Missing Wit

11:Family

Sophie and Kurt were in the park. Kurt was doing what Sophie wanted; he was swinging her on the swing. This task was getting pretty boring for Kurt. But Sophie was energetic enough to stay here all day. Kurt, on the other hand, already wanted to go home. At the same time, he was wondering what had happened to Lina. How was the meeting? Did Lina find what she hoped for? Did they have a chance to start a new relationship? Probably not, because Lina wasn't the type to act so stupidly. He knew only himself that Lina was meeting David today; so he thought, because he didn't know that Paul had visited her. These thoughts took his attention away from Sophie. That's why, without realizing it, he began to swinger Sophie slower then earlier. Sophie noticed Kurt's it.

"Uncle Kurt?" little Sophie called out to Kurt. "Are you OK?"

Kurt stopped swinging Sophie with this question. He paused and thought for a while. Meanwhile, Sophie also turned around and looked at Kurt. Sophie's neck was slightly bent to side.

"I just thought of something else, princess," Kurt replied.

"Is it about work?" asked Sophie.

"Yes," Kurt was going to answer, but he stopped saying it, thinking that it might upset him to give Sophie that answer. Since he couldn't say his mind was on Lina either, Kurt had to come up with a more ingenious lie. Looking around without saying anything, Kurt said, "I'm a little hungry. I look around to see if there is anything to eat," he replied. After giving this answer, Sophie came to Kurt's side after getting off the swing. They began to look around together.

"Come on, let's go home," Kurt said to Sophie, noticing that Sophie was starting to look around too. "We eat what your mother made."

"My mom's?" asked Sophie.

Kurt remembered that Lina didn't cook much at home. Kurt, on the other hand, would not make the robots cook alone, since the motor movements of the robots were insufficient when it came to cooking. Thereupon, Kurt asked, "Is it okay for me to do?".

"Can we do it together?" Sophie replied with another question, looking into Kurt's eyes.

Kurt took Sophie in his arms and said, "Okay." The two of them started out of the park to get a taxi.

Kurt stopped the first taxi he saw as soon as he was out on the street. He put Sophie in first, and then he got into the taxi himself. After Kurt entering the coordinates of house, the vehicle started to move.

Sophie was in the car with her face against the window, looking outside. Since little Sophie showed Kurt everything she saw, this was the longest ride for Kurt to date, even if the park was close to home and the journey took less than five minutes.

The taxi arrived in front of the house. As soon as the car stopped, Sophie jumped out of the car and started running towards the house. Kurt got out of the vehicle exhausted. 'This little witch is unbearable sometimes,' he thought. Just as these thoughts were running through his mind, Kurt had to put on a fake smile, as Sophie turned to look at Kurt. He didn't show Sophie that he was tired. After Sophie entered the house, Kurt took a calm deep breath and walked towards the house.

As Kurt was walking towards the house, he saw a Frisbee fall in the garden of his own house. He had no idea where the frisbee came from. He took the Frisbee and began to examine it; it was a small frisbee with a broken piece and with a sign in the middle of which he didn't know what it was. Kurt looked around. He saw a man approaching him and a dog next to him. The man was waving to Kurt and making several apologetic hand gestures. Kurt, motioned for him to come home to get the frisbee. The man was very happy with Kurt's attitude and quickly walked into the garden of Kurt's house.

"Thanks," the man said. "You can't always predict exactly what a dog will do."

"Doesn't it apply to everything?" Kurt asked.

The man was surprised at Kurt's question. Nothing he said was intelligible. After looking at Kurt for a while, "Anyway," he said and thanked him again and left the house.

Kurt entered the house. He was still quite tired. But he wanted to talk to Lina regardless; because he was curious. However, he was not supposed to tell the children what had happened. While Kurt was thinking these things in the living room, Marcus came to Kurt.

"How are you Kurt?" asked Marcus.

Kurt shook his head. Realizing the situation, Marcus made a fist and raised his hand to shake hands with Kurt. Kurt raised his fist and pumped hands with Marcus.

"How about you?" Kurt asked.

"Relationships... with one person are... good," Marcus said. Kurt understood why he was prolonging the sentence like that.

"Which person?" he asked.

"A person... whose name I don't want to give away."

"Then give my regards to your friend, whose name you don't want to name, who probably doesn't have a short one long sex chromosome like you, but two of the long one," Kurt laughed.

Marcus' cheeks turned a little red. "Sure," he said to Kurt, who was still trying not to embarrass him. Then the two of them went to the kitchen together.

In the kitchen, Kurt asked Marcus, "Do you know where your mother is?"

"In his room," Marcus replied. "She didn't leave her room after Paul left."

"Paul?" Kurt wondered. He moved in an instant. "He's here..." he said, and before he could finish her sentence, she started walking briskly upstairs, leaving Marcus alone in the kitchen. He went upstairs and leaned against the door of Lina's room. Then he calmed down, took a deep breath and thought. It was pointless for him to act like that, he had to be calm and act normal. There was nothing wrong with it. Kurt- after much thought - knocked softly on Lina's room door. A rough, muffled "Come in!" her voice came.

Kurt entered the room. Lina was lying in her bed. She looked normal; calm, just staring at the opposite wall. The room was tidy; Kurt had seen nothing abnormal, neither in the room nor in Lina. He calmly walked over to Lina's bed and slowly sat down in an empty spot on Lina's bed that Lina found in front of him. With Kurt sitting, Lina also got up from the bed and sat next to Kurt. Then she wrapped Kurt with his arms from behind and hugged him.

"I shouldn't have," Lina self-criticised. "Not a person to talk to, really. You were right, I should have listened to you."

Kurt stroked his sister's hair and didn't say anything to her. Kurt's attitude pleased him. With Kurt's hatred for David so obvious, it was very important for Kurt to support Lina at that moment. Lina agreed with Kurt's lack of answer and they both stared at the wall in silence.

"So they didn't say anything, did they?" Eric asked, as Eric and Paul got on the subway.

"That's what Kurt said," Paul replied, shrugging. Meanwhile, they realized that the subway was approaching them. Then they got on the subway together. The subway was empty; it wasn't easy for Eric and Paul to find a seat next to each other and sit down.

"Are you sure it's true?"

"I don't have 'to be sure' in my dictionary, remember?"

"Yes, yes," Eric said quietly after that answer. He wanted to tell Paul that the word 'not sure' wasn't in his dictionary, but he chose to remain silent so the conversation could continue.

"And then?" asked Eric.

"Lina didn't just break up with David because she didn't like his character," Paul said. Then he lay back.

Eric was leaning forward. "What do you want to say?"

"David is not just a man who invests within the legal limits."

"So he has a dark side," Eric said. However, this was not surprising. All of the journalists who researched David Sanders were friends and were in frequent contact with him on the subject.

"Yes. But even if we knew, we couldn't prove it. So it was something we didn't want to dwell on too much. It was like that for both me and Kurt and Lina. Until..."

Eric straightened up and looked at Paul and, "Let me guess. Until the accident," he said.

A smile appeared on Paul's face. "You are very clever, sir," he said, looking at Eric.