The door flew open immediately and Mr Perkins backed away from me instantly.
Still frozen I remained by the wall as Mrs Blake and my mother walked into the room.
"Mr Perkins!!!!!!!!, what are you doing?", Mrs Blake yelled, she ran up to him and shoved him but he was to big rather probably OVERWEIGHT so the push did not have the required effect.
"Salve quam vos?", was Mr Perkins reply.
Mrs Blake practically screamed and pointed her well manicured finger towards the door.
Mr Perkins simply straightened his tie and looked over to me and my face nonchalantly repelled and faced the other direction.
How could he?.
"Remember Lindon, I could give you ten million for just an hour, sic verum est", and with that he was out the room, just not before Mrs Blake had a chance to scream, "Inutilis".
He thinks I would willingly go through being sexually assaulted for money?.
I shivered.
"Can someone tell me what on jupiter is happening here?".
"Mr Perkins has an obssession with white dark haired teenagers and every single one of them that he sees, he brings them here and tries his best to younno.....", Mrs Blake told my mother, "And I just had this feeling that once he saw Lindon, he would attempt it again. Luckily we were on time. I've been trying to shake him off the company for a while but it is of no use".
I had expected my mother to be worried, rush over to me and check for injuries, better yet run after Mr Perkins and slam his head into the wall and hold her hip and say something like 'Nobody messes with my son', or even just panic and faint from shock but my mother did none of that, what she did though was just the complete opposite of my many possibilities.
She started laughing, she laughed so hard that she tumbled back and fell but yet she continued laughing and rolled her self into a ball as tears began to stream down her face.
On normal circumstances my mouth would be wide open in shock but I was still so very traumatized and the fact that she was not even the least bit concerned made me want to run to the nearest cellphone and tell Diamond Beard that she was laughing at me.
Her laughter did not die down but it only fueled when Mrs Blake told her it was not funny.
Mrs Blake shook her head and approached me.
Her small hand reached up to my face and my repulsion was instanteneous.
She lifted her hands in surrender probably understanding that physical contact was not something I would want from anyone right now.
Mrs Blake reached over to my jeans and pulled my zip and told me how sorry she was for this happening to me as a guest.
I nodded at her and she turned to walk away, Mother was now standing and she walked over to me.
"I'm sorry you were almost raped", she said between chuckles, "But honestly", she covered her mouth to stop her from another out burst.
"Mommmmmm!", I whined.
"It's okay son, you are just too handsome for nothing, I should have married an uglier man maybe just maybe this could have been prevented".
I rolled my eyes at her and she simply held my hand.
She held it tighter than usual and I knew she felt something concerning this whole thing but laughter just over powered what ever that something was, or maybe it was the fact that she indirectly mentioned dad in a sentence and may have possibly called the cause of her suffering handsome.
"We have our brunch in the main hall on the second floor, shall we?".
"You do know it is almost four", mother told Mrs Blake.
I widened my eyes at her, why would she say that?.
Although the thought had crossed my mind that it was closer to evening than noon, and I wondered why it was called a brunch but still I did not say it aloud.
"Yes, yes I am aware, it's an old peoples thing I guess".
Mom and I shared a look and we both whispered the same thing to eachother.
"That's some white people BS".
Beard and Laika always used to say it to me and mom when we did certain stuff and we kind of got used to it as well.
Mrs Blake led us to the 'main hall' where an elongated table with all sorts of food and cutlery greeted us.
Instantly I was hungry, I had thought that after what just happened to me I would have lost my appetite but no I was so hungry that all I needed was an hour to do this table justice.
My eyes hungrily searched for my favourite food, and once I set my eyes on the plate of heaped roasted potatoes I determined that, that was the place I was going to sit at.
The hall began to fill up and I grabbed my mothers hand and practically yanked her to the food table.
"Lindon what are you........Oh".
I laughed at her.
My brain passed several warnings, One of which was to not eat like a pig.
I was damn sure that I would get the cutlery wrong, probably use a spoon when I was supposed to use a knife, or fork when I was supposed to use a spoon, but what did it matter, the main goal was to eat the food right?, even if I shoved it down my throat with my bare hands, still the main agenda would be to have my oesophagus push it down the rest of my body and for digestion to take place. So with the power invested in me I declared that for today let spoon be fork and fork be spoon and knife be both spoon and fork in one.
