The Undefined Love

Deming's words alarmed Murphy.   He started flipping the pancakes on the pan more vigorously making Deming feel a little weird, "Uncle? Is there something you are trying to hide from me?" "Huh? Hahaha…how can there be something wrong? All fine, I am all fine. Nothing is wrong", his words giving a sense of more alienation in his normal self. Deming turned his whole body to look straight, squinting his eyes at him, making it clear that he can feel the mystifying air around him. "What? Why are you looking like that? Do you think I am lying to you?", Murphy said as he turned his back to him and went to get plates from the cupboard. Folding his hands over the chest and leaning more to the kitchen counters, Deming stated in clear speculation, "You are behaving too mysteriously now, giving me wrong ideas". He paused for some time and then again started, "You have taken the holiday from the office and haven't mentioned the date from which you will start again. And now you are hiding something behind my back. Did my opponents were successful in poaching you to their sides?" "Huh! You really know how to talk absurd now. If your opponents were really that capable to poach me then don't you they would brains to keep their business flourishing above us", Murphy mocked as he served the pancakes on two plates topping with maple syrup. "Now let's go and have this when they are hot" He said and went to the dining table. It's not the first time Deming has come to his place nor the first time he will be having something cooked by him. So there was no formality between the two. It seemed more like they were used to all these activities in their daily routine. "So are you really not going to tell me anything now? You know I have my ways to get the information out. There will be really no way for you to hide it if I am going to get everything the next moment", Deming said while elegantly slicing a small part of pancake using knife and fork and taking it into his mouth, "Ummm! Your pancakes still taste the best". Murphy also knew this there is no way they could hide this truth from him. Sooner or later he will get it out if he got stubborn over the matter. His stubbornness is not hidden from the eyes of Murphy, nor his persistence. But Lifen thoughts were also right. Last time when Deming realized his feelings for Lifen and also the possibility of losing her forever, he nearly lost all his senses. And after when she got missing for two years, his condition was no good. The only thing in which he has indulged himself at that time was work and finding her back. He has loathed himself for everything that happened around him and with Lifen. His guilt will have no bound he comes to know that he has unknowingly hurt the one he has promised to protect the entire life. "I think those words are no more important. You have already moved on your and now you are quite happy too. So there is really not something necessary", Murphy said trying his best to avoid the topic. But he knew he would not be successful so he has to soon get some backup plan. "If it's nothing important, then it okay", Deming said nonchalantly while taking a good pause, giving his uncle enough time heave a sigh of relief. But the moment Murphy breathed out in relief, Deming added his another set of words, "Just shoot it out. I will keep it at the back of my head and not burden you with these petty secrets" Ahh!! This boy will never let him live a peaceful life. Now I will just spill out the beans. Hope that could cause a minimal damage. Murphy cursed internally and looked at the boy who ws joyfully enjoying the pancakes. "Okay! So it is like this. I was very worried looking at looking when Lifen got missing. I wanted to help you out but there was no way I was able to find her. Without your knowledge, I have even contacted her friends and Wu family in the past. But there was nothing that came substantial to find her out" "…", Deming being a good listener played his role well and didn't interrupted in between. "At that time something more caught my attention. I don't want to doubt you but…", he tried to feign his lack of knowledge, trying to mask behind the whole truth behind the snippet. "But I never felt Long Jie to be the same girl whom you have met in the past. Like I never felt the purity and innocence in her aura. Her smile never felt the same. Even her attitude was different from the kind little girl who has pulled you out from the darkness of depression you were falling when you lost your parents". "My doubts became stronger when I got some talk with Ms. Wen Jiaying. Though I didn't go for a detailed conversation with her but her information was quite different from the one Ms. Long Jie has provided you before. She has never become an orphan. Though she has lost her mother but it was only after she turned nineteen years, while her father was still alive and has left her to live with her uncle and aunt". The expressions on Deming's face got changed. Even Murphy couldn't tell what exactly it was but there was some kind of happiness hidden behind his prominent anger. "Complete your words!", Deming said in a cool manner as if the information didn't affect him that greatly. "When I tried to know more about it then my doubts turned out to be true. Ms. Long Jie has lied to you about her being the little girl from the past. Her father is living his life comfortably in Scotland. Every month a considerable amount of money is being wired to his account from the money we used to send in her account", Murphy concluded. He had deliberately revealed only half of the story. "She dared to impersonate herself to be the little girl I was trying to find", his low dark voice was enough to let people know how bad an ending could get.