What if?

Chapter 21: Good Boy

Nick

I heard Michael say something but it was unclear for me. I wanted to ask what he said but mom said something. "It is so beautiful right? Ahhh... look girls, our work is so great." Mom said to the helpers. Now mom is giving them names. I think that the ages of the helpers are 25-30 years old. Because they look like that age. wait a minute, I don't know mom and dad's age. I turned to Michael and saw him staring at me. "Hey! Is there a problem?" I asked Michael. "Nothing, why?" Michael replied. I thought that there was something wrong with me but since he said there isn't I trusted what he said. "I thought there was something. Nevermind, I wanted to ask you something." I whispered to Michael's ears while Mom was still busy flexing how wonderful her doings are. She is very proud of herself now so I took it as an opportunity to ask Michael.

Michael was a little hesitant to answer me so I added more to what I just said earlier. "It's about Mom and dad." I whispered again to Michael's ears. "I see. what is it then?" Michael asked in a soft voice without whispering it to my ears. "Well, This just came to my mind suddenly and I wanted to ask you about it. It is about the ages of mom and dad. How old are they by the way?" I asked Michael to know the information. "Oh I thought it was something really secret. You can ask them if you really want to know." Michael answered me. I really thought for a minute that he would answer my question but I was wrong. 

It is really Michael's attitude to be such a jerk and keep on playing. Ugh! If only I am not that curious I wouldn't dare to ask him this anymore but I really need to know. What if mom or dad's birthday is this week? Then I am not prepared. I don't want to be in that kind of situation. That will be so shameful. I should make some sort of effort so that they will think that I am also doing something that will make us get to know each other. Unfortunately, Michael is acting like a freaking jerk. 

Lucky him that I don't have a choice but to ask him. "Hey I am asking you because I know that you will answer well not like you are freaking joking with me." I said to his ears with an irritated voice. "Kidding! Gosh what would you do without me? Okay fine I will answer you since I feel so responsible for you. Mom and dad have the same birthday. Their birthdays are every September 22. Surprising right?" Michael said. 

Wow! It is really surprising. "That is just so cool." I answered Michael. "I know. That's why they got a cool son." Michael replied in a boastful attitude. "I really hate you when you talk like that. But thanks for answering." I replied to Michael. "You are very much welcome." Michael replied to me. I somehow like Michael when he acts so obedient like this. But whenever he is being so proud of himself I just can't even look at his face or listen to his annoying voice.

Okay let me set aside my problem with Michael. Mom and dad’s birthdays are the same? Wow! That is just so amazing, I mean you just often hear that in novels or movies but in reality it also happens. Mom and dad’s life is an example of a perfect romance. I believe that they are really meant to be since birth. They were meant to be born on the same day, went to the same college and fell in love with each other. How romantic their relationship is. 

Here I am imagining mom and dad’s life when they weren’t yet married. I was picturing out the time they were born and the time they saw each other for the first time. I know that I am blushing knowing that I am really a supporter of my parents' love story. 

In some stories and movies the storyline about a smart guy and a not so smart lady is so popular. I didn’t really believe in such stories but when I heard about mom and dad’s story I started to believe. I don’t like anyone, of course, I think it is reasonable but knowing about this just makes me blush. I hope one day I can find one that will make me feel like the world is revolving to someone and me only. The feeling of loving somebody.

"Okay now, let us watch it okay?" I heard Mom say, I stopped imagining things and focused on the event for tonight. Wow, the timing is just right. Mom finished talking about how proud she was of her doings and Michael on the other side started to become a good kid. He is not moving at all and just staring at the TV screen. "Ladies and boys, you can get food on the table while watching, besides, nobody is allowed to go to sleep without finishing all the food here." Dad said. After dad said that all the helpers looked at each other and I also looked at everyone that was in the living room with us. When I turned to look at Michael, he only had this excitement on his face to watch on the TV screen. I don't even know if he heard dad talking like that. 

The movie is now playing on the TV screen and I am actually a little hungry now. But I am too shy to get the food first. So what I did was to wait for somebody to get food on the table. My body is facing the TV screen but my eyes are on the food. 

After a few minutes still, there wasn't a person who got the food on the table. I am so hungry that I said to myself about food already. "Oh s**t! I am so hungry, whatever! I don't give a thing anymore about being shy." I said to myself. I was about to move my hands when I saw Maria, the straight haired helper, extend her hand to get a pizza. As soon as Maria got one the other helpers started to get some for themselves too. Now, it gave me the courage to grab some food for myself. 

