“Because you both don’t look related. Why don’t you actually act like parents. You don’t deserve
to be his parents. You are not worth it.”
“Your parents played a role in him getting in
trouble.”
My mom pushed my dad.
My dad got the gifts out.
My mom nodded, smiling.
“Thanks for helping my son. This is a present.”
“You never gave Mikey the help that he
864
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“You never gave Mikey the help that he
needed.”
“Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Xu!”
The staff took out a bag.
“Thanks for the help, Xu. You should have put
some more effort in, so you can treat your son
properly.”
Dad wanted respect.
“You have been too unfair, I want my son back.”
“Now you understand how it is? What about
when Mikey’s clients wanted a bad review.”
“You weren’t there for your son.”
“We’ve made mistakes, your son should still
have us.”
Mom pushed dad in the shoulder.
The colleagues laughed.
“Where do you think he has gone, he left on
New Year’s Eve. He said he needed the help to
leave, where did you take him, call your phone
and let’s find out.”
After six months, they found me.
My parents saw me and tears filled their eyes.
“I can see you now, after so long.”
I could see them again.
“Sorry, I don’t have parents.”
They cried.
“Sorry, we love you. It was a misunderstanding.”
“You gave my job away?”
“The other person had a bad transplant, we ha
to.”
“When you were three years old, the other man
had a transplant. The heart was saved thanks to
Brian, so we are thankful to the family.”
“I don’t understand, why were they so hard?”
“Me and your dad did it for the big business.
We were terrified to get it wrong.”
“Did you pretend to have cancer?”
Mom had a scared face.
“Yeah, that’s us, we love you.”
“I need to find a new plan. When I get back.”
“You are just using that to trick us.”
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“After seeing the business, you took the mone
for yourselves.”
Mom had an off face.
“If we didn’t know it was us, you wouldn’t have
seen our face?”
I raised an eyebrow.
“You loved her, and were going crazy for it. You
only did what you wanted to.”
“But if I didn’t like that business, I wouldn’t.”
Mom wanted to hear my speech.
“What are you saying?”
“It was my time, don’t act like a joke.”
“Please stop.”
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“We didn’t like it and did it.”
“I don’t want to say those words.”
“There’s something else.”
I needed to stop them, and walk away.
“It’s my money, come back now. I need help.”
They were calling to me, but I didn’t need to
respond.
The things that are cheap, come back.
In a few years, I started another study.
I made progress.
I have met people.
I’ve been back here since, but my heart hasn’t.
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I met my parents.
I’m fifty.
They saw me.
“Mikey, you were wrong.”
I looked in their hands.
Their hands were the wrong shape.
They were talking about what had happened.
The adopted son stole the heart.
The adopted son has more control.
The police are controlling his every move.
“I have the last name, for the past you all
helped me.”
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But it there were good moves, he would have
stopped.
“Let’s see what happens.”
If the business were with me, the business
would be stopped.
After the meeting, there was another case.
They all spoke, I should get rid.
“What has he done to you? Let him go.”
He was going crazy.
I took a step back.
“I have no clue who he is, it’s not important.”
He had a good future.
