FINDING A BEST FRIEND

"You seem to have great interest in old model computers. Do you?" Suxes minded to know about the scrap old model computer Kevin kept at the side.

As Kevin finished the last quarter of a yummy pizza in his hand, Suxes stretched his arms and picked the computer.

"You don't have to touch my object!"

But the object was already in Suxes' hands and he was observing it clearly. Kevin's trust for him was inevitable. It came naturally and automatically.

And since he gave him food to eat and treated him differently from all other humans he came across in the streets, at this moment Suxes was Kevin's hero to trust. Kevin never went hard on him for holding the object.

"Wow...!" Suxes said, "this type of machine existed many years ago."

"Of course. Because my father must be old enough by now since it belongs to him," Kevin replied.

"Wait, help me get this straight.... You mean you inherited this from your father?" Suxes asked curiously.

"What do you mean by inherited?" The word was new to Kevin's ears.

"Hahaha....!" Suxes laughed wondering.

"What's funny?"

"Man...., this damn old thing is the most useless inheritance I've ever seen a father leaves for a child... hahaha," he produced more laughters.

"A father leaves for a child? I never told you he left it for me! It's my duty to protect it and make sure he gets it back, that's all," Kevin replied barbarically.

"Look, no need for you to pretend, Okay? I apologize I made you feel less of a person, but to be honest with you, you'll never get a dime out of this crap. I believe you've tried to sell it so many time and nothing good comes out of it _ I mean no one buys it."

"I don't understand what you're talking about," said Kevin and he looked aside.

"I don't want to call you a mad man but this thing right here makes you look like one. If you want I can take you to a scrapyard where there's many of computers dumped, and latest ones for that matter."

"That's incase you want to get one which is better than this one. Besides, you neither shave your beard, nor do you have shoes on your feet. What choice do you leave then for the people of Capricon city to call you? A mad man of course!"

Stuck in the mind, Kevin didn't know what Suxes was talking about. He had no idea that the object was called a computer until now from Suxes.

As Suxes observed further, from inside the scrap old model computer he discovered a hard disk.

"Oh, it still has this!" He looked closely at the hard disk.

"Maybe if this works you can get some little money for another pizza and a cup of coffee. Let's go, I know where I can check it out for you."

Suxes threw the computer down and kept the hard disk. However, ignorantly, Kevin wasn't ready to leave his object behind. He picked it up and followed behind Suxes.

When Suxes looked behind, Kevin was very serious with the computer in his hands. However talkative and convincing Suxes was, he had to leave Kevin alone to do what he wanted with his scrap object.

"Trust me when I say there're plenty in a more better version than this one you have!" In a friendly approach Suxes stated as they walked along but Kevin could not let go off his.

As they were on their way to the scrapyard, "My father's name is Sean Moore and I'm here to find him", Kevin told Suxes, "if you can help me find him I will be grateful."

Suddenly, Suxes stopped walking. He turned and looked at Kevin from head to toe. "For how long have you been hungry?" He asked him.

"For three moons and three suns," he replied.

"Hmm, I think now I understand why you're like this." As a city born, Suxes began to doubt Kevin's mental health.

However, Kevin had nothing wrong with him mentally. What Suxes didn't know yet was Kevin's true identity.

"So, are you going to help me find my father?" Once again Kevin asked on a serious note.

Suxes never wanted to open up to Kevin what he thought of him. He knew it would sound like an insult to him. Intelligently, he chose to go slow with words.

"How do you mean?" Suxes asked.

"When we get to where they're many objects, can you help me find my father? His name is Sean Moore!"

"Hahaha! Am sorry to laugh but that's kinda funny. Your father can't be found in a scrapyard!"

"Then where can I find him?"

"Stop it man..., I know sometimes too much hunger drives people crazy!" On the verge of anger, Suxes stated.

"Am not crazy. I want to find my father and see if I can convince him to come with me back home to my mother," Kevin cried out loud.

"One more thing; what you're holding is called a computer. Secondly, its not for this generation and third, stop deceiving yourself. You're just a shabby hobo who needs as much help as I also need. Understand that!" Suxes became a little tough on Kevin.

"You're not like other humans that's why I trust you," humbly, Kevin told him.

"Of course I know.... and that's why I've been on the streets homeless for three years and no one can employ me!"

Allover a sudden, Suxes became emotionally captured by sad memories which turned his eyes redish yellow. Kevin wondered what he had said that got Suxes into an abrupt distress.

Sorrowfully, Suxes turned behind and looked at Kevin. He fixed his gaze at him and said, "I am fourty year old now and I don't even have a proper place to stay. All my life was taken away from me. But you're lucky age is still on your side, you have a lot more time to fix what went wrong than I do."

