"Guido! Put the TV remote control in your hand first, come and help set the table!"

Bucciarati was busy in the kitchen. Although Christmas had passed last night, it was still in the Christmas holidays. The boys had already spent a few more days off in the dark.Mista was lazily lying on the sofa peeling off the candies that Buccarati had hidden until Christmas Eve after Halloween, and Naranja was playing with the Christmas tree. The balls are taken off.

Bugarat raised the knife in his hand and dropped it. The kitchen knife split the chicken bone and embedded it in the cutting board below. The small salt shaker on the side was knocked down on the counter by the violent vibration and rolled aside.

"Guido!" He yelled again and put down the kitchen knife in his hand, and turned to look at the eldest son who had shrunk into the sofa in the living room with only half of his little black-haired head exposed.

After a while, the boy responded leisurely: "I don't want to move."

"Yes." Bugarati raised the knife again and began to chop the chicken in front of him, "Give me a reason."

"It's not my business!"

"Really? Is there a clear regulation in our family that says who is in charge of setting the table?"

"To Apache!"

The boy replied without hesitation, and Buccarati couldn't help being amused.

"Apaki is not here now, do you want to call and ask him to come back and set the dinner plate?" Buccarati laughed, "You have grown up, and you have to learn to do housework by yourself to take care of your younger brother. Besides, Ah It's impossible for Paki to set us a plate for a lifetime."

This sentence finally caught the attention of the boys, Mista quickly turned around on the sofa, looked up at Bugarati in the kitchen: "Can't Apache stay at home forever?"

"Huh?" Omega didn't seem to understand the boy's question, and responded casually.

"Are you going to fire Apache? Or is Apache going to resign?" Mista continued to ask, and Nalanja who was on the side also became anxious after hearing this: "Is Bubu not wanting Leo?"

"I didn't say I was going to fire Apache?" Bugarati raised his head and looked a little confused, "I just said that you can't keep pushing things on Apache, and learn to start doing housework yourself. .”

"That's okay." Mista sank back into the sofa again, "I don't want to do it today, I'll start tomorrow."

"Guido!" Bugarati raised the volume helplessly, "When grandma comes, I will see you two little slobs paralyzed at home all day long, unable to do anything."

"Then I'll wait for grandma to come and decorate."

Bugarati was really angry and funny when he heard it: "Housework is not for others to see!"

Before the words were finished, the doorbell rang, and Naranja stood up from the ground and shouted: "Grandma is here!"

"Guido, you can start setting the table now!" Buccarati strode towards the door while turning back to direct the boy who got up from the sofa reluctantly.

The door opened, but the people outside the door were beyond Bugarati's expectation.Apaki looked at Bugarati, who was still wearing an apron and was frozen in place with a surprised face, and raised his eyebrows: "What? You don't seem very surprised."

The Omega who came back to his senses flashed his eyes and let out a long breath, and quickly moved away to let the other party come in.

"I didn't expect you to come back so early." Bugarati wiped his hands with his apron carelessly, "Aren't there still a few days left for the Christmas holiday? Why don't you tell me first if you want to come back."

"I want to give you a surprise, but it seems I'm not ready." Apache put down his luggage, and took out a large bottle of pickles from his carry-on bag, "My mother insisted that I bring it for the children to taste, this is She pickled the sauerkraut herself."

"Wow! Leo!" Naranja ran over from the living room and hugged Alpha's thigh, "I miss you so much!"

"Really? I really miss Naranga too!" Apaki smiled, bent down and rubbed the boy's little head, then raised his head to look at Bugarati in front of him, "It seems that the child looks forward to it more. I go home."

Omega glared at him reproachfully, reached out to take the sauerkraut jar and went to the kitchen: "How do you do this? I can't do it."

"Fry it." Apaki picked up Naranja and went into the living room, put the boy on the sofa and followed Bugarati into the kitchen. Halfway through, he saw Nalanja who was taking a plate from the dining cabinet. Mista said in surprise: "Wow! Our Mista has grown so big!"

