#igrievous

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"Xavier, look—our baby.” Lily said looking at Xavier, as she had the newborn boy cradled in her arms. “Xander.” She said softly, looking down at the baby and began to caress his soft cheek. But when Lily looked up to see Xavier’s face one more time, he was gone. He was like a cat, sneaky and quietly left the room. That was no surprise for Lily, though. She wasn’t expecting him to meet with his responsibilities, like he didn’t do it at the beginning of the pregnancy. It was stupid of her to keep her hopes up and thinking that maybe Xavier had changed, that the baby was going to bring out the Xavier that lies underneath all that negativity. Four years have passed now, Xander was already attending preschool and Lily was having mixed emotions—her baby was growing up but too fast. It was a Sunday night and she was cuddle up with her little boy in the couch, watching a Disney movie. “Hey, where you going?” Lily asked between giggles as Xander wiggled himself off the couch and brought a small box he had found under Lily’s bed. “Mommy, what’s in here?” He asked, putting the box in her lap and climbing back to the couch. Lily opened the box and inside were several letters and pictures; most of them were during her pregnant days. “Inside it has letters and pictures, from when I was pregnant with you!” Lily said, poking his tiny nose. Xander put his hand inside the box and began taking out everything one by one, furrowing at the letters since he couldn’t read them but was entertained with the pictures. Lily looked back up at the television, the particular dialogue caught her attention and she had forgotten what Xander was looking at in the box. “Who is this, mommy?” Xander asked. “Huh?” Lily said raising her eyebrows and looked down at the picture that he had taken out. It was a picture of Xavier. “W-Who…?” Lily stuttered, trying to find the words to explain to the boy. “Him mommy!” He said, waving the picture up in her face. “Xavier.” Lily said grabbing his hand and keeping it steady. It was been forever she had seen the face of Xavier and when she looked over at Xander, he had the same image as him. “Xavier?” The boy repeated in a confusion tone, turning the picture to stare at it more carefully. “H-He is your daddy, Xander.” Lily told him, looking down at him to see his expression. “I have a daddy?!” The boy asked in excitement, looking up at Lily. She couldn’t help but chuckle, “Of course!” She said nodding. Xander put the picture down on his lap, “Mommy,” he said in a more serious tone, in which caught her by surprise. “Does daddy love me?” Lily felt a knot on her throat, she wasn’t expecting that. “Y-Yes, baby—daddy loves you a lot.” She said, placing down a kiss on his forehead. “And why isn’t he here with us?” He asked, looking up at her. He was asking too much and this frighten her. “I don’t know—I ask myself the same thing.” Lily sighed, grabbing the control and turning the television off. “Time for bed, you have school tomorrow.” She said, grabbing the picture off his hand and the rest of the papers, putting it inside the box. “And no more looking through mommy’s things, got it?” She said, raising her eyebrows at him. Xander nodded and softly giggled, making her smile again. “Let’s get you ready for bed.” Lily stood up from the couch and picked up Xander, taking him to the room to get him settled for bed.Lily had a restless night, she wasn’t expecting for Xander to know about Xavier that soon in his life but she tried to keep the conversation positive, not wanting him to grow up to think that Xavier hated him or something. But it beginning of another week, Lily had her day off but she still had to wake up to get Xander ready for preschool. “Wakey, wakey!” She said, kneeling down to his small bed and began to tickle him. “Hi mommy!” He said between giggles, trying to push her hands away. “Time for school.” She said, pulling the covers away from him and getting him out of bed. They did their daily morning routine and now they were seated in the kitchen table having some delicious breakfast. “Be right back,” she said, getting up from the table and walking over to the room to get her bag. She took out her phone and was checking up her notification. She sighed seeing the voicemail and she figured they had probably called her for work. Walking back to the kitchen, she placed the phone in her hear to listen to the recording message meanwhile she stared at Xander as he was finishing up his waffles. Suddenly, the phone slipped out of her hand and a shock expression was planted in her face. “Mommy are you okay?” Xander asked, looking over at her. “I-I’m fine.” Lily said, shaking her head and picking up her phone. “Finish eating sweetie, we are almost leaving.” Lily looked down at her phone and even from far away distance from her ear, she can hear the voicemail being played over and over again. "I’m Coming Home." were the three words that made her body tense up. And it wasn’t necessarily the words, but the voice that deliver it. She couldn’t forget that voice, the voice that she had heard in different tones as well: pleasure, anger, annoyance, happiness, and disbelief. It was hard to think that he was going to return, that he was actually going to step back to their lives. “I’m ready!” Xander shouted, spooking her from her thoughts. Lily looked down at him and tried to pull off a smile. “Let’s go, I’ll grab your backpack.” She said, following him as he began to open the door and she grabbed his backpack from the hook. “Don’t move.” She said, as she turned to lock the door—"Four years ago, you ran away from your responsibilities. But that wasn’t what hurt the most—what hurt is that you were willing to leave a baby without his father. To not give him the love he needed and taught him the things a father should have done. He had to grow up seeing other boys and girls having both parents, meanwhile he suddenly ate his feelings and didn’t bother to even mention it. You missed his first steps, his first word, and his first day of preschool. And if you’re curious to now, his first word was daddy. Because I used to talk to him about you before he was able to completely understand what I am talking about.”—”Daddy!" Xander suddenly shouted excitedly pointing towards the street. Lily tried to process the word Xander had just shouted it. And she quickly turned around, looking down at Xander and then following where his finger was pointing at—In the sidewalk, Xavier was standing there.

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currently we are continuing both our novels via yim by roleplaying a scene that will be included in both our novels 

we didn't consider the fact that mine is modern whereas his is medieval nor did we need to it is going just fine thanks u-u