Chapter 52

GABRIELA

I could tell Alex is a little weird, but I decided to ignore it for the moment, I'm not going to force him to tell me. At that moment Ana gets out of my arms and stands behind me looking in Alex's direction, which I found a little funny because she seemed to be focused trying to figure out something.

My siblings showed up a couple of minutes before the doorbell rang and we talked for a while until it rang. I realized Alex wasn't going to go to college, which is weird because he always went to class early in the morning and as far as I know he didn't have time off.

"You don't have class?" I asked, surprised. "No, I don't have class at this hour." He stated and I frowned. "Then why do you always go to college if you don't have class?" I questioned, because he always came int college with me. "To accompany you, but then I go out for a walk until about ten minutes before you leave class."

"You didn't need to come in earlier to accompany me to class." I said sincerely, "You know I love doing it." He responded with a big smile on his face "That's why I love you." I smiled "Me too, but tell me, where do you want to go?"

With that I turned to Ana to see what she wanted to do, although I'm more than sure she's going to want to go to the park to play for a while. "What do you want to do, princess?" I asked her "I want to go to the park, but I'm also hungry." She said and I couldn't help but roll my eyes and laugh "Didn't you have breakfast little one?" Alex asked with a small smile. "Yes, but I'm hungry anyway."

Alex started laughing as soon as he heard Ana answer, and of course she had breakfast, I had made it myself, but what I found funny about Ana and her siblings was they ate a lot, that's why there's always a lot of food.

"And what do you want to eat, beautiful?" He asked "I don't know, I feel like something sweet." He said and I denied, because it wasn't something I'm going to give her right now. "That's later, you're not going to eat so much candy in a short time." I responded "But mommy!" Ana protested, "But mommy, nothing. You don't want to go to the dentist, do you?" I asked and she quickly denied "Well, that's it, later you will eat whatever sweet you want, if you want when you arrive, we'll make a cake."

"Yesssss." I could see from the corner of my eye Alex had been looking at us and had a glow I never seen on him, plus he had a surprised face. As I passed by him, I took him by the hand so he could start walking because apparently, he's going to stay there looking at us.

It didn't take us long to get to a supermarket to buy Ana a smoothie and from there we went to the park, where she started playing with some kids who apparently were from her class. I turned to see Alex who was still looking stupid and I honestly found it funny. We sat on a bench and I approached him to put my head on his shoulder.

"Can I ask you a question, my queen?" Alex asked after a few seconds of silence. "Sure" I said without looking away from Ana. "Why did Marcos' sister call you mommy a while ago?" He questioned and I laughed. I should have expected that question honestly.

"It's her thing, she asked me and I basically told her I don't care, so she calls me that." I responded with a shrug, "I seem to remember last time I saw her; she didn't call you that." my boyfriend said a little confused, "And she didn't, she started calling me yesterday."

"And out of curiosity, what does she call your mother?" At that moment I tensed up, because it's a topic I shouldn't talk about, much less before Marcos knew about it. I guess Alex noticed I'm tense, so he pulled me away from him and grabbed me by the chin to make me look at him.

"What's wrong Gabriela? Everything is alright?" He asked "Yes, everything is fine, but this time I can't tell you, love, it's not something that concerns me." I answered sincerely, "Ok, but when you can say it and want to tell me, I will be there to listen to you, Ok?"

"Yeah." At that moment I turn my gaze towards Ana to watch her play for a while, until I see a child push her and she falls to the ground. It didn't take me long to get up to go to her and hug her because she's crying and I hate seeing her like that.

"It's ok, darling" I consoled her, "My knee hurts, Mommy." When she said that, I looked at her knee and saw she had a wound, and even though it isn't big, it's bleeding and I don't want it to get infected so I got up from the ground with her in my arms and it's at that moment that Alex approaches us and runs his hand over her face to wipe away her tears.

"What happened?" I asked, wiping away Ana's tears. "That boy pushed me, he was messing with me." With those words I'm paralyzed. I couldn't believe that boy wanted to mess with her, with a girl who wouldn't hurt a fly. I hated those kinds of people, I really mean it, and I wasn't going to let anyone do that to my little girl, they would walk over my dead body before they did.

"Gabriela, are you ok?" Alex asked next to me in a worried tone. "Yes, let's go to a pharmacy to buy something to disinfect his wound." We headed towards the pharmacy about five hundred meters from the park and before entering I handed the girl to Alex so he could hold her, but Ana reached out for me to pick her up again.

"Not right now beautiful, stay with Alex." I said softly and she denied, "I want to go with you." The little girl protested, "I'll come right now, it won't take more than two minutes, ok?" She pouted which made me laugh, I gave her a kiss on the cheek and walked into the pharmacy. As I her, it didn't take more than two minutes. When I came out, I could see her laughing and Alex had a funny face, which I'm more than sure is what's making her laugh. I stared at the picture in front of me for a couple of seconds and inevitably, I couldn't help but think about what Alex would be like with one of our children. I had never seen him like that with a child, mostly because I never had the opportunity to see him with a child.

The only thing I'm sure of is that, if at some point the idea of having children with Alex crossed my mind, seeing him this way made me wish that would happen in the future.