Chapter 69

“Sing sweet nightingale, sing sweet nightingale, high Above me…”

The little boy rubs his eye, “Sing again mama,” the little boy begs.

The lady rubs his head gently, “Young master, you should go to sleep, it's late.”

“I don't want to sleep…”

“Young Master…” she said uncomfortably.

“Fine only If you sleep next to me, Mommy.”

She smiles, taking off her shoes, and fixing herself properly in bed, “can I get a goodnight kiss too?”

She gently kisses him on the forehead as he shuts his eyes to wander off to sleep, soon the scenery switches to the boy's hand bleeding and a man mercilessly whipping it.

“How are you?! You stupid Child, you stupid Child!”

His eyes cry as he sits on the bed in pain crying while singing to himself, “Sing sweet nightingale, sing sweet nightingale… Mommy, mommy. Where did you go? Where did you go…”

Nathaniel opens his eyes, on both sides of the bed lies his children except one. He had a weird dream, he looks at them sleeping and thinks to himself is he doing it right?

He slowly eases up, careful not to wake them, “Noah?”

He looks at the time on his watch; it's late after 10 Noah is probably sleeping, but as he walks to the hall he sees him, the child that's supposed to be sleeping wide awake on his tablet.

“You're not sleeping?”

Noah is playing games, he couldn't sleep. He is not tired plus the Scum gong.

“You're a growing boy, you'll feel unwell if you don't get enough sleep,” Nathaniel said face with concern.

Noah pauses the game looking away, biting his bottom lip before saying. “Why don't you leave me alone?” He asks.

Nathaniel is confused, “I can't exactly, you are a child–”

“Us alone, you have your family. Two children who love and adore you and a wife who is ignorant to the dirty secrets you hide.” Noah said, Apathetically.

Nathaniel is taken aback, the words that leave his mouth are not that of a child. “Noah?”

Noah is tired, he can't stand this pretend nice guy, he can't stand it. “Honestly, please leave us alone. You give me anxiety every time you're around.” Noah is sick of it.

“Noah, what do you– Noah why are you saying this? Did someone say something to you?”

Nathaniel then thinks deeper but looking into his son's eyes, “You know?”

“I've always known, it wasn't easy to forget,” he said.

Noah's eyes are cold and dead, Nathaniel Is about to touch him when Noah Backs away.

“Noah… I will not hurt you. I care about you.”

Noah looks into the eyes of Nathaniel, He can sympathize. But he can't bring himself to care knowing what Nathaniel and his family Are capable of.

“Your caring… comes at a cost that my mother and I can't afford.”

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Sihan is sitting on the table, thinking, he is looking at the fridge. Amani walks in, it's late at night, and he is surprised when he can't find Sihan beside him but seeing the kitchen lights on he is happy to see him.

“You okay?” He asks.

Sihan turns his head to see the annoyingly Sexy man standing there as his pajama Shirt slides down his shoulder, he feels a slight irritation, tapping the table annoyed.

“Sihan?”

“Strip,”

“Eh?” Amani said dumbfounded.

“Strip Would you?! Strip you Heard me the first time!”

Amani was taken by Sihan's behavior, this is strange. But simply starts to remove his shirt as Sihan hugs him, only taking A second to fall asleep later… he is still confused.

Gently Carrying him to Lie down, he looks at his phone To see several miss call, he rings it and answers.

“Hello?”

“Mr. Amani, I'm sorry for the late-night call but… he is not in great condition now…”

Amani nods as his eyes reflect sadness, He goes to the closet to start looking for stuff. He looks at Sihan and bites his lips.

“Grandfather is dying…”

Amani knows no one Can beat the natural course of life. But still… he can't help but feel sad.

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Arian is walking down the stairs, he pauses for a moment as he sees Julio Walking up towards him.

“Julio, let's play games.”

“Huh? It's time for you to go to bed.”

“Let's call Josh,”

“It's disrespectful calling your father by his name, you know.” Julio urged.

“I want something to eat,”

“What?”

Arian thinks for a while, “Hmm, Mac and cheese.”

“I'm guessing you want the beacon Scrambled on top.” He adds

“Lots Of peppers”

“Just like how you like it.” Julio sighs, turning around.

“Josh is going to take you out driving tomorrow,” Arian adds.

Julio had taken Arian on his back gently walking down the stairs. “Is that so? What do you want to wear?”

“I'm not going, he wants to spend some time with you not knowing when he will be available again,” Arian explains.

“You told Him something.”

“Well, he does like to get to know you better.” Arian said, “You can talk to him, you know?”

Arian smiled, and Julio had a slight blush before expressing Annoyance. “That's Stupid, they're world Is engulfed With you in it.”

Julio stops at the end of the stairs then pauses biting his lip. “Hey Ari,”

“Yes?”

“Do you remember… nevermind.”

Arian looks at the stairs and the floor, of course, he knows after all that's where the memories awaken.

“I take too much advantage of you.”

“That's Okay, I understand.”