Artland Series: MINORITY TALENT
Minor Scandals

Casey Minor was used to dealing with someone invisible to others.

In general, such people are often called ghost or ghost.

But Casey never agreed with that opinion because he thought ghosts did not appear during the day. Unless the ghost is a part of a person's past. Because that kind of event that has been experienced every time he enters new places. Especially if the place is hundreds of years old. That's why Casey hates old houses and old towns.

The higher the historical value of a place, the more invisible people he could find.

Casey would rather agree if such a phenomenon was called: THE PASSAGE OF TIME. Not everyone who is invisible is dead. Some of them are still living elsewhere of different ages. Although most of them have died.

"My name is Denta" said the unseen man who lives in Casey's new home.

At that moment, Casey had just taken out his personal belongings from inside the cardboard box he had brought from the old place, suddenly the man was already standing in the doorway of his room. Casey turned her attention away from the cardboard box and raised her face staring at the man. The girl was silent for a moment before finally deciding to find out the truth about the man. "What's your last name Minor?" Casey asked.

"No, no. I don't come from a family that has a special name or last name." The man said. "My full name is Denta Yudistira. I don't know if the name behind it could be said to be a last name or an ancestor's name. If that's true, it means I'm still a descendant of the Hastinapura kingdom in a puppet figure." Denta joking.

"The puppet is only mythological" Casey commented. I can't believe their lives ever existed in the real world. The girl piled up several folds of clothes that she took out of her cardboard box then stuffed them all into the wall cabinet across from her bed.

The man crossed his legs while leaning one shoulder against Casey's door frame and scaled. "You haven't introduced yourself yet" he said half-demandingly.

Casey glanced at the man and smiled. "I'm Casey. Casey Minor," he said. Then again busy removing the rest of his belongings from the box.

"What is your relationship with Ezra Minor?"

The man's question made Casey suddenly speechless. The girl pegged for a moment in front of her closet. He turned to the man with a nervous look. "You know him?" Casey asked back.

The man frowned, "yes," he replied with a probing look. "You don't like it? Yeah, right?"

Casey distracts her from the man and pretends to be busy putting her clothes in the closet. When he finished putting his clothes together, the man had already disappeared. Casey let out a heavy sigh and exhaled slowly. Then speechless. Still in front of the wall closet. I never hated him, Denta. Casey answered inwardly. My father hated it!

"I hope you start doing your own thing because tonight I have to attend a meeting at our new neighbor's house" his father said at dinner.

"Well, yeah..." Casey replied unsure. "Maybe I'll take a little walk." Casey stuffed the macaroni-filled fork into her mouth and chewed it slowly.

Mr. Minor watched his daughter's face from across the table with a concerned look. "I'm sorry I had to take you to this boring place" he said softly. "I hope you can understand that this decision wasn't easy for me, Sweetheart!"

"Enjoy your evening, Old Man!" Casey gently patted the back of her father's hand, to encourage. "At least Daddy has managed to find a new friend, I'm glad to hear that." Casey added.

"I hope you also find a new friend as soon as possible" his father chimed in. "And I wish he was a real friend!"

Casey responded to her father's words with a wry smile.

Casey's bowed in. Right, he said in his heart. Not many people understood the difference in him except Ezra. Casey is not sure he can find someone who can understand himself well enough if one day he is forced to lose his father. He wasn't even sure if he could get through the rest of his life if he wasn't with his father anymore. Not infrequently he felt tempted to question whether he would sin if one day he chose to live with Ezra after his father died?

Ezra Minor is Casey's older cousin. But Casey loved him too. Not like a sister's love for her brother. But a girl's love for a man. A forbidden love that his father hated.

"Isn't it enough for you after you've taken away all my family's wealth? And now you also want to take my daughter?!"

Instantly his father's sharp words flashed across Casey's head. At that time, neither Ezra nor his father were aware of Casey's presence. Casey overhears their conversation one night while trying to sneak out of her house to meet Ezra. Casey never expected her father to catch Ezra waiting for her in the yard. He never even thought that it would be his last night to see Ezra.

"I may not deserve your family fortune, Mr. Minor. But you have no reason to forbid me to love Casey. We have no blood relation. Remember?" Ezra challenged his father. "I'm just a foster kid!"

Casey screamed stifled at Ezra's statement that night. That fact sounded painful as well as calming him down.

"I will return all of Minor's wealth!" Ezra. Then go and never come back.

That's what hurts Casey. But another reality that makes him calm is that loving Ezra is no longer a mistake.

"Sweetheart?!"

Casey almost choked to realize her father was screaming.

"Are you ok?" His father seemed very worried.

"Well, yeah. I'm fine, dad!" Casey stutters.

"So, how long are you gonna watch that food?" Casey's father was already preparing to leave. "If you can't spend it leave it. Let this old man do the dishes later."

"It's ok, Daddy! I'm gonna wash it now." Casey got up from her seat and hurried to tidy up the dining table.

His father looked at him with a frown. "You sure you're okay?"

"Yeah, Dad!"

"W-uh?"

"Yes!" Casey.

His father sighed then put on his coat and walked towards the door. "I'm not going home too late. Try not to walk too far either!" Father ordered.

Shortly after, Casey hears the sound of his father's car coming out of the garage and moving away.