Caught In Intimacy

Chapter 3- Nicolas

Best believe Sophie never called me back after that. I even tried texting her to explain and apologize for everything but I'm pretty sure she has me blocked. Guess I'll be having to do my printings elsewhere from now on. As for Vlad, well he's.... pretty interesting to have around the house. He's always looking out the window as if he expects someone to be there. He's always on the phone talking about his "business deals". He drinks like half a gallon of whiskey per day... thank god I don't have to pay for it. I also have to keep my bathroom door locked whenever I'm in it... he doesn't knock, he prefers to just barge right in and expect the bathroom to always be available. But other than that, he's pretty fun to have around the house. He cooks a lot, so that's always a winner. The foods pretty good too, he makes something that I think he calls pirozhki or piroshki or something. It's some puffed pastry type thing, but he makes them really good. He also counts as a nice body guard to have around. Again... nobody wants to mess with a big tatted Russian guy that looks like a damn mob boss. And after seeing what he did with that Russian guys head with the baseball bat... I don't wanna mess with him either. He keeps saying that he's sorry for the whole situation with Sophie that day. It's actually the first time I've heard him say sorry about anything before, so I'm pretty sure he meant it. He keeps saying he'd make it up to me but how the hell is he supposed to do that. I keep telling him that the only way he'd be able to make it up to me is by bringing Sophie back. He had other things in mind though.

One afternoon he cleaned up the place and brought out a bunch of alcohol and laid it out on the table.

"Special occasion?" I asked him.

"Something like that, it's going to be a special day for you tonight." He told me.

"For me? It's not my birthday today you know? What the heck are you talking about..."

"Oh you'll see"

And oh I definitely did see. I seen 2 smoking hot Russian girls walk into my living room.

"This is Nikita and this is Sasha" he told me while pointing at both girls. "They're some... how should I say... 'friends' of mine."

"Hmmm, alcohol.... girls.... I think I know where this is going" I told him.

"Enjoy!" He turned to the girls. "Ladies, why don't you show my friend here Nico a nice time! I'll check in on you all later, I have to go talk some business on the phone" he said while walking upstairs.

Words can't describe what happened that night.... or at least as much as I could remember from that night. All I know is that I had the time of my life. Vlad definitely did make up for that day with Sophie... shit I don't even know who Sophie is anymore. She's all part of the past now, and I ain't ever thought about her again after that night.

Now don't get me wrong... I don't look at woman as sex toys. I have lots of respect for women. I think that women are the worlds most amazing creation and I believe that every woman is very valuable in their own way.... but fucking some strippers once in a while surely don't feel too bad at all! That day was just mesmerizing, I haven't had a night like that in a long time.

Anyways, this morning I had a kid walk into the coffee shop and he wanted to buy a cookie. He only had 32 cents on him, a quarter a nickel and 2 pennies. The cookies were 75 cents, but in all honesty... who the hell would deny a kid with short change a cookie. Looking at the kid, I got a flashback of myself many years ago. I used to save up every penny I had in order to get snacks at the corner store. The guy running the corner store was so pure hearted that he never even checked the change that I gave, he just took it and gave me the chips or candy or whatever it was that I wanted. I guess I always looked at that man as a role model ever since... I always wanted to have a good heart like him, and I ended up picking up some of his values. So when that kid came up to me with short change I ended up giving him 3 cookies and a bottled juice from the fridge. I asked him his name and that's when he told me "Nicolas". He sat by a table and ate his cookies when suddenly a woman came bolting through the doors, full of distress.

She ran up to me and looked me in my eye. "Have you seen my son, he's about this tall, has short hair and his name is Nicolas" she shuddered. "I turned my back for a split second to put some money in the parking meter and before I knew it he was gone."

I pointed to the boy with the cookies. "Hmmm, you mean that kid right over there?"

She ran on over to him with grief and hugged him. "Oh my gosh Nicolas don't scare me like that. How could you just walk off like that? Whaat if something had happened to you?! And where did you get money from? How did you get those cookies?"

"That man gave it to me" he pointed to me.

The mother walked back up to me, "Thank you for taking care of him, I don't know what I would have done if something had happened to him. I owe you so much!"

"Don't worry about it", I told her. "He's a really brave boy too, I'm sure his dad is really proud."

"Well, his dad isn't in the picture anymore." she told me.

"I'm so sorry for your loss" I consoled.

"Oh no, he's not dead... he's more of a dead beat. As soon as he found out about the kid he ran off to who knows where. Left me to deal with the whole pregnancy alone and now I have to raise little Nicolas all by myself."

"Some men really are fucked up, but regardless you're doing a good job with Nicolas, I could already tell that he's a good kid" I assured her.

"Thank you, it means a lot, and thanks again for taking care of him. "You should really let me invite you over for dinner or something to show my appreciation" she said while writing her name and phone number on a napkin.

"It was my duty, and I do like dinner... I may just have to take you up on that offer" I told her with a smile.

"I really hope you do!" she said while walking out of the shop. "Call me later!"

"Will do!" I told her.

I looked down at the napkin with her name on it. Ariel.... guess I might just have to give Ms. Ariel a call when I get off work.