Land of Yellow
Song, silence, dance…
A Golden City, with a Golden throne.
Yellow.
"Babe? Are…You okay?" asked Joan. I look down at Joan. He brown hair and Blue eyes, and her quite,gentle smile.
She smiles at me, with her sickly pale skin and red, red lips as yellow fungus grows out her mouth,eyes and nose.
"I LoVe yOu!" in the most distorted voice.
"I LoVe yOu!"
"I LoVe yOu…."
And a screech.
It was a nightmare. My bed is empty, except for me. Well, lady Vi was with me, she left my room now from this secret-none secret affair betweem a widower and his widow mistress.I took a shower. "DAD!!!!" shouted John. "Goodness." I said. I roll the towel around my waist, and rush to John's room. "Ahhhh!" said John as this grown ass man hides on my back. "You are even taller and bigger than me! What the fuck Master John!" I shouted.
It's a mouse…. It's an inch field mouse even. Lady Vi rushes inside. "John… mother is busy, please do not shout." Said lady Vi, probably laughing. I look back. She is trying to hold her laugh. The mouse runs towards John. "Ah!!! DAD SAVE ME!" said John as she rides on my back.
"MASTER JOHN!" I shouted to John.
Lady Vi smiles and smashes the mouse head on with her stiletto heel. "John. Do not bother Sir Elias. Let's go, we will be having breakfast." Said Lady Vi as she goes out.
"Lady Vi…" I said. "John… You are bit tardy these days… what are you doing with your computer and/or phone." Asked Lady Vi. John gone silent.
"Master John, do you want me to tell your mother?" I asked. Lady Vi looks at me.
John nods.
He looks at John.
"Sir Elias. I want the news, to came, from my own son. I don't want to be rude about this." Said Lady Vi.
"I got an acting role." Replied John. Lady Vi puts down her fork. She looks disappointed. Obviously I'm proud: not father. "Elias Croix-Manor! Stop encouraging John! I want him to focus on his master's degree!" said Lady Vi.
I am shocked, actually. John looks at her angry mother, then he looks at me with a smile on my face.
"Madame, I daresay, Master John is talented when it comes to performance, He is visually stunning dear Madam, Like his mother." I replied with glee and smile.
Then I realize what I said.
"Pardon me,Madame." I said.
She giggles instead of being angry and adds, "Fine, BUT, study well."
"Yes Mother." Replied John,putting a smile on his face.
Later that night, Lady Vi comes closer to my room. I am half naked in shorts as usualm and she whispers; "I hope, you are up, for… something." She said. She smiles at me. I smiled back.
Then. It was purely. For satisfaction, nothing less.
Later, we are naked, under the sheets. She cuddle close to my chest. "Am I a bad mother?" she asked.
"No, you are there for John. I am there physically because, he needs a father-figure." I said.
"I sometimes wonder, if. Nah, never mind." She said. I look her in the eyes and say, "You got nothing to hide from me." I said. She kisses me.
The Next Night.
I went to Lady Vi's quarters. She looks at me in her lavishing attire. Sometimes, she cries on my shoulder.
But I ,maintain professional touch. Despite. I, myself, am a widower.
I admit. I am but a replacement. So is John.
I look at her portrait with her Late Husband. Sir Joaquim and her Son, Jonathan 'Jon" Mansion.
I look at the pictures in fireplace. Especially 25 years ago. Just a year Sir Joaquim and Sir Jonathan died. Young lovers, engaged but they loved each other over the years secretly.
Then there is a picture of me, Carrying a 2 year old Sir John.
I look like her husband, he looks like her dead son.
She goes to me.
"I know. It is, irksome that, we are,justa pretend family… You and I Fool around. Sometimes. But, We are mature 46 year-olds. But not as partners,nor secret lovers." She said.
"I know,Professionals by day. Lonely, Mature people,by night." I replied.
I admit, it is not love. Nor desire.
It's loneliness.
Few weeks passed by:
I was looking at John's commercial. I admit, he is very stunning. Like not his father: me. Proud not-his-father-moment.
John excitedly goes "Dadddy!!! Look!" shouted John. "I am not your father, sir John." I said as I look at his…diploma. Huh?
"What is this? I asked and pinched his cheeks. "Dad! Stop pinching me! Well I finished my masters: so…." said John. I sigh. "A man keeps his promis and his words." I said.
In a White Mansion
We already caught the ladies eyes. We look more like father and son in actually, despite not related, at all.
"Ehhhh… Fiance. I don't like it." Said John.
"Manners Sir John." I replied to him.
John was in his suit and Shades as I was near him, we are walking. I saw Lady Vi with her fake friends in the charity event.
One of them passes by.
"I mean Lady Vi is… a deviant, they look good, Especially John. He is a delight to the weary eyes, Gene wise…Oh my. I hope he likes my daughter. But… He's adopted ,so, ew. That woman is sick, like, she even fucks her butler, that look like her dead husband! Handsome; I admit, but. Why THAT butler…ew " whispered one of them.