"Buggarati! Apache is back, can I let him set the table?" The boy tremblingly looked back at his father in the kitchen with a thick stack of plates in his hand.

"No!" Bugarati replied without looking back.Apaki reached out and took the top few plates and put them on the dining table casually with long enough hands: "Next time, take a few less at a time, and you will be injured if you break it."

"Buggarati! Then do I have to bring out another set of tableware?" Mista climbed up on the chair and looked at the half-set dining table in front of him and asked.

"Oh, yes!" Omega turned his head and pointed to the sideboard, "Apaki, take it for Gedo, I put the extra tableware on the upper floor."

Alpha glanced at the four tableware already placed on the dining table and asked in surprise, "Are there any guests tonight?"

"Grandma is coming!" Mista raised her head and replied.

"Oh?" Apache helped set the last tableware and entered the kitchen, "Is your mother coming tonight?"

Bugarati nodded with his back to him, then raised the sauerkraut jar to change the subject: "How do you do this?"

Apaki took the sauerkraut and skillfully took a large bowl from the side and scooped half of the jar into it: "I'll make it, what's for dinner tonight?"

"Stewed chicken." Bugarati lowered his head to take care of the stove, and Apaki looked back at the half-cut chicken on the island and exclaimed, "Such a big chicken?"

Omega sighed: "It's not that the little devils have watched too many American cartoons and clamored for turkey at Christmas."

"But you still bought it." Apache laughed, "Did they eat it?"

"What are you eating?" Bugarati complained to the people beside him in a low voice, "Fortunately, I only roasted two chicken legs, but they still think I roasted too little, since the two little guys can't finish one leg together. "

"What about the rest?"

"Isn't it all eaten by me?" Bugarati glanced sideways at Apache, "If you were here, I should have eaten all of it for you. I'm almost stuffed to death."

Little Alpha secretly reached out to circle the man beside him, and rubbed the Omega's stomach with his palm: "I can feel it."

With a soft cry, Buccarati tore off the opponent's hand that deliberately made trouble on him, and leaned to the other side to distance himself: "Stop making trouble, teach me how to make this sauerkraut, and go to have a good rest after teaching a little while."

"It's very simple, fry lard and bacon, add some salt and black pepper."

"lard?"

"Uh... olive oil is fine if you don't have it."

"Then don't blame me if it doesn't taste good after frying." Bugarati turned around and started preparing sauerkraut. Apaki smiled and said, "Anything you cook is delicious."

He went back to the living room and sat down with the boys, lowered his voice and began to secretly inquire about information: "Does grandma come every year?"

"It's not every year." Mista switched the TV channels indiscriminately, there were Christmas special programs everywhere, and he was tired of watching, "Anyway, I won't stay for long when I come."

Apaki recalled seeing that lady when he accompanied the Bugarati family back home in the autumn. The relationship between their mother and child seemed a little strange. I didn't expect Mrs. Bugarati... Oh no, she should now Instead of Mrs. Bucciarati, Bruno's mother would come to visit their family at Christmas.

"Grandma will bring gifts." Naranja threw herself into Apache's arms, "Leo! The little plane you bought for me got flooded!"

"Oh? How did it get in the water?"

"Oh! Don't say it!" Mista reached out and covered Naranja's mouth before Apache asked more questions, "Didn't Bugarati say it! Just dry it!"

The two boys fell into a ball on Apache's chest, chirping and croaking, and Bugarati raised his head and shouted towards the living room: "You two, stop pestering Apache every day! Apache just came back Let him go and have a good rest! Grandma is coming soon, clean up the toys on the ground by yourself!"

"It's okay, I'm not tired." Alpha responded to the people in the kitchen, and got up to help clean up the scattered building blocks and picture books in the living room.Bugarati glanced at the man and sighed helplessly: "Don't spoil them all the time, let them do it themselves."

