Winter Song

by Seito

25 Winter Memories, counting down the days to Christmas. One for every day. Song 21: Let's begin the end. Song 22: You got a good kid. Song 23: Someone watching over me. Song 24: Walking in the air. Song 25: Do you hear what I hear. R&R

22. Song 22: It doesn't have to be that way

I own nothing.

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Song 22: It doesn't have to be that way

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"So you're Neku's father."

Shunsoku looked up to see the owner of Wildkat (Sanae was it?) addressing him. "Um, yes, I am," Shunsoku said. He was beginning to feel a little overwhelm by all of this. His son apparently had plenty of friends, had become fast friends with the owner of this café, and had taken an interest in music and art.

"Fine kid you have there. You must be proud," Sanae said with a light laugh.

Shunsoku looks over to where Neku is standing around talking to his friends. "I wouldn't know," he softly confessed. "I'm never here and he's growing up without me."

Sanae looked surprised at that statement. Then he softly smiled. "It doesn't have to be that way," he said. "You're here now aren't you?"

Shunsoku watched as Neku laughed at a joke Beat was telling him. "Yeah."