Gypsy went and held Young Xander's hand and directed him in. Young Xander stared at the little hand that was holding his. For some reason, Young Xander felt like a rush of current went through his veins. He felt comfortable with Gypsy.
Without waiting for Lupe's confirmation, he got up, looked at Lupe and gave her a devilish grin then followed the little girl.
"Paco we have a visitor," Gypsy shouted.
All this while, Lupe had folded her fist and was clenching her teeth, fury, anger and confusion clearly written on her face.
Paco came to the living room holding a laptop and looked at the tall man in front of him
"Are you my mummy's friend?" Paco asked smiling.
Young Xander looked at the two kids in front of him and his heart melted. Kneeling down he smiled at them,
"Yes. I'm your mother's friend,"
Hearing that, Lupe turned and looked at the two kids with the stranger. The sight made her eyes well up. The three were interacting as if they had known each other for a very long time. Still in his kneeling position, the two kids were laughing. Ones in a while, the man would playfully pinch their cheeks or pat their heads.
"You like playing with computers? Young Xander asked Paco.
" Yes. My sister and I like to code," Paco said with a lot of enthusiasm.
Young Xander was surprised.
"And how old are you?"
"We are turning 4 end of year," Gypsy answered with a grin
"Aren't you really young to start coding?"
The kids looked at him a little bit frustrated but thet suppressed it fast.
"You sound just like mummy in the beginning," Paco said pouting his lips.
Young Xander turned to look at Lupe. As if reading her eyes, he turned and apologized to the kids.
However, he was just astonished by the coincidence. Just like the two kids in front of him, he also started coding at their age.
"...and guess what?" he asked the kids.
"What?" the kids asked in unison.
"I also started coding as young as you are now,"
"Really uncle?" they asked with their eyes lighting up.
"Yes." Young Xander sroked the girl's cheek.
"What are you doing here?" Lupe asked feeling uncomfortable.
"Right," Young Xander stood up. He looked at the kids who were now playing with his hands and it made him happy and then turned to Lupe who had wrapped her hands on her chest.
"I came, we talk. Can we?"
Lupe loudly called for Cess who was in her room with no idea of what was happening in the living room. Cess came and was surprised to see they had a visitor.
"Hello Sir," Cess greeted him.
"Hello,"
"Cess, please take the kids icecream at the parlour.
"Mummy you said that icecream is bad. Remember? Paco asked as if knowing that their mum was getting rid of them and they did not want to leave uncle. Young Xander really wanted to laugh out loud.
Lupe looked at her kids and smiled.
" Cess, the kids don't want icecream. How about you make a yummy vegetable salad for them? I was thinking of asparagus, broccoli.... "
"...Cess let's go get icecream," Paco said releasing Young Xander's hands.
Cess chuckled.
Gypsy looked up at Young Xander.
"Uncle, do you like vegetables?,"
Young Xander didn't know how to answer this. He looked at Lupe but since he was here to irritate her...
"Nooo. They disgust me," he said sincerely but enjoyed the colour flash on her face.
"They also disgust me," Gypsy said releasing her hand from Young Xander and went to Cess.
Cess held the hands of both kids.
"We'll leave," Cess said.