
I'm tired of crying. Expecting something unexpected is painful.
Stranded on Golden Beach itself, seeing people playing on the beach, Papa Lam used to invite me here. We had frequent outings, happy childhoods, just like those kids.
While my Papa, all I remember is he gave me a big pocket money and was very busy. He rarely spends time with us. If I think about it maybe he was busy with a lot of his infidelity.
Thinking about it all of a sudden Papa Lam called me.
"Papa, how are you." I'm glad I got the phone.
"You why Cece? Aunt Yun Lan said you had a fight with your father at the restaurant?" Papa Lam called me because I met his wife by accident.
"He was mad at me for knowing I was bringing his nemesis, I actually knew this was going to happen. He said he would never recognize us as his children again. Just I didn't expect him to bring all my sisters involved."
"Wong Lee Man, I don't know what he's thinking." Papa Lam sighed with me.
"He was afraid of losing, of course. Afraid mama's really kicking him out of his post right now."
"You want to go home? There's your sister coming here for dinner, she's introducing her boyfriend to Papa. Your aunt has a lot of food here, why don't you come here." Papa wanted to shift my mind seemingly, it was useless to think about it as well.
"Ohhh now he's got a serious lover."
"He doesn't know you're in Hong Kong, if he knows for sure he's taking you too. Just this morning she said, Aunt Yun Lan is now busy ordering a lot of food."
I laughed, Papa Lam's house is always crowded, my kind Aunt Yun Lan, my different sister That father might be said to be luckier than me. His life doesn't go up like me. After all Aunt Yun Lan was nice to him from her being small.
"Yes okay, I'll be there. Dinner isn't it?" I'm like finding a place to evacuate for a moment now.
"Yes, dinner. All right, Papa and Aunt are waiting for you all at home."
I'm still happy to see people playing on the beach but before long someone called me too.
"Koko, what's wrong?"
"You said you had a fight with your father and you went somewhere? He's worried about you." Turns out Mama called her I told her I just wanted to go for a walk.
"No, I'm just going to Golden Beach. Just look for a view here rather than at home. Mama's worried about me too much, I told her I was just walking around with her. Don't worry about me. I'll call Mama again."
"Golden Beach's? I'm near there, wait for me." He disconnected the phone. He wants to come here, apparently. Very attention, I grimaced amusedly...
It wasn't until 20 minutes that he was seen walking beside me.
"Why are you here?" I looked up at her, saw her wearing a polo shirt with jeans and sunglasses, handsome Koko, while she was researching me sitting under a beach umbrella.
"Why are you here?" He sat with me.
"The same question what are you doing here?" He examined my face looking at the signs I was sad and slumped perhaps.
"See people swimming. I come here often. You were told by Mama to come here? I told you I was okay."
"Nobody told me to. I'm just worried about you."
"It's so sweet." I laughed, glad this handsome Koko cared about me. "I'm fine, you can take care of your own business, no company. You spend your time in vain here. I'm doing fine. Unless you wanna catch the beach breeze here."
"You want to swim?"
"No."
"Wanna watch? Let's go watch it both." I looked up, he asked me to watch? Just this time we did something else besides having to attend a business meeting.
"You want to take me to watch? You're so nice, only now are you taking me to watch? I'm not in a desperate state, you don't have to comfort me."
"Come on. Than you're hot in here under the sun." He pulled me up, it's only three o'clock, I'm still happy to see people playing on the beach actually.
"I brought my own car. Where do you want to see? Just Golden Scene?" Well let me just say, there's still time before 7pm is still a long time. Not far from Papa's apartment.
"Okay Golden Scene." He now holds my hand. Is he really worried about me.
"Where are you from?"
"So you finished lunch with a friend, your mom called. I'm just right around here."
"I have no business, let's watch with me." He made sure I went with him, didn't mind taking the time for me. All right, it's up to him.
Strange day, suddenly many were willing to comfort me. We walked to the cinema, which was only half an hour away.
"You watch what you choose." I chose an action movie that seemed fun. "OK right?"
"Yes of course. That nice. I was hoping you'd choose that."
And the next few hours we spent watching both.
"Let's have dinner. What do you want to eat?"
"You want to come with me to Papa's house, Papa says I have to go to Papa's house this afternoon." She was sweet, scared of myself and took me to a watch, and then took me out to dinner, she thought I'd make it hard on myself or something.
"To Papa's house? Didn't you guys have a fight your mama said?"
"Papa Lam, my younger brother wants to introduce his girlfriend to the family, Papa called me and took me home. You want to come along said there's plenty of food there..." I laughed, Aunt Yun Lan always told everyone to finish all the food, she smiled widely when the dishes were clean.
"You're closer to Papa Lam seems."
"Hmm, I got my family there. Ironic no, my real father kicked me out and in recent years I have fought mostly with him, but I was accepted by my childhood father. Even Aunt Yun Lan also called me family. They're so nice to me..."
"That's good, that one failed that one seemed to succeed."
"Yes." Yeah."
"Thank you for bringing me to dinner here. You want to go with me?"
"I wasn't invited. That's your family where dare I go."
"Call Aunt Yun Lan now, she won't mind, let's go with me. Help me finish the food, if I have to spend the food there. Papa would not mind either. " Would he be willing to meet my family, if he was willing maybe he wanted to try to have a relationship with me. I was waiting for his answer.
"With this shirt?" She wants! She wants to come?!
"It's just a family dinner. Nobody wears suits, they also come in T-shirts. Okay?" I've put up puppy eyes, almost squeezed into it.
"All right."
I can hardly believe he agreed, and can barely resist cheering. But I diverted it by sending a message to Aunt Yun Lan that there was a male friend coming along.
"Come, let's just get in your car. Papa's apartment is close, you can drive me here again."
He agreed to know my family. Let me hope for him even if he hasn't said anything.
"What happened this afternoon that your mother was worried about."
"Dad slapped me and kicked me out because I answered the words when he said I didn't deserve to be his son..." I told you everything, about him saying he was gonna get my brothers' names out.
"Hmm.it seems that your father's woman has really stuck her influence on your father."
"There's no doubt that's why she doesn't mind the woman making a mess."
"You look fine, why does your mother seem so worried."
"Maybe he knows in my life I've been dumped twice by my father. The story is very long. Which my mom doesn't know I've made up with Papa Lam. I know he never dumped me."
"So how do you deal with your father's anger now."
"What I need is not money. He seemed to think I needed all of that. So let him think about what he wants now. I'm fine, believe me, don't worry about me... But thank you for being willing to accompany me today."
She smiled a little.
"You did the right thing to defend your mother. Any child would do the same."
"Yes, I'm defending Mom. He doesn't deserve to be that way."
Today was a pretty strange day, morning and my lunch started with a mess, tears, stifling drama. But then afternoon to night changed, good things happened. Supportive and embracing family, good friends who come to visit.
Sad and happy to change so quickly.
Joy is like a tree reaching for the sun. Sadness is like a root that goes to the earth.
When you grow tall, your roots should be strong. Sad and happy, the part of life that keeps you growing better.