Addicted To Greed (19 page)

Destiny felt quite touched by this gesture as her father very
rarely showed any affection. She was so overwhelmed she had
to bite the tears that were generating in her eyes, as she didn’t
want her father to see that this was by far one of happiest
moments in her life.

Felicity soon broke the moment by standing up, sweeping her
beautiful long blonde locks to one side of her face as if
demanding attention of every man in the room and excused
herself to go to the ladies.

Destiny noticed her father didn’t even meet Felicity’s gaze, all
he did was raise his hand slightly in agreement.

Destiny wondered if Felicity was going to powder her
beautifully plastic nose, and couldn’t help but giggle silently
speculating on how much her father must have paid for it.

Wilhelm exhaled a long breath he wasn’t aware he had been
holding and gave out a huge sigh of relief on his wife’s
flamboyant departure.

Destiny
couldn’t help tuning around in her chair watching
Felicity flirty displays by deliberately brushing by all the tables
on her slow walk to the ladies. A number of old men, young
men, jealous wife’s, envious young single women all stopped in
mid sentence glancing over to Felicity with their own thoughts.
Destiny was only slightly amused by Felicity’s exit.

“How’s Chase? I’ve tried to contact him, but he never takes my
calls.”
“Chase is okay he’s just finishing his last year in secondary
school and getting really excited about six form in September.”
“Do you know which subjects he’s taking?”
“He’s chosen ten; I’m not sure which ones, electronics,
computing and a couple of science subjects, I think!”

“I think about him all the time, I wish I’d
spent more time with
him when he was younger. My only regret is that I missed out
on seeing him grow from a child to a teenager! Would you tell
him this sweetheart? I really miss him.”

Destiny could see her father’s eyes fill up; she sensed his guilty
conscience.

“I’ll
pass your thoughts on daddy and try and get him to answer
your calls, however I can’t guarantee anything, Chase is
growing into a very stubborn young man!”

“Would you give him this?”

Wilhelm pulled out a small black velvet box. Destiny noticed
that the box appeared to be old and worn out around the edges.
Destiny noticed her father wouldn’t let go of the box, reluctant
to let it go, until the waiter asked, “Can I get you more drinks
sir?”

Destiny
hadn’t paid any attention to the waiter until now
severely pissed at him that he had robbed her of the deep rare
moment with her father. She found herself giving the waiter one
of her hateful practiced expressions.

The waiter soon realised he had come at a bad moment and
started to nervously twitch his fingers waiting for a reply.

Destiny was about to give the waiter a severe telling until she
met the waiters eyes and she suddenly stopped, the air seem to
steel all her breath from inside of her! She recalled those
beautifully shaped features, the ones she had been admiring for a
long time; it was no other than the man of her dreams, Spencer
Pratt. If there was ever a time she could wish for the ground to
open and swallow her up the time was now.

Wilhelm soon picked up on his daughters crimson coloured face,
but decided to keep quiet in the event he would miss something.
When a few uncomfortable moments passed he broke the
silence.

“Very well
young man, I feel like a martini on the rocks and for
my beautiful daughter and wife more champagne please!”
The waiter rushed quickly to avoid the uncomfortable moments
any longer; hoping when he returned with their drinks all would
be forgotten.

Destiny watched
Spencer’s sudden departure speechless as she
never got the chance to apologise for her rudeness, if it had just
been your everyday waiter she would have preceded with her
pretence, however it was her deep teenage crush, so all was
forgiven as far as she was concerned, she hoped he didn’t think
of her as a fiery spoilt little brat.

“Do you know the young chap Destiny?”

Destiny silently cursed herself for being so obvious, realising
her father had noticed something. O
h god daddy don’t start with
your questions please not now
.

“Yes only by sight, I think he’s a freshman at St John’s.”
“What are his majors?”
“I am not sure all I know he’s the sports captain for football at
my university”

“And does the young chap have a name?”
“His name is Spencer, I believe.”
“Mmmh, very interesting!”

Destiny wished she had the courage to stand up to her
father’s
prying questions, as he could obviously see she had turned a
shade of crimson red. She politely excused herself, as she did
the timing was perfect as Felicity just arrived back, apologising
for been “langsam!” the deutsche word for too long.

Destiny caught a glimpse of Spencer, carrying the drinks tray to
their table; luckily she avoided another embarrassing
confrontation, upon returning Felicity and her father were
standing awaiting her return.

