
“Because you left me! Papa knows what it's like to be dumped! You've got a new wife, a boy, what's the point of me, don't be too sweet to me Uncle Lam.”
“Papa never threw you away! If you hear that, your mom and dad say it. Papa is forbidden to meet you with a subpoena, you know the last time Papa tried to see you, ignored a court order, a Papa warehouse was burned by your father's man, Papa was jailed for 15 days, until your Grandma and Grandpa intervened themselves asking Papa not to see you again, or next time I don't know what else he might burn. Whatever they say, it's not true.”
Now Cherrie is silent. Arnold Lam was also silent, today all the woes between them were discussed to the end.
“Papa, never wanted to think of you as an ex-child, never wanted to see you feel abandoned, your parents' wrong divorce, Papa tried to get you and your sister to interfere with the consequences, but on the other hand they were right, Papa doesn't have the right to see you. 12 years of loving you were thrown away by the results of a DNA test. It wasn't just your world that collapsed back then,.... But maybe karma happens to Papa.” She remembers she blames herself for never being able to acknowledge Tata as her daughter against her family, and then she has to let go of her daughter who she suspects is her biological child. Those moments he blamed himself, it all felt so chaotic.
Cherrie silently listened to the person she once called Papa. Perhaps what he remembered in those days was the happiest moment of his life, undeniably, when he heard the reason for his parents' divorce he wished it was just a dream. But that's the reality, his world was turned upside down, in his wildest dreams he never had a shadow that far. And when he was far away blaming the world and everyone for the tragedy of his life, Arnold Lam-Her father came again. All the wounds he had once sustained were revealed again, when he had gone too far to blame the world.
“Papa just gave you a suggestion. Derrick is a guy that Papa knows, Papa thinks family friends, fighting him will not produce anything, no need to fight everyone, ..” Cherrie didn't answer anything, didn't even look at Arnold Lam. “Ohh yes, Papa brought mochi, and red meat mangroves, you used to be happy to eat this. “ Arnold Lam put a bag of food on Cherrie's table now. Cherrie looked at him, but her childhood father still remembered her simple favorite food.
“Papa went home, .. If you want to find Papa chat, just call, but don't tell your Mama, maybe she'll scold you again... Don't be so hard on yourself, don't get people to follow Derrick again, there's no point in looking for trouble for yourself. Take care of your health cece..” She called Cherrie Cece, because she was the eldest daughter. The call catapulted Cherrie to a time when everything felt like a dream and full of rainbows.
Memories are eternal, no one can erase them. Mistakes of unwise parents are always borne by children. Her biggest regret made that sweet girl change as she is now. She's guilty, feeling guilty for her little Cherrie.
Cherrie looked at the food bag, a tear-spark just coming down as she opened the contents of the bag. This dozen years he lives with hatred, passing the day by fighting the world, the good world that threw him away, the dream world that used to make him too good. When the best man in his world throws him away, he also throws away his old self there.
But with just this bag of food, he sobbed. Why can this be. He himself doesn't know.
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A little today tomorrow. Oceee
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