I pulled out my mothers chair instinctly and let her sit down and I took my seat next to hers.
The seats looked as if they had been counted and I sighed with relief that Mrs Blake may have counted us in their guest list.
"Thank you everyone for coming here", I recognized the voice instantly to belong to Mr Blake "So let us grace the food and begin to eat", he said before taking his seat.
Grace the food?.
The whole table bowed their heads and me and my mom looked at eachother, in a swift moment she had tilted my head down.
"Lord we thank you for the food you have brought before us, we ask that we eat it to your glory in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen", The table sang in unison.
Mom leaned in and whispered in my ear "You did not tell me they were Christains".
"I had no idea", I replied honestly.
For my first years in high school, I was a geek, I would spend all my time in science labs and reading physics, chemistry and biology text books, they made much more sense when it came to things like God, the big bang theory. I simply had always wanted proof that a God existed, the only problem was how does one acquire such proof. So I had left it like that. I did believe in something I just did not know what it was.
"Meh", was mothers reply.
The conversation rose amongst the table and I looked over at Red who was smiling at me.
I tilted my head to the side in confusion because why would he just smile at me like that?. It was weird.
Was he gay too?.
He pushed his head slightly at his right side so my eyes travelled there, I did not know who that was, so I look back at him shrugged my shoulder.
He palmed his face and mouthed, "Your side".
I turned and it was my mother peacefully removing the jackets off of the raosted potatoes and putting them onto a plate for me.
I smiled at her and looked up at Red to find out what he was getting at.
"Who is that?", he mouthed again.
"My mother", I mouthed back.
He nodded his head and pointed at his chest and made a love sign with his hands and tilted his head like before which automatically translated to I love her.
My eyes widened and he raised his hands in surrender before turning over to White.
"There's your friend", mother told me.
"What friend?".
She used her spoon to point in the direction of Mr Perkins and I frowned at her.
He was staring right back at us, probably at me but to keep me sane I was going to go with us.
Mr Perkins winked at me and I made a gagging noise only loud enough for my mother to hear.
"And there goes my appetite", I frowned.
And there it was she started laughing harder than she had when she and Mrs Blake walked into the jewellery room.
The whole table went silent and every set of eyes was now on us.
Mother did not seem to notice and continued laughing.
I stared at her my eyes wide open.
Red was the next to start laughing and all his brothers joined in.
Until the whole table started laughing too, I thought it was complete madness until I myself began to laugh when I heard a particular laugh that sounded like a scream and the person went on scream\laughing until the entire table fueled down.
"Well ain't laughter the best medicine", someone said.
I ate in silence as my mother had a conversation with the person next to me.
I seemed to be the only one not having a conversation with anyone else so I turned to the other person sitting next to me and muttered a hi.
"Hey", she said in the most squeaky and tiniest voice I had ever heard "I'm Pink".
Ohhh so this was the other quintuplent.
She looked funereal but her eyes lit up when she spoke to me.
"It's actually Pearl Dabostry".
"Okay then Pink".
I asked of the book she was secretly reading under the table and found out that I had read it before.
Conversation after that simply flowed till the end of brunch.
After exiting the hall, mom and I decided that it would be better we took our leave.
Mr Blake was disappointed because he wanted us to stay for lunch, or atleast Lunch Lunch, but we couldn't we explained how we always had dinner with Diamond Beard and Laika and how we couldn't miss it.
He nodded and ordered a waiter to pack a fruit cake for us.
It was gigantic and I could literally hear Laika screaming because she adored fruit cake.
I hated it. It had too many things inside and it tasted wrong but who on earth would support me in this decision.
The limo was not as fascinating when we entered for our departure but it still gave me that giddy effect.
Once home Laika and Beard were already seated in the dinning room.
Laika seemed to have cooked.
"We brought cake!", I yelled.
And like I had said 'Spot I'm home' Laika came running like a dog did when their owner arrived.
She screamed practically yanking the large box away from me, scurrying to the direction of our small kitchen and I simply shook my head and took my seat at the table and greeted Diamond.
Once we were all seated mom decided to tell everyone one about what hapoened with Mr Perkins.
I groaned and she just stared at me with the goofiest smile.
And like a moth drawn to a flame I hugged her because this was the best and worst day of my life.
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