Sophia's the red-haired girl wearing a brown blazer, riding a trolley in the city of San Fransokyo. Her destination were the cemeteries of the city. She doesn't know which cemetery Tadashi was buried, but if she had to guess, it's probably were Tadashi's parents were.
She reached a stop and stepped out of the trolley and made her way towards the nearby cemetery. She spotted some vendors selling flowers and candles. She bought a few rosemary, hyssop and forget-me-not flowers. She asked the female vendor to arrange it in such a way that it conveys repentance.
Of course the merchant just followed Sohpia's request, no questions asked. After arranging the flowers inside the basket, the vendor then gave her the basket with the items she bought and left.
Sophia entered the cemetery and looked around. In front of her was a vast space with rows filled with gravestones. To her left were vines that decorated a big wall. It seemed to be a mass grave. Further was a shelter, a place where the grave keeper sleeps. On the top of the shelter's roof was a big cross. To her right were a series of headstones. A number of them were filled with flowers some even had fruits and candles.
"Let's see, Hamada, Hamada, Hamada." She muttered to herself as she looked for the gravestone of her ex-lover's parents. "Hamada, Hamada, Hamada" she continued muttering as she kept on looking for it.
This continued on for minutes until she found the gravestone of Tomeo and Lilly Hamada and consequently Tadashi Hamada's gravestone. This proved her theory: the theory that her ex-lover was buried where his parents' were.
"So it is true." Sophia muttered sadly as she placed the flowers on top of the gravestone with Tadashi's name engraved on it.
"Hey Tadashi." She voiced out her thoughts. "Sorry I couldn't attend to your funeral or wake and can only visit now and only now." She continued as her eyes welled with tears. "I just didn't know." She sniffled then tried to calm herself down, which was successful.
Sophia took a deep breath before she continued saying her thoughts out loud.
"You were a good boyfriend, did you know that?" She gave off a hollow laugh. "For a first timer, you really did well. It may have been because of the pressure that I was your first girlfriend and you came after my recent breakup." She smiled down on the gravestone, tears threatening to fall from her eyes. "I know I just used you as the means to my ends, with getting you to buy things I don't really need and made you spend so much for someone who doesn't return your feelings." She crouched, since her legs couldn't support her weight. "I just used you to cover up the hole in my heart. I just hope you forgave me Tadashi." And it was then that she lost all control. She uncontrollably sobbed, tears fell from her eyes as she instinctively pulled her knees to her chest and buried her face inside as she continued to sob.
"I am so sorry! I really hope you forgave me Tadashi!" She managed to say in between her sobs, but those words were the last coherent words she was able to say, her next words were eaten by her tears and wails and turned out incomprehensible.
She continued sobbing for a good few minutes when she heard a voice. The voice of a dead man.
"Sophia?"
She heard the voice of her ex-lover, she raised her head and looked at the direction where the voice came from. She looked at the man who was supposedly dead then stole a glance on the grave before her and repeated the process a few more times. She's confused as she's seeing her dead ex-lover.
"Heh, you must've heard me and came to condemn me." Sophia said bitterly, tears still flowing from her eyes and continued sobbing.
After parking his moped nearby, Tadashi purchased a bouquet of flowers and went inside the cemetery and went to find his parents graves.
Once he made a turn, surprisingly, someone he knows was already there.
"Sophia?" He called out.
The woman before his parents' graves looked at him, it was indeed his ex-girlfriend, Sophia Aragaki. Question is, why is she here? More importantly why is she visiting his parents' grave?
"Heh, you must've heard me and came to condemn me." Tadashi heard Sophia say.
"Condemn? What is she talking about?" Tadashi thought as he approached the woman.
"No, no, no! Tadashi forgive me! Please don't pick me up yet! Itsuki still needs me!" Sophia suddenly exclaimed.
Tadashi looked confused. "She's talking as if I'm a ghost to pick her up." He thought "wait she doesn't know?" His train of thought continued as he stopped in his tracks.
