#9 :: The Contract Killer

14. Kiki

As I stand across the road from the school gate I look at how much Kimiyah has grown. Kimiyah is my daughter and today she turns 16. Yeah that's right. I have a daughter and she's 16. I gave her away when she was born. To a wealthy family who could not have children.

It was a good idea at the time. I was a drug addict. My baby was born with the shakes and cocaine in her system. Luckily they was able to help her.

Now, as time goes by and I'm getting older I realise just how much I miss her. I come to her school often just to watch her with her friends. One time she got into a fight and I was ready to go over there and beat those girls ass but she held her own.

I was proud.

Several times I've wanted to talk to her and tell her who I was, but I didn't know if her parents ever told her about me. I wouldn't want to wreck her world like mine had been wrecked.

You see, my parents gave me away; so I felt worthless. Didn't feel worthy of being a mother. Least of all when all I cared about was my next fix. My parents ruined my life.

Karmen knows nothing about this. She doesn't know she has a niece. She think her parents were golden and pure. Yet they were evil towards me and I'll never forgive them. That's why when they died I didn't cry. I came to collect what was mine. Only to find out they didn't leave me with a dime. They owed me. They know they owed me.

I decided that as I couldn't be there to celebrate my daughters birthday I'll go out tonight and celebrate for her.

Being "rich" has its perks. I get into anywhere I want. Tonight I decide to go where all the rich men go but don't want their wives to know. Hopefully I'll be able to fuck one of them and then blackmail them for money.

I had been drinking quite a lot. It takes a while for me to get drunk and that's what I wanted. I wanted to feel numb. I didn't want to feel anything.

I hated feeling. When I'm numb I don't miss my daughter, I don't wish I had parents who loved me, I don't yearn for a family that I should have had but didn't. When I'm numb, I forget. And that is the best feeling in the world.

"So you reckon hiring the contract killer will work?" I overheard one man say to another.

I decided to go over there.

"Hey boys..." I said with a slur

"Not now. We ain't interested." One of them said.

"Oh really? I bet you would be interested if I told you I know a contact killer... personally. And she's pretty good."

"She?" They said.

"Yup."

"What do you know?"

"Ah ah ah! What's it in for me first?" I asked as I sat down with these men...