Chapter 2

Oliver was bound to have a hard life from the moment he was born, even when he was just a baby trouble found its way towards him somehow. He didn't know exactly what happened back then but with bits and pieces of information that he had managed to gather from his parents that weren't very willing to talk much about it he did learn that he had some kind problem from the very start. That many doctors told his parents that he wont live for long and if he will he will not be normal and will be handicapped. A problem with his brain or something. He thought maybe he was dropped when he was a baby and hit his head or something. He knew he had a trauma and had problems that made him lose his consciousness from time to time but that was pretty much all he knew. The rest were just his assumptions.

But he also knew that his parents didn't give up on him even tough he did hear that at that time his grandmother told his father to leave it be because that's what God's wish was and that they will have other children in time his father didn't give up and kept on searching for a solution with different doctors even tough they were quite poor they didn't give up. He heard that in the end his parents meet a doctor that told them to not worry and that the kid will be perfectly healthy in the end and it will just need time.

For this Oliver was verry grateful and admired them for struggling to protect what was dear to them and not giving up and so he tried as much as he could to not worry them with his own problems choosing to keep all for himself no matter how hard or stressful it was. Maybe it wasn't the right decision in the end but that's how he felt back then. He thought it was the right thing to do. They seemed stressed enough with their own things. Trying to get by from day to day with a minimum wage with only his father working at a company that were making metal doors as a main product.

Oliver wasn't their only child for this family he also has a bigger brother 2 years older then him named Alex. He didn't remember much of his early life maybe because of what happened to him when he was a baby or maybe it was normal and everyone was in the same situation as him he didn't know but also didn't care much.

Most of his memories were traumatic events which was quite sad thinking about it, but Oliver never pondered over it to much brushing it off saying whatever whenever the taught of the past events entered his mind.

Things that were hard to forget like how he and his brother had rations on the food they were provided with taking into account their family's situation and how one day his brother took his bread jokingly waving it into the air with Oliver trying to get it back but being to small to reach it. In the end rage got over him and he punched his brother breaking his upper lip and nose getting blood on his hand for the first time and from a family member never the less. He was scared not knowing what it was looking at it then grabbed his bread that has fallen to the ground and took a run for it towards the backyard. Looking back he could see his brother crying and bleeding threatening him that he will beat him up and break his neck. Oliver was a bit shaken but in the end he brushed it off because he was hungry thinking that it was his brother's fault in the end for playing with his food when he was hungry. Baiting his bread and looking towards his brother far in the distance with caution ready to make another run for it in case he was coming his way. In the end it was their mother that was inside the house that heard the commotion and put an end to it after hearing what happened convincing both of them that they were both wrong and to not do it again. This was also the first time Oliver heard that he had some kind of problem when his mother was telling his brother to not agitate him to much because he has some issues and is not good for his health or something. He couldn't hear them very good because they were a bit far but he did took notice of it.

They did listen to their mother's words after that only getting themselves in small fights after that but nothing to big. Well that was except one time after 4 or 5 years later when they got their first bike and they were bickering over who can ride it next. They had some kind of rule and time allowed for who rides it but Alex didn't respect it mocking Oliver and asking what is he going to do about it. Quite the bad move thinking about it and Oliver of course took it upon himself to prove it by going on and biting Alex for a good 7-8 seconds leaving a big mark behind and a raging and annoyed brother. Alex did realize that it was his mistake and didn't beat him up instead choosing to take his brother on the back seat of the bike and going home.

Alex did get back at Oliver a few years later even tough he didn't really intended to do so. While playing with a ball that they found they were again arguing with who it belongs to and who found it first. Alex saying he saw it first and Oliver saying he picked it up first. Alex came up with the idea of throwing the ball in the air then for the both of them to close their eyes and the one who founds it first being the one who it will belong too. Of course Alex wasn't really going to close his eyes planning on cheating and picking the ball for an easy win but Oliver played by the rules and closing his eyes he moved fast up ahead at the count of 3 and without seeing anything around him he tripped on something and falling down hitting his elbow on a meatal pipe dislocating his arm and having to wear gypsum for 2 weeks after.

Oliver was pretty much happy with his life when he wasn't at school besides a few weird encounters where he almost lost his life or getting hurt pretty badly but laughing it off in the end. He didn't actually care much with what was happening to him or the bad luck that seemed to follow him so closely but he was felling extremely emotional when those close to him where getting hurt or where sad. The pain of those close to him was more painful to him then his own pain wanting to help them somehow and thinking how good would it be if he could somehow take their pain and shoulder it himself instead.

One such event being the one where his mother got a job trough a friend at a shop as a seller and after a few years working there while doing the routine and checking their inventory and supply the boss mentioned to his mother that there were things missing and asking if she or her kids took anything. It was just a question nothing to grave or so it should have been but his mother had a panic attack and being to stressed she thought she was being accused of something she did not do falling into depression and starting crying right there and then. Later that day when Oliver and his brother came back from school they found his mother crying for the first time. They approached her and asked what was wrong but she didn't answer and started crying louder instead making both of them cry as well without having any idea of how to help or what has happened. Their mother told them to leave her alone and to go to their room without wanting to give any explication to her crying children. They did go to their room but having the room right next to each others they could still hear he cry and so they were crying as well asking each others why was she crying and Oliver telling his brother that it feel to painful to not be able to do anything. Oliver did hear his mother crying and saying something like "How could she have accused me after everything I have done...".

It was a verry traumatic event for Oliver and he had to live trough it for more then one month with his mother starting to cry all of a sudden from time to time and her getting weaker and weaker even needing him and Alex to carry her to the bathroom at some point. She was taken to the hospital in the end and had to take some kind of medicine for it to pass but for Oliver that pain never passed, it was still there kept inside where no one but him could see it...

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