TRAUMATISED
EPS. 56. Not to commit.

Leah just stood in front of Anton without answering. Anton who had smiled widely even to fade back his smile because Lea did not also answer his greeting.

" Disrespectful son, asked your father why not answer? Is that how your mother educated you?" Grace.

" Silence Grace!" Anton yelled at Grace.

Grace gasped in surprise at Anton's voice. While Lea just stared lazily at the two.

" Lea, I sudsh get a private place." Richard came out from within.

Richard saw Anton standing before Leah, and immediately pulled Leah's hand away from Anton.

" Lea, are you okay?" Richard asked, and Lea simply shook her head.

" What am I going to do with my daughter? You're making me look like a villain in my daughter's eyes." Anton.

Richard frowned, obviously at their last meeting, Anton insulted Lea viciously. And now Anton says that, what do you think.

" Aren't you always cruel?" Lea finally spoke up.

" Lea, dad.. "

" You're not my father, so so don't claim to be my father." Lea said.

" The son of disobedience." Grace.

" Silence Grace!! Don't interfere, you're just making things worse." Anton.

" I'm just helping you talk, your own son is being disrespectful to you and I'm helping you talk why are you scolding me?" Grace.

" Lea, come on.." Said Richard.

Richard pulls Lea's hand and Lea leaves before Anton and Grace.

" You see, it's your daughter. It's obvious how Livy raised herself, lacking ethics and manners." Grace.

THE PLAQUE!

A loud slap landed on Grace's cheek.

" Keep your talk, Livy's a good girl." Anton.

" You vented your anger on my mother, do you think it's appropriate?" Kyle appears behind Anton.

" You're the one who made Lea so far away from you, not my mother. Why did you vent your anger on my mother??" Kyle again.

" If you don't want to fix this broken family relationship, then just divorce my mother. I'd rather not have a father than see my mother every day tormented alone." Kyle.

" Kyle.." Grace nodded.

" Why ma? Don't tell her that she loves him and doesn't want to be separated from him. She no longer loved mom, she no longer wanted this broken family. So why did Mama survive??" Kyle.

" Mom will only suffer alone." Kyle.

" Kyle, since when have you talked so much?! Don't talk so much." Grace.

" If you can't divorce this guy because of Kyle, then you don't have to worry. From the beginning Kyle never expected him to be father Kyle. Because Kyle knew a long time ago that he wasn't Kyle's father." Kyle.

Both Anton and Grace were shocked to hear that. Grace does not know that Kyle already knows the truth of her identity, Anton also increasingly feels in a lie now.

" You.." Anton hung up.

" Perced my mother, I asked. I can't accept my mom always being wrong." Kyle.

" Come ma, let's go." Kyle.

Grace goes with Kyle, and Anton.. Anton stood up with his shock. Herself her duo sudsh in lie exhausted. He thought Kyle didn't know anything, but apparently..

" ha! ha! Ahaha.." Anton laughed, but his face was more like one who was about to cry.

" I'm the stupid one." Mumbled Anton.

Meanwhile, Lea looked at Anton from afar. He wants to go to the toilet to wash his hands, but then he sees the family quarrel still going on and Kyle shows up there.

Lea saw, he wanted to know what Kyle would do, apparently Kyle really did not expect Anton to be his father. And I'd rather have Anton divorce Grace instead.

Unfortunately Lea looked doubtfully into Grace's eyes, from which Lea knew that.. Grace was the one who tried to die to keep the marriage.

' What it is to be a foolish woman by maintaining a relationship that is clearly broken.' Inner Leah, and step away from there.

For Lea, whatever Anton has to do, it has nothing to do with him. In the past, Anton was only a wound for him and Livy.

" Come here, I've prepared shrimp for you." Richard said with a smile.

Lea stared at the shrimp, all this time only Livy who always peeled shrimp for her. He never ate anyone else's peeled shrimp.

" Lea. let's eat." Richard said again.

But then Lea nodded, she sat down and stamped the shrimp with chopsticks and put them in her mouth.

' Why don't I feel disgusted by this shrimp? I've never eaten anyone's peeled shrimp before.' Inner Lea astonished.

" How, is it good?" Ask Richard.

" Yes, thank you." Lea said.

' Maybe it's because he's my childhood friend.' Inner Lea.

They both enjoyed dinner together. After finishing dinner Richard drove Lea back to his house.

" I'll go home first.." Richard said goodbye.

" Hum, thanks for today. Heart on the road." Lea said.

Richard smiled and nodded, he turned the motor back on and left in front of the Lea residence.

Lea walked into her house and saw Livy who was busy with the materials to be made a dress.

" Mommy, you still run a boutique?" Lea asked after arriving at the living room.

" Oh, hi baby, you're surprising my mom." Livy.

" I'm sorry, but why is Mama still in charge of the boutique? Lea told you to stop taking care of the boutique, and let the employees take care of it." Lea said.

Livy smiled hearing what Lea said. Lea really noticed herself this late.

" Mama doesn't take care of the boutique, son." Livy.

" Then this?? Mama's taking care of the dress for what?" Lea said.

Livy finished her activities, then she grabbed Lea's hand and took her to sit on the sofa.

" Mama is no longer taking care of the boutique, only occasionally just come there but do not intervene directly. Mama also does not take care of the cake anymore, only occasionally stop by to see the situation there." Livy.

" Dear, my mother is no longer young.. So while you still have a chance, you're gonna use this opportunity." Livy.

" Mama's making you a wedding dress." Livy said with a smile.

Of course Lea was flabbergasted to hear that, wedding dress??

" Wedding dress? Jesus, mama. Lea's still in school.." Lea said.

" Mom knows, mama made this for your next wedding, baby." Livy.

" Not necessarily Leah wants to get married." Said Lea, immediately Livy's smile faded.

" Dear, don't talk like that. Mama wants to see you get married, son." Livy.

" Lea hates marriage, ma. Those who are married by arranged marriage are never happy, even those who are married by mutual love are at the end of their separation." Lea said.

" Why hurt yourself by getting married and then separating. The victim is his son. Leah did not want any other child to suffer the same fate as Leah." Lea said.

Lea said so because she reflected on the marriage of Livy and Anton and the marriage of Grace and Anton. In the end, the two marriages were broken.

" Make a dream marriage, son. Make the perfect wedding." Livy.

" Lea's tired, ma. Lea wants a break, ma'am's night." Leah said and left from there.

From the corner of the room Hae In heard that and cheered. His granddaughter hated being committed because of her parents' experiences.

' He's still drowning in his trauma.' Inner Hae In.

" It's okay, we'll slowly introduce Lea with Love. I think Richard likes Lea, he must be able to make Lea know the true meaning of love." Hae In told Livy.

" Dad, Lea must be traumatized by seeing my marriage to Anton first." Livy.

" We just have to make Lea know about love, I'm sure Lea just hasn't felt the name love." Hae In said, and Livy nodded.

TO BE CONTINUED..