"Sophia, it's me Tadashi, don't you remember me?" Tadashi started as he continued approaching.
"Yes, I know but you're dead and you are here to pick me up!" She immediately concluded as she stood up in fear and took a couple or so steps backwards.
"Let me expla-!" Tadashi cut himself off as he witnessed the scene before him.
On her fourth step, she tripped and fell backwards, and a pointed stone was ominously waiting for her head to make contact. Tadashi, with his reflexes, was able to rush towards her and catch her before something undesirable and gory happened. His left hand found its way under her head while his right arm was over her stomach and his right hand was caught supporting her hips.
"You okay?" came Tadashi's immediate question.
Sophia's face turned red as a tomato as he caught her like she's some clumsy princess who just tripped. She quickly shook her head and the redness on her face disappeared.
It's you! It's really you!" She exclaimed as she raised her hand to touch his face. She stood, quickly, and grabbed him in a tight hug. She let loose, repeating, "Y-you're really here! You're alive!"
"T-they said you were dead! They said you died at a fire during a robotics convention!" She sobbed on his shoulders.
Tadashi's response was to let her cry on him as he drew comforting circles on her back. He was quiet as she sobbed loudly on his shoulders.
"Cry it out Sophy. Cry it all out." Tadashi muttered as the girl hugging him continued sobbing. ,"its okay to cry. Crying is a natural response to pain." He cooed.
The sobs continued on for a few minutes and Tadashi patiently waited for his ex-girlfriend to calm down. Sure they may have broken up years ago, but that's no reason to ignore her. After all someone has to help, even if you're helping your ex. (Gogo: UNGRATEFUL EX!).
"Thanks." Sophia thanked as she stood up and stole another glance at the grave with Tadashi's name on it. "Wait, if you're alive, then…" she trailed off as she looked at her ex-boyfriend.
"I'll explain later." Tadashi stated as he placed the bouquet of flowers he bought earlier on top of his parents' graves. "I'll visit again later mom, dad." Tadashi stated and turned to Sophia. "How about we go to The Ridge to talk." Tadashi suggested.
"The Ridge?" Sophia asked, it's been years since she left San Fransokyo, so there were things that were new to her.
"It's a shopping centre five miles away from San Fransokyo High and its right by the beach." Tadashi informed her, "It started building the year you left and was finished two years ago."
"Wow, it's been a long time since I was here. Things have changed!" she remarked as the duo walked towards the cemetery's exit.
"It has changed and it's for the better." The Hamada smiled as he led her to his moped and tossed her a helmet, that's usually used by his aunt whenever the car broke down. "Hop on!" he gestured to his moped.
"You drive? The nerdy Tadashi drives?" She asked in disbelief, eyes wide, as she caught the helmet that was tossed to her.
"This nerd knows a lot more than just drive Sophy." He grinned as he got on and started the vehicle's engine.
Sophia just raised her shoulders and shrugged and got on the vehicle and put on the helmet, that was handed to her, during the process.
The drive towards The Ridge had been silent. Tadashi looked attentively to the road ahead while Sophia held on to his waist so as not to fall and savored the moment she had with him.
"Ethel might kill us if she sees us like this." Sophia thought and then let out a shaky laugh.
The duo arrived at the shopping mall. More like a shopping district, technically that is. In front of them were small snack stands, snacks that can be eaten on the go or while standing. To their right were clothing and gaming stores, stores filled to the brim of products of their choosing. Further was the beach and the beach house filled with men and women in their swimming attire and gears. To their left were cafes and fast-food chains. Stores like "Mcgrimz" and "Catbox" were on this side of the mall. Further from the stalls was a four storey building.
Tadashi and Sophia situated themselves inside a café store, Catbox, and ordered their preferred beverages. The duo sat near the entrance of the coffee establishment with Tadashi's back facing the entrance and in front of him sat Sophia.
After ordering, Sophia immediately jumped the gun. "If you're alive, then why is there a grave mark with your name on it?"
"You see…"
Tadashi then began to explain how he was declared dead, leaving out the part of being sucked into a portal and getting saved by his friends and brother, who had become superheroes.
