To rebuild our home

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Jon's POV

Suddenly I saw Mark who was facing me with a smile and pointing down at my usual seat at this table. I smiled back at him and sat down. "Good morning Jon." Mark greeted me. "Good morning." I said back and sounded pretty nervous.

Eduardo stayed silent and not even looked at me as if I wasn't even here. This made Mark angry. He gave Eduardo a side glance and asked him if he doesn't have anything to say. This only led to Eduardo shaking his head and continuing eating as if I wouldn't exist, I knew that in Eduardo's eyes I wasn't welcome in this house anymore. Usually he would greet me even if he yelled at me the day before, but this time there was nothing.

I was ashamed to a point were I only end up eating half of the food on my plate. I only ate a quarter of the bacon and a quarter of the scrambled eggs and left the rest of my food on the plate. I don't deserve to eat I thought to myself. I stood up threw away the food on my plate and walked back into my room.

I have to apologize to Eduardo. Maybe I could buy something for him, a gift could do it. I think that this would be a great idea. So I grabbed some of my money, put on a jacket and went downstairs to the front door. I was about to leave to go to the shopping center that wasn't very far from here when I suddenly felt a tap on my shoulder.

"Where are you going Jon?" Mark asked behind me. I turned around to face him and saw that there was concern written all over his face. "Oh...uhm I am just going to the shopping center to buy something." I responded. Still Mark was confused on why I would all of a sudden go buy something without even telling anyone that I was leaving to get something. "Why haven't you told us, well or me that you were about to leave?" Mark asked me.

"Well, it's just that what I was about to buy should be a surprise." I responded. "A surprise?" Mark repeated and made it sound as a question. "Yes, a surprise for Eduardo. I feel sorry about disappointing him yesterday, so I want to apologize to him with a gift. I don't want him to hate me forever." I explained to Mark.

Mark just shooked his head. "Jon, Eduardo is the one in the wrong for what he has done to you. You don't need to apologize to him or buy him anything just so that he would like you again. He should be the one apologizing to you and besides that the next store is three kilometers away from here and you don't have a driver's license." He told me with his arms crossed in front of his chest.

"Well, yeah but I can still take the bus." I argued back. In wich he facepalmed himself and sighed afterwards. "The next bus is only coming in two hours or so and besides that it is very windy outside." He told me in a matter of fact way. I looked at him in a sad way and was about to go back upstairs to my room when I heard him sigh and speak up to me again. "Alright, I guess that I can drive you there so that you can buy something for him, if this makes you feel better afterwards. Besides I think that I could also this opportunity to buy some books that I saw online." Mark told me while he was putting on his jacket and taking the keys from the car.

He told Eduardo that we were leaving in which he just responded with a simple okay before we sat down in the car and were on our way to go to the shopping center. The drive was silent but I didn't minded it at all. At least I had enough time left to think about what I wanted to buy for Eduardo. It has to be something special, something that he likes and that would make him think of me in a positive way.

I really like him, so if this is going to flop then this would end up breaking my heart.