Apaki stood up and made a gesture of surrender to Bugarati.The doorbell rang again, and before the three people in the living room could react, Bugarati, who was far away in the kitchen, had rushed towards the door.

He opened the door for the lady outside, with long dark brown hair and blue eyes like his own.Bugarati turned sideways, with his spare hands hidden behind his back, rubbing the tie of his apron helplessly.

"Bruno." The woman opened her mouth, and Bucciarati had to respond softly with "Mom".

Apache led the two boys to the porch, and the lady was obviously very surprised to see Alpha appear.

"Ah! Bruno, you didn't tell me..."

"That...Apaki came back temporarily." Bugarati hurriedly interrupted his mother, "He was afraid that I would have to work hard alone, so he came back early."

Apaki watched Bugarati, who was in a hurry, help his mother take the gift and coat. He held a small child in one hand and didn't know what to do for a while.When the boys shouted "Grandma" in unison, he also shouted "Hi Auntie".

Bugarati's mother looked very kind, and she smiled at Apache, making him feel that the lady in front of him was just like his own mother.

"I'm sorry, Bruno didn't tell me that you were there, and I should have prepared a gift for you." The lady walked into the room, and Bugarati brought the coffee he had prepared earlier, and Apache accompanied her Sitting on the sofa together was a little nervous.

"It's okay, I came back early too, I wanted to give..." He wanted to say a surprise for Bugarat, but Omega looked up and gave Apache a look when he put down the coffee cup.

Well, so Apache opened his mouth and did not continue.

Bugarati coughed lightly and drew his mother's gaze away from the young Alpha: "Dinner is almost ready, if you are hungry, you can have some biscuits first."

"It's okay, Bruno." The lady smiled, "Don't worry, I can talk to Mr. Apache for a while first."

Bugarati staggered obviously, and he subconsciously glanced at Apache, who was also looking up at him.Apaki felt uncomfortable with the attitude shown by Bucgarati. Do I have to pretend to be an ordinary babysitter who is "clean" with her employer all night?

"Son, what's your name?" The lady turned her head to look at Apache with kind and gentle eyes. Alpha swallowed, and said very respectfully: "My name is Leo, Leo Apache."

"Oh, Leo. Does he usually call you Leo?"

"What?" Apaki almost choked on a sip of coffee, the woman spoke in a soft voice, and Bugarati couldn't hear clearly from the kitchen.Turning his head slightly from the direction of Apache, he could just notice Bugarati secretly watching the situation here with a little anxiety by the stove.

"He...he called me Apache."

"My name is Trista, you can call me by my name directly." The lady said slowly after taking a sip of coffee.Apache is not quite sure: "This...isn't very good, I'll add 'madam'..."

"It's okay." Trista put down the coffee cup and still looked at the young man in front of him with a smile, "I was planning to come the day after tomorrow, but when I was on the phone with Bruno, he told me to come earlier."

"Do you have anything else to do?"

The lady shook her head: "My husband and I, Bruno's stepfather, sometimes come to Naples for Christmas. After all, I am still from Naples. I live here during this time, and I will find time to visit him .”

So the mother's visit was not a sudden decision, but a date set by Bugarati himself?If Mrs. Trista originally planned to come back the day after tomorrow, she must have arrived home by then, so he deliberately staggered the time but didn't expect me to come back early... Apache couldn't help thinking, no wonder he gave me His face was so bad when he opened the door.

"What's wrong with you?" Seeing that the other party was silent for a long time, the lady tilted her head and asked Apache in concern, "Your face doesn't look well."

Alpha pulled back his thoughts, looked back at the other party's beautiful blue eyes that were almost identical to those of Bucciarati, and sighed: "It's nothing, I just came back, maybe I'm feeling a little uncomfortable." He didn't lie, he was really uncomfortable now, Just not necessarily physically.

