If I can stop one heart from breaking
If I can ease one life the aching
If I can ease one life the aching
What was Jude like as a baby? Well. That's certainly a sentimental subject. Harper stares down into the bowl as he stirs in the chocolate chips and considers his answer, something both deeply loving and equally sorrowful on his face.
"He was such an easy baby. Rarely ever cried, inquisitive, happy." He'd been horribly colicky when Phoebe had first disappeared, leaving Harper with a newborn and no experience or assistance, but that had faded once Maeve had stepped in to help him - well before they ever began to develop feelings. "We didn't get much time with him at that age before one of his daycare teachers took their eyes off him on a field trip and he aged up. By then he was so polite, well-mannered, but..." sighing, Harper slides the mixed bowl over, finished. "He was so much more carefree than he is now. Shy, yes, but not unsure of himself. Always in the garden with Maeve or demanding Edmund pick him up every day from school." Not the young man that Jude is now, the Jude that Sohalia knows.
"I feel like it's my fault. He told me he aged again because he saw the strain in me of being a single parent again, of Edmund and Maeve both disappearing. I just wish it didn't change him." He will love his son at any age, but seeing the change in his disposition had broken Harper's heart more than any lost years possibly could.
"He was such an easy baby. Rarely ever cried, inquisitive, happy." He'd been horribly colicky when Phoebe had first disappeared, leaving Harper with a newborn and no experience or assistance, but that had faded once Maeve had stepped in to help him - well before they ever began to develop feelings. "We didn't get much time with him at that age before one of his daycare teachers took their eyes off him on a field trip and he aged up. By then he was so polite, well-mannered, but..." sighing, Harper slides the mixed bowl over, finished. "He was so much more carefree than he is now. Shy, yes, but not unsure of himself. Always in the garden with Maeve or demanding Edmund pick him up every day from school." Not the young man that Jude is now, the Jude that Sohalia knows.
"I feel like it's my fault. He told me he aged again because he saw the strain in me of being a single parent again, of Edmund and Maeve both disappearing. I just wish it didn't change him." He will love his son at any age, but seeing the change in his disposition had broken Harper's heart more than any lost years possibly could.
I shall not live in vain
HARPER
