Hate You, I Love You.

Chapter 20

"Why do you look like you have something to ask me.. but pondering if you would ask me that question in your mind?" Mom stated while doing some of her office works on her laptop.

I lay down on her bed as I look at the ceiling.

"Dad's gone right? He died when I was two years old?"

Mom stopped typing on her laptop to face me. "Yes, he did. Why'd you ask?"

"Nothing, it just suddenly cross my mind." I raise myself up. "Anyways, I gotta go to sleep. Good night, mom."

Before I leave her room, I took a glance at mom while she returned to her work.

According to my mom, my dad left us and went to heaven when I was two years old and Jayse wasn't born in that time but he was in my mom's womb.

I don't know what was the exact cause of death of my father because mom vaguely talks about him. The pictures that I have with my father is the only memory mom had kept in a photo album.

I miss my dad. I miss him for the times that we were weren't able to spend time together but... now, with this message I received saying that he's my dad made me think things.

Did my father really left us and went to heaven? Or did my father did something that he left us for good and that mom is just trying to cover up something?

I was in a deep thought when I looked at my window and Sebastian was there standing holding a sign.

Wanna go see the stars?

I smile as I took a paper on my table. I wrote 'Yes' as my reply and showed it to Sebastian. He then Face Time me.

"Let's go?" Sebastian stated on the other line of the call.

I dropped the call and ask mom for permission. It was already eight in the evening and mom hesitated but then agreed.

"Be home by midnight, Iris. Okay?" Mom reminded.

"Thanks, mom!" I blew her a flying kiss as I head downstairs to meet Sebastian.

As I went out of the house, I saw Sebastian from a distance. He waved his hand at me and I wave my hand back at him, smiling.

"I didn't bring my car so that we could walk under the night sky." Sebastian uttered.

"That would be great," I responded as I open my palm.

Sebastian took my hand and intertwined our fingers as we walk down the road. I was humming to a song while we sway our hands.

"You're my, my, my, my..." I spoke a few words of the song I was humming.

"Lover," Sebastian added.

"You know that song?" I asked, surprised.

Sebastian nodded. "Of course, who doesn't know any of Taylor Swift's songs?"

We both chuckled as we suddenly talked things about when and how we liked listening to Taylor Swift's songs. I know it was supposed to be a tranquil walk but we ended up being a fangirl and fanboy to Taylor's discography.

We changed our topic as we arrived at the playground. I took my hands from Sebastian as I ran towards the slide. We both became like children playing around the playroom and trying every different ride.

We tried the see saw, the slide, and the spring ride. Our smiles were plastered over our face as we enjoy every moment together.

Sebastian suddenly got tired and lay down his back on the artificial grass.

"Your shirt, is gonna get dirty," I stated as I went close to him.

"It's fine. Wanna join me?" Sebastian opened his arm and tapped his bicep as an invite that I'd lay down beside him.