Twist Of Fate - Episode 1

 

    It all happened this morning, everything my Dad accomplished when he was alive have being taken away by his cold hearted siblings. Just this morning, they came asking my Mum and my brother Eric to leave the mansion we lived in. This isn't fair I cried out, my Mum already drenched in tears confused by the scene that played before her eyes. Sadness overwhelmed her beautiful face, in disgust she looked at the armed forces obviously they were bribed to do all these but that doesn't justify their cruelty . My brother Eric stood defenseless as they threw us from our home. I was wrapped in my Mum's arms as there was nothing an eight year old could do anyway but I really wanted to be productive, I wanted badly to act like a lawyer and be an advocate for my Mum and for our Mansion. My brother had some of our bags filled with clothes and garbage as my uncles referred them to be.

    We finally left the house having no idea on where we could even lay our head when it gets dark. It rained heavily, the storm sounded so angry, lightning bolt kept on striking. What a day I thought to myself. We finally stood at a place to seek shelter as the rain continued. I really couldn't help it but to wish my Dad was still here, I wished he wasn't in the aeroplane that got into a crash but my wishes were useless because there are no stars, the skies was as dark as coal, very scary. Sometimes I felt like a monster was going to appear in front of us really soon, I kept my thoughts patiently waiting for the monster as I hid at my Mum's side.

"Pearl are you scared of the lightning? Mum asked

I nodded my head immediately not wanting to say a word before the monster chooses to take me away just like it took my Dad.

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. I called the monster "DEATH"

"Don't be..Mummy is here with you"

"And I'm also here with you" Eric said with a smile.

I smiled back at them as a reassurance that I was fine despite the fact that I was far from the word fine.

After a couple of hours the rain finally came to a stop and my Mum decided to take us over to her friend's place just so we could stay for some couple of days.

We got to Aunt Evelyn's place. Aunt Evelyn have always being a good friend to Mum, she was practically an aunt to my brother and I but she could barely feed herself. Wish she had gotten herself a good husband but now I know that life is a twisted mess. I couldn't even look at myself and tell my fate anymore despite the fact that I am eight I already know that my fate is twisted maybe not messy yet but I could tell it was about to be messy..

Aunt Evelyn welcomed us into her small home with a smile that I've always loved because her smile always made me felt better. Aunt Evelyn's house is really small for one person or seems so because I am used to living in a mansion. The paint on the wall was very dull so was the couch and rug. I do believe that a person's home says a lot about his or her personality but I really couldn't apply that belief to Aunt Evelyn because Aunt Evelyn have always being sharp but maybe her life isn't I thought to myself. My thoughts lately always have a way of making me sad or scared that's being my life since Dad passed away some months ago.

   We walked into the bedroom she suggested for us. My mum stayed in the sitting room with her as she told her the whole story. My brother and I placed the bags on the dirty floor and started arranging the room. My room was times twenty bigger than this room, my bed even as a new born was bigger than the wood placed in this room as an improvisation for a bed. Now more than ever I really wanted to go back to my life, I really wanted my dad to come back to us, it's not that I am complaining of Aunt's Evelyn's hospitality but I'm just not used to all these. I've never had a taste of being poor and I never want to. 

"Pearl why are you crying?" Eric asked

"I want to go back home" I replied like a spoiled girl

"Pearl I'm here, Mum is here, Aunt Evelyn is here too. Pearl this is home"

I cried even louder as he wrapped me in his arms.. Can't believe he was already accepting being poor.

"But, I Want to ....I want to go back to the Mansion" I replied 

"We can't...."

"But I can't be a Princess without a mansion" I replied

"You don't need one to be a Princess.. You are forever my Princess and Mum's princess." He replied with a smile. They always called me their princess, my room was like a castle, Dad made it that way cause he thought I was the most beautiful princess in the world.

"Will you still die for me even without my tiara" I asked with a smile despite how said I was sad because I had left my tiara back in the mansion.

"I will always be ready to give my life for my little princess with or without a tiara" he replied with a genuine smile and that made me felt better.

Mum finally came to the room, it was obvious she had just finished crying her eyes out so Eric and I  stood up and gave her a hug with a smile, she returned the smile as tears rolled down her cheek.

"Mummy its going to be fine" I said to her

"Thank you Princess... Your words makes me feel better".