Heartbeat 22: Attack of the Doting Parent

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Hectic schedule + Stress x 973753167829... *sigh* Just thinking about it drains all my energy. (-_-)

I won't be able to update that much 'cause our new sem had already begun. Hontou ni, gomen! B-But I'll do my best! \\(>.

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Eh? This... Déjà vu...?

When I arrived home that afternoon, what I first saw was my dad impatiently tapping his feet with his arms crossed and his eyes closed on our front gate. He's all sweaty and his aura was brimming with restlessness.

Since when has he been standing there? Just the thought made me shiver. I'm gonna get some serious scolding for sure!

"Hn...?"

Oh...! He noticed me. This is bad! What should I do!?

Choose.

(1) Flee the scene and have my name changed.

(2) Beg and cry like a kid.

(3) Face everything like a man.

C-Choice number 3 sounds reasonable, but... Ahh!! H-He's coming!!

I closed my eyes waiting for him to slap me or maybe punch me in the face, but what happened next was so surreal that I thought I was dreaming at some point.

He put his hands on my shoulder and gripped me tightly.

Huh? Father's hands are somewhat... shaking...

Wondering why he did that, I reluctantly opened my eyes to check. But what I saw was something completely... completely out of this world.

Father was... crying... crying like a kid.

"SORaaaaa...!! I thought you weren't coming back home anymore!!" Then he repeatedly shook me.

Eh...

Eh?

EHH?

EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!?

W-What the heck's happening here!?

"F-Father!?"

What's this!? Did father got abducted by an alien and was replaced by something? No, no, no, no, no. That can't be, right? Ohh! O-Or maybe when he became a stone yesterday, something wrong happened in his brain making his personality turn a complete 180 and he became like this when he came back to life. Uhh... Uhhhh... Uhhhhhmmm... 

Amidst my confused state, I heard a single clap.

"Yes, yes. That's enough. Father, you've reverted back to your real self in front of Sora," Hikage-nii told father as if reminding him.

*sniff* "But..." *sniff* "But..."

Hikage-nii let out a single sigh with his hand on his forehead before facing me. "Now you know how father really is," He said with a "how troublesome" look on his face.

"Nii-sa--?" Kagami-nii also came out at that moment. "Ah."

It seems like he quickly understood what's happening.

"Now father's secret is revealed," He said before also giving a sigh.

Eh? S-Secret? What secret? Can someone please explain to me what on earth is happening here!?

Hikage-nii seems to have comprehended what I was thinking based on the look of my face. "Anyway, let's take it inside, okay?" He said.

I followed them with a confused expression. We all went to the living room and sat ourselves on the khaki couch.

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