Bloody hell what were they both doing, she was far from
loyalty, why the standing ovation? All this way just too way
over the top for her liking. She noticed that both her father and
Felicity’s glasses were raised waiting for her to return and join
them with her already poured glass of bubbly waiting.

“Today’s
a double celebration, not only do I find my daughter
has exceeded my expectations with her choice of university, my
lovely wife has just announced that she’s expecting our first
child!”

Destiny couldn’t bel
ieve her ears, she thought her father must be
extremely drunk or in complete delirium to announce this in
public.
Felicity pregnant to her father no way… this was the
worst news she had ever heard but like the coward she was
forced a brave smile, gritting her teeth whilst congratulating
them both.

Other tables in the restaurant began to pick up on the happy
news and soon joined in the celebrations.
Wilhelm decided it was only fair to reward the customers and all
the staff with free drinks. He soon became the most popular
man in the room with his humorous wit and generosity.

Spencer approached Destiny with a huge smile slipping into her
hand a small piece of paper discreetly, he gently whispered into
her ear, “Call me, if you fancy a quick escape from here, my
shift ends in five minutes!”

Destiny could still feel his cool breath in her ears as he walked
away.

Luckily she realised that d
addy hadn’t noticed, now the next
move was to fake a quick escape from them both, she d be
dammed if she was going to miss out on this opportunity from
Spencer.

After the second main course, she made an excuse that she had
to complete an essay on “gender inequality in the workplace” for
the Sociology part of her degree and that it was paramount she
got to the library before it closed for the day as she needed some
reference material.

Felicity and her father nodded in approval as Destiny also
sensed they may need their own time together talking about
babies and so on. She used this opportunity to sneak out to the
ladies to call Spencer.

She had no idea she was about to embark on the biggest love
affair of her life?

Chapter 9
Spencer picked up the second ring.
“Hi it’s Destiny Pearson, the rude girl from the restaurant!”
She instantly recognised the deep tone of his chuckle.

“Rude! I don’t think so.
Listen something’s just come up I’m
afraid I’m unable to to meet up after all, it’s my brother, he
needs me to pick him up from Standstead Airport, short notice I
know but he’s just come back from skiing in Austria. I am
really sorry to let you down, can we make it another time?”

“Oh, okay no problem, okay then!”

Spencer soon sensed Destiny’s
disappointment and asked in a
desperate tone, “Well we could make it a proper date the next
time, how’s that sound?”

“Not bad, maybe I’ll consider it; however I have a really busy
schedule at the moment I’ll let you know.”

Destiny couldn’t help but feel di
sappointed as she thought that
Spencer was just simply brushing her off as he maybe had a
change of heart.

Before she could add something else, Spencer asked nervously,
“Are you free at the weekend? We could make our official date
last a few days of it if you like?”

Destiny chewed the side of her mouth pondering on what he
meant by a few days.

“What do you have in mind?”
“A mini boat trip, providing you don’t get sea sickness?”
“Sounds fun, I love the water!”

“Great how about I pick you up
at three on Saturday? But I must
warn you that you’ll need an extra set of warm clothes, its
mighty cold up there at this time of the year?”

“Sounds interesting, I am still listening. Where’s the location?”
“If I told you it wouldn’t be a surprise now would it? Providing
you like surprises?”

“Yes I do as a matter of fact, I don’t know any girl who doesn’t,
by the way it sounds fun let me think about it and I’ll get back to
you!”

Destiny was just about to terminate the call when she had a
sudden change of heart. “I’m free Saturday afternoon until late
Sunday.”

“Wow! That’s great, how about you give me your address and
I’ll come by and pick you up about one on Saturday?”
Destiny could hear herself blush; half taken back by his offer.
“Well I live only a walking distance from St John’s but my
friends tell me my apartments quite hard to find.”

“
Okay wait a second I’ll just grab a pen!”
Destiny could hear him fumbling round in the back ground
cursing a number of things on his way, after he made his way
back to the telephone she gave him her address and they made
their polite goodbyes, she also gave him her house telephone
number so he could reach her if he needed to cancel.

Smiling to herself she walked her way to her apartment, excited
by the very prospect of spending a whole weekend with Spencer
Pratt, it was only a few days away she couldn’t wait and on the
water this would be a new experience. She spent the next few
days walking around in a day dream, counting down the hours of
her date, hoping he wouldn’t ring up and cancel last minute, she
had carefully picked out her clothes a mixture of smart and
casual, packing a few oversized woolly jumpers, when the
telephone rang.

“Hi its Spencer, just ringing to check you haven’t bailed on me
at the last minute have you?”

