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"It Has Always been You" - Chapter 42 - Retaliation (Nifty/Gay/Highschool)
The time stipulated for the dinner had arrived; all the guests were ushered to the garden that had been completely tented. It was beautifully decorated with flowing drapes of blue linen; silk hanging from the pole and beautiful sunburst of colourful flowers sewed into them. It was fully air-conditioned for the comfort of her guest. A long dining table was set in the middle of it and was draped with a beautiful floral table cloth. The setting of the decorative plates and glasses was placed exquisitely on the dining table exactly like the pictures you see in the magazines. Emily's have really gone big this time.
The right-hand corner of the enclosure, a group of musicians was playing classical music on their violins soothingly to accompany with the dinner served. On the left-hand side, a small table was set up where on it was the birthday cake. It was the most decorative cake ever, with edible colourful flowers arranged so beautifully on it. It looked damn expensive, and it was exactly her taste.
Emily and Cornelly seated themselves at the head of the table. Flanking near beside them was Emily's snobbish friends and their husbands. Then Amy and her parents and lastly at the far end of the table were Mikael and his father. Surprisingly, Nick made his way to the back to sit beside Mikael. Emily had tried to force him to sit beside her, but he declined and just turned away from her and makes his way to sit beside Mikael. Emily was furious with Nick's action. She would not be if Nick had decided to sit with Amy, when she saw Nick making his way to Mikael and bi-passing Amy without a single glance at her, made Emily red on the face. She was not able to vent her anger at Nick and to embarrass herself in front of her friends. She had bitten her lower lips and stared at the boys sitting comfortably beside each other.
Cornelly could sense the anger building up inside Emily. It was enough to know just by looking at her reddened face. He was totally accustomed to her behaviour, after marrying her for the last 20 years. All the while, she had perfectly hidden her unknowing characteristic, back in the days when they were courting.
It only emerges right after they got married. It was mind boggling, that he had been putting up with it for that length of time. He took it in his stride as he did not want to jeopardize his son growing-up years. He never would allow Nick to grow up without a mother. He would rather suffer than to see Nick be motherless in his life.
Emily was not able to do anything about Nick. Instead, she instructed for the caterers to start serving the dinner. The chef prepared a set of Mediterranean dishes that consist of griddled chicken with Greek salad for starters. As for the main course, seared marinated filet of pork tenderloin with a Guinness cream sauce, served over a bed of garlic and Parmesan mashed potato and grilled vegetables. Lastly, for dessert, they had mousse filled Florentines with Quenelles of chocolate.
Emily was having the time of her life, accepting flatteries from her guest at the party. Cornelly rolled his eyes every time he heard of her spurious laughter. He knew this was all for a show, and he pondered why he consented upon to go with her wanting to do this. It seems she had heretofore planned it while she was on holidays. What she did was just asking him for more money to be transferred into her credit card when she came back home.
During dinner, Cornelly's cannot help himself from looking at Hayden, who was sitting at the other end, off the table. Silently, he was admiring his man from far. Hayden was looking very handsomely proper with his pressed black suit and blue colour bow tie, and Cornelly's was captivated with Hayden's cuteness. Yes, Cornelly's found Hayden cute. Hayden reciprocates his action and were seen smiling and grinning widely.
Nick and Mikael were pretty much enwrapped in their conversation. From time to time, they would be seen laughing with each other. They have utterly enjoyed each other a company, at the table. Every now and then, they took turns to talk with Hayden. On the other hand, Amy was furious with the closeness of Nick and Mikael. She intensely glared at them throughout dinner. Her hatred towards Mikael was overpowering. She took a deep breath to make herself collected and smiled uncanny at the up-coming moment of revelation from Emily.
Everyone conversation was abruptly disrupted, when they heard someone clinging to the glasses. It was a reminder of the need for their absolute attention. All turned to looking in the direction of the sound and saw Cornelly's standing while holding the glass in his right hand and a teaspoon on his left hand.
"Hello everyone, can I have your attention please." Cornelly glances at all the guests, but gawped a bit longer when it came to Hayden. "Before we carry on with the cake cutting, I would like to say, thank you to each of you for coming today to commemorate Emily's birthday. I postulate that Emily is happy to have all of you gracing the occasion with so much joy and presenting her with so many gifts." He had spoken in a rushed; as though he wanted it to end as soon as possible, yet no one noticed it. "So why not all of us proceed to stand around the cake for Emily's to cut her cake." All the guests started standing up and walk over to the cake. Emily was waiting while holding the cake knife.
One and all warbled the birthday song for Emily. They applauded and vociferated out loud, for her to cut the cake. She had her grin stretch from ear to ear. She was contented and could be seen tittering like a school girl. Cornelly just rolled his eyes' a couple of times in disgust.
There were requests for Emily to make a speech from the crowd and she delightfully obliged. She took the microphone off Cornelly's hand and began her speech.
"Alright, calm down will you." Her hand was moving up and down to silence them. "First, and foremost, I would like to signify my gratefulness to all of you for being here. I received umpteen presents that I am so pleased to accept it. As the here and now being my special day, I would like to share it with some people from the crowd." Everyone was anticipated to know, who she was articulating about.
"I would like for my son Nick and his girlfriend Amy to come up here and stand beside me." Emily began to call out both of their names through the microphone. Nick was atoned and looked taken aback when his name was called. On the other hand, Amy was prideful as she walked towards Emily with slight buoyancies on her steps.
As everybody was looking at him, he slowly makes his way to be with his mother, feeling a bit hesitant to be apart from Mikael. He turned to looking at his father and saw the same clueless expression on his face. He shivered, not knowing what his mother had in mind. He gave Mikael a worrying looked, and Mikael was himself felt uneasy about it. However, before Nick parted from Mikael, he secretly reached out to Mikael and grabbed hold of his hand. Nick gave it a gentle squeezed for assurance.
