"What?" Nicolas didn't understand at all. Such a small child has not been able to digest that the sentence indicates that he will still live in this villa, in San Francisco.“Yeah, the three of us are going back to Canada. As for you, you're not coming home, Nicolas?” Henry's stove."Why? Why can't I come along? If Papa and Grandpa go home, it means that Nicolas has to obey and go back to Ottawa too,” Nicolas added, still with an innocent expression on his face.Henry walked closer to his half-brother’s body and then pushed him roughly. “Don't brag, Nicolas! You're not coming! You will live here!”"You're the one bragging, Henry!" Nicolas didn't want to be outdone even though his body was currently sitting on the floor of the villa, the boy stared at Henry with hatred.“Nicolas will stay! Ueeee… Nicolas will be alone here,” teased Henry while wearing his Spiderman-patterned backpack."No!! I'll be coming home!” shouted Nicolas, he hated being teased like that.Hearing screams and comm
Every time little Nicolas wanted to contact his father and grandpa, he never succeeded. Neither phone calls nor video calls, his family who is far away in Canada never picks up or gives any news.Never mind contacting them via calls, messages or e-mails from them were not answered at all.Almost every month, Nicolas is guided by Miss Alicia to write and send emails to his father, Grandpa, and his uncles and aunts who live in Canada. This activity was routinely carried out for almost six years.From day to day, he began to despair and there was no hope.Finally, in the seventh year, Nicolas, who had stepped on Middle High School, finally stopped doing it. The boy was starting to get busy with his education and adjusting to his new environment.Because, when Nicolas’ss elementary school was in San Francisco, but when he entered Middle School, suddenly he was told to move schools, far away to England, London. After graduating from that level, he was told to move to another country to stu
The cupboard containing Nicolas’ss books immediately collapsed on the floor, along with the contents which of course were scattered.As a child who had been deliberately causing trouble to destroy his own life, the plan for his father and brother to come was a bad idea. All this time Nicolas thought he had to cause even more trouble so that his family could notice his behavior and feel remorse for allowing him to.“There are still many more plots to destroy my life, but… just because I don't want to go to college, they melt and suddenly come? Hah!!" snorted Nicolas, ignoring the surroundings that had fallen apart.The room was like a broken ship as if the room had been turned upside down and shaken by some gigantic creature from outside.Nearly halfway through, the sound of thumping things in the room stopped too. Nicolas was quite satisfied after letting out all his anger for a moment. He realized that he was now a man who had entered adulthood, 18 years old. He was no longer a cryin
At first, Nicolas couldn't recognize him at all, however, seeing how the man looked at him sharply and slyly made Nicolas immediately guess that of course, the man was his older brother, Henry. "Unlucky! Why did Henry also come? Isn't it enough for Papa to come with a wound?” inside Nicolas grumbled. His grumbling stopped immediately when Carlloz was now standing in front of him, in the doorway. The man came awkwardly at first, but he finally forced a smile. "Nicolas." Nicolas did not answer the greeting. Finally, he heard his father's voice after dozens of years. A voice he couldn't even hear on the phone. "How are you, son?" Carloz stretched out his hands while holding Nicolas’ss shoulders. His face looked up slightly as he was amazed to see Nicolas now taller than him. "Oh, God. Look… you are already this high, boy.” Carlloz cheered wildly in his savory tone. Even though it had been so many years, he imagined, Nicolas would still be as tall as his waist, but now his son was alr
Carlloz could only remain silent and locked his mouth tightly. His pride as a father had fallen since he appeared before his son."Answer me, Papa! Or… is it because I'm the child of a concubine!?”DEG!Carloz's heart seemed to stop beating for a fraction of a second. He was shocked and very surprised to hear that sentence from Nicolas.“Nicolas? What did you… say?” Carloz stammered.“Mistress! The biological mother who gave birth to me was Papa's mistress, right? I was born from a whore, right!!” shouted Nicolas.PLAAKK!!!The hard slap flew from Carloz's palm to Nicolas’s left cheek. It flashed red and sent Nicolas reeling onto the arm of the sofa."Papa?" Nicolas held his cheek, surprised that his father had slapped him after he had looked so guilty and begged for forgiveness."Where did you hear that line, Nicolas?" Carloz accused turns angry. “The one you said just now was your mother! Why are you saying it with such lowly words!”Nicolas chuckled sadly, but his eyes bulged. “But
“What did Grandpa Anthony say? Don't tell me he wants to rule my life when he gets reports from Alicia that I don't want to go to college?” Nicolas guessed it was too easy for him to guess the ambition of his grandpa even though he had never met face to face with his grandfather for 12 years.Carlloz became even more surprised, as did Henry who raised an eyebrow. The two of them became more and more convinced that Nicolas had probably been following the development of the Trallington family's image from social media or news reports, especially since the times had progressed far with gadgets."Your Papa and Grandpa just want you to go to college, Nicolas," said Carloz straight to the point. So he doesn't need to be tired of giving introductions first because his son can already guess."Ha ha ha! So it turns out I was right?” Nicolas chuckled in exasperation. “You guys are really going to rule my life?”"Not going to college is not the standard of living for our family, Nicolas," said C
"Yes. Our brother and sister relationship is not like people in general. You're nothing more than a parasitic creature in the Trallington family. That's why they left you, made you live far away from Canada." Henry shrugged as if to add to the pain that Nicolas had been carrying and suppressing all this time."You don't need to tell me because even without that I already know." Nicolas tried to relax. To him, Henry was nothing more than a loser brother who from childhood until now only dared to brag.“And, yes, it did, Nicolas. You were left behind because of your status as an illegitimate child.” Henry folded his legs, the 23-year-old man was ready to give another blow at the start of their meeting again. “You are indeed the son of a concubine.”Nicolas’ss breath a little choked, and restrained. He knew that fact had just been denied by Carloz, his father. Even so, he believed that the claim was definitely true. However... is it necessary for Henry to mention things that are actually
Dr. Smith and Dr. Longdon simply nodded. For them, Carloz's response also includes an assessment, namely how other people respond and respond to their current patients.“Maybe Nicolas has a childhood trauma that doesn't allow him to open up. But… as the first stage of consultation, this is completely reasonable. In fact, I think Nicolas is very flexible when invited to discuss other topics," said Dr. Smith."Yes ... of course, Nicolas is very smart, he is a genius child than his age." Carloz nodded again. “I want to leave everything to you two Dr. Smith and Dr. Longdon. I ask for your help so that I can make my child think normally like other children."Dr. Longdon only raised his eyebrows and exchanged glances with Carloz. “I think Mr. Carloz is worrying too much unnecessarily. Nicolas is completely normal.”“Yes, maybe he had trauma in his childhood which we don't know yet because of course at this very young meeting it's impossible to open him up right away. But ... other than that