Later that night, Harper, started to have memories about another important
event in the whole Arwen saga.
One day, after returning from a fun trip with Trance, Beka went to meet them in the Maru.
"Hey guys" Beka said somberly.
"Hey."
"I have bad news"
"What?" both of them were thinking their own worst-case scenario?
"Arwen left yesterday."
Both of them looked surprised, even Harper.
" I take it that Dylan's not taking it too well?" Trance replied
"Well, he's locked himself in his old quarters, and ordered the bots to later get all of her stuff and put it in boxes."
"What about David?" Trance asked. She had grown quite attached to the sweet one year old, who by now had brown hair, blue eyes, and his father's double chin.
"He is still with us, and I was taking care of him."
"That's great" Harper had grown to love the child too, and had started to build some toys for him. Also, he had kept a close eye to see if the child had any magical powers, even scanning him on the sly, but he didn't find anything.
Later that day, Dylan came to command. He had large bags under his eyes, had his blank stare, and was quite subdued.
Beka walked up to him and whispered "Are you sure that you are ready to work again?"
"Yes. I have a son and a mission to tend to." he whispered back.
Later, as Dylan was walking down the hall to check on David, who was with Trance, Harper came up to him.
"Hey, I just wanted to say that I'm sorry about what happened."
"I appreciate that Harper"
Harper was about to say something, when the ship interrupted him.
"Dylan, you wanted to let me know when the bots were done with what you asked. What would you like me to do?"
"Code purple"
"What's that?" Harper asked
Dylan just looked at him, and left.
A few hours later, on the command deck, Beka asked
"What are those boxes that I detect near the ship?"
"Just things that I needed to get rid of." He answered simply
Then, it hit everyone, what was in those boxes, but they didn't say anything.
The next day, Harper, asked Beka if she read the note that Arwen left, if any.
"No. Dylan tore it to shreds before I could read it."
"Tore it to shreds?"
"She wrote a note the old fashioned way, with something called paper"
"Oh yeah, I've heard about paper" Harper comment as he thought of something. "Do you think that Dylan searched through her stuff for clues?"
"Yeah. I saw him doing it. He told me that there are no clues as to why she left"
"Wait! She took the tugboat, didn't' she?" Harper was referring to a small ship that they had salvaged, and had been fixed up by Harper a few months before.
"Yeah."
"Somehow I'm not surprised that she got passed the sensors"
The cat again brought him to the present, as she climbed on the bed and purred to be let out.
A tap on the shoulder, meanwhile, surprised David, back at his favorite café, where he was writing, and would be joining Rommie for a walk in about an hour.
" Hello son" Dylan said in his happy voice
"Hey dad!" David got up and Dylan hugged him.
"I got some vacation time and thought that I'd spend it with you."
"Great." Just as they both sat down, Dylan noticed that a young woman came up to the table.
"David?"
"Jade?"
"How goes all?"
"Good, dad, this is my friend Jade, Jade, this is dad."
"Please to meet you, David has told me all about you"
"I hope that it was all positive." Dylan replied jokingly.
"I just wanted to see if Rommie, was still upset about our visit to the abandoned building."
"Why would she be?" Dylan asked.
"She is rather overprotective" David answered nervously.
"Overprotective? Jealous is more like it!"
"Jealous?" Dylan did not like the sound of this.
"Well, the fact that they are a couple might have something to do with the jealous tendency" Jade answered, with a wink thinking that Dylan was aware of the relationship, and so was joking.
"Of course" Dylan said as David, could hear the glare in Dylan's tone of voice.
"Well I have to go now, to meet some friends! Bye"
"Walk with me" Dylan commanded in a low voice, when Jade had gone out of sight.
David dreaded this phrase, as it was a phrase that his father used whenever he was angry and wanted to talk alone.
So, both men and the Seeing Eye bot got up and went to the nearest park.
"I thought you two were just friends" Dylan stated accusingly, trying to hold back his anger.
"We were, until recently"
Dylan just took a deep breath and an uncomfortable silence ensued.
I have an idea, why don't I go to my hotel room for a while, and we'll meet again later"
"Why not talk now?" David hated the idea of having to wait in agony.
"Because I need some time" Dylan did not want to say anything rash that he would regret later, and he was finding it harder to hold back his anger.
And so the men split ways.
David, with the help of his seeing eye bot, decided to go back home, and wait for Rommie, when, as he got in the house, he heard an unfamiliar voice greet him.
