietly whisper in her ear.

"Go wake up Papa Xiao too !"

He's a pretty deep sleeper so he wasn't woken up by Qiqi's attempts to wake me up despite sleeping righ next to me. And as much as I would love to wake him up myself... I'm sure he'll get mad at me and not talk to me for the whole morning if I did.

He won't get mad at Qiqi though !

I quickly get off the bed to let Qiqi get closer to Xiao and I just watch with an evil smile as Qiqi shakes Xiao awake. When he opens his eyes an obvious look of annoyance is on his face, but his expression quickly softens when he sees Qiqi.

"What's up ? Why did you wake me up so early Qiqi ?"

"Because today's the Lantern Rite ! And Y/N told me to !"

Welp. I've been busted.

Xiao glares at me for a second but then quickly laughs it off.

"Let's go have breakfast then."

Qiqi exaggeratedly nods and walks out of the room. Xiao stands up from the bed and walks over to me. He pins me to the wall and whispers in my ear.

"I'll get you back for this..."

"Try me."

I say with a cheeky grin. Xiao laughs and smiles.

"Let's go, Qiqi's waiting."

I nod and walk to the kitchen with Xiao, I quickly start preparing food while Xiao entertains Qiqi.

After that we spend an hour just lounging around. I've noticed Qiqi's taken an interest to painting lately so I bought her some acrylics and she's just having the time of her life. She's honestly quite talented and I just hope she doesn't forget how to paint...

We all started to get ready for the festival and knew it was time when we heard loud cheers from outside.

I looked over at Xiao and Qiqi one more time just to make sure they looked good for tonight. Xiao was wearing a simple white polo with black slacks that had small dragon designs on them. He wanted to button his polo up all the way but I convinced him to leave 3 buttons open because 'it's hot outside.' Wink wink.