Waiting On You [18+]

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Five days, five whole days Theo had been back at home and he was yet to see his father, who specifically requested he come home.

On one hand he was kind of glad. He was glad because it meant that he could spend some time at home with his mum and sister freely, with no arguments besides the typical sibling bickering he and Stass always did, but other than that he couldn't help but be happy. He was happy to be with his mum and sister.

But he couldn't be at peace. He couldn't be at peace when he was missing Naomi. When Naomi herself was his peace. His safe place. He just wanted to go back to her.

But he also couldn't, not yet. Not with the impending day of him having to see his father within the two days he had left at home.

Yes, the same father, who had requested for him to come home, and yet he hadn't bother to show his face.

A workaholic for you.

Not even workocholic, a shitty father. Theo had every right to call him that after the neglectful childhood he had, causing a strain on the picture perfect family he was apart of, but yet there were so many cracks that if you looked closely, you'd see it had crumbled a long time ago and just needed a small gust of wind for it all to come falling down fully.

Maybe that gust of wind was to come today. Maybe, just maybe, especially with the sudden and long anticipated arrival of Ian Caldwell, Theo's father, finally coming home at a reasonable time today.

The family of four sat around the dining room table, yet to say anything to each other as Aurora insisted they should all eat as a family.

Eat, and yet no one dared to touch their food.

Stass played with the food, pushing it around with her fork as she sat on her chair in anticipation of what was to happen at any moment.

Theo glared at his father as he had yet to look up from his phone and thank his wife for preparing this meal for all of them.

And Aurora who didn't even want to eat, but she had already stress cooked so she couldn't let the food go to waste.

She had stress cooked, finally remembering her way around the kitchen again after so long due to her children not judging her for forgetting since she didn't bother cooking when they weren't home and just stayed at the hospital, getting a neighbour to cook Ian his food for leftovers.

Theo couldn't help but burn with hatred at the fact that he looked exactly like his father. That Stass got to look exactly like their kind hearted mother. How they both had dark brown hair, along with hazel eyes and olive skin, whereas all his genes came from the cold hearted man at the head of the table.

He inherited the same piercing blue eyes that Naomi always said she liked to look at, but instead Ian's were cold and emotionless. He got the same dirty blonde hair that Naomi tugged on, which was always messy but she liked it like that on him, but on his father - it was styled to perfection ironic when he was far from perfect.

"Parla con lui" Stass told Theo across the table
(Talk to him)

"No, è lui che mi ha chiesto di tornare a casa, può parlarmi per primo. Sono qui per un massimo di una settimana, se non vuole parlarmi entro quel lasso di tempo, allora ha perso la sua occasione" Theo explained
(No he's the one who requested me home, he can speak to me first. I'm here for a week maximum, if he doesn't want to talk to me within that time frame then he lost his chance)

"Ma-"
(But-)

"Stop! Stop speaking that fucking language in my house" Ian snapped, slamming his phone down on the table, causing both Stass and Aurora to jump out of fear