"Hello David"
"Who are you?"
"Your mother"
"What?" David could not believe it.
"I am."
"No you're not" David figured she was some crazy woman.
So, he got a hold of his cane, which he sometimes used.
"No need to threaten me"
"I'm not, it's just a precaution"
"David, listen to me, I am your mother."
" Prove it" David was still skeptical.
"You have a birthmark on the front of your right thigh."
He was stunned. No one but his mother, his father, and Rommie could know this information.
"David, I've been wanting to meet you face to face, for a long time…"
"Why did you leave?" David interjected "It really hurt my dad, and I'm was kinda hurt too because I sometimes would think that it was my fault"
"It was never your fault. I had to leave"
"Why then?"
"You are not ready to know."
"What?"
"You will know when the time is right" David hated this answer.
"Would you like something to drink?" He did not know what else to say.
"No. I'm sorry, but I have to go now"
"But we just met!"
"We'll see each other again soon. Bye, son, take care, and please don't tell your father about me coming here, for now"
"Okay, for now is the word"
A while later, when Rommie came home, he told her what happened.
"What did she say?"
"That we would meet again soon, and that I was not ready to know why she left my dad and me. Also, I promised her that I wouldn't tell him"
"I see"
"And he knows about us"
"What?" Rommie knew that Dylan would find out eventually, but not this soon
"He came for surprise visit, and met me at my favorite café. Jade inadvertently told him about us because she thought he knew"
"How did he react?"
"He wanted time alone" David was emotionally tired, as he hated to fight with his father, and had met his mother, and had more questions than before.
"Ah" Rommie was not surprised at this, and went to sit next to David, and put her had on his shoulder. David, for his part, kissed her palm and held her for strength
Back at his home, Harper remembered this incident, when David was nine months old where he thought that he finally had proof that Arwen was not what she seemed.
He, Trance, and Arwen went on a trip on the Maru for supplies, parts and plants. He pretended to go an opposite direction, when he found that Arwen wanted to go around alone. Harper had brought a holocam to see if he could take pictures of anything that would give Dylan the proof that would go through his blindness. Fortunately, she was daydreaming and so did not notice Harper.
Finally, he noticed this man, with blonde hair and green eyes come up to her and talk. They seemed to know each other quite well. Harper took several pictures. Soon, their talking turned to arguing. He took pictures of that. The man kissed her, and she pushed him away.
"Whoo hoo!" Harper thought to himself "I finally have proof that even Dylan can't deny!"
The next day, he went to Dylan's office, camera in hand. He knocked and was let in.
"Hey Dylan"
"Hey" Dylan was busy with some paperwork. "What's on your mind"?
"So, what did Arwen tell you about her time on the drift?"
"That she had a good time, and found what she needed. Why do you ask?"
"Well, I'm sorry to do this Dylan, but you must see the images on this holocam."
"Really?" he looked up
"Yeah. Arwen was not getting all the stuff she needed! She was meeting with some guy"
Dylan just glared at him.
"Just look at the holocam images" As Harper was about to give it to him he realized something
"Oh crap! It's not working! And the pictures got erased!"
"It's just as well" Dylan replied. "Arwen told me that you followed her"
"Yeah, but…"
"You had no right. How dare you invade her privacy?"
"But Dylan……"
"I'm getting sick of this Harper. Can't you just leave her alone? I'm sorry if you don't like her, but she is here to stay. We love each other"
Dylan took a deep breath and gave Harper his best glare.
"Harper, This is the third time you have done something to harass Arwen"
"What? I wasn't harassing her! I just wanna help ya"
"I want you to apologize to her"
"No way"
"This is not a debate"
" No freakin way!"
"Yes you will, Mr. Harper"
"No!" Harper replied as he walked out of Dylan's office.
Harper's thoughts were then interrupted by his kids wanting to play some Kiewe handball.
Again, David was at his favorite café, when he heard a voice.
"David? It's your mother."
"Oh hi" David was not quite sure how to act. Part of him was angry that she had left, but not as much as he would be if she had left later in his life. Another part of him wanted to get to know her better, so as to get to know himself better.
"I see that you are a like a bard" she said, as she observed that he was writing.
"Yeah kinda"
"David, I know that you are wondering why I left you and your father, and you also want to know more about me. Well, now is the time to tell you. Let us talk in private."
"We could go to the park," he said.
And so they went.
"David, did you father ever tell you how we met?"
