Frozen Heart

xiii. ceasefire

Owl.

That's what Tin believes he looks like for the past few minutes since his father sees Can. Why? Tin has his eyes widened because right in front of him is a miracle, his father is talking, smiling, and laughing at everything that idiotic thing Can has been saying. Yeah. He's laughing Tin's afraid his father might die of laughing.

Every time his father laughs though, Tin's eyes stretch ten times larger from its normal size. He doesn't even know his eyes are capable of doing that.

"That's very amusing N'Can." His father, who Tin knows should be stoic and poker-faced laughs for an umpteenth time at one of Can's adventures.

Can nods. "Yeah. I know. I was with Lemon when that happened."

"Lemon? Your girl-"

"Oh, no-no. She's my little sister."

Tin's father nods and smiles fondly at Can then he looks at his Rolex. "Anyway, I'm going to excuse myself. I still have to talk to my other business partners."

Can nods and smiles back. "Thank you Khun, it was nice seeing you."

"It was nice seeing you also. I hope to see you again in the future."

Then Tin's father leaves but not before he glares at Tin. "We're going to talk later." His father mouths, his father is pertaining to Tin's attitude towards Trump a while ago. Of course, they still have to talk about that.

But to Tin, whatever they're going to talk about, it's already kaput and it's all thanks to Can.

Speaking of Can, he's still eating. Tin is shocked just how much food can Can fit inside his small body. And the funny thing is, Can still looks fit.

"How are you doing that?" Tin asks.

Can gulps the remaining of food his chewing and tilts his head at Tin. "What do you mean?"

"Besides eating 4 plates already, what I was asking is how did you soften my father?"

"What? I just talked to him."

"Yeah. But he's laughing and my father never laughs except if it's Pete he's talking with."

"Yeah. And I'm Can."

Tin rolls his eyes. "No, what I want to know is how? What's with you that made him... laugh?" But Tin suddenly realized Can unintentionally did it to Pete too and shockingly, to him.

Pete obviously is comfortable with Can, not only Can is his first friend ever since Trump happened, but Pete also let see Can what he really is, that he's not really shy and nerdy like he pretends to be; And Tin, Tin just always feels like laughing and smiling and it's not him. He should always be poker-faced. So really, what's with Can bringing out their family's emotions like that? What's so special about Can?

"I don't know. I just tell him my stories-Oh Khun, do you still have this? There's just one left."

The woman attending the food gives Can a motherly smile before shaking her head. "No, but it will be available after an hour."

Can pouts. "But I really love that."

"Yeah. It's obvious. You almost ate even the plate." Tin comments.

Can glares at him and huffs. "Now what am I going to do for an hour?"

"Let's go outside. Aren't you full yet?"

"Kind of. Okay, let's go outside. After an hour, I'll be hungry again- Khun, I can eat this again, yes?" The woman chuckles and nods.

Tin looks at Can with surprised looks. "Just how many people are living inside you?!"