Chapter 2: Kungfu Champion
He was sitting in a swing chair under one of the mango trees in our garden with a cup of tea in his hand.
"Sorry I'm late Dad, this is the last time " I say, trying to calm him before dropping the bomb on my back on him.
"That's the same thing you said yesterday. "
"Dad, I just..."
Umph!
The bomb at my back decided to make himself known.
"Who's that? I thought I made it clear not for you to bring anymore strangers to my home young lady" My Dad stood up, placing his cup on the chair.
If it was a cartoon, I'd bet steam will be coming out from his ears and his eyes will be beet red.
I guess you can properly imagine how angry he is right now.
I do understand him though. My Dad has been wearied of strangers since the day the last one he trusted ended up getting himself along with my dad's wife and twin sons dead. He's never been the same since then.
Plus, the last guy I found on the street bleeding and brought to our house turned out to be a wanted criminal.
I saw his picture on the news the next day and reported him. They didn't catch him in our house though, I'm not stupid.
That would have brought a lot of unwanted problems to Dad and me.
And well I didn't want to go to jail for helping a criminal, so I took him to the edge of the woods on the way to town and tied him to a tree.
After that, I sent the location to the cops and left. Since then, there've been no one else until now.
"Dad, I know. No none knows better than me, but I just couldn't leave him behind to die in the woods. Just this one last time, okay? Please, I'll stop coming home late and bringing strangers to the house. But you thought me to never leave someone in need when I can be of help."
Dad sighs and combs his fingers through his hair in resignation and I smile a little knowing I'd managed to convince him. Although he looks big and scary, he's pretty much a big softy inside.
"Why didn't you just send him to the hospital huh?" He asks.
" I wouldn't be able to explain how he got hurt and anyway, you can do a better job than they could've. Come on he's really heavy and also not very stable."
I took him to the medical room and laid him on the bed there. I then continued to remove his clothes.
I've helped remove clothes of so many injured people that I didn't even bat an eye while doing his.
His body was impressive but nothing swoon-worthy on my part, Chaley! I've seen better. Wink.
My Dad follows soon after and take out his tools to get started. I then walked to the washroom to wash my hands to aid him when need be.
My Dad used to be a world known Kungfu champion. He was happily married, and nothing mattered to him more than his family, not even his career.
One day, he had a big match and couldn't accompany his wife and sons to the theatre for a play they were showing.
He never allowed his wife, much less his little sons to see him fight so, he never took them with him.
On that day, his personal driver had called in sick but said he had someone who could take his place.
He was weary of a complete stranger driving his family to the theatre. But after a few convincing words from his beloved wife, he gave in.
The day before, the substitute driver had gone partying with a group of friends and was battling a huge hungover.
Although he knew he shouldn't drive when he was in that state, he needed the money and couldn't help but agree when his friend called him.
One the way, the sound of the passing cars and the hooting horns got too much for him to handle and he lost control of the steer, plummeting of the highway into the water beneath.
The driver, my dad's wife and the two sons were all already dead when they pulled them out of the water.
My Dad was too brokenhearted to stay in the city anymore, much less the house he lived in with his family. He sold everything and moved to Britain.
He bought a big land far away from human civilization and built his own little paradise cut off from the world, until he found me that fateful day.
During his stay here before he met me, he took to farming and medicine.
Everything that we eat here is organic, straight from my dad's farm. He also has a whole library filled with books about medicinal practices and methods.
He performed operations on the injured animals he came across and as far as I know, they all got healed.
He has been doing this for a long time now, five years before he found me.
Sometimes I feel so bad for my old man. He has spent his whole life here taking care of me and I still don't see any chance of him getting together with anyone.
Hmm....I would like to know how having a mother feels like. Another female that I actually like. No matter what I tell him he never listens.
Moving forward for him is like cheating on his dead wife. He's just that loyal to his dead love. Oh!
My Dad and I cleaned his wounds which was covered with black ash. My Dad band-aided his wounds and put him on a drip.
His breathing improved as time passed by. We covered him with a blanket, offed the lights in the medical room and left.
"Thank you so much dad. I promise this is the last." I held up my hands in prayer form.
"Dear, I'm not against you being good and helping those in need. And you also don't have to thank me for this, but you know that anyone who gets hurt around here could possibly have been up to no good."
"Dad but..."
"Ever, the last one before this one turned out to be a criminal. The one before that practically lived on coke.
You're already helping a lot of people in the hospital with your volunteer work every week. You only have two more years to become a doctor then you can care for as many people as you want my dear. I don't want to lose you too."
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