THEIR WORLD...

Part 6(Jake's past)

'it is okay. Don't cry. At least, you had someone to care about you. You are lucky.' Jack said with strongly painful on his face trying not to look awkward to say this.

'you don't have?' Rain asked curiously.

'me?' he asked with pointing himself and tried to remember his childhood, his past, himself...

12 years ago...

' ma, where is pa? is he coming to my school today? ' little boy asked his mother. But his mother looked so tense and in no condition to listen to little Jack. 'ma, I have to go to school. You know mr. Chen scolds me if I am late. He punished Su Ho when he was late..' his mother shouted at him angrily ' can you shut your mouth for a moment? I wish you disappeared.' His mother didn't mean that actually. Which mother wants her own child dead?! She was escaping...to survive...to make her son live...to keep him alive. Eight years ago, when she married the person she loved she didn't know she was entering the hell...mafia's world. She thought her love was just a bodyguard but after marriage his husband started to come home late and injured. He didn't have enough time to spend with family, his wife and unborn child. Whenever she asked about his work he just changed the topic with cute smile as Jack's. The thing she couldn't bear was her husband's secret job. He was a good father. Jack loved his father more than his mother. He was a good husband because he had never let his wife's desires and needs down. He loved his family unconditionally. Over time things changed to worse. When Jack was four years old, it was one of the peaceful days; she was cooking sweets for evening party. Suddenly she heard loud bang outside and looked at his husband and Jack immediately. His husband snatched playing Jack from ground and gave it to her wife and said:

'hide somewhere. Faster ...' he shouted. She run in panic and hid behind the big table in the kitchen. It was impossible to notice them as the front of the table was complete but if she reached at the edge of the table she could see everything and she did hugging his son and preventing him making noises. Bunch of black people barged into the house when her husband grabbed a gun from the box behind the cupboard which she didn't even know till now. He looked at the site of his wife and signed her to hide and hushed. When the black guys entered the house, he pointed the gun to their one of them to protect himself. He seemed like a boss but very ugly creature.

' I don't like to see people's dead body.'-the man said with poker face. He was looking so nasty that if she watched him for a moment she would have puked, so she hugged his baby and shut her eyes.-' So, when I ask just answer me honestly. Where is your so-called boss?'

'I don't know. I haven't seen him four days. Leave me alone.'

'I know you have a family. I just can't understand are you crazy or something? How can a mafia's dog marry and have children when they know someday they die no matter what?'

'that is none of your business. Just leave, please. I don't know anything about him. Please' her husband was pleading still holding the gun.

'So you are not telling me. Yaa , listen. Think about your family.'

' leave me and my family alone' he shouted at the nasty guy with hate and fear in his eyes.

'you are not going to tell me?! So I didn't want to visit your family too. But I guess I came on time. Is this a party? Cake? Aww...' he looked at his men and said ' find the woman'. Four men started to look for her and Jack while his father was panicking and sweating looking at the kitchen. One of the men noticed it and went to the kitchen. Jack's mother was hiding her body hugging jack and crying silently. Pair of black shoes was roaming around the kitchen. She was afraid 'what happens if he finds them?' suddenly the guy's foot stopped in front of her. Bitter tears were flowing over her extremely white face. When she saw that guy's face, it was like her heart stopped beating for a moment. He was like a scull without the body. He pulled her out of table and dragged to his boss's. He was going to threw her to the nasty man's feet but as she was holding her precious baby, he just made her stand her. She was crying looking down. His husband couldn't utter a word except for 'please..'. The boss looked at her and grabbed her chin harshly 'you have beautiful wife and... a child too... you have everything. And you know what I can make this everything nothing. But if you tell me where your boss is I promise I will spare you. ' he said looking at the man holding gun with pitiful face. He was on verge of crying but couldn't show. It was not the right time to be week. ' I don't know. I quitted 4 days ago. He didn't say anything since then. Believe me. Please leave my family' 'is this your last words?' he asked with an evil grin on his face. Father didn't say anything. 'Okay then. Beat them till death' saying this to his guards he turned and simply left. 'please don't. Don't do this.' Mother was screaming but no use. Guards were more than enough to make their life hell. They were coming to her as she was stepping back tightly holding the baby. She was pleading nonstop. She tripped and fell down with her back. Guards took Jack away and threw him to the ground harshly. Jack started crying loudly, his head was bleeding. They were merciless; there were no kindness in their eyes, even for the baby. The room filled with crying sounds, maybe pain, fear and screaming. That was literally the sound of fear. Have you heard this sound before?