CHAPTER 3
“So Canada then”, Jack said, two days after my 18th birthday.
“Yep, Canada”, I pile the plates atop each other as we get things ready for the dinner rush.
“Did you get all the papers you need?” he stirs the pot with the spaghetti sauce.
I turn to look at him and for the first time I really look, beyond the brown teeth and the old age which annoyed me most of the time, now I really looked and I saw the wrinkles caused by old age, his hands that looked over used, “Why do you keep cooking? You’re rich enough”, I say turning back to the plates.
“My daughter’s favorite thing was my food” he says and I drop a plate in surprise, catching before it shatters.
He glares at me and I look away guiltily, “I didn’t know you had a child”, I say after a while.
“Well I had, twins and a wife too”, he sighed and put the pot down, “I met my wife when I was 18 and we were very in love, I know that English is bad Mr. School but I couldn’t find a better word. At 20, I married her and our first were twins, girls, Rae and Rebecca, beauty blondes, my wife was from a rich family so she couldn’t do more than cleaning her ass after taking a shit, so I did it all, cook, clean, and everything needed in running the house but I was an ugly man, and when our kids were 5, Rae said to me, “The only thing mum and I like about you is that you can cook”. Rae was more like her mum so I believed her mum would have said something like that”, he stopped and sniffed.
I turned to look at him and saw him wiping a plate furiously, “Hard to hear that stuff when you are in love”, I say
“Rebecca said “no daddy, I love you for all of you”, and she hugged me, that day I cried on my 5 year olds body and in the evening I went to my wife, “hey babe, what’s up”, she looked up from her nails that she was filing and raised perfectly plucked eyebrows, yes that was my wife always on flick, I told her about what happened with Rae and she burst out laughing.
I looked at my love for 5 years and she was laughing at something that obviously hurt me so and she burst out laughing and then she turned back to her nails, I was so pissed that I dragged her by her hair and she screamed till she stood, I was just so pissed, and then I forced her to have sex to this guy she hated.
The next day I woke up to and empty house, few hours later, the police were in my house being led by the high and might William Smith, he was friends with my wife’s side lover, turned out all these years she was cheating on me and the twins might not have been mine as a matter of fact, but to me they have always been mine, when I came out of prison, all I could do was cook, in hopes that the twins might find me soon enough, but apparently not all wishes could come true”, he let out a sarcastic laugh.
“That’s why you hate him”, I finally said.
“I don’t hate him, I hate that he had the power”
“One and the same thing”, I said turning back to my arrangement, since I had moved to putting the chairs down.
“You grew up to be smart mouthed boy, and a fine young man too”, I turned to him smirking.
It was true that surprisingly I had turned into this guy that wasn’t me, my hair had become a better shade of brown and I grew out muscles and height, I even started getting extra tips from females customers and even a few had slipped me their numbers.
I was awesome, but I still couldn’t smile, “We weren’t even talking about that at all”, I say.
“What’s the first thing you’ll do when you get to Canada”, he says still avoiding the main topic.
“Well I’ll change my name and fix my teeth”, I humor him.
“Teeth I can understand but name?” he said as he wipes the board and writes down today’s special.
“Well I can’t be called Long when I go to meet William Smith”, I say shrugging like that was an obvious fact.
“Oh boy, you have this whole fantasy going on in your head”, he says and I shrug not saying anything as the first few customers start coming in.
“Don’t let them fuck your life up”, he whispers close to my ears.
“Oh they won’t get the opportunity, I was going to deal with those fuckers after I take the power”, I say back before I turn and start taking orders.
That night goes as every night had gone, good business and large tips, and of course the numbers, the only thing different was my heart, the thought that I was going to be in Canada by this time tomorrow mad my heart beat twice as fast.
Morning came faster and I was packing my real tiny load and was getting ready to leave, when I was done, I looked round the restaurant, thinking about how it shaped a larger part of my life, “Boy, come here”, I heard Jack shout, I slung my back pack over one shoulder and turned to him.
“Hope you aren’t stealing my shit boy, because I am capable of finding you and whooping your ass”, he says.
I pass my bag to him, “search it”, I say.
“No, I don’t want your dirt on me”, he says, then he put his hands in his pocket and brought out a black card.
I stepped back in shock and rose my hands up, “where did you get that?”
“It isn’t a gun boy, it’s a black card, lose that look, you were saying you need to leave an impression, so be a scholarship kid in a rich way, wear nice things and live good, when you make your money you can merge the account with your new name but this one is in Anthony Long and that’s who you will ever be to me”, he says.
I put out my hands and take the card, “I won’t say no to do this”, I say pocketing it quickly.
He nods and I see the tiniest bit of smile on his face, “Be good, don’t let anyone take that from you” he says.
“I lost my goodness years ago old man Jack”, I say as I turn back and walk out.
