Boboiboy Short-Fanfic AU Season 2

Comfort

This chapter is a continuation from chapter Mission

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"So what is the purpose of you meeting me?"

The wind may gently touch his skin, but he knows it can turn into a maelstorm in a second if the bearer in front of him wishes it.

Sopan takes his time to arrange his words carefully. The man who is sitting leisurely on the edge of the cliff is none other than his father. His face may look easygoing, but Sopan knows too well that right about know he is dissatisfied in his presence.

Perhaps his father still holds a grudge against his other uncle, or he is sulking because he got reprimanded by his mother. Either one of them made his father's mood shift a bit uncontrollable, which resulted in his third-tier persona taking over.

Sopan doesn't need to tell you how the station almost caught a big storm. Thankfully, Uncle Halilintar shifted his father's attention to somewhere else.

"Do I need a purpose for meeting you?" Sopan's voice softens as he gets closer to his father. He doesn't mean the words coming from his mouth to sound accusing. No. He just.... wants to apologize? Or perhaps... being comforted like the way Ace, who is practically frustrated to learn how to walk again, is comforted and loved by his father... and his siblings, especially Frostfire and Glacier, who have been doting on him.

He wanted to be comforted by his father too.

The wind picked its pace, and Sopan noticed he was being lifted gently from the ground, meeting his father up here, closer to the moon than the ground. 

"You seem to need a hug," the conversation is plain. There is no emotion in that word, and Sopan dreaded the worst.

He is grateful that his father's only intention is to hug him.

"I'm sorry"

Though Sopan is not expecting his father to apologize,

"As much as I'm disappointed, it is pointed at myself, not you."

Or give him a forced smile that Sopan understood as his father blaming himself as he ruffled his head lovingly.

"I should be saying how proud I'm. You had handled everything till this day so well that if I were in your shoes, I would have cried messily, holing myself in my own room, ignoring my siblings who need me." The words make Sopan feel at ease.

He really needs to stop his father from self-blaming himself—ah, it really runs in his blood too.

"I'm sorry. You're strong enough to handle this fall without my help."

Finally, Sopan was able to see that smile again.

"The only thing that I could give you now is a hug."

And his smile, granted by his father's gene, appeared after weeks of using a fake smile.

"It is more than enough, father."