CHAPTER15

Heading back home, I realized how stupid I was. One was for the fact that I don't have a car and I'm walking aimlessly at night and two, I missed a perfectly good meal made by Brooke who cooks once in a while and now I'm famished and three, I'm just an idiot. I was walking when I noticed a car tailing behind me so I walked faster but it kept on matching my strides I mean what was I expecting, it's a fucking car, feeling my heart thumping I brought out my mouth spray (don't ask) and as I was about to spray, the driver rolled down startling me only to see it was Alfred but neither less I already sprayed it on his face and he screamed in pain. "Shit I'm so sorry, I didn't mean that I'm sorry I was scared and I thought you were going to kill me and-" "Just get in the car Lorraine" he smiled, stopping my rambling. " No I will drive okay; you obviously cannot see and we can't risk both our lives so I'm sorry but I'll drive" I felt terrible for what I did and I knew that was the only way I could help him. He was about to argue with me when he saw the look I gave him "Fine" he gave up, getting off the driver's seat. So I happily skipped like a child to the driver's seat "So where were you off to?" I asked him "I just dropped Alex at home and I just finished getting gas and that is when I noticed someone that looked exactly like you so I decided to check it out not knowing I'll get sprayed with what tastes like mouth spray?" He asked confused "Okay alright I get it, you don't have to be so defensive about it. I'm sorry. I was just scared cause it's late and no one knows who roams around the street" I defended "True" he agrees "Hey so I would like to ask um, has the house always been there?" I asked intrigued " Yes actually. Well let's see, this isn't something I'm supposed to tell you but, I've known the Wayne's since I was thirteen. Elizabeth, Eriel's first wife was my best friend's cousin and after my parents died I had to live with my best friend who also happened to have Elizabeth in his house. Well apparently her mother died at childbirth so she was living in my best friend's home. His name was Jonathan. And well after he died, I didn't have anywhere else to go and by that time, Elizabeth was already married to Eriel. So she called me up one day and gave me an offer. I get to have a house if I worked as her husband's chauffeur. I accepted immediately because I was desperately in need of a house. Eriel was the kindest soul at that time-" he said which made me burst out laughing. Eriel? Kind? What are the odds? "I'm dead serious, she was the one that kept him on his toes and he loved her so much that he became the nicest man I ever knew. I remember meeting your father and one other man but I don't know his name or where he or his family is, he, your father and Eriel were best buds, they were like five-six and seven, totally inseparable. Then one night, Eriel got a call from the hospital saying that your dad was in an accident. That night, Eriel was already in a terrible mood because he and Elizabeth had a huge fight. I took him to the hospital and after the operation on your father, Eriel got a call that Elizabeth was involved in a car accident too on her way to the hospital but this time, she was dead. He didn't do anything, he just told me to drive, I couldn't even say anything I was too devastated to talk. I drove him back home and he gave me three weeks' leave with my wife and kid. I didn't see him for another five months and when he finally came back, he became the Eriel you know today. He gave me a proposition to take a two month old boy to Europe to take care of him and watch him and he gave me a house for my family oversees and that boy is Alex. I for one never knew that Elizabeth was ever pregnant or she ever had a child but he insisted that Alex is, in fact, his blood so who was I to complain. Eriel never visited Alex while he was in Europe, only some occasional video calls and gifts, it was like he didn't like the kid. But ever since that accident, I never heard from Eriel's other friend and since then he and your father have been mortal enemies." He told me "Wow, this is so much to take in" I said rubbing my forehead " I know Lorraine. I feel like you're a good kid and I can trust you. And um try not to be too hard on Alex okay?. He's not used to his father being with him. He's a good kid trust me" he smiled then I drove off to the house. "Where the fuck have you been?" Lexis stands immediately I step into the house "Where have I been? Where have you been for the past two weeks huh? Tell me" I shouted "Y- you bitch " he slurred as he threw a glass cup flying over my head. "You're fucking drunk, do you want to kill me what the hell's your problem. Don't you ever in your life come near me okay?. Here I was trying to be nice to you, trying to be human with you. But guess what, you don't deserve anything and you most especially do not deserve happiness!!!" I raged "Come back here" he pulled me back with my wrist "No" I screamed, using all the strength I had to break free from his hold and I ran away from him tears spilling from my eyes. What the fuck just happened?