"No one even bothered to check up on me, not even a call" I shouted angrily into the phone my eyes spitting fire
Huff...huff...
My chest heaved from the continuous ranting
"..."No response from the other line kept me on the edge
"Hello?" I said nervousness setting back in.She was behaving strangely
Toot toot!
The line went dead
Ha...ha..ha my breath heavied. I breathed faster than normal
No!
something was terribly wrong everything felt eerie and disturbing. My chest tightened further at this thought.
Ping!
I looked down at my phone and I got a message from Aunty Sarah. I quickly clicked to open it
I really needed answers..., and my already bleak looking world fell apart
It reads,
"Your accounts have been frozen and assets seized by Grandma, they think you are linked to the death of your uncle, aunt, and your elder brother(my father and mother). Mike thinks you got someone to mess with the engine or something like that and wants to get the inheritance over your elder brother"
I shook violently like a fish pulled out from the water against its own will, and my head went blank
it all makes sense now that jerk somehow convinced my gullible grandparents I had something to do with my parent and brothers' death, so I could the inheritance
"And those fools of a grandparent believed it" I sighed "how will I pay the bills now" I muttered under my breath
A few days ago I was a rich second generation recently done with college, life was looking up for me.
But life dealt me a huge slap.
From a rich second generation to a wrongly accused pauper, "how do I now pay the bill" I glanced out the glass of the transparent hospital window downcast gazing into the busy road below.
Trying not to look at the menacing expression on the doctor's face " hope he doesn't eat me alive"
FAST FORWARD
I tried contacting my grandparents but what I got was an endless rants
" You little twerp, I shouldn't have agreed to your parents having you. You should have stayed wherever you came from you monster" Mr Winston thundered
"You devil, you killed your parents and brother just to get a slice of the pie right!?" Mrs. Wiston growled violently " I never liked you, if not for Emily begging us for them to have you. You wouldn't have gotten into this world " she raged on
They were all about how I wasn't supposed to be born but was born due to my parents' incessant plea to have a second child.
Have they gone senile so quicky?
I even tried contacting the master architect of this Mike Winston. My douche bag of an uncle but all I got was scorn upon scorn
"You insufferable devil, go to hell!!!" He refused to admit it one way or the other
This by the way I had to find a way to pay the hospital bill and get my life together since my family had forsaken me
So when I was discharged not before being threatened by Mr white tooth to have the money by the end of the week or they would involve the police and things would get really nasty
I tried reaching out to a longtime close friend of my parents, they were golf buddies and explained the situation, which they pretended to sympathize with me and I got a cheque to pay off the hospital and hold my life together for a while till I got a job.
Even tho I got cut off, I got an amount that could keep me afloat in this drowning sea....for a while of course
I had thought everything was going to get better not knowing a group has made it their life's mission to keep me down and dirty
Since I got kicked out of the house, I got a place of my own, a dirty apartment that looked as though an whole decade has gone by without a single clean up.
Leaking ceiling, rusted and yellowed out zincs and wash basins, a dirty bathroom with a broken water tap
And the horrible stench that came with it, it smelled like the spoiled eggs of a month-old. Rotten and dripping with mucus. I gagged at the smell
My pores itchy and my skin irritated at the downtrodden sight of the apartment
Not to mention the bedroom- cracked walls that looked like it was only a push from breaking apart, washed up paints, broken tiles, and a light bulb that went on and off when and however it liked
"This will take a while" I muttered my back slouched like the weight of the world was on my shoulders
I continued making contact with some of my parents' friends even my grandparents old timers, but I got shunned and revoked, and even threatened in some cases
My uncle had definitely succeeded in his little schemes to paint me black. I had tried to report him at a police station but all I got were looks that said I was all but normal
I almost went under.. Yeah... definitely went under but I held onto the hope that life was going to get better and it did at some point I could afford a car, but I got dragged back down when I was accused of rape by a co-worker at a new white-collar job I recently got at this big corporation
Got sued and lost my car and a huge chunk of my savings as compensation
Yeah I got fired and the co-worker who lied on me Anna Scott got promoted, yeah a strange world we live in you know
This went on and on and on for seven years
Seven years of changing apartments from bad to worse
Seven years of getting up at four o'clock and hitting the sack at 12 pm
Seven years of working three to four jobs in a day
Seven years of hopping from job to job, from a dishwasher to a waiter to a babysitter where I got fired from as quickly as I came
Why!