It was morning. They were both snuggled in bed.
Micah asked a question: "Nathan since when did you start having feelings for me?"
"Remembering the fact we hated each other's gut"
Nathan hesitate, sat by the bed. Opened the drawer for a box. .
"I have known you before you came out about running for the election. That was because of your father, I knew who he was because after some investigation. He is a major suspect in wihlem's death"
"What are you saying, I don't believe you ", Micah sat up.
Nathan opened the box. The box contained.
A picture of a man with his young mom.
A file stamped classification indicating his father was a suspected war sponsor.
A birth certificate with the name "Micah Hawthorne" which had his mom's signature, father's name missing.
His mother must have gotten another birth certificate and changed his surname to her's.
Micah was furious.
"How can you hide this from me all this time?."
"You knew and you made me fall in love with you and you touched me? Slept with me?"
"You were using me, right?"
"I fell in love with you, Micah. I swear"
"DON'T FUCKING LIE TO ME, NATHAN!! "
Micah ran his hand through his hair, pulling them from frustration.
Micah grabbed his clothes, furious ran out.
Nathan goes after him.
"Micah, listen to me. Wait!!"
But Micah was already out of the front door, he ordered a ride. Placed a call to him mom.
"Hello, are you home?"
"Yes, of course. Is anything wrong", sounded concerned.
"I'm coming now, we need to talk".
Two hours later, he got to his childhood home.
He remembered how his mom never left him home alone. Guess that makes sense now.
Micah kicked the front door open, his mom on the couch froze.
He did say hello or anything else. He just wanted straight answers.
"Tell me who he is, now."
"Micah, it's been awhile since I have had you here. You've been so busy .."
"Mom, it's not working. I have had enough, tell me the truth"
"I'm sorry, darling. I didn't want you to find out this way."
"All I did was to protect you"
"You father isn't dead. He's alive. A raising politician I had a relationship with."
"We ought to get married and raise you but he changed became power hungry. I couldn't just stay....
"Your father became something else"
Micah had tears running down his face.
Whipping them off with the back of his sleeve.
"Okay, so who is he ?. At least I should get to know that "
"Micah you don't want to know, trust me"
"Just tell me okay?. Please "
New was displaying on the TV
"Breaking news, a man of virtue, legality and democracy. Mr Dominic Hawthorne"
"Would be running for the seat of the president in next year's election "
His mom quietly say.
"That's your father Micah, Dominic Hawthorne"
The picture of Dominic Hawthorne was displayed.
His running under the conservatives party, the party Nathan is.
Micah remembered seeing this man in the News so many times.
One of the most powerful politicians if not the most powerful in the US.