THE ENDGAME

chapter one

"Better to burn out than fade away"
~Shaun Huston~
4 hours
240 minutes
14400 seconds
There was not a