CHAPTER 4“Welcome to Canada, Mr. Long” the airport attendee said as we got down from the plane, I nodded at her and kept moving with my head bent low.I was still Anthony Long and I didn’t want anyone to associate me with this kid when I finally changed my name.The actual truth was I had already changed my name and even my scholarship was in my new name, but I had an appointment in the court to finalize the whole process.But all that will come after an aggressive shopping, that was not actually on my list of things to do but after Jack gave me his card I decided that I will have a new look to go with the new name.So first of all to the hotel, then to the shopping mall and finally to the dentist, then by tomorrow I can see the judge for the final clearance.I smiled as I flagged down a taxi and then frowned when he looked at me weird and zoomed off, I was trying to wonder what was wrong with Canada when
 
CHAPTER 6“We will be numbing your teeth by inserting this injection, sir, so just sit back and breathe in”, the dentist says as he brings an injection to my insert in my gums.It’s been a week in Canada and I have had extreme fun, the only downside is not being able to find out a single information about this daughter of William, everyone seems to know he has a daughter but nothing else, not a name, not an age or even where she is at the moment, it was frustrating and annoying but at least I’ve had Emelia and she has been a very good teacher in all things sexual, she even took me to see the sights on a day she faked illness for a sick leave and I had a great time.And I had to lie about my appointment today because by no means no one was to know my weakness, I’ve hidden the fact that my teeth was bad but I didn’t know how to act during my recovery, I had to find a reason to stop seeing her till I was healed a
CHAPTER 7“We welcome all of you to the tour of our prestigious school”, the guide says through a microphone and her voice booms through the halls.It’s been 2 weeks since I had my teeth changed and the pain has lessened considerably but I was still on a liquid only diet and I still gurgle with salt and water, most of the wounds have healed and I could talk without feeling like I was walking on hot coals, generally I felt better and the braces will be put on next week but I got a mail earlier this week that the school would be holding a first tour for people that were handy at the moment and I decided to buy one set of clothing and attend.That was why I was here on a hot Friday afternoon, in the midst of like a thousand people listening to the tour guide telling us about Gold University, Canada.“And for you our special intake we have a special guest, the one and only William Smith”, she screams and my heart
CHAPTER 8A week later and I’m still thinking of Emberlynn Smith and how I should treat the case, at first thought I was going to ignore her existence but right now it is no longer an option because I sat to think of what daughter wouldn’t care if someone is a threat to her father and there were only to available options where she was concerned, kill her or love her, and there was no way I was hard enough to kill her with all those guard around her it will be close to impossible to kill her even if it was a hired killer.I walk into the dentist’s and I raise my hand to wave at the receptionist as I pass straight into the dentist’s office, I’m five minutes late already.“Good morning Luca”, the dentists says with a smile, “Are you ready for your braces?” he asks.I nod absentmindedly and my mind travels to a certain daughter and I begin to wonder how hard it will be to fall in love with
CHAPTER 9“I even have to shop for you now”, Emilia grumbles as we walk into the shopping mall, “I’m taking this motherhood thing to a different level”, she sighs.“I promise to buy you pretty things and also do pretty bad things to you later”, I whisper as I bite her ears and she shivers.“Well, with all these promises I can see the good in becoming your mother”, she says using her hands to make quotation marks around the word mother.It’s been a few months since we had the ‘age’ discussion and since then Emilia hadn’t let it go, well except when we were having sex which was getting more often, I had run out of condom more than ten times and I do buy in bulk.Finally today I got her out of bed to do shopping with me in her free time since school was set to resume soon, I was to get a car too but after a while I realized it might be too extreme so a motor
CHAPTER 10I put the last cloth into my box and sigh, today I was officially moving to a house near the school, according to them tomorrow would be the first day of resumption, the only thing still pushing me to actually go on with this was the fact that I had to have that power that William sat on and that I got to see Aria everyday now.I smiled as I thought of Aria, at first what I wanted from her was all knacks but getting to know her had been eye opening and like a breath of fresh air.She loved to draw and she was actually going in for an art major, when she told me she had a whole dream of why she chose arts, so I felt really ashamed when she asked my major and I said business, but when she asked of the why, all that came to my mind was power.But I recovered when she said one of her turn on was power, I felt like I had found my soul mate, she would just have to wait a while before we had our happily ever, a long time really becaus
CHAPTER 11“I’m not going for the orientation Aria, it’ll just be like the tour, where they pull down some and lift some and it would also be a forum for sorority houses to put in their nets”, I grumble as Aria ties to convince me to attend the orientation.Its been a week since we moved in, or rather I moved in and Aria has been here every other day, she insisted on getting her room in the hostel like a good kid, but she ended up here every day, it was a good thing for me since we had to share the bed whenever she came over.And yes, nothing ever happens, I respect her and I want whatever happening to be more than the shit with Emilia.Speaking of, Emilia had been one of the thorns in my flesh in this past week, when she was taken to the hospital and stitched, the management questioned her and she said I was responsible for the cut, which wasn’t a lie, but there was no way I would admit that ever.Any