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.

who would stop

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

some air out of

“Hey Alex, Zach calls.

son looks up, leaving the scrambled lego

a reason unknown, Alex has never liked Zach, and he

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to be when you grow

“A fireman.”

new,” Zach comments,

I can light you

on my lips was so instant that I don’t think I I can

huh?” I smirk.

out fire.

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

me. ‘Children usually love me.

he’s the only

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

half day cloud my mind. “If you light people on fire, they will get hurt, badly. They’ll die. Do you want to kill

shakes his

light Uncle Zach on fire, he’ll

Inod

won’t

him, “Now, apologise

“But even you can’t call Skye my cousin. She’s not my sister, and

if I

raises his shoulders, attention shifting back to the

Zach mused. “He wants

smirk. “You know him. He protects everyone

his love to

be okay.”

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

watch him glare at a kid older than him till he leaves the third swing, and how Alex grins when he

hand at her

mother for allowing that? Freckles whispers to

commands my attention in his adorable little

me dada. The other two upgraded to Dad a year

his brown hair. These are the big kid swings. How about I hold you for a bit and let you swing? Do you want to try

couldn’t do that. She did it once when the twins were little but somehow managed to end up getting her hair stuck in the

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