MOJIBYON LIORA

5.Family

"Hello uncle Jo!"
Matt greets my father and I am pleased to see dad waving him with a pleasant smile from garden.
"You can kiss her that's all, no other business." dad chimes leaving me mortified, there he goes with his normal ass.
"Dad!"
I urge him to shut his trap before he further embarrasses Matt.
"I give you my word uncle." Matt says strongly.
Knowing the satisfied look on dad's face I know for sure he read Matt's mind.
How can someone be so pure and sincere, Matt amazes me, his emotions , his behavior everything. I value his privacy don't hear his thoughts, that would create a fake relation, I trust him more than anyone apart from my crazy normal dad. Usually I feel his emotions they ebb in waves from him and since the day he agreed to be mine I feel nothing but loved and cherished not that I didn't feel that before but now it increased like tenfolds. We hardly meet for half an hour in breaks and maybe another half while walking home rest we chat on phone. Nothing major has changed in our before and after of being in relationship, we are the exact same but the emotions he feel and makes me feel bring a world to me. I smile feeling blessed to have him.
From the corner of my eye before going upstairs to my room, I look at dad and see him smiling at me and I do my own sign language to say stay outta my head while Matt was busy looking at the photos hanged all over the wall across in which I was no more than 4 and was naked with a live snake in my hand, laughing and excited at God knows what.
I remember catching animals on my way to school or whenever I see them, dad use to run behind me but all I cared about was insects, pests and animals ranging from small to whatever I got my eye on. I always felt like they belonged to me. I still remember crying to this day for getting a dog. My mind sparks with -
"Li, you ain't getting any dog. Matt if she asks you that as a gift then let me tell you I do not tolerate animals, kind of allergic." dad says a tone higher to get Matt's attention.
He nods and I feel like cursing dad's mind reading. I hate that I can't read his.
" Thanks for the reminder dad! Won't dream about it. I am happy being a lone wolf in this damn prison. "
" Oh come on its not like you don't have company, world's best prison companion." Dad smiles reffering himself. Matt laughs thinking it as mere joke only if he knew.
I narrow my eyes letting him know that I ain't agreeing to stay like a prisoner forever.

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" Your dad is funny. "
" You've no clue, he's a barbarian when it comes to me leaving home anywhere other than university."
"So I know, since we were children, you hardly left your house. He loves you a lot Li, I don't know what to say. I don't have parents of my own, I kind of envy you. I wish I had an obsessed parent like him." Matt laughs but all I can feel is sadness flowing through him.
Oh Matty. I hug him rubbing his back in circles to calm him. I hate it when he feels sad.
" Wanna trade your dad? "he teases. Even when I know he's just teasing I cannot fantom exchanging dad next to anything maybe I am obsessed with him to the same degree. I can do nothing but sigh at the like father, like daughter phrase strolling my mind.
" Well I wouldn't mind if you call him dad but trading him can never happen even hypothetically. He'll always be my crazily normal dad."
Matt laughs genuinely.
"You're just like him and here you complain for God knows what. Well I think your dad is cool I mean who allows their daughter's boyfriend in their house he's pretty cool."
Only if you knew why...
"Matt I have something to tell you." I grab my notebook and pen and start writing without actually sounding those words in my mind. It's difficult but I can do it since I hardly ever read by internal voice but then perhaps he won't have the ability to read without actually reading it in his mind and knowing father he might be definitely setting up his antennas on us.
"Forget it, nothing important." I mumble, he stares at me definitely not believing but then he doesn't probe any further.
"Let's watch movie, shall we?"
"Which one?"
"Well whatever you like I'll be fine with it."
"Ain't you the cutest, well then let's watch demon slayer movie. I wanted to watch it since forever."
"Awesome!"
Knowing Matt I know he wouldn't dodge an anime movie. We both share the love for anime and well use random Japanese words that actually might not be the way we say it but let's say we both have our very own dictionary that only we both can understand half of them belong to situations we loved while watching anime.
Ahhh peace it was the first time I was watching movie with someone other than dad. Matt was so engrossed in movie that I guess he barely registered he was watching with me.
We had ice-cream after completing movie and it was the best day might I add.
"So what do you want for your birthday other than dog?" Matt questions with curiosity.
"Well let's see.. If not dog can you get me a hamster? Or a turtle?"
"You're dad clearly said-"
We are interrupted by my legendary dad, before he continues Matt's sentence as his own, "that I am allergic to all animals. Matt seems smart enough to remember what I told him once and I've been telling that to you for years together but look at you?!" dad sighs.
Matt looks stunned well most definitely this ain't normal. Matt has little clue that dad can read minds all he might have imagined was dad pressing his ears on the door. Ughhh I cringe at the situation before manhandling my quite resistant dad out of room and giving him a piece of mind on how to not freak out people.