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.

perfectionist who would stop at nothing?

eyes.

some air out of his

“Hey Alex, Zach calls.

the scrambled lego pieces that he was beginning to assemble.

never liked Zach, and he probably never

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want to be when you

“A fireman.”

new,” Zach comments, eyebrows

light you on

lips was so instant that I don’t think I I can even discipline

huh?” I smirk.

“Firemen put out fire.

to be!” He stomps his foot. “So

flutters to me. ‘Children usually love

shrug. “Maybe he’s the

fire if she tells me again that I shouldn’t

from when Damien started a fire in the school when he wanted a half day cloud my mind. “If you light people on fire, they will get

shakes

Uncle Zach on fire, he’ll

Inod

won’t

at him, “Now,

my cousin. She’s not my sister,

don’t mind if I

shifting back to

Zach mused. “He wants to protect my

smirk. “You know him.

his

be okay.” I laugh, and Zach frowns, an equation I

when join my wife and them in

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

daje her hand

a terrible mother for allowing that? Freckles whispers

in his adorable little voice. “Mama said no swing! Only

other two upgraded to Dad a year after Ronan was born, and I hated

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

do that. She did it once when the twins were little but somehow managed to end up getting her hair stuck in the ropes, and she swore

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