Cheryl who was looking at the man carefully, instantly grinned hearing the boy"s order. "Now let"s see, how you can ignore me, Mr. Rhehan Jobs!"
She then turned to look at the waiter, who was already looking at her, as if asking for a permission. Cheryl smirked and nodded her head in a "yes".
The waiter took the signal and immediately started preparing the two drinks.
Meanwhile Rhehan and Steve were happily talking to each other.
"So how long have you known them both?" Rhehan smiled, looking at the man, sitting across a small table.
"Well...I guess around thirty years!" Steve smiled, suddenly remembering the day he proposed Elizabeth. That was his happiest time ever!
Rhehan could see the faint smile on the man"s face, that you usually do, while thinking of your fondest memories. "Ahh!! Feeling nostalgic?"
"Hahaha!! Yes my boy!" Steve patted his hand again, lovingly.
"But then, why don"t you all still meet? I mean, I have never heard that you guys are meeting or something!" Rhehan frowned in confusion.
"Has there ever been a time Rhehan, when you have done something in the heat of moment and later regretted it whole your life?" Steve asked the man, thinking about that hospital night when Kareem was born. He so much wanted, to have never done that mistake.
Rhehan pondered upon his question and suddenly Cheryl crossed his mind again. Bribing Cheryl was his biggest mistake, done at the heat of the moment. "Yes! There has been a time!"
"Hmm! So you can say, I did something to Lizie, which I should not have. I will always regret it now! But I know, things can never be back to normal!" Steve sighed, trying to control the tears in his eyes from falling.
"Tell me about it! Maybe I can talk to Miss. Lodge and sort it out!" Rhehan smiled holding the man"s hand.
"Hah! Our past is complicated boy. Things can not be the same! I know it for sure" Steve closed his eyes, feeling the pain in his heart.
"Huh? Why? I mean...Nothing in this world is that complicated! There is always a solution!" Rhehan thought, thinking about his and Rose"s prior hatred towards each other.
"I was married to Elizabeth for a while! She is my ex-wife. But I cheated on her!" Steve wiped away the tears in his eyes, while the waiter placed down two gla.s.ses on front of them. One was filled with bear, while the other in front of Rhehan had a dark cranberry juice.
"What!!!?" Rhehan was dumb-founded at the man"s revelation, not paying attention to the gla.s.s of cranberry juice.
Steve recovered a bit and looked back at Rhehan. "Yes! Kareem is my son!"
Rhehan was speechless for a moment, trying to grasp the news. No wonder the man took his claims back, instantly!
"Yes! Back when Kareem was born, I got carried away! Offcourse! I was a fool!! Young blood! Later, I realised, that I could have never found a better person that Lizie! But till then she had already moved on with her life. She had many things to sort out in her own life. She did not even meet me! Yes, I do meet Kareem once in a while, I love him. But, I know, I have done wrong to them, I deserve this!" Steve again wiped the tear from his eye.
Rhehan"s heart came out for the man. He knew what it means to live a lonely life, craving for a family! "Ohh!! I had no idea about all this! I am sorry! I know how it feels, to live a lonely life!"
"Haha!! Yeah!! Your lonliness is not your fault, but mine? I just let her slip out of my hands!" Steve sighed with a heavy heart, finally holding the gla.s.s of beer in his hands. "Cheers!! To lonliness!"
Rhehan picked up his gla.s.s and clinked it with Steve"s gla.s.s. "Cheers to lonliness!!"
He took the gla.s.s of juice closer to his mouth...