Flash back

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Raphael's POV

"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!", I heard mum shouting. I got up from my bed and sneaked to the living room and hid behind the wall to look at what was happening. I saw mum's one hand on her waist and the other holding dad's tie. She looked infuriated.

"HUH? ANSWER MY QUESTION, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN AND SO LATE AT NIGHT?!", mum asked dad. "At work, where else could I have been?", dad asked. "I don't know, you tell me", mom replied still looking furious.

"What's that suppose to mean?" Dad asked
"Well let's see, first you started coming home extremely late and when you do come home early, you end up leaving the house in the middle of the night. You hide your phone away from me and when I ask you questions, you're either avoiding my questions or overly emotional. Do you want me to go on?", mum replied.

"Wait, do you think I'm cheating on you?", dad asked. "What else should I think, Huh?"
The room was quiet for sometime then mum spoke again, " I'm still waiting for your answer".

"Ummmm", dad said with an anxious expression." Well, I'm waiting", mum said. "Look here sweet heart, I can't tell you everything now but all I want is for you to trust me", dad said.

"Give me one good reason why I should trust you", mum said." Like I said, I can't tell you now but I swear, its all just a misunderstanding. I'm not  cheating on you, I would never do that", dad said.

"Gosh, you say that everytime", mum said with an irritated look." Darling look here-" dad started then suddenly stopped. He looked as if he was hiding something.

"What, why did you stop?" Mum asked with an antogonized tone.  "Sweet heart please just trust me" dad said. " You know what, I'm sick and tired of this, I'm done, I'm leaving this house and I'm leaving with the kids", mum said.

"Wha-", dad started but I interrupted him.
"What, we're leaving?", I asked looking at the both of them. Mum turned to me, "Yes honey, we're going on a vacation" mum said but with an illusive smile.

"Oh, then why were you shouting at dad?" I asked pretending to be oblivious.

"Oh sweetie I wasn't shouting, I was rather screaming from excitement, mum replied with a fictitious smile. I could see the hurt and astonishment in her eyes.

"So what is my baby doing up so late at night?", mum asked changing the topic. "I heard you shouting so I went to check on what was happening", I replied.

"Ohh Ok, let's go back to bed now", mum said walking me back to my room." Mum why does dad always come back home so late?", I asked mum," It's because he's very busy, why do you ask?", mum replied looking down at me. "Just asking'', I replied and put on a smile and she smiled back. We reached my room and mum put me on my bed.

"Mum why do you always shout at dad?", I asked."Me? Shout at dad? I would never", mum said with a smile then tickled my belly and we laughed.

"Ok sweetie it's time for you to go back to bed , goodnight", mum said then gave me a kiss on my forehead.

"Goodnight mommy", I said then closed my eyes, mum switched of the lights then closed the door.

Narrator's POV

After that night, Johnson and Anastasia made amends with one another but the quarrel didn't stop there.

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