Well, the story begins in the house of Aiden Wright. A normal teenage boy, with an ordinary life. Well, moderately ordinary. Unless you counted that his mother was a single parent, and he had suspicions of her being a druggie. He was an only child, and had always wished for a bigger brother, but of course, it was too late for that
But any way, let us not converse about his dreary life (at the moment) and let’s return to our story;
"Aiden!”
He turned over in his bed.
"Aiden!!”
His eyelids fluttered open to his mother’s weary looking face; her eyes were droopy, her skin had a slight hint of yellow to it, and giant black bags were hanging under her bloodshot eyes. He loved her all the same. She was his only family.
He sat up, rubbing his eyes, and yawning widely.
"Morning." He smiled at her before she turned around, and stumbled from his room mumbling something about a visitor downstairs.
He sat up staring around his pig sty of a room, blinking twice and squinting his sleepy eyes, Aidan spotted a mysterious object hanging from the side of his working desk. Aiden made his way over to the thing and reached his hand out to seize it....
"Aiden you coming down or what?!" His mother’s voice screeched up the stairs. He twisted his head to the door, cupping his mouth and calling back to her.
"In a minute, Mum!" He looked at the working desk, wrinkling his nose, and blinked. It had vanished; nowhere to be seen.
"Seeing things now Aiden," he mumbled to himself.
* * * * *
Aiden made his way downstairs dressed in his normal attire of a pair of black, skin-tight jeans and a black jumper. How exciting. He yawned and rubbed his eyes. A pungent smell hit him in the face, nearly making him double over in revulsion. "I told her she can't cook." He sighed, shaking his head, and making his way to the kitchen.
But who he saw cooking was not his mother. Oh no. First off, it wasn't a woman, it was a man.
Aiden stared at the patch of black hair at the back of his head, and the shiny bald patch at the top. He couldn't really decipher what the exact height of this man was, unless he came up to him with a measuring tape. The man was wearing a greying suit and was whistling some stupid tune that Aiden hadn’t ever heard before.
Aiden sighed, another one of his mother’s clients?
"Ok, I don’t know how to say this kindly, but... Who the heck are you?!" Aiden blurted out.
The man spun around and smiled repulsively, revealing a row of yellow teeth.
"Hello, Aiden." His gruff voice replied, "I'm your father."
Aiden's eyes widened in disbelief. This couldn't be his father! The man who left his mum when he found out she was pregnant with his child? Aiden couldn't even look this man in the eye; forget speaking to him any further. Aiden shook his head, and turned on his heel.
"Oh, one thing," He started, "you better be out of here when I get home, or I'll call the police and tell them that you tried to abuse me." His "father’s" smile faded and formed into a look of shock,
"You wha’?"
"Can't understand English?" Aiden sighed and walked out of the house, leaving his father standing there, his mouth forming an "o", holding a butter knife mid air and one eyebrow raised.
