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Two Thousand Miles Away Chapter 10
I was up early on the morning of the review meeting.The Northwest sky was a clear, pale blue.I clipped on my ID badge and went over the preliminary review documents one last time.At exactly nine o'clock, I joined the online meeting. One window after another lit up across the screen.The St. Aurelius conference room was packed.Mr. O'Neal sat at the head of the table, his expression tense.Roman wore the suit my mother had carefully picked out for him, but his eyes were already red.The rest of the project team sat beside him. Behind them were my parents, Peyton, and Stella. They'd probably gotten in through Mr. O'Neal's connections and were sitting in on the meeting from the St. Aurelius conference room.I glanced at them once before looking away. "Good morning, everyone. I'm Hayden Fisher, the preliminary review lead for the Joint New Materials Project."The other side of the screen fell silent.My father visibly stiffened. He'd always said I would never amount to any
Two Thousand Miles Away Chapter 9
Stella failed to change my mind.So my parents and Peyton traveled through the night to the Northwest as well.My mother got carsick the entire journey and looked exhausted.Yet the first thing she asked Stella when they reached the institute was, "Did you see Hayden? Is he willing to help Roman?"Stella said nothing.The fragile composure my mother had been clinging to instantly crumbled."We came all this way. He'll at least agree to see us, won't he?"They tried to go in and find me themselves, but security at the institute was strict. The guard asked them to register the purpose of their visit.My father answered, "We're Hayden Fisher's family."The guard searched the system for a while before looking up. "Hayden Fisher hasn't authorized any family visitors."My father froze. "I'm his father. I need permission to see my own son?"The guard remained calm. "This is a research institute, not a residential neighborhood. You can't enter without an appointment."The words lef
Two Thousand Miles Away Chapter 8
The preliminary review meeting was only two days away.Stella caught the earliest flight she could, then endured another three-hour drive before finally arriving in the Northwest.By the time she stepped off the shuttle, night had already fallen.The air was dry, and the wind stung against her face.Standing beneath the institute apartment building, she finally understood what 2,000 miles really meant. She'd always believed I could never leave her, and that as long as she turned around, I'd still be there waiting.But now, just to see me once, she had to cross half the country.When I got off work, I spotted her standing beneath a streetlight. We hadn't seen each other in over a month. She'd gotten noticeably thinner.The moment she saw me, her eyes filled with tears. "Hayden."The first words out of her mouth were, "I'm sorry."I stopped walking but said nothing.Afraid I would leave immediately, she rushed through her words."I never should've deleted that photo on gradu
Two Thousand Miles Away Chapter 7
After leaving St. Aurelius Group, they didn't go straight home.Stella stood outside the building, borrowing every friend's phone she could and dialing my number over and over again.She still couldn't get through.My mother stood beside her, her hands trembling so badly she could barely hold her phone. She sent one message after another.[Hayden, I just found out you joined the institute.][Why didn't you tell your family something this important?][Please call me back. Stop being stubborn.]By the end, panic had crept into her words.[Hayden, where are you?][I was wrong. I shouldn't have said those things to you. Please don't scare me.]The messages still wouldn't send.Desperate to find out where I was, my father called my university's career services office.They told him only that graduates' employment information was protected by privacy regulations and couldn't be disclosed.He then called my academic advisor.After listening to him, my advisor replied coolly, "Ha
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My father's hands trembled as he took the phone.Displayed on the screen was an official project contact list. The photo, university, field of study—every detail was there in black and white.I was the man in the photo.And the line beneath it landed like a slap across every one of their faces."Joint New Materials Project, Northwest Institute for Deep Space Materials. Preliminary Review Lead: Hayden Fisher"My mother leaned over for a look. The color drained from her face."That's impossible." The words escaped before she could stop herself. "How could he possibly get a job like that? I thought he couldn't find one."Mr. O'Neal looked at them, his expression growing even more complicated. "It wasn't that he couldn't find a job. You just never bothered to ask."That remark was more humiliating than any accusation.Just moments earlier, they'd been standing in the St. Aurelius Group lobby praising Roman for landing such a respectable first job while belittling their own son for
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A full month passed after I left, but not one of them ever looked for me.Whenever relatives asked where I'd gone, my mother would only say impatiently, "He's just being difficult. Couldn't stand giving up his room for Roman, so he ran away from home to scare us."My father didn't think much of it either. "He couldn't even find a decent job. Once he's suffered enough out there, he'll come crawling back on his own."Peyton said I'd always been like that. "If nobody pays attention to him, he'll come back and apologize soon enough."Even Stella said I'd changed. She said I'd never been like this before and that I'd ruined everything over a single pendant.Not one of them ever asked where I'd gone. They were all convinced that, sooner or later, I'd come home on my own and admit I was wrong.A month later, Roman officially started work at St. Aurelius Group.That morning, my parents, Peyton, and Stella all went with him.In the company lobby, my mother straightened the collar of his
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