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.

shrugs. “A wanna-be perfectionist who would stop at

eyes. “I am a natural perfectionist. Don’t

air out of

“Hey Alex, Zach calls.

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

Alex has never liked Zach, and he probably

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do you want to be when you

“A fireman.”

Zach comments, eyebrows furrowing.

light you on fire.

I don’t think I I can even

huh?” I smirk.

put out fire.

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

‘Children usually love me. Why is your

he’s the only sane kid

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

day cloud my mind.

shakes

Zach on fire,

Inod

I won’t do

smile at him, “Now, apologise

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

if I

raises his shoulders, attention shifting back to

like your son.” Zach mused. “He wants

“You know him. He

his

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

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

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

hand at

mother for allowing that? Freckles whispers to Anna,

my attention in his adorable little

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

swings. How about I hold you for a bit and let you swing? Do

do that. She did it once when the twins were little but somehow managed to end

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