THE BOY IS MINE

Part 49: A LITTLE STORY.

The following morning Lowell yawns waking up and stretches his arms smiling on his own on the bed.
It seems like Jordan had already left but he left a note right on top of the pillow that he was sleeping on and Lowell smiles reading it.

★Good morning handsome face, I'm sorry for leaving without saying but I just couldn't wake you up from your peaceful sleep I would hate myself if I did. But rest assured that I only had to rush home so that I can prepare for school and be with you again. So get the hell out of bed and meet me at school okay?★

Lowell chuckles tossing the note aside and rolls out of the warm bed to prepare for school.
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Jordan walks inside the house in a hurry but a glimpse of Petey from the corner of his eye forces him to take a step back.
He snarls at Petey and folds his arms on the process.
Petey sighs leaning both his hands on the kitchen counter and humbles himself towards his one and only son.

Jordan: Why are you still here?... didn't I tell you to leave?
Petey: You did, but I just couldn't leave without explaining myself to you.
Jordan: I don't want to hear it...I don't need your explanation Petey. Not now and most definitely not ever.
Petey: Son..
Jordan: Don't you dare!

It goes silent but Jordan maintains his glare towards Petey.

Jordan: Don't you dare call me that, I am not your son...you lost your son seventeen years ago and It's definitely not Jordan Hans.
Petey: I hear you...and if that is how you want things to be then I will have to accept it.
Jordan: Good..... Now be gone.
He clucks his tongue unfolding his arms as he turns to walk back towards the stairs.

Petey: They were going to kill you.
Jordan stops walking.
Petey: Seventeen years ago they were going to kill you and your mother.

It goes silent and Jordan eventually turns back to face Petey who is know looking down on his fists recalling the past.

Petey: It was my fault of course... I was involved in a lot of shit back in the days. Shit that got you and your mother in harm's way.
I was so young, rebellious and powerful.. I could say that I was exactly the way that you are now as a delivery boy.

Petey chuckles for a moment shaking his head.

Petey: But all those strengths got me in so much trouble with the Godfathers.
Jordan: The Godfathers?
Now he walks closer attentively.

*Jordan: There are higher bosses in this business?
Dylan: Yes there are, we call them the Godfathers of the game and you don't want them as enemies, they are the ones that make things happen. And one day Petey and Jerome will be the next generation of godfathers making their heirs what they are now.*

Jordan: Oh right those... Dylan did mention something about the high bosses before.
Petey: Oh well then he must have told you how dangerous they are.
Jordan: No he didn't get much into detail about them... But anyways how the Godfathers involved in all of this mess that you caused by yourself?
Petey: Well.... I kind of killed one of the Godfathers after direct contact.
Jordan pops out his eyes.
Jordan: You did what?
Petey: I had no choice okay, but no one understood that... Everyone that devoted themselves into serving those goddamn fools were after me including the Godfathers themselves and-.... And my best friends too.
Jerome's father was a Godfather and I used to serve under him too but not until I killed Godfather Maxwell Jerome's uncle the way that I did.
Jordan: What did you do?
Petey huffs and then shakes his head.

Petey: I fed him to my dogs and then took his remaining parts to his wife to at least have something to bury from his remains.
Jordan: You were still too kind.
Petey: His wife died from heart failure right after receiving his remains.
Jordan: Ow...

Jordan: But why did you kill him, I still don't understand how all of that you are saying has anything to do with us.
Petey: He gun pointed you... He wanted me to serve him instead of Godfather Adams, but when I refused he threatened me with my family. So I had to kill him, but everyone else thought that I killed him for my own selfish reasons, they couldn't give me a chance to explain everything, they turned their backs on me and viewed me as an enemy. I had to fight for our lives and keep us safe. We were hunted down like deers, I had to kill my own friends before they killed me and my family.
I was given no chance to breathe, every corner that I turned to was dangerous for us... I just couldn't bear watching you and your mother suffering because of me.
I promised her that I would change but yet the next thing that happened was that she was also wanted like I was and so were you.
So I had to leave your side and be on my own to face my fate.. I handed myself to the Godfathers to face my music and yes they were determined to kill me.
Jordan: But?...
Petey: But Godfather Adams gave me his ear to state my reasons for killing Maxwell, so I explained the whole thing to them and they let me go.
Things started falling back into place for me once again but a majority of people still wanted me dead, including the Godfathers.
I was becoming more and more powerful that Jerome couldn't even face me until to this day for betraying me the way that he did. But anyways I couldn't care less, I needed to find your mother and bring her back home.
But days turned into weeks, weeks into months and months into years just until I had to accept that I had lost you... there was no trace of my wife Miranda wherever that I went to, I just couldn't find you.
Jordan: Until when?
Petey: Until I reconciled with Dylan, he is the one that helped me out with tracking Miranda down. But yet she wanted nothing to do with me for a while.

Petey looks up at Jordan.

Petey: But that doesn't mean that I should have kept quiet for all these years, I should have reached out to you as your father but no instead I cowered and continued to watch you and your mother struggle, I led you to the wrong path for my own selfish reasons and I'm sorry, I really am sorry Jordan because it killed me as well. I thought that I was pushing you away to protect you but instead I failed you as a father and for that please forgive me son.

It goes silent and and Jordan looks away from Petey's pleading eyes.

Jordan: Don't you even dare cry on me right now, you look like a moron and stop doing that face, don't look at me like that.
Petey: I just can't help it, I have been acting strong for a long time and now I feel like I could burst out everything that I am feeling inside.
Jordan: You can do whatever that you want to do with your life I don't care... But I still want you gone Petey.
I want you gone because the fact remains, that I will never forgive you for what you did to me.
Petey sighs for moment and then nods.
Petey: I understand.
Petey: I will be gone then... After all I said what I needed to say.
Jordan: Good... Now let me go prepare for school. Don't forget to lock on your way out.
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