C11 CHAPTER 11

😋 RAPHAEL 😋

"We are here. My small house." She said and I smiled.

"It's actually amazing. Your house is beautiful." I said and she looked at me.

"You really think so?" She asked and I nodded.

"Of course I do think so. It's beautiful. It doesn't have to be big before it's beautiful." I said and she nodded.

"I really love you." She said and I looked at her.

"What?" I asked.

"Oh it's not what you are thinking. I meant that I love your personality, the way you reason. It's really amazing." She said and I nodded.

"Thanks. And you aren't bad either. You welcomed me like you have known me before. I really do appreciate that about you." I said as she opened the door.

"Really? Well no one has ever appreciated me except for my dead mom." She said and I felt sorry again.

"Am so sorry." I said and she nodded Smiling.

"I will be fine. So this is my humble abode." She said spreading her hands and rolling.

"The inner looks bigger. You live here alone?" I asked and she nodded.

"I lived with my mother here before. But all that change few days ago when she died." She said dropping her bag on the couch.

"Are you sure you don't want to talk about your mother? I mean, you would need someone to talk to. You lost your mother few days ago, you can't move on so fast." I said and she smiled.

"I don't want to bore you with my pathetic story." She said and I shook my head holding her hands.

"You can't bore me. I wish you can really talk to me about this. I know what it is like to be without a parent. I am an orphan, I can relate. Please talk to me." I said and she nodded smiling.

"But before then, can you at least take a bath?" She asked and I shook my head.

"Nope. If I take my bath, I would be tempted to sleep off. So let's get down to the story, then after that I can bath." I said and she nodded.

She gestured me to sit and I did. She also sat next to me with her head bowed.

"I lost my father at a very tender age. I can't even remember what he looked like. Since then my mother had always been here for me."

"She started the pigeon business so as to earn a living for us. We lived get together. All alone, by ourselves."

"My mother was very kind hearted, she loved every human that came to her. She saw everyone as her family." She said and tears rolled down her cheeks.

"I am so sorry." I said holding her hand.

"She promised to send me out of the country in the next three months. She was saving up for me to have a better life. And by doing this, she starved herself." She said.

"Oh God." I said letting her rest her head on my chest.

"Then everything was gone. She died, she was killed. And the money would be spent on get burial." She said as she bursted into tears.

"She got killed? Who did it?" I asked and she went silent for some minutes.

"Annie?" I called and rose up her head to see she was asleep already.

"So soon?" I thought as I managed to raise her up.

"Annie?" I called again and she opened her eyes, which looked wet and tired.

"Oh no. I slept off. I am so sorry. I am just so tired." She said and I nodded.

"I will release you now." I said and she nodded.

"You can take anything from the fridge. Your room is on the left, and I am right here." She said pointing to the door at the right.

"Got it. And goodnight." I said and she nodded Smiling.

"Goodnight Ralph." She said as she headed for the room. I sighed and looked back to see her bag on the couch.

"She forgot to take it with her." I thought then my eyes caught something. It was a picture.

I picked it up to see Annie and I could guess, her mom. They looked happy in the picture.

This must be so hard for her, and the bad thing is that she is pretending to be okay which won't help her.

I need to make sure she is okay. She is now my Friend, and is willing to help me, so I am willing to help her too.

😻 RAMSON 😻

#the_next_morning

I woke up feeling so proud of myself. I couldn't stop imagining the pain Beyonce went through to get off that edge.

You are a genius Ramson.

I got off the bed and wore my floppy slippers tying my robe around me properly. I walked to the bathroom to have my morning bath, which was always with warm water.

I approached the tub and sat in it feeling all refreshed. I shut my eyes feeling so full of myself, when a call cut in through my landline.

Let's just say my bathroom cell phone. I stood up a bit to grab the phone and placed it on my ear in anger.

📲Who the hell is disturbing my morning bath?" I asked angrily.

📲The first question you should ask is who the hell knows the exact time I would be in the bathroom, to have left all the landlines and cellphone to call this one.

📲Damon?" I asked.

📲I have missed you little brother." He said and I sighed.

📲I told you to stop calling me that. You took just one year and ten months from me." I said and he laughed while I smiled.

📲That doesn't make you from being the little brother. The last born to be precise.

📲To what reason do I owe this call?

📲I am coming back to Town.

📲What? Why? Is Turkey not good enough?

📲Why? Don't you want to see your big brother? Tell me you don't miss me.

📲I do miss you. I am just scared for the girls.

📲Oh you don't need to be. I am changed now.

📲Oh really? Well I don't believe that.

📲I will prove you wrong when I arrive. Got to go. I am booked for the next flight.

📲What? The next flight? And why are you just telling me?

📲 Because I see no reason to tell you earlier. You have everything and your people under control. Note: I will be staying at your house.

📲I don't think so

📲Let's wait and see.

He hung up and I signed smiling. To be honest, I really miss my brother. You must be surprised I like someone else apart from my mother.

Well my brother is my partner in crime. And I love him too, but not as I do to my mother. Damon is a very annoying lunatic.

I got out of the tub and cleaned my body with my towel. I walked into the room wrapping the towel on my waist.

I dried my hair and reached for any casual clothing in my closet. Oh I so much love Sundays.

I wore a round blue top and a three quarter trousers. I walked out of the room feeling more than alive.

I headed straight to the living room and all the maids stopped to bow in front of me.

"I need y'all to prepare a welcome party before night. Someone special is coming." I said and they began to murmur.

"Are we good?" I asked and one of them looked at me.

"We need to know who the guest is, so we know how to prepare." She said.

"It's my brother. Go." I said looking around for Beyonce.

"Where is she? The newbie?" I asked one of my men.

"She is still in room 15." He replied.

"Get her dressed. She should be in Room 10 in the next twenty minutes." I said walking to room ten.