My Dad Turns Out to be Eyes

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Nathan wandered around the living room of Robert's house, looking through the simple furniture. There's just a leather couch and a television, that's all. Looks like Robert just moved in.

Nathan sat on a leather chair before he saw Jessica's door open again. The girl had changed into a long black dress. She did nothing to her hair, let it slide and she carried a small black bag in her hand.

"Hurry up" Nathan commented.

"I just changed my clothes" Jessica replied as she followed Nathan walking out of the house. He then checked his shadow on the window. "Can you see the bruise or do I need to apply makeup again?"

Nathan shook his head. Her mark had already faded greatly and there was nothing to see behind her makeup. 

He offers her his arm and Jessica quickly embraces him and follows Nathan walking down the street.

Jessica looked around her, as if constantly searching for any sign of danger around her. Nathan shook his head, trying to convince the girl that it was okay. But Jessica preferred to tighten her embrace on Nathan's arm.

Jessic took Nathan to a diner on the corner of the street he had seen some time before.

"You must be thinking about returning to Singapore soon," Nathan commented as Jessica picked up a bread stick and chewed on the tip.

"I think," he answered. "I think I have another month. That wasn't too long. But somehow it sounds like a long time ago. I miss him so much .. a normal condition. Yeah, some of my best friends called me too.

Nathan just kept watching her as the girl looked at everyone in the diner.

"You know that I've never been involved in a relationship" Nathan begins to talk, trying to approach sensitive topics between them. "The last relationship I had was with a girl at university. He had a brain as smart as I was, but he moved to the United States. Since then I have only cared about work. During that time I never considered the need for a relationship."

Jessica took a while before she smiled a little. And it was the first smile that Nathan had only seen back after some time. 

"I think you might be trying to ask me something" Jessica said. "You're not really outspoken about this matter."

"I'm not outspoken about things like this" Nathan replied. "By the way, all I want to say is I want to see you again even when you're not here."

"If I'm not here then you can't see me" Jessica tried to tease Nathan. Jessica could see the young man's cheeks that started to turn red before Nathan rolled his eyes.

"Don't prank me, Jessica. I'm serious.." Nathan said with a smile as he shook his head and looked at his food.

A sincere smile appeared on Jessica's face. He moved his hand to hold Nathan's finger and he kissed the young man's cheek.

"So you still want to see me, right?" Nathan confirmed. His voice sounded doubtful.

Jessica didn't say anything, she decided to bring her lips closer to Nathan's. He kissed her with a small kiss before pulling back.

"Yes" Jessica replied with a soft whisper. "I want to see you always, Nathan."

"Do we need to name our relationship?" Nathan wondered to Jessica. "Other people do that a lot."

Jessica snorted then quickly shook her head. "We know what our relationship is. We don't have to insist on that anymore, Nathan. After all, I doubt you'd want to be called my girlfriend."

Nathan shrugged awkwardly. "Yes I don't mind if you want to change your social media status to 'dating', for example. Yes, as people often do."

Jessica let a smile appear on her face as she drank a little water from her glass.

"You have to stop stalking my social media" Jessica said. "I know it's natural for an organization's programmers to know everything about me, but it's still a little creepy."

"I can't promise" Nathan grinned and Jessica rolled her eyes when she heard his reply.

He bit the bread stick again before then another food they ordered was served. They ate with quiet conversation for the rest of the day.

His hand remained on Nathan's arm as they paid the bill. Jessica looked out the window of the restaurant.

And that very second, Jessica could see the color of white blonde hair that looked familiar to her was walking behind her. He tried to narrow his eyes, narrowing his gaze to concentrate. 

He didn't say anything because Nathan was still focused on paying. Jessica shook her head, trying to ignore him and looked back at Nathan. He wrapped his arms and placed his cheek on the young man's shoulder.

'That hair color.it looks like it's her' Jessica's inner.

Jessica then shook her head. He had to stop worrying whenever something reminded him of the past.

Blonde hair like that doesn't belong to Dimitri. Someone with white blonde hair doesn't mean that it's him. That can't be him.

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