"So let me get this straight, you went inside the burning building? To save your Professor?" Sophia questioned.
Tadashi just nodded as a response. "You idiot! What did Ethel say about your selflessness again?"
"I know it was stupid of me but Sophy, someone had to help!" Tadashi argued.
"And it doesn't have to be you, you dork!" Sophy playfully hit Tadashi's head. "Oh my god, it must've been awful for Hiro." She realized. "Which I wasn't introduced to." She added under her breath.
"Yeah." Tadashi's jovial attitude became somber at the mention of his younger brother, as he remembered what his friends told him about Hiro's condition after the showcase. Which indicated that he hadn't heard what she added.
"So the question remains is, how did you survive uninjured? You said you woke up in the hospital weeks after the fire right?" Sophia questioned, curious as to how her ex survived without so much as a scratch, as she thought up of hypothesis on how such a thing could happen.
"Y-yeah." Tadashi replied, unsure how to answer the question, thankfully it seemed to be rhetorical as she continued speaking.
"Maybe Professor Callaghan, who also turned out alive, saved you?" Sophia offered a theory.
"Maybe but, enough about me, why were you bawling in front of my grave earlier?" Tadashi asked, quite curious as to what her answer is.
It felt weird, in Tadashi's opinion, to say 'my grave' because he's still alive and kicking, but that fact also can't be denied, since during his absence, they held a funeral in his honor.
"I just learnt about your supposed death yesterday." Sophia revealed. "We kinda transferred to a really backwater part of the country, so the news of your death, let alone your survival, did not really go through."
"I see, no wonder you said I was a ghost trying to fetch you." Tadashi chuckled.
"Wait, before we continue." Sophy halted the conversation, "Wouldn't Ethel be mad at us, especially at you, if we're seen doing this? Isn't this like a date?" She asked.
Well Gogo, Ethel to Sophia, was Tadashi's second girlfriend after all.
"No she won't, we broke up." Came Tadashi's instant reply, "We broke up two months after you moved out of San Fransokyo." Tadashi revealed. "I'm actually single now."
"Why? If I remember right, she was way protective of you." Sophia asked, eagerly waiting for an answer.
"Well, we just didn't click you know? We figured we might as well just stay friends." Tadashi admitted. "Well there is one girl after Ethel, remember Aiko?" Tadashi continued.
"Yeah, she's that tall fashion savvy woman right? I remember seeing her getting bullied because of her height." Sophia responded.
"We got together, two weeks after Ethel and I broke up. We had a really good relationship we even lasted until our first year at college. We broke up two weeks before Hiro started getting an interest at my college." Tadashi informed her.
"If you got such a good relationship with her, why did you two break up? Was there a third party involved? Was it because of Ethel?" Sophia asked, quite curious why the fashion savvy girl let go of a man such as Tadashi.
"Well, we've got priorities, we do go to the same college, but we have different majors. That's why. And no, Ethel's not involved but the two of them are really good friends." Tadashi chuckled
"I see." Sophia stated, quite satisfied with the answer she got.
A few minutes of catching up happened then their orders came. Tadashi took a sip and so did Sophia.
"I gotta say, Aunt Cass's coffees are way better, and it's cheap too!" Tadashi commented.
"You're just saying that because you live there." Sophia argued.
"That's not it!" The Hamada denied as he pouted, which earned a chuckle from his companion
"Okay enough of that. Let's get to my original reason for visiting San Fransokyo." She started as she put down her half-empty cup. "I actually came here to reconcile and come clean." She admitted.
"What do you mean?" Tadashi inquired as he took another sip of his coffee.
"Tadashi, remember when I said yes?" She asked, which earned her a nod from her companion. "Well, I kinda used you, to cover up the gaping hole in my heart and to buy the things that I want despite your meager allowance." She admitted.
Tadashi just remained silent, it'd be better if he did not interrupt.
