'THE DIAMOND BOY; SALAMI!!', and his complete family, plus Bruno, the award winning Dog that always is on the front page of many million dollar pet magazine.
"Good evening, the Kelvin family", Mr. Sodiq greeted my family with a fake smile as he and his Diamond family walked out of the elevator. We had all finished our dinner we stood up to act fast.
I stared at Salami,
My Dad grinned at Mr. Sodiq, My Mum stared at Mrs. Sodiq, Vanessa started at Alim and Aliamin, and My Dog; Duke stared at Bruno.
"Okay am bored, am going to bed everyone", Alex my little sister said without a single expression on her face.
I and my Dad somehow ended up in his office, having a conversation.
"You could give me any punishment at all, sure, you could afford it, but you choose this instead, really Dad?" I complained.
"Son, you were dying academically and I saw that, I want the best for you, so I did what anyone on my position would do, but this girl, Diego Camilla, she has taken your sense and dropped it in God's know where, she have made you the worst version of yourself son, for God's sake you are the next C.E.O of my company and you doing all this, you're becoming wild, sneaking into the house at night, wasting money on the poor", my Dad said.
"So now that's how it is!! Dad, that's how you quickly forget what you faced and how you begged for a helper when you were in the trenches, so if someone had helped you then, you would have called it a waste, right?" I asked with tears almost falling from my eyes.
"I passed through all those bad things for a reason son, if someone had helped us, we won't be where we are now. For God's sake I don't want anything bad happening to your future, that's why I am doing all this, I'm doing all this for you. Salami is the best influence you need right now, not a street rat like that bastard" My Dad insulted in anger.
"Dad, I do not ever want to hear you call her that name again, or so help me God", Tears rolled down my eyes.
"Tomorrow you will follow Salami to a cruise ship, and you will learn all your old qualities back from him" My Dad commanded.
"I am not going anywhere Dad!!" I shouted.
"Okay, but note this, I am one of the richest people alive, so it won't take me a minute, to send the Diego family back to the slum the crawled out from" My Dad threatened me.
I was on a Cruiser with Salami, it was just two of us and the sailor, we were as far as 2000 miles away from the nearest dry land.
"I have stopped seeing you on social media and on some magazines boy, if you keep this up you will start sharing a page on forbs with Bruno, what's the matter" Salami asked me without a smile. I knew answering his questions was a waste of time so I just kept shut.
"Fine, don't talk", Salami said and wanted to give up on me.
"But do you know what I am gonna do with your family, do you know what I have installed for you dear family?" Salami asked mischievously.
"Because I know the type of person that will be the C.E.O of the mighty JI industries, I know I will make your family my personal servants, all I have to do is wait for you to be in command, no doubt that you won't drive your family industry straight into the trenches. And when that eventually happens your Dad will be my driver, your Mum will be my chef, your big sister my laundry woman and Alex, little Alex will be forced to be my wife, because by that time, that would be the least she would be able to for her family, I just gottawait", He told me slowly and chuckled.
"Sailor, turn the cruiser around!!" Salami shouted and smiled, because the image of the expression he left me with wads in his head.
That speech rewrote the program of my brain, and made all the things Camilla taught me change, it's like I was returned back to normal. Like 'what was I doing with my life', what if I fail and fail and..., I went silent for a couple hours thinking about my life, and my Dad enjoyed my silence.
On Sunday I tried going out of the house and clearing my mind in a high class restaurant, incidentally I found a girl that shared my pain, and helped me see my career as the C.E.O of J.I Industries, and helped me up back on my feet.
Next day in school, I don't know why but something in me made me avoid Camilla till lunch. I was walking down the hall to the cafeteria Camilla kept calling me but I didn't answer her, when she gave up and wanted to walk away, I turned back.
"Goodness, I was starting to think you were...…" Camilla was saying in relief and wanted to start shedding tears of joy, but then Jane ran pass Camilla and ran to hug me.
