As it is the habit I’ve got my favorite suit clean up and ironed and it was time for me to shine and show the outside world my manly features, it is shameful for a guy in his mid twenties like me to beg his mother for pocket money but the economical crisis of the country and the problem of unemployment makes it look less shameful. After getting what I wanted I’ve kissed my mother goodbye hoping that she will never find out what I am about to do. I am a popular guy in the neighborhood, respected and known for the only person who is college graduated. While trying to catch a cab I’ve thrown a couple of Hellos and I can see the curiosity and eagerness of knowing where I am heading to, showing on my acquaintances’ faces. I told the taxi driver about my destination and his reply was surprisingly filled with mockery: “oh fancy” I don’t blame him for saying that and I know what he meant precisely, in other words he said : “what on earth a guy like you living in this shithole is going to do, in a place like that” , “well too bad buddy, that’s none of your business.” I’ve reached my destination and oh god I can see the huge difference, the tall buildings, the fancy cars and spoiled girls walking around carrying a lot of shopping bags loaded with clothes they would probably never wear. Suddenly my phone rings obliging me to wrap up my envious side and accept my condition wholeheartedly, Hello I snap at whomever is on the phone as if they’re the ones to blame, and it was the girl from last week with the funny accent, I lower down my voice and I see what she wanted, I throw a couple of jokes and after that I get an invitation for the opening of an exhibition. I entered the club and this is the time when I ought to spread my magic I notice that I’ve got some attention more than usual and mostly it is from depressed women, I pretend that I’m not interested and lay low for a while till I catch a clear, grey eyes staring at me and they’re definitely the most extraordinary color I feel an adrenaline rush comes out of my heart, weird I shouldn’t feel like this, I’m not allowed to, I stare at her from head to toe and find out that she is expensively dressed, I decide to make my move and as usual I start by throwing a funny compliment and test the degree of victim if she laughs too loud then she is the perfect fit, and I ought to carry on my magic. Fortune hunting is pleasurable yet uneasy not everybody can achieve his purpose just by talking pleasantly but rather you ought to have a multiple skills the most important one is you should have patient, because not everything is all set during the first night. However it is after gaining trust and that can take months or even years. I suggested that we head to another restaurant and have dinner, the grey eyed girl agreed and we head there, her boring stories made me high five my own face I received them with all the forbearance of civility and I promised myself to avenge later, i grabbed the menu and ordered the most expensive dish that I’m not going to pay for of course, she ordered a salad and said that she’s a vegetarian. we carried on our talk, exchange the phone numbers till she received a phone call and said that, it was an emergency and she must leave. Damn, I didn’t see that coming how will I now pay?. I have never felt such an amount of embarrassment in my entire life, I cursed and swore revenge on that girl, hours passed and I’m still sitting alone in the table looking like an idiot, trying to plan my escape from the restaurant but the security is so tight, so I let go of every possible thought that crosses my mind and I surrender to my fate. The manager noticed something suspicious about me and came to dig some answers, I replied that I’m waiting for someone and he fake smiled me, and went away and at that moment the security doubled and it was impossible for me to escape. The time has arrived for the restaurant to close and the manager came and said : “well sir it looks like the person you’re waiting for is not coming and I’m afraid to tell you that we have to close”. I’ve gathered my courage and decided to cut to the chase and come out clean I told him that I was punished by my father and he took away my credit card without me knowing he throw his fake smile again and said well there is only one way for you to pay, you must head to the kitchen and wash the dishes and you’ll be forgiven. I had no other choice but to obey I spent the whole night there. I clean up mostly more than five hundred dish and vacuumed the carpets and got back home tired and feeling the deformation of my back, but even though I thanked god it could have been worse. I slept like a rock and woke up the next morning to the noisy sound of the small children playing, and the cries of the little babies. I went out in order to light a cigarette and escape my mother’s acquisition about last night. I sat at the pavement watching the little children, till the unexpected thing happened when I saw the grey eyed girl poorly dressed and carrying a loaf of French bread and heading towards a door, I followed her hurriedly and grabbed her arm pulling her body closer to mine she stared at my eyes and saw me frowning she smiled and I couldn’t help but to smile back, this beautiful, grey eyed creature fooled me, indeed her malice and tricks are way mightier than mine, I decided to forgive her and I knew that I love her because I love myself and she is like me she is the link that completes my soul.
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