B10: The Folk Festival

Xavier was looking at his mother, waiting for her to tell her the news that he wanted to hear. He did not know much about his father after he married his mother. They said that it was an arranged match and they have not complied with it.

Must have taken a lot of strength for her to endure her husband, Xavier thought before his mother was showing him a piece of paper. It was rather old looking really and he was taking it to read the content in it. It was written in English.

“An agreement?” Xavier asked her before his mother nodded. Then, he read. And blinked. Then reread it again.

“Is this even legit, mother?” he asked her before she sighed. His mother has been weary and he knew that he cannot force her to tell him everything. But this agreement…it changed everything that he stood for t