Date Tuesday, August 6th, 2261

  The day.

  Getting up from bed as usual, I ran through my m routine and sat down at my desk.

  Today is my eleventh birthday, but it's only around 2:00 in the m, so I have quite a lot of time. That said, I'm uo go to the Genesis Foundry today because of what's today, not to mention tomorrow which will also be occupied by Alice's birthday. Thus, the question is, what do I want to get dohis m?

  I have about five hours before aarts waking up. I could go workout like I usually do… Hmm, actually I'ma ge things up today and study. I don't normally study in the early m, but I feel as if I'm on the cusp of finishing my Seeker Of Knowledge quest, therefore I might as well see if I 't get that pleted.

  Deade, I booted up my desktop and got to it, going from one subject to another, learning and soaking up all the knowledge that was avaible on the uy web. The moment the hour mark rolled around, I heard a ding and got a notification from my system, notifyihat I had finally accumuted enough knowledge.

  *Ding*

  [Quest has been pleted]

  Looks like I'm dohering knowledge from the uy web. Guess I'll have to raise my skills via my own efforts and ing across new information out in the wastend from this point forward. There could be some hidden databases in the uy that might tain more advanced information that could help advance my skills. However, I believe my time would be better spent elsewhere.

  Thankfully, I have multiple things I want to research, such as removing the ive side effeaxigen. So it won't be all that difficult to tinue improving my intelligend more scy-based skills. As for my bat skills, those will certainly experience a sizable jump, although how big that jump will be depeirely on how many molemen I end up exterminating.

  Now when do I want to undergo my level up, I could wait until after both mine and Alice's birthdays, thereby pushing it off until the 8th of August… Yeah, I've deyed it this long already, I wait a couple more days.

  Pnning to level up on the eighth, I left my room behind a downstairs to workout since I had nothier to do while everyone was recharging their batteries. I spent the following four hours putting myself through the metaphorical meat grinder, occasionally iing myself with medstims to speed up my body's regeion speed. Which I say for certain at this point from my experiend research accelerates my gains massively.

  From my gym sesh, I proceeded back up to my bedroom auro bed again, rejoining Alice for a bit, at least until she woke up. As I id there with little to do, I ran and pyed out numerous sarios of what I may experiend or enter when I depart on my molemeermination mission. I did that for an unknown number of minutes until I sehe sleepiy beside beginning to wake with my perception field.

  The time to end the current sario, I was imagining here involving a three-way war between the molemen, myself, and a massive of rock scorpions. I looked at Alid greeted her brightly. "Morniiful."

  "Good m, handsome." She returned, smiling.

  Good ms out of the way, the two of us spent a few minutes chilling and chatting when Alice suddenly spoke up and said. "Stay right here, Dom. I'll be right back."

  Right as she got up and pnted her feet on our bedroom floor, she sped out of the room. No more than a mier, she returned just as quickly with a ed gift box held behind her back.

  "Happy birthday, darling. I hope you like what I got you." She said, presenting a purple-ed box tied with a red bow while looking at me expetly.

  "Thanks, babe, I'm sure I'll like it."

  Taking the present from her, I undid the bow and lifted the top. What id within was a sharp-lookiallic , and attached to said was a rge old cross pendant. Intrigued, I looked the cross over curiously. After sing the front, I flipped it over and saw it had a text of an unknown nguage inscribed upon its surface.

  "This pendant is very old, and the text inscribed on its back is from a nguage I haven't seen before. Where'd you get this from?"

  Curious about its ins, I looked forward to hearing her response.

  "I went out with my mom looking fift for you the other day, but I know you already have just about everything you could want, and the things I know you desire are beyond what I give you. So my mom came up with the idea of going to the explorers' market to see if we couldn't find something uhat was brought back from the wastend."

  "After sc the market food number of hours, we eventually came across a store hidden far in the back of the market, where this pendant was on dispy. When I saw the cross, I could immediately tell it was extraordinarily old, as you said, if not a."

  "So, finding nothing else that piqued my i up to this point, I picked it up and checked it out. As soon as I saw the text on the backside, I didn't reize it from any of the characters or symbols belonging to any of the nguages you've learned previously. When I realized that I knew I found something special."

  "Thus I bought it ahat same day my dad told me that wearing a cross was believed to be able to provide their wearers with prote. Once I learned of that I went to a jeweler with mom and bought a to attach it to, so even if you don't ever decipher the characters at least it will protect you from harm. I know it really 't do that, but I think it's the thought that ts."

  "You sure put in a lot of effort to find me a special gift. Thank you, Alice. I appreciate the thought you put into it, and even if we don't think the cross protect me, I'll be sure to wear it from here on out, just in case." I said, bringing it over my head and wearing it.

  Alice smiled, happy to see I liked the gift. Pg the y box off to the side, I looked towards her and told her. "Alice, e here for a sec."

  Looks like it's about time I've advahings again. She has been pushing for this for a while and I've shot down several of her attempts in the past, but I don't believe I do it forever. So I guess it's time to go to the stage, though this will be the final oil she's an adult.

  My legs hanging off the side of the bed, she approached me and the sed she was within range of my grasp; I pulled her to me. With her now mounting my p, the two of us face to face. She appeared surprised initially, but that didn't st and she quickly transitioo looking me in the eye expetly with her clear aquamarine like colored eyes. Leaning down a slight bit, I pnted a kiss on her luscious, red lips.

