Shattered Mirror

Chapter 26: All Things Go

I put the heat in vents, man I been competin' since
I look beyond what people sayin', and I see intent
Then I just sit back and decipher, what they really meant
Cherish these nights, cherish these people
Life is a movie, but there will never be a sequel
And I'm good with that, as long as I'm peaceful
As long as 7 years from now, I'm taking my daughter to preschool
Cherish these days, man do they go quick
Just yesterday, I swear it was o' six
Ten years ago, that's when you proposed
I look down, yes I suppose

All things go, all things go
All things go, all things go
I feel a minute, yeah we got it then its gone
While we keep waiting for a moment till it falls
So can't nobody ever tell me that I'm wrong
Cause I'ma ride I'm with you still the night is young
We keep goin', we go, we go, we go
We wake back up and do it all again
We know, we know, say fuck the world, we ridin' til the end
I know its sudden, look at what we've become
I just want you to know that I did it all for you
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Fatim

I walked down the street and making a right towards the corner. It was going on 4pm and Kaiden, my brother, had finally texted me back saying we can meet up. I had nothing else to do anyway so I might as well.

After making a right, I spotted Kaiden right where he said he would be, but he was too busy texting away on his phone, probably to his girlfriend that I met.

I was honestly surprise that the dark chocolate girl from school was his girlfriend. Its also shocking because Kaiden isn't one to have a girlfriend, I'm not saying that he can't get a girl, he can get any girl he wants. Besides girls were constantly throwing themselves at him when he was here before he got locked up.

I walked up to him but he had already looked up since he probably heard my footsteps. There was no type of emotion on his face. I mentally rolled my eyes since it was always so hard to tell how he was feeling.

"Hey." I said, awkwardly.

"Why you acting so scared like ima hurt you? Come on let's go sit."

I follow behind him, taking a seat on the park bench next to him. It was so quiet for a moment until I decided to speak up and get right to it.

"What happened? I want the truth an nothing but the truth."

He chuckled. "I'm surprised that moms ain't tell you."

"How can she be able to tell me anything if she's dead."

Kaiden stops chuckling. "What you mean?"

"She's dead. She died months ago. But you would have known that if you were here."

"It ain't my fault." He says bluntly.

"Wow, your just now finding out that your mother is dead and that's all you can say?"

"I ain't seen her in almost four years, who knows what's she been doing. not even you."

"Yes, I do know."

"Then what was she doing?" He inquires.

I remained silent.

"Exactly, none knows. But she is the reason why I left."

I snap my head towards him. "What you mean?"

"You know about what mom did, right?"

"Yeah, about how she killed Giselle's parents."

"How you know that?"

"The night when that woman spilled all of Giselle's tea."

"Oh yeah, that bitch."

"Since when you start calling a female a bitch?"

"When a female deserves it."

"Why is mom the reason why you left?"

"I found out about that shit and confronted her about because at that time Giselle and I were cool. When I confronted her about it, she got angry but won't admit to it, and slapped me, telling me I need to stay in a child's place."

My eyes nearly popped out its sockets. Although Kaiden and my mom have shared a few disagreements, she had never put her hands on him, if anything he was a momma's boy.

"After that, shit went from 0 to 100 real quick, dad heard us yelling from outside the house and he had to stepped in between us. I got so pissed off that I ended up punching the wall next to momma's head. After a couple of punches to the wall, a neighbor called the police. I ended up going downtown for questioning about shit I had done before the argument had token place and after that they locked my ass up."

"Had mom ever tried to see you since then?"

He shook his head. "Nah, I ain't want to see her and she didn't want to see me. Kept it that way."

"Is that why she ain't want me to see you?"

"I guess, that's her."

"What about dad?"

"What about him?"

"Did he know about the shit momma did?"

"Yeah, after I got arrested though. He still came to see me."

"I'm sorry."

He looks at me. "For what?"

"For not being able to see you."

"It ain't your fault, you ain't know the situation at the time. You been under the light and that's how I wanted it to be."

"I hate that I don't know shit and find out from someone else."

"Yeah, well, shit happens. Gotta live with it."

"She's your girlfriend?"

"What?"

I roll my eyes. "The dark chocolate girl with the braids. Is she your girlfriend?" I repeated.

"Yeah, she bad, ain't she?"

I rolled my eyes at him again. "How would I know? I don't be starring at her the way you do but she is beautiful."

"How you know she was my girlfriend?"

"She came to the school once with Amour and her sister but at that time I ain't know she was your girl until that night." I tell him as he nods. "To be honest I was shocked to see you."

He raises an eyebrow. "Why?"

"Kaiden, I haven't seen you in what? Four years? It's surprising to see your older brother unexpected."

He laughed. "I wasn't surprised to see you."

"Yeah, that's different. Amour showed you pictures so you had seen what I look like beforehand."

"So," He shrugs. "I've been watching over you over the years."

"Huh? What? So your my fairy godmother now?"

Kaiden chuckles. "Nah, but you did gladly accept those stacks of money."

I scrunched my face up in confusion. I had no idea on what he could be talking about.

"The money Amour gives you."

It finally dawned on me. Every once in a while Amour would give me like a stack of money, probably with about $2,000 dollars. I would always ask her on where she got it from but she refused me to tell me. So when she would refused, I wouldn't take the money from her. But she always found a way for me to take it.

"The money was from you the whole time?"

He nods. "Yeah, I had to make sure that you was straight."

"Wow, this whole time."

"I guess now you can call me your fairy god-brother or something."

I nudged him, laughing.