"I knew that since you were a first timer, you'd be eager to please your partner, some even said that you'd even be willing to jump off of a roof just to please your partner, which was me at the time." Sophia continued and did not dare to look Tadashi in the eye.
Tadashi smiled, it was true, he was eager to please Sophia when they were still dating. Buying her an expensive purse, make up, heck she even demanded him to buy her the very expensive life-sized wax statue of a male model. Those were the days.
Gogo had been kind enough to force his eyes open and see that he was being manipulated, but he really loved, well what he thought was love at that time, Sophia so he just went with it.
"It's just that, I feel guilty. I know that you meant well but I just can't help but feel guilty." Sophia sniffed as she swallowed the sob that attempted to escape from her throat. "I-I just exploited you. Even though I knew that you loved me , I used that fact to my advantage." She admitted guilt.
She just used her hands to cover her face as she sobbed once again, though this time silently. The guilt of exploiting him has been eating her ever since she moved out of San Fransokyo,
Tadashi stood up from his chair and approached his distraught companion and gave her comforting pats on her back.
"Hey, hey it's okay. That's all in the past now." Tadashi cooed as she continued to sob silently on her hands. "I've known all along Sophy." He admitted his hands stopped patting her back but stayed on it.
She looked up at his face, her eyes red from crying, tears still falling from them and stained her cheeks in the process. Her facial expression conveys the question "Why?"
"Ethel kinda forced my eyes open." He smiled sheepishly. "She cornered me after one of our dates and told me everything. I figured that you were still hurting so I played along." Tadashi admitted. "Sorry for assuming things without confirming things from you."
"No, Tadashi you'd sacrifice your own happiness just for me, I should be the one apologizing to you!" She countered. "Heh that's so like you. I hope no one ever exploits your goodness the way I did." She added then gave a humorless laugh.
"Don't worry, I have Ethel, Aiko and my little brother to help me determine those that will exploit me." He smiled at her. "So care to tell me why this? I mean it's not like I don't want to see you around, but your arrival is kind of sudden." Tadashi inquired as he went back and sat on his chair.
"You see, I'll be leaving to study to another country. I don't know when I'll be back or if I'll be back at all. That's why I wanted to resolve things before I leave the country." Sophia admitted.
Tadashi nodded in understanding.
"So I guess this is goodbye. I still have places to go." Sophia said as she stood up from her chair.
"I'll take you there." Tadashi offered.
"No, thank you for the offer. You still have to visit your parents' grave I did interrupt your time with them."
"True. So Goodbye?" Tadashi asked.
Sophia just nodded as a response.
"Actually." Tadashi began. "I'd like to introduce you to my little brother." Tadashi finished. "If you're done with your errands, would you inform me and I'll come by and pick you up?"
"Nah, don't worry about it, I still know my way to the café." Sophia declined, "but I promise to inform you when I'm done. We'd have to exchange numbers to make contact."
Tadashi just smiled as the duo exchanged contact details.
"Goodbye, see you later?" Sophia asked before stealing a kiss on Tadashi's lips and left the coffee shop.
"Yeah… See you later." Tadashi trailed off.
Gogo has roamed around the city with her bike. She traversed the different hi-ways of the city, as a way to get adrenaline pumped to her veins and to exercise.
She spotted a familiar face when she passed by the police station. She parked her bike nearby and approached the girl in question.
"Sophia." She stated.
Sophia just turned her head and saw Ethel leaning against the wall of the police station. "Ethel!" she exclaimed.
"What are you doing here?" Gogo bluntly asked, as if she didn't want to see her ever again, judging by the glare she's giving the other woman.
"What? I can't visit the city where I was born?" Sophia asked rhetorically. She knew of Gogo's animosity towards her, due to the way she treated Tadashi.
"You know what I meant Aragaki." Gogo bluntly stated as she continued chewing on her gum and raised an eyebrow at her.
"Fine! Why didn't you tell me?" Sophia relented. "Why didn't you tell me he was dead?!" she returned the glare.
