Visitor from Last Night

Chapter 5

Hi kitties

Alicia

Today I completed my online classes earlier than expected. Today, I can help around a lot more. I was already ready to go to work when my coworker entered the room.

"Are you done with your classes?" I nodded with a smile. "Great, can you attend table no. 7?" She said,

“Alright.” I nodded, and I started to go towards the table no. 7, but my feet came to a halt when I saw the person whom I was going to serve. I ran back and was bumped into someone. I looked up and found Samantha.

"What happened Alicia?" She asked, and I looked back just to see if he had noticed me or not. Thank God he didn’t.

"Can you attend table no. 7? Please," I said and she looked confused.

"Why?" She asked.

“I am not feeling very well right now.” I lied to her and felt a sense of guilt inside of me, but if I went to see him right now, then many of the questions which I have been burying in my heart would pop out.

“Are you alright? Sit down for a while. I will attend that table.” Samantha went right away to attend that table.

I looked from afar and saw when she took the order and came towards the wine section, and she might be taking out the red wine of that rose company and, as I expected she took out that wine only and went towards the chef and the chef was looking a bit tired. I noticed that her assistant was not there. I entered the kitchen.

“Can I help with something?”

“You are not feeling well. Don’t worry, we will do it.” Samantha said, and that guilty feeling hit me again. I bit my lips.

“I am sorry that I am causing you inconvenience, but let me handle it.”

“Don’t worry Alicia.” I took the order from her hand and read it.

“I can cook it.”

“You can cook too?”

“How do you think I have been surviving for so long?” I collected the ingredients and started to cook the food and before taking it to the customer, the head cook tasted it.

“It is quite delicious.”

“Thank you chef.”

"It smells so good. I want to eat it instead of giving it to him." She said and I chuckled." Don't make him wait any longer. Otherwise he will be furious and if he asks who the cook is, then give him any name, but not Alicia. " I said, and she looked at me and I gave her a sign to go away and give the order.

She took away the food and I looked at them. I smiled, thinking that his taste hadn't yet changed a bit. He still loves the same thing but I don't know his behavior now.

"Alicia, what are you doing in the kitchen? I thought I told you to attend table no 7." She said and I nodded.

"I had already attended it." I said and she nodded and went away. I sighed.

"It is good to have a good partner beside me." I heard Ivory. She is the head chef.

"Yeah. Want me to help you with something?" I asked and she nodded and told me what I have to do and I decided that I would love to spend more time in the kitchen rather than being a waitress today. I saw Sam coming towards me.

"Ivory, can I borrow her for a few minutes?" Sam asked Ivory.

"Yeah you can. But only for a few minutes." She said and Sam thanked her and she pulled me with her God knows where.

'What happened?" I asked her.

"You not feeling well was an excuse, right?" She asked and I bit my lips.

"Yup" I told her and she sighed.

“You didn’t want to meet him or what?”

“I don’t want to face him right now.”

“What do you mean by facing him right now? Do you know who he is? He is America’s famous businessman Alfredo Cullen.”

“How do I make you understand this?” I looked away for a bit and took a sigh of relief. “I am sorry that I have never told you about my family background but that man, Alfredo Cullen is my twin brother.” I said and closed my eyes in the hope that she might lash out on me but instead I heard her laughing. I opened my eyes and was confused at her action.

“If you want to joke around, then at least come up with something better.”

“Why do you think that I am joking around?”

“How can that person have a connection with people like us?”

“Because I have been disowned by my family.”

“Alicia, I think that is enough. This joke is not funny anymore.”

“Samantha, you said that you will believe in me.”

“But this is something that is truly unbelievable. Why will his sister work here?”

“There are reasons that had made her family disown her.” I looked at her. “Can’t you see that we both have very similar features. We both have mostly inherited our genes from our mother.”

“Now that you are mentioning that. I did feel like I had seen you somewhere and you do share similar features with him. Are you telling me the truth?” I sighed and felt that it wasn’t her fault that she was actually questioning me. I took out my phone and showed her the picture of mine and my family and her eyes widened.

“But aren’t you Nelson?”

"I am originally a Cullen so I am Alicia Cullen and he is my twin brother Alfredo. I have changed my name because I don't want people to find me out." I said and she was still confused. “I know that this new information might be freaking you out but that is the truth.”

"Why didn't take his order?" She asked and I sighed.

"Because I know that he will take me back home and I have left my home on a bad note so I am not ready to face them yet." I said.

"What happened?" She asked and I sighed.

