Family Reunion-III

“Hm that’s true,” he scoffed, “Then you should have known better than to visit the cemetery at night. Who were you visiting?”

“Father,” said Shawn for Starvos to flinched.

The topic of parents always made Starvos to suddenly turned silent. It’s because he couldn’t understand how parent children relationship work that he never understood what he should feel when talking about parents. Father, especially.

Starvos grew up without parents. They were alive until he was fifteen but they were gone before he could feel their love. His parents never once took care of him. They were busy in their own lives. His father was busy to work under the King while his mother spent all her time with her friends.

Then they died.

Starvos recalled not having sadness or disappointment in him when his parents had died. He was never closed enough to them to feel anything for them.

“I see,” was the only words that Starvos could say.

“So, what about you?” Shawn questioned as though he was extremely intere