"Well, my aunt Beka said that you saved him from Kalderans, and agreed with his suggestion to come to the Andromeda for a visit."
"That is right. I, as well as he, intended just to have a fling of no more than ten days. However, we found ourselves, not wanting to part, and we kept extending my departure date, until, we fell in love and I decided to stay permanently, until I had to leave suddenly"
"See, I am actually from another realm and my family desperately needed me. Given the dangerous situation at my home, I felt it best to leave you with your father. I never wanted to leave you, but I was able to get a couple of cousins to keep on eye on you. In fact, it was they, who cured you. They disguised themselves as Wayist monks in order to slip into your hospital room."
David didn't say anything, as he was taking it all in.
"What sort of family emergency?" David figured it must have been really big if she had to leave him and his dad.
"I can't explain that yet"
"I see" David said as he sighed impatiently "Is it true that you have magical powers? Uncle Harper thinks you did. He would tell me about the various things he observed, whenever Dad was not around. I never really believed him, as he tends to be kinda paranoid at times, but since you're from another realm and had cousins who could cure me…"
"Yes I have powers"
"Will I ever have any?"
"Usually, when my kind mates with humans, who live in my realm, the rate of inheriting the powers if the father is human is about 8 out of 10. However, such pairings are rare."
"Just my luck" David mumbled annoyed. "I wish I had the power to cure my blindness"
"I'm sorry son, my cousins tried to cure your blindness, but they couldn't and neither could I" Arwen sounded sad.
"And I won't ever have powers?" David was double checking to see, if by some miracle, he had heard wrong
" No, but don't let that get you down, son. You have other wonderful abilities, such as your kindness, and your ability to write. I'm glad that you were able to give you father some happiness. By the way, I have to tell you one more thing."
"Let me guess. I got a brother or sister, that dad didn't know about that was born in the other realm"
"No, that is not it"
"Sorry, I read too many holonovels." David, thanks to a device made by Harper, was able to enjoy them.
"What?"
"Jalicia and I are best friends"
"What?"
"We grew up together."
"By the way, there is this abandoned building with a statue of a dragon in it. One time when I went I thought someone was watching me. Do you know anything about it?"
" I might, but I have to make sure. Why don't we go there now?"
"Okay"
However, when they arrived, there was nothing there
"This is weird' David remarked, as he could hear Arwen saying 'Hmmmmm'
"If there was someone here, they must have detected us somehow"
"With magic?"
"Yes. By the way, I heard that you and your father have been fighting"
"It's because of my relationship with Rommie. I was gonna tell him, but he found out by mistake."
"I don't really blame him. She did betray him, however, she did repent"
"That's what I tried to tell him"
"Your father has always had trouble finding it in himself to trust Rommie, again.
"So, I've noticed"
"Go talk to him. He has always loved you more than life itself."
"What do I say?"
"You'll think of something. However, I'd wait a while before I went to talk to him."
"Good idea" David replied. "Hey, wanna have some dinner?"
"Certainly. You could tell me about your writing, and what's happening in your life"
The next evening, Dylan was dining alone, wishing that he were eating with his son right now, but part of him was angry at David for being with Rommie. As he ate, he got a note from David that said,
"Dad, I have pneumonia, which might or might not be severe. I'm at home, by myself, recovering. The doctor says I'll be fine with the proper medication, but I'd like you to be there. Don't worry, Rommie is not home. She left so you could come see me."
Back at his place, David insisted to Rommie that they stay home and just hang out. David pretended to be working on his story, while Rommie was paying the household bills.
"David, why do you keep looking at the door?"
"I'm not looking at the door"
"Yes you are. Is there something you want to tell me?"
"Uh..no"
"Humph" Rommie returned to her chores, as she figured that she would find out eventually.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.
"Could you get it please, honey?"
With a sigh, she did.
It was Dylan.
"I thought you were gone"
"David is here" Rommie quickly went to their bedroom after she said this.
"Rommie come back." David called out.
"For someone who is sick, you seem to be quite energetic" Dylan said sarcastically.
"Actually, I'm not sick"
"Oh really? How could you lie to me like that by pretending to be ill?"
"Because I want you and Rommie to reconcile"
" I see. Reconciliations just don't happen, David"
"No they don't" David answered, "They require effort and a willingness to forgive. Come on dad, Rommie is sorry for what she did, and it's been almost 30 years. At least talk to her. Do it for me, please?"
"Fine" he said with a sigh. "But only because it means so much to you."
One day, after returning from a fun trip with Trance, Beka went to meet them in the Maru.
"Hey guys" Beka said somberly.
"Hey."
"I have bad news"
"What?" both of them were thinking their own worst-case scenario?
"Arwen left yesterday."
Both of them looked surprised, even Harper.
" I take it that Dylan's not taking it too well?" Trance replied
"Well, he's locked himself in his old quarters, and ordered the bots to later get all of her stuff and put it in boxes."
"What about David?" Trance asked. She had grown quite attached to the sweet one year old, who by now had brown hair, blue eyes, and his father's double chin.
"He is still with us, and I was taking care of him."
"That's great" Harper had grown to love the child too, and had started to build some toys for him. Also, he had kept a close eye to see if the child had any magical powers, even scanning him on the sly, but he didn't find anything.
Later that day, Dylan came to command. He had large bags under his eyes, had his blank stare, and was quite subdued.
Beka walked up to him and whispered "Are you sure that you are ready to work again?"
"Yes. I have a son and a mission to tend to." he whispered back.
Later, as Dylan was walking down the hall to check on David, who was with Trance, Harper came up to him.
"Hey, I just wanted to say that I'm sorry about what happened."
"I appreciate that Harper"
Harper was about to say something, when the ship interrupted him.
"Dylan, you wanted to let me know when the bots were done with what you asked. What would you like me to do?"
"Code purple"
"What's that?" Harper asked
Dylan just looked at him, and left.
A few hours later, on the command deck, Beka asked
"What are those boxes that I detect near the ship?"
"Just things that I needed to get rid of." He answered simply
Then, it hit everyone, what was in those boxes, but they didn't say anything.
The next day, Harper, asked Beka if she read the note that Arwen left, if any.
"No. Dylan tore it to shreds before I could read it."
"Tore it to shreds?"
"She wrote a note the old fashioned way, with something called paper"
"Oh yeah, I've heard about paper" Harper comment as he thought of something. "Do you think that Dylan searched through her stuff for clues?"
"Yeah. I saw him doing it. He told me that there are no clues as to why she left"
"Wait! She took the tugboat, didn't' she?" Harper was referring to a small ship that they had salvaged, and had been fixed up by Harper a few months before.
"Yeah."
"Somehow I'm not surprised that she got passed the sensors"
The cat again brought him to the present, as she climbed on the bed and purred to be let out.
A tap on the shoulder, meanwhile, surprised David, back at his favorite café, where he was writing, and would be joining Rommie for a walk in about an hour.
" Hello son" Dylan said in his happy voice
"Hey dad!" David got up and Dylan hugged him.
"I got some vacation time and thought that I'd spend it with you."
"Great." Just as they both sat down, Dylan noticed that a young woman came up to the table.
"David?"
"Jade?"
"How goes all?"
"Good, dad, this is my friend Jade, Jade, this is dad."
"Please to meet you, David has told me all about you"
"I hope that it was all positive." Dylan replied jokingly.
"I just wanted to see if Rommie, was still upset about our visit to the abandoned building."
"Why would she be?" Dylan asked.
"She is rather overprotective" David answered nervously.
"Overprotective? Jealous is more like it!"
"Jealous?" Dylan did not like the sound of this.
"Well, the fact that they are a couple might have something to do with the jealous tendency" Jade answered, with a wink thinking that Dylan was aware of the relationship, and so was joking.
"Of course" Dylan said as David, could hear the glare in Dylan's tone of voice.
"Well I have to go now, to meet some friends! Bye"
"Walk with me" Dylan commanded in a low voice, when Jade had gone out of sight.
David dreaded this phrase, as it was a phrase that his father used whenever he was angry and wanted to talk alone.
So, both men and the Seeing Eye bot got up and went to the nearest park.
"I thought you two were just friends" Dylan stated accusingly, trying to hold back his anger.
"We were, until recently"
Dylan just took a deep breath and an uncomfortable silence ensued.
I have an idea, why don't I go to my hotel room for a while, and we'll meet again later"
"Why not talk now?" David hated the idea of having to wait in agony.
"Because I need some time" Dylan did not want to say anything rash that he would regret later, and he was finding it harder to hold back his anger.
And so the men split ways.
David, with the help of his seeing eye bot, decided to go back home, and wait for Rommie, when, as he got in the house, he heard an unfamiliar voice greet him.
"Hello David"
"Who are you?"
