FLAMES

EPISODE FIFTEEN 15:JAY!!!

I saw a tear trickle down mom's face and I couldn't believe I was the cause of it.

Mom did not grow up with siblings and she doesn't want that for us.

I just want to get out of this environment.

I stood up from my seat to head upstairs and to think things over.

"Dre, why would you let him go, he is just a child," I could hear my mom say.

I hope I regret none of this.

I laid on my bed and rested my head on a pillow. I heard my door creek open again, but this time it was a strawberry perfume.

"What do you want Ria," I asked.

"Can we talk," she asked.

"About what," I asked.

"About you going to a boarding school," she said.

"OK," I said.

"Michael, please don't go to boarding school, it'll make mama sad," she said.

"Everyone is going to miss you," she continued.

"Do I hold such importance in this house," I queried.

"You are still a member of this family", she said.

"I'm sorry Ria, but I already made up my mind, I'm going to boarding school," I said.

"It's fine I understand that there is nothing I can do to change your mind, bye," she said.

Immediately she placed her hand on the door knob, she sighed.

"Always remember that, families are like branches on a tree, we grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one," she said and she left my room.

Those words were like blades, pricking me with every damn word, who would have thought that my twelve years old sister would be this smart.

I was about to sleep when I heard a loud bang on my door.

"Michael, you think the world revolves 'round you," Marion said, raisin' his voice.

"What you mean?" I queried.

"You think you special and you feel too big, but trust me, you just an arrogant idiot," he said.

This the first time Marion ever shouted at me.

"Get the hell outta my room," I ordered.

"Make me. All you ever do is make everyone 'round you suffer," he said.

Mama in her room cryin' for you not to go, but 'cause you selfish, you can't even put yourself in her shoes and not go, uh," he said.

"Get out," I ordered one more time.

This time he listened, but before he left, he said these words that shattered my heart like glass.

"You a terrible son."

What have I done?

The next day I woke, I couldn't empty that void no matter what.

I didn't even have breakfast before heading to school.

I got to school and did my normal school routine.

#Don't talk to anyone.

#Get ready for the upcoming mathematics competition.

#Coach my student.

#And, face basketball.

After lunch we had Mr Graham, the only available seat was with Hadizah, if eyes could kill this girl would have shot me gazillion times she hates my guts.