"She looks like she is doing well. Healthy." Kiernan said, and coughed slightly. "I t her briefly. I told her that I was her son."
"How did she react?" Karma asked.
"Shock," Kiernan said. "She didn't know how to respond, so I planned to leave it there and leave. Then, I t her father—my grandfather."
"Her father." Karma crossed his arms. "Who is he?"
"I don't know, but he wasn't a nice one." Kiernan sighed. "I found out later that he apparently told Bella to have an abortion. When she didn't, he told her to kill when I was a baby. She didn't, thus she brought to you."
"What…" Karma's eyes shook in surprise. "I had no idea."
He looked conflicted as he was living with the feelings of long-forgotten love and hatred for her for abandoning Kiernan like that on his doorstep.
He thought that she just didn't want a child, so she just dumped him without a second thought.
"Did she ask about ?" Karma asked.
"No…" Kiernan shook his head. "We barely talked. A few words only. I talked more with her sister, who told more about Bella."
"Ah? What did she say?" Karma leaned forward as he listened with keen interest.
"The reason why she slept with you. She was apparently supposed to marry so well-respected navy officer. She didn't want to. Thus, she slept with you to sabotage the engagent."
"That's…" Karma sighed deeply. "That's a lot to take in, but it makes sense. I knew she didn't have any sort of feelings towards . I expected that there was sothing behind it all, but I guess I just happened to be the first person she ca across."
Karma covered his face with his hands, inhaled deeply, then stood up and went to the kitchen to brew so coffee.
It was clear he wanted to stay alone.
'What Bella did to him is pretty unforgivable.' Kiernan thought. 'He'd been living in this dark cloud since eting her. He didn't know whether he was supposed to feel hatred or love.'
He sighed deeply.
'Karma's life has been tragedy after tragedy. I can't forgive her for doing this to him.'
Kiernan cracked his knuckles and leaned his forehead against his hands. He was also feeling very mixed about his feelings.
The feelings inside him felt like they were ssily sorted inside a bag. They were almost bursting out of the bag.
Tap! Tap! Tap!
Julian ca running from upstairs and stopped short when he felt the strange atmosphere in the house.
'Maybe I should co later…'
"What is it, Julian?" Kiernan asked.
"I rembered that I have to purchase my school uniform." Julian said with a wry smile.
"Have you registered as a student?" Karma asked as he walked from the kitchen with the coffee machine purring on the countertop.
"I can't." Julian laughed awkwardly. "I need my parent to do it. I thought I could go talk to the principal and get it all sorted."
"I can call Azer for you. The registration period is closed, anyway." Karma said. "You can borrow one of Kiernan's uniforms in the anti. He has a few pairs, and I believe it will fit you just fine."
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"That sounds good!" Julian smiled. "Kiernan, what's the password to your computer?"
Kiernan slowly stood up and said, "I'll co to type it for you."
"What? Do you have sothing nasty in the computer I shouldn't see?" Julian asked with a laugh.
"Just go." Kiernan kicked Julian up the stairs.
"Hey, watch it, I almost hit my head on the edge of the stairs!"
"Good!"
As they ran upstairs, Karma wryly smiled. The house hadn't been this energetic since forever because it had only been the two of them.
Kiernan had never been the most talkative kind of kid. He had been pretty soft-spoken and silent. Thus, the house was often quite silent.
He had to admit that he didn't mind the house being more loud.
…
The light from the computer screen brightened the otherwise dark room.
Julian was leaning close to the computer, his one hand using the mouse and the other hand's fingers dancing across the keyboard.
He was wearing headphones, and loud sounds of machine gunfire seeped through the noise-canceling padding.
He was playing a pretty famous first-person shooter ga.
Kiernan was sitting on his bed, leaning against the window. The desk was right beside him, so he could easily hear the ga sounds coming from the headphones.
He was trying to read so of his newly acquired martial arts books, but it was hard over the noise.
"Sigh." Kiernan rolled his eyes and tapped his feet against Julian's shoulder.
"What's up?" Julian moved his left hand to move the headphones away from his ear, only from his left ear, though, so he could still hear the sounds through his right ear.
"I didn't take you for a gar." Kiernan said. "You've already been playing for two hours."
"When I was still living with my family, I spent the late-night hours grinding this ga. I beca pretty decent at it. It's a way for to shed off so of the stress of the school and martial arts training."
"Oh?" Kiernan nodded.
"What about you? I didn't see any gas downloaded to your computer. Are you a mobile gar?"
"I don't play gas," Kiernan said.
"Really?" Julian saw that the ga ended and said. "Do you want to try?"
"Hmm, really?" Kiernan raised an eyebrow.
"Sure, go ahead." Julian stepped off the chair and gave the headphones to Kiernan.
Kiernan sat on the chair while Julian started another ga for him. He mimicked what he did, so he grabbed the mouse and started pressing one of the buttons to move forward.
He moved through a desolate, ruined building in so kind of battlefield and then saw an enemy soldier running across an open field.
"Shoot him!" Julian shouted from next to him.
Kiernan moved the mouse and started shooting, but all his bullets whizzed over the enemy soldier. The enemy soldier went prone and started shooting in his direction.
"Put the fucking crosshair on him!" Julian shouted while hopping in place. "Move the mouse!"
"I am trying, shit!" Kiernan shouted.
However, then the screen turned red and the words "You're dead" appeared.
"Ah, you're dead." Julian shook his head. "Wow, you suck at gas!"
"It's my first ti, fuck you." Kiernan tossed the headphones away. "The crosshair is so small. How can you hit anyone with that shit?"
"It looks like there is actually sothing you're bad at." Julian laughed.
"Let's play a proper fighting ga; I'll never lose to you." Kiernan said.
"Oh?" Julian smirked. "Watch out what you're wishing for."
"Bring it on."
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