I finally extended my hand and grabbed a pizza for myself. As soon as I had one, I started to eat it. "Ugh! This is so yummy." I said to myself. Of course, I can't say it out loud because that would be very embarrassing for other people to hear. I then set my eyes on the TV screen and continued to watch. 

The kid is quite amusing and a brat also. I can't tell yet because the movie just started but from what I am seeing here now the boy is a little brat that wants everything to be on his plans. His brother is such a bully. I turned to look at Michael’s direction to see his reaction about the older brother bullying his younger brother. “Ugh! No feelings at all.” I said softly but I knew that it was enough for Michael to hear. “I’ve never hurt you, but you did.” Michael also said softly but enough for me to hear.

Michael is really a jerk. I said that I hoped he would reflect on his doings but I was wrong. What he did was he pointed out that I was the one who was like the older brother. “Whatever!” I replied to Michael without looking at him. After I heard that I heard him giggled, see? He is just an evil young boy. I shouldn’t have opened that topic to him, now I feel so bad about hurting myself. “Why am I the one reflecting on this movie? Ugh!” I said to myself. 

The young boy did something wrong that embarrassed his family so he got penalized by sleeping in the attic. Some of the young kids with him, well his cousins actually think that the attic is scary but the young don't think about it like that. What he is thinking right now is how much he hates his family and most especially his older brother. 

I really think that his older brother is not a good role model for him. He was actually the one who started to tease his younger brother. That's why he got mad and messed up everything on the table. Now because he was seen doing that, his whole family thought that he was being ignorant. I know that he did something wrong but they should have listened to what he wanted to say first before throwing him bad words and ignorant eyes on him. The scene was painful for me, what if that happens to me one day? What if my family that I only have will do that as well? Maybe I will only cry. But I don’t think they will do that to me. 

We all just continued to watch the movie. It is already morning and everybody is busy with their own things because they will be late. The time came that they were now all in the car and counting themselves they thought and counted the boy in the neighborhood thinking that he was also part of the family but actually he wasn’t. So all the poor child’s family went already to the airport thinking and gladly they weren’t late for the plane and got inside the airplane but the poor child was still at home. When he woke up, he searched for his parents and relatives' presence but they weren’t inside the house. At first he thought that his wish during the night came true, it was to get rid of his family. 

It took him time to realize that it was actually that his parents and relatives were on their way to the place where they will spend their holiday. I was too focused on what’s happening in the movie and almost forgot to eat so when I remembered that I haven’t eaten that much, I got another pizza and opened a can of organic juice to drink. 

The time came that there were thieves that visited his home. The thieves were not able to go inside his house because they did something really funny but helpful for them to go away. The thief postponed their plan because they thought that there were still people in the house.

Now I am starting to get deeper into the story. So the story really tells about a young boy who was accidentally forgotten inside the house on Christmas holiday and about the two thieves who steal things inside the houses of the village where the young boy lives that Christamas holiday. The story is getting funnier. The young boy is clever. He has unexplainable wits. He does things to protect himself away from the thieves and to protect his home away from them. 

He thought that because he was the only one inside the house, he was responsible to take care of it. I am really amazed by the young boy’s actions. He is really good and I even think that this is really happening in real life. But of course it isn’t. 

I am really into this movie and like it a lot. I turned to see other’s reactions to the movie. I saw their faces and I can tell that they are also into the movie a lot. Until I saw Michael’s face, I saw him biting his right index finger. I think he also likes the movie a lot like me. I smiled a little after seeing him biting his finger. I don’t know but I just find it cute. Is this normal? I mean, I just want to say what I really think about and that is he really looks cute doing that. Michael turned to look at me. I think he noticed that I was staring at him. “Look at the TV screen.” I heard Michael say. “Whatever!” I replied. 

It just came to my mind that I haven’t seen Michael getting something for himself to eat. I got some pizza, put them on a plate and also got an organic juice, opened it and gave it to him. “What’s this?” Michael asked as soon as I gave him the food and drink. “Books. Don’t you have eyes? They are foods. Eat, don’t just watch.” I said to Michael. He did not reply to anything. Instead, he followed what I said. “Good boy.” I teased Michael.