"Jane, you attend this school?" I smiled.
"Yeah, I and my family are on a world tour, we own a private jet so we were like 'Why not" Jane chuckled, Camilla stood there as her heart got smashed, broken, destroyed by the moment, she quickly turned away before her tears could drop from her eyes, so no one would see.
Later Camilla opened my locker and wanted to drop a note she wrote for me, but then she saw another note that narrated how the J.I industry is the course of her mother's illness. So in anger she tore the note and banged my locker really hard.
"Jonathan!!" McCall called from afar with Billie following him.
"Jonathan, I have to..., who is this?" McCall asked after noticing Jane.
"This is Jane", I smiled and told McCall and Billie.
"Dude, your advice was a total blow off, she totally hated everything you told to do" McCall cried.
"You didn't just do it right", I said.
"No one can do classy things right like we can, especially not riff-raffs", Jane insulted McCall and smiled. McCall couldn't do anything but run away.
"I should have known, you are just like any other rich brats out there, selfish and wicked", Billie said before exiting my presence. All the things that I was doing to my friends made my conscience unclean".
As I was feeling Sorry for my friend a phone flew to my table, it was Ricky's phone, when I turned it on, I saw the messages Lily sent him, saying she had to break up with him because of his new character, and I saw his Janitor costume which was on the floor.
Camilla walked into their living room, stared at her mum for 5seconds before running into her room before the tears in her eye fell, as she laid on her room door subbing, her mum passed her a letter through the space that was below door, the letter was from her Dad so she cleaned her tears top read it.
Camilla was trying to get me to reply her on whatsapp;
Jonathan!
Jonathan!
Reply!
What?
Where can we meet?
Today?
Yes, quick
Okay, I will send you a location.
I was waiting in a restaurant, and my face was covered with the face cap and a sun glass.
"Jonathan!!" Jane shouted and waved from across the restaurant hall, she came to sit at my table.
"When I saw your cool clothes, I knew it was you", Jane gave a smile so big that her dimples were showing.
"How did you know I was the one? Why do we always meet?" I asked.
"IT'S just so coincidentally" Jane twisted her head and blinked thrice.
"Jonathan!!!" I heard and turned, only to see Camilla standing behind my table.
"I came to tell you that my Dad had prepared a Visa for me and my Mum to leave Brooklyn tonight, but I can see you don't care", Camilla said and cried as she ran out of the restaurant, I tried to run after her but I was no match for her long, strong legs, so I went back to the restaurant but didn't find Jane, after searching the restaurant twice I saw her behind the counter of the restaurant whispering.
"I think I have done it Sir, I have destroyed Camilla and your Son's relationship, so be rest assured that I am steering your son in the right direction", Jane whispered.
"What are you doing?" I asked and Jane was startled to the cure.
"My phone fell" she said still in shock trying to smile.
I was soo sad, like heart broken, regretting all I have done to my friends. When the elevator opened and Grandma was there standing, embracing herself to break something in my body, while Grandpa stood there holding a pip corn and wearing cinema glasses, but Grandma didn't do anything to me seeing my condition.
"What, so I just bought a six hundred dollar popcorn for nothing?" My Grandpa coughed.
"What is wrong boy" Grandma asked but I didn't say a word but walked away.
KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK, my Grandma knocked on my and after waiting for a while, she came into my room, and sat on my bed.
"Boyo, you know if there is anything wrong, just know you can talk to your Grandpa about it, He is a boy too you know" Grandma said and winked.
"No. no Grandma, I don't have that type of problems, ew", I said and chuckled.
"So tell me boyo, you know you can tell me anything, well except those…you know", Grandma told me while patting me on my back.
"IT'S this girl. She showed me life outside wealth, but now I think her influence can make our company crash, and make Alex marry a nerd" I said and covered my face.
"See, boyo you can't keep putting the weight of the world on your shoulders, you have us to help you if you fail", My Grandma smiled and said to me.