"You wanna know why? It's because you don't deserve to know!" Gogo began, seething in anger "Don't try to act all innocent Aragaki. You know as well as I do how you treated Tadashi when he was still your boyfriend!" Gogo hissed at her, intensifying the glare that she's directing at the woman in front of her.
"That's the thing Ethel! That's not for you to decide!" Sophia screamed.
Gogo punched the wall she was leaning at and forced herself to calm down. "We won't get anywhere if we're gonna shout at each other like this." Gogo stated, "Look, the main reason why you weren't told is because no one knew of your contact details."
Sophia listened intently. She did not know how, but somehow Ethel matured since she last saw her.
"We figured that we'd let the news tell you. Tadashi's aunt was livid when you didn't show up for his funeral." Gogo informed, "Ho-Aiko was sad, that someone in Tadashi's life neglected to pay their final respects." She corrected herself, she almost said Honey, which could have taken the wrong way, and Sophia hasn't met Fred.
"I just learned about his death yesterday." Sophia informed the woman in front of her. "The town we transferred to is so outdated, like news from months ago are still the talk of the town. I came here to pay my final respects to him."
Gogo's eyes widened. "She doesn't know?" She thought.
"Tadashi's alive." Gogo stated as she leaned her back against the wall.
"I know." Sophia replied, "We met at his grave."
"Wait, wait, wait. You met him at his grave?" Gogo remarked, surprised. "Now that's some coincidence! I bet you were scared." A small smile graced her face.
"Yeah, that totally scared me." Sophia chuckled at the memory that happened earlier. "So are we good?" Sophia asked with genuine sincerity.
"Frankly no. Tadashi's too soft, I just wished he would woman up and say no sometimes. It's time that he realized that he can't help everyone, heck his hero complex almost got him killed. But for his sake, yes we're good."
Without even thinking, Sophia rushed towards Gogo and hugged her tightly. "Thank you Ethel! Thank you, you don't know how much this means to me!" She exclaimed hugging the other woman tightly.
Gogo was surprised at the sudden show of affection. It isn't that she does not welcome it, hugs can be rather comforting, but this coming from the woman she despised during High School. Suffice to say, it caught her off guard.
"I will be moving out of the country and I don't know if I'll return at all, so I met with Tadashi to have some closure with the awful things I did to him." Sophia explained, still having Gogo in her embrace. "I was hoping that I would run into you and sort things out." She admitted as she released her hug.
"I see." Gogo started and looked in the eye. "To be honest, I don't have a gripe with you personally. I just hate the fact that you've been pushing my friend around like some slave that you can order around. Considering Tadashi's personality, I knew that he'd encounter someone that would exploit his helpful nature. I'm glad that you apologized to him, and sorted things out."
And so both girls made up and maybe, just maybe start anew.
"Welcome to Lucky Ca- Aragaki?!" Cass cut-off her greeting as she saw who just went inside the café.
"Good Afternoon Ms. Hamada." Sophia awkwardly smiled at the café's owner. Knowing of the older woman's anger towards her definitely did not help her situation now.
"What are you doing here?!" Cass hissed, while still keeping a smile on her face, as she approached the new arrival.
"I-I ca-came by t-to vi-visit yo-your nephew." Sophia stuttered. Wow the term 'angry' might be the understatement of the year. Like seriously, if looks could burn, she'd be ashes now.
"He's not here." Cass hissed once more as she stopped in front of the newest customer and got her pen and notepad.
Sophia played along and grabbed the menu that was lying on the table. "I wa-." She was stopped from replying because of Tadashi's arrival.
"Sophy! Sorry Aunt Cass, I'm gonna borrow Sophia for a while." Tadashi apologized as he dragged the younger woman of the two to his garage. Cass just looked at her nephew drag her least favorite person in Tadashi's life outside.
"An espresso please!" Someone shouted.
"Coming right up!" Cass replied as she went back to work.
Once arriving at the garage, a boy, a year younger than Sophia's younger brother, was waiting outside the Hamada household's garage, holding what seems to be a black robot with a yellow face.
