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life.

Six Years Ago
    I looked out of
the window as I ate my steak, sitting next to my dad. It was term
time, but I’d just been suspended from Dunsmaster school for boys,
for fighting, again . Dad really wasn’t happy that he’d had
to leave the office to come and get me, so I’d had a serious
lecture on the way back here. He reminded me that he wasn’t paying
all this money to send me to one of the country’s most exclusive
boarding schools, for me to get kicked out before I’d finished my
education. I’d just stared out of the car window and taken it,
there was no point arguing with him, it would just get him even
more angry than he already was.
    After checking in for messages
at his office, he’d brought me to 26, the restaurant a couple of
floors up, to have lunch and talk about why I felt the need to keep
fighting all the time. I had nice memories of coming here. I’d
spent a lot of time in the holidays coming to work with Mum and
Dad, and the three of us had eaten here for lunch together quite
often. It was five years since I’d been responsible for her death,
along with that of my sibling, and I still couldn’t handle it. It
had become obvious to me over the years that Dad didn’t actually know what had really happened that day. I had no intention
of telling him either. I was too worried what he’d do when he found
out that I was the cause of his continuing grief, he still seemed
so unhappy without her. In fact no one knew, not even my best
friend Doug. I’d bottled up all that self-directed anger and guilt
and I dealt with it by using my fists on anyone who challenged me
at Dunsmaster.
    The red head who brought us
some more water smiled at me. She was really pretty and had a nice
pair of firm tits in a black bra that was just visible through her
white shirt. I’d been having wet dreams about her lately and tossed
off most nights with images of her in my head. Some of the older
guys at school brought magazines into the dormitories with them,
which Doug and I gave them money for, so we could hide behind the
gardeners sheds in the school grounds and read them in secret. The
mags were filled with pictures of naked women and stories of sex
and I particularly liked the shots where they had firm curvy
backsides and big breasts. Damn, I was getting stiff just thinking
about it. I reached my hand down under the table and squeezed my
cock.
    I’d started getting loads of
female attention in the holidays, especially lately. I’d grown a
lot taller and my body had really started to develop some muscle
from all my running and the swimming training. I knew I was good
looking too, I looked just like my dad. Women were always flirting
with him, falling over themselves to get him to notice them, but he
never seemed interested. I think he still missed Mum, I knew I did.
I had his strong square jaw, defined cheekbones and sun kissed
dirty blond hair, but I had my mums full soft lips, straight nose
and expressive blue eyes.
    ‘Damn it,’ Dad muttered. I
looked up and saw he was on his phone. ‘I’ll be down in minute,
show them to the conference room and tell Dobson to say nothing
until I get there. I don’t want to give them any additional
leverage.’
    ‘Ok?’ I asked as he cut the
call and frowned.
    ‘Emergency downstairs. Stay and
finish your lunch Gabriel, then straight back into my office, no
going anywhere. You’re grounded remember.’ He flung his napkin
down, stood up and strode out. I rolled my eyes and carried on
eating. We didn’t have the best relationship. I was still finding
it hard to forgive him for abandoning me all those years ago. I’d
lived at Doug’s for months and I’d never step foot in our old house
again, nor had I been allowed to see Mum to say goodbye to her and
the baby she’d lost. After Dad had left me that Christmas with
Doug’s family, it was two weeks before I’d seen him again, the day
of Mum’s funeral. That day he hadn’t looked like the strong father
I’d