OBSESSION

part 11

"Wow dad! We have never made so much food before."

It smelled delicious. I even got hungry. My dad was a really good cook. I could give him that. He is the one who taught me how to cook. And he also cooked for me when I was young, after the accident.

The doorbell rang.

"I'll go get it."

Since when is Dad so into getting doorbells? He is the one who let Chloe and Dylan in. Well, there was some tension but I left the two of them and went to help my dad out. I'd fill Chloe in later.

"Well, full table."

My dad walked to the kitchen and I helped him take the food to our dinning area. We were all in awkward silence.

"Well, this is Julius Parkinson, then this is Richard Martinez."

"A.k.a my dad?"

"Oh!"
We all were surprised by that. Chloe was coming from the bathroom in the guest room and walked in on my dad introducing the two men.

"Chloe! What are you doing here?"

"Mia invited me. I thought you were hanging out with your partners?"

"Yes. And that is exactly what I am doing baby."

"I had no idea our dads work together."

She said as she sat next to me.

"Well, Mia, go get your friend. Tell him dinner is ready."

"You have a lot to tell me."

"I know, I will fill you in later."

I walked to Ryan's room. Dylan was in Ryan's room helping him with some homework.

"Hey, my dad says you should come have dinner with us."

"Is he okay with this?"

"Surprisingly yeah."

They both smiled and walked out of the room. We got to the dinning area where everyone was.

"Shit! There are so many people."

Dylan was nervous?. I smiled at him and reassured him it was only Chloe and dad's workmates who also included her dad.

Dad smiled at us. The two men were faced the other direction, and Chloe was opposite them. Dylan pulled a seat next to one of the men. I ran to get Ryan's seat. He would sit beside me. I pulled my chair and placed him in his.

"Dad?"

That was Ryan's voice.

"Ryan, what ar... What the hell!!!"

That was Dylan exclaiming after looking at the man seated one sit next to him. He was seated next to John's dad, which means,,,, what the actual fuck!!!

"Okay, what is going on here?"

Now my dad spoke up..

Chloe's dad stiffened in his seat. He looked apologetically at Chloe then he looked at Dylan.

"Wait! Why are you calling my dad, dad?"

Chloe was now chocking as she talked. Definitely trying to stop herself from crying.

"Dylan, what are you doing here?"
Finally, the man spoke up. Everyone was shocked.

"Well, he lives here. They both do." My dad seemed surprised and angry at the same time.

"Let's take this outside."

He said to Dylan as he stood up.

"I don't think so. He lives under my roof, I get to know what is going on." Dad was pissed. I feel sorry for Chloe's dad. He is going to get it.

"Yeah dad. I think we need an explanation." Chloe was now crying. I held her hand and squeezed it a little. She looked at me and was now crying on my shoulder and Dylan was holding my other hand. He looked scared.

"Where have you been dad?"

"That is not for you to know. I thought I paid your rent, everything is fine. I even paid your school fees. Don't be ridiculous."

"Yeah, but they found out about your absence and they want to take Ryan. What should I have done?"

"You would have let him go. You are my son. Not him!" He spat the last words. Ryan felt so bad.

My dad stood at that. Same as John's dad, mr.parkinson. They were angry. There was so much tension that no one heard the doorbell. I ran to get the door. I hated drama.

"Luke? What are you doing in my house?"

"I was supposed to meet Dylan here last weekend but something came up. You are Mia I suppose?"

"Yeah, I don't think it's a good time."

He peeped and pushed me to the side and stormed inside.

"What the fuck is this man doing here!!"

I ran after Luke and now the tension was double.

"I was leaving." He looked at Luke in disgust as he said that.

"Yeah, you better." Luke seemed angry.

I was lost. What was going on here really?? Luke is in my house? Chloe's dad turned out to be Dylan's dad. I was confused, so was my dad.

"Oh no Richard. You are not going anywhere. No one is. And Mia, no one else comes in. Who are you?"

My dad directed the question to Luke. I also wanted to know.

"He is my half brother, Luke"

Dylan spoke up.

"Okay, Dylan , Luke tell us everything we need to know."

John's dad is the one who spoke up now. He forcefully made Richard sit as he sat down himself. We also sat. Luke sat across my dad, everyone else took their seats.

My dad told us to eat as we heard their story.

"Well, my mom was married to my dad, Jacob Anderson, then when I was like four, my dad started bringing in other women and beating my mom, so my mom took me and we left my dad. After sometime, mom had found a better man. We stayed with him for like a whole year then my dad forced my mom to go back, so we did, but when we went back, she was pregnant. When dad knew about it, he threw her out and told her to stay away from us."

Luke finished that statement in tears.

"Well, after that, I guess, my mom survived, got a job and raised me on her own. She had tried reaching my real dad but he said no to her. So, she struggled and raised me until one day, a man approached her. He was the kindest man, he was so good to her even to me. They got married and lived happily for like four years then when I was almost ten, they had a baby. Then the man got sick and died. My mom was left alone again, but this time she had some money from her business plus from Ryan's dad. She had two kids to raise on her own. Well, she found out she was sick. She had cancer, and that's when she taught me how to survive, for the sake of my brother."

Dylan paused. He was sad. He seemed pretty sad. Luke just gave him a pitiful look.

"Well, she got me to Luke's school. She enrolled me there, even though we wouldn't afford it. When she came to pick me up, she'd meet up with Luke and he swore never to tell his dad about her or me. Then she told Luke everything, Luke helped us all the time. He would lie he was at a party and come stay with us. He bought us food, clothes and even money. He was just like 14 at that time. She then took me to meet my real dad. She just asked him to pay my rent and School."

"Can I talk now?"

Ryan asked and all of us were in shock.

"No." Both Luke and Dylan said to him.

"Well, three years ago, mom died. He, has been keeping his promise. He even went as far as going to Ryan's school once just so that they would believe he has a guardian. But then, things changed. He had been doing everything mom asked him to, but I needed him to just tell the police to stop prying. But he told me that I needed to let go of my brother. That..."

"No Dylan. It's fine." Luke reassured Dylan.