Mike

The next morning, I woke up at about 10:23. I had never witnessed that before. It had been a habit for me to wake up between 6:30 and 7:00. I laid back and just thought of what took place the previous night. After a while, I stood up, took my bathe and went out. It dawned on me that everybody’s attention was now all over me. From nowhere, Mike walked up to me and said, “how was your night sleeping beauty.” I said “fine” absent-mindedly. He held my hand really closely and tight like he didn’t want anyone to sit next to me but himself alone.

His brothers walked over and he said to me, “meet my brothers; Steven, David, Charles and James.” I said “hello” to them. They smiled and latter left. Mike and I sat and continued from where we stopped our talks the previous night. He said, “yesterday you told me of your sister but you have not said anything about your mom and dad.” I continued, “well, my mom abandoned me here as you can see. My mom was a caterer, who became a drunk after my dad’s death. She found herself in a rehabilitation home as a result. My late sister took care of me while my our mum was away.

“When she returned from the rehabilitation home, we started seeing a man around who was supposedly engaged to mum. She didn’t drink in his presence. She behaved like a proper English woman. They had their marriage latter on and despite several warnings against her drinking habit, he filed for a divorce and it was granted. After their separation, my mom began to show some hatred towards me for no just reason. She maltreated me and even beat me up sometimes.

“She was arrested by the police on several occasions. She latter got me enrolled here and most of the time she came visiting, she would end up beating me up. Senior was observing this and when it was becoming too much, he inquired what was the problem. I hesitated, but latter, I narrated to him my story. He offered to my mom to take her hands off me, which she gladly accepted. This is three years since I saw her last and I have come to accept the reality that I have been dumped.”

I suddenly stopped, and was wondering why I felt so comfortable around Mike. I realized that it was not normal. He was different from other guys and I liked him that way. I just felt I could tell him anything. It was really a nice feeling. He said to me, “I am really sorry.” I then said, “Beside senior, you are the best thing that has ever happened to me since the death of my sister.” He then smiled, and said, “what about your father?” I looked at him and said, “my dad loved and cared so much about me and my late sister. He died in a plane crash on his way from Canada back to L.A. He died on his birthday. The worst day I ever had in my life. I felt like my life had fallen apart. All thanks to my sister of blessed memory, who seemed to have put my life back together again.”

Mike was a good listener. He had been following my stories patiently. Now he said, “you really had a sad childhood. But I promise that from now, there would be nothing but smiles on your beautiful face.” Suddenly, there was a shout at the gate and the guard said, “Katherine, you are being looked up for.” In a surprise, I inquired who it was that was looking for me at this moment and he said it was my mother. In her thousand dollar gown with a really flashy car, she walked up to me and said, “my love, I really missed you.” She said this while hugging me. “I have come to take you home,” she said, and while I was still in-between confusion and shock she continued, “I know I did many wrong things, especially to you but please forgive me.”

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