Before The Sun Sets (ManxMan)

◼ Nine

9. There's something about Jhoni

Adam pushed into George's room and he had to bite down on his bottom lip to push back his sob. George was on his bed, his glasses on as he tried to wipe his tears underneath it with his fingers.

"Darling..."

"Poppy..."

Adam got on the bed and pulled George next to him and pressed kisses to his hair. He gently pulled off George's glasses and placed it beside him. He cups his son's face.

"Darling... I love you."

"Do you really, Poppy? Because dad used to say the same thing to me?"

"No, love. I love you. I adore you and I will for a long time. I will until I die. Even after I die, I will keep loving you and watching over you." Adam promised, using his thumb to wipe his son's face. Adam doesn't even notice he, himself, was already tearing up.

"You're crying, Poppy."

"Really?" Adam asked and sniffed. George reached out for his father and wiped his fathers tears with his fingers. Adam grabbed onto them and pressed kisses to it.

"I love you so much! I am never going to leave you. To leave your brothers and sister behind. I love you all too much to. You are my children, you are a part of me."

"I am also a part of Dad too."

"Your Dad is going through some things but that doesn't mean he doesn't love you. He just doesn't know how to say it." 

"Are you going to stay with him? You're not gonna get divorced like Stacey's parents?"

Stacey was one of George's classmates. Her parents divorce had been messy and loud and had also involved screaming matches at the school. Adam remembers trying to explain the meaning of divorce to George and Bella. Back then he never knew he was going to get to this point. To a point where divorce was an option in his marriage to Jensen.

"I don't know, Georgie."

"You told me parents break up when they don't love each other again. Is that what you're gonna do with dad? Do you still love dad?"

Adam looks into his son's big blue eyes as he spoke. "I love your dad with my heart, my soul and every atom of my being." The but I don't know if he feels the same is hanging in the air between them.

"I don't like the way he treats you."

"What do you know about the way he treats me?"

"You're always alone at night and the other day he kissed someone who wasn't you."

Jhoni was actually right. They had all seen it.

"I don't know what to tell you, Georgie. I don't even know how to explain it to myself even but I won't do anything without the interest of all four of you." Adam said, tears threatening to spill.

"I wanna go with you. Stacey has to stay with her Mum and she doesn't like her. But I like you. I love you. Don't make me go with daddy."

"Baby.... shhh..." Adam cried and pulled George much closer. He hugged him so tightly. He tried to say something but he couldn't. There's a possibility that Jensen would get the kids if they do get divorced.

"It's gonna be alright. We are going to be alright."

They stay like that for a while until George was calm. The wheels in Adam's head began to roll as he thinks of something to do. He bit his lip and decides to send his CV to different companies.