Chapter 2

Mai answered him naturally and spontaneously: As usual, nothing new.

Akash did not comment on her response, and looked back at the corner of the newspaper in which he read his daughter's name. Her father was silent after asking that, and that pushed Mai to look at her father's face, she found that his gaze was directed towards the treasury, so she looked at her, so that her eyes would fall on what her father was looking at.

When Mai read her name, her head shook, and that caught everyone's attention. She got up to attend the newspaper, but her father told her to sit down, her father's voice was firm, unlike what she knew. Mai sat in her place without objection and her father asked her: If there is something you should tell us, do while we hear.

Mai looked at him and said in her steadfast and usual manner: There is nothing you do not know, I am not hiding anything.

Akash got up and brought the newspaper to see what he had written about his daughter and began to read:

Under the title Mistake of Booking, handsome screen star Matthew Hattori tries to hide his relationship with golden-throated Mai.

In yesterday's meeting with celebrity superstar Matthew Hattori at Deniz Turkish restaurant in central Tokyo, digital art star and golden-throated Mai was seated, She was sitting right next to him while designing a new anime character, at that time each of them claimed not to know the other and the artist explained the matter to Matthew as just a mistake in booking the table because of the restaurant management, but before the end of the meeting, our newspaper team was able to discover the truth of that girl and who is she, She is Mai, the artist of digital painting, performing anime and dubbing voices, singing badges, and according to the way they spoke to each other, it turned out that it was not the style of two people who did not know each other.

What kind of relationship between them ?!

Several photos were taken to prove this, and they are at the bottom of the news.

Everyone looked at Mai in a strange way, Mai sighed and said: It is true I was there, but it was really a coincidence, I am not afraid of anyone to hide my relationship with him or others. I do not know the young man and without the journalist's questions directed at him yesterday, I would not know his name or even his profession, then how can I I'm stupid to sit in front of the journalists and I want to hide that alleged affair

Everyone started exchanging looks while Aakash spoke calmly, but he was kinda upset: Listen well my daughter, I hope you lead a normal life, love and live those feelings but with the right person, this type of boy is manipulative and I do not want to get involved with him and also about press.. if You want to change what you have kept away from, it is okay, that is your freedom. You can appear in front of the journalists and do what you want, but your private life you cannot talk about, it does not belong to you alone, but it belongs to the whole family because you are part of it.

Mai felt that her father and the rest did not believe the serendipitous story that the actor had gathered, so she tried again to explain to them the story how it happened, but to no avail because it was the first time that her father did not believe her and sensed this from his looks and reactions, she had two options, either to refuse to share the table because the problem is does not concern her or to leave the table for him and leave, but she chose a third solution that is far from logical as long as there is no actual relationship between them.

Mai sighed in annoyance because of what she heard from everyone and said to her father, who expressed his annoyance because he felt that his daughter was lying only and not for any other reason, but Mai confused matters first not believing her and repeating notes secondly, and did not notice the point that her father had told her that he would no longer mind her appearance in the press. Because the part of family privacy that he talked about in the end spoke about it like a warning: Dad, please I told you that there is no such thing at all, I swear it was just a coincidence, nothing more, no less, then as I said: I am an adult and I can do whatever I want in addition to that, there is no need to remind me What I must and must not do according to your wishes.

Her mother, Kajumi, intervened and said: How polite is this Mai ?, how could you talk like this with your father ?!

Mai answered her with resentment: lack of etiquette, my response to your endless remarks about the life of lack of manners, but your constant interference in my decisions and my life is not considered a lack of confidence and respect for my being an adult and for being able to make my own decisions.

Her father looked at her with amazement and shock: Are we interfering ?! What did I tell you other than to be careful with your options and also to preserve your privacy so as not to cause us chaos because of your fame.

She answered him right away: If you really care about my privacy, stop telling me what to do and what not to do. You are constantly breaching my privacy while you respect my sisters' privacy.... Why is your fame not causing problems for the family?although after the end of each project, you normally conduct a press interview, appearing in newspapers, magazines, TV channels, and even on the Internet, why did that not affect any of us?

He turned to her completely and said: How did it not affect any of you?

You think that you are in this middle because of a passing coincidence, for example .. If I were not famous, the press would not have come that day to cover what happened to me, as it did not do so with those who were exposed to such an accident before me, and if you were not my daughter, the producer would not have insisted on working with her despite all of that The rejection from me at that time.

Mai looked away from him and said: You have a right because I am your daughter, because you are my father, and because they are my family, I decided to leave this environment and leave Tokyo and all of Japan for your sake and for your privacy, and now with permission I have to leave I have papers that I must complete for that.

Mai and her parents got up, shocked, silent; They were not accustomed to her reaction, as she had always listened to them silently without objecting, understanding their point of view, but this time it showed the exact opposite.

When she reached the door, her sister Sam said to her: Why is all this now? Every day this issue is raised and you never complained about it. Why did it bother you this time to this extent if there was no reason for all this now?

Mai turned back and put her right hand on opening the door and said to her sharply: What is new is that the contract that my father signed with the producing company with which I entered this middle 18 years ago has expired and I didn't signe any contract for any new work, so I am not obliged On listening to the daily CD anymore.

Mai finished her sentence, turned around again and left the house after taking her bag on the cupboard shelf near the door.

Continued ...