Desmond Lloyd Rees

[Desmond Lloyd Rees]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 400px; height: 380px; background-image:URL(http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy284/brooklynlolli/x0r3w0.png); border-left: 10px solid #1e1e1e; border-right: 10px solid #1e1e1e;] Desmond Lloyd Rees Desmond Lloyd Rees | 21| Local | Owner of Psychedelic Steve’s Surf Shop ------------------------------------------------- WELCOME, TAKE A SEAT. START OFF WITH YOUR NAME, HOW OLD ARE YOU? Hi, no sorry, I don’t go to school here. Oh, you want to talk anyway? Okay…am I in trouble? I’m here to see my friend Molly…Yes, McCormack…you say you interviewed her recently. Didn’t like it did she?...nope, haha, typical Molly. Well, I’ll be happy to talk, if anything this will at least be a good plug for my shop! My name is Desmond Rees, but you can call me Des, I’m 21 and I own Psychedelic Steve’s Surf Shop down at the beach, the best surf shop in town! ------------------------------------------------- AWESOME. ARE YOU A LOCAL? Yes, I am actually, but just barely. My parents came here from Europe just a year before I was born! But, yes, I did grow up here and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else! ------------------------------------------------- NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSED. GOT A BIG FAMILY? I'M AN ONLY CHILD. I’m an only child, too! To be honest, I don’t think they planned me, because we’re a very poor family. I think that’s the only reason they didn’t have any more kids. But, as I was saying my Mum is from Italy and my Papa is Welsh and they came here only a year before I was born, apparently neither of their families were happy about their marriage, so they decided to come here! They’ve been really supportive of me always, and though I know I’ve disappointed them, I know they’ll never tell me. A lot of people ask me why I address them by names opposite of where they come from. My answer is that it’s from hearing my Papa say, “Boy, go apologize to your Mum!” or my Mum say, “Listen to you Papa, Des!” They own a ristorante where my mother cooks all authentic Italian food, let me tell you, if you have not been to Mama Mia’s Ristorante, you must as soon as possible. My Mum, she cooks everything to perfezione the traditional italiano way! It doesn’t make them rich, but it gets them by. My Mum is a firecracker, I’ll tell you, if you do something she doesn’t like she will just go nuts and get it over with, then an hour later she will act as though nothing ever happened! The worst is when she gets mad and stomps around the house saying, “Just wait ‘til your Papa gets home! He will hang you from your little toes!” She was always saying things like that. But, my father is terrifying while he’s mad. He’ll get real quiet and his face will turn red and he won’t punish you right away. But, the next time you do even the smallest thing wrong, all Hell breaks loose now that he’s let it fester. He’ll hit things and throw things and knock things over, just is a madman. Never touched a hair on me though, or me Mum. Let me tell you, I may not have gotten everything I’ve ever wanted, but they sure are stand-up parents. ------------------------------------------------- GO FIGURE. DO YOU THINK YOUR FAMILY SHAPE WHO YOU ARE AS A PERSON? Oh, absolutely! And only the good things! I don’t know where any of my less honorable traits came from. Both of my parents have taught me to be hardworking and accepting of everyone. Even with such a meager beginning they taught me the importance of charity and staying positive. They always said, “Des, money isn’t everything. And charity isn’t money. There are lots of things you can do for this world without money,” what a great message, huh? They’ve made me the most positive person, because I know that I don’t have a lot, but what I have is a lot more than what other people got and certainly I’ve got my health, a roof to sleep under, and a job that pays decent enough. Oh, plus my Mum taught me Italian, but she still doesn’t make me call her Mama. I think she’s always like the way Mum sounded, because she’s never let me call her Mom when I got older. And if you can’t tell, I’m a talker. Got that from my Mum, too. My dad is much quieter and it’s sometimes hard to guess how they might’ve fallen in love, but Mum always says how he’s a terrific listener, hahaha. So, they’ve always told me to be a good listener, too, because you never know if that girl talkin’ your ear off is going to be your wife. On top of all that, they’ve taught me loyalty, things have gotten rough in our relationship, but nothing ever separated us permanently and I know they’ll always be there for me because they are mia famiglia and I hope they know I’d never abandon them. I make a helluva good friend because of the things they’ve taught me. ------------------------------------------------- THATS DEEP, MAN. YOU SEEM PRETTY INTERESTING, YOU MUST HAVE AN INTERESTING BACK STORY, HM? Oh, yessir, certainly, at least I think it’s interesting. Not the sort of stuff you’re used to hearing at least. As I said before, we were really poor while I was growing up. My Mum would clean for money and my Papa was a carpenter, always getting odd jobs, but he could never land anything consistent. They’d had this idea though that when they moved to the states they were going to open a ristorante! Well, I came along and ruined that dream for them, haha. Okay, not ruined, put it on hold. Babies cost a lot, you know, and they spent all their savings to