C12 Chapter Twelve

Mc rushed in to see that Michael was on his knees with his hands in the air while the bad guy pointed a gun right on his forehead, "You're stupid for getting into all this with your dumb friend! Now you meet your end!"

Michael has never been more scared in his life, it was the first time a gun was ever pointed to his head and it was horrifying to feel that cold pistol touching his sweaty skin. But he found a way to remain calm after he saw Mc right behind the guy with a gun, he saw his best friend taking a plank of wood on the floor and he knew he just had to hold on a little longer. "Let me tell you something you don't know Mr. Assassin," Michael started trying to buy Mc some time to get close enough as he held that wood so firmly. "There's something called bonding, while others bond revolves around money, other's bond revolves around love and trust. That's me and my friend Mc, our bond is built on love and trust. You wouldn't understand that because your bond with your friend is built on money!"

Just after Michael finished saying this, Mc was close enough and immediately hit the bad guy with the plank of wood at the back of his head and he just went straight to the floor like a falling tree.

"Jeez Mc you saved me, thanks alot bro." Michael opened his arms wide and Mc hugged him while he was still on the floor.

"I heard you scream and I got super scared, what happened?" Mc tried to help him stand up by giving him a hand.

"I can't walk so well, I twisted my ankle. It hurts so bad."

"So sorry man, hey right here, put your hand around my neck and walk with me. There you go." Michael was up and Mc helped him walk down the stairs, "I can see someone slipped on some fresh paint." Michael jokingly said after walking past Alberto who was still on the floor. He saw Alberto's phone on the floor right beside him and he said "let me pick this up, I'll be needing it more than you." He bent down, picked the smartphone and slowly walked out with the aid of his best friend.

*****

"You need to come back home!"

"But mom I'm on the run, I can't take the risk of showing myself off to everyone who's been looking for me." Mellisa opposed her mom on the phone.

"Everything is over!" Paula's voice was weak and cold. She sounded like someone who's lost hope and given up on everything she believed in.

"What do you mean everything is over?"

"Amanda, your twin sister's dead!"

"What? My God mummy!" She almost let go of her phone before she realised and had a firmer grip on it.

"She was poisoned in prison, no one knows why but the police are on the case. So for now, they think Melissa is dead. They arrested her thinking it was you, so now that she's dead, everyone assumes you're dead."

"But that doesn't mean it's safe to come home. That only means I'm safe to walk around where I am right now."

"Where are you Melissa? You don't trust me enough to tell me where you've been all this while? I miss you honey, we both miss you."

"I'm sorry mom I can't, and you know why."

"It's alright, I won't insist. I'll send the $10,000 dollars to you after this call, pay the blackmailer and stop those tapes from leaking."

"Thanks alot mom I can't thank you enough."

"I've been taking loans from the bank and this is one of them, things are extremely difficult honey, I hope you'll be careful."

"I always am."

*****

Michael sat on a couch in his home with his left leg with bandages resting on the table, it felt so good to be home with his friend and feeling safe as Mc tried to make him some coffee.

"You know, I look at you trying to make some coffee for me right now and you know what I think?" Michael asked.

"You think about the day Monica seduced you and you mistakenly poured coffee on her boobs from excitement?" Mc joked and they both bursted into laughter, it was a memory they couldn't forget, they were teenagers when it happened they both wrote it down in their diaries.

"Come on man you really should forget that already. It was the first time a girl ever touched my meat down there and I was fully erect." Michael explained laughing.

"And then you felt so good you forgot you had a cup of coffee in hand yeah?" They laughed harder.

"Nah it was when she put her lips on it, I went crazy."

"Then poured the hot coffee on her two soft jellies."

"You're a crazy man. But seriously when I saw you making coffee for me, I just started thinking that right now, you could actually be in your fathers house, be loved by him and the servants will be there to make any food you want to eat."

"I kinda love my life, man."

"Yes bro, but you shouldn't. This is not the life you were meant for. You were only meant to pass through all these. And now the time has come to embrace the real things that were meant for you." Michael was calm, his tone and words were really convincing.

"You're telling me to go meet Mr Ethan?" Mc asked with his eyes locked on the coffee steam as it went up.

"Yes! He is your father, I'm telling you to go meet your father."

"Michael, he let my mother take care of me all alone despite his riches!"

"You heard what Mr Khan said, he gave your mum a lot of money, but she refused because she felt betrayed. Look, That man changed his mind when his lovely wife died, that's one of the worst moments in any man's life and you know it."

"Yeah."

"Yeah, he might not be perfect, he might not have wanted you in the past, but he's woken up, he sees the need to take you, he wants to be a father to you and that's what your mother always wanted isn't it? Meet him Mc, meet your father and be his son. That will make your mother happy wherever she is right now"