Stuck in you

Howard was a talkative person, especially when it came to his two sons. He didn't have a good relationship with either of them, so he would talk at length to diffuse the awkward atmosphere.

One of his sons was Bill, the child he had with his ex-wife. Bill had been taken abroad at a young age by her, so Howard hadn't had much contact with him. However, she had brought him up well, so even though Howard rarely talked to him, Bill had grown up to be an obedient son.

On the other hand, his current wife's son, Mark, whom he treated like his own son, treated him like an enemy.

No matter how well Howard treated Mark, the letter always kept a distance from him.

In spite of this, he was still partial to his stepson.

Although he did pity Bill sometimes, he had already grown up well past the age of needing someone to rely on.

So, Howard wasn't too worried about Bill and had decided to just let nature take its course.

But he also felt that he should take this opportunity to show his affection to Bill, which he had seldom done.

After all, they had barely even spent any time together.

Howard felt like he could mend their relationship by doing that, but in fact, he was just doing it to comfort himself.

There was no gratitude in Bill's mind for his father's sudden affection to him. On the contrary, he felt very uncomfortable.

However, he had been taught from a young age to respect elders, so he carefully concealed the impatience that he felt and didn't let it show on his face.

This was the very reason that he had tried to signal Andy to divert Howard's attention to Rachel. However, Andy had misunderstood him and took her outside instead, leaving him all alone with his father.

His father was still rambling to him non-stop.

Bill really didn't want to hear all these unnecessary words from his father, but he had no choice.

'Well, if I'm forced to listen to this bullshit, I might as well make myself comfortable first,' he thought.

With a wave of his hand, he invited his father to sit down with him.

Howard sat down on a nearby chair. It was only then that he realized that Rachel and Andy had left the room.

After hesitating for a while, he continued his conversation with Bill without asking where Rachel and Andy had gone.

For Bill, his father's show of affection was too much to bear. After a short while, he stood up to make some tea.

He dawdled next to the teapot for a while before slowly walking over with two cups of hot tea. Howard took one of the cups from his son and gave him a pleased look.

for the next few minutes, Howard was too busy drinking tea to continue

looked at the time and realized that eleven minutes and eight seconds had passed since his father had begun talking

is he going to

still trying to come up with a way to make his father leave when the

tea, choked and coughed violently after hearing his father's

patted him on the back. "What's

meant to choke on his tea, but he was glad that he had somehow distracted his father from that nonsensical

rang, and he walked

table, coughing intermittently as he tried to

walls in this hospital were

and Andy, who were in the lounge, had actually heard the father and son's conversation, including the last part which had made Bill go into a coughing

just randomly picked a chair and sat down, but Andy had cautiously moved a chair close to

leaning against the door, he had quietly eavesdropped on the conversation

cute actions amused Rachel to no

Howard's question

had almost burst out

in the end, he had controlled himself

he pointed to the ward and shook his head as if to make

Andy had said the

that he was an unusual old

ward to answer the phone that Andy opened the door

Rachel followed him too.

he saw Andy

it, Andy said, "I guess he's

all old people are? Always nagging, matchmaking, and so on,' Bill

to respond, but when he saw Rachel behind

with a response. After his coughing fit, his

up. "I'm going to wash my hands." It was the first excuse he could think

that maybe the washroom was too clean; after

moments later, Howard returned to the ward. He looked around and

"Washroom," Andy replied indifferently.

said, "Andy, I have something to deal with back at home. I have

"I have always been taking care of him.

froze for a second, but

responded with a light

was listening to the whole conversation, really admired the way the old