the death vow

Mr young came to this city as a young man fatherless and black his mother a cashier at the neighborhood corner store always made matt young who was 10 and his sister's brina 8 and michele 7 sit and wait across the street at the park As MR Matt Young now at 40 remembering those days of the not so dangerous neighborhood now filled with gangs and violence the day the man enter the park and sent him to the store seemed like yesterday  the look his mother gave him when he walked in the store without his sisters and quickly she looked out the window saying where are your sisters the only word s that came out his mouth was the man gave me as his mother ran passed him heading back to the park matt trying to keep up with his tall mother sprinting across the street no sign of his sisters his mother said you go that way and look i ll go this way and look meet me back here that day seemed cold to Matt he discovered his michele half naked behind a brush not moving not moving Matt eyes watered mother screaming from a distance he and a couple of other men from the park playing basketball ran in her direction she was covered in blood and the man who was on top of brina laid dead brina wasnt moving mother eyes was wild then turned black as ice she just screamed and screamed even twhen the police got there she was still screaming Matt sat and watched them place his mother in the ambulance and his sisters the sound of the zipper echoes across time the state placed Matt in different homes for the next couple of months people felt threatened about his silence even though they knew his story one foster parent would beat him for staring he didnt even cry so after being removed from that home they placed him with a man who already had a son he adopted Matt was then twelve taller then the little man  when he saw Matt he smiled and in a country voice told Matt this is going to be your home so treat it like one I'm Mr Jackson and i know you dont speak i understand why and i'm sorry for what happen to you and your family as he said this he hugged him holding him while allowing Matt to cry Mr Jackson said it's not your fault Matt the world has sick and crazy people that don't mean anyone no good Matt just cried for it seems like hours Jackson let him go and held his hand out from this day forward we family now Matt shook his hand after you clean up your face come down and get your breakfast  Mr jackson and Fred who he had adopted became his family Mr jackson was a retired marine and he started his own business of washing windows which Fred and Matt worked hard everyday after school and every summer Matt and Fred became great men in everything they done even graduated from the same college Matt to this day didnt know his mother was still alive in the county sing sing until he recieved a call from a nurse wanting an emergency contact due to new regulation our records stated that she had a son are you Matt Young yes I am is your mother lisa Brown Young married to Matt Young Sr My mother name is Lisa Young the nurse sounded happy now well sir we need you to come to the hospital to sign these papers when will you be able to do that um tomorrow thank you sir and hung up ..that night  felt long every hour it seems that matt had to change his sheets the faces the blood the voices of that day . Matt woke up do he really want to see his mother convincing his self that this would be  a new door for his life when he arrived at the hospital the security assisted him in the right direction and once he arrived on the floor the nurse blurted out you look actually like your mother and have your father's complication Matt said my father yes the nurse with her hands on her wide hips said yes your father he's here now visiting your mother you can go down to her room it's room 10 go ahead go the head nurse will bring the papers to you Matt slowed walked all the way to the room what would he say he slowly opened the door not knowing what to say or what to expect as he entered the room the woman his mother stared at him the man sitting on the chair stood up he was a couple of inches taller then Matt they said you was dead his father whispered holding hs long arms for his son they said you were dead Matt embraced the man he didnt even know existed his mother whispered to him i'm sorry Matt he crawled to her bedside and hugged her i'm so sorry Matt i should have been a better mother and maybe none of that would have happened matt repeated the words that Mr Jackson said to him as a child as his mother cried in his arms even adding on you did the best a single mother could do she reached in the draw and gave him a photo he was sitting at the park with his sisters and mother hugging them now he began to cry all this is first time seen then he felt alive ..............the end