12 Father
Grande's dinner was postponed because Drake slept too comfortably. It may be that I have walked too much during the day, and my mind has been subjected to too much pressure, and the whole person is completely relaxed after completely relaxing.
Grande decided to wait until Drake walked out of the room with a messy hair, and dinner didn't start, and it was almost nine o'clock.
Wall lamps emitting a pale yellow glow hang on the walls of the Grande Restaurant. Drake didn't have much choice, on the rectangular table, his seat had been vacated, it was the left hand seat of the main seat, Zach smiled and motioned for him to sit down, "Drake, I promise you, you will love Alice's cooking." β
Zach held a bottle, "A little aperitif." Raising an eyebrow, "Do you want it?"
Drake looked at the red in the wine glass in front of Zack on the main seat, and replied with a smile, "Thank you." β
Zach tilted his head, "Good." But Zach immediately held up a finger, "This is my private collection, no one can touch it except me!" Zach curled the corners of his mouth in an emphatic tone, "I have a special possessive appetite for my red wines." β
Derick didn't know how to react for a while, and watched Zach in a daze as he inked on the bottle cap, and didn't open it for a long time.
"No one will touch your stuff!" Benjamin cocked the fork on the side of the plate impatiently, "It tastes like rust soaked in sheep urine!"
It's true.
"Benjamin. Zach looked at him reproachfully.
"Well, I don't need to. Drake reacted, smiling dryly.
"Finally. Benjamin shook his head, already holding his knife and fork, "Let's start dinner!"
Zach quickly put the bottle in his hand and smiled, "Of course!" and shook his glass and raised his hand. "You go first. β
As the people at the table began to pass each other the large bowl of beans and cut the steak in front of them, Zach leaned back in his chair and sipped the wine glass in his hand.
It's a familiar scene, right, yes, Lola's weekend at Grande, and that's what Zach looks like.
Zach was right. Drake was already immersed in Alice's cooking, and looked at Alice on the other side with a smile, and was about to say something heartily praised.
"Derek. Zach, who was already the second glass, shook the wine glass in his hand, "Today you have to have a good rest, tomorrow, I have prepared a whole day of activities for us." Zach blinked, "You need to save enough of your body." β
"Ugh. Derek looked at Zach, "I ...... about this"
"Are you going to refuse me?" Zach put down his glass. With a deliberately sad expression on his face.
"Oh, no, no. Derek smiled helplessly and responded, "How could it be ......?"
"That's good. Zach put away his sadness, "This is your first time at Barton, I don't want you to think that Barton is like us in the South End, Benjamin and I are ready to show you around." β
Zach blinked suddenly, and his voice became mysterious, "And night." We, Detective Reims, and some interesting friends. We have a very interesting event that you should definitely attend. Zach was talking about Wednesday's game night.
Tomorrow night, very important, will be the makeup day of Fitz's group, who will have to make the final adjustments to the props and costumes they have prepared for the Comic-Con in a week's time. In their words. It's that they want to let the nerds in Newton know that Barton, a young city with little history, also has essential fans (hero comics).
Drake looked at Zack's expectant eyes, and could only nod slightly, "Then I will look forward to it." But the cutlery in his hand rested against the edge of the table. Gently jog. Obviously, he had something to say.
"Well, I have ......"
"Then it's decided. Zach raised his voice and made his own decision, "Trust me, tomorrow will be fun!"
"Yes. Drake nodded, silently continuing to deal with his dinner. This wasn't the home of the Tempests, it was his destination, and there was no reason for him to escape from an overly enthusiastic invitation.
Remember, of course, what he said to Steve, he was the one who looked at the father who had abandoned his son. Now, did he see it? No.
"When was it decided?" Louise put down her utensils and squinted at the lord of the throne, shaking her glass, the corners of her mouth curled, "You men want to go out by yourself." "A trace of innocence and resentment," leave all the work to us. β
Louise raised her hand, looked at her slender but empty fingers, looked left and right, and didn't know who she was saying to whom, "I wonder if you will compensate the people who have worked hard here after you have gone out to play?"
Louise was reminding Zack.
Zach raised his eyebrows, touched Drake, who obviously heard the details of someone's love life and didn't dare to answer, with a happy and helpless expression, "Drake, hey, it seems that we have another task tomorrow." β
Derek smiled reluctantly and nodded.
