chapter 11
"Hello handsome," A soft voice whispers from behind the concentrated and stressed out brunette. He was seated in the dining room of the house where he babysits the three kids. Piles of papers were in front of the frustrated male but he quickly looks up and turns around, his eyes meeting Garroth's.
He smiles.
"Hey angel. Who let you in?" He questions, "I thought I left the door locked."
Garroth takes a seat in a chair next to Laurence. "Nicolás let me in. Sorry, I tried to work as fast as possible to babysit with you again tonight," Laurence shakes his head with a grin.
"No, it's fine. You didn't have to rush. I don't want to make you feel rushed so you can come babysit with me," he sighs as his grin falls. He fidgets with the pen in his hand and licks his lips.
"You work four jobs a day Laurence, I want to help you. And I don't feel rushed at all. Also on top of that, I had so much fun babysitting with you yesterday as well. You were very good at Just Dance," The blonde loudly giggles after Laurence rolls his eyes at the last sentence.
"Laurence?" A small voice sings. Both men smile softly when they turn to see Valeria.
"Hey Valeria, is something wrong?" Valeria shakes her head in response to Laurence's question.
"I'm hungry."
"Of course you're hungry," Nicolás smirks, poking his little sister's shoulder. "Can you order pizza, Laurence?"
Garroth giggles, "I'll do it. Do you guys want specific toppings?" He asks. They both nod with a smile.
"Sausage." Valeria shrieks with a grin. Nicolás rolls his eyes,
"Pepperoni." He mutters and Val shoots him a disgusted glare.
"Pepperoni?! Have you lost your mind?" Val practically screams. Laurence furrows his eyebrows, sending both children a warning that both of them ignore. Garroth's face drops.
"What are you talking about? Have you lost your mind?! La salchicha es desagradable en la pizza!" Nicolás begins and suddenly both kids are arguing at each other, Valeria being rude and Nicolás being sarcastic.
Suddenly Sebastián stumbles in, right as Valeria screams and accidentally throws her arm and hits him in the face. Garroth gasps and watches as Sebastián falls backwards, his eyes wide. His face begins to turns red as tears quickly race down his face. He screams out a cry, holding his nose with his two stubby baby hands. He was in fact younger than Garroth had predicted. Sebastián was 3 years old and Garroth still wonders how he had once guessed 6.
"Valeria, a tu habitación AHORA!" Laurence shouts as he scoops up Sebastián in his arms. Val frowns, tears forming at the corners of her eyes as she scrambles off. Garroth can feel his heart drop to his stomach as he watches Nicolás look back at where Valeria ran with a sympathetic frown.
"Why d-don't I-I just order h-half of the pizza pepperoni and h-half sausage?" Garroth stutters.
"No, it's fine," Nicolás whispers with a shake in his head, "just keep the pizza fill with sausage." Then he runs off after Valeria. Sebastián whimpers lightly as Laurence sways him side to side in his arms. The child's head was buried into Laurence's shoulder and the sight made Garroth smiles a bit, his heart melting. Garroth stands up once he finishes ordering the pizza and once Nicolás and Valeria come back downstairs. Val stands in front of Laurence and Sebastián, a large frown visible on her face. Her hand was locked with Nicolás', him leading her closer towards Sebastián and Laurence. "Do you have anything you want to say to Sebastián, Val?" Nicolás smiles kindly as Val sighs.
"Lamento haberte golpeado, Sebastián. Fue por accidente." Garroth had no idea what she had just said, but he knew it was an apology because of how Sebastián and Laurence smiled at her.
"Está bien, cariño." The brunette whispers, kissing the small girl on the forehead.
"Uh, I hate to intrude, but I ordered the pizza." Garroth says lightly, the rest of them giggling and chuckling.
"Can we play a board game?" Nicolás whispers out, a large smile suddenly stretching across Laurence's face.
"Of course we can," the brunette sets down Sebastián, "which one?"
"The game of life!" Valeria cheers.
"Okay then. Go ahead and set it up for us, will you?" he smiles as the three munchkins pace into the living room to go set up the game. The tanned man sighs with frustration before feeling two hands trail up his back and massage his shoulders. "Mmph~Garroth what're you doing?" He mutters, a slight crack in his voice.
The blonde giggles, "Giving you a massage. You're stressed, I just want you to relax." Garroth drags Laurence to sit in the dining chair. He moans lightly earning a severe red blush from the blonde. Garroth lightly whimpers as he feels his pants become tighter, due to the older man's moaning. Laurence moans once again except this one was louder, but not loud enough for the kids in the other room to hear.
"Garroth.." He breathes, grasping Garroth's hands.
"H-Hmm?"
"We shouldn't do this."
"Why n-not? W-We're a-alone? And all I'm doing i-is massaging y-your shoulders," Stutters continuously make its way out of the frustrated blonde's mouth.
"You and I both know that we'll get carried away," Laurence frowns. Garroth rolls his eyes and snaps his hands back from Laurence's shoulders.
"Laurence." His tone becomes serious and strict, maybe even angry. "I'm in love with you. You're in love with me. Why can't we just make it official?! Please? I'm sure that your boss will understand—"
"He wont!" Laurence snaps. He slowly stands after Valeria walks in. She smiles kindly, not noticing how the two were just about to begin bickering at each other.
"Board game is set up! Let's go play now?" She giggles lightly, shrieking as she slides her way out of the dining room and into the living room.
The brunette begins to walk out after the little girl before he hears, "So you're just going to ignore the fact that I'm here?" He balls his fists and swings around to look at Garroth.
"What?! What do you want?!" He snaps. He notices how Nicolás looks at him with a puzzled look from the living room.
"It seems like you don't care at all! I'm here, trying to get you to relax and trying to love you like true love should love you and you stop me! You try to walk out and avoid all the love that I'm trying to give you!" Garroth shouts, pushing the dining chair back into the table properly.
"You think I want to stop you?! I want to love you just as much as you want to love me! I love you a lot, this is just hard for me!" His voice grows louder, his fists practically turning white from squeezing them shut too tight.
"Don't you think it's hard for me too?!" Garroth suddenly screams with tears running down his now flushed face quickly. "You're only thinking about yourself in this! My brother and my mother are in the hospital just like your father and your uncle! Did you forget that they were in the same fucking car that night?!"
"Stop yelling at me! I'm trying to do this for us!" Laurence shrieks. Nicolás gasps once he realizes that both of the boys were fighting and he picks Sebastián up. He leads both Sebastián and Valeria upstairs into his room.
"Trying to do what for us?! All you're doing is pushing me away!" A glass cup flies across the room due to Laurence's anger, it smashing and shattering against the tiled floor.
"I'm not pushing you away! I just can't do these things with you because that would be cheating on Harper and I can't afford for her to find out and—"
"So this is about Harper? Because you're afraid to cheat on her when she's cheated on you many times?" Garroth's voice softens with a very sarcastic expression on it, his tears rolling down his smooth red cheeks.
"N-No! I just," Laurence sighs, "I just can't afford her finding out and tell her dad who will then fire me," Laurence frowns, wiping a few tears off his face.
"Do you love her?" Garroth whispers, clutching onto the dining chair. Laurence furrows his eyebrows in extreme anger.
"No! I love you! How many times do I have to fucking tell you?!" It suddenly goes dead silent. Garroth is glaring at Laurence, more and more tears flying out his eyes every time he blinks.
"Well then," Garroth growls, grabbing his jacket and his shoes and putting both on, "sure doesn't seem like it."
And he storms out of the house.
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