Isn't that what a wife does?

"Thanks for everything." Moses said to Cyrus and Seong-min as they stepped outside the Shop.

"Why are you thanking us?" Seong-min replied smiling.

Smiling back, "Well Julian had fun, I did too, and you insisted on paying for everything, of course I'm going to thank you!" Moses said.

"It's our pleasure Moses, isn't that right?" Seong-min said before she glanced very obviously at Cyrus, "Oh! Yeah! My-Her, I mean our pleasure !" Cyrus said awkwardly making Moses snigger.

"You know I never understood why you said to Julian 'You can call me Cyra when we're here', but now I do.

You're as interesting as ever, just like back in highschool." Moses said smiling.

"Huh?" Confused, Cyrus raised an eyebrow but Moses remained smiling.

"I thought You avoided him Cyrus?" Seong-min asked, "I did, like the plague!" Cyrus replied, "I didn't expect you to recognize me, let alone know my deadname...Moses." He added while glancing at Moses who nodded.

...[Tiny Flashback]...

It was about to be the last class of the day, "I heard there's a new student here today!

She's new in town! A freshman, One year below us!" Rudy said while sitting on his school desk.

Besides him, Moses sat comfortably on his chair with his feet resting Infront of him on his own desk, while Flint just stood behind him, leaning on the wall.

"Thanks for explaining what a freshman is Rudy!" Moses said sarcastically causing Rudy to frown at him.

"Is she cute or sexy?" Flint asked, "I heard she's scary!" Rudy replied.

"Let me guess, you didn't see her at all." Flint said annoyed.

"Umm, Yeah? Apparently she's been avoiding everyone.

Antisocial is not really my type so I didn't dig deeper, besides I heard from another girl that this new girl is apparently cuckoo or something, she walks around mumbling to herself! And she wears an eye-patch!" Rudy replied.

Sighing, "I still don't understand how girls like you enough to talk to you, I mean you're one of us." Flint said in defeat.

"Maybe if you try to be less of a creep, more of a gentleman, girls would wanna talk to you." Rudy replied.

"Ugh, people are so confusing." Flint whined.

"That's why I don't bother with people, understanding them is just too much anyways." Moses said standing-up.

"Where you going?" Rudy asked, "To piss, you're welcome to join if you wanna hold my dick for me." Moses replied.

"EWW DUDE!" Rudy cringed making Moses chuckle once at him, "Thought so, I'll be right back, so you two won't miss me." Moses replied before going outside the classroom.

As Moses walked, every boy steered clear from his way, afraid he might 'Bully' them if they caught his attention, after all he was the big, bad wolf of the school, at least to the boys.

To the girls, he was like those annoying boys who badly wanna be womanizers.

The girls knew Moses wouldn't hurt them, how chivalrous of him!

But the ladies still did their best as well to clear the way for the 'King', what if one of them catches his eyes and then he Asks her out on a date? How can she say no when they've seen their male classmates get beaten-up by him? With zero consequences to follow.

Not to mention, his uncle is the headmaster, what if these poor girls got into trouble for rejecting him? That's what they thought, some of them even went as far as trying to look less attractive to avoid him.

Moses could see everything they were doing, As he stood by the restroom door, he thought whether he should just go inside, or maybe put on the show for the people that are so afraid of him.

That was his thoughts until he noticed something, or someone.

A person wearing a long gothic dress and a medical eye-patch, Just ran past Moses without looking twice.

"What the?!" Moses was surprised, his eyes followed that person and soon enough his legs did the same, quietly.

Barely a minute and that person stopped somewhere, Moses hid himself as he watched the flustered Eye-patch person stand in front of none other than Julian Baker.

"Wow! Did you run all the way here?! Why?!" Julian asked, "I...well...i realized that I was a bit rude to you...earlier.

I'm not really good with people...I don't know how to be nice, and you went out of your way to try and warn me about Moses or whatever his name...

I just couldn't stop thinking about it!

Also, thanks...you stayed true to your word and you didn't bother me the whole day.

I thought I should at least thank you, and I really hope that you don't tell anyone about my secret!...btw you can call me Cyra when we're here." Cyrus said.

Smiling, "You know, you shouldn't consider being called cute an insult, you really are cute!" Julian replied while chuckling.

"It was my fault coming here to thank you! I told you to not call me cute!" Cyrus replied angrily.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Julian replied laughing, "You're not sorry at all!" Cyrus said.

"Okay how about a deal, I'll refrain from calling you cute, if you tell me what the eye-patch is for." Julian suggested.

"Ugh! Fine! You're always about deals!" Cyrus sighed.

"It's a family thing! but one thing you can sure trust us Bakers in, is that as good as we are at uncovering secrets, we're also good at keeping secrets a secret.

So you have my word, no one's gonna know from me." Julian said.

"The eyepatch isn't really a secret, it's just there to cover my eye." Cyrus replied removing his eye-patch.

