Jack cleared his throat and stared at Shuang who had cocked her brow naughtily.
"R-really?"
Shuang chuckled. "I won't lie to you."
Jack seriously said, "I will need lots of naughty things from you because I am really pissed off."
Shuang gave a sincere nod.
"I am itching to run away from here."
"You cannot. Your father is injured. You cannot leave him like this. No amount of differences should make you ignore your injured father, okay?"
Jack sighed.
Daniel suspiciously observed their conversation and Jack, who seed to be irritated, seed to have cald down a bit.
After Si Min handled Daniel and Shuang convinced Jack, the tension in the air had slightly lifted though there was an uneasy silence.
Jack finished dressing up his wound. "If you feel any signs of concussion-"
"I know. I am a doctor too," Daniel indignantly said.
Jack's mouth twitched. "Even if you are a doctor, Mr. Daniel Walker, you cannot treat yourself when you are injured. You will need 'another' doctor that is not you," he smiled. "I was saying that if you feel any signs of a concussion, then don't call because I will leave another doctor's number with Mom. Call him."
Daniel froze. "You ungrateful son! Now I have beco such a sore in your eyes that you don't wanna even treat your own father!" He trembled.
Jack's expression twisted.
"Excuse but you were the one who didn't want here. It was on Mom's insistence that I ca! Now, why are you crying when I am doing exactly what you want!?"
"Oh don't you talk to like that! When have you ever done what I wanted?" Daniel exclaid.
"Isn't it obvious that I didn't because you are not a man nobody can have a sane conversation with!"
He tremblingly pointed his finger towards him. "You are talking about sanity? I am completely sane. It was you who was insane by liking n and becoming a delinquent! Roaming around the streets like a thug and kissing around boys your age! Who is the one out of the mind here!?"
Jack felt his fuse bursting. "And that is your problem if you feel disgusted by my sexuality! I like both n and won, and that is my choice! You don't have any say in it or judge for it!"
"Of course I will judge you! What future do two n have anyway? Are you nuts? At the very least, you did sothing sane by becoming a doctor and not wasting your life and career riding your bike like a thug and disgracing yourself!"
Jack sneered. "Oh? Was it disgracing myself or are you talking about you! After all, I ruined your reputation as a doctor, didn't I? You just got another reason to be salty at !"
Daniel glared at him. "When did you ever give any reasons to be proud of you!?"
Jack was about to counter when he felt a chill run in his back.
"Enough."
Shuang warned them with her low, threatening voice with her eyes looking like that of a demon who ca to eat them alive.
Daniel frowned but watching his wife's dangerous expression, he cald down too.
Shuang ca forward and narrowed her eyes. "When you said that you wanted to talk to Jack, I took that as talking like a calm and composed adult who really wants to bridge the gap of their relationship. But this ain't feeling like bridging but only widening the void more and more. You ca back to China to do this? Then better take the next flight and return to New York because you are not doing anything different like you did ten years before."
Daniel stiffened.
Si Min lashed out. "We have discussed this so many tis already! We are not here to fight Jack! We are here to resolve the differences. If you keep talking like that, then nothing will change!"
He gritted his teeth. "Yes, nothing will change until Jack gives up on being bisexual! It is a rcy that he is dating a woman but what if gets strayed away by a man in the future? Like hell I am going to accept that!"
"You…" Jack balled his fist.
Shuang squinted her eyes. "What problem do you have with two n dating anyway?"
Daniel looked at her, dumbfounded. "I should ask you what future do two n together hold anyway?"
"Huh? Why is that a difficult question? They hold a future just like other heterosexual married couples have. Live together like a couple."
"You think two n can get married?"
She shrugged. "If a man and woman can marry, then why not two n or two won? The principle and institution of marriage doesn't change because of gender."
"It does!" He exclaid. "Two husbands or two wives and you don't find it weird? How will they live a life like that? How will they have children of their own?"
"They can always adopt or choose to be childless. It's not a big deal anymore. Even many heterosexual couples remain childless by choice. Doesn't an their marriage is problematic. It's the sa with love. It's our choice who we fall in love with regardless of gender. You fell in love with a woman. Good for you. But you cannot dictate that choice onto your child. Neither sexuality nor career."
Daniel stomped on his foot and got up in a rush of anger. "You think this is so easy!? It all looks like a fairy tale when thinking about such matters! It's very easy to say that gender doesn't matter or that gays and lesbians are normal! But you think the outside world is so progressive like you?"
His chest heaved as he spoke, "You can think all forward you want, but you still have to live in a society where the people AROUND you think backwards! You have to live in a house, you have to work in a place surrounded by these people. How many people will you convince? How many tis are you gonna repeat that sa thing over and over again? How many tis will you be able to ignore the disdainful gazes people look at you with? How many tis will you defend your marriage and choices!? Until you die!?
If that is the miserable future a sa sex couple will hold, then I don't want Jack to live such a pitiful life until his hair turns grey! Of course, I don't want that because I am his father, damn it!"
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