Apaki and Bugarati's mother have nothing to talk about, nothing more than "how old are you", "where do you study", "do you still get used to work" and so on.After a few words, the boys squeezed over, clinging to Apache and clamoring to play with the new toys their grandmother bought them.Mrs. Trista didn't speak anymore, she just picked up her coffee with a smile and looked at the three boys huddled together on the sofa.

"time to eat."

Bugarati brought the dinner to the table, and the Italian stewed chicken, which was stewed until crispy and soft, was paired with German-style sauerkraut, which was quite a special match.Eating turkey alone will be unsatisfactory because of too little fat content. It is more convenient to cook when cut into small pieces than a whole chicken. The large amount of olive oil and pancetta added to the stir-fry also make up for the chicken The problem of insufficient oil itself.Afterwards, fresh vegetables cut into small pieces are added to neutralize each other, and it is perfect to eat with slices of bread smeared with garlic.

"By the way, Leo, how long have you been working here with Bruno?"

Apaki stopped the knife and fork in his hand and turned to look at Bugarati's mother: "It's almost the fifth month."

"Then you are already fully integrated into this family, I think Gedo and his two children are very close to you." The lady smiled and turned her head to look at Bucciarati who was eating and not talking, "Isn't it, Bruno? "

Omega coughed, took the napkin and wiped his mouth: "Apaki has done a good job, even our neighbors have praised him several times." After speaking, Bugarati seemed to be worried about something wrong, He opened his mouth and added: "They all said they didn't expect Apache to be able to do the job of babysitter so safely at such a young age."

Mrs. Trista looked at her son with slightly parted lips and nodded slightly. After Bugarati finished speaking, he immediately lowered his head to eat again.The lady moved her eyes to look at the young Alpha on the other side. Apache clenched the fork in his hand and kept his mouth shut. There was something vaguely strange about the atmosphere.

"It's true, Leo, it's not easy to take care of children. Especially Gedo, I used to take care of him for a while." Hearing her grandmother call her name, Mista raised her head while chewing on the chicken wings. Mrs. Trista looked at the little boy's face. The big black eyeball smiled and continued, "He is really naughty. I have never taken care of such a naughty child."

"Mr. Bugarati." Alpha spoke suddenly, and said his own name, so frightened that Bugarati, who was across the table, had no time to swallow the bread in his mouth, and stared at him with big deer-like eyes.

Ha, Apaki was really displeased when he saw Bugarati's immediate and extremely nervous reaction. Was he afraid that he would blurt out something?Something bad for the two of you?Firstly, there were no outsiders here, and secondly, what could he say that would put them in trouble?He just called out a name.

"Mr. Bugarati must have been very obedient when he was a child." Alpha turned his gaze to the lady in the chair, and Mrs. Trista smiled and said, "I can't even talk about being obedient, which little boy is not naughty? It's just..." The woman She closed her mouth as she spoke, and after a while she lowered her eyes and let out a long breath, "Bruno is the fastest growing kid I've ever seen."

She felt guilty for her choice to leave at the beginning, but the past has become history. Even if the relationship between Bugarati and her mother is repaired later, it will be difficult to return to the way it used to be.

"This happened many years ago." Bugarati put down the knife and fork, and broke the deadlock, "There is no need to care."

"Yes." The lady raised the corners of her mouth, blinked her eyes as if she also decided to listen to her son's words and get rid of the past memories, "As long as we, Bruno, are doing well now."

"I'm doing fine now." Bugarati replied in a low voice.

"Where's Leo? Is Leo taking care of the children or you as well?"

"When... of course it's a child!" The sudden increase in the volume of the denial immediately made him realize his gaffe, and Bugarati picked up the glass and drank the wine to stabilize his tone, "I mean, I have something to take care of .”

"It's always easier for two people to live, and you have two children with you."

"I will do my best to take good care of this family, Mrs. Trista." As soon as Apache's voice fell, Bugarati immediately denied again: "No, it's okay, as long as Apache takes care of Gedo Just with Naranga, I don't matter."

