My Dad Turns Out to be Eyes

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They were both in silence, standing under a tree in the garden as the rain began to fall. Nathan pulled the folding umbrella from his bag opened it rather hastily and put it on top of the two of them as he felt the rain start to fall.

Jessica put her phone to her ear as she listened to the voice of the phone connection across the street.

"He's not picking up, Nathan." Jessica spoke in an impatient tone to Nathan.

"We'll wait a minute, give him time, maybe he's busy." Nathan answered. "And also, can you come here, closer to me, this umbrella is not as big as I expected. You'll get wet later."

Jessica followed and moved closer to Nathan. They curled under her umbrella as Nathan wrapped his arms around Jessica's waist and hugged the girl by her side while his still-ill hand struggled holding the umbrella.

"That's a long sentence, Nathan," he whispered to Nathan, looking into the young man's eyes. "You just have to tell me to come closer..."

"What can I say? I don't want you to get rained." Nathan replied, he smiled and tightened his grip on Jessica's waist.

"Alright, okay,oke!" Jessica shakes.

Nathan leaned over to kiss Jessica on the top of the head quickly then fell silent for a while, waiting for Jessica who was currently still trying to keep contacting her mother.

"Jessica?" his mother replied and called from across the phone.

Jessica quickly withdraws from Nathan's embrace, turning her attention to her mother who is on the phone. Jessica would do her best not to sound too rude to her mother.

She knew that her mother had just separated from her boyfriend, John. And it seemed like her mother looked so depressed, evident from the tone of her speech when she sent Jessica a voicemail earlier. Yes, although Jessica still harbors a sense of annoyance and anger over the way her mother talked to her at that time but Jessica will still control herself.

"Yes mom, it's Jessica" Jessica replied slowly. "I received mom's voicemail."

"Mom's happy" Katherine Bailey responded to her daughter's remarks. "Yes, I don't understand, Jessica. I don't know why John did this. All this time I always thought we were meant to be together."

"She is indeed brengs*k," Jessica bursts. He really could not help but speak without thinking. He was eager to curse his mother's lover. "You'd be better off without him, mom..."

"Mom likes it, Jessica." Kate defends and makes Jessica roll her eyes lazy.

"I really don't know what you like about that guy." Jessica said lazily.

"He's smart and very smart, Jessica. Do you know how hard it is for a woman this mother's age to find a man? Especially one like John. I had you when I was young and I spent all my time raising you. And at that time no one wanted a young girl who already had a child."

'So is this all my fault?' inner Jessica.

Jessica gritted her teeth in annoyance. He held his phone firmly, doing his best to hold back his emotions so as not to yell at his mother. Jessica didn't know why, but her mother's words just now seemed to say that her presence made her mother so unaccompanied.

To be honest, he wanted to tell his mother that it wasn't his fault. What would be wrong if he was born into the world? He's not the one who asked to be born, is he? He also did not want to be a mistake. That's not what he wants either. But somehow it seems like his mother hates his presence by continuing to discuss this.

Jessica wrapped her hands around Nathan's waist, squeezing the young man's waist tightly, trying to vent her anger through it. Nathan himself is currently doing his best not to grimace in pain as Jessica grips him.

"Why did he tear the house apart?" Jessica wondered, choosing to shift the topic of conversation only at this time.

"Mom don't know," Kate snorted in annoyance. "Maybe he's looking for money or something? It doesn't matter, Jessica."

"It's kind of important, to me." Jessica replied sharply. "You need to know why he did it, mom. There must be a reason why he suddenly did something crazy to you. In our house too."

"Mom doesn't matter, Jessica" Kate now began to raise her tone to her daughter's "Mommy said no problem. I love her, Jessica. Can't you just sympathize with the mother in your life for once?"

Nathan tries to calm her down by grabbing the girl and putting her cheeks over Jessica's head and letting the girl stick to her neck. 

"You're gonna be better going forward, ma'am. And I'll find someone better than him."

"Mom doubts it" replied Kate tired.

"Look, do you want me to come back there, to Singapore ?" Jessica wondered.

To be honest she didn't want to go, but Jessica would definitely try to do whatever was best for her mother. Even if he had to go to the supermarket at three in the morning just to buy ice cream, he would still do it.

"Even if I want you to come, I'm sure you won't" Kate and Jessica said, rolling their eyes. "By the way, where are you? Sounds like it's raining."

"I'm out today" Jessica said. "me and a friend of mine are touring the old town and it looks like we're going to spend an entire day here."

"And who funded this trip of yours?"

"Dad," Jessica lied, obviously she didn't want to tell her mother about Nathan. He was not looking to create any hassle and debate at the time. Jessica then sighed, "I can go back to Singapore if mom wants it. I don't mind."

"No need" Kate said. "I can see that you're having fun without mom. After all, you've always loved spending time in Singapore with your father. I hope he treats you well there, don't you?"

Jessica closed her eyes and she wondered where her father was. He only wished that his father had gotten up and gone from the bed of the seductress 

"Dad's fine," Jessica finally answered her mother." Are you sure you're gonna be okay there?"

"Mom will be fine, Jessie" Kate reassured her daughter. "Mom has a week off from work and your aunt will come and stay tonight. I was just thinking that you should know what happened. Mother often wondered if the mother had made him go. I mean mother, yes each of us did a lot of work...and all this time she never even went away, even though mom's chatty attitude bothered her or the way you treated her, she never left. And also-"

"He doesn't know me" said Jessica. "And how do I treat him?"

"You don't respect her presence, Jessie!"

"Ck. She didn't even like me from the first time she met me, did she? John it's brengs*k, I'm-"

"Jessica," Kate cuts off the girl's words. "He's not like that!"

"Whatever" Jessica replied. "Mother is better alone than to be with her."

"How can you say that? How can you say that you're better off being alone?"

"It's easy enough" Jessica replied. "Mom's gonna see him sometime in the future..."

"You don't know anything, Jessica," Kate replied. "You spend most of your time with boys you never even appreciated. I know what you've been doing all this time, you've been playing a lot of guys and-"

"I've changed, mother." Jessica replied as she inhaled Nathan's scent. "Don't drag me into this shit again, ma'am. John's problem, it's none of my business. I'm glad you two split up. I'm also willing to come and see you go through time without her."

"Stay there, Jessica," Kate spoke hurriedly. "mother will arrange everything herself."

"Mother..." Jessica started talking, trying to calm the woman on the other end of the phone, but it turned out that she had hung up the phone.