"And I am 80.56% sure that I won't fall in love, cause I don't have a heart" Alex startled me.
"Yes boyo, each of us even have several means of making benjamins, so there is no way we will go back to the dark times" My Grandma assured me.
"But, there's no way I can fix what I have done, she said she was leaving tonight, she should be 7000 miles away by now" I cried.
"You don't know the family you are a part of boyo, Vanessa locate!" my Grandma demanded, and Vanessa came through my door.
"There is only one airport close to our location, and any flight isn't till 8:30, this is 8:15", my big sister; Vanessa said with her eye ball glued to the screen of her phone.
"But, I will...never make it in time", I stammered.
"Did I hear someone say race, cause if I did, this entrance would be cooler", my good old Grandpa said as he walked into my room, I smiled back at him, before I realized something.
"What about Dad, we can't hold him down", I said and stared at Alex.
"What!? It's not like I have booby traps all over the house", Alex said and for the first time Alex smiled.
My Dad was in his office reading, immediately mist covered his office, and he heard scary clowns voices.
"What's going on?" my Dad stood up from his chair confused.
"Run papa run", Alex said and fireworks fired from everywhere in the room.
While my Dad was distracted, me and my Grandma was on my Dad superfast race car, and he wasn't obeying any traffic law, isn't that illegal…
We got to the airport and my Grandpa's superfast race car broke an entrance.
"That, was, Black and White", my Grandpa jumped to the feet, before falling asleep on the floor, as the smoke cleared, lots of security officers came and surrounded us.
"I will handle this boyo, go, go get your Love", my Grandma said before running to attack the security officers.
I ran and searched but didn't see her, but then I saw her mother, and Camilla wasn't too far off.
"Camilla!!" I yelled, she heard me but ignored me and entered the airplane tube, I ran after her but I was stopped by guards.
"See, you can't, wait a minute, you are Kelvin Jonathan", the guards shouted excitedly.
"I don't have time, just take my card", I gave him my card and ran into the airplane tube.
"Camilla wait", I said when I caught up to her.
"See look, Jonathan, I am not classy I'm not fancy, I am not like those rich popular girls out there, I am ordinary and normal, and I have feelings", Camilla cried.
"Sorry, I thought I would let my family down, I was afraid that if I failed to be like Salami I would be, I won't be good for my father", I said in a tone of apology.
"I don't like you because you are rich, non of your friends do, I'm sorry but I can't fall for you again, I'm afraid I will have to be strict to you like how I was before, so what do you say to that?", Camilla slowly said not looking at me directly.
"I love you", and after that sentence we just stared at ourselves.
After waiting for a couple of seconds Mrs. Diego said feeling awkward.
"Sorry Jonathan, I need to see my father..." Camilla said and looked away.
"And I need to be with you" I held her hand.
"Then let's go, chica" Camilla finally said after 15 seconds of silence.
I followed Camilla and Mrs. Diego to Los Angerlas , and I had a wonderful time, turns out being not-rich isn't so bad, I promised Camilla I wouldn't spend my money unless she gives me permission to, we spent half a month there before coming back to Brooklyn.
"I'm already missing Las Angelas", I smiled.
"How won't you be", Camilla said and poked my shoulder with her's.
"Jonathan it's your family", Mrs. Diego told us, and I saw my entire family plus Duke, my dog.
"Dad...I'm sorry, but..." I tried to apologize to my father.
"There is nothing to be sorry about, you are no longer a kid, and IT'S high time I stop treating you like one, I'm proud of you", my Dad smiled.
"Billie, McCall, I can explain", I tried to rush when I saw McCall and Billie.
"There is no need, a very long 30 minutes voice mail from Camilla already did" Billie said, after hugging all my friends and family, we walked to the exit of the airport where we saw Ricky waving from his convertible blue car, next to him was Lily, then he drove his car into the sunset.
And so me and my friend and lived happily ever after, for now.