They wanted me to go to university and then get married before having sex, my father never even mentioned the word in front of me, it was mother’s j...b to educate me on the matter. Of course as I grew up I made some friends and we chatted about it in school but that’s about it.I was pretty bad at school and never managed to get far in my studies so my parents accepted that I was going to work at the family restaurant for longer than they had predicted, but they forgot that I was no longer a kid. However, Mikeya couldn’t wait any longer and jumped from the small platform, her arms around my neck as she kissed me.I caught her and held her in my arms, as I opened my heart to her for the first time in a long time.“Michael!” thought Catherine, Vickie, and Anna all at the same time.“Oh, it is all right,” the queen told them. “Tapatoans are no strangers to affairs of the heart!”Mikeya slid slowly down until her toes touched solid ground, then kissing her upturned face once more, I asked her,. ’ Ideally, I’m sure she meant for this person to be the man who would be my husband, but for reasons I won’t bore you with, that is not really a possibility for me anymore.”She reached under the table to her backpack, and pulled out a small brown box, appearing to be just the right size for a necklace of some kind. Opening the box, she showed Mike a beautiful gold locket, extremely old, but very well preserved. “When I think of how tempting it would have been for you to mistreat that poor. He approached all three kids, two boys and a girl of about the same age. They looked up at him.“You should all eat sand,” he said.They walked over to the sandbox and grabbed handfuls of it, shoving it into their mouths and chewing.Shit! “Stop!” he commanded them. They did. One last test... “Go home and say ‘fuck you’ to your parents.”All three kids spit the sand from their mouths and went their separate ways to three houses around the cul-de-sac. Within a minute he heard adults yelling from all.