Back when I was seven my mom took me to visit one of her friends, it was actually her best friend. She was expecting a child and only had a few months before the baby arrived, I didn't know much back then. My mother told me all the information. When we got there her friend was indeed heavily pregnant and she told my mom that one of the priests she always went to told her that she was expecting a baby girl. And being the best friends they were at the time, they decided that I along with the unborn baby girl had to get along and marry one day. Well, as a seven year old I took that lightly, it was just a funny joke to me.
Little did I know that the two women weren't joking . That same day they went to visit that same priest again and told him about the whole getting together thing in order to strengthen their friendship. You see at the time my mom and I lived at another town with my dad and they hardly saw one another.(Mom and her friend) The priest gave my mom and her friend two bracelets, one was white with only one bead that was black while the other one was black with only one white bead. They made me wear the black one and said the unborn baby would wear the white one as soon as she was born. I was then told to promise to look after the child and never be apart from her. I don't quite remember a lot about that day, I was happy that I got a very cool looking bracelet. I was seven so yah, I wouldn't blame myself. But little did I know that that day would be the last time my mom and I would get to travel again in order to visit her friend. The only thing my mother told me was that her friend couldn't make it after giving birth and she wasn't told anything about the child. She said her friend's husband took the child away with him and moved to another place so yah, she didn't even get to go to her best friends funeral. But she told me that no matter what, I shouldn't take off the bracelet on my hand because I had made a promise and it would be very bad if I broke it. She used to tell me that the bracelet was the last memory she had of her friend. So I just grew up with it, I kept it on for my mother's sake. And now I am a twenty eight year old whom is still looking for his bride.
You see I just didn't know why I wasn't able to be interested in anyone. At first I thought it was because I was busy with work but that was just not the case. I was a chef by the way, I had two restaurants, I wasn't that rich to be having multiple ones and I was partners with two of my friends, Tim and Tom. Judging from the names you might tell that they were related, from what they used to tell me back when we were kids, I think they had the same dad and different mother's, something like that. Their mothers ended up finding out that they were expecting kids from the same man at the same time and they didn't make a huge deal out of it. Instead they ended up being friends and naming their kids like that,maybe it was just to let the father know that he was busted. Those two and I have been friends for as long as I can remember and even today, we are still us. The three of us ended up going to culinary school since we were obsessed with food. And here we were today. Throughout our time growing up they always had questions regarding my choice of lifestyle. Well, when I was a teen I didn't go out with anyone.They used to set me up with many girls but that never worked out. I really didn't have a clear explanation as to why I didn't find any of the people they set me up with interesting. It was just something I myself couldn't even explain. And when we finally got out of highschool I also thought that maybe I would meet that certain someone but still, that person wasn't reachable.I would go to multiple dates with many women but we always ended up with a kiss. Nothing more than that. And I'm not even ashamed to say that I've given up. Maybe I wasn't meant for love. I still remember how my mom would always tease me about girls saying I was wasting my good looks and stuff like that. She honestly thought I was hooking up with any girl I came across instead of being in a serious relationship, I wouldn't blame her for thinking that way.
I had friends that enjoyed telling her about the ten women I would go out with in a week so yah, she probably thought I was a player and stuff like that but that wasn't the case. I was just searching for someone I could get along with. Someone whom would make me feel like home you know. I just do not know if that someone was also looking for me though.
It was a very beautiful morning, not really that beautiful since I was woken up by a very loud alarm on my headstand, it wasn't even mine. It belonged to Tom, well he and I still lived together . Funny story, the three of us used to live together before Tim found a woman and made her his wife and left the two of us on our own. Since Tom and I were the remaining lonely birds we decided to continue living together and he still insisted sleeping in the same room with me. There was only one reason to it, this man was lazy, he would sleep for the whole day if he could . And everytime he would set an alarm, it always woke me up instead of him. Today was just one of those days, he was still snoring besides me meanwhile my desire to sleep was gone, I couldn't go back anymore since his alarm did the pleasure of only waking me up so I just decided to get ready for the day.I went straight to the bathroom and took a shower. As I was done I went to brush my teeth, went to find something to wear and then went to the kitchen to make us breakfast. I wouldn't really complain, I loved cooking so much that I could do it for an entire day and never get tired. But today I wasn't in the mood for anything fancy, I just toasted some bread, fried some eggs along with sausages. And tea was also ready so now I had to wake that friend of mine or else he would choose not to go to work. He always did this, if ever I woke up and ate before him. He would tell me to just go on without him and he would see if he would be able to join after and just know that he wouldn't ever bother to come. The moment you leave the house he goes back to sleep and I didn't want to risk that, this man hardly went to work.
I then went back to our room, not really ours, the room belonged to me. Tom had his but hardly slept in it so my room became ours. I found him still sleeping peacefully but I wasn't letting him be this time. I began by taking the blankets away from him and then I pulled him out of bed and dragged him to the bathroom and woke him by a very cold shower. Just a normal day in this life of mine, nothing much. I then left him to shower and in less than twenty minutes he was already done, so he joined me for breakfast and as we were done eating we went to work. We normally used his car, I hated buying gas so we could say I was saving while riding with him. After a while we arrived at our restaurant, to be honest, the two of us hardly visited the second one simply because it sold mostly desserts and the two of us didn't really deal with that. We dealt with food okay, only Tim dealt with that so the second restaurant was all in his hands. By the time we arrived we found the cleaners already busy so we also went in for a morning talk with the staff before getting to work. Like always Tim didn't show up on our side, but it was worth it.
The three of us hardly did any work when we were together. We always ended up bickering and scaring off people whom didn't really know us well. Bickering was just another language we spoke so yah. It was kinda busy today, and like always my dear friend always took small breaks in the store room. I mean he has been doing that same thing for years so I was already used to it. We had enough staff to fill in when he did that. And honestly speaking we had more customers than most days so by the time we knocked off I was very tired. I just wanted to jump into my blankets and drift to lala land. If only my driver wasn't Tom. After knocking off from work he had to rest for half an hour in the car before driving us back. So yah, I couldn't really complain. It wasn't my car to start with. But thankfully we finally went home and there I was shocked to find Tim's car outside. What a day, this man hardly paid us a visit anymore, even when he came to our restaurant he would always come with his wife so I was shocked to see him there all by himself.
Since the house was still locked I went over to his car to let him know that we were home, so he got out and we all went into the house. I was the first one to freshen up, I really needed that. I was tired and as I was done I found Tom already eating some desserts.
"So Tim,family man what brings you here, do you want to be infected by our singleness " I asked him as I went in to eat the cupcakes he had brought.
" You seem to forget that I am talking to someone Aiden One Samson" said Tom.
I just wanted to throw a punch at him at this point. I really hated the way he would call out my name, I just didn't get why mom would give me such a name. I mean, Aiden was fine. It was cool but then the One in the middle just didn't make sense. And Tim always made sure to tease me about it.