“
Hi Spencer what a pleasant surprise! No, I haven’t decided to
bail on you yet, I thought it may have been you cancelling on me
again you know like the last time?”

“No way, I am sorry about the last time; my brother certainly
knows when to pick his moments!”
Destiny took a deep sigh of relief.
“How was your brother’s trip by the way? I always fancied

Austria, but never quite got round to it!
”
“He had a great time says it’s much better than Switzerland,
wants to go back for three months next year in the winter time.”

“That’s fantastic glad he had a good time.”

“Anyway I have to run I have a meeting with the boy’s football
team tonight in the pub and you know how it is, I can’t let the
boys down!”

“Ye
ah I do, so I’ll be seeing you tomorrow at three then?”
“Of course I wouldn’t miss it for the world!”

Destiny waited until she could hear him put down the receiver
down before she hang up. She had a night in with the her
college girls over at Audrey’s Place, with promise of some
homemade punch and cocktails, providing they all brought a
bottle of spirit with them. All she longed for was this night to be
over and to be in the company of the lovely Spencer tomorrow.

♣

Audrey was the most popular girl on campus, extremely tall,
olive skin with masses of long dark curly hair; she had inherited
her mother’s exotic Mediterranean features.

Destiny enjoyed spending time with Audrey the most, like her;
Audrey had a rich father who supported her studies and
flamboyant lifestyle. Both girls didn’t have to take part time
jobs like the other girls in their group and were often the envy of
most girls who had to work and support themselves throughout
university.

Destiny and Audrey had the luxury of living off
daddy’s
checkbook and unlimited credit card. They were often nick
named the rich bitches, not only were they both beautiful with
their beautiful angelic faces, slim figures they were the most
popular girls in the whole of the campus at St john’s. Little did
the other girls know that both girls were insecure about their
good looks?

Destiny craved more of Audrey’s height
, while Audrey
desperately wanted to lose a few inches to her height and be
more petite like her friend. They knew they were both blessed
in more ways than one, however it was important to them both
they blend in with the other girls on campus and not to be seen
as an outsider. They agreed that they would take turns in
entertaining the girls, one week at Audrey’s place and the other
week at Destiny’s as they both had the most modest apartments
and were only within a five minute walking distance of each
other, it was a convenience that suited them both, earning
themselves huge amounts of popularity with the campus girls.

Destiny arrived with two bottles of Malibu, peach schnapps,
aprelrol and three liters of fresh orange juice. How she managed
to fit them all in her backpack she never know.

Audrey was in the kitchen preparing the fruit for the punch.
Destiny couldn’t help but smile at the mess Audrey was perhaps
the messiest host she had ever met, tossing her beautiful mane of
black curls to one side.

“Destiny
, what a pleasant surprise, I wasn’t expecting you until
later as you can see I am not quite finished. The girls will be
arriving in less than an hour and I haven’t even prepared the
smoke salmon pin wheels! Would you mind helping me out?
There’s a spare apron hung up over there amongst all that
clutter!”

“Audrey
, you never seize to amaze me with your extravagance.
I’m sure the girls will approve of all this, you’re awesome going
to all this trouble! I’d be tempted to call in a caterer!”

“I like to put the effort in myself once in a while, keeps me on a
level with the other girls who have to do everything themselves.
I can’t help thinking how you and me are so privileged, and it’s
not often we get the opportunity to get our hands dirty is it?”

“You have the heart of a great lioness my friend, always willing
to please other people at your own expense and shit loads of
effort I may add.”

“
Not really, besides I really enjoy it. By the way you look
fantastic, don’t ruin your outfit on my account. Hey I love your
boots are they new?”

“I
tried to make an effort to dress down for the occasion but yes
I couldn’t resist the boots their Fendi Vertigo, picked them up
from Nordstrom yesterday, along with a few other little treats.”
“Mmmh they’re absolutely divine, I hope we can hit the
boutiques soon, I’m longing for some retail therapy. Have you
any plans tomorrow? Maybe if you fancy we could head out to
the designer outlet!”

Destiny hadn’t informed Audrey she has a date with the lovely
Spencer yet, she wanted to keep it under wraps in case it was a
disaster and she knew only too well that Spencer had turned
Audrey’s offer of a drink down several weeks ago. Destiny
recalled that Audrey had been quite put out by his rejection;
never the less it hadn’t stopped Audrey asking his best friend out
a week later.

“Well I’ve
been plucking up the courage to tell you I have a date
this weekend, so I’ll have to give the designer outlet a miss this
one time!”