"Aren't you asking so many questions?" I asked her and she shook her head.

"My few questions are making you feel so many questions. I don't know why you are keeping this mysterious aura around you? You are a free person and I have also seen how you have handled so many situations. But who are you? Why can't I see your true self? Why am I kept in the dark?" She asked me and I sighed.

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“I know that I have been hiding a lot of things from you but my past is not a good topic to touch on. I want to share with you but I am still healing from the pain which my own family has inflicted on me. I am still afraid that I might lose my mind when talking about them. My situation will make your mind more messed up." I said and she looked confused. She was about to say something when the head chef came.

"Sam, you said that you were taking her away for a few minutes but you took her for twenty minutes." I heard Ivory and looked at her. She was smiling at me.

"I am sorry. I wanted something to know." She said,

"You got it?" Ivory asked and she nodded. I was on my way to work and I looked at Sam, though she had composed herself but I know that she still has many questions to ask.

"Alicia, Thank you so much for your help. From here I can take over as there are few more chefs. You can continue with your usual work.” I came out from there and saw my coworker

“Can you take the order of table no 10? Troy was looking for you and told me to tell you this ASAP." She said and I nodded.

"I will go and take the order." I said, and went towards the table. Alfredo wasn't there and I took a sigh of relief. I came over to the table and asked for their order. He didn't look at me but told his order and I took the note and went towards the kitchen and handed the order to Ivory and she smiled and she started to prepare the dish and I was there and was learning how she was making it. I don't know many dishes but she does and she was pleased when I told her that I wanted to see how she was making it and with very patience she taught me that dish.

"Here you go Alicia?" She said and handed me the dishes and I took those dishes towards the table and put them on the table.

"Alicia" The stranger said, and I was shocked when he called my name. How in the world does he know my name?

"How do you know my name?" I asked him and he smiled.

"Please sit in front of me." He said and I was hesitating.

"Please sit down. I won't bite you and I will talk with your manager." He said and I nodded.

"Please give me a minute. I am coming." I said and he nodded and I went towards the changing room and took out my apron. I came back and sat in front of him. I looked at him and he was old, maybe about my father's age and he had a scar on his forehead which wasn't very deep but was still visible and wasn't too big nor too small.

"Sir, how do you know me?" I asked him.

"Alicia, my dear I have known you from the time you were born." He said and I was shocked.

"But why can't I remember you?' I asked him.

"We have met some times but maybe you forget it my dear." He said.

"I can't remember." I said and he smiled.

"No problem dear. It is not your fault." He said. There was silence between us for a few minutes and I was kind of getting curious about his scar. I know that it is wrong for me to pry in his life but what can I do when you get curious. “Is there anything you want to ask? You seem to be holding in something.”

"Sir may I ask how you got the scar?" I said and he chuckled a bit.

"You can call me William. Well this is the scar I got five years ago when I met with an accident. That day a teenage girl helped me. I was so much injured to even move and by her courageous act I am alive today and this scar reminds me of that person only." He said and smiled. I don't know why but a reflection of a similar situation passed through my mind.

"So will you tell me why the Cullen princess is over here doing a job as a waitress?" He asked me and I was shocked that he even knew my family background but then sighed when I remembered that he already knows me since my birth.

"Sir I mean William, it is a very long story." I said.

"I am free, you can tell me." He said and for a while I hesitated but the warm smile he was giving me made me feel a little bit warm inside and I explained to him what happened to me.

"I see, there is a pile of misunderstanding between you and your family. I am sorry for that, but your dad was wrong, no doubt he shouldn't have done that. You are his flesh and blood at the end yet he has done something like this.” I didn’t say anything. “What are your views towards life my dear?" He asked and I smiled.

" From my point of view, life is a beautiful thing and the worst at the same time. It is more adventurous than a game. To live a better life we need only a few things and that is enough," I said, and he smiled.

"What are those?" He asked me.

"Money, so that you don’t have to go to sleep with an empty stomach and courage to face your life. Every day is not a flower road but of thorns. It is us who have to develop the courage to walk on them and find our happiness." I said and he smiled.

"I am impressed. I have never seen someone being positive towards life after they have suffered so much." He said and I smiled.

"It is time for me to leave. Maybe in the future we will meet once again, though I still want to talk with you more, but right now I will consider my only to leave. Here, take this card and whenever you feel like any help please call me, okay." He said.

"Are you my father's friend or my friend?' I asked him and he chuckled.

"You can take me as your friend and I will be in your debt for forever." He said and went away, leaving me all confused.