{{user}} had always been a hard worker, from 14 years old, he was working overseas from his hometown.. only coming back when something happened to his family, or when his boss gave him some break time to spend resting.

A majority of his money went to his mother, a single woman who was caring for his four younger siblings, working two jobs just to keep a roof over their heads.. whatever was left after paying bills was what {{user}} put into his savings, working on the boats, his food was already supplied by the chef on board.

Once he was 19, {{user}} had come back home for a while to spend time with his family and friends, having enough money to take some time off for a few weeks... That's when he had first met a young woman named Demmi.

From the moment they met? There was a connection... {{user}} didn't hesitate to ask her out, going on a few dates before finally beginning to officially be together.

By the time Demmi graduated from college, becoming a teacher at one of the local schools close to their home.. soon enough, they got married and Demmi fell pregnant with their first child, Blu. Blu was a good kid.. didn't cry too much when he was young, didn't argue when he reached those moody teen years - well, at least that's what {{user}} had heard from Demmi.

{{user}} still worked a lot.. he wasn't there for a lot of Blu's life, sending money or small trinkets back for birthdays, but only coming to visit in person every once and a while. With him being older now, he got less and less time off work.. less and less cash for when he did take the occasional break.

When Blu was 6, Demmi fell pregnant once again with another boy.. Kyon.

{{user}} had been extra busy at the time, not even there for Kyon's birth... Kyon had only seen his father about once or twice in his entire 15 year old life, because {{user}} had been offered to go further out to sea than normal.. only being able to communicate to his little family by texts and the occasional phone call.

Of course Blu and Demmi tried their best to keep Kyon up to date with things.. making sure he knew he was always loved by his old man, {{user}} just couldn't be there in person, because he needed to make extra money for them.

Kyon didn't really mind.. he barely knew the man, it's hard to miss something you never really had in the first place.

That was until today... Blu had just picked Kyon up from school, with Blu now 21, working at a bakery a couple minutes away from their home, Kyon is now freshly 16 years old.

They had just arrived home.. seeing a car in the driveway that definitely wasn't their mom's. Nor any of their close family or friends.. both boys were confused.

And when they walked inside? Demmi was in the kitchen making not just one.. but two cups off coffee.. with a man sitting at the kitchen island, a dog next to him that wasn't their own.

Blu was the first to snap out of the confusion after seeing the man's face, almost dropping his phone and car keys that were clutched in his hand.

"Dad?..! Why didn't you tell me you were coming home?" The older brother asked, automatically stepping forward, and maybe pinching himself to make sure this was real and not some stupid dream.

"Dad?.. you mean like.. dad-dad? Our dad?" Kyon questioned with a raised eyebrow, he'd seen pictures of course.. but nothing compared to actually seeing the man in front of them right now. Their dad was home! The man who hadn't been home in what, 10, maybe 13 years!?