SILENT ECHOES

Chapter 1

We must understand that sadness is an ocean and sometimes we drown , while other days we are forced to swim.  R.M. Drake

"Where were you at 11:00am yesterday?" A loud voice laced with anger roared.

"He get so angry so easy. Do you think we should call the cops?" A woman in her sixties asked  her husband as she stared at the huge house across the street.

"I tried to but the bastard is a social butterfly. He is friends with the cops" Her husband replied with an angry frown on his face.

"He is going to hurt the boy again." The woman said worriedly.
"I will be right back." Her husband said as he opened the door of their cafe and marched towards the huge house. He stood in front of the extra big entrance oak wood door and started knocking so hard.

"Who is there?" Someone asked angrily.
"Come out you f**king pu**y". Suddenly the door opened and an average size man glared at the old man knocking on his door in a rude way.
"Who do you just call a pu**y." He asked.

"Where is the boy? Where is Lorenzo. "The old man said to him.         
"listen to me Lucas, Lorenzo is my son. Okay?"The man said to Lucas.

"Lorenzo come outside." Lucas called out and a boy around the age of 18 limped outside. Immediately Lucas set his eyes,he was shocked and pissed.
"How can you hurt your son so badly?" He asked angrily. The young boy look so bad. There are blood on his face. And also a print of a large hand.

"Do you tried to strangle him?" Lucas asked the boy's father with a look of shame and disappointment at him. He looked back at Lorenzo immediately without waiting for his father's response. The boy seems lifeless and hopeless. His beautiful grey eyes that used to brighten once he step into his wife's cafe when he was a child, was now dull and pale.

"Lorenzo "Lucas called him. "Come and have some chocolate drink at the cafe. Your favorite hot choco and am sure Tiffany will also love to feed you her new recipe. Come here child" He said as grap the hand of the boy and frown when he heard a wince from him. He pulled him back to his wife's cafe with the boy's father voice yelling like a failure.
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"Lia please don't go. Stay for me and our daughter. For us."A man said as tried to pacify an attractive but upset woman.

"Am tired of everything. I can't stay here anymore. Am fed up." The woman muttered with tears gushing out of her eyes making her blue eyes less attractive.

"What about our daughter? Are you going to take her with you ?" The man asked with tears in his eyes.
The woman paused for a minute then said "I will be back for my child". She then zipped up her last suitcase and started dragging it out of the dainty house with her husband trying to pacify her.

"Please don't go Lia. Our child needs you. Please Lia" The man said tears rolling down his cheeks.

"Mama" A soft voice of a little girl in pale yellow sundress called out.
The woman stopped in her tracks with her back turned at her husband and five years old daughter.

"Do you hate me mama?" The child asked the woman.
More hot tears rolled out of her eyes. She looked at her daughter with a sad smile on her face. " Mama loves you Kia. She loves you a lot. But mama have to go."

"Please don't go." Her child said
sadly.
With a last look at her family, Lilian walked away from everything. Marriage,parenthood,her job as a kindergarten teacher in the community school.

"MAMA." The little girl yelled with tears on her cheeks.
"MAMA." An older version of the little girl yelled.
"Take a deep breath Kia. Breathe in, breathe out. Am here don't be scared."

A lady said as she patted the girl's back in other to prevent her anxiety kicking in.

"Thank you Miss Maria." The girl thanked her teacher after some minutes.
"You are welcome darling. Do you need me to call your father?" Miss Maria asked.

"No. Don't worry I will be fine walking home. Thank you." Kia replied as she pack her books in her backpack. She look around and realized there is no else in the room apart from Miss Maria and her.

"Am sorry for sleeping in your class."She apologized.
"So polite. Don't worry you are my favorite student but don't tell anyone okay" Miss Maria said with a smile.
"Thank you once again." Kia said to her.

"Stop saying thank you . Go home and relax. Now shoo." Miss Maria said as she shooed her student out of the class.
"Bye Miss Maria." Kia waved to her.
"Bye." Miss Maria waved back. With a light smile on Kia's face, she walked down the hallway. She let out a yawn as she picked up a fast pace in other to get away of the creepy silence in the hallways.

"Breathe in, breathe out Kia. You are going to be safe as soon as you step out  of the school. Just keep walking." Kia said to herself as she walk in a fast pace. "Almost there. Just few more steps and you will be free."She said as she rushed out of the school like flash.
"Am free finally. She said as she look up at the sky. "So beautiful." She murmured with awe in her eyes.

"Hey Kia "A voice called out to her. She turned her sight to the direction of the voice and she saw a black Benz and behind the wheels is the school golden boy Nathan Jackson with his eyes twinkling with excitement.

"Let me drop you at your place." He offered.
"No thank you." She turned down his offer politely.
"It will be wrong if I let you walk home." He said to her.
It won't hurt to accept a ride from him right? She asked herself.

With a deep sigh she walked to the car and try to fight the blush on her face at seeing the huge grin on Nathan's face. With his grin still on his face,he watched her get inside his car.
" All set ?" He asked.
"Yes." She replied.

Author's Note
𝑯𝒊
𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚.
𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕❤️