2004
"I've got to work on this!" Charlie insisted.
"You're starting to sound like a friggin broken record!" Don sneered, and continued to berate his brother. "I'm sick of this! Why do I always have to be the responsible one? Huh?"
2005
"Why don't I introduce you, then? I'll cancel my classes for the rest of the day. His studio is close." Zeal, like David, had been wanting this reunion to happen.
"Of course! I'll go cancel my classes" Charlie agreed happily.
They went in Zeal's car. Once they arrived, Greg got out his cell and called David.
"Could you come out for a sec?"
"Why?" David asked.
"Trust me. You won't regret it!" Greg insisted.
"I'm in the middle of..."
"Just come out!"
"Fine..." David sighed, wondering what his friend was so insisting about. Soon, the two men hung up.
"I got him to come out!"
"Okay!" Charlie's heart had been pumping hard during the whole conversation, worried about the kind of impression he'll make, and about being disapointed. Nerviously, he got out of the car. Just then, he saw the artist come out. His hair was all messy and there was paint in his clothes.
"David, this is your son, Charlie. He knows the truth."
Happily, and impulsivly, David gave Charlie an affectionate bear hug, then pulled away, worried that he was making the professor uncomfortable.
"Sorry, it's just that I've been wanting to do that for decades!" David said. He couldn't believe that the day he had been waiting for had finally come.
TBC