Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 06:32:06 +0000
From: Harry Scott Hayden <harryscotthayden@outlook.com>
Subject: "It Has Always been You" - Chapter 42 - Retaliation (Nifty/Gay/Highschool)

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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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