The Mafiuso (Book One)

'Chp one'

"After Fourteenth Years"

Life was beautiful if you started to take it positively. It contains lots of memories. Either good or bad.  It's always up to you that how can you make it work according to you.

My life wasn't intresting, I have faced the worst fiasco when I was just a little kid. I lost my parents and with them, I lost the hope to live a good life like any other children. I didn't know how to smile, it was something which is pacified for me.

But life was always being selfish, and we have to deal with it.

When the other children of my age went to the park with their parents by their side, they seem to be happy and lucky. That time I felt envious, I felt as they were trying to mock my miserable life in the worst kind of way they could ever pick up.

I cried for hours and hours on every occasion in which I spend ecstatically among my parents. In my own cozy and warm kingdom of love and happiness.

But now every happiness turned out in nightmares

"Ivory" a familiar sugar-coated voice brought me back into reality.

My reality

I shook my head and turn around with a huge smile plastered on my lips to become face to face from my one and only best friend.

"Mia" I smiled wholeheartedly

She was panting, her face was priceless, beads of sweats glowing upon her forehead, her warm dark brown eyes now turned glossy as she was shaking from head to toe "what happened mia, why are you crying" I ran towards her and clutched her shoulders "please tell me" I pleaded

'Granny' she hitched in a quick breath as her sobs become louder. "She locked herself in her room since morning and wasn't opening the door, I knocked multiple times but she doesn't even respond, Her sugar shot up yesterday night when I last check up on her, I'm afraid if something bad happened to h--"

"No" I cut her off  between her trance "nothing happened to her, she would be fine and healthy, Okay," I said sternly

Mia shook her head inwardly "Y-yes" she stuttered. But the look of disbelieving she was throwing on my way was enlighten something else.

Negatively

'Mrs. Eva parker'  was like everything to me and for all the orphans who lived there,  she was the owner ofthe parker orphanage and running it for thirty-five years. She was sixty-eight years old women along with grey strikes and light blue eyes.

When destiny kicked me hard and left me alone in a dark rain forest she was the one who provided shelter to my baby being and brings me here in her beautiful life.

I was always grateful to Jesus that he send an angel on this planet in a form of her, she was a lifeline for all the kids like me who lost their parents in their childhood.

When nobody was there to grabbed my hands in deserted surrounds when she was there to protect me from all the evil eye.

And from the monsters.

Indeed

She didn't only provide shelters on our empty heads but gave out the best education in town. Apart from this orphanage she also owns different hospitals and colleges. Her husband Mr. Kevin parker died six years ago and from there Eva was one who managed everything by herself.

With a last glance at Mia, I ran towards the first floor where Eva's room existed.

Knocking at the front door would go vain like it usually did so I have decided to pick my way to conclude which always helped me to get her.