Behind Blue Eyes
Copyright© 2025 by DB86
Chapter 2
Robert Campbell looked out his flat window, toward Madison Square Park. He was a successful lawyer in his father’s firm working on high-profile cases.
His father, Alistair Campbell, had built his group practice with his eye on having his son join him one day. Everything in Robert’s life had moved along as his father had planned.
Everything except one thing; he had always felt empty and alone.
“It’s true what they say, money doesn’t bring happiness,” he thought, looking at his reflection in the window.
“Robert? Are you thinking about the Gardner case?” Alistair asked.
“No, father. I am not.”
“What is it then? Let it out, Son,” his father asked. “What has the boy done this time?”
Robert smiled. His father knew him too well.
“Benji is hiding something from me,” Robert finally admitted.
“Could you call him by his full name? Benjamin is a more distinguished name than Benji.”
“Cut that crap, Dad. You know I don’t care about it.”
“Language, Robert.” Alistair shook his head, and sighed, “Why do you think Benjamin is hiding something from you?”
Robert thought about his son’s behavior over the past few days.
“He’s nervous, distracted, and comes home late, something he has never done before. Do you think he has a girlfriend?”
“It wouldn’t surprise me. After all, he is his father’s son. You used to be quite a lady’s man. Did you have ‘the talk’ with him?”
“Yes, Dad. He knows everything about the birds and the bees. That’s not it.”
“Why don’t you ask him?”
“I already did. He looked me in the eye and said it was nothing. But he was obviously lying. It’s like he’s mad at me for something.”
“Now that you mention it, he has been avoiding me too,” Alistair said and shrugged. “Teens. I guess he’s reaching that age. You were a very rebellious teenager, too.”
“He is only twelve years old!”
“Kids nowadays are smarter than we were in our growing days. With easy access to information. The other day I saw a six-year-old girl teaching her grandmother how to use a laptop. It amazed me to see how fast kids learn these days.”
“Yes, children are tech-wise, but they still need guidance and role models. Benji lives in a house full of men, goes to an all-boys school, he has no sisters or mother...” Robert sighed. “I think he misses having a female figure to dote on him, a mother.”
Alistair frowned. “That girl passed away when Benjamin was born. He never got to know her. How can he miss someone he never knew?”
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