"Your mother"
"What?" David could not believe it.
"I am."
"No you're not" David figured she was some crazy woman.
So, he got a hold of his cane, which he sometimes used.
"No need to threaten me"
"I'm not, it's just a precaution"
"David, listen to me, I am your mother."
" Prove it" David was still skeptical.
"You have a birthmark on the front of your right thigh."
He was stunned. No one but his mother, his father, and Rommie could know this information.
"David, I've been wanting to meet you face to face, for a long time…"
"Why did you leave?" David interjected "It really hurt my dad, and I'm was kinda hurt too because I sometimes would think that it was my fault"
"It was never your fault. I had to leave"
"Why then?"
"You are not ready to know."
"What?"
"You will know when the time is right" David hated this answer.
"Would you like something to drink?" He did not know what else to say.
"No. I'm sorry, but I have to go now"
"But we just met!"
"We'll see each other again soon. Bye, son, take care, and please don't tell your father about me coming here, for now"
"Okay, for now is the word"
A while later, when Rommie came home, he told her what happened.
"What did she say?"
"That we would meet again soon, and that I was not ready to know why she left my dad and me. Also, I promised her that I wouldn't tell him"
"I see"
"And he knows about us"
"What?" Rommie knew that Dylan would find out eventually, but not this soon
"He came for surprise visit, and met me at my favorite café. Jade inadvertently told him about us because she thought he knew"
"How did he react?"
"He wanted time alone" David was emotionally tired, as he hated to fight with his father, and had met his mother, and had more questions than before.
"Ah" Rommie was not surprised at this, and went to sit next to David, and put her had on his shoulder. David, for his part, kissed her palm and held her for strength
Back at his home, Harper remembered this incident, when David was nine months old where he thought that he finally had proof that Arwen was not what she seemed.
He, Trance, and Arwen went on a trip on the Maru for supplies, parts and plants. He pretended to go an opposite direction, when he found that Arwen wanted to go around alone. Harper had brought a holocam to see if he could take pictures of anything that would give Dylan the proof that would go through his blindness. Fortunately, she was daydreaming and so did not notice Harper.
Finally, he noticed this man, with blonde hair and green eyes come up to her and talk. They seemed to know each other quite well. Harper took several pictures. Soon, their talking turned to arguing. He took pictures of that. The man kissed her, and she pushed him away.
"Whoo hoo!" Harper thought to himself "I finally have proof that even Dylan can't deny!"
The next day, he went to Dylan's office, camera in hand. He knocked and was let in.
"Hey Dylan"
"Hey" Dylan was busy with some paperwork. "What's on your mind"?
"So, what did Arwen tell you about her time on the drift?"
"That she had a good time, and found what she needed. Why do you ask?"
"Well, I'm sorry to do this Dylan, but you must see the images on this holocam."
"Really?" he looked up
"Yeah. Arwen was not getting all the stuff she needed! She was meeting with some guy"
Dylan just glared at him.
"Just look at the holocam images" As Harper was about to give it to him he realized something
"Oh crap! It's not working! And the pictures got erased!"
"It's just as well" Dylan replied. "Arwen told me that you followed her"
"Yeah, but…"
"You had no right. How dare you invade her privacy?"
"But Dylan……"
"I'm getting sick of this Harper. Can't you just leave her alone? I'm sorry if you don't like her, but she is here to stay. We love each other"
Dylan took a deep breath and gave Harper his best glare.
"Harper, This is the third time you have done something to harass Arwen"
"What? I wasn't harassing her! I just wanna help ya"
"I want you to apologize to her"
"No way"
"This is not a debate"
" No freakin way!"
"Yes you will, Mr. Harper"
"No!" Harper replied as he walked out of Dylan's office.
Harper's thoughts were then interrupted by his kids wanting to play some Kiewe handball.
Again, David was at his favorite café, when he heard a voice.
"David? It's your mother."
"Oh hi" David was not quite sure how to act. Part of him was angry that she had left, but not as much as he would be if she had left later in his life. Another part of him wanted to get to know her better, so as to get to know himself better.
"I see that you are a like a bard" she said, as she observed that he was writing.
"Yeah kinda"
"David, I know that you are wondering why I left you and your father, and you also want to know more about me. Well, now is the time to tell you. Let us talk in private."
"We could go to the park," he said.
And so they went.
"David, did you father ever tell you how we met?"
