Architect of paradise (PART I: Out of the Ruins)

30. Invitation to the ministry.

     My head is heavy. I drank a lot the previous night at the festival. While I am trying to get out of bed, something or someone is hindering me. I realize that I slept at Daniel's house and sleeping was not the only thing we did. He hugs me tightly.

-"It is early Sunday morning. Sleep more." He says while his eyes are still closed.

-"We need to help tide the square."

-"There are a lot of people. They don't need you." He insists. In the end, I obey him and stay in bed.

Two hours later, we get up together and we take a bath together. He is really sly as he touches and kisses wherever he wants.

There is breakfast in the kitchen table for two people. Mrs. Parker knew about my stay here and I blush. Daniel laughs.

-"Where is your mother?" I ask.

-"Maybe she is at the square and helps there." He says.

-"We should go, too."

-"No. We have a date today."

-"How come I don't know anything of this?"

-"It's because I decided it right now." He says with a cunning smile.

We drive to Richmond. We had breakfast already, so what can we do? However, we walk down the shopping district and we make some shopping. We bought clothes and some personal items.

-"Oh, there is a rock concert tonight. Lucky!!!" He says as he looks at a poster.

-"It is late. What can we do until then?" I ask. He kisses me passionately.

-"We will find something." He says cunningly.

We continue our walks while holding hands as a couple in love. We eat lunch at a restaurant and some dessert after that. We end up at a park and sit on a bench. He puts me inside his arms as we watching the lively park. There are some families doing picnic, some teenage parties talking and laughing. There are some elderly couples enjoying reading or walking in the nature.

We also start to talk about a lot of things. We talk about the successful festival, the project of the natural park, New Leaf. We talk about even for the teenage company of mine. However, he never talks about himself, but I want to know. I risk to destroy our cozy moment but I want to know more about him. He sighs and he starts to talk from the time that he decided to go to Washington.

More or less I heard some of that from the others. However, I don't know the life he had in the big city. So, he starts to narrate how he became a member of a mafia gang. It has nothing to do with my punk gang. He is talking about serious things. He was fortunate that he was low in rank and he didn't commit any serious crimes. Then, as he was clean enough, his boss pushed him to become a police officer, but in truth he wanted an inside spy.

In the beginning, to adapt to the department and to gain their trust, he was a modest and earnest police officer. He even arrested some punks. He had a perfect image until two years later when he had a contact with his boss and it was time to take over his true duties. 

    He didn't do anything extreme. He was just giving some information or he tried to save some members of the gang. However, his boss's demands had been bigger. In the end, he gained the fame of a corrupt police officer but without proves, they couldn't fire him. 

     However, after a big incident, he was caught on sight. After an aggressive fight with guns, he was wounded. With the proofs from there, he was finally fired. The only reason that he wasn't arrested was his partner. He claimed that the information for that criminal exchange was given by Daniel, so that he lightened his position.