5 Chapter 5: The White Roses

The Prism Theory - my very first theory, credits to the ceiling of course, and my ability to see aura. The ceiling looked like a chaotic rainbow warfare, with all of these auras from these people, the ceiling looked like a nyan cat trail on steroids.

Maybe I should also make a theory on how the ceiling helps us brainstorm, especially bathroom ceilings. I mean come on, do you know how many life decisions I've made in the bathroom? Just look at the ceiling, imagining random scenarios that would never happen, such as having 8 hours of sleep in college, world peace or living the life just like a normal person. Winning arguments with yourself while the water from the shower rains down in your body as if you are in an R&B music video that topped the charts for 14 weeks. It's fun and it helps me relax and after everything that happened today, I deserve the best shower in the world, especially now that I've got a lot of decisions to think about.

After a few more moments of looking in the ceiling, our order finally arrived. Suddenly, I feel like I've lost all of the food I've eaten all day and I've got three stomachs to fill. These 7-word long meals really lived up to its name, it looked like it was handmade from heaven, ready to bless the peasants from below like me with its divine power. It was delicious, it was perfect! Let's just not talk about the price, because it was also "heavenly" high.

The next several minutes, was a burst of yellow auras, talking, Jensen being a messy eater, Jacob avoiding school-related questions from uncle, and uncle just being uncle.

"I like this place, let's go back again next time!", Jensen said

"Sure, but you'll have to pay next time", I jokingly told him

"I like that idea!", uncle smirked and pointing his index finger at me

"Well, I don't have a job yet. But if I do, I'll definitely treat us again here, or maybe even in a much better dinner", Jensen said confidently as if he'll get a job.

"Can you even get a job?", Jacob stopped drinking his smoothie for a moment to ruin Jensen's motivational speech.

Honestly, I was going to say that too

Jensen gave him a Jacob styled death stare, giving him a taste of his own medicine. But it wasn't even intimidating, if anybody sees that death stare they would PAWS and get an adoption paper.

Jacob smiled for half a second and chuckled before playing with his phone again.

The next several minutes was quieter than usual. Jacob was with his phone again but he wasn't playing or scrolling this time, he might be doing school-related stuff because he's typing. Jacob was sleeping, uncle was outside on the balcony making business related calls and I'm actually doing my homework, and guess what I actually finished it this time. After few more minutes, it was almost 9pm, uncle came back from the balcony, paid the bill and told us that it's time to leave and visit my father. After this long day, I'm gonna be honest, I almost forgot about that, hopefully my dad doesn't hate me.

As we were leaving, I keep looking for someone who has a white aura, just incase someone has it as well. Every aura was colorful as normal, Garfield boy was also not around in my radar, maybe he left. As we were going to uncle's car in the parking lot, I realized that the uneasy feeling I felt earlier actually disappeared.

When we entered the car, I sat at the passenger's seat while the twins sat behind me at the backseat. As I looked behind, the twins were already sleeping. After putting on the seatbelt, uncle brought a paper bag. The logo on the paper bag is the same as the logo of the popular flower shop near uncle's work. He opened the paper bag and there's two white roses inside.

"Your dad loved this", uncle said

"One for you…", He handed over one for me "And one for me"

"Just like last year?", I softly gazed into his eyes

"Every year", He squeezed my hand three times

The cemetery is not that far, it's only 10 minutes of drive away from the dinner. There was a short traffic, so it took us 5 minutes longer to arrive but it's not that much big of a deal. The twins were still quietly sleeping in the backseat. I looked at uncle while taking off the seatbelt.

"Shall we?", uncle gave me the greenlight to leave the car.

The sleeping twins stayed inside.

Uncle and I left the car, holding a white rose in one of our hands and quietly went to visit my dad's grave.

We lit a white candle and put the white roses on the ground. Uncle patted me on my right shoulder twice as a way of him saying that he's going back to the car.

"I got to go", he whispered before going back to the car.

I stayed few minutes longer, telling my dad my accomplishments this year, sharing him my dreams, asking for guidance and some other things that he's the only one allowed to know about. I offered him a short prayer and I decided to go back to the car.

When I went to the car uncle was also sleeping, now there's three of them sleeping, how great. I knocked on the window and my uncle opened the door for me.

"You good?", he asked me probably still half asleep

I nodded

"Then it's time to go home now", he stretched his arms out before turning on the car and leaving

The next several minutes were quiet, uncle was driving, and Jacob was sleeping like a dead. The only sound you can hear was the radio and Jensen quietly snoring in the background.

When we arrived home, I felt like I returned back after going on a vacation for a month. I feel like could just hug and kiss the door of our house, but it would not be a good view for our neighbors.

We all went back to our respective rooms and house is quiet again. The twins knocked out the moment they went on their beds, uncle was still awake doing something in his laptop while I decided to shower, my long awaited shower.

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