Zach didn't drop the topic, he extended, "Drake, what about you?" Zach pursed his lips a little embarrassed, "I just noticed that you have a ring print on your finger......"
The fingers of the left hand holding the cutlery were unnaturally retracted, and a white mark on the ring finger became more conspicuous. Drake glanced at Zach and smiled a little stiffly, "Divorced." β
Zach put away the smile on his face and pressed Drake's arm, "I'm sorry I asked this, it's a shame." β
"It doesn't matter. Drake smiled, "I'm not going to hide anything. He quickly adjusted his breathing, "No regrets, uh." He waved his hand, "Now I'm free to walk around......"
"En. Louise sighed twice.
"Oh!" Drake realized, "I didn't mean that!"
He decided not to speak anymore, bowed his head, and concentrated on the food in front of him. But Louise didn't seem to want to let him go, "Do you have a baby?"
Drake, who bowed his head, tightened his body, and when he raised his head again, he smiled reluctantly, "Yes, a boy and a girl." He paused, "I, well, have lost them. β
The atmosphere at the table became solemn.
Zach and Benjamin have agreed that whether or not Derek can stay in Grande should be decided by Old Hank, the real Grande. But before any decision comes out, Grande's people will not reject him, but try their best to make him feel warm, let the other party understand that this is also his home, and at the same time, he understands this sudden arrival of 'brother'.
When the elder Hank really makes a decision, these previous understandings and relationships will be the basis for determining how Grande will get along with him in the future. Such as Grande's real attributes, whether he needs to know.
"Hug, sorry. Louise frowned, glanced at Zach, and gave a 'I would never have thought it would be such an answer'.
"Oh!" Derek raised his voice, "they're not dead! I'm talking about loss when I say they were awarded to my wife, uh, ex-wife!"
The people at the table breathed a sigh of relief. But it's still a less pleasant topic.
Zach tapped his fingers on the glass and said something nonsense, which could be considered comforting, "You must miss them a lot." β
Drake's face turned weird, frowned, and actually shook his head, his voice calm, "It's nothing." He laughed, "I've never been a good father anyway, and they're as good as I am." β
The topic clicked on a certain 'point'.
Just when people want to say like normal comfort, 'You can't say that. Drake took a deep breath and looked at Zach and Benjamin, "Can I ask you something? He spread his hands, with an expression you know, and twisted his eyebrows, "Where is he ......?"
The question is not complete.
"Vampire!" the teenager's shout rang out in Grande's backyard, "Werewolf!"
Zack pursed his lips, he heard the other party's arrival very clearly, but in the atmosphere of the conversation just now, he didn't seem to have any reason to leave the table suddenly and stop the uncontrolled teenager from screaming.
"Alice?!What about the people?!" Caesar's voice approached, "where have the people gone!"
At the Grande table, everyone looked at each other, Drake opened his mouth, his question was not finished, and under the inexplicable shouting, everyone's strange expressions made him not know whether to continue or not.
"Ahh
The teenager pulled up his chair and squeezed over to Alice, "Alice, get me something." Caesar began to look at the people at the table, his eyes fell on Drake, frowned, and pulled the bow tie on the collar of his dress, "Who is he?"
Zach shook his head, waved at Alice, who was overwhelmed, motioned for her to go to the kitchen, and shook his wine glass himself, "Caesar, didn't anyone teach you etiquette?"
"Hmph. Caesar snorted, no longer caring about the unknown person, looked at Zack in a respectful manner, threw away the burden around his neck, unbuttoned the collar of his shirt, grabbed the bowl on the table like a hooligan, and directly used the public spoon to chew the beans.
Zach pursed his lips and looked at Drake, "I'm sorry, I don't care what he calls him, teenagers, they love nicknames." Zach shook the wine glass in his hand and shrugged helplessly, "Blood-sucking." Then he pointed at Benjamin, "Werewolf?" I don't know why. β
Caesar glanced at Drake, his eyes in line with a teenager's disdain for a chiΔ, "He can bite the bones of a rib." He grinned his upper lip and barked, "Woo fu!"
Calm and smart boy.
Drake opened his mouth and smiled awkwardly.
"Why are you here, Caesar?" Zach looked at Caesar and shook his head helplessly.
Caesar cocked up his fingers and dangled them in the air, "My mother and my current father are having dinner with my second father. He tilted his head, snorted, shook his head indifferently and continued, "I'm bored, so come and see the first father, and by the way, come and see you." (To be continued......)