Day 18 : The bottom of the Iceberg

Day 18, 11/23/2025
The bottom of the Iceberg

I wake up this morning around 11 am. I slept kinda well…
I go downstairs to go eat breakfast, and my mom is here.
She tells me :

Mom : Alex i have to tell you something, i said it to your brother, and you need to know.

Mom : You see, when i signed my marriage contract, the contract said that everything David had before the marriage would be considered his in case of a divorce. And right after i signed it, he went ahead and bought 3 apartments, and he went in debts.
And so because he is in debts, in case of a divorce, he will not be obliged to pay money to us.
If he sells all his apartments, he’ll get out of debts, hell he’ll be rich, but he will wait till the divorce file is filled to sell them, so he gets the least loss as possible.
Since the first day, the very first day, he prepared all of this.

He never, ever loved us.
We were just his decorations so he could say to people ‘’Yeah i’m married since 20 years now and i have 2 sons’’.

Mom : You see when he talked about moving all his money to another country, its because heritage laws are different in some countries, and so he did this so you get nothing when he dies.

It was like getting stabbed in the back, i didn’t see it coming. It was horrible.

We then ate dinner, and we discussed a lot.
After this we got to my Electric guitar teacher house (we’ll call him Johan) to talk with him because he’s a big friend of ours but we feared he would take David’s side because he was trying to be his friend. We helped him to move into his new house and so it the first time we get there since the moving. By the way, we nicknamed David ‘’Voldemort’’, the villain in Harry Potter because we don’t like to say his name.

We arrive to Johans house and he welcomes us with open arms with his ‘’wife’’ (i dont remember if they are married yet) that we will call Chloe because she has the same name as my mother that we called Chloe in previous chapters.
He tells us he prepared some crêpes and that he got us a kinder bueno nutella just for this. I love him so frickin much. He loves to cook us some food, and loves to see us enjoy it.
We get a taste of the crêpes, they are extremly good. He puts love into it and you can in someway feel it in each bite.
I was kinda cold so Chloe proposed me to get a hot drink, and i decided to try ‘’choco tea’’ flavor.
Was good but i expected kinda better, but it made me feel better.

Before we start talking about Davi- herm herm, Voldemort*, i get curious about the answer i gave a client yesterday about the HSSS stuff :

Me : Yo Johan, i have a question.

Johan : Yes tell me everything.

Me : You, that is more experimented in terms of guitars than me-

Johan : Oof you sure about what you saying ?

Me : FOR NOW !

Johan : Yea i prefer that.

Me : What does HSS and H-S-S-S means ?

Johan : Welll…… On a fender ?

Me : We agree that S-S-S stands for Single coil pickup ?

Johan : Oh yea and H stands for Humbucker, the 2 range of pickups.

Me : I KNEW IT AHAH !!!

Johan : Why ?

Me : Because yesterday i had a client that asked me ‘’What does HSS and H-S-S-S means’’ and i didn’t know at first, then she told me that her son said it had something to do with power, and bam in my head i knew, and i answered that S-S-S stands for Single coil and all.

And so i was right, yipee.

We start to talk to them about everything, mostly obviously about David (i will call him David in these lines so yall dont get confused).
We tell Johan that David is racist (true), and that he used him for the free week at the gym he offered him. For a fact, David signed a petition that supports a politic that said he wanted to stop immigration.
We tell him about his behavior with us when no one was looking.
He is shocked.
He has a golden heart and he is really naive, so at multiple times he’s like ‘’nahhhh he’s gonna realise what he’s doing is bad’’ but we tell him that we know David like the bottom of our pockets and that he doesnt gives a flying f**k about us.
For him it isnt normal to be this evil with people, it’s why i like him, he’s honest, and always smiling.

He says at some point :

Johan : But you know, these last few months, the last time we got invited in your house, i saw that David changed, and i was like ‘’yea something isnt right with him’’.

Mom : He didn’t call you to get your statement ?

Johan : No he didnt, and i would have kindly declined, i would have said ‘’you know i don’t really know you that well, i tried becoming friend but it didn’t stick between us so i don’t really consider this my bussiness, sorry’’. I would have been polite about it but oh my what a monster. And it’s crazy because you can’t tell he’s like this from outside.

Me : He’s extremly good.

We talk alot and we eat his crêpes that are godly good.
I describe to him our great escape and he is ultra shocked, he says it almost gives him chills, and when i describe the part where i had to charge the car from the rear seats he was like ‘’AGHHHHHH THE HORROR’’.
It was funny because he reacted kinda like if you told someone a scary story around a campfire, but it wasnt joke reactions this time.
After a long time of talking (3 hours to be precise) we decide to leave. We hug hem and we’re happy to see they were both honest in what they said and that we can trust them.
We hesitated at first to give hem our adress but mom didn’t hesitate when she heard what they said about David.

By the way, he said a nice quote :

Johan : Don’t worry, there is a quote saying ‘’the lies takes the elevator and the truth takes the stairs. The lies may always come up first but the truth always arrives at destination.’’

He is a real sweetheart. He cheered me up.
He even gave me a jack cable so i could try the little sound card at home (sad news, the sound card has a problem and i only hear ‘’SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS’’ so this f**king sucks, and i’m note quite sure what is the problem).

Anyway, i’m now tired, and im about to go to sleep. Its 15 minutes away from midnight as i am writing this.
Tomorow, we get a guy for the wifi box, that doesnt work (i forgot to say it got delivered, and it doesnt work).
So i’ll probably be able to send allat soon.

Goodnight.

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