A Beautiful Creation

part 12 the help

Tin winced at her brother's statement

"But", Carl uttered

"But?"

"But he will not succeed. You're the mother and you have the means for Charlie to live a comfortable life"

Christine faced her brother at the couch, "What if he pulled some strings legally to get Charlie." A mother always has the upperhand on that matter legally but the Roberts were richer than them. They can bend rules!

"Are you out of your mind?", he laughed. "Dad will always supports you. I'll support you. Anyways, dad has a lot of strings too. You're offending him"

She smiled at last, "What strings are you gonna pull for me?"

"I only have strings of vegetables to give you", he laughed. He turned to a serious face, "Tin if he did something wrong, don't hesitate to tell me. I'll fucking kill him if he hurt even those little strings of your hair"

Charlie came to the apartment at noon and squealed when he saw Carl. He fired up a lot of stories of his childhood to his uncle and Carl was all ears

"Good thing you're here Carl, at least there's some guy here that can help", Candy said as she helped Carl in changing their lights at their kitchen

"No problem Ms. Candy", he turned to Christine. "You should have called me the moment your light got busted instead of suffering from blurred cooking at night"

"Ok, I'm sorry", Tin said smiling at his brother. She looked at his right formed muscles and good looks. That clean face and muscled jaw dropped a lot of women's panties eversince his teen years. Tin was curious why Frida and him never explored the idea of dating. He was calm, funny…. a keeper. Frida on the otherhand will add some spice to his brother being another crazy one. Though they would be opposite on style as Frida is a jet setter while Carl is always on jeans and polo or chef uniform. But then again, his ex girlfriend is always looking like a doll outside kitchen

"I don't like how you look at me , Christine Thomas", her brother said while washing his hands

"Are you and Susan really have broken up?", she asked

Carl winced at that question. "It's nothing. We already ended things", he said while towelling his hands dry

"But she's back", she insisted

"We're friends and that's it"

Charlie appeared at the kitchen with his toy toothless on his hand. A dragon from a certain movie. Both of them look at him

"Why are you not dating then? It's been two years"

"I'm busy and…"

"And?"

"Nothing"

She smiled, "You know Frida's single and available. The two of you seems promising"

He resembled his eyes to a slit, "No Tin. I'm not interested with your crazy friends." He lifted Charlie, "Nice dragon. What is that?"

"Toothless", Charlie replied

"He seemed to have a group of teeth there", Carl said while he cuddled Charlie. Her heart surge at Carl's love for her Son.

"He doesn't have the first movie, the second one he has. Aunty J and I have the same dragon", Charlie looked up to Carl smiling

"Who's Jay?" Carl asked her and he mouthed 'dating again?' on her so that Charlie's curious ears won't hear it

She waved, "My engineer in the office."

Carl frowned on her, "They said engineers are flirts, be careful"

She almost laughed at that but Charlie looked up at her brother, "What's flirt Uncle Carl?"

Uh oh

Carl covered his own mouth instantly by his big hands then said, "Ahm, it's something only big human do and talked about." Carl looked at her with sorry face but she rolled her eyes in response

She bended towards her son, "Little boy, forget about it for now, huh? That's a bad word actually"

"But why Uncle Carl can talked about that?", Charlie asked

She smiled nervously, "I'll tell grandpa about what he said so grandpa can spanked him, okay? Now go and play there"

"Ouch!", that was Carl because she pinched Carl's cheeks when Charlie turn to run towards the living room

"I told you to guard everything that goes out of your mouth when Charlie's around!"

"Sorry, I'm just concern", Carl explained as he stopped her hands for another pinched

"J's a friend!"

"Most of them are flirts, womanizers and playful, remember that!", Carl hushed

"J's a she! That flirt thing in engineering in general is just urban legend! And there's flirt in architects too!"

Jb's far from being a flirt actually. Maybe playful, but her friend always got that deadpanned looked. It would be funny flirting on that face

"So another crazy friend? Like Frida? Because damn, that girl is already a handful one", Carl said. He never met Jb, but that's common with some of her friends since Carl rarely visit now that he has a restaurant. Then he's been in and out of the country for almost three years to learn a thing or two about cooking.

"Well, she tolerated Frida's craziness but most of the time they were arguing about nothing. You know Frida, she's very competitive on every topic at the face of the planet", she chuckled

"Where are you getting those kinds of friends!", Carl exclaimed