When Chiyo and Yumi got home. They saw the serious face of Yoshikazu and the dazed look of Kousuke in the living room. Kenta was nowhere to be seen and there's no other shoes at the entrance except Mr. Kousuke's. "Chiyo... Hime... Go to your room. Kenta is sleeping in your bed for now. See if he's okay." Feeling the heavy atmosphere, Chiyo nods and quickly headed to her room. She's starting to worry about what could've happened, '... Clearly, It has something to do with Auntie Alice...'
In my room, I saw Kenta sleeping with a frown. the blanket slide down from his body. But aside from that, He looks okay. Chiyo fixed the blanket and tucked Kenta's hands underneath. That's when she noticed his tear at the side of his eye, 'Mommy...' He mumbled in his sleep, Chiyo barely even heard it. He sounded weak... 'Nightmare?' Chiyo took her dolphin plushie and put it beside Kenta. Kenta moved and hugged the plushie. Then, a soft snoring can be heard. 'His sleep finally became peaceful.'
Chiyo doesn't want to disturb Kenta's sleep. So, she laid down a futon on the floor. It was pretty heavy but Chiyo tried to lay it down with as little noise as she can. Many questions swirls in her head for a couple hours. But later, her little head gave up and fell asleep.
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"What do you plan to do after this?" Yoshikazu asked as he pour his troubled friend a cold beer. Kousuke tried to think about the question as he drink. That question is a hard one. "I don't know... But what i do know is that divorce is inevitable. And that I don't want her to see Kenta again." Hate and Sorrow was evident in his tone. He doesn't want to admit to his friend that he is partly at fault. Not with Yumi around. Yoshikazu saw his friend struggled to speak his mind. He sent Yumi a signal with his eyes to let them be, for now. Yumi nodded and went to Chiyo's room. She saw her daughter asleep already so she didn't disturb the two sleeping Children. She went to their room, took a bath and forced herself to sleep. But as she tries to sleep a tear tools down her face. Her thoughts was filled with the terrible things that she heard from her husband, and she can't help feeling pity for Kenta and fear for her child. She doesn't know what she's going to do if it was her child. 'I felt bad for the father and son... for this to happen...'
"No, they're already asleep. Call Chiyo tomorrow... Okay. It's okay... Bye" Yoshikazu put the landline back after hanging up. Chiyo and Yumi forgot the brat's call and slept early. "Who was that?"
"It's the brat from last week." Yoshi sat opposite his friend and start setting up the table. Kousuke has already finished two cans when he arrived. Now, he'll accompany him to drink. "The two brats at the train? the one you said that wants to robbed you of your daughter?"
"That's the one."
"You've got some god-like patience for letting him call your daughter. And here I thought, you don't want any insect swarming around your princess." Kousuke sipped the bubbles from his newly opened can and poured one to his friend. "It's okay for now. The brat's harmless. he's just thankful to what Chiyo did. And Yumi likes them, she wants them to be Chiyo's friends."
"And did Chiyo improve? Is she still distant to others?" Yoshi finish the drink that Kousuke poured but soon declined the next one. He wants to accompany him to drink, but not to get drunk as well. He watch his friend finish his 4th can of beer, then sipped alittle in his own. "She still distant to other people. but we have gotten closer after the incident last week. I think that's an improvement." Yoshi let his friend distract himself from the issue. But soon asked what is really going on.
"I'm not going to take your side in this. You did mess up on that part. How could you cheat on Alice and then leave your son to a clearly unstable Alice." Yoshikazu was tired after hearing what his friend did that resulted to what happened. "I tried to send Kenta to my parents but Alice refused-"
"That's not the point. Alice is unstable in your observations... And that's since early on. Why didn't you send her to a psychiatrist?" Yoshikazu lowered his voice and tried to make is tone gentle, but a trace of disappointment still can be heard in it. Kousuke look at the can of beer in his hand, thinking... 'Why, indeed. Why didn't I do that?' Tears filled his eyes but he held it back. Yoshi watch his friend agonized about what he said, feeling guilty. This friend of his married after his marriage with Yumi. He knows Alice and Kousuke first met in the hotel where they held the wedding. Yoshikazu can't help feeling partly at fault for making this two people meet. Kousuke was barely in Japan, and Alice was not from their circle of friends. Clearly, this two won't meet if it wasn't for their wedding.
The two grown men fell into silence. Then, Yoshikazu tried to lighten the mood by saying a couple of things before going back at the issue. "Alice is clearly not in her right mind for doing that. But you can still win Kenta's Custody. And like you said, divorce is inevitable. What do you plan to do? Want me to ask my superiors for a good lawyer?"
"No, I know one... He's a friend from abroad." Kousuke said, drinking more beer. "Will he come here in Japan?" Yoshikazu asked, doubtful. Kousuke grabbed another beer and poured it in his mug. Yoshi didn't stop him. Kousuke already drink 5 cans of beer. And these beers are on the stronger side that he likes, but yoshi let him. Let him drown his sorrows. God knows, Kousuke need more drinks to sleep tonight. "He will. He owe me a favor."
With that they continue to drink. Yoshikazu limit himself to 5 cans of beer. he slowed his pace to accompany his friend as he drown his problems. After drinking 12 cans of beer. Kousuke fell asleep. Yoshi is in his 5th can and still awake. He put a blanket on his friend and cleared the mess.