Chapter VI: Are we really out of sight?
Very patiently, Matt expose to the little Frankie all his theories about aliens, stopping once in a while to explain, whenever the kid asks him, words such as 'Politic', 'Government', 'Accomplice' and 'Mind control'.
Every time, Matthew tries his best to find the correct lexicon to make a kid of only four years old comprehend him, but he seems to success.
"Uncle, Matt, it's terrible! Is there something that we can do?" Frankie alarms.
"First if all, we must not be subjugated by them and ..." Matthew starts, but form the way the little boy is staring at him, the pianist realizes that he said the umpteenth way too difficult word.
"'Subjugate' means when people make someone believe what they want because they make this someone believe something, although it's not true!" the singer explains and his young interlocutor nods.
"Alright, and for a better defense we can try to boycott the Government," the adult goes on.
"Byo-toc.. WHAT?" Frankie asks in confusion, unable to repeat that very difficult verb.
- Dammit! Now how the hell am I supposed to explain what it means?- Matt agitates, scratching his head nervously.
Dominic rushes to rescue him, like a knight in his shiny armor.
Actually, the blond has no horse and wears no shiny armor but a pair of shiny orange, skinny jeans and a grey blouse with the zip pulled down a little bit. As Dom reaches them, Matthew's main goal is to find out if Dom wears a T-shirt under that blouse or not.
Until that moment, Dom has remained with Alfie and Ava-Jo, who have flooded him with questions about their musical instruments.
After all, the blond knows one thing or two also about guitars.
However, Dom comes back to Matt just in time to hear the last part of his chat with Frankie.
"I'll explain that to you. To boycott means… okay, imagine that at your kindergarten the teacher orders you all to draw a nice sketch because she is going to reward the most beautiful one!" Dom starts.
"I love drawing so, so much!" Frankie cheers.
"So do I!" Dominic smiles. "Coming back to what I was saying, you begin to draw your sketch, you work hard and it's turning out very nice. You're going to win, no doubt about that. You finished your sketch, it's marvelous. Proud and happy, you get up to give it to the teacher, but one of your friends comes in your way and he's not a real friend," he warns the kid.
"Why?" Frankie wonders concerned.
Matthew confines himself to listening in respectful silence, already knowing what his boyfriend is aiming at.
-My Dom is a bloody genius, I would have never thought about it!- he muses.
"He's not your friend, because he's envious, since your drawing is beautiful and his is not. So he asks you if you can show it to him. You make the huge mistake of trusting him, so he grabs the felt-tips on his desk and scribbles your entire sketch. You have no more time to change it and you have to give it to the teacher that way. The teacher is upset by you, telling you that you should have tried harder and this is not good. When something like that happens, we can say that your friend boycotted you. That's what to boycott means." Dom smirks.
"I got it!" the little boy exclaims, although he's a little scared after that explanation. "Uncle Matt, please, don't be angry, but uncle Dom is better than you to explain stuff!" he reveals, a little afraid by the singer's reaction, but he's relieved when he sees Matt chuckling and nodding.
"I know. It means that uncle Dom now will remain with us as we go on, in order to explain to you the things that you don't understand," the front man decides, smiling at the drummer who agrees.
In the meantime, AvaJo and Alfie are at the table, in the kitchen, as they're busy establishing who played better.
"It's not true, you made horrible sounds!" Alfie declares, bothered.
"At least I played! You didn't even manage to beat the drums twice in a row!" AvaJo strikes back, pungently.
"It's so difficult!" her brother justifies.
"So is guitar!" his sister makes him notice.
"Okay, let's say that we are even and we both still have to learn a lot of things!" Alfie states and the little girl nods contently.
"Do you want to play a game?" he suggests to her immediately after.
"What kind of game?" she asks curios.
"Do you see that half opened closet, right behind the sofa where the uncles sit with Frankie?"
"Yep."
"I bet you don't have the courage to go inside it without making the uncles see you!" her brother teases her.
"I can do it without any trouble!" his sister assures.
"Okay, let's do it, both of us. We're going inside the closet and the first one who surrenders and goes off is the loser!" Alfie states.
"Deal!" AvaJo approves, following him.
Matt and Dom keep talking with Frankie who overwhelms them with questions, so the other two children can reach the closet undisturbed, crawling behind the sofa and then climbing on the closet. They don't need to take some stuff off, because there are only few magazines, some operating manuals of HI-FI and domestic appliances, the closet is almost empty.
They sit comfortably on the shelf beneath, closing the doors a little to remain more hidden.
Although the topic intrigues him a lot, Frankie begins to feel the tiredness of the day, plus it's the second day in a row that he skips his nap on afternoon, a healthy habit of his.
That's why in a few minutes he cuddles around Matthew, on his lap, and falls deeply asleep, resting one hand around the singer's shoulder and his little head on the brunet's chest.
Matt realizes that and immediately quits talking. Dominic observes the scene, softened.
"Awww, look at him, he fell asleep!" he murmurs with a smile.
