Alex POV:
I was on the couch with John on my lap,playing with his hair we were watching Mulan. Philip was at school and we should pick him up in about 1 hour.
Philip's 9 but really smart for his age, we couldn't be prouder. I remember the day we met at the orphanage.
"I hope the kids don't mind us..." John mumbled as we walked into the orphanage. I smile at him and kissed his cheek "I'm sure they won't mind peaches" "Right, you're right Lex." "Aren't I always?" I said with a smirk. "Oh shush" he said punching my arm.
We were greeted by a woman with dirty blonde hair,she explained some things and then showed us to the room with children. I saw John's eyes lighten up at the sight.
"Who should we talk to?" John whispered. I scan the room and see a boy that looks about the age of 4 scribbling on a piece of paper very,very aggressively. "You wanna see him?" He whispers again making me hold in a laugh, why was he whispering? I have no clue but I nod
" Yeah, I'd like to see what he's scribbling with that much passion." "John laughs lightly and holds my hand as we walk to the kid.
"Hi." John says crouching a little bit to see his scri- drawing. The little boy looks up from his work and looks at John. His face was splattered with freckles, he had hazel eyes and his hair was a brown goldish color and a mess, his hair was covering one of his eyes and he blowed it away to look at us.
"Hi!, my name's Philip what's yours?"
"My name's Alexander, And that's my husband John."
"Hi Alex!, Hi John!" Philip said giving us a huge toothy grin.
John and I looked at each other and we knew he was the one.
I smile at the memory and glance at John. He was singing I'll make a man out of you. I checked the time, we'll have to pick Philip up now.
"John?" "Hm?" "We have to go pick Philip up love." "Already? Dang well let's go?" "You don't have to tell me twice." I said grabbing the car keys. John followed me grabbing a cardigan.
"You cold?" I ask taking a mint from my pocket. "Yeah, It's getting pretty cold." I just nod and wait for him to put his shoes on.
Once we're in the car, John starts the engine and drives to Pip's school.
The ride is silent, a comfortable silence.
The silence is sometimes broken with John's humming.
Once we're there I get out of the car and John followed suit. We waited for Philip whilst holding hands. I couldn't wait to see Philip, he'd always say what happened at school with excitement.
I smiled at the memory, Suddenly there was a sort of explosion in the school. My eyes widened and felt John's grip on me tighten. John looked at me with worry in his eyes. "What was that..?" He asked. "I don't know, let's go check."
John nodded and we ran inside the school, we were stopped by some firefighters. When did they arrive? "I'm afraid you can't go in." Johns eyes widened at his words "Why not?! My son is in there! What happened!?" The firefighter looked at the clipboard in his hands. "There's a fire, it was caused by some chemicals mixing in each other"
"Is my son okay?" John said crying. I was holding back my tears hoping that Philip would just come running in my arms. "Hopefully yes, we're doing our best, not a lot of kids have been injured"
John nodded and we waited for Philip to come. We could hear cries not sad ones, happy ones. They have their kid back. I thought to myself. More and kids came out but no sign of Philip.
A firefighter announced that there were no kids left. John started sobbing "P-Philip! H-he's still in there! A-Alex! What a-about Philip!?" I wrapped John in my arms and started crying with him
"I-I dont know..." We continued crying our hearts out. My son, he hasn't even had the chance to live and he's gone. My son he died.
I haven't updated in a long time sorry about that.
