BIG DADDY ..A SHORT STORY

BIG DADDY..a short story
BIG DADDY

It was me I know it was.
I was too young 
18 is a cruel age.
I like to say i was too vulnerable 
but that's not true 
It was stupid me for sure it was.

I was struggling financially at school
I was short of money
no scholarship no real job I just pizza delivery.
I needed that education to build my future up.
The Boston Fertility Clinic was high end expensive.
All I had to do was 
Bash the bishop
Wressle the snake 
And aim into a cup
I got fifty dollars every time.
Hell I was doing that anyway
five times a day for free .

What I did not know 
Was that the sperm was toxic 
highly mobile the doctor said.
If one landed on a pubic hair 
it climbed up and found an egg.
You were pregnant honey.

And what I really did not know 
Was the doctor at the clinic 
impregnated over 200 women 
With my baby batter.

That was twenty five years ago
I am in my forties now working as a computer analyst
Dating a lovely nice police woman
that told me yesterday she was pregnant
I was taken aback
I did not like or want kids

But then the lawyer appeared 
There's always a lawyer isn't there though.
What's the difference between a lawyer and a carp.
Ones a scum sucking bottom feeder
the other is a fish.

She said the clinic I donated my bodily fluids to.
Was being sued by a group of people who wanted to know
Who their biological father was.
There were over 130 signatures on this claim they said the clinic used a pseudonym called big daddy and would not release  the actual name of me.
But the thick legal claim had the details of a hundred and thirty one of my offspring.
I thought I was more guilty of carrying a concealed weapon.

She elaborated,
  my sperm was so high performance
they Used it again and again with great results.

! got a lawyer to protect my interest.
She said don't contact anyone on the list profiles.
But I did.
The first was a young  lady of 19
She was pretty and feisty but out of work and had taken an overdose of drugs I found her at the hospital. And sat in a chair next to her ?she looked so frail and lost. It touched me I needed her to be ok. I held her hand as she lay sleeping that's when the bonding thing happened,
I stayed with her until she regained consciousness. 
Who are you she said, I could not lie to her.
I am your biological father honey I whispered.
She looked at me with tears in her eyes.
I kissed her forehead
and said it's all going to be alright 
you have me now.
It was a dumb thing to say
but somehow I felt it to be true.

The next one on the list was a young man of twenty.
Very very handsome and very gay.
He was walking hand in hand with his boyfriend 
they stopped under a flowering blossom tree
and held each other closely.
He noticed. Me watching them and turned to me.
Kind of angry .whatsapp
  never seen a gay man before
or are you coming out of the closet.
I said no son not that
I am your biological father.
He stopped and then walked to me
touching my cheek like I was not real.
Then without hesitation he hugged me
and I hugged him back.

Then there was Olivia,
OMG Olivia
She was only 10 
apparently they freeze sperm.
I found her in the orphanage, 
she had been there for seven years.
The old nun grabbed my arm 
when I asked to speak with her.

She told me her sad little story
there was a car crash involving a drunk driver 
isn't that always the case.
Her parents were killed 
and Olivia lost both of her legs
just below the thigh.

I noticed all the children looking at me
with sad pick me take me home looks in their eyes.
Then I found Olivia
she was so beautiful sat in her wheelchair.
My heart hurt
I wanted to do something 
I did not know what but I had to do something.

She asked sweetly are you my daddy? 
I nodded holding back a tear 
and an irresistible urge
to pick her up in my arms.

I knew you would find me one day 
she whispered
I just knew.

That's when 

I got a letter from the lawyer
she said the children that I had met
had organised a meeting
at the local cinema for all my children
That  I had sired 
on the list of those who wished to meet me.
She advised me not to go
but I did.

I sat at the back no one noticed me
as this room full of about 120 young people
discussed their lives 
and the reasons they wanted to find me.
Some good some bad.

There was a common thread 
in their stories 
of feeling isolated or alone.
Perhaps different from the rest of the herd.

I went to the front of the theatre
and introduced myself.
I am your biological father
all of you 
every single one of you.

I want to say you all speak 
of isolation and being alone.
Well you are not.
And never will be alone.
You are members of the biggest family on earth.
You and the ones
that have not yet joined your group.
Look next to you 
at the beautiful woman or man 
they are your brothers and sisters 
you are all one family.

The room went silent
then they applauded
and started hugging each other
talking differently with each other
irrevocable bonds
of the family unit from time itself 
was with us all. 
Sure a rainbow family 
but that's not unusual
in this digital world we live in, is it?

That's when the wheels fell off
And I fell down the mountain.

Unfortunately
we were not the only ones there 
the newspapers 
if you can call the filthy tabloid newspapers
had a field day,

I was the nine day wonder they crave
it was relentless my face on tv and. 
The newspress.
I became the butt of all the jokes
On night time tv monologues.

Like

I did not know jerking off was a job.
And
He's representing America 
in the olympic masturbation freestyle event.
He came in 1st 3rd 9th and 12th in the trials.

He's making money hand over fist.
He works his fingers to the bone
it was endless.

I lost my job 
the paparazzi hounded me at work.
But what hurt me most of all
Was losing my beautiful pregnant police lady.
She was disgusted
that I had fathered all these children 
The guys at the precinct laughing at her all day.
She forbade me to see her.

I sucked the lemon
and tried to move on with my life?
I had Olive stay with me every weekend.
And she was visited by some of her blood relatives 
Who took her out and to the mall.

Four months later
I got a call from the hospital 
My police lady was in labor 
I rushed to the hospital 
and stayed with her as our son was born.
She said you are still an asshole.
I hung my head.

Then as we looked into the doorway
of the small wardroom.
We saw a huge crowd of young people 
over a hundred of them.

they had soft bears and baby stuff 
leaving it in a huge heap.
Who are these people?
she asked me.

I Said they are my children 
and our sons brothers and sisters
They love him
and want to welcome him into our family.

They pushed olive 
into the front to see the Baby.
She smiled at him
and kissed his tiny head.

She said I am your big sister,olive.
and I will take care of you.
My police lady put her arms around me.
And said welcome home big daddy.

Epilogue 
We married just before Christmas 
and the adoption papers were cleared
as olive became my real daughter
not just my biological daughter.

The fertility clinic paid my lawyers 
$500000 Settlement 
against any action for damages
by me for overusing my sperm.

It did not end there 
The newspapers and tv
showed the adoption of olive 
and a hospital in minneapolis
donated the latest robotic legs for olive
who now walks and wears jeans and skirts.

And I have constant
connection with my children.
And best of all
we have an endless
supply of free babysitters