Chapter 173: in the moment
Rory
Three days had passed since we all returned home, and I’ve never been happier.
To say I had been happy to meet my kids again would be an understatement. I had actually guested until tears as I embraced them fiercely because I feared so much that I won’t get to see them again. Right now, I was stroking Niko’s head. He had fallen asleep across my legs and I wasn’t ready to let him lay properly on the couch, because I still wanted to feel his weight against me. Jason was sitting across from me on the couch, and Anna was asleep in his arms. Kenny was sitting in the middle of the sitting room on the ground, and he had been reading something to the kids before they fell asleep. I had a feeling Anna didn’t fall asleep because of the reading and more because she’s tired from school.
Kenny got to his feet and quietly clapped his hands, then he ordered us to remain in the same position before disappearing into one of the rooms. I Exchanged a look with Jacob who only shrugged, as confused as I currently feel. He re-emerged with a camera in his hands, and he was clearly excited as he held it up.
"just remain like that, I’M gonna take a picture, yes?" He stated as he held the camera against tie eyes. I was chuckling when he snapped the first few postures because I felt ridiculously happy right now. My hair was a mess, my outfit wasn’t anything impressive, but Kenny was snapping away and from the sounds he wax making, it was clear that he liked all the pictures he has taken so far:
I asked him if he wanted some pictures taken of him too and he nodded eagerly. Then Niko was carefully transferred to him, then I took a bunch of pictures of him. After that, Jason had to move from his own chair to Kenny so the pictures could be together in the same frame. Anna didn’t stair at all as he crossed the room with her in his arms, then he was sitting beside Kenny and I snapped away. At the end of it all, I positioned the carema against the window after putting it to a timer, then I hurried back to the couch so we could all take a group picture of this moment. It was a mess, the timer kept going off before I could get back to the couch each time, and we were all dissolving in laughter each time I went back to check out the picture and see that it ended up being a mess.
But that didn’t matter that much to me, all that matters was that it was a happy and significant moment, and I cherished it tremendously.
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Life has almost fully returned back to normal. The hideouts of Alex had been raided by the cops and all of Alex’s men that didn’t manage to escape had been captured. Alex had been pronounced dead, but surirusjgou, it wasn’t because of murder. It says by an unknown cause, and that instantly reminded me of that knife, which I remember stabbing him with. He had no stab wound or whatsoever and I felt a little weirded out.
When I spoke to Jason and Kenny about it, they said it probably had to do with the fact that my blood was already inside him so that helped in closing up the stab wound, especially since seeing as I witnessed Alex using my blood to heal himself right in my presence whereby he was demonstrating to me that my blood really had powers. However I still felt weirded out by the entire situation.
"Do you have any idea of where you might be from? Because remember that your sister said you both aren’t related by blood. That still made so much sense to me. However I’m very curious as to where you’re from, that might be able to explain why you could teleport for example." Jason spoke this time and I grimaced a little.