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.

wanna-be perfectionist who would

a wanna-be perfectionist,” I roll my eyes. “I am a natural perfectionist.

out of

“Hey Alex, Zach calls.

the scrambled lego pieces that he was beginning

has never liked Zach, and he probably

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you want to be when

“A fireman.”

Zach comments, eyebrows furrowing.

you on

I don’t think I I can

huh?” I smirk.

put out fire. They don’t

I want to be!” He stomps his foot. “So I will be the kind of fireman who lights you

me. ‘Children usually love me.

he’s the only sane

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

when Damien started a fire in the school when he wanted a half day cloud my mind. “If you light people

shakes his

I light Uncle Zach on fire,

Inod

won’t do

I smile at him, “Now,

call Skye my cousin. She’s not my sister, and she gets very upset

you don’t mind if I call Skye your

Alex raises his shoulders, attention shifting back to the

“He wants to

smirk. “You know him.

better keep his

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

join my wife and them in the park, and Alex runs to Aurora

a kid older than him till he leaves the

hand at

mother for allowing that?

commands my attention in his adorable little

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

swings. How about I hold

were little but somehow managed to end up getting her hair stuck

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