Pulling the Wool

Hearing John's question, I quickly composed myself and flashed a smile with perfect timing. "Of course. I'm just a little surprised how…loving you are."

As I jokingly tried to move the conversation on, I was thinking to myself that I could afford to see how long they would keep up their act.

My gaze darkened ever so slightly as I watched John put an arm around Wanda, grinning smugly. "Yeah, we were always a loving couple."

At this point, I couldn't tell if it was just a prank…or if they were together all along, and gave up on pretending with my amnesia.

Even as my mind raced, the nurse came in to change my bandages.

Seeing John and Wanda, she smiled at them as if they met often. "Oh, Mr. and Mrs. Tucker! What brings you here? Is Logan sick?"

John smiled, shaking his head. "Nope. Just visiting a friend."

He emphasized the word 'friend' too while watching for my reaction, but I kept smiling at him as if it was a fact. "You seem close to the nurse?"

Before John could respond, the nurse spoke while still changing my bandages, "Yes. Logan's been having fevers a lot lately, so Mr. and Mrs. Tucker had to drop by lately. Everyone in the building knows them."

Logan was having fevers?

That was the first I heard of it.

As a famous lawyer, I was often working and had to leave town more often than not. If anything, I wouldn't return home once for at least ten days.

Even when I got home, I'd still be working and rarely spent time with my son or wife.

The sudden thought left me feeling a little guilty. Could I have failed as a father? Had I neglected Wanda and Logan, leading them to come up with such a prank?

With that in mind, I decided to probe them again. "I see… They're such a loving couple."

It wouldn't show on my face, but I was really hoping inside that the nurse would correct me, pointing out that John and Wanda weren't really married.

And yet, the nurse nodded in complete agreement. "Yes, they really love each other so much. It's like they're still newlyweds years down the road. We all envy them so much!"

A chill swelled in my heart just from hearing those words. They were telling everyone else they were married the whole time?

"Daddy!"

That was when I heard Logan calling out from outside the room, breaking the silence.

I turned before I knew it, intent on calling out to him, only to watch him run straight to John and hug his leg.

"When are we going to the movies, Daddy?"

I was caught in slight disbelief watching Logan being all chummy with John, even though I admitted that Logan and I weren't all that close.

He rarely made a fuss or called me "Daddy." Most of the time, I remembered him sitting quietly in a corner, doing his homework.

I simply thought he wasn't the outgoing, clingy type; a trait he got from me when I was a kid, and the reason why I suspected nothing in turn.

It was shocking to see him so clingy with John.

He even said with a charming little smile, "Daddy, I want Optimus! Everyone has one, and I want one too!"