Chapter 476.


    <strong>Chapter 476. Reunion. (3/4)</strong>


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I might as well bring this up now, but… even if I break up with Dawn, you do realize I have no control over what she does, right?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Aurelia furrowed her brows and asked, “What do you mean?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“All I’m going to do is break up with her. But will she just ept that? If she continually chases after me and I continue to push her away, then what? What if she gets suicidal or something? Well, that’s none of my concern I guess. If she goes and kills herself... I guess that would be your responsibility rather than mine, wouldn’t it?” I shit her fiendish smile.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Aurelia ground her teeth together and red at me menacingly.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Why are you bringing this up?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Well, I was just thinking, though I won’t remove any of the uses I put in, maybe you’d want to add a use of your own? Since I put in that childish one, I don’t mind if you add in one of your own. Maybe a use like forcing me to arrange a meeting between the two of you so you can expose me for the scum I am. The use can even force me to acknowledge in front of her that everything you’ve said about me is the truth.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“A meeting... with my daughter?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Well, I guess that’s too much of a task for a cowardly failure of a mother like you. Oh well, I guess Dawn will probably end upmitting suicide. At least her blood won’t be on my hands but yours instead.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Shut up, I didn’t say I wouldn’t do it.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Then, want me to amend the contract to add this use in?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Do it… I’ll meet with her and have her understand the vile scum you are.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Alright. As you wish.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">I snatched the contract back and added in the extra use.


    <span style="font-weight:400">When Aurelia finished reading the entire contract over not once, or twice, but three times, she finally signed off to the terms set forth.


    <span style="font-weight:400">The sour taste in the back of my mouth affirmed the deal had been sealed. She had no escape now.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Call her and break up now. We can set up a time and ce to meet in the next few days once you’ve done that.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“There won’t be a need for that.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“What do you mean? Are you nning to go back on your words already?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Not at all.” I shook my head.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“What do you mean the-”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“M-Mom…” it was a timid quiet voice that came from behind Aurelia’s back a short distance away.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Her timing was truly impable. I couldn’t have asked for a better entrance.


    <span style="font-weight:400">A wide devilish grin unconsciously crept onto my face as I sized Aurelia up. I nearly wanted tough when I saw her stiff face. The panicked look in her shaken eyes. Her quickened breath, chest heaving erratically. Lips opening and closing trying to find the words to say. The single word mom she hadn’t ever been called before was like a thunderous gong reverberating inside her head.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“… is that… yuh?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Aurelia had been caughtpletely off guard by the suddenness. She hadn’t been given any time to prepare herself or sort out her thoughts.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Dawn, we’re breaking up.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Before Aurelia could even say a word, my words came crashing down ruining what should be their touching family reunion.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Dawn’s eyes opened a bit wider, they were filled with visible iprehension the moment I made that announcement.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“...”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“...”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“...”


    <span style="font-weight:400">No one said a word and an awkward silence descended for the next few minutes. Nobody knew what to say. But thanks to that break in the natural flow, Aurelia had been given enough time to rpose herself.


    <span style="font-weight:400">I shot a nce Aurelia’s way with a smug look.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Aren’t I such a kind devil? Hehehe.


    <span style="font-weight:400">She just red menacingly at me in return and naturally didn’t bother to thank me.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Dawn… this boy is no good for you. He’s the lowest type of guy.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Huh? M-Mom? What do yuh-“


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Do you have any idea what he said about you behind your back?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Aurelia turned around, brusquely approached Dawn, and started to rebuke her daughter as she went on a rant about all the terrible things I said about Dawn behind her back.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“He called you a stupid country hick. He said he’d be sure to bed you before he gets rid of you too! Then he even started boasting about how you can hardly bepared to the other women he’s sleeping with. But since he’s never done it with a girl from the country and you at least look good enough, he said he didn’t mind fulfilling your little delusional fantasy of getting together with a city boy before he dumped you.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“It doesn’t end with just you though. First, he called me an olddy, then he called me a good-for-nothing ipetent cowardly mother. Well, I mean, about me, it’s all true, but he’s still an insensitive jerk!”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“He’s a brute. A thug. A pig. Delusional and immature, a child. Not only that, his writing looks like chicken scratch. He looks super gloomy. He’s a total creep.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Aurelia ced her hands on Dawn’s shoulders and told her firmly, “He’s the absolute worst! And he’s sure as hell in no way deserving of my precious daughter’s love! You can do way better than him, so you can’t go andmit suicide because some lowlife like him breaks up with you!”


    <span style="font-weight:400">She really let that pent-up frustration toward me out all in one go. Well, she was furious, and rightfully so considering the things I said to her.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Rather than be angry about the things being said about me, I felt a little happy. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t a masochist. I was just happy to see Aurelia so worried about her daughter. A mother’s love.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Dawn stood in ce paralyzed not knowing how to react when her mother sted her with so manyints.


    <span style="font-weight:400">It took a bit before she was able to say, “Mom, Ran’s not like that at all. It must be a misunderstanding.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Aurelia seemed hurt by Dawn’s doubtful words, her hands slid down off of Dawn’s shoulders as she said pained, “I knew... you wouldn’t believe me. Of course you’d believe him... He’s been with you longer than your moth- I have… but… ask him yourself whether I’ve uttered a single lie to you.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">She looked over at me perplexed and asked hesitantly, “Ran… are the things she said true?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“She hasn’t spoken a single lie. I said everything she’s told you.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Our eyes met.


    <span style="font-weight:400">This is your chance to get back on good terms with your mother. Just throw me under the bus. If you use me as a mutual enemy, it should be quite easy.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Well, I’ve said what I needed to so I’m going now.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Since Aurelia’s outburst just now, we were drawing quite a few eyes and I was getting a bunch of death res from people who’d exited from inside the hospital to see what themotion outside was about. I was the bad guy, the viin from everyone’s perspective, and my instincts told me I might really get shot by a passing busybody white knight of justice if I didn’t get out of here soon.


    <span style="font-weight:400">When I turned to leave there were hurried footsteps from my side. Two arms wrapped around me from behind. Someone’s head was buried into my back and I felt something wet through my shirt.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Sniff. Ran’s not a bad guy, Mom. Sniff. He was never even my boyfriend to begin with.” Dawn’s head shook from left to right as she continued, “I asked him... to pretend to be my boyfriend today when I came to meet yuh... as a sort of moral support. He’s my good friend’s boyfriend. But... because I got cold feet at thest minute... he went and said all those awful things to make yuh mad… and stalled until I came back.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">It sounded like something was stuck in her throat as she did her best to ruin all my hard work.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Now Mom hates Ran because of me.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Ah… Dawn… uh… it’s okay… uh… don’t cry. I don’t… hate him… uh ah what do I do? What do I do?” Aurellia clumsily approached while bumbling about with her hands up in front of her hesitant to reach out, clueless on how to handle the situation.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Haaaaaah. You really are a clueless mother.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">I spun around and tore myself free of Dawn’s embrace sending her sun hat flying off her head. In doing so, I simultaneously grabbed ahold of Aurelia’s hands and wrapped them securely around Dawn’s head pulling her into her mother’s ample bosom. If there was anything motherly about Aurelia, it was no doubt this nuclear asset of hers. She was stacked after all.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“If you’re a mother you’d obviously do this to coax your child who’s on the verge of tears.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“And you, stupid daughter who’s too afraid to face her mother, the one you should be hugging in this situation is your mother, not some random guy you’ve just met and only known for a few days.”