chapter 4: New beginning?
2 AM. Kyoya and Simran were both still awake. Neither of them could sleep at this time, because they were both being bothered by their own thoughts. Instead, they used the chance to talk.
For the first time in forever, they were having a deep conversation between father and daughter. They wanted to reveal their feelings:
-"Simran, listen! I am so sorry about everything. I know that our relationship is not very good and this is all my fault. I know that your mother disappointed you strongly and now I am doing the same mistakes."
-"Oh, father..."
-"I know that you girls, probably see me as some sort of a general and I cannot really blame you. I thought the same about my own father. I still do."
-"You do not speak to him?"
-"No, not anymore."
-"Did mother disappoint you as well?"
-"Yes and no. I always knew that there was something fishy about her. Ever since we first met. The only reason I married her was because I thought that I can finally do something to please my father, but as it turned out, he is not a person who can ever be satisfied."
After hearing this, Simran started to see Kyoya in a very different light. Despite that he has often disappointed her and her sister, they never hated him. In fact, deep down they both appreciated the fact that, unlike their mother, he was still there to take care of them and never left. Both girls genuinely loved their father and their only desire was for him to love them back, but since they rarely saw him, they began to doubt that he actually cares about them. Eventually Nandini completely gave up trying, but Simran had a little hope that something good was going to happen. Maybe not soon, but someday. Was that "someday" today?
Simran realized that their father may had done a few mistakes, but the twins were not innocent either:
-"Daddy?"
-"What is it, daughter?"
-"I am sorry. Me and Nandini were treating you poorly too."-the girl felt really ashamed of herself. It is very easy to blame someone else for their mistakes, but it is not that easy to admit it when you yourself make a mistake.-"We understood that you have a lot of work and we knew that money does not grow on trees, but we preferred to think that that was not an excuse for you to ignore us. So we thought that maybe we should do the same. We thought that things would never change."-and she hugged him again. He hugged her too and patted her head, in order to comfort her.
-"No need to apologize."-he told her. While Kyoya was hugging and comforting his daughter, he was thinking about Nandini and what he should do about his relationship with her.
6 AM. Nandini woke up and tried to wake her sister too, despite being aware of the fact that this may annoy her. To her surprise, her twin was not in her bed. That was a bit unusual. Nandini could not believe that Simran has actually gotten up early. Usually, it is very difficult to wake her up, but this morning seemed to be an exception. What she did not know, though was that Simran was still sleeping, but in their father's bed. And he was sleeping there too.
2 hours later, the entire Ootori family was awake and they were having breakfast together, but something was different. Every now and then, Kyoya and Simran were looking at each other and were exchanging smiles. That was weird. Usually, Simran barely looked at him. But now, they were even talking to each other, although nothing much, just asking random questions. "What happened for one night?" was what Nandini was thinking at the moment. After they were all done with their breakfast, Kyoya went to his office and the twins went to their room. Nandini immediately started to investigate:
-"What happened in the kitchen?"
-"Nothing unusual."
-"I do not think so. Usually you never smile at father."
-"Well, something happened last night."
-"What?"
-"Nothing much. We just talked a little bit and I decided to give him another chance."
-"I thought that you gave up."
-"You should have seen him, Nandini. I have never seen him like this. I think that he deserves another chance."
-"I do not know. I am not sure about this."
-"Can you, at least, try?"
-"I will."
-"Thank you, sister!"-they hugged.
2 PM. The doorbell rang. The maid opened the door to see who it is. It was the Suoh family-Tamaki, his pregnant wife Haruhi and their 10-year old son Seval. Tamaki was the first who greeted:
-"Good afternoon, my dear maid! Is young master here?"-the maid did not have a chance to answer, because somebody answered instead of her. It was Kyoya:
-"I am. Good to see you again, Tamaki. You too, Haruhi."
-"Good to see you too, fellow Kyoya."-Haruhi greeted him back.
-"This must be your young heir."-Kyoya directed his attention to their son.
-"Yes. This is our son Seval."-Haruhi introduced him.-"Say hi to , Seval!"-and in a maternal manner, she told him to say hello.
-"Hello, ! I have heard a lot about you."-Seval said with a smile and offered his hand for a friendly handshake.
-"I have heard a lot about you too, Seval."-Kyoya shook the boy's hand.-"How old are you?"
-"10."
-"You are almost as old as my daughters. They are only 1 year older than you."
-"Are they here now?"-Seval wanted to meet them.
-"Yes, they are. Simran! Nandini!"-Kyoya called his daughters and they came as fast as they can.
Kyoya introduced Seval to his daughters. The three children liked each other:
-"Hello, ladies! My name is Seval Suoh."
-"Nice to meet you, Seval! My name is Simran Ootori and this is my sister Nandini."
-"Say, Seval! Do you know how to play "Trivia empire"?"
-"No. What is that game?"
-"A beginner. This time, I will win for sure."-Nandini was thrilled of the idea that she was going to play against someone who does not know how to play "Trivia empire". She thought that there was no way that she is going to lose. But there was one more thing she did not know about Seval. Just because he does not know how to play the game, did not mean that he cannot play it.
The chidren went to the garden to play, while their parents went were drinking tea and talked.
Meanwhile, somewhere else, Ren was making plans.
To be continued...