"This is my brother." Tadashi pushed Hiro towards Sophia, "Hiro."
"Hiro, I'm Sophia Aragaki, this nerd's ex-girlfriend. Your brother has told me so much about you. That even I got jealous because I was his girlfriend" She joked as she took Hiro's hand and shook it.
As Sophia was shaking his hand, Hiro's jaw dropped at the revelation and he looked at his older brother in disbelief which could double as a silent. 'You had a girlfriend?!"
Sophia just chuckled at scene as she retracted her hand and watched the scene before her.
Tadashi just smiled sheepishly at the woman's revelation. He then scratched his head in embarrassment as he let out an embarrass laugh.
"Sophia was my girlfriend during highschool. I was a junior when we got into a relationship." Tadashi answered his little brother's silent question,
"How come I didn't know this? Heck I don't even know her!" Hiro asked. "Wait she was the woman that Aunt Cass has been livid?!" Hiro asked another question after realization dawned him.
"Yes. I think that woman was me." Sophia looked down in shame.
"What do you mean livid Hiro?" Tadashi inquired, confusion on his face. Why would his Aunt be angry at Sophy?
"It's because I wasn't around at the funeral isn't it?" Sophia asked for confirmation. "In my defense tho, I just learned of his apparent death yesterday." Sophia revealed. "Heck I even learned of his survival when I met him at his grave earlier this morning!" Sophia awkwardly laughed. "You have no idea how scared I was when I saw him after I bawled my eyes out in front of his grave." Sophia rambled as the brothers listened to her story. "Like I was really, really scared!" She made a rambling finish.
"Wait, you met him at the graveyard? That's some ironic shi-"
"Hiro!" Tadashi cut Hiro from cursing as he sent a glared in his younger brother's direction
"I said shizz! Shizz!" Hiro corrected as he playfully punched his older brother's shoulder.
"O-ow!" Tadashi reacted as he laughed.
Some whirring noise stopped everyone in the garage from laughing and Baymax, the lovable and huggable healthcare robot activated when the activation word was spoken.
The people just watched the robot stare at them awkwardly and then approached them.
"Hello, I am Baymax. Your personal healthcare companion. I was alerted to the need of medical attention when you said, ow." Baymax said then raised his right index finger. The robot then focused his camera-eyes on his creator and said. "On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your pain?" Baymax inquired.
Tadashi just laughed and replied. "A one Baymax."
Sophia just watched in awe at the scene before her. She knew that Hiro was a genius, being in middle school at a young age, and she was certain that Tadashi had a talent in robotics, so either of the brothers could have created a complex and lovable robot.
"I will scan you now." Baymax stated as he scanned his current patient. Once the scanning was done, a diagram appeared on Baymax's chest, showcasing the male human anatomy. "Scan complete, there are no evidence of physical injuries. I suggest to be careful in what endeavors you are to partake."
"Wow!" Baymax looked at the girl who uttered the word. "Who created this robot?!" Sophia managed to ask as she gushed at the ingenuity of the said robot. "I'm gonna take a guess. It was Hiro who created him!" She offered her answer as the brothers looked at each other, unsure of what to do.
"Negative." Baymax said after he turned his whole body to face the only girl in the group. "I was created by Tadashi." The white robot answered. "But I was recrea-" Baymax was cut off from continuing what he was going to
"Oookay, that's enough Baymax." Hiro covered a part of the robot's head and interrupted the robot's line.
"Recreated by Hiro and Tadashi" went unheard with Hiro's interruption.
Sophia on the other hand just looked at Tadashi with awe in her eyes. "You created this marshmallow?" He asked before facing the white robot. "No offense."
"I am a robot, I cannot be offended." Baymax informed her.
Tadashi decided to respond to his ex's question. "Yeah, he's my robotics project." Tadashi admitted. "It took me 84 tries to perfect this guy!"
"Wow! Nurses may have a heart attack once this comes out in public." Sophia remarked as he inspect every nook and cranny of Baymax's exterior body.