"Well, my aunt Beka said that you saved him from Kalderans, and agreed with his suggestion to come to the Andromeda for a visit."
"That is right. I, as well as he, intended just to have a fling of no more than ten days. However, we found ourselves, not wanting to part, and we kept extending my departure date, until, we fell in love and I decided to stay permanently, until I had to leave suddenly"
"See, I am actually from another realm and my family desperately needed me. Given the dangerous situation at my home, I felt it best to leave you with your father. I never wanted to leave you, but I was able to get a couple of cousins to keep on eye on you. In fact, it was they, who cured you. They disguised themselves as Wayist monks in order to slip into your hospital room."
David didn't say anything, as he was taking it all in.
"What sort of family emergency?" David figured it must have been really big if she had to leave him and his dad.
"I can't explain that yet"
"I see" David said as he sighed impatiently "Is it true that you have magical powers? Uncle Harper thinks you did. He would tell me about the various things he observed, whenever Dad was not around. I never really believed him, as he tends to be kinda paranoid at times, but since you're from another realm and had cousins who could cure me…"
"Yes I have powers"
"Will I ever have any?"
"Usually, when my kind mates with humans, who live in my realm, the rate of inheriting the powers if the father is human is about 8 out of 10. However, such pairings are rare."
"Just my luck" David mumbled annoyed. "I wish I had the power to cure my blindness"
"I'm sorry son, my cousins tried to cure your blindness, but they couldn't and neither could I" Arwen sounded sad.
"And I won't ever have powers?" David was double checking to see, if by some miracle, he had heard wrong
" No, but don't let that get you down, son. You have other wonderful abilities, such as your kindness, and your ability to write. I'm glad that you were able to give you father some happiness. By the way, I have to tell you one more thing."
"Let me guess. I got a brother or sister, that dad didn't know about that was born in the other realm"
"No, that is not it"
"Sorry, I read too many holonovels." David, thanks to a device made by Harper, was able to enjoy them.
"What?"
"Jalicia and I are best friends"
"What?"
"We grew up together."
"By the way, there is this abandoned building with a statue of a dragon in it. One time when I went I thought someone was watching me. Do you know anything about it?"
" I might, but I have to make sure. Why don't we go there now?"
"Okay"
However, when they arrived, there was nothing there
"This is weird' David remarked, as he could hear Arwen saying 'Hmmmmm'
"If there was someone here, they must have detected us somehow"
"With magic?"
"Yes. By the way, I heard that you and your father have been fighting"
"It's because of my relationship with Rommie. I was gonna tell him, but he found out by mistake."
"I don't really blame him. She did betray him, however, she did repent"
"That's what I tried to tell him"
"Your father has always had trouble finding it in himself to trust Rommie, again.
"So, I've noticed"
"Go talk to him. He has always loved you more than life itself."
"What do I say?"
"You'll think of something. However, I'd wait a while before I went to talk to him."
"Good idea" David replied. "Hey, wanna have some dinner?"
"Certainly. You could tell me about your writing, and what's happening in your life"
The next evening, Dylan was dining alone, wishing that he were eating with his son right now, but part of him was angry at David for being with Rommie. As he ate, he got a note from David that said,
"Dad, I have pneumonia, which might or might not be severe. I'm at home, by myself, recovering. The doctor says I'll be fine with the proper medication, but I'd like you to be there. Don't worry, Rommie is not home. She left so you could come see me."
Back at his place, David insisted to Rommie that they stay home and just hang out. David pretended to be working on his story, while Rommie was paying the household bills.
"David, why do you keep looking at the door?"
"I'm not looking at the door"
"Yes you are. Is there something you want to tell me?"
"Uh..no"
"Humph" Rommie returned to her chores, as she figured that she would find out eventually.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.
"Could you get it please, honey?"
With a sigh, she did.
It was Dylan.
"I thought you were gone"
"David is here" Rommie quickly went to their bedroom after she said this.
"Rommie come back." David called out.
"For someone who is sick, you seem to be quite energetic" Dylan said sarcastically.
"Actually, I'm not sick"
"Oh really? How could you lie to me like that by pretending to be ill?"
"Because I want you and Rommie to reconcile"
" I see. Reconciliations just don't happen, David"
"No they don't" David answered, "They require effort and a willingness to forgive. Come on dad, Rommie is sorry for what she did, and it's been almost 30 years. At least talk to her. Do it for me, please?"
"Fine" he said with a sigh. "But only because it means so much to you."