I'd Never Expected

Chapter 2

"What?" Ronnie soon joined, fraction of a second later and stood up, no, more like jumped up. His face was just as confused as ours. Apparently he wasn't aware of this either.

Ronnie turned to the strange man. "Bill, I thought we were here on business matters!"

"I'm sorry, Ronnie but if I told you the truth I knew you would have been totally against this and you probably would have taken action by running away." The man, apparently named, Bill, replied.

"But-" Ronnie stopped and thought for a moment. "Yeah, that's most likely true." He sat back down.

My mom interrupted them. "Excuse me but, I'm now confused."

"Join the club," I added.

"I told Ronnie that we were coming to pick up some money and that I really needed him to help me out with some, ahem… rough clients," Bill explained.

My mom nodded and shook her finger at him. "Oh, what a dirty trick, Mr. Eister."

That confused me even more.

"I found it kind of fishy when I arrived here… Not seeing any of these "rough clients"," Ronnie quietly whispered to himself.

"Wait, so you guys are like in the mafia or something?" Vita cut in.

This, Bill Eister man, chuckled. "Ah no, my boss, eh… Ronnie's father is one of the wealthiest men in the country. He owns one of the top companies in the world and basically he helps out people in need by lending money and sometimes we've come to countless manners where our clients put up a fight when it comes to collecting their dues. Ronnie here.." he patted Ronnie's back, "helps us out by putting up a fight as well."

I thought back to the fight he had yesterday morning. So apparently he's a fighter, eh? Did he know what he was doing then?

My mom gasped. "Oh my, how can you guys send out a seventeen-year-old boy to do your dirty work?" This angered her. My mom is a very caring person.

Mr. Eister apologized. "I'm sorry, Mrs. Mae, fortunately we're not doing that anymore. That's why we're leaving him in your care."

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, why am I going to start living here?" Ronnie asked as his patience got the best of him.

That was when everything began to clear up as Mr. Eister began to explain.

Apparently Ronnie's father had been doing business under the table for some years with very inappropriate people as his company was going in dept. He was found out and arrested last week. Now his business is going down under. Since Ronnie never had a mother, there was no one to keep custody of him and no way to support him now that his family was going poor, so Mr. Eister (who was Ronnie's father's executive) agreed to keep an eye on him while a guardian was found for him.

It took a few days but soon enough, Ronnie's former wet nurse from years back was found, Rosa Mae, my mom. She got the phone call yesterday and agreed. My dad didn't seem to mind either. So in order to have Ronnie change schools, he had to be lied to saying it was only for business matters or else he would have taken manners into his own hands. He had a history of pure violence but the fact that he was the son of one of the wealthiest men in the world, he always got away with it.

I figured he was a spoiled brat.

"And you know, I'm very thankful of you, Mrs. Mae. We didn't know what else we would have done if we couldn't find someone and luckily he's turning eighteen this December so it's just till the end of the school year before he can go off into his own then he's no more of your problem," Mr. Eister reminded her. "I thank you very much."