Chapter 202: Call me Dad

At that moment I felt really bad, how he could think that he will marry mom, who is he, oh, was it because he had money? He thinks he can buy my mom over?" All these were my thoughts as we both strode to the door which seem sealed without a handle.

"Take off the hat."

So he said pointing at the head of a polar bear with a black hat. I wonder where he got the head of a polar bear from, this is Africa, there is nothing like that, maybe he got it from Europe. So, I went to the bear and took off the hat and the sealed door made a cracking sound and the door began to open.

What started cool and smooth later went bad, fake dad had to go begging before he could restore the atmosphere back to the normal state, it was only in the evening that mom had to make him see that all was well, he was meant to realize that he was a little bit too fast as he promised to take thing slowly judging from the fact that mom was yet to heal completely from the previous pains that he cwas her.

For a fact, if truth is to be told and unnecessary jealousy is removed, then I will confidently say that fake dad is good for mom, he is a very nice person, he is cool, nice, and really knows how to treat someone I and sure he also knows how to treat a lady, but at that moment, I was blond with my Illusions of mom and Dad being together. 

"Ikem..."

He called me with that soft but hard voice of his. Fake dad has a habit of looking someone directly in the eyes when he talks, and that actually gives me a tingling.

"Tomorrow is Christmas, Where will you like us to go."

He asked me with his eyes planted in mine and with a soft smile. I looked at him in wonder. Why will he want me to pick a place? It's not like I even know any place here in Abuja, the only place that I knew at that moment was Silverbird. I don't even know any other place then.

"Me? I don't know sir."

"Hmm... Sir is not a bad title, but why not call me dad? I will like to hear you call me dad, I think it will sound well in your mouth."

So he said.

"Hmm... Sir, I am not sure if it will sound any nice, I haven't called anyone dad before, so I am not sur if it will sound well in my mouth."

So I said in response to him asking me to call him dad. When I said this, I saw the look in his face, he felt bitter, he came to me with a moody face, held me by the hands and say:

"I am so sorry my son, it was all my fault, you haven't called anyone daddy because I was never there to play the role of a father to you. I am sorry my love, I am sorry because I left you and your mom for another woman, an evil lady. Look at me my boy, today I am making you a promise, I am promising you that I will do anything possible to cover up for all the time and days that I have missed. I am sorry love, trust me, I will make it up to you and your mom."

He said, now he wrapped me in his strong arms, giving me a very warm hug he said:

"Tomorrow, u will decide of the best place to take you and your mom to, but the both of you will have to decide the category of place that you will like us to go, then I will pick the best in the category."

He added.

That night I couldn't sleep, the room where I slept was very beautiful and big, my room was directly beside the fake dad's room he insisted that I take the room since mom had refused to sleep close to him. I know mom's reason for not accepting to sleep close to him, she knows that I will be thinking that maybe something fishy was going on between them both. I already know, I knew that she had been nursing deep feelings for him before and now as well. Ever felt like you are being watched? That was the feelings I felt that night, I felt like there were many eyes planted around like a CCTV, watching me. I just lie there watching the very high white Ceiling with a ceiling fan which was definitely for fancy, because the fan hardly generate enough air, we were lucky fake dad had an AC in every room, despite the cold, i still love the temperature, the room was very cold that i was wvwn suggesting that we should share it.

Later, I finally slept, yeah I did sleep, but I woke with a very bad dream, though not that good, but it is not bad.

In the dream I saw dad in his anger state, he was not happy at all, he asked me why I have to join my mom to emarrass him, according to him, deep down in the sea, he was made a laughing talk. He advice me to avoid Mr Matthew and all and all his gestures, he went on to that that the man might have secret motives. So he said to me, well, the dream was not that bad, but still, it wasn't a good one.

I woke up ignoring everything that dad said, my whole mins was at the place where we were supposed to go today. "Be wise Damian, be wise, I have to take advantage of this opportunity. Yes, I have to take advantage of the situation and tell him where I will want us to go, pool or beach, he had made it my choice."  So I said to myself as I wake from the sleep.