Chapter 89

Alex and Aurora: Age over 6 years

GABRIEL

I watched as Alex stomped his feet, frustrated about something I couldn’t quite point at.

“I don’t like this?” He muttered under his breath, watching the leg he had been building for days. He was always low on patience, and lego was definitely not his choice of toy but Sophia and me had gotten it on purpose, hoping to instil some

calm in him.

He wasn’t too happy about the impromptu gift we had gotten hien but had been building it any way to not break his mother’s heart.

1 blinked, looking at the hundred pieces car set.

“I think it’s alright,” I comment from behind, “Just the door seems a little off. You might want to remove that black piece and interchange it with the red one.”

Alex looks at both the pieces as if taking in my suggestion with a lot of consideration before he picks up the toy and throws it down with so much force, all pieces fall apart. Then, he grins

I shake my head, sighing.

Zach, who had been watching the scene unfold with amused eyes, laughs, his head falling back.

He only shuts up when I glare at him. It’s a rule Sophia and I had made, to not laugh when he does something like this in case he takes it as encouragement. ⠀

“Why would you do that, Alex?” I ask.

“You said it was alright.

“Yeah. Alright’s a good thing”

“But, his eyebrows furrow, “Miss Mary taught us in class that alright is average.”

“Average is good, I add again.

“No.” He announces, “I don’t like average. I want to be the best.”

I shake my head again and my best friend grins. “Your son,” Zach’s smile was so wide, it showed all his teeth, “No patern test needed.”

I glare at him.

“A wanna-be perfectionist who

perfectionist,” I roll my eyes. “I am

out of his mouth

“Hey Alex, Zach calls.

lego pieces that

reason unknown, Alex has never liked Zach, and he

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want to be when you

“A fireman.”

comments, eyebrows

I can light you on fire.

that spreads on my lips was so instant that I don’t think I I can even discipline him on

huh?” I smirk.

frowns. “Firemen put out

said I can be whatever I want to be!” He stomps his foot. “So I will

usually love me.

“Maybe he’s the

me again, “Can I light Miss Mary on fire if she tells me again that I shouldn’t be

started a fire in the school when he wanted a half day cloud my mind.

son shakes his

Zach on fire,

Inod

won’t do

at him, “Now, apologise to

can’t call Skye my cousin. She’s not my sister, and she gets

mind if I call Skye your

shifting back to the disassembled lego

Zach mused. “He wants to protect my own

“You know him. He protects everyone he

his love to

think they’ll be okay.” I laugh, and Zach frowns, an

years old son flings into my arms when join my wife and them in the park, and Alex runs to

till he leaves the third swing, and how Alex grins when

her hand at

allowing that? Freckles whispers to Anna, who

commands my attention in his adorable little voice. “Mama said no

Dad a year after Ronan was born, and I hated that they were

I tell him, ruffling his brown hair. These are the big kid swings. How about I hold

once when the twins were little but somehow managed to end up getting

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