Secret Love Nest

Parents' Love pt2

My mother picked a picture frame with a photo of me and Qing smiling at each other. It was taken in the mansion's garden, we have Kuai and Kuangnu posing with us.

Mama: (smiling fondly at our picture) In the end, you are the one who convinced me to agree. Not Qing...

I nodded. That was a hard process for all of us.

For my parents' part, trying to understand me and my new relationship with Qing was not a walk in a park for them. For weeks as my mother contemplate on what I want to do and who I want to be with was a struggle. She turned quiet, lost in her thoughts, sometimes even blaming herself.

Sounds familiar? Yeah, I got that from her. I got my mother's personalities to a T. If my father and I didn't share the same blood type, he joked that he will demand a DNA test to make sure I am his son.

On my father side, he tried knowing Qing. He talked to Qing a lot. Asking questions, listening to Qing's stories of childhood, learning Qing's characteristics.

Baba: If you are determined to have a relationship with this man, I have to know him. He is bigger than you, stronger, what if he is violent...

I was flabbergasted.

Me: You mean you worry if he will physically hurt me because he is a guy. But if I am dating a girl, you won't worry that she will abuse me? Baba, there were girls our there more violent than most men! Do you know that?

Baba: Yes! But you can defend yourself against a woman, and you can run faster than them. This guys thighs are so long he will catch you in no time..

Me: He will not hurt me! Qing is not violent!

Baba: He confessed to me that he was prone to be jealous. And possessive...

I groan. Why did Qing had to be honest about that?

Me: Well I like his possessiveness.

Baba: Good. That's a point for you both. Can you handle his jealousy?

Me: Of course!

Baba gave me a long stare. I stared back at him until he nodded in satisfaction and my eyes hurt.

Then he went away to talk and study Qing more.

My mother didn't made the same effort. She was going at it the different way.

Mama: (while talking to Qing) Dayu is hard to live with. He has OCD and he is a perfectionist. He tends to be mouthy and nag too. He is also a klutz, clumsy and the way he thinks can be messy.

Yes, she is my mother. And I am starting to question her love for me.

She told Qing every embarassing and ugly things about me. Qing will laugh, agree with her and he will say...

Qing: I love everything about your son Auntie. Even his clumsiness.

My mother will give him an annoyed look and then she will leave.

Qing and I patiently waited for their approval. My father's came first.

Baba: (pertaining to Qing) I like him.