CHAPTER 10 - HARDER TRUTHS

"Wow you have two homes in one city!"

"That place isn't and never was my home it belongs to my parents, this is my home. Bought and paid for wholly and solely by me with money I earned personally by my own merit."

Diary entry

13th June 2006

Roman took me to his family home today.

It's a Castle. It even has a name 'The Wild Land'. Roman prefers to refer to it as 'The Manor'. It's massive and looks so damn imposing I was scared to set foot inside. The insides were breath taking and lavishly decorated. I was completely dazzled by the place. I couldn't help but compliment him on his beautiful home. He gave me a sad smile and said something really odd "it's not a home it's a mausoleum". I really didn't know how to respond to that. Something else I noticed as well was there were no pictures of him anywhere it's like he had never been there. I thought better than to comment on it and just plastered on an amiable smile as he showed off 'The Manor'.

I had expected to eat at 'The Manor' as he had told me we would have lunch at 'his place' but it turned out 'his place' is actually an apartment he has all of his own a few blocks from the Wild center.

I couldn't help but comment that he had two homes in the same city. He looked sadly at me and told me that the apartment we were at was his home and 'The Manor' belonged only to his parents.

I have a feeling Roman doesn't have much of a relationship with his father nor did he have an affectionate one with his mother either as he never mentions them. Even if he does it's never as Mom and Dad it's always as 'My Parents' as if they are one entity not two separate individuals.

Diary entry

19th June 2006

Today I came face to face with Sebastian Wild and it was extremely uncomfortable.

Our evening started out quite normally after a work out at the gym we went swimming. Roman likes to compete and always wins I have no idea how he has the energy after his work out. But anyway back to what happened. We were at the cafeteria giggling over something nonsensical over glasses of mixed fruit juice when suddenly Roman who had been looking around got very serious; sat up straight and stiff in his chair his eyes fixed on something beyond my left shoulder.

Curiosity made me turn and look at what had caught his attention and I saw the hefty figure of Sebastian Wild approaching us.

Mr. Wild stopped a couple of feet from our table. He looked me up and down in such a way that it made me squirm in my seat.

Turning his gaze to Roman he gave him this sarcastic smirk and eyeing me said

'So this is the twink of the week.'

Then instantly changing gears he commanded

'Come to the office I want to discuss some business.'

Order given he turned around and walked off. Roman looked at me with a pained expression whispered; 'I'll be right back' and followed his father

What the hell had just happened!

No 'hello son how are you' just 'I want to discuss some business' like Roman was an employee.

Their relation is definitely nothing like the one I have with Dad. And he called me Roman's 'twink of the week' what was all that about. We've been dating for months now.

When Roman came back he looked just miserable and was in a black mood. He decided against going for the movie we had decided on. He said he felt tired and wanted to hit the sack early but I think it had something to do with the encounter with his father so I didn't push.

For the first time in my life I have realized what a great father I have. Till I encountered Mr. Sebastian I had never realized that there were parents who could make their child miserable by just talking to them for a few minutes.