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Chapter 0201
“Thank you” I say
We get back to work and eventually finish cooking. They both help me set the table and
we sit down to
eat..
With the three of us, or should I say four, we almost clean everything, but I put my foot
down for some left overs. Calvin was probably going to come home tired and hungry. He
won’t have time to cook something.
After dinner, I make them shower and then it is off to bed for them.
It was after they were asleep that the idea came to me. I had a five bedroom house. There
was still an extra room even after turning one of them into a nursery. The last remaining
bedroom could be Gunner’s
room.
He could sleep there anytime he was over and it could also be his safe space while he was
here. I quickly
get excited about the idea. Immediately I take a note pad and started scribbling down
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtwhat I would need.
I’ll have to ask Calvin for permission, but I was sure he’d agree. Well I hoped he would.
Plus he’ll be helpful when it comes to the design of the room. He knows Gunner better
than anyone. He’ll know what
he likes.
I was just finishing up the list of essentials when the doorbell rang. I wiggle up and go to
open it, pretty sure that it will Calvin on the door. I wasn’t
wrong
“Hi” I tell him.
“Hi to you too” he says, giving me a tired smile.
I step aside and he comes in. We move to the living room.
“It’s quiet. Are they asleep?” he asks
“Yes”
I didn’t know what to say. I had so many question, but I was afraid of stepping out of
boundary.
“About today? Gunner was crying because of his mother” I start slowly.
The moment I say those words, his face turns stone cold.
Don’t mention that bitch to me again! She has done nothing, but hurt me and my son over
and over again. What kind of woman abandons her son? I get and understand that she
doesn’t love me and she never will, it hurts, but I learned to accept that. Turning her back
on Gunner is something else. I will never
Unrequited love. Wasn’t it just a bitch? I’ve suffered through it since I first fell for Rowan. I
didn’t want my friend to go through it, but it looks like he has.
“Every time i call and she refuses to come see Gunner kills me. He is amazing, yet his
mother wants nothing to do with him. I tried hiding it from him, but as he got older he
started to understand things. He started to understand that his mother doesn’t want him
and she wants nothing to do with him. Fuck I hate her so much, but I also can’t stop loving
her” he says before continuing. Pain radiating from his eyes.
“I want to give Gunner the world, but the one thing he wants is totally out of my reach. I
regret ever falling in love with her. Regret ever meeting her. But the thing is, regretting her
means regretting Gunner and that
is one thing I can never do”
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmWhere have I heard those words from? Yeah from my own l*ps. Didn’t I tell Rowan the
same thing? That
as much as I want to regret him, I can’t because it means regretting Noah.
“I don’t have the right words for you. Hell. Our situations are the same, but different at the
same time. All I can tell you is; be there for Gunner as best as you can. Love him so much
that he doesn’t miss the love of his mother. Show him that he is enough and that it’s his
mother’s loss not his”
Those are the only words I can offer. I wanted to say more, but I didn’t have the words to
comfort him. He nods his head and we stay in silence.
“Thank you, Ava. For being there for me and my son” he says after a while.
“You’re welcome”
After, he leaves carring Gunner’s sleeping form and the food I saved for h
Hours after he leaves. Hours after I go to bed. Gunner’s smile still haunts my mind. His
smile and his mysterious mother invade my every thought.
There was something I was missing. If only I could piece the pieces together then maybe I
could figure
I out why this whole issue bothers me so F***ing much. Maybe I can figure out why my
mind won’t give me piece concerning the matter.
Evelyn M.M
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