Family

As I sat in the car with my dad on my usual sit whenever Mrs Arizona was not driving with Dad to work( with my favorite music playing Shine by John Drille) I suddenly have out a stiffled laughter because of how I referred to my mum as Mrs Arizona. I always referred to my mum as Mrs Arizona whenever thinking about her or talking about her, so much that my teacher and distant friends were forced to ask if Mrs Arizona was actually my mum.

Mr Arizona,her dad gave her a slight side glance, shook his head and spoke"okay what's causing this laughter now...the song or you're lost in your thoughts or you've tricked your younger brother again" he completed with a smile.

We were on our way to Meyelin Foods owned by Dad and Mrs Arizona. Dad always insisted that I accompany him to his office through out every vacation and even during school sessions on weekends. Not like I did anything for him,I just tagged along with him carrying his work bags, carrying files to different offices , carrying files from his secretary and going to give mum messages for him( I groaned inwardly, these was the job description of his personal secretary but no, he wanted me to do it...and couldn't he just call Mrs Arizona to give her messages)...I mean I could spend all of this Time on my writing world, reading and writing novels like I loved to.

Meyelin Foods was one of the first 5 companies America and was primarily involved in producing food of all kind for export and for use in the country, name all the kind of food in your head right now; Pasta, flour, sweets, beverages, biscuits, wheat, rice .. etc

The company was started by Dad 21 years ago before he married Mrs Arizona and has grown to success.

With all of this success dad still chose to drive himself to wherever he wanted to go except in some special situations .

After dad asked the question, I laughed again and told him I was thinking of something and as normal referred to mum as Mrs Arizona.

He laughed and said"Strange Kaif, you've always been strange since you were born"he said and let out a laughter again.Well dad smiled and laughed a lot I said with a slight smile.

And then he Began like I knew he would (I thought)

"On ultrasound for your mum we saw twins through out the period of her pregnancy, until the D-Day of your arrival after we've prepared for twins, one beautiful angel came screaming out and all of us in the theater were in shock"

I laughed out as he said this, I've heard this story several times but it was funny Everytime he said it..

"Also won't forget how we dropped you off at school on your first day ...and when we came to pick you up we heard you left with another family,"

I laughed out again"And then you later found out it was your best friend I went home with right..."

He shook his head and continued his stories as I slipped back into my own thoughts.

Dad always claimed I was special, but he didn't stop at that, He claimed that Kelvin, our first was extremely brilliant and always affirmed that Kelly my immediate elder sister was gentle and a powerful orator, and that Kevin our last was full of joy, he always bragged that it is what happened when there's a good mixture of a dad like him and Mrs Arizona,his so perfect wife like he always said.

And I always agreed with him I mean, Kelvin just at the age of 21 has taken Meyelin to great heights and took us from being number 10 in the country to a 5, dad and Mrs Arizona were so proud of him. Right from his high school to college he aced in his class and smarted out all of his exams always representing Brighton's high and college in different competitions and winning the first prize.

My dad was so proud of him bragging about him wherever he went to and changing his cars like Kevin changed clothes ( I laughed at the idea of using little Kevin to describe kelvins change of cars... I mean Kevin changed his clothes all the time for almost no reason at all...from a little spill of water to it doesn't fit me ..to I found another I prefer, and it was so annoying because I did all the laundry at home of course apart from my elder sisters own ...she has hands right, I did kelvins because he claimed he is always busy at work and because he gets me stuff...you could call it a bribe)

Kelly 18, was so gentle and a powerful orator and just knew how to convince people with her words at any situation, she never failed..

I was awoken from my thoughts as the car came to a sudden halt.