Julian's eyes widened a little, "I know it's pretty obvious, but I'm blind in one eye, I've been born that way and I always felt like a freak for it, that's why I cover it." Cyrus said.

...[End of Tiny Flashback]...

"If you were there? why didn't you do anything?" Cyrus asked.

But instead of answering that question, "I'm overwhelmed with gratitude because of your kindness Cyrus.

Despite our history, you still met-up with me and you even apologized, I just can't tell you how much I appreciate that." Moses said smiling before he glanced at his daughter who was by his side, still enjoying her music.

Cyrus was puzzled, Why did Moses respond like that?

"Moses, I know this isn't my place to say this but, I noticed you've been quite cryptic the whole time we were here.

Especially about Evelyn, whenever we ask you anything about her, you'd say the same thing, she was my wife, she was my love, she was the woman who taught me everything...If you don't want to answer some things, just say so.

You don't have to answer every question." Seong-min spoke-up.

"I'm sorry, I just didn't want to be rude." Moses replied.

"To be fair we are the rude ones, since we kept asking you personal questions.

Why did you think refusing to answer was rude behavior?" Seong-min asked.

"Evelyn said that I have to be as polite as possible when I talk to people, even when I feel uncomfortable." Moses replied making both Cyrus and Seong-min stare at him with a mix of curiosity and confusion.

"Is everything alright? you two are looking at me in a weird way?" Moses asked.

"You know...Was Evelyn always telling you what to do?" Seong-min asked.

"What do you mean?"

"Like, Did she follow your every step and be like, 'Do this' and 'Do that'?"

"Isn't that what a wife does?" Moses said with a genuine expression.

"Can I have a moment with you, aside?" Cyrus said to Seong-min and pulled her away enough so that Moses won't be able to listen to them.

"Why did you do that?" Seong-min asked, "I know what you're trying to do, you're trying to confirm if Evelyn was controlling or maybe she was being too weird in her relationship with Moses, but I implore you to look at the good side of her actions.

I mean the dude is reformed, rehabbed and is a good father." Cyrus whispered.

"I just don't get it?! he doesn't want to tell us anything about her! but at the same time she's literally the pillar of his life, even when she's no longer alive!

He refuses to tell us anything about who she was, but whenever he does something he's like Evelyn told me to do this, she told me to do that!

It doesn't sound normal! I mean I get that she was probably trying to guide him to be more of a nice person, but I'm starting to think she was programming him like a robot!" Seong-min replied.

"And what if?! Programmed or guided or whatever! the results are freaking good! Not in a million years I would've thought this man would act like this?!"

"Cyrus, I can't believe you just become his biggest supporter! I mean yes Moses seems to have changed his ways, and I don't feel like I should go after him anymore, but still you're really taking this so well?!"

"I'm taking it very well because that means our plans are over, we don't have to go after him anymore! We can put this to rest!" Cyrus replied.

"Okay I now genuinely believe that you've been kidnapped by an alien lookalike, because first of all that thing with Lydia? and now Moses? like what's going on with you?

Why are you suddenly friendly and kind to everybody around you? you've been an asshole since the day I've met you?" Seong-min said.

"People change, Rudy, Moses, me!"

"Yeah but they don't change overnight! those two took 7 years, and in Moses's case it also took 'An Evelyn system update'.

But in your case, you're trying to make me believe that overnight you just entirely gave-up on the idea of coming after the king of bullies, the guy who might be the reason your boyfriend died?!...that is unless, you don't think it's his fault anymore?"

Hearing her words, Cyrus looked away for a moment.

"You know I had suspicion going inside my head ever since the Flint incident, that we've been thinking about this the wrong way and maybe the whole Julian thing was a lie.

And since you didn't say anything about it all this time, I thought I was overthinking on my own but now everything makes sense, your weird behavior and all, you really don't believe it's their fault anymore.

You think something else happened to Julian." Seong-min said.

"I spent 7 years of my life stressing over a Revenge that was basically pointless.

I thought I won't feel guilty about everything I do, because I wholeheartedly believed they deserved it but now I'm just thinking, that I've done a big mistake going for Revenge in the first place...I've wasted my life Seong-min." Cyrus replied.

Sighing, "We'll talk about this later, we can't keep the man standing there, poor thing looks so uncomfortable." Seong-min said before walking back to Moses.

"I hope you two weren't fighting or anything." Moses said kindly, "No I just...well, I'm sorry about pressing you to talk about Evelyn, you're a grieving husband of course you wouldn't wanna talk about her just like that." Seong-min said then slightly bowed her head.

Embarrassed, "No need for all of that! I'm fine really..." Moses replied.

"Hey, you said you're taking over your uncle's house, have you moved your things yet?" Cyrus asked.

"Actually, I'm in the middle of organizing the house.

I was thinking about doing A yard sale...i don't wanna keep my uncle's stuff but I don't wanna throw them away either.

I feel like that would be disrespectful for the man who gave me his house after he died..." Moses replied.

"We can help you with that if you want to!" Seong-min suggested.

"That would be nice of you." Moses replied smiling.