A tear dropped out of Suxes' eye.

Kindhearted, Kevin got touched by Suxes' sadness. He never wished to reveal his true identity to anyone but at this moment he had no choice except to trust Suxes with part of his story.

Kevin: "My mother is in the sea waiting for me to return.

Suxes: "What is your mama doing in the sea? Is she a pirate or something?"

Kevin: "The sea is our world."

Suxes: "Anyway, if that's your divine inspiration, I have no problem with it. But make sure you don't tell it to anyone... or else, you'll end up in a psychiatric hospital."

Kevin: "What's a psychiatric hospital?"

Suxes: "Do you smoke weed?! Uh.... anyway, never mind."

Kevin: "And what is weed?"

Suxes, stared at Kevin Moore like; "What the hell is wrong with this guy to play like this!?" At the back of his mind. A smile quirked corners of his mouth as he shook his head speechlessly.

"This object right here, is all my mother gave me that my father left behind when he left," Kevin tried hard to clarify and convince Suxes, but all in vein.

Suxes stayed silent and led the way until they reached an area with very many types of abandoned machinery including a heap of abandoned computers.

"This is the scrapyard I told you about where worn-out objects are dumped. Don't tell me you've never seen this before", Suxes argued.

"So, now that we're at the scrapyard, why dont you dump your imaginary father's computer?" Still in doubt about Kevin's mental health, Suxes spoke.

Of course, when Kevin saw very many objects similar to his, dumped useless everywhere on the ground, his moral for retaining the one his mother gave to him faded. Hesitantly, he dumped it there and then into the ones at the yard. He began to accept and believe Suxes as a friend in his heart.

"It's only this hard disk that is important", Suxes told Kevin.

"What's that?" Kevin asked eagerly.

"It's a hard disk. If it still works, maybe we can get some money out of it for a good lunch box tomorrow!"

"Money! What's money?" As a neanderthal, Kevin still had no idea what money was!

In his talkative ways, Suxes asked Kevin if he has ever had a girlfriend in his life and Kevin said no.

"But I met a girl called Pinky three moons and three suns ago, I feel she is my girlfriend," he replied.

"Alright. Now," Suxes advised, "make sure when you meet Pinky again you have money because you will need money to buy her flowers, take her on a dinner date, buy a few gifts and maybe a wedding ring when that time comes. It's money that makes the world go round."

Kevin: "Do you have money?"

Suxes: "Are you crazy? Seeing me dressed in rugs, eating in garbage and no roof over my head! I've confirmed something wrong with you."

Suxes, a dirty homeless had no where to check the life of a hard disk. As an intelligent city born, from hundreds of dumped written off computers in a scrap yard, he searched for computers which were compatible with the hard disk and landed on a better one.

Not far from the scrapyard was an abandoned motor home. Here Suxes brought Kevin and opened the door for him to get inside,

"Welcome to my humble place. It's better off in this rusted motor than sleeping outside in the cold streets."

Kevin's eyes were never settled everywhere he reached. While inside the motor home it was a different experience. On the side wall, there hunged a worn-out jacket which Suxes picked and gave to him to protect himself from cold weather that late night.

However, cold weather was not at all a problem to the cold blooded sea creature like Kevin Moore. But he recieved the jacket and wore it comfortably to imitate humans behaviors.

Carefully, Suxes connected the computer onto a power supply and eventually the computer activated. Optimistically, Suxes fixed the hard disk into the computer. A warm smile grew up on his face when the hard disk displayed files.

"Bingo!" Excitedly he exclaimed.

Barbarous Kevin confoundedly fixed his gaze at Suxes. Hardly did he understand why Suxes was so joyful.

Well fitted in a worn-out jacket, Kevin stands behind Suxes and begins to watch everything he is doing on the computer. But Kevin doesn't have any computer knowledge.

"Look, as soon as the day gets in, there's this place I know which will pay us some good money", Suxes mumbles with too much excitement.

"Old is gold... old will always be gold....! See, this is a perfect timing. A terabyte of ages and still in a perfect condition, wonderful!" In sheer blissful words, Suxes celebrates as he sings a brief song.

Meanwhile, with excitement, Suxes goes further to open files on the hard disk mindlessly, to view the type of content which was stored on it many years ago. In one of the folders as he opens, are pictures of different deep-water species.

"It seems the owner was a diver", Thoughtfully, Suxes says depending on the pictures.

With a happy smile, he enjoys the beautiful photos as he scrolls and zooms one after the other. Attentively, Kevin is also watching from behind him with a curious face.

Thank you reader