The Link To Light, (Published).

part 49

"What do I do now? where to go?" Hunter pondered on where he would spend the night, his dorm room was no longer a safe place and what would Bradley do or think of him when he saw those thugs after him.

His addictions had cost him more pain than joy, it had ripped off his life purpose, nothing about life excited him again.

He had used up his allowances on his addictions, sometimes he even stole from his brother, he didn't know if his brother noticed, if he did; he didn't speak about it and Hunter was thankful that Bradley didn't speak of it, if not; guilt would have washed over him that he might not deny and spill out everything to his brother, know! he couldn't afford to do that anytime soon.

He remembered his brother's remark about the people with his kind of addiction" but that was before he became a Christian. What about now? Did Bradley still think the same way? From the little he had been able to hear and learn about Christianity, anyone who was a Christian wasn't meant to condemn his fellow human being no matter what the person had done, take everybody the way they were.

Surely his brother would not condemn or hate him, but he couldn't help the chill that ran down his spine each time he thought of his brother knowing all about his addictions.

What of Avery, Mandy, Skylar Annemarie? Ryan was totally out of the picture. What of Alex, Ifes? Megan was the last person he would seek as regards to this matter. Love had failed, they say love triumphed over all things: but it didn't, at least; not with hunter.

"Call your brother now!"  He heard a voice bellowing in his heart.

Instead of giving into impulse, Hunter decided to first give it a second thought. How would he start narrating the whole ordeal to Bradley and will he understand? How would he view or take him after narrating the whole ordeal?

He would probably hear something like, "you are such a mess Hunter! I'm so ashamed to call you my brother! just get out of my life! I never want to see you again!" So what was the need of calling Bradley? things would only get more messed up and he didn't want that.

A voice kept yelling in Hunter's head and heart. "Whether you tell Bradley or not, you are still gonna die when those thugs catches up with you, so why not tell him everything? he deserves to know."

Hunter reasoned with the voice, he had been going to Mr master even when he didn't have money in his pocket, now he was owing the middle-aged man and amount that could rebuild the whole University of Pennsylvania, Hunter exaggerated.

Hunter reached out for his phone in his side pocket and remembered he had given it to Mr master the last time he went over, he had asked him to keep the phone in order to reassure him that he would return with his money.

"So what do I do? I don't have no phone with me." Think Hunter think, but his mind and his brain were blank.

Hunter saw someone's silhouette  walking towards him, he looked vehemently   at the figure now moving closer to him and recognised him to be one of the thugs he met earlier,  he spun around to run back to the direction he was coming from when he saw another figure behind him, two other guys appeared from nowhere and in no time they inundated him like lions who had cut their prey.

Okay, he was going to die today! That thought dreaded him. "Please!"  Hunter fell to his knees and began to beg. "I swear I'm not running with your money please!"

"Be  quiet!" One of the thugs said and hit him a medal on his cheek. Hunter began to bleed through his mouth.
Mr. Hunter you think you could run away from us, you saw us coming and handed over your keys to that poor boy.... well, thanks to you he is fighting for his life now!"