"II know right, her adopted son…even look like her dead son too. Like as if, she, play-pretends that her family is still alive after the sinking ship." Said by another.
John takes off his shades and trying to throw it to them as I stop him.
"John, no." I replied. John looks angry and sad at the same time.
"Let's go home. We don't belong here. I said. He was brooding at the back of the car. I look at him.
"Why can't we be actually family in the eyes people! You two basically, look like my mom and dad…and basically IS my MOM AND DAD! It's hard to be abandoned in the church you know." said John. I giggled.
We stop over his favorite Japanese Restaurant. He smile reaches his ears.
He hugs me from the back. "I love you Dad!" said John. "I am not your father, but, to day will be an exemption. Since, You already graduated,and as promise, a father and son day. Despite…you know." I said. He squeezes me tighter.
"Aw! Aw! Aw! My ribs! Who the fuck feed you to be this strong?!" I said to him. "You,dumbass!" said John. We giggled.
Then later
We ordered Ramen. John loves the seafood ramen so much and the grilled octopus and squid. I watch him eat. Remembering the time I first brought him here.
"I guess. I am a tad bit late." Said Lady Vi. We look at her.
She giggles.
"I saw that. Wow. I mean, I only knew my son is a tad bit coward; not really, but timid, and loves his fake dad." She said.
'No. I mean, not the whole truth." I replied as John hugs the both us.
"I wish, someday, we are real family. Despite, we are not related." Said John. Then I heard a drop of water, crystal clear sound. I look back. Peculiar. Eh.
Lady Vi seems to notice it too. "You heard that?" asked her. "Yeah…weird water drop." I said. John looked confused and say, "Me too, eh."
Okay… That is really, really weird.
Back in The Manor
John was starring at the last portrait of the real mr. Mansion and Jonathan Mansion, the real son. I stare at it too. It is uncanny.
"It's Jonathan's and Joaquim's death anniversary too right?" asked John. "Yes." I replied.
"I'm sorry I was…selfish." Said Lady Vi. Because, I… let you play as my family. And, not as… MY FAMILY." Said by her she takes out a gun.
"I can't take it anymore." She said as She cries. I run towards her. "It's my time, to join my husband and son. I do love you two. But,you can…never exchange my Jonathan and Joaquim… Please leave, you two. I packed everything in the car. Money,papers,everything even my last letter." said Lady Vi as she hugs me.
Fire started. John panics. "John no. Go outside." I said. He goes outside.
"And you," Said Lady Vi. As she touches my cheeks with a bittersweet smile and a tear in her eye.
"I always, said…never catch feelings… But." said Lady Vi as she kisses me. "My world is cruel. I can't… I don't want it too." said Lady Vi as she cocks her gun and put it in her head.
She pulls the trigger of the revolver. "Good!" I said.
Later, John and I look at the burning mansion.
I look down, saddened. But. I did the right thing to do.
John sits at the front sit next to me… And, Lady Vi. Unconscious at the back. I punched her. She is too hard headed… well, the way I like it to be honest.
I rather, see her unconscious than dead. Fuck everything.
The Next morning
We stopped by my old town, Golden City.
Lady Vi wakes up. "The fuck! Elias! Why did you punch me?!" asked her.
"Honestly, Like you said, I should not, catch feelings. But…it seems, I did. I am not sorry!" I said to her angrily.
"But! I am not… I can't… I don't want to replace my dead husband…and my dead son." She replied.
I micked her, "Replace this, replace that… Noone can replace my first Love Joan. But I do love you." I said to her.
She looks at me in the mirror. "Fuck you dramatic bitch!" I said to her. She laughs. "I rather, see you miserable than dead." I replied. She laughs even more.
"Lady Vi, this is not funny." I replied. "No…" said lady Vi as she hugs me from the back.
"Just, Violet." Replied Violet.
She looks at her phone. "Why are we in…" asked Violet. "Welcome to USA. Well, it's nearby Canada." I replied. "Now, you guys will be, My wife… Violet Manor… And Son, John Manor." I said as I smile.
In the City hall
The mayor goes inside, John and Violet looked shocked. "He even have the green left eye,blue right eye heterochromia!" said John. "John… I mean, SON. Behave. This is your,soon to be,Uncle Elleo." I said. a.k.a…. Elleo Manor, my twin brother.
"Elleo, this is my son John and my girlfriend, Violet. I mean, if we, put it on papers soon… WIFE" I said, as usual with a sly,brotherly smile looking at Violet.
Then. Violet,becames my actual wife. I mean. I don't mind. Then she kisses me.
I think I blushed.
"You're blushing…husband." Said Violet.
In a Small Celebration, on my dad's old house,now Elleo's
Elleo and the people couple seems to be, interested around John and Violet. I laugh a little. Elleo goes to me. "Wow, you're family is cute. Your wife is elegant too. Your adopted son…Very charismatic, like his adopted father." We laugh, he hugs me and adds, "Welcome home."