Still Wishing He Back?
20. The Rigid Relationship

After saying what she wanted, Darren walked out of her dinner. Regardless of the protest from his father and also his grandfather who asked him to sit back.

"Lunatic you, yes! After saying that sentence, he just left. Inside the atmosphere it was so tense know no!" Lucas said after Darren.

"Keep, should I care?" Cuek Darren walked away from the show.

"At least you can speak well, why just leave? Didn't you see the faces of your grandfather and your father?" Lucas said as if running out of words to persuade Darren.

"That's the most polite language I can speak, after all you told me to refuse in person, so I'm coming now!" He remained innocent, and chose to leave Lucas, who was still trying to prevent him from leaving.

Seeing Darren leaving, Lucas could only give up his attitude, then finally followed him away from behind.

"Darren, what are you really doing?" Call someone from behind.

Feeling his name being called, Darren stopped his steps, and turned his head towards the source of the voice. Lucas, who was walking behind Darren, stopped his steps, and as he looked back he saw Papa Darren walking towards them.

Darren looks calm as his papa walks towards him, inversely with Lucas who is a little tense considering the relationship between the two is not so good.

"Papa asked, what were you really doing inside?" Said Edward who now stands close to Darren.

"Papa asked what I was doing? Kan, papa also know earlier, why even ask again?" Answer Darren cuek.

Edward seemed to hold back his anger at Darren's response. "Darren, you know what you do can tarnish the good name of the company. You've already turned down dinner requests a few times, and now you're just messing it up." Press Edward staring intently at his son.

Darren smiled in disbelief at the words of his father. "From the beginning papa hasn't changed, which papa worries about is only about the company's image." His words then looked boldly at his papa's eyes.

"What have I done to tarnish the name of the company? I just said I didn't want to marry Laura! Is that wrong?" Further.

"At least you can say it more politely, right? It's not that he just left like an unethical."

Lucas, who was in the midst of the tension chatter between the child and his father, turned out to be so torturing himself. He even tried to suppress his expression that looked tense.

"I've spoken politely, I want to be polite again! From the beginning, I had no intention of coming here. About the engagement or the wedding as well, I was never involved, why now papa so angry? I should be the one who's angry, not papa or grandpa!."

"You.., come home tonight." Edward seemed overwhelmed by the words of his son.

"No, I'll never go home." Darren insisted on he said, then turned his back to his papa.

Darren leaves his father who still wants to talk to him. He seemed to understand correctly, if returning home will increase the burden of his mind again, considering this speech will not end here.

"Where's your son? Is he home yet?" Ferdi's grandfather appears when Darren's steps are already visible away.

"Yes, why is Grandpa coming out? Is Laura's family home?" Edward was quite surprised to see the presence of his papa.

"There's a reason they stayed, after all!" Grandpa Ferdi replied with a stifling expression of annoyance.

"So, then we go home too." Edward said.

"What did you tell your son?" However, Ferdi's grandfather seemed to be more interested in the content of the conversation of his son and grandson.

"What was the answer to him?"

Edward just quietly got the question, because there was not much he could tell. However, it seems that Ferdi's grandfather already understood very well with Darren's character.

"Here you go, follow what he wants." Said later.

"What do you mean?" Edward seemed confused by his father's intentions.

"Yes about the wedding? What else is it!" Answer grandfather Ferdi.

"But, right.. Papa himself proposed this marriage earlier?"

"That's true, but if he refuses, what should I do? I'm ashamed of Laura's family, too." Said Ferdi's grandfather who seemed to give up on his grandson's rebellion.

"Then we have to tell Laura's parents, they'll be happy with this conversation, especially with her own." Connect Edward.

"True, later we set the schedule again to talk about this problem. Don't tell your son first, let alone your wife." Grandpa's lyrics were a little sharp on Edward. "Now we go home first." Ferdi's grandfather slowly stepped out of the meeting place, which was followed by Edward.

But without them both knowing, the chatter was heard by Natalie, wife of Edward, as well as stepmother of Darren.

"What! So the wedding wasn't done?" She was shocked to hear the conversation of her husband and father-in-law. "It's bad, I have to prevent it." He said, and went away from the event with an unsettled face.

"Basic, family freak. They're playing away, and now I'm left behind, try!" Complaints Gloria, who is also the half-sister of Darren when she saw all her family members who actually left her alone.

"This is all because of Brother Darren, why the hell is he always troublesome like this! You know, I didn't go to this show!" His grunt while pouting out from the event venue.

...

The rigid relationship between the Darren family was no longer a strange sight. Darren's cold and indifferent attitude is also one of them because of his own family.

Since his father remarried after his mother died, Darren and his father's relationship can no longer be as it used to be. Likewise with his relationship with the grandfather who looks a little distance away, especially after the accident first, although not his grandfather who did it, still makes Darren a little distance with the grandfather.

"Well, I feel relieved after I got out of your chat earlier." Said Lucas who could now breathe a sigh of relief after moving away from the tense chatter earlier.

"We stopped by the bar!" Darren said, ignoring Lucas' words.

"Well! Whynot? You want a drink, huh?"

"Yes, I'm in for it."

"Can't, there's a meeting tomorrow. So, you can't drink alcohol." Firm Lucas.

"Take me home if that's it."

"Well, that's new."

Lucas and Darren leave the show they are at. However, Darren's steps suddenly came to a halt when he accidentally stared at the face of someone passing by in front of him.