2 Welcome party

The minister who had been caught unawares by his daughter's unprecedented visit tried to make it up to her by holding a welcome party for her of which he invited some prominent people and their kids who were in the country at the moment, Grendel had had the privilege of studying in the most prominent international school in the country. After which she had gone to Stanford University in North America for further studies.

Simon was the overseer and although people with status are the hardest to handle he had ensured that all that had entered the mansion were not carrying any dangerous equipment with them, including their bodyguards. He was dressed in a black suit today which made him blend well with the others, his eyes were most of the time on one specific person. He was not too far from him, and not too close like a bodyguard.

"Who invited you in here?" a young male the same age as Grendel, around twenty three by estimate asked.

Simon ignored him, this young fellow had given him a hard time when he was searching the guests for dangerous equipments, he was the son of the minister of agriculture and had a bodyguard following him a round like a puppet. He had rejected strongly the idea of Simon taking his bodyguard's pistol however given that other guests had their bodyguards agree to be disarmed made him relinquish his stand and had his bodyguard hand over his gun.

"are you deaf?" he raised his voice attracting attention to himself, being the center of attraction seemed to be his liking. However people ignored them after Mr Bethwel Okoth called for their attention.

"you just wait!" the boy said under his breathe, nobody had ever ignored him ever since he was young.

seeing that not even his threat had shaken this fellow he turned around and left as his bodyguard followed.

Simon also left the party and headed for his office it was not that he was not doing his job but he had to keep an all round security ensuring that outside the house was safe too. This was not a one man's job but having too many people as security doesn't necessary make one safe in fact it was the mole that caused demise of many wealthy and prominent people.

He enjoyed the quite environment in his office, he was more of a loner. He had been different ever since he was young, having not known who his parents were he had been raised by a well wisher called Joyce who picked him from a ditch that is what she told him. She was like a mother to him for six years, but when he was six years old Joyce who was working as a maid in an influential business man's house handed him to her employer who adopted him when they realized he was very smart in class. Although he was six he had acquired knowledge that could leave a primary school teacher flabbergasted, he had been reading from the home built library when the owner of the house had gone to work and their children to school.

He used to skip school he was in class one and knew how to read so he felt what they were teaching him was useless and felt it was a waste of his time. Well he caught the attention of Mr Mbugua Kennedy and his wife back then when they discovered that he was the person helping their son to do his assignments. This revelation had occurred when they had been summoned by the head teacher who wanted an explanation as to why their son always achieved high marks on assignments but was a poor performer in class in that he could not even calculate achieve a single mark when told to redo his assignment.

Their son had no choice but to come clean, although it was shocking given that their son was thirteen and Simon was only six years, Simon was asked about it and he accepted. He didn't see anything wrong to that, Mr Mbugua Kennedy asked then made a deal with him and also adopted him into his home well Joyce was really struggling to take care of him although she didn't complain he could see it, and given that she also agreed to this Simon didn't object.

Mr Kennedy asked him to represent his son in the national examination for primary level which he did. It was a five day thing and was nothing troublesome he had also been given access to many books so it was a walk in the park for him, he helped Mr Kennedy's son to join a national school and attain scholarship. That was not the end to it at the age of ten he also did a secondary level national exam for him again, giving him entry to the best university in the nation.

Simon went further and helped Poul Mbugua in his university studies under the influence of his adoptive father although Poul attended lectures his exams and experiments in the automotive engineering class were all done by Simon who was the brain behind all this, all along the line until masters he had helped the Poul when Simon turned eighteen and got his identity card, Mr Kennedy Mbugua as an appreciation used his means to help him enroll into the army and also emancipated him.

He had taken up the name Simon which was given to him by Joyce and Makokha which he gave himself meaning the abandoned, he had no friends when he had been growing up and was mostly reading unlike fellow kids although one could not call him handsome he was not far from it and he had the disposition of a gentleman with the masculinity of few years of brutal training.

The party was still ongoing it was fitted with cool music and everyone seemed well cultured in there even though some were just keeping up for show everything was fine, the adults and the youths had separated themselves, given that Simon could see everything that was going on in the party he could not fail to see how they were drinking themselves in excess given their age but who was he to judge was it not their parents who brought them up this way.

"watch over my daughter"

A voice drifted on his earpiece.

"OK"

They normally used the earpieces when they were in crowded areas, even though most of the time he was always close by they had never bygone this.