The Fish ball Vendor Billionaire PART 1

 

The Fish ball Vendor Billionaire 

                                                     By: Ser Loi Avila

PART 1

THE FISHERMEN'S SON

Ben, Charles, Robert and shelly were best friends since high school. They have strong bond on their friendship, caring, loving and protecting each other with all they can and sharing all kinds of things that others don’t have. Ben was raise in a poor family, his father were small time fisherman and his mother sales the fish in the wet market. While Robert and Shelly grew in a not so wealthy family. Robert’s parents were business folks, they own the business building in the wet Market where Ben’s Mother sells fish and some other business stablisments in the City. Shelly’s parents are renowned politicians in their province. And as for Charles he just grew in a very well off family. He grew up in a golden platter with silver fork and spoon.

After graduating high school Charles, Robert and Shelly all three went to different Universities while Ben, he is a good hearted boy, he knew his parents income were not enough to put him to college. So spent his whole life dedicated helping his parents to make their living. He went with his father fishing, helping his mother selling the fish in the wet market. He did not stop working hard maximizing all his time to earn for a living and save funds for future plan, with one thing on his mind, “MY PARENTS ARE GETTING OLDER, I HAVE TO WORK EXTRA HARD TO SAVE FUNDS TO RUN A BUSINESS SO THAT THEY CAN STAY AT HOME AND ENJOY THE REST OF THEIR TIME ON EARTH”.

A year after when Charles, Robert and Shelly are now in second year on college. Ben bought a larger fishing boat to help his father and hired a fisherman that his father would no longer go on fishing but rather manage the fisherman’s he hired. In a little while he run into a fish ball business and his mother manages a group of women making a homemade fish balls. They no longer sell fish in the wet market, all the fishes their hired fisherman caught go straight to their small homemade fish ball making group.

Years went by Charles, Robert and Shelly graduated college and return home to their provinces. Charles become a highly honored licensed civil engineer, Robert become a Math teacher in the middle school and Shelly, she finished Nursing but unable to pursue her carrier because she could not pass the board exam no matter how many times she tried.

At this point of time, that they all grew up in separate ways and everyone has their own new sets of friends, and their friendship bonds also went cold. Charles manage to make his new circles of engineers while working in a very well know huge company. Robert also become a highly decorated Math professor in a University.

Ben is still dreaming of their high school friendship bond to come back and they could enjoy hanging around once again. Although Ben and Shelly meet sometimes and talk about how close their friendship was during high school. But she could not linger a little longer thinking that Ben is just a fish ball vendor unlike Charles and Robert they are way more famous. Secretly Ben hold his feelings with Shelly since high school, he is so in love with her but afraid to show it to her because he belong to a poor family. His parents knows about what he felt on Shelly and they are such a big encourager for Ben to go on and tell her that he loved her.

In spite of being jobless, Shelly did not stop of dreaming to get rich. Because her parents were renowned politicians in their province, she can afford herself to go on parties with other rich guys and most often hang out with Charles and Robert. She love hanging out whoever she wanted specially the rich guys. The only thing in her mind to marry a rich guy that she could enjoy most of her life. Unknowingly Charles also had feelings for her and that felling grow stronger that he wanted shelly to be his wife in the near future.

One day, Ben and Shelly bump each other on the Mardi Gras, he then use this opportunity to spend time with her, enjoying together, watching this joyous events, when evening come they were both hungry, he then invited her to dine with him in a fine cozy diner in town at the mountain top viewing all the city lights below and also they could have a clear view of the fireworks from the Mardi Gras. While dinning a sweet jazz music softly playing in the background, Ben could no longer hold his feelings that he kept for a long time, holding her hand look to her eyes and express what he felt for her since they were high School.

Shelly was so surprised did not expect that moment to happened, imagining her life with Ben a fish ball vendor. “IF I SAY YES! THEN MY LIFE WOULD BE OVER. I’LL BE SELLING FISH BALLS IN THE CITY STREET CORNERS MY WHOLE LIFE!” Without father much thinking and feeling mortified she answered “Ben NO! NO! NO!” then hurried out leaving Ben in the Diner.

With no hope for his love with Shelly, Ben focuses on his fish ball business. Speedily he opened 20 more fish balls stalls all over the town but instructed those other fish ball vendors not to tell anyone that he own all these fish ball stalls but they were competitors. Aside from fish ball business Ben ventured other more businesses like buying 10 larger fishing boats until he exported fish to the other cities and neighboring provinces. And many other legal business he interred into that no one knows he secretly owned many other business establishments in their City. 

TO BE CONTENUED...............