After playing for a few hours with Leah while Jeremy fled to work, Jake finally carried the little lady to the backyard along with a huge canvas and dozens of paint tubes and brushes. He put on a six-year-old white t-shirt that had long since been covered in paint on Leah and wrapped a belt around her waist tuning the t-shirt into a long dress. A small blank canvas was put in front of her, a brush in her hand, Leah furrowed her brows in concentration and started to make a mess on the blank canvas.Seeing her occupied like that, Jake smiled and turned his focus to his own canvas. The painting wasn't even halfway done, but he had already hit a wall and couldn't finish the painting no matter what.That was the case two days ago. Today though, it was different. Jake put on some music on his phone, the song Riptide by Grandson blasted in full volume as he sang along."I get high to leave all these problems on the groundThen to my surprise, they're right there when I come back downI do it
Needless to say, both Jake and Jeremy had very peculiar tastes in women. One had a crush on a hermit who looked as if she didn't know what a hairbrush was and didn't quite have an understanding of how society worked, while the other was into girls that looked like they could either beat him up or stab him in an alley.The Grinch often came to the restaurant with her family, and they would almost always fight. The fights were so loud, that it was impossible for people who worked there not to have an understanding of what was going on with them. Apparently, the girl's parents were quite rich and were dissatisfied with their daughter's appearance. They would nag and nag at her about how she was studying for a degree in business, yet looked like Shrek dressed like Death.Today, however, this Grinch had come here alone, which was a first and probably the only chance Jeremy could have. He had already had a crush on this girl for a few months, which had never happened ever since Leah was born
Nina saw Jeremy's back as he left and didn't move her eyes from it until Jeremy walked into the kitchen. Only then did she turn her gaze at the little girl sitting next to her. Leah's eyes were practically sparkling as if she was seeing a unicorn or something. Nina, who had never been looked at with such a gaze, couldn't quite get used to it and blushed again."Isn't your mommy coming?" Nina asked the little girl, feeling a bit like she was taking advantage of a pure soul for her gains. Still, she couldn't stop herself from asking.Her daddy was cute okay! A woman gotta know if a cute guy is taken or not!Leah on the other hand, the pure soul who somehow managed to bully everyone that wasn't Jake, cast an innocent look at Nina as if she didn't understand. "I don't have a mommy. Daddy said that mommy isn't a good mommy and left, so we don't need her anymore. He said that he would find me a new mommy if I wanted one."Nina looked at Leah who practically sold out her own father and could
The first guy who called his name saw that Jake was trying to leave and rushed to block the way, pulling the headphones off his ears. "Why in such a hurry? We haven't seen you ever since you went mental back to school two years ago. Let's hang out."Jake looked the young man up and down and wondered how this guy could survive with a brain with so many holes. Yet on his face, there were no expressions. This wasn't the first time people who knew him from school stopped him in the middle of the street to make fun of him.Some of them were people who used to be his classmates, but most of them were people younger than him who just knew him because of Aiden.By his side, Kim was utterly dumbfounded by what she was witnessing. She heard the three guys call Jake mentally sick, but she wasn't sure why they would do so. He looked pretty normal to her... if she didn't count his weird taste in books.The more she heard the boys mock Jake, who happened to be her crush, the angrier she felt. After
On his way home, Jake stopped by the veterinary to see if the little kitten was alright and to buy some food and other necessary things for it before finally arriving in front of his house.On the outside, he looked quite normal. He had a soft smile on his lips while looking down at the little Moonlight in his arms. He was holding the bag with the cat stuff and talking to the black kitten now and then in a gentle tone. What's more, Jake was truly very handsome. The picture of a handsome guy holding an adorable little kitten... needless to say, there were quite a few people who turned their heads to look at him while he was walking down the road.However, subconsciously, Jake had started to scratch his wrists. He hadn't even noticed that he was doing it. Even the thoughts in his head were like faint ghosts who appeared to only whisper a few things in his ears before disappearing like their main goal was to slowly stir him up without him noticing.The entire way back home, Jake was focus
A.N.: ⚠ trigger warning ⚠This chapter contains some self-harm scenes that may make you feel uncomfortable. They're not that serious, but just to be on the safe side and avoid any casualties.It seems that Jake finally had had enough. Even though he still wasn't willing to say anything or raise his fists, he had his passive-aggressive way of taking revenge.Seeing and understanding all this, Mathew didn't know how to feel.Does that mean that he's truly getting better? That he's finally willing to stand up for himself?But they're fighting! Both his sons are fighting!And the younger one is almost pissing himself because of a kitten!Mathew finally decided to intervene. He pushed Jake away from the subtly trembling Aiden that was yelling to the point his throat was almost tearing apart. Then he turned to Aiden with a serious look that left no room for discussion. "Tomorrow I will take you to see a therapist."In comparison to paling in front of the kitten, Aiden almost turned blue when
The doctor said that Jake fainted due to the stimulation, the shock of seeing blood as well as the fact that his body was weak at hell due to the lack of food and sleep and it couldn't handle all that vomiting. His body basically just shut down, not wanting to deal with this shit anymore.After that, since he's a grown-ass man, the doctor scolded him for half an hour to take care of his body. Sitting on the side, Mathew just listened to the doctor scolding him more than he has scolded Jake in his life and thought that maybe he should be a stricter father. It was time to go back to those days when he had to force baby Jake to eat or he would starve.After the doctor was done, Jake could finally let a sigh out and weakly turned to his father. "Can we leave now?"Mathew looked at him without saying anything at first as if he was deep in thoughts. After a full minute of staring at Jake's face which was gradually getting more and more confused, Mathew finally decided to talk. "You have to p
Two hours later, when Jeremy entered the house as if it was his own, with Leah in his arms, and Moonlight in Leah's arms, the scene that greeted him, made him stop dead on his tracks, mouth slightly opened in shock. "What the..." Both father and son were yelling at each other and at a black pot that was smoking like it was a volcano. The smoke had filled the entire kitchen, triggering the fire detector that was making a deafening noise. Maybe it was because the fire detector was older than Mathew or maybe it just was unable to deal with these two idiots' bullshit, but the alarm sounded like it was dying from depression. The counter had oil dropping down it, knives, and brutally chopped vegetables everywhere and the number of pots and pans on it and in the sink was enough to make a mountain. "Daddy, why are Jay and his grandma destroying the kitchen?" Leah's voice rang in Jeremy's ear. "I want to know the reason why too, sweetie." His brows were furrowed and his lips were pressed ti