Chapter 778 - Change of Mindset (1/2)

Back at the Smith Mansion, Junior was looking at Lianne and Joseph with wide, innocent eyes, ”So your cats are safe now?”

Joseph nodded happily, ”Kyle is awesome.”

Junior agreed, saying, ”Uncle Kyle is the best.”

Then, he sighed loudly, munching on his toast, ”It would have been even better if he really was my father.”

Joseph nearly splattered the milk he was drinking.

”Father?!” he squeaked, ”Wouldn't big brother be better?”

After all, Kyle was only … what, 20? How could a 20-year-old have a four-year-old kid? Okay, wait. No, that is possible. In some countries, you could find mothers as young as 13 years old. What more, a guy?

”Mama had thought Kyle was my father, so I always thought so,” Junior explained, ”I wish it was true.”

Joseph's eyes nearly bulged out of his head.

”Your … mother … thought Kyle …” Joseph stammered.

”Umhmm,” Junior replied, ”Mama and Kyle were boyfriend and girlfriend back then, but she had to leave him when she moved. She was really sad.”

For his mother to think that, it meant that Kyle had s.e.x when he was 16 … and if Kyle was so free in that aspect, what about Kay?

Joseph felt like his worldview had drastically changed.

It wasn't that he didn't know about the bird and the bees - he was 13, after all. He was just on the verge of puberty with his hormones and curiosity raging. S.e.x and girls were part of that.

At the same time, he as also one that was raised in a conservative country so he found it hard to adjust his thinking a bit. His mother had always told him about respecting girls and never to cross the line.

She had been telling him that since he was 12. It could be because he had his first confession then and she was worried about him taking the girl's feelings too lightly. He didn't really understand his mother then and what she was trying to say but now, though.

It made some sort of sense.

Of course, he couldn't help but wonder about Kay. He remembered how Auntie Delilah had been hounding Kay about her having a boyfriend. He had been jealous then, but relieved to find out that she was still single.

But she was single now … it didn't mean she was single while in college, right?

His mind was in a whirl.

One the one hand, having premarital s.e.x was something he had been taught to be wrong. On the other hand, he couldn't think it was wrong for Kay … but he didn't like it if she had.

It was very confusing for him.

To be raised and living in a conservative society shaped his mind, so the fact that people in this country were very liberal in that sense was still hard for him to grasp fully.