Chapter Twenty-Nine: Daddy's Something Abnormal

Becia's foster family is located in a quiet residential area in downtown Providence, surrounded by lush greenery and close to the park and the Providence River.

It was a five-bedroom, six-bathroom British-style house, with a garden and swings in the backyard, and a small boardwalk leading to the river, where the family could paddle a boat to fish on the sparkling river in the summer.

When Tommy Hawk and his son arrived, Bethea was already wearing a pink Betty doll costume like Tony, holding a plush doll from Diapers, accompanied by her foster mother Monica and two pet dogs, waiting outside the door, waving excitedly to the Hawke pickup truck.

When parking their car in the public parking space, Tony and Tommy actually felt a little embarrassed, looking around, the entire residential area does not have this kind of blue-collar workers' favorite purchase of dual-purpose high-horsepower pickup trucks, instead of the roof configuration of surfboards or the rear of the car with yacht hooks on the luxury recreational van, no need for any external reminders, just get out of the car and intuitively feel that the three people of the Hawk family mixed in the bottom of the society are out of place here.

When Colin Hawke jumped out of the car, Bethea in front of the door suddenly shouted, "Daddy! ”

Then like a sturdy and sunny fawn, he ran over nimbly and threw himself into Daddy's arms!

Colin Hawke picked up Bessia with a loving face, raised it above her head and spun in a circle: "Bessia, my precious girl! How was the week? ”

"She insisted on wearing Betty dolls." Monica, the foster mother, walked slowly behind and didn't interrupt the intimacy between the two, just smiled next to her and said: "And insisted on changing the arrangement that was supposed to go to the park in the morning to the afternoon, I didn't know before, but when I saw Tony and Tommy, I understood her insistence." ”

"Good afternoon, Mrs. Hopkins, thank you for taking care of Bessia." Daddy, Tony, and Hawke all spoke politely to each other.

The forty-two-year-old woman in front of her is a senior partner in a local accounting firm, her husband Red Hopkins runs a dentist office, and the family's biological daughter has grown up and attended New York University on a full scholarship.

After all, the two pet dogs can enjoy the treatment of going to the pet hospital twice a week to be served and bathed, and being taken away by the veterinarian for regular physical examinations every month, and the two brothers of the Hawk family, since their father lost his job from GM Ford, no longer know what unlimited hot water and dentist are.

"Daddy~ Why are only Tony and Tommy wearing the jacket I said?" Becia giggled under her father's support, and then looked at the three of them with those soft and bright eyes, asking questions.

"OK~ Come down, baby girl." Colin Hawke carefully put down his daughter, then took off his coat and threw it to Tony, revealing the T-shirt inside, which looked like an ordinary white T-shirt from the front, but when he took off the coat and exposed the back, he could see a pair of Betty Doll and Diaper Graffiti printed on it, and crooked children's handwriting underneath:

"Bessia Hawke and her family."

Monica covered her mouth to prevent herself from losing her temper, and then exclaimed with emotion: "Oh, you printed the painting that Becia gave you last time on the T-shirt?" Great, Mr. Hawke, I'm so impressed. ”

"Like it? Bessia? It was drawn by my precious daughter, and of course I have to carry it with me. Colin Hawke smirked in front of BΓ©thea, proudly enjoying her daughter's surprise expression.

Taking advantage of the moment when he turned his back to Becia, Dad didn't forget to look at Tony and Tommy, especially Tommy, and said in the disdainful tone he had when he was in the car: "Family first, huh?" ”

Tommy Hawk could only shrug his shoulders and make a you win gesture to his own dad.

The residential area is next to the park, and Becia is in a hurry to go to the park to show off her diaper family to everyone.

Monica handed Colin Hawke the tote bag that had been prepared for a long time, containing vitamins, drinking water, biscuits, snacks, yogurt and other children's products, and told him what to do with Bethea, but at this time Colin Hawke hesitated, but turned around and greeted Tommy Hawke, who was tossing his sister with Tony:

"Son, come here, I had some insomnia last night, I'm worried that I can't remember clearly, you come and listen with me."

Leaving Tony to play with Becia, Tommy came over with some confusion, Monica looked at Tommy: "The weather is a little dry today, about half an hour or so to observe her lips, if it is slightly dry, remember to let her drink water, and there is a special lip balm for children, at four o'clock to let her remember to take vitamins, so that she ...... at dinner"

After listening to Monica's serious advice for a few minutes, the father and son took Becia to the park to play.

I don't know if it's a delusion, Tommy Hawk senses that his dad seems to be consciously or unconsciously letting himself be alone with Becia more, which makes him feel a little abnormal.

Bethea is the jewel of her father Colin Hawke, and her status in her heart is not comparable to that of her two sons, and in order to ensure that she can spend time with Becia, she didn't even let Tony and herself accompany her to visit.

With doubts in his heart, while Daddy took Bethea to buy ice cream, Tommy asked Tony, "Tony, do you think it's possible, Daddy is terminally ill and is about to hang up?" ”

"Really?" Tony turned his head to look at his dad in the distance, and then looked at Tommy with a hellish expression, "I don't think it's possible." ”

β€œWhy? Why are you so sure? Tommy looked at his brother suspiciously.

Tony shrugged: "I don't think I'm going to see God if I'm terminally ill, and I'm in the mood to go to a strip club for a drink, last night he worked overtime until the wee hours of the morning, and went to a strip club with his friends until he got drunk, or I got a call from the club and drove him home." ”

"Well, you've got a good reason for that, I hope I'm thinking too much." Seeing Tony's determined expression, Tommy whispered.

Tony was curious: "What do you think too much?" What did Daddy do to make you curse him for dying? He did a five-finger exercise on your collection of posters but didn't clean them up? ”

"No, I gave the poster to Dennis, do you think Daddy, it seems that today there seems to be a lot of time for me to play alone with Becia, which is very abnormal, before he wanted to glue Bethea to the top of his head." Tommy confuses Tony.

Tony nodded slightly, then patted Tommy on the shoulder: "Maybe he wants you to spend more time with your sister before you leave here." ”

"I'll take Becia home with me before I get into college." Tommy exhaled, as if he were talking to Tony, and as if talking to himself.

Bessia waved ice cream in the distance and shouted the names of her two brothers, Tony ran slowly towards Bessia, turned his head and smiled at Tommy, who was following him, and said:

"I'm more confident than yours that you'll be an X-Men and make coffee for Professor Charles Xavier in the restroom."