Chapter 84
Two weeks later, at a few days over two months, Alex rolled for the first time. He didn’t completely roll, he jerked his body to the side looking at the sound emitting toy I’d kept there and accidentally fell on his tummy. Hence, a “roll.”
1, who was grabbing a new onesie for him after bathing him, froze.
The paediatrician had told us that they would begin rolling after three months but he’d just turned two.
Gabriel had grinned so wide, and announced his son was an ‘overachiever’.
I spent a week explaining to him that it was a one-off, that he didn’t actually mean to roll, it was accidental, but that man was a proud father who wanted to celebrate.
That’s h
‘s how we found ourselves in the city despite my hundred protests. With the twins both tucked in the backseat in their car seats, strollers packed in the boot and Gabriel driving, we were here at a fancy diner of his choice.
I looked at the twins and then at him. “Are we sure this is a celebration for the babies?”
“No, they’re too young for a celebration,” he grinned, looking up from the menu he had his face buried in. “This celebration
is for us.
“Us?” I control the urge to roll my eyes.
“Yeah. We made something awesome. Actually, two somethings.
I laugh, cringing. “Only you can say something like that.”
“And it’s pretty here,” he adds. I sigh. Between the top floor diner with glass walls overlooking the city lights and the private section we were left in so that I can have privacy to feed the twins when I need, it was pretty. Pretty… extravagant. Couldn’t fault him there.
After we place our orders, I ask him something I have been meaning to ask for weeks now. “How was your time like? In London?”
He looks at me like he was surprised at the question, and answers while his index finger is still held in Aurora’s little hand. “It was…” He paused, as if he was forcing himself to say the next word. “Lonely,”
“Lonely?”
“You know I rode the subway there instead of taking the car? It’s called the tube there, though.”
“You did?” I asked, ignoring the last part.
“In the early days of our marriage, when I had to go to a meeting and Alister asked me to take you with me, you offered to take the subway instead of bothering me,” he recalled, a gentle smile on his lips.
“I remember.” My expressions mirror his. “The meeting was at Arthur’s and you really didn’t want me there.”
“Now you know why,” he deadpanned.
“I do, I giggle, fondly remembering the early months of our marriage, the time where I fell in love with him. “I also remember you called me middle class for wanting to use the subway.”
the slightly sad smile on his lips. “I used the tube there because I thought if there was a
finish his sentence for him
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worked with there, I asked for the list of financial analysts
purse. “I didn’t really work a lot,” I murmur, “I was sort of busy
to find you except check my voicemails, he joked, and I can’t help but smile at the irony. “I don’t know how I
change numbers,
of sparkling water, and I raise mine of regular water. I couldn’t have alcohol since I was breast feeding, and someone was giving me company by giving up all the things I couldn’t have. Coffee, by far, was
a silent acknowledgement of all that we had gone through, and somehow we were still sitting across from each other as a family, which we’ll always
months worth of stories to share, and you need
eyes look when he ignited the car. He had been staying up nights to let me sleep as much as I can, and the twins’ schedule had been exhausting on both of us. That, and the coffee withdrawal for
quite tired.” He
drive?” I
“Aren’t you tired too?”
all the way to the city for just a dinner was a
place we can stay over for the night,” he reluctantly offers, “If you’re okay with
both awake but not crying. They’d be hungry any time soon though, owing it had been two hours since I fed them. “Are you referring to
“That’s been shut
had like a million house
of jobs, Freckles. I repositioned them at
nod twice. “Okay then. To this other place where we can
smug smile as he drives off, and the place he was talking about wasn’t as far as I had expected from the main
it. It was warm
had and the wrap-around porch. I followed hum inside the wooden doors to the warm homely passage leading to a living room
house is this?”
“You like it?”
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the couch, admiring my surroundings, the modern furniture with a traditional touch that still looked intricately designed, but at least it
from me, Alex placed
asked, and I shake my head. “Let me tell you.” The grin that spreads on his lips is smug, and he calls out,
shut rooms opens and
of this house?” I joke before turning to her “What’re you even doing
care of the babies
takes little Aurora from my hand and sits next to Alex.
extended one, and let him take me through the house- the master bedroom with a his and her wardrobe, the kitchen with a rustic brick wall and open counter, an extra room, a room that is uncharacteristically empty, and then
finally question him when we get back to the wrap around porch. “Gabriel,” I whisper, stopping him at the
you aren’t impressed by
impressed.”
I release the breath I didn’t know I was holding. “Did
entrance?”
didn’t want to walk anymore 1 let him take me to the gate, where the wall of the
Sophia.
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