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Carlos POV:

I see TK sit down on the couch slowly and I look over to see what's wrong but I have a strong feeling that he remembers what happened the other night when he put his hands on his head leaning back into the couch slowly. I wait to see if he's ready to talk about it now, looking back to ma and papa but when he comes back to join us he's smiling.

I kind of gaze at him in concern, I think he's trying to act like everything is normal so that he doesn't ruin this moment with my parents, but I already talked to papa about it, ma is the only one who doesn't know that I already knew.

And TK of course.

I hug him softly whispering in his ear, "It's okay if you're not ready to talk about it, but don't hide your pain from me either." I squeeze his waist the same way I did when we first met feeling him nod against my shoulder.

I  release him and he hugs ma and papa saying he has a headache,

"I don't want to ruin this moment, I just have a headache so I'm going to go lay down, I love you ma and papa!"

He kisses them each on the cheek just as ma grabs her purse, "We still need to pack anyways, you can't ruin anything baby T. Carlos, please text Marlo about taking care of the animals while we're gone ,yes?" I nod  at her kissing her on her cheek when we hug,just like TK.

"Pa, are you sure that you'll be safe to travel after your accident? I wouldn't want you to re-injure yourself?" He smiles at me grabbing my shoulder,

"Mijo, if it were up to you, I know I would never be healed enough to do anything. I need you to stop worrying about me and live life. There are so many things you miss out on while you are planning to do the next thing, or worried about something else that has already passed. We love you mijo, but you know I don't pack until the morning of so we're going to get going. Your mother has an ungodly amount of clothes to pack and shoes, but don't get me started on her makeu-"

"Pablo!"

"Okay, but yes we have to go mijo, love you!"

"Love you guys too. Please be safe during your trip, I don't want to have to take a last minute flight to come and get you guys I will lose my sh- crap okay? So humor me yes?"

TK and papa smile at me while ma has her eyebrows raised while looking at me. I covered my mouth backing away from her at the same time.

"Carlos Javier Reyes, you watch your mouth around me do you understand?"

I nod at her, she has me backed up against a wall. Even though she's almost a foot shorter than me, her heels give her some extra height. She took one off though as she walked towards me making me move away from her faster, just to be trapped anyways.

"Yes ma'am." She walks out the door , papa just laughing at me as he follows her out. He gets into the drivers side of the car and she is the passenger, he has a pet peeve of never letting ma drive if he was there, like I said, he's very old fashioned and believed that the man should take care of his wife in every aspect.

He also absolutely loves to spoil her , they have one of the best relationships I have ever seen and I will always try to live up to the man that papa is for ma. I want to be that one day for TK. Even though he isn't a woman, he is my life partner and I want to spoil him like he deserves.

I know that we need to talk again before I am able to plan a date, just to see where he is mentally, not wanting to push or force anything on him.

I reach for his hand as we stand at the doorway looking at ma and papa pull into the traffic on the road just off of my driveway. He wraps his arm around my waist as I wrap mine around his shoulder.