Chapter 3: Chapter 3
Well, nobody except Spencer. He wasn't fazed at all.
It was a surprise because basically, I have never been treated with such respect in my life.
When we got close to the restaurant, I noticed that it was a grand one. It was a single storey building and very classy.
"Do you think we can afford the meals here?" I voiced out.
"Don't worry. Bills on me." Spencer smiled.
"Whoa, someone is going to eat a lot tonight." Jeff chuckled.
We found somewhere to park the car and we all came out. The moment we stepped inside the building, all eyes were on us. Some staffs around us greeted us with a broad smile and a bow.
"Look who we have here," a stout looking man approached us with a smile too. He looked like he was in his late forties.
"Okay guys, give me a minute, I'll be right back. Just wait for me there and don't order anything yet." Spencer said to us, pointing to a corner by his left.
"Hey Steve, how is it going?" Steve. That's the stout man's name. He had gotten to where Spencer was and they began to walk away.
"Again, I repeat, Spencer is someone." Jeff said as we sat around the table.
"Yeah, I see that now." Mich replied looking at both of them. They were walking up the stairs and were out of sight within few seconds.
"Excuse me," a staff walked up to us few minutes after we were seated. Spencer had not still returned.
"Mr Ryder asked for you all to join him upstairs" she announced.
Mr Ryder? Oh, that's Spencer. I almost forgot that his surname is Ryder.
"What's going on upstairs?" I asked as we stood up to follow her.
"Nothing much, it's the VIP area and he let us know who you are. I'm really happy to meet you and your sister," she replied.
"Your friends too," she added.
"Nice to meet you too," Mich waved and that added more to her grin.
"I have never seen your faces so I never knew about any of you, not until few minutes ago, when Mr Ryder announced your identity," she continued.
I was going to ask what Spencer said about us, but we were at the first floor already and she was a little ahead of us now. I guess Spencer would be the one to answer my question then.
"This way please," she motioned to the right.
We were in the midst of dignitaries. How did I know that? The people here were not ordinary people, I could recognize few persons.
Someone like Ethan Scott, a manager at a top media empire in the country, Charles Floyd, the president of Tech District too was here. I could sight him at a table speaking to another staff.
"Please pardon my inappropriate behaviour." Steve walked up to us. We were now at the table where Spencer sat.
"I was never aware of your identity earlier on," he continued taking a bow.
"I'm Steven Taylor, you can call me Steve for short." He said extending his hand for a hand shake.
"I run this restaurant although I'm not the owner." He continued again after we all shook hands with him.
"That's nice." Essa managed to say. We were all still bewildered at the sudden turn of events.
"I'm so pleased to finally meet you two in person." He gestured towards Essa and I.
"You see, your fa...."
"Okay that's enough Steve." Spencer waved him away. He smiled at us again and walked away.
"Details please?" Essa said, the moment we all sat down. Spencer had already ordered a whole lot of meals. So there were varieties to choose from.
"Let's eat now, can we?" Spencer smiled. I don't think he heard Essa.
"Man, we need details, that's what Essa just said." I remarked.
"Oh, I heard. I'll explain while we eat." He said picking up his spoon.
"Fair enough." From Mich.
"You've not still said anything." Jeff reminded few minutes later. We were losing our patience already.
"I know, we just started eating. Don't tell me you don't know of table manners."
"What? Come on!" I whined.
"Alright." He laughed with his two hands on the air, as if surrendering to something.
"So this is it. We're at the VIP area of this restaurant," He started.
"We know that already." Mich said.
"How?" He asked.
"The staff that came to get us told us that." Essa replied.
"What else did she say?"
"That she's very happy to meet us and she never knew about us until you announced our identity, same thing Steve said. So my first question is? What did you say about us?" I squinted at him.
"Nothing much, I told them that we're cousins, you, Essa and I, and that they are your friends." He motioned to Jeff and Mich.
"Steve was going to say something before you stopped him? Seems like you knew what he was going to say. What was that?" I asked him.
We returned to eating our food now. At least we understood why we were given such respect.
"I don't know. I felt he was wasting our time. Remember we came here to have dinner." He answered.
"Why don't I believe you?" I retorted.
"Will, you ask too many questions". He replied.
"So what are your connections with this people?" Essa motioned to the people around us.
"Why do you think I have anything to do with them?" He asked back.
"Because if you don't, you would not have talked with that man over there the way you did," she pointed at Charles Floyd.
"I saw you with him, when we came up." She added.
"Okay you got me on that one. He's a close family friend. So I'm more like his son." He answered.
My spoon clattered on the plate.
"What? You know Charles Floyd?" I almost screamed.
"We don't want to attract attention, Will." Spencer smiled.
"You're this popular?" Jeff whispered.
"Not really. You haven't heard of me have you? So no. I'm not that famous. Pick up your spoon, Will. We don't have much time here." Spencer nudged me.
"But he's a family friend. That's already enough." Essa said.
"My father works at Tech District, you know. He holds a very respectable position there. That's how I got to know Charles Floyd." Spencer said.
Wow, this news is a shocking one. I've always admired Tech District. It's one of the top computer companies in the country and whoever owns it is a genius for sure. Funny enough, no one knows the owner of Tech District, his identity has not been disclosed which seems weird. Charles Floyd is the only one on the spotlight as the President of the company. We also heard that the company has a CEO, someone we have never seen too....
We ate our remaining meal in silence and headed back to campus, after Spencer had a little chat with Steve again.
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Essa.
"Hey girl!" Mich called. I was at the bench outside waiting for her. We had agreed to meet here.
"Morning, how was your night?" I asked after giving her a quick hug.
"It was good. Yours?"
"It was fine. I slept well."
"It's few minutes past six now and lectures starts by seven, let's go grab some coffee. What do you think?" We now knew some places around the school. Spencer had taken us for a little tour yesterday.
"Yeah, that's a good idea. Let's go to the coffee shop beside the shopping centre."
"Alright then."
We ordered two cups of coffee and sat at a corner close to the window.
"Cheers to our first day of lectures at the university." Mich smiled, extending her cup to me.
"Cheers." I smiled back, clinking my cup with hers.
"Hey, excuse me. Can I make use of your phone for a minute? My battery is low and I need to call someone." A young guy said to me.
"Yeah sure." I replied handing over my phone to him after unlocking it. I heard him talk to whoever it was on the phone about a package he was to receive. After he was done with the phone, he handed it back to me.
"Thank you so much, I really appreciate. I needed to let my friend know of my whereabout because I couldn't get to him with my phone. The battery died down few minutes ago." He explained.
"Alright, I'm glad I could help." I replied.
"I'm Wilson by the way, and thank you once again for your help." He said and dashed out before I could even reply.
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