FOR YOUR SAKE

“Hmm.” I guess you are right I replied him.
After that we talked about some other things and then his watch rang out.
“Oh I guess it’s time I get going to school.” He said standing up.
“Oh, alright then, let’s move.” I said to him.
“Wait are you following me to school?” He asked.
“ Umm, yeah, yeah I am following you to school, I mean we’re heading to the same place so why should everything end like we aren’t?” I said to him.

I sat with him during lunch and Raven walked back home together, but it was time for me to actually face my own challenge, mummy is inside and should be waiting for me. These were the thoughts in my mind.

“chukum" I entered the house jamming the door softly and then I saw her in the parlor.
“Good afternoon mom.” I said to her and I walked passed.
“Hhh…how are you?” she asked, barely audible.
“I’m fine” I said, walking to the passage, into my room.

I can see from how she replied me that she is really worried, I’m worried too but first let me take my bath and then I will ask the right questions.
After taking my bath, I remembered what my new friend said and then I also remembered that I did not ask of his name and he also did not too. Sigh.

I walked out of my room after putting on something and headed for the kitchen, she was there and she was not just there doing nothing, she was there waiting for me. She knew after I would come back from school, I would eat, in fact any man who is coming back after a long day would love to eat and I was one of those men, well soon to be men.

I entered the kitchen and my food was already dished and covered, so I paused, now trying to Start the conversation between me and mama.
“wh….” I was trying to say...

“Mi Nino" she tried to talk. We both spoke at the same time and then we both paused.

“You go first” I said to her.
“No, you go first” she said to me.
“Why did you not tell me you ran away?” I asked her, then she sighed.
“Okay, I will tell you.” she said to me.

“it all started in college, one night I chose to go out of college very late and just like it was said that the nights are dangerous and I met it danger, I was on my way to my work place when I was cornered and robbed, now after this they did not choose to leave me simply, they decided ohh, we can’t just rob you we have to do some other things, you are much too young to know that, Well, they tried, restricting me to the ground and trying to harm me, but your father showed up, He fought them with a couple of guys and he won. Back then, I did not know he was in the mafia but From there we became friends, he would come to take me to work and some other things, but that was mostly because I just thought he was another normal kind guy, we fell in love pretty quick but then I discovered some strange things were happening, he has two friends and they followed him like rats, they never left the side, except when he is with me but then one day I walked into class and I heard a group of girls talking. One said…”

“I can’t believe se will follow a married man and the other said well maybe that’s what she likes, maybe she has a fetish for old man” They said amongst themselves

“ I laughed at the background, saying to myself, how silly it was that girls are talking about some other girl and they could say it this loud, then they looked at me and asked why I was laughing, then I said ohh nothing But you know everybody can hear you right?” I asked them. Then they laughed at me saying of course that’s because everybody knows that it’s you and after that I was confused, I was dumbfounded, I said I don’t understand, but then they choose to make me understand, it wasn't a strange thing that people saw me work with this person because he was the only person that I actually never walked with, now I’m hearing he’s married.

Now I didn’t enter college immediately, I had to work a lot to be able to sponsor myself and work while in college to feed. now when I was done with high school I used seven years to work to get enough money to get myself a good degree and then I finally entered. So the next day I confronted him and I was furious about it. That night he just kept on saying he loved me more, some weeks later, I was pregnant and i was pregnant with you, when he heard that, he never ceased to come check up on you every day.

I had the ideology that he Maybe did not have a son or something, so I thought until one day. On that day I was going to see your abuela And then from there i was going to see him but then I saw him while going to your abuela's place. I wanted to approach him but then I saw him come out of the the car with a boy and I watched him take him to eat and have fun, I followed them around until I decided that I had seen enough, I did not go to see abuela anymore, I went back home. He came that night , Bringing gifts and food and then he noticed a change in in my character and then he asked what was wrong.”
“You have a son?” I said to him as tears gathered around my eyes.

“….”

“He was unable to talk and then he tried to hold my hand but I moved back, just like you did to me yesterday night. He then apologized but I didn’t agree, I was not gullible, I was angry and broken and then there were gun shots outside our compound and immediately, I took cover but he, he stood there and brought out a gun, we were getting rubbed but he was not afraid, not one bit, instead he waited for them to show up and ambushed them one by one, shortly after he did that his two friends came and I overheard them saying. ‘we are sorry boss' I was dumbfounded and also j remember, when one of the thieves saw him they ran and when he caught up, the their begged, saying. ‘I swear I will disappear, I will not be on any radar, don’t kill me, I know I messed up.

That was a new one for me and though I was angry I was more curious than mad. After all the shenanigans I walked up to him and asked him, who he is, he played it off saying what am I talking about, he is who he has always been but then I said to him. ‘I don’t think I know you’ I said to him, because every time he told who he was he ends up being somebody else. It was heavy on his head, what he was about to tell me, but he had to say it. ‘I’m Don Luciano Ramiro he said to me, but he said his name was Ramiro , though he didn’t lie, he left out some parts, that’s the thing about him, he will tell you half if the truth and then hide the other half, after my knowledge of this he left and never came back till you were born, you were 7 days old when I woke up and he was holding you right by my side. I didn’t hear anything like someone coming in all I knew was you were with him and you didn’t make a sound, you were so calm, holding his hand infact.

He stroke fear into my existence, seeing him there, I was shacking and I had to ask, he then said to me.

“I am back and that’s all that matters, I am back and that’s all that counts.” He said, but I couldn’t shake the fear I felt so I begged him to hand you over and he did after a lot of please, but at the end he did, he then said he wishes to come back and he will love to carry me to his mansion, I really in need of help because of you agreed to it and he took me there in that same day.
In his mansion was luxury and access to basically anything, I asked for a diaper and he bought the supply that will last you for the year.

I asked for milk and he got cows, I asked for anything and he provided the source, you were living the life and so was I but whom I knew him as, was not whom he was when he came back, he was now mostly interested in nothing more than you, he would only come to visit me to take you or to talk about you and though I was okay with that as long as you live a good life, overheard him telling you, at 3 months old, what you would be, he said you will be his Heir and you will be his pride and joy he said he would teach you everything you needed to know, right there as the moon was up and the stars twinkled, you smiled and laughed as he said it but u wasn’t comfortable, he was in the mafia and I didn’t want you to become that.

One day his wife took me on a walk, she showed me all he does, the Cobain stock, the dead bodies and the people he battles, the territory he owns and so on, she asked me.
‘are you willing to stay after this' and I said, no I don’t think I can apart from me, mostly because of you. I confronted him and then he told me.
‘Yes indeed, what I heard was right and that’s what i will do, I will bring him into my world and i knows he will dominate my world and rule more ruthless than him.’He said to me, then I lashed out.

Who are you, where was the Ramiro I met, who showed me the gentiles of a man…..

“Ha, ha, ha, That Ramiro is here but he was pretending only because he was laying low, you, you were my best mistake and our son is my biggest victory.” He said to me as tears fell from my eyes.

“Why…wow..okay.” that’s when it dawned on me, this wasn’t whom I was use to, this is not who I know.
So I plotted an escape for a month and I carried it out in a night, though I almost got caught, I escaped and ran to a place I thought he would never find us.