Unplanned and Unintentional

Chapter 7

Tin's POV

I turned quickly away from Can and limped as fast as I could towards my car because I did not want him to see that my tears had started to fall.

It  hurt me a lot to have to break off with him but I couldn't bear to be with him anymore knowing that he did not really love me, that he loved someone else.

I still could not understand why my judgment of him had failed so much. I thought I had judged him rightly when I told myself that he was a very loyal person, someone who would never  betray me, who would never betray the people he loved and cared about.

And that was the problem, he had never really loved and cared about me, and that is why it was easy for him to cheat on me.

When I got home, my parents were at the dinner table.

I kissed them both and my dad motioned for me to sit at my place at the table.

"How did the university fair go?" asked my mom.

"I didn't really go," I said, not looking at any of them as I tucked the dinner napkin under my collar.

"So where did you ask the driver to take you?" my father asked, looking at me intently.

I really did not yet want to discuss with them my decision to cancel my engagement with Can. Not yet, not during dinner.

"Oh, just here and there," I replied, cutting off a small piece of the seared beef and putting it in my mouth.

I tried my best to chew and swallow it but I felt like I was going to choke on it. I grabbed the table napkin and dropped the piece of meat into it, removed the dinner napkin from my collar and stood up abruptly.

"Please excuse me," I said.

My mom stood up as well. She had been quick to see the troubled expression on my face.

She followed me to the living room and pulled me by the elbow and hugged me.

"Son, please talk to me," she whispered.

Between sobs I said, "I want to cancel my engagement to Cantaloupe."

"Noooooooo, son, what happened???" she asked, looking more horrified than Can was when I told Can about my decision to cancel our engagement. "You can't do that to Cantaloupe! He is the sweetest boy I have ever known!"

"You are wrong in your judgment of him, mom," I told her sadly, "he is not the sweet boy that you think him to be."

"What's going on here?" My father had entered the living room. I quickly wiped away my tears, not wanting him to see them.

"Tin wants to cancel his engagement with Cantaloupe," my mom replied for me.

"Whhaaattt???" My father exploded. "I have already instructed my lawyers to start drafting the contract between you and Cantaloupe! You can't do this to him, son!"

Why were my parents so against my cancellation of the engagement??? Why were they thinking only of Can? I have not yet even told them about how he had cheated on me. I better tell them right now so that they will be on my side and not Cantaloupe's.

"Mom, dad," I said, "the reason I want to break up with Can is because he cheated on me."

"That's impossible!!!" My mom and dad exclaimed at the same time.

"I have met and talked with that fine young man," my father said, "and I do not believe that he is capable of cheating on you. And I am never wrong in my judgment of people." My father finished his little speech with a strong conviction in his voice.

"But, dad..." I could not even finish my sentence because my father was brandishing his index finger at my face.

"You are not cancelling your engagement with Cantaloupe," my dad interrupted me, "I will be instructing my lawyers to finalize the contract tomorrow."