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 stop at nothing? That’s

a wanna-be perfectionist,” I roll my eyes. “I am a natural perfectionist. Don’t

He blows some air out

“Hey Alex, Zach calls.

son looks up, leaving the scrambled lego pieces that he was beginning to assemble.

reason unknown, Alex has never liked

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to be

“A fireman.”

Zach comments, eyebrows

I can light you on

instant that I

huh?” I smirk.

out fire. They don’t cause

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

flutters to me. ‘Children usually love me. Why

the only

light Miss Mary on fire if she

fire in the school when he wanted a half day cloud my mind. “If you light people on fire, they will get hurt, badly. They’ll die. Do

shakes

Uncle Zach on fire,

Inod

won’t

him, “Now, apologise

call Skye my cousin.

you don’t mind if

raises his shoulders, attention shifting back to the

your son.” Zach mused. “He wants to protect my own daughter from

smirk. “You know him.

better keep his love

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

old son flings into my arms when join my wife and them in the park, and Alex runs to Aurora and Skye who were at the

kid older than him till he leaves the third swing, and how

hand at her

I a terrible mother for allowing that? Freckles whispers to

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

who calls me dada. The other two upgraded to Dad a year after Ronan was born, and I hated that they

champ. I tell him, ruffling his brown hair. These are the big kid swings. How about I hold you for a bit and let

the twins were little but somehow managed to end up getting her hair stuck in the ropes, and she

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