(Sequel to 'The Flaws In Us')
After 5 years studying in New York and 3 Years not coming back home, Kai is back to go back for Christmas and also to attend his high school reunion. Although he didn't want to go, he has one reason that made him go bac...
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"Shit...," I cursed under my breath as I watched the box of cereal falls from the shelves of edibles. There weren't many people around me to watch my clumsy act but nevertheless, I still felt embarrassed by how cumbersome my hands were.
It has been many days since the time I had at the mall with Kai and his friends and also Felix. I have been spending many times with Kai than I ever had before - the amount of time spent with him has surpassed the time I spent with him during high school. You could say that I was proud of it. Proud of it because it made me felt like I was doing the right thing... and I was. Even I know better that my parents would get shocked by this sooner or later.
I haven't gone back to my parents' house too often recently as well. The one time I showed my face there was during the day I came back which was a day before Kai coming back home and the time when I sent Kai back to his car at the parking lot.
They didn't ask me about meeting Kai or if I talked to him. They just... seem to look at my smiling face and decide well enough that I had made contact with the charming man. I know that I was out of their care and I can do whatever I wanted to, but it wouldn't feel as deserving to do what I want if they still had their sour face on. Well, at least mom had gone beyond that, and she understands me a little to which I was grateful for. Dad... was hard to appease.
So here I am, buying groceries for my home and also buying some for mom for Christmas Eve tomorrow. I know... I know... why would I even bother to buy stuff for them when they dislike what gender I was into and surely Natalie was around to help, right?
The answer to that was what I mentioned... I couldn't possibly get my parents approval but showing rebellion or resistance to what they think is wrong. Even somehow that plan would work, but it doesn't - most of the time.
The other way that I could possibly change their minds towards what Kai and I have is to show gratitude, care and giving affection from who is called a son. As much as I hate to be those kinds of things towards my family which I haven't been since I started puberty, it was the least that I can do to compromise. Plus, it was how I got to score different investment from different companies towards mine and let me tell you... most of the time I tried not to punch someone in the face.
Natalie, on the other hand, was engaged to her fiancée and so it meant that her time was preoccupied seventy per cent for the man of soon-to-be her husband. It was maybe a piece of quite shocking news when I came back to hear she got engaged to Fred. The engagement was pretty recent actually, so I wonder if Kai knew about it too since both of them were pretty close.
After a while of picking out items for myself and for the family, I push the shopping cart to the cashier counter lazily while I eyed every single thing in the market before I even pay for the groceries. Who knows I might be forgetting something?
When there wasn't anything left to buy, I pushed the cart quickly to the counter. But not before I was being put into a halt when a certain voice called my name. Looking back to where the voice came from, I smile at the brown-haired guy who wore his casual plaids jumper and black pants.