Alpha let out a long breath when he heard the words, but his shoulders and back were still stiff and tense.The atmosphere at the dinner table continued to decline, and Apache didn't know if he should still speak, or it would be better for him to go to the toilet alone now.

The lady was caught between the increasingly awkward atmosphere of the two men. The dinner ended unpleasantly, and almost no one spoke in the second half. I dare not make a sound.Mista's heart was beating like a drum, and he had grown so big, but he had never encountered the current situation.Although I usually get scolded at the dinner table because of other things, but for Bugarati...he doesn't mean that he doesn't respect Bugarati or think that Bugarati is bluffing, but compared to Bugarati look angry...

The little boy glanced at Alpha secretly and then quickly lowered his head.He was afraid of Apaki, Apaki's appearance and Apaki's attitude, all of which made Mista feel very bad.He glanced at his younger brother again. Nalanja's expression was obviously frightened by the atmosphere of the scene, but judging by the little guy's bewildered look, he probably didn't know what it meant.

Mista was not afraid of Bugarati scolding himself, nor was he afraid of Apache scolding himself. He was afraid that Apache and Bugarati would quarrel, and he was afraid that Apache would not want Bugarati or them.

After the dinner, Bugarati sent his mother to the door. The woman kissed her son face-to-face. She reached out and patted Bugarati on the shoulder. The boy had grown so big, and he was no longer the one who arrived when she left. There is a child in her chest, and now she needs to wear high heels and look up to see the blue eyes of the man in front of her.

"Take care of yourself, Bruno." The mother held her son's arm reluctantly, she paused for a while, and finally said with a smile, "Happiness is the most important thing."

Bugarati returned to the house after sending his mother away.It's not that he can't feel the dissatisfaction gradually accumulated in Apache's heart, and he also realizes that some of his reactions tonight may be too extreme, but he can't control it, and his body will always react one step ahead of his brain.

"Hey." He walked into the restaurant, where little Alpha was clearing the table.Bugarati walked over to try to ease the atmosphere between the two, "What happened today was a bit unexpected, originally..."

"I wasn't supposed to meet your mother, was I?"

Apaki suddenly raised his head, his purple-gold eyes stared directly at Buccarati on the other side of the dining table, Omega was at a loss for words for a moment, indeed, he was going to say that, but...

"What's wrong? Did I do something wrong?" He also stared back at the silver-haired Alpha in front of him, "It's still too early, and it's still Christmas!"

"What happened to Christmas?" Apache put down the plate in his hand, and the sound of the porcelain hitting each other was sharp and harsh.Bugarati looked back at the boys hiding on the sofa and waved at them: "Go upstairs."

Mista pulled Naranja up the stairs knowingly, he knew exactly when he could talk back and when he couldn't.Apaki realized his gaffe, he shouldn't have been unable to control himself when the children were still around, but now he was very angry, and the fire in his heart shot up from top to bottom to set him ablaze.

It wasn't until the children's footsteps disappeared from the stairs that Omega walked forward again and grabbed Alpha's arm: "Apaki..."

"Do not touch me!"

Buccarati was stunned. This was the first time that Apache resisted himself so forcefully, and refused without any room for retention.His little Alpha shook off his hand, picked up the cutlery and turned into the kitchen.

After Bugarati took a few deep breaths, he followed Apache again: "What are you doing? I know you are very tired just after coming back today, and I admit that my behavior at night may have been an overreaction, but you Why can't you talk to me nicely?"

"Speak well? I almost don't even have the qualifications to speak!" Apache turned around, and the water in the pool poured down and washed on the messy pile of tableware.

"Why? Buccarati, am I embarrassing you?" Alpha's chest rose and fell violently, and his furrowed brows showed the same anger and pain as the master's state of mind at the moment, "This is not the first time you have avoided facing us. I can feel the relationship between you and me. You are afraid that I will say it in front of a third person and say 'I like you'. But so what? Is our love something shady? ?”

