Hi, welcome to my new story. Remembering that I don't own the characters, it's just a fan-to-fan story
Peter left school and was walking to home.
"Hey!" He heard a female voice call to him and turned to see who it was.
"Hi, you're the new student, aren't you? Nice to meet you. I'm Danielle."
Peter looked at her and remembered seeing her, with other friends, mocking a shy girl at school. He realized that she was part of the "popular" girls group.
"I'm Peter," he said and kept walking.
"Wait a minute! I'm talking to you," Danielle said.
"You already said enough. Goodbye!" Peter said, and left.
Peter wasn't much of a talk, but he had a great heart and didn't like injustice.
Danielle didn't like being ignored by Peter and walked toward school again.
"So, Danielle?" the other girls asked.
"He's an idiot."
"But he's a handsome idiot!" One of the girls said.
A car pulled up in front of the school and honked its horn.
"See you tomorrow, girls," Danielle said and got into the car.
"Hi Dad!"
"Hi," he replied, not very pleased.
"What happened?" she asked.
"I'm the one who asks: what's going on? I got another call from the school principal. She complained about you again. Grace and Charlie never had problems at school for misbehavior."
"Don't tell mom, dad. Please!"
"Of course I'll tell Rachel."
Peter came home, did his homework, and then prepared lunch. At 4:00 pm he went to work.
Steve, Danny, and Lou entered a diner to grab a bite to eat and talk after a stressful day.
"Today was stressful," Lou said.
"It's a shame that Tani and Junior couldn't come too because of the twins," Steve said.
"In addition to having a bad day at work, I had to hear more school complaints about Danielle," Danny said.
"Youngest child, Danny. She's the spoiled girl" Lou said.
"Is that why Will is spoiled?" Danny asked.
"Don't talk bad about my son. He and Grace are fine and gave us two beautiful grandchildren," Lou told Danny.
"And I say more: no one is to blame if you had another child after you were old," added Lou.
Steve laughed.
"What are you laughing at, Steve? You got married and your wife left because she wanted to have children and she didn't get that with you. I wonder if you're sterile," Danny said.
"I'm not sterile. I just never wanted to have children," Steve said.
Peter was serving their table with his head down. But he couldn't help but look at Steve when he heard what Steve said. Steve also looked into Peter's eyes and had the feeling that another person was looking at him.
"Rollins, serve the next table too," the diner manager told Peter.
Danny and Lou looked at Peter when they heard that.
"How long we haven't heard that surname," Danny commented.
"It's true," Steve said and sighed.
"And how do you say you never wanted children? Once you told me you wanted children," Danny said.
"I just wanted to have kids with one person, Danny. But it didn't happen and you know why, but I don't want to talk about it, ok? You know this subject hurts me." Steve told him.
"Okay," Danny said, raising both hands as if it were an apology.
Steve looked at Peter another time. He was intrigued by the boy's look and his surname. When Peter went to bring more beers to their table, Steve took advantage of the situation to look at his name tag. "Peter John Rollins," Steve read.
At the end of the workday, Peter went home. He opened the front door and entered. Steve watched from afar.
Peter took a shower and got dressed. Before bed, he went to the other room and sat on the bed. "Mom!" Peter said softly.
"Hi, son. Forgive me for not waiting for you. I was so tired, dear" Catherine told Peter.
"It's fine, mom."
"You don't look good, son. What happened?"
"He went to the diner today," Peter replied.
"Your father?" Catherine asked.
"Yeah. Steve."