Destined

"What? You aren't coming with us?" Chris blinked in wonder. Since Max didn't have any relatives or friends in this city, Chris had assumed he will tag along with them to the villa. Was he wrong?

"Nah, I mean you guys are a family. It would be too much to shift there with you permanently." Max waved his hands and grinned, "Tho I will visit a lot, heh." 

"You were overthinking it. But, I guess now you opted, it's fine." Chris sighed, "And you are always welcome to the house, of course."

"You have said it now, heh." Max laughed, walking beside Chris as the two walked out of the infamous Stark University.

Although the enrollment process turned out to be kinda anticlimactic. Chris was looking forward to it too… sigh, what a shame.

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"Chris! Tell us where we are going!" Cathy shouted in an angry voice as she punched him on his chest. Her lithe hands barely tickling him with their feeble force.