have me. They didn’t have money for a babysitter or anything, so up until I was about six, when I wasn’t in school I’d just run around the city, do what I wanted, and I went to the beach a lot. That’s when I met Psychedelic Steve! He was a flat out hippie who owned a surf shop, didn’t own much, but he didn’t care. He’d gotten the name Psychedelic Steve because he used his surf shop to sell ‘shrooms and pot and other goodies, but only the natural stuff, none of that man-made junk. That part of the business is still around today…I mean, you aren’t a cop right? Okay, good. Don’t tell anyone unless they need to make a purchase. Anyway, when I was a kid, he’d let me use his surfboards that he usually rented, but because I didn’t have any money, for every hour that I would use a surfboard I would have to wax 2. By the time I was 10, I tell ya, I got real good at waxin’ them boards! So much so, that he offered me a job! I mean, at 10 years old, you start to feel pretty special when you have a job and none of the other kids do. Plus, I could help my parents with food and I even put some money into helping them start their ristorante, which they did about two years later, when I was 12! But, I liked working there and surfing so much, that I stopped going to school and just went to the surf shop all day! I don’t know how my parents never found out. I was going to a poor inner-city school, and this sort of thing happens a lot there, so they didn’t even contact my parents when I stopped showing up. Strange, huh? Well, I got away with this for YEARS! I was 16 when they finally found out! Of course, they kicked me out of the house right away saying that now I was never going to manage to be successful. This is how I know I'm a disappointment to them, but they don't talk about it anymore. I had to go to Steve for refuge. The surf shop has an attic where I set up my room in a corner, though it was mostly used for storage. Once I got it all cleaned up, it was really a nice place. Right on the beach and all that, I even had a window that looked out at the ocean and a moon roof to look at the stars! Man, I like it so much, I still live there. The surf shop does have a small bathroom nothing nice, which is sometimes why I look all scruffy like now, about to shave all this facial hair off. There’s no shower at the shop either, so I have to go to my parents’ house to use theirs or sometimes I bum off my friends like Molly. ...Oh yeah, my parents did feel guilty for kicking me out and invited me to come back, but I kinda liked it out on my own and I know that I was just another mouth to feed and pretty much all of their money was still going into the ristorante. So, I stayed there at the surf shop, but I visit them all the time. Anyway, Steve died a few years back and lo’ and behold he left me the whole establishment! Didn’t think it was right to change the name, so it still stands as Psychedelic Steve’s Surf Shop! I guess it only made sense that he left it to me, he didn’t have any family and over the years since I started working there, I learned how to completely run the place… ...What? Did you ask why I’m friends with Molly? Hahaha! I guess I’m not at all like her am I? Well, I’m glad you asked… When I was 17 I was looking out my window at the beach, and I see this girl who looked about the same age as me and a boy who looked a few years younger. Well, turns out, it was Molly and her brother. I kept seeing them and every time their clothes looked dirtier and they looked hungrier. So, like my parents would have told me to do, I took them in. My Mum didn’t have any problem feeding them at the ristorante for free and I made some more room in the attic for them and they helped out at the shop with what they could. Steve and I gave them some money for food and clothes and they stayed with us until they could get other jobs and find a place to live. We did our best to help her brother out with finishing school, but I wasn’t of much help because I stopped going when I was so young and Steve was getting old and couldn’t remember. I think Molly was the biggest help for that. He ended up graduating though, we had a nice celebration for that at the ristorante! A whole little party and everything! But, they were still struggling and since he had managed to graduate, they decided to apply for college together and now they’re living in the dorms here! Small world, huh? Molly and I were together for a little while, but we decided that we were better friends and the three of us still spend all sorts of time together. They’re the greatest! ...she never mentioned me in her interview? Oh well, she was probably in a hurry and she really doesn’t like telling her life story to complete strangers…I know, I was that stranger once! ------------------------------------------------- MAYBE I SHOULDN'T HAVE ASKED. ANYWAY, THATS IT. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME. Oh, no problem at all! Sorry if I was a bit chatty. You should come on down to the surf shop anytime, just don’t tell anyone about the you know what…you won’t? Okay good, I knew I could trust you! Hey, I told Molly I would be over twenty minutes ago, but thanks for listening! You’ll make a great husband some day! ------------------------------------------------- THE PERSON BEHIND THIS WONDERFUL CHARACTER IS GENERALLY CALLED HEATHER AND SITS AT 22. SHE LIVES IN THE EASTERN TIMEZONE. ALSO, THIS CHARACTER LOOKS PRETTY SIMILAR TO EDOARDO NATOLIE, DON'T YOU THINK?

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