Chapter 205: Merry Chismas

"Merry Christmas!!!"

He shouted after the popping and we all joined him in shouting after we have gotten a grip on ourselves. He quickly turned the champagne into the glasses, filled the three glasses, and shared it all between the three of us.

"A toast to togetherness, we will spend many many more Christmas together, there will be no separation."

He said and we all toasted and drank our wine, after the wine, mom brought up the issue of the outing again, she rather repeated what I said to her, she said it to him. My mom, she can be a gossip sometimes, but a sweet one.

"Your boy here wants to go to any place that has everything in it. By everything he meant, a park, a hotel, a bar, a swimming pool, a shawarma stand, a zoo, and many more, can you just imagine that?"

Mom said hilariously and they both laughed at me. But fake dad only had a regret, he regretted that we did not plan this, he thought that we would have gone to Dubai for this Christmas, he believed that there are places similar to what I want there. What a nice man he is, but for now, we just have to decide on a place to go, but he later decided that we will have to go to a hotel with a swimming pool, where there will be a bar and a shawarma stand, but mom refused, she said no pools, I tried to persuade her that I will not have to swim, all I wanted was to watch people swim and I will be good with it, but mom was excessively protective, she just could not accept such. She insisted that we must not go anywhere with a pool.

"Why won't you want him to swim in the first place? He is not a kid, it's his choice to swim if he wants to, and he is even supposed to learn swimming, why are you preventing him from learning how to swim in the first place, and the young man even went as far as saying that he won't swim, he just wants to watch people swim, that is to show you how much he loves swimming even though you won't permit him to?"

So he said looking rather confused with mom's reason for me not going near a pool. Well, that is the concept, he was not supposed to know, let him stay in the dark, mom was only being careful, she wouldn't want a preparation of the last incident, but I was certain that nothing will happen, I just won't go into the water, I won't even go near it, but if mom insists that we should not go to a pool, then we will not go, she is the captain of my ship, not any fad daddy.

"Anyway, let us not ruin the fun with this, let us just celebrate, we will work that out later. Merry Christmas my familia."

He said, once again he spoke Spanish, this was when I decided that I must plead with him to teach me how to speak the Spanish language. I don't really know, I really live the Spanish, their language always sounds like romance to me. I know you might not understand but the truth is that the language is the language of love to me, I believe that love and romance are best expressed when spoken in Spanish, and if love ever existed in a human form, he or she must have been a Spanish Mexican person. Those people...I love them a great deal. And the funny thing is that many people expect me to know how to speak the language, they just see me and assume I am a Latino, some even say that my dad might be a Mexican, especially when they find out that I never knew him, some will go as far as saying that mom must have met him when he came down to Nigeria on an excursion and that led to me before he went back to where he came from, but little did they know that I am just a hybrid of a human mother and a Merman father.

"Sir Matthew, please I don't know if it is possible for you to coach me in this Spanish language, I really love it, I have always wanted to know how to speak it, please be my coach sir."

I pleaded but his reaction was not soft, he was not happy with the way I addressed him, he thinks that I would have done it another way.

"Hmm... I won't coach you young Mr. Damian, Sir Matthew is a very busy person, he cannot abandon what he is doing to coach any child. But he can always have spare time to coach his child, only his son, the one that calls him dad and not Sir Matthew."

He said, when he said this, we all burst into laughter, he started saying it like he was serious about not helping me, but later ended up making it clear that all he wanted was me calling him dad, it was not that much a difficult task, but It was almost a difficult one to me, I could actually mistakenly call him dad to mom because he was a nice person that I would have wished to be my dad had I not already know that have a father. The real problem is calling him father to his face, knowing true well that he is not, I feel like I am deceiving a good man, yeah we all have been deceiving him since, well, mom said that he deserves it.

"Yes, do you want to be coached or not, you better do the needful and don't think that you can hide behind that laughter, I am here waiting for you to do the needful. Hahaha..."

So he said and laughed. Mom looked at me with a smile, she tilted he head to her left shoulder and quickly turned It back straight, making a gesture that says "go on, do as he said."