"Let's speak low, so he won't wake up!" Matthew whispers, as he caresses affectionately the kid's head and this is something that makes the blond soften even more.
"Mattie, think about it, one day we could have one kid all for us," he beams.
Matt's eyes go wide.
"No matter how many progress science is making, I don't think you'll ever manage to get me pregnant!" he makes the drummer notice.
"No, Matt, you didn't un.."
"Plus, it should be the reversed stuff, don't you dare forget who is Romeo and who is Juliet!" the brunet adds, cutting Dom off.
"What the heck are they talking about?" Alfie asks AvaJo.
"I have no idea!" the little girl shrugs, uncomfortable.
"Enough with this story, bloody quit it!" the blond snaps, but in a whisper. "Anyway, you idiot, I was talking about adoption! We could adopt a baby!" he points out.
"What does 'to adopt' mean?" AvaJo wonders.
"In my classroom there's an adopted kid who told us that his parents are not really his parents, like if they bought him!" Alfie explains.
"I didn't know that people could buy kids!" his sister mutters in shock.
"Sometimes they do."
That makes her suspicious.
"Did mom and dad buy us?" she agitates.
"Nope, they didn't buy us. Johnny told me once how children were born. Two older kids explained that to him. So, all it takes are a mom and a dad who are in love, they wait for a stork that takes cabbage that a bee stung… something like that!" Alfie states, kind of unsure.
"So why do uncle Dom and uncle Matt want to buy a kid?"
Alfie has no answer to his sister's question.
"Did you say adoption?" Matt repeats, as he already contemplates that idea.
"Yep, here pairings like you and me are still not allowed to raise a child, but we could go to a place when we are allowed."
"You already thought about everything, didn't you?" Matt smiles at him.
"I've been thinking about it for a long time. However, it's obvious, first we have to get married!" the blond orders.
"The uncles are getting married!" AvaJo rejoices, controlling herself not to scream.
"It seems so…" Alfie mumbles, eager to hear more about it.
"I guess it's more than right. Oh, Dommie, I can already picture that in my mind. You, me and… a baby. If it's a boy we'll call him Jimmy Kane, if it's a girl… Hysteria!" Matt suggests, thrilled by the thought.
"Absolutely agree is it's a boy, but if it's a girl Hysteria is a way too impressive name. I'd like something more exotic, I don't know… like Starlight or Cydonia!" Dom strikes back.
"They're not so bad!" Matt caresses his chin, before getting up. "In the meantime, let's take good care of this baby. The bed is much more comfortable than the sofa," he goes on, going upstairs with Dom.
"Wait a minute. Where are Alfie and AvaJo?" the brunet asks, turning to the blond.
Alfie and AvaJo jolt, are afraid to be found and try their best not to make any noise that can draw the adult's attention.
"I left them in the kitchen, having a snack. So this will take them a lot!" Dom smiles.
AvaJo sighs relieved as Alfie snorts annoyed.
"Are they hinting that I'm a big eater?" he grumbles, as his ego is wounded.
"Well, this is something you have in common with daddy!" the little girl chuckles. "Well, let's not waste any more time!" she adds, as they leave the closet.
As Matt and Dom take Frankie to the bed, the other two have all the time to go back to the kitchen, where the two house masters find them chatting lively around the table.
"Okay, kids, if you want we can resume the exercises!" Dom informs them.
"We'll be there in a minute, uncles!" Alfie answers back.
"Alright, we'll wait for you in the living room," Dom states, leaving with Matthew.
"We must tell the uncles nothing about what we heard, And we shouldn't say anything to Frankie, either." Alfie instructs his sister.
"Of course… however, phew… now I want to see them!" AvaJo complains.
Alfie stares at her dumbfounded.
"What do you want to see?"
"When they're tender to each other, just like mom and dad do, when they hug tightly, when they hold hands and give them all those little kisses!" the little girl explains.
"Why the heck do you want to see the uncles do such stuff?" her brother asks her.
"Because I want to see what it feels like. I already like whenever I see them so, so close in the pictures, they remind me to the Care Bears! So I guess that I'll like also when I see them being tender to each other. Besides, can't you see how happy they are?" she goes on.
"You're right. When uncle Matt was with the Italian girl and uncle Dom with the American girl they weren't so happy!" he observes.
"Right. Plus, I didn't like those girls very much!" AvaJo states.
"Yeah, they weren't funny, nor pleasant. They never wanted to play with us!" her brother adds. "But do you think that we'll manage to see the uncles when they act like mom and dad?" he wonders.
"Sure, we just have to check them constantly, they will do that sooner or later… probably when they think that they are alone!" the little girl answers.
After a while, Matt walks towards them.
"Hey, what are you two getting up to? Don't you want to play anymore?" he jokes.
"Of course, uncle, we still want to play. I want to become as good as you with the guitar!" AvaJo smiles at him.
"And I want to be as good as uncle Dom with the drums, I'll work very hard!" Alfie promises.
"Alright, kids, that's the spirit! Let's go!" Matt agrees, taking them to the living room.
(End I)
hope you'll still like it, more kids' action on next parts ^^
