Rapid Reactions (A Mindless Behavior Story)

Reveling the Truth

Previously: Tyra gives up on making breakfast and goes into the boys’ room where everyone else, but Ray, is; however she is exasperated when she can tell everyone else knows something but her but they don’t tell her. When they realise Ray is gone they call him and discovers that he is with his ex-girlfriend Tyra is obviously fuming – considering she had sex with him the night before so this causes her to leave. Meanwhile, Holy is drowning in her sorrow because she misses Diggy when Khalil breaks into her house, rapidly she manages to escape but she damages her foot. When she is away from her home she calls Diggy and is shocked by his reaction to her situation, shortly after talking to him she is punched by an Asian man who knows her name.

*LJ’S POV*

“Rasheed, I can’t do this anymore, I have Eliza and she was supposed to be my friend! She was like a sister to me and you made me rape her… I’ve done everything you’ve asked for just release Eliza!”

“Whoa there, calm down Gibby” *GCO*

“Only my boy can call me that!”

“Well unfortunately, your boy hates you… and he will probably want to kill you as soon as he realises that you raped his girlfriend” sniggering

Then there was an explosion and a woman screamed, it seemed as the though the guy that was called “Gibby” was… crying.

I had been falling in and out of sleep until then, the explosion knocked me fully conscious; I was confused, however, I was in a room that looked like what would have once been a slave’s locker. I looked around  trying to find something familiar so I could at least figure out where I was, but I couldn’t see anything, I tried getting up but as I did I fell back onto the pile of blankets I had unconscious on.  My world was spinning, I had a massive headache and I had no idea of what was going on, there were loud screaming and crying above me, I looked up and saw the ceiling shaking, then I smelt smoke… it took over my lungs and brought water to my eyes. I coughed violently as the tears streamed down my eye, I called out for help but it was as if I was alone…what is going on? But that’s when I remembered

***FLASH BACK ***

“Its story time Louise Jerrell,”

“That’s not my name.” I responded irritated

“Yes it is,” he insisted.

Getting more annoyed with his stupidity, retaliated “fool you know my name is Louise Junior.”

“Take a seat LJ; I’m going to tell you the truth about your childhood,”

I took at seat opposite him and glared at him across the table, I was really disgusted when I looked at him but I was determined to know the truth about myself I wanted to hear what he had to say.

“I’m going to tell the real reason I killed our precious parents,” as he smirked my nostrils flared, I was getting angry because he was implying the death of our parents were a joke to him. However, when he noticed how angry I was getting he straightened his expression and continued. “Let me finish… Louise you aren’t my sister… *voice cracking* well, you are… but not fully, our parent lied to us…”

“I don’t…” I was confused at this point, although I thought he was bullshiting me, he actually looked hurt, I felt sorry for him.

“The day Ayana stay over, I was almost confident with my hunch… I knew that throughout my life I didn’t really fit in with the family, and that only dad accepted me for who I was but I never actually realise that dad was the only person who was blood related to me…”  my eyes widen when I realised what he was implicating. “I was discussing, with him about how I felt and I realised the sympathy and guilt in his eyes, then I asked him whether she was even my real mother… of course he tried to hide it but he wasn’t a good liar, so he reluctantly admitted it, unfortunately he admitted it as your mother walked in.” I hated the way he said your, after all it she had raised him as his own for most all of his life.

“How can you sit there and act like you hate her when she’s raised you as her own! She is your mother too, she never failed to love you as her own and she loved you just as much as she loved me, I cannot believe you!” he cut me off by sniggering loudly and glaring at me.

“Oh, she loved me, did she? Then why is it every time something went wrong it would go down to me? Why is it that they never had a picture of me in their bedroom, it was all you! Why is it that if her and I had an argument she would always tell me about how she doesn’t need me because she had YOU!” he left me dumbfounded, I had no idea how to respond to him because… honestly…he was right. “She gave me my first nose bleed, did you know that? I was in elementary school and I was making her late for work and she was screaming at me… when I started crying she punched me right in the nose and told me that I was a pussy and that’s she hated me.*looking away* your love for her blinded you from seeing the truth. Anyways, *looking back at me* when she walked in… she was furious, she looked at us with disgust ‘what the fuck have you done, Sheldon!?’ she screamed, he tried to calm her down but she was crazy!” I looked him in the eye, he was crying by this time; he looked as though telling this story was hurting him… I stretched across the table to hold his hand but he flinched and backed away from me, I was so confused. “She wasn’t my mother, Louise! She lied to us, our real mother was dad’s true love but when my mother had to leave for her modelling career he met Louisa,” he spat out her name. “They fell in love but when she realised that father was already with someone she snapped… she hated my mother… my mum wanted to keep me but she needed to go on with her career, so Louisa forced her to go and said she’d look after me.”

“How are you telling me my mother was a lunatic? She wasn’t like that! You are my brother stop lying!” I couldn’t bear to hear any more of what he was saying; my top was already soaked with tears. He looked at me and a tear fell from his right eye, he violently rubbed it off and gave me an I’m-being-serious-look.

“When she had you she was so happy to finally have a child from dad… but she hated the fact that I’m a reminder of the person our father really loved. So when he told me the truth about myself I guess she couldn’t bare having one less person loving her, I had never seen her so angry… when she got the pan and started hitting him I tried to help him but she was going nuts… I realised he was dead when *crying* when he finally fell to the ground and she punched his temple. She turned to me and grabbed a knife ‘I never wanted you as a child anyway!’ she didn’t mean it, I knew deep down she must love me at least the slightest bit, but before I could even try and calm her down she tried to stab me so I took the knife from her and…”

“And killed her, yeah I know that part.”

“You have to believe I never wanted any of this! It changed me, I didn’t understand any of it and I didn’t want but it happened and they died before I even know the rest about myself!  I tried to make things better, I pulled out the knife, I held dads death hand for the last time and made him grip onto the knife. It worked… the police believed that they killed each other.” He carried on fighting with his tears “when they died, father didn’t just leave half his money to me, he left all the information he could about my mother… the love letters, the truth about myself, pictures… even an address. In one of the letters she wrote to him she proclaimed that she was happy about you, but she requested that she could take part in the naming of you… Louisa wasn’t there when your birth certificate was made, so father did as my mother asked but he couldn’t tell her why he called you Louise Jerrell without revealing his secret, so he told us all that your name was Louise Junior… good thing Louisa was a workaholic and didn’t ever really see the certificate.”

“Khalil, this is bullshit!”

“I knew you wouldn’t understand I’ll give you time… that’s all you need.”

Thump!

I fell to the ground, I was unconscious but I still knew within myself… I’d been drugged.

*** END OF FLASH BACK ***