“What are you doing here?” I arched my eyebrow. She's here! She speaks slowly, “Uhm, I'm here because I want to visit him, and to help, Mrs. McKenzie.”
I secretly rolled my eyes. She's wearing an apron while simmering the meat. She gave me a genuine smile.
I don't need her genuine smile, all I need is Harvey. He's the main reason that's why I'm here.
“She was called by Harvey to come here, and she brought some medicines, and fruits,” Harvey's mother stated.
We already served the food, and we are currently putting it on the dining table. All of a sudden, I heard some footsteps coming from their staircase.
“Oh, Sapphire, what are you doing here?” His eyes were squinting, and having a bewildered look on his face.
“Nothing, does it a bad idea if I wanted to see you?” I glared at him. He giggled, “Of course not, it's okay, and I'm happy to see you.”
He sat beside Zoe, and that makes me feel irritated. After a few minutes, his father went out of the bathroom.
He scanned my whole appearance, and he said, “Hi! Welcome to our house, don't be shy, and please be comfortable with us!”
I smiled at his father, “What's your name?” I speak slowly, “I'm Sapphire, sir, I'm thankful to meet you, sir.”
“No, just call me Dad, or father, don't call me sir, can I leave the rest of you for a few minutes? Please, excuse me.” We nodded to him. When he disappeared, I glared at Zoe.
She's annoying when I can spend my time with Harvey with no one will bother me. They started to eat.
I shrugged my shoulder, I will wait for his parents. They are the people that I wanted to eat with.
For an instance, they stood up, and Harvey speaks to his mother, “Mom? Please excuse us, and please don't be mad at me, we will go to my room because we have some paperwork, and projects that need to be done, thank you for understanding.”
His mother nodded. He holds Zoe's hand, and they walked together. When they are near the stair, Zoe whispered to him.
“Oopss, Sapphires, I forgot to tell you, please wait for me at the living room, and take note, don't try to knock at my door, okay?” I gasped.
Seriously! I assumed that they will just not going to do their paperwork and projects. They will be going to do something.
I rolled my eyes, he awkwardly smiles, “I'm sending my apologies, please excuse us.” I heard his mother mumbling under her breath.
They began to walk away from our direction. I glimpsed at his mother. His mother was startled.
“Ma'am, can I ask you if you don't mind?” I stated, she nodded as a sign of agreeing to my question.
“What was their relationship to each other? In my opinion, they are not just friends, because friends didn't act the way they do,” I muttered. She sighed.
“They are couples,” she answered. My eyes widened, and my jaw dropped a bit. “Really? How? When? Why he didn't inform me?” I gulped to clear my throat.
“Yes, It's true, even though I don't want them to have a relationship with each other, Harvey won't let me to stopped him.” I looked at the food.
He didn't even tell me if he likes the food. My shoulder slumped down. All of a sudden, his father came, and sit beside his wife.
“Shall we eat?” We both nodded to the question of her husband. The awkward silence conveyed the whole dining room.
“Ahm, sir McKenzie, can I ask you? If you don't mind, but it's okay if you don't want to receive some questions.” I decided to break the awkward silence.
“Yes, sure, ask me anything, but make sure that I know the right answer.” He laughed. I smiled, my heart is pounding.
“Can you describe the attitude of Harvey when it comes to his responsibilities on both sides, I mean, when he is at the school, or in the house,” I said with a low tone voice.
“Harvey? He's responsible, he can approach everyone just to gather some information, and to make the job meaningful, he can do it perfectly,” his father stated.
“He didn't easily leave his job, and he makes sure that it will result in a good, and better way.” I started to eat the food while listening to him.
“He's kind, and he had this willingness to help the others if he can do it, sometimes he's quiet and cold, but he had this soft heart,” his father added.
“Do you think, he loves Zoe?” I couldn't stop myself from asking this kind of question. He gasped, and it seems like he didn't expect me to ask it.
“Do you want to know the truth and the way how I see my son?” I nodded as a sign of my answer. He took a deep breath.
“Well, the way I see in his eyes, his feeling towards Zoe is genuine, I can feel it, it's like the way that I felt when I met his mother,” he explained and looked at his wife while smiling.
“He loves Zoe, he just can't show it to the public, he just wants a private relationship, maybe that's why he didn't tell you their relationship to each other,” he added.
While swallowing all the foods, I'm also swallowing all the sadness, and hatred from my heart. I don't know if I should continue listening to him, or I should tell him to stop.
However, it feels disrespectful if I tell him to stop, and just it, because, in the first place, I'm the one who started it.
“You know what, we don't like it to have a relationship just like the age of him, we always thought he can't handle and do it, but yeah, heart wins, we don't want to force him to stop loving Zoe, well, in fact, Zoe is a kind person, she just a victim of bad society.”
“So yes, we don't have any reason to ruin their relationship, we are here to support, and always reminding their limitations.”
I'm still listening to him and decided to remain silent. He answered it, I want to know the truth that's why he just answered all my questions.
The people are right, truth hurts, it just depends on how you will handle your emotions, and how you will accept all the truth.
One thing that I realized since I saw Zoe earlier. It hurts, my heart is aching.