check mate

dashed hopes

Samuel had already grown up after a difficult childhood. Although he hoped to be free after he turned 18, his father Jonatan Smith, like his brother Alex Smith, wanted to use Samuel as a tool for his dirty deeds.

Jonatan Smith was a huge drug lord in London. Jonatan is  one of  the most famous figures of the underworld, called Samuel to him one day
and said:
-"You're 18 now. It's time to take control of my job
. A huge drug deal will happen tomorrow. I want you to control this transaction."
-"Dad, I don't want to be an instrument of your dirty deeds, I have dreams..."
-"You are my son, you have only one solution and that is my way. If you don't want to be miserable and depressed be in front of the garage tomorrow at 06:00."

Samuel slammed the door and left the room without saying anything. He began to think:
"What is being a bad person?" , "What should I do to be a good person?".

In the end, he said to himself: "Maybe I have to sacrifice my innocence to be a good person".

He was in a very mixed emotions. For the first time in his life, there was anger shining in him.

On the date that his father said to come, Jonatan Smith called   Samuel to his room, because he did not see him where he expected. He said to Samuel:
-"Who are you to disrespect my decisions?! You are nothing without me, you are empty". He then ordered his men to beat Samuel.

While the blows of the strong man hit Samuel, Samuel was suffering, but he could not do anything.

When Jonatan orders  "stop", Samuel barely stands up and says with full eyes:
-"You killed the person I love the most in this life -my mother. What do you want now?"

Jonatan said with a wry smile on his face:
-"Fool, there are things you don't know."
-"I don't know what? Tell me!  tell me!"
-"Fuck you, don't let me see you."

After Samuel went outside, Jonatan took his whiskey in his hand and began to think. He said to himself:
-"Hahaha, the fool doesn't know the truth, he's still insulting me, hahahaa. You don't know me well, Samuel, but you will know soon. "

Samuel left the house. While walking through the streets of the city, he was in so a state that anyone who üsaw him from a distance would doubt how he lived.

After walking a little way, Samuel went to a bar. As soon as he entered the bar, the smell of foul liquor and the senseless laughter of drunken people began to speak for themselves.

At that moment, when he thought there was no one inside except the drinkers he suddenly saw a beautiful girl with brown hair drinking alone.

"May I sit down?" He said quietly approaching.
The girl nodded tiredly.
Samuel asked the girl:
-"May I know your name?"
-"Anna Walker. And what is your name?
-"Samuel Smith. What is a beautiful girl like you doing alone in such a place?"

Anna smiled and then quietly: "Beautiful? I am an incompetent who devotes his life to a cause and eventually perishes."
-"Can I learn what that dream is?"
-"My father has a lot of money, but he is not a good person. I just want to play chess, just chess."

Anna started to cry, but Samuel's eyes sparkled. He began to smile involuntarily.
Anna shouted nervously:
-"I'm so funny, huh?"
Samuel chuckled this time and then said:
-"I am a coward who does not dare to dedicate my life to a cause. The funny thing is that both of our dreams are just chess."

Samuel drank the last glass of wine in one gulp and left the place.

Where would he go? He did not dare to go home. In the end, he thought of his BFF Jack Sterling's house.

He was slowly walking towards Sterling's house when he suddenly stopped. Samuel encountered the scene where he saw for the first time in his life...