"As everyone knows, that today being my birthday. I would like to make it more unique by doing something that I had been wishing for a very long time." Nick began to frown and felt so uneasy over the situation. Emily took a deep breath of air and continued.
"During the last vacation that I've taken alongside the ladies; I had a heart to heart talk with Amy, Nick's girlfriend, in regard to her relationship with my son. It will be my pleasure to announce their engagement to one another." Amy was grinning and blushing at the same time. The guest erupted to loud cheers and was slowly making their way to congratulate Nick and Amy.
"YOU CANNOT DO THIS TO ME!" Nick was overheard bellowing at Emily with so much annoyance in his utterance. He felt circumvented and vexed at his progenitor. He then pointed his finger at Amy and said, "HOW DARE OF YOU TO DO THIS BEHIND MY BACK!" Nick's voice became abrasive from all the shouting. His face felt hot and reddened with antagonism.
Everyone around was stupefied with the dramatization that was evolving in front of them. Nick instantaneously looked toward the direction of Mikael. He saw Mikael staring down at the ground with Hayden holding him by his shoulder. His body was quivering lightly, manifesting that he was sobbing. Nick became extremely angry beyond controlled. It disheartened him to see Mikael in that state. How dare for his mother and Amy to conspire behind his back.
"I am your mother, and you, as my son, should do whatever I've told you to do." Emily countered towards Nick. "Can you just do what I had planned for you? It is for your own good." Emily glared at Nick. She felt repudiated that Nick was refuting back to her.
"There are a lot of things that I can do for you, mother. Like hence for the last eighteen years of my life, you have successfully been doing so, however, not this time mother." Nick peered angrily at his mother. He took a deep breath and continued, "I am a grown-up person now, and I will adjudicate what is best volitional in my life."
Mikael raised his head with amazement as he listened to what Nick had said to Emily. Nick took a glance at Mikael and smiled at him. Mikael gingerly reciprocated to Nick with a sweet smile while deeply blushing out of embarrassment. He was not crying anymore. He noted that he was holding on to his father's jacket and had somehow been soaking it with his tears.
Cornelly was so proud of his son. He could see that Nick had changed to be the man he was hoping for. Nick became someone who was invigorating, flagrant, sinewy, charming and kind-hearted and not the timid, scared and shy boy anymore. He turned to looking at Emily, who was fuming mad and comprised.
"I am in love with someone else, and it is not Amy." Nick said it rather proudly while looking at Mikael. During this time, Amy's parent felt so ashamed of the situation involving their daughter; they quietly slipped away and went home. They could not believe that Amy was being brazened to do things behind Nick that can make him to feel angry. They knew Nick to be a well behave and shy guy. It does not matter that now they knew that Nick does not love their daughter anymore.
"You are not going to do that. As you would never have that entitlement, I am your mother, and you have to listen to me. That is the only way for things to happen in this household." Emily retaliated, "You will never have a choice to decide as it had hitherto made by me." Emily was breathing deeply.
"Yes, he can do so Emily. He is my son too and as a human being with a heart and mind, he can decide on his own." Cornelly chided in, unexpected by everyone. "I want him to live his life the way he wants it. Whom he is going to love, it is going to be his decision." Cornelly had reached out to Nick, who had slid nearer to his father for comfort. He strongly wanted to run into Mikael to hug and assured him that he loved him.
"What! Do you envisage him to be in love with a fag, a queer, a homosexual and destroy his life? How is he supposed to acknowledge his subsistence? I would not let him be uproarious and to have a life with a fag. I execrate gays, fags, queers and I hate you Mikael, for transforming my son to be someone he's not. You get out of my house and away from my son." Emily was expectoration venom with a repugnant looked towards Mikael.
"You are not going anywhere Mikael. This is my house, and I do not concern whose Mikael or my son is. I love them both. As for you, I and Nick have enough of your autocracy and self-centre demeanour towards the both of us. You have been living, in a universe of your own. You expected us to follow everything that you have said, without us have anything to say." Cornelly halted taking a breathing space to be unclouded, while still retaining Nick by his side.
There were lots of repulsed countenances appeared among the crowd. Emily was surprised that it was intended for her. She tried to recollect all the words that she had said earlier. At that moment of time, she felt lonely, scared and in-secured. She stood there flabbergasted and so out of place.
"Do not you dare to verbalize my son in any means Emily?" Hayden vocalized with a noticeable calmness in his utterance. "He has done nothing wrong, as he is just being himself." He took a deep breath. He needed all his mightiness to restraint of the antagonism that was nascent within him.
"He had impure my son's brain by turning him to be gay. He altered him to be a sinner." Emily was glaring at Hayden. She used to never have any problems with Hayden. However, after the epiphany of Mikael's sexual orientation, she had been holding enmities towards Hayden.
"I am not a miscreant person's mother, and so is Mikael. We are what we are, and we will never change for anyone. I do love him and will always be. It is what it is." Nick articulated with flair of maturity in his voice. Mikael, Hayden and remarkably Cornelly, felt so impressed by him.
Emily was confounded to apprehend what Nick had said. She abruptly turned towards Cornelly and callously said to him, "You, as a progenitor what you have done to avert this from happening. You are very much at accountability for letting him to be corrupted by that fag boy."
By now, Mikael was weeping in his father's arms. He was crying irrepressibly. Suddenly, he felt someone was enfolding him from the back. He turned around to look and came to realize it was Nick that was hugging him with tears streaming from his eyes. "I am sorry Mikael for you to hear all of that from her. Just remember that I am in love with you, and forever it will be. It has always been you." Nick whispered into Mikael's ears.
To Be Continued...
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