to him. She stared back at him with an intense probing stare look.
He formed annoyance on his face as the woman spoke “My name is Tara King.”
He felt himself compelled to speak which he spoke “My name is Lance.”
He stared at Tara who opened her mouth to speak then closed it before walking away going towards the elevators and slipping inside one. He shook his head of confusion running through him of the name Lance.
He went to the janitor’s closet in a hallway yanking out his cleaning supplies. He went to an elevator taking it to the cafeteria floor. He sighed as he got to work mopping the floor.
He nearly had the large floor mopped when he was interrupted by a voice speaking behind him saying “It’s nice around here isn’t it?”
Jinx rolled his eyes of annoyance and turned to look at Tara standing behind him to speak “I have work to do and I don’t want to be bothered.”
He stared at her face that had a serious expression in them. He saw her nod her head walking away going into an elevator. He exhaled a breath groaning loudly working till quitting time for the work day.
He took the stairs going down out the back entrance walking in hallways. That looked like they were nasty to him due to the garbage strewn outside.
He went to his apartment changing out of his uniform tossing it in the laundry machine in the closet along with his clothes from the hamper in the bathroom. He felt himself tensed up went to the dresser to put on sweatpants and he went to his altar to kneel mediating.
He stiffened as he heard the doorbell ringing while feeling himself less tensed up. Groaning loudly he got up walking towards the door unlocking it and it slid open to see Tara standing there with a large bag hung by thick straps on her left shoulder.
He stared at her with annoyance spoke “What do you want?”
He grimaced inwardly of the rude tone as Tara dropped her large bag on the ground and yanked out thick wrapped package.
She held up towards him while speaking “This is for you to have as requested by someone else I’m not to say who they are. I also want to say if you need a friend. I’ll be around to listen when you need to talk.”
Jinx shrugged taking the package and backed up letting the door slid closed in Tara’s face locking it behind him. He went to the dining table to place the package on it and with a growl tore off the brown wrapping to see a computer pad that had files on it looking like a scrapbook.
He rubbed a hand on his head then sat in a chair and opened the scrapbook to see pictures of a couple looking familiar. He saw a young man with brown hair looking like his age wearing a white suit and a woman with long hair dressed in a white dress with a veil hanging off her head.
He stared at the woman thinking to himself “She reminds me of my Mother but Mom’s hair is really short.”
He looked further into the scrapbook to see picture of the couple in different outfits with the man having a hand on her abdomen. He saw the women's abdomen appeared to be swollen with child. He continued to look to see baby pictures of a baby wearing a blue cap on its head while wrapped in a white blanket which he assumed it’s a boy judging by the cap color.
He froze seeing his Mother looking younger in a walk pose eyes looking away from the camera holding a young boy child that eerie reminded him of himself. He saw included to the photo was a handwritten letter.
He read the letter using the Lizette his Mother’s name "Lizette, I'm begging you to return to me. It's regardless of having some argument that was meaningless and allow me in my son’s life."
He saw the son's name was “Jinx”.
He saw signed to the letter was the name “Burke Richardson.”
He stiffened with shock running through him as it dawned to him that Burke Richardson his boss was his father.
"It explained why the couple in the pictures are familiar!" He realized to himself "They were my parents and the baby myself!"
He felt rage running through him angrily slammed the computer pad onto the table and then threw it towards the wall. It hit with a bang sound sliding down towards the ground.
He angrily roared an angry nonsense growling like cry while pacing in the apartment waving his hands in fists. He angrily did his karate exercises and stretched doing his limber exercises on the floor while feeling himself calming down from his rage.
He went to his bed grabbing his pajama pants and went into the bathroom to change. Sighing loudly he picked up his sweatpants putting them on a rod behind the door and put on his pajama pants walking out of the bathroom towards the couch as sleepiness arrived running through him making him yawn hard. He sighed and turned going to the bed and laid his form on top of it shutting his eyes.
He went under recalling that his Mother, Lizette would repeatedly over the cycles tell him "You're Father has abandoned you."
Hence he always angry whenever people brought up the subject to him.
Jinx grimaced from the memory of himself fooled into thinking that Burke Richardson was his Father when it was really Lance Richard himself who fathered him.
He recalled dreaming of himself standing on a grassy cliff with a vast moving ocean water down below far ahead of him on his right. He stood with confusion running through him till a figure appeared blinking away from him. He growled loudly seeing it was Burke Richardson wearing pajamas covered by a bathrobe.
He stared at Burke who stared at him with widen eyes and spoke “My son.”
Jinx angrily allowed anger to take control riling him up. He charged at Burke who stood still watching him. He angrily pummeled Burke with his martial arts fighting moves seeing them have no effect on the male. He felt his anger leave him as intense sadness arrived within him.
He halted his attack to kneel bursting into tears weeping hard.
He saw through the tears Burke kneeled wrapping arms around him while repeatedly speaking over and over “I’m sorry, Jinx.”
He felt himself better wrapped his arms around Burke as his eyes closed and blackness arrived.
This was followed by recalling a scene of endless body of water looking like the ocean and saw three blonde Human females all looking alike while wearing white robed dresses standing on the water.
He heard words spoken in three different feminine voices saying “I’m Erra. I’m Terra. I’m Merra.”
He again heard the female voices speaking in unison say “We mostly contact people for advising and counseling them with problems like we are doing with you. Our advice is you should continue looking in the scrapbook made by your Father. It will explain more of your parents’ history.
The Lotus Order at the temple where you stayed is aware of this. It was them who figured out who you are. It was they who tested your Father’s reaction to the fact that you were his son. By having him visit the temple for them to tell him of it.
Your Father’s reaction according to them was in several emotions with thoughts of being shamed of his angry behavior towards you with acceptance as the last thought followed by being calm.
It was the Lotus Order who requested Burke to make the scrapbook of his past for you to look through to discover your heritage.”
The scene he recalling went black as the females went silent.
He woke up with a jerk as the computer alarm clock sounded its noise saying "Nap time is over."
Jinx frowned finding himself must have been really tired to nap due to nights of not sleeping properly. This while contained in the box and traveling through New Jack City as a homeless bum. He always kept awake by the city's vehicle horn noises and worries of someone finding him. Just to knock him out with a drug just to get him contained back into the box again.
He got up and voice ordered the alarm off instead of using his hand to do the job and sighed.
He got up from the wingback chair to grimace recalling himself on the space station contained in his quarters of going to the computer pad lying on the floor still intact from his throwing. He opened it going to where
he left off finding back to back were letters with no dates on them correspondence between his Father and his Mother mostly talking about himself growing up.
He read in his Father’s letters had contents of him insisting that his Mother returned to him while begging to have a part in his son’s life. He read the contents of his Mother’s letters talks about Jinx himself and how he’s doing growing up with no acknowledgement towards his Father’s pleading. He read the letters some contents mentioning himself taking karate. The last letter he found from his Mother details himself in the space station's community college his first year while adding to email her with an email address included in the letter. He paused remember counting the letters in file which he found numbered fifty two in total with twenty six each by his Father and his Mother towards each other.
He had looked further in the scrapbook to find pictures of himself competing in tests for his colored belts in karate. It was while living in the space station over the years till reaching black belt as a junior in high school before school break. That was before the studio abruptly closed with the owner moving away.
He saw as he continued remember looking to find files that were newspaper articles with headlines having his name in them. He read the articles detailing him on a karate combat team him winning major competitions when he was a senior. He saw a photo of himself wearing his blue coveralls. In front of him on the ground kneeling on one knee while having a forced smile on