𝗛𝗢𝗘𝗦 𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗢💦

Chpt 12

                Chapter 12

               Zahaire's pov

  The agency said there were only cameras situated along the roadways leading to the apartments for security reasons, residence are allowed to install cameras as long as it doesn't implicate their neighbor's privacy. I call the Richard to no avail, with the sudden feeling that something was wrong I dialed my mother's number but she didn't answer. A passing taxi honk and I flagged it down and hopped in.

  I could see the smoke from where I usually came off at the four road whenever I took normal taxis, I knew it was our house and my heart sank. I hurried there but there was no sign of my family only people looking on, I was in a panic state, no one was even trying to put out the blaze and the fire truck was heard just coming when our three bedroom wooden structure was already burnt to the ground.

  My phone rang and I took it from my pocket seeing Sharrie's baby father Ethan calling.

  "Hello?" I answered on the verge of breaking down.

"Richard just leave to come for you, we are all safe," he said.

  "I am standing in front of our yard," I told him.

"Ok call him-"

  Someone touched me on my side and I flinched and wheeled around, it was our neighbor Patsy. "They are all fine, but you should go because the bad men threatens to come back," she said.

  My phone began ringing in my hand and I answered Richard and told him where I was. I talked with Ms. Patsy for a while as she told me what had transpired, I was worried that Ethan's family may now be in danger because the men knew he was now connected to us, but was relieved when Richard told me he had been making trips from early in the morning carrying them and that his phone battery had died. I felt extremely tired, angry and some of my emotions I couldn't quite place them.

  Apart from the police report my mother told me she had given to the police, she said she didn't want to be to involved with the police so with the few pieces of furnitures and one bed that they have managed to save we gave thanks for our lives. Without a roof over our heads that night I thought it hard to go to work, but my mother packed some of my clothes in a knapsack and pushed me to go.

  Richard was outside waiting for me as I walked out, he took me to where we were staying in the bushes under some Tapaulins. My brother Zavian and sister Shameka was ready to go to college and school respectively, I gave them their lunch and transportation money and they went away with the driver.

  I spent two hours in the bushes chopping posts with Ethan and his brothers. "I don't want you to spend any money buying boards or any building materials, I've spoken to your father and told him what has happened. He says he is working on something and we should not bother to spend any money," my mother informed me.

"He said you should call him," she added and walked off to where they had set up a rest room area with a porta potty.

  It was a great discomfort to get ready for my day job, my grandma handed me a cup of tea and I thanked her. She sat with Mikhail who played with his truck without a care in the world, I smiled feeling like crying at his innocence. My head swam and I shook away the feeling, I hadn't gotten any rest. I drank the tea and was off when the driver arrived none the less.

  I call Sharrie to check on how things were going and she told me that Sharon was facing a lawsuit for failure of complying to the trust fund left in regards to Janay, she was also facing chargies because she had not replied to any of the applications sent from the college Janay had applied to. I could hardly concentrate on what she was saying as a wave of dissiness corel me and I told her I would call back later.

  I went and purchase a hot meal at a restaurant close by and ate it, after using the toilet I felt a little better and snuck off of work early to get some sleep. When my mother wake me up to eat and get ready for my night job I felt like to give in and give up. I call my dad the moment I reach work and connected to the company's wifi.

"Hello son, how are you?" He answered asking.

"I'm alive," I said with a sigh.

  "Huh, hi hi hi, uhn uhn. Tough world uh? Keep pushing," he laughed and said.

"That I'm going to keep doing," I told him.

  "I'm trying out something- I don't know if it's going to work but I'm truly hoping it does, in the meantime make sure everyone's passport is updated and let me get all the names and details for Ethan and his family. He has stuck with Sharrie throughout all the displeasures and I wouldn't want him and his family to be left to get harm," dad explained.

  I nod my head even though he couldn't see me I was not using video call then I said, "yes dad, I've heard all you say and I'll check get at it the morning when I get home."

"Good and Zahaire, I want you to know that I would spend my whole life in prison and I will do it again to defend and protect you all," he said.

Tears well up in my eyes and my heart beat sped up. "Thank you dad," I said.

"What are you thanking me for? That's also your duty even more so now that you have become a father, protect your children and love ones at all cost. When they are wrong rebuke them, but always  stand up for them no matter what the situation," he ask then told me.

  "Yes father I will," I replied firmly.

  "Have a safe night at work, all the best," he said.

  "Thanks bye," I told him and end the call.

  I pushed through my work even though I wish I could be in a comfortable bed sleeping contentedly, I've been working before I graduated from high school. With siblings to feed and only Sharrie and I working at the time things were really hard, all our money at the time were mainly spent on building up our house and buying neccessary items. When my mother got back a job our grandpa passed from his illness, my mother's other relatives who are somewhere on the island and some overseas told us to avoid them because they did not want any trouble.

  My grandma seeing that we needed the help came to live with us so she could help my mother with my baby siblings at the time and my two uncles say will not have anything to do with her. A wave of sadness flow over me and I feel quilty, if only things didn't go the way they did we could all still be a happy family, but Gonzalez tore my family apart. I was glad my father had been looking for me that day because Gonzalez had become a different person, grabbing my hands and tying me up after I had move from beside him because of a two intimate touch. I was taken by shock when he said he loved me.

  "Tsk," how can you live someone and force yourself upon them, sure I've interacted gay couples before that time and they hadn't turn gay by force. They were in agreement and adored each other, Gonzalez was a rapist and he got what he deserved. Tying me up and stripping off my clothes, I began to shake and I walk away from the machine I was working at and went into the bathroom.

  I vomited like I sometimes do when I remembered him touching my private area and bringing it to erection although I tried hard not do. He had poured baby oil over my bottom and was caressing me and I was hurling all manner of insults at him. The door to the oil room we were in flew open and I saw my father looking aghast, he looked at me bound on the dishelved makeshift bed and walked angrily to Gonzalez who was spewing all kinds of 'I loves' and 'he wants' my father had only said "so it is true what they say about you" everything else was lost when my father grabbed Gonzalez and took a knife I did not see that he was holding and began to stab him. I was in a bad state of fright for days and when the police came for my father and news got out our lives became a nightmare.

To be continued...