  This isn't something I really want to do, but I 't keep rejeg her advances infinitely without repercussions. If I kept it up, it could hurt her mentally and possibly cause her to drift away from me. I care for my partner in crime so I'd much prefer not to cause her harm nor lose her when all I have to do is give in a little to her advances and make myself unfortable every now and again until she and I are both of age.

  I haven't been this close to anyone ever before, not even in my past life thus if this is all I have to do to make sure she's happy and things tio go smoothly I'm more than willing to put myself in this unfortable position. That said, I'm sure as she develops physically it'll bee increasingly easier overtime.

  As I was having these thoughts, I whispered in her ear. "I really like your present, babe. Thanks again." Saying what I wao say, I pulled back, leaving Alice blushing up to her ears.

  "Y-you're wele darling." She embarrassedly stuttered out.

  Alice looked expetly at me to see if I would push the boundaries between her and I any further. Unfortunately for her, that wasn't happening today nor anytime soon, so she got up and headed into the bathroom to cool off while I chilled on the bed thinking of the near as well as the far future. Unbeknownst to me while I was pting the cross, Alice had just gifted me started lighting up slightly with a nearly unnoticeable magical gleam running across the runic-like text every on a while.

  The rest of the m ent with Alid the family until my mom said it was time to go meet up with everyo Dave's Fun Zone, which was simply a mashup of a rge restaurant, bar, and arcade. When we arrived at the pce, my two buds, Big Tom and Bob, were there as well as their parents and Alice's own.

  Following some chatter amongst everyone, but mostly the adults, everyohered and sat down at a rge table to have a big meal. After filling up, the adults did their own thing while we kids ran off to the arcade to py and have fun with the wide sele of games they had avaible.

  We spent practically half a day there before things were eventually ed up and everyo on their way home. Another successful and fun-filled birthday had we turned in for the night.

  ...

  The day when I woke, I went and hit the gym, though not before I took care of the things I routinely did every m.

  Five hours ter, I returo Alid when she began to stir from her sleep; I said. "Good m, babe. I hope you slept well."

  "M, darling, I slept like a rock. What about you?"

  "Good as usual."

  She and I made small talk with each other for a couple of minutes before she wandered off to the bathroom. She came back mier and rejoined me on the bed, so I reached down uhe bed and pulled out the present I had prepared for her special day.

  I put a lot of work into this present; I hope it doesn't disappoint.

  "Happy birthday, Alice. Here I got you a little something."

  Presenting the red gift box to her, she took it into her hands and unraveled the yellow bow holding its top in pce. Once she lifted the top off the small ring I painstakingly spent hours making, came into view.

  "I know it may not seem like much, but I spent many hours making it personally by hand. I hope you like it." I said before she started tearing up.

  "It's not that ugly, is it?"

  "No, of course not. I love it." She responded emotionally, brushing away the fey tears that had appeared.

  Relieved, I said. "Phew, you had me going there for a sed."

  Alice giggled and looked at me and asked sweetly. " you put it on for me, darling?"

  "I ."

  Taking the ring into my right hand, I held her fair left hand with my own and brought the ring near. Already knowing what finger she most desired it to be pced upon, I slid the silver ring that grasped a singur rge blood-colored ruby I had personally mao locate within the walls of the mio her finger.

  "It looks good, babe. Almost as if it always belohere." I ented before being jumped by aional and exceptionally happy Alice.

  She locked lips with my own, surprisih how aggressive and assertive she was. I let her have her way for a bit before she seemed to want to take it up another notch, more than what I was willing to allow, given our individual ages.

  Separating from her, she was breathing heavily, btantly dispying her desire within her gaze.

  Not wanting to bee a father at the young age of eleven, I told her straight. "That's as far as we're gonna go Alice, you'll have to wait till we're both older before we cross that line."

  Disappointed, she sighed aed. "Oh, alright."

  "But this doesn't mean I won't still keep trying to tempt you." She tinued while attempting to be seductive.

  Her underdeveloped charm failing to affect me, I responded. "Have at it, Alice, though I don't think you'll have any ce. Maybe you'll be able to succeed when your womanly charm and figure fully develop, but until then, as I said previously, your ces are near ent."

  My words seemed to do little to nothing to sway her determination to keep pushing further. Spending the followihere in the bedroom, we soo it for the living room. Upon arriving, my mom Jane immediately locked onto the new ring that appeared on Alice's ring finger.

  I expected her to say something, however, she just looked my way and shot me thumbs up while mouthing great job and looking pleased as be. Dad ter took notice of it as well, although much ter and just told me, "You're learning early son, good job. A happy wife is a happy life. Never fet that it will help you immensely in your future.".

  The family, along with Alice's, eventually gathered and headed to a simir pce as yesterday. Meeting the same family and friends as the previous day there, we went through a very simir experie least until Alice wao go to a movie theater nearby. No oook issue with that suggestion, or if they did, they didn't voice it. Hence, we ed things up where we were ahere .

  After many hours of fun, everyoually called it quits at 10:00 PM aurned home, turning in for the night.

  "Goodnight, darling." Alice wished me as she grasped onto my left arm.

  "Goodnight, babe." I wished her back, pnting a pe her forehead to earn some additional brownie points.

  Getting a sweet giggle from her, the two of us quickly fell asleep, ending our yearly event-filled two days here.