"Gladys! Where's Daniel?" Tyler asked her daughter when he caught her browsing clothes alone.
It's two days before Easter, Gladys' school opened an Easter activities for students and their families.
The little girl been begging her parents for buying new clothes to be wear on the D-Day.
It's so crowded today, people are out on the streets. Some are shopping, some are hanging out with their friends and some are just strolling around.
Tyler looks around looking for his son, Daniel. He grabbed Gladys and start looking for Daniel together, Gladys saw her mom and went dragging Tyler towards her instead.
Eileen's been looking for a sun dress for Gladys and herself, she jerked up startled when a pair of hand touched her waist, she turned around and found Gladys hugging her. Her husband came towards her with worried expression.
"Is Daniel with you?"
"No, he's with you."
"What? Eileen, this is not funny."
"I'm not joking, isn't he and Gladys with you all this time?"
"No, he says he wanted to be with you so I let him. I saw you by the mannequin and he run straight to you, after that I go after Gladys."
Realising her brother is missing Gladys started to look around while her parents still arguing. She looked outside and saw Daniel playing with his blue toy car that he brought with him across the street. She went back to her parents and dragged them outside without saying anything.
Outside then she crossed the street leaving her parents and went to get Daniel. He saw Daniel talking to a man and not long after the man went back inside his car and drove off. She went to Daniel and saw that her brother's face went pale. She then hugged him, shocked him back to reality and then dragging him back across the street towards their parents.
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- Ethan's POV-
Me, some surgeons and some attendings are having a bro night in a pub tonight.
"Who's reeeeaaddyy for another round?"
It's been our third round, some of us are already wasted, some are having hangover that they have thrown up a few times, I'm just a bit tipsy.
"Nah, I'll pass. My head's rotating like crazy right now."
"I must stopped, I'm driving later for these morons."
"Bring me more beer!"
I looked around, not everyone is strong enough with their booze eh?
"I'll take the drinks this time. Anyone want some water?" I volunteered myself.
"Better we put some water on Dominic's system, his face is very red!"
"Mememememe.. give me water!"
I went by the bar and order a few scotch and water. When I arrived at the table some of my friends are already snoring. The other took the alcohol and the other one took the water. I gulped mine and told everyone I need a smoke break.
I went outside and took my cigarettes and lighter out. I put a cigarette in my mouth and light it, I inhaled the smoke and the cigarette's end burn with Amber and red colour.
I'm not a heavy smoker, I just smoke occasionally. My grandfather is a chain smoker, he died at the age of 62 after smoking his 28th cigarette that day. That's why I don't smoke so much, I just smoke whenever I feel tensed.
I just get back home from work and saw that Aubrey's sleeping. Around evening when I was making dinner I heard Aubrey crying, this stressed me out so I went down to the basement and tried to calm him down, he didn't stopped and I'm getting angry so I slapped him so hard that the right side of his face is red.
We're both shocked at what just happened and he started screaming at me. I run upstairs, turning off the stove and grabbed my keys. I texted a friend asking if I could come to his place. Dominic replying that the other surgeons and some attendings are having bro night tonight and it includes drinking at Alejandro's.
I drove to Alejandro and meet my colleagues. We drink a few rounds and playing some games together, when I was in the toilet Dominic followed me in, it's a shared toilet with few stalls so not a private one. We were chatting on things when he suddenly told me that his wife been handling a bothersome case. His wife is a psychiatrist and she's been handling a little boy with recurring nightmares. She told him the boy saw a kidnapping by his own eyes and that traumatized him.
I remembered when I kidnapped Aubrey a little boy is playing his toy car, he didn't looked at me at first and I managed to get Aubrey inside the car when suddenly I heard the boy asked.
"What's happening to that man sir?"
I told him that the man suddenly passed out and I'm trying to take him to the hospital after that I get inside my car and drove off. Maybe that boy is smarter than what I assumed and he could tell something was off. Dominic told me that his wife will company the boy to some questioning with the cops in two days.
I didn't realise I just finished my smoke. I took another one, still feeling tensed from the story. The nights still young, so many youngsters and couples are out tonight, some even doing rollerblading, some dog owners took their dogs on a night walk, a group of kids passing me by talking about a new gaming app on phone, a group of girls checking me out while whispering and giggling.
People say I'm attractive even at my age. I'm 28 now, in three weeks I'll be turning 29. Even though people say I'm attractive, I never had a romantic relationship. Some are just friends with benefits, one night stands and blind dating. I'm into bothways too, that's what I just found out a few months before my family died, I hide the fact from them, they never knew until their death.
While I'm continuing to smoke some of my friends come out and saying goodbye, after I done smoking I went inside and saw Dominic and two other attendings still talking. Dominic looked up to me and asked me if I could ride him home.
I went to the bar to close my tab.
"Hey Alejandro! I'm closing mine."
"Sure Ethan."
Me and Dominic part ways from the other two and we both went inside my car.
Dominic passed out in my passenger seat so I have to carry him, I pressed the doorbell a few times and Annabeth opened the door, Annabeth is Dominic's and Soo Jin's youngest daughter, they also have another set of older twin daughters named Hanna and Jill.
"Hello Ann, where's mommy?"
"Mommy's in the kitchen, feeding Mr. Scratches."
Mr. Scratches is their cat, not long after there's a shout in Korean from inside. Ann replied to her mother.
"Oh, Ethan! What's wrong with my husband?"
"He's just passed out, too much alcohol."
Soo Jin's chuckled, feeling silly for her husband.
"Do you want me to put him to bed?"
"If it's not too much of a trouble for you Ethan."
"Nah, I'll carry him then."
