He was already inside the restaurant when I came to the door, at first I thought it was Williams who just decided to return all of a sudden despite his wanted status, but the person standing before me wasn't Williams, rather it was Karl, Mr Karl Johnson, Ryan's father.
Of all places he should be, it shouldn't be here, unless he knows about what is really going on with Williams, but if he's here for any other business concerning a performance, he better be going, because I would be playing the role of Williams right now.
“ Thank God you're here, has Williams returned yet?....”, he asked me, concern written across his face like he was looking to find him too. I don't know what might have really happened, but since it happened at his show, I believe he has the right to ask questions.
“ No... We're still looking for him ”, I replied him, not feeling quite contented with my answer, I wanted to ask him what really happened, but I believe if anyone was to ask that, it should be Caro who's in pain because of her husband's disappearance. I can see Mr Karl's eyes travel way past me before he took the step, getting past me and headed to Caro who was now standing by the door. Caro angrily grabbed Mr Karl's collar, holding him quite tight, but you can tell Mr Karl wasn't feeling anything about her hold, like it was just a kid's grab.
“ What did you do to my husband?....”, Caro questioned angrily, tears in her eyes, “ Me?!....”, I'm the one searching for him, he quite messed up with the wrong people, he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.....”. Despite Mr Karl's words sounding more like he was defending himself, you can still know that he did care about Williams location right now.
“ I know you're looking for your husband Caro, I really did care, but he was the one who got himself into this trouble and it turns out to be with the wrong people, those with powers in the society....”. Mr Karl said, trying to console Caro while he shares such a tragic News.
Caro wasn't even asking him about what Williams might've seen, she was just looking hopeless as she balanced herself by the side of the door and go down in tears. I summoned the courage to proceed with the questions.
“ Whom did he saw that made him have to run away from his family?....”, I asked Mr Karl who turned around now looking at me, “ Dear, this is something you don't want to know about too, the knowledge of it will put you in danger, I believe Williams wouldn't like to see anyone of you in danger for his mistakes....”, Mr Karl explained.
As hurtful as it sounds, it feels like the truth, he's sharing the fact with us, if Williams has to be on the run for what he saw, what of us that gets to hear about the situation too, and if he too might've seen exactly what was wrong, he might definitely be on the run for his life too. This means that Williams never did something wrong to be declared wanted, it's just a News to frame him with lies and make him live in hiding because of it.
“ As much as I wish to remain here and look after you guys, I still have things I have got to do, this News is kind of having a negative image towards me too, I will look into this to know how to take care of this problems and make sure Williams finds justice too....”, he turned around and left the restaurant.
I turned my attention back at Caro who was now feeling a new sting of pain, I can tell by the fresh tears coming down from her eyes, “ had I listened to what Willy was talking about yesterday and rejected the offer, this wouldn't have happened, he might've sensed something bad on the way but I was too focused on our future family that I didn't make his opinion count ”, “ No no no, please don't say that Caro ”, I interrupted, making me to grab her attention.
“ Why?... Why shouldn't I blame myself?, You was there too when he was trying to stop me, but I was too deaf to listen, I was just too deaf to listen to my husband's word....”, she cries out. “ No Caro.... If he believed it was totally wrong, he wouldn't have driven us there, no one can predict the future, not even Williams, he only believed that the invitation was urgent Caro, he never saw this coming, no one did....”. I tried talking sense into her, but right now, she's too broken to adhere to any advice coming from me, all I believe she needs now is someone to care for her and tell her everything will be alright.
We sat there together, spending the day in silence not actually looking at each other, but was sitting right there together in the restaurant, at the customers area. I can see few people come around to check whether we was selling today, the saw the closed sign and continued going away, but we already did prepared some food for today's business, but we just left it in there.
It was almost 16:00 in the evening, we possibly can't just sit like this all day, worry won't solve any of our problems, no matter how we think about it, this problem can never be solved. I stood up from my position, went in there and served us some food, I brought Caro's food to her, but she never cared to eat, she just looked away from the food.
“ Even if you can't eat for yourself Caro, eat for the baby you're carrying, he needs you to be in good health if he's to live with a good health too....”, the restaurant phone began to ring while I was still speaking to her, I went and picked the call to answer with who's in the line.
“ Hello.... You're speaking with Willy's restaurant, how may we help you?”, “ Ember, it's me.... Williams ”.