"That is okay. My hands are equipped with defibrillators. I can resuscitate them if they ever have a heart attack" Baymax responded.
Hiro just face palmed and said. "Baymax that wa-"
"Was only an expression." Baymax finished, the robot's right index finger pointing upwards.
Tadashi chuckled at the robot's antics. "It's okay Baymax. I am satisfied with my care."
The robot nodded and then went back to his red charging station and deactivated.
"Well that… was unexpected." Hiro commented. "Anyway. Sophia right?" Hiro asked as the girl in question just nodded in response. "How does it feel to meet my living older brother at his gravestone?" Hiro couldn't help but ask. Who couldn't blame him, he was curious.
"That was scary as heck!" Sophia answered. "I really thought he was fetching me."
Tadashi, Hiro and Sophia just laughed at how the earlier events happened. The irony of the situation.
"So I guess that's it? I may be or may not be back after I finish my paperwork for this opportunity." She sighed.
"Wait, don't you wanna explain your situation to Aunt Cass?" Hiro asked. "I'm sure she'll understand if you'd just explained everything to her." Hiro offered.
"As much as I want to but I can't." Sophia said. "There are still things that need my attention."
"I see, don't worry, I'll explain everything to Aunt Cass." Tadashi smiled as he put his left hand on her left shoulder.
"Thank you Tadashi, looks like I'm in your debt once again." She gave a shaky laugh. "Well. I guess I need to go now." She waived at them before walking off, tears falling from her eyes.
Cass went back inside the Café, still carrying a tray-full of snacks, as she wiped the tear stains on her cheeks. She had heard everything from Sophia's mouth.
She felt awful that she immediately got angry at her nephew's ex-girlfriend without as much as getting the other woman's side.
Who wouldn't be, her hatred against her nephew's ex was unfounded. She had failed to take into account the factors on why Aragaki wasn't able to visit at least once during Tadashi's wake, when he was presumed dead. Add in the fact that the other woman was also absent when Tadashi's funeral was held.
The café has just closed and Cass was washing the dishes when Tadashi went downstairs. It looked like he wants to talk about something.
"Aunt Cass?" Tadashi called out as he went towards the café's counter and waited for his aunt to answer.
"Yes Tadashi?" She replied.
Frankly, she knows what was on Tadashi's mind. It was about her anger towards his ex. She does admit that the reason alone was unfounded, but she had found out about the things the other girl did to her eldest nephew. She just couldn't help herself but get angry at the woman in question. She had vowed to protect her nephews from anything and anyone, all the while giving them freedom to their own thing.
"Can we talk?" Tadashi asked for permission as he took a seat on one of the stools near the counter.
"Give me a sec." Kasumi said as she stopped washing the dishes and wiped her hands with a clean cloth to dry them. She then motioned her two employees to pick up the slack as she approached Tadashi.
"Why were you angry at Sophia Aunt Cass? Had she done something wrong for you to get angry at her?" Tadashi had asked curiously. "If this was about our relationship, you knew I treasured her, so why?"
"I had heard how she treated you when you were still dating." Cass began explaining, "I had let that slide since it was your business, and not mine. But when she neglected to visit at least once during…" Cass trailed off. "You know…"
She felt awkward to say 'your wake and funeral' because she was talking to the person who was honored in the wake and funeral they held.
"Then I thought that you meant nothing to her. That's when I snapped and got angry at her." Cass admitted with a sigh.
"I see, if I was in your place, then I would have probably acted the same too." Tadashi smiled. "But she has a reason why she was absent during those events because she had only known of my death yesterday." He smiled "You should've seen her face when we met at the cemetery." He gave off a chuckle.
"Wait… she didn't know you died until yesterday?" Cass asked her nephew.
To what country did they transfer, to be so late with the happenings?
"Yeah, she thought I came to fetch her…"
And so Tadashi narrated what happened in the cemetery when he decided to visit his parents' graves.
A/N: So yeah its been a month since I last updated. I totally apologize for that. Its been tough getting plagued by writer's block. I hope you continue to support the story. XD Read and Review guys