"As I said, now is not the time! When everything is ready, I will naturally announce our relationship to everyone." Omega also couldn't help growling, he was restless, like a person locked in a hot summer room. The room was breathless.

"Then when will you be ready?" Apaki looked back into Bugarati's eyes not to be outdone, "You will always say this but you will never give me an accurate answer. You are just avoiding Reality Bugarati, escaping meaningless reality."

Bugarati didn't answer, he pressed his lips tightly and lowered his eyelids, his knuckles were clenched until they turned white.

Apaki took a step forward and narrowed the distance between the two: "You have to face the fact that I am single without a husband, and I am your boyfriend! We have neither broken the law nor committed incest. It should be fair and aboveboard for the two of us to be together."

Omega opened his mouth, he turned his neck stiffly and turned his face to the side to avoid Apache's gaze: "...I didn't say what you did wrong."

"I don't mean we did anything wrong, I mean you shouldn't be afraid to face this matter." He opened his mouth, his Adam's apple rolled up and down several times quickly, and then Alpha took a long breath and continued: "I I have been doing my best to do everything well, I hope you can see what I have done for you, for this family, and for the children. I thought I would have more and more after I confessed to you It is a good opportunity to understand you and enter you, but you have closed yourself..."

The passage of time seemed to become extremely slow and long, the air turned into a sticky jelly, and the pressure on their hearts made it difficult to breathe.Bugarati didn't respond, his black hair falling down his cheek perfectly blocked Apache's sight.

"I...I have no way, I can't even tell from you now if I'm doing good enough."

Omega finally opened his mouth, and he replied softly, his voice seemed to come from the depths of his throat: "You have always been good, Apache, but I am not good enough."

"Then why? I've always paid for you, Mista, and Naranja, why can't you think about it for me too?" Apaki stretched out his hand to hold Bugarati's shoulder, and he half-bent , Wanting to get a glimpse of Bucciarati's hidden face, Alpha looked at the most beautiful blue eyes he had ever seen in his life and continued, "I don't want to be in front of your mother, just in this house, even if I Just wanting to touch you is trembling."

"But it's not a hard requirement," Bugarati raised his head, he took a step back from the hand that Apache held on his shoulder, and looked back at Alpha in front of him, "You don't have to try to please my child for me. "

"It's our child." Without thinking, Apache replied immediately.He also straightened his body again, looked back at the Omega in front of him, and smiled wryly, "Bruno, have you doubted my motives until now? I am good to you, Mista and Nalan Ye Jia, I love you from the bottom of my heart, I love you like crazy, do you understand?"

I know, of course I know!Bugarati roared in his heart, your love, your eyes, your smell, your possessiveness, you invade my brain and my heart all the time.But it is precisely because you let me experience this unreal love that makes me unable to face reality.

The more afraid you are, the less you dare to face it, the more you worry about losing it.

Silence spread in this space again, and Bugarati was overwhelmed by the violent thoughts in his heart, but he couldn't say a word with his tightly closed lips.Apache looked at him, at the silent man in front of him, his lover.After an unknown amount of time, Alpha raised his head and let out a long sigh, brushed past Omega's side and strode away.

"Where are you going?" Bugarati turned his head and looked at Apache who had opened the door of his house as if he had just woken up from a dream. The stars and the moon were already hanging high outside the door. The flames blew up and down in dilapidated condition.

He stopped when he heard the sound, still holding the cold metal doorknob, the night wind blowing on his face took away the moisture from the smoke and restored some of his thoughts to his brain.

"Bruno, I think we all need to calm down...if we are going to continue walking." He raised his foot again and stepped out of the door, Bugarati watched Apache hide in the dark night outside the door, Watching him look back at his face one last time before closing the door.

"You underestimated my determination to be with you, and I overestimated your courage to face reality."

-TBC-

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