Prodigious Abyss (I love you , best friend)

chapter fourteen : too late

Daniel's POV

i kept working on some urgent and unfinished papers for work , i had nothing else to do . this work needs to be done sooner or later and i can't put it on hold any longer .

taking charge of my father's companies is not that easy , and it's not that fun either , but it's a family business so someone has to look after it .

Lina was asleep , its been hours since we got back from my sister's place . No thanks to them , she didn't get to sleep properly .

Sometimes i feel like her mother.
I know she can take care of herself , she's a grown woman , but i always have the urge to take care of her , because i feel like taking care of herself in her own ways isn't enough .

She's strong headed ,i admit .
She drives me crazy , no doubt .
But i want to take care of her , i really do.
I'm her family now . i know she doesn't want me to pity her or anything but its hard to be away from your family and not even speaking to them or knowing what's going on in their lives since she left.
I don't know whats worse ,leaving your family to live your life the way you wish to live it , or staying with them so they can make the perfect child out of you , and force you to live a life you don't want . but they chose it to you , so you have to stick around and obey .

Wealthy and well known families are always like this, they care about their image and their name more than building a strong relationship between its family members .

And Lina was a victim to such family.
But i can't help but wanting to meet her parents , i never told her that . but i'm curious to see them and discover the place where she was born and raised.

As for my family , our success in buisiness is not defines us , we prefere to talk about work in one of our companies , because once you walk through the door of our house , you have to drop anything related to work and enjoy the company of your family .

Those were my mother's rules . She's trully the spirit of this house , she's the one thats keeping us all together , closer to each other everyday .
She's a strong woman , but very loving and tender once needed.

She chose to be a stay-home mom , not because her husband is wealthy and she didn't need to work but because she knew if she was abscent most of the time working , then this house won't be called home , and we won't be as close to each other .

Lina admired that about my mother , she cried her nights asleep when she knew the love she received from my mother was not even close to the affection shown by her own .

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As i was finishing up with the last couple of papers lina rushed out from her room , breathless .

She asked me where her phone was and i pointed towards it with the pen held in my hand .

she sounded breathless , apparently she's late for something.

" are you okay ? you sound like you've been running" i asked.

"I'm fine , i'm just late , i need to call christian."

of course you do , i thought to myself. I remember all about her date with him later tonight.

she was sleeping the whole day, i kind of was hoping that she decided not to go , or maybe she would sleep until it was too late or something.

but much to my liking , none of that happened . i know that it's selfish of me to think that way , i even thought about waking her up so she won't feel upset later on , knowing that she bailed on him . But then again , i decided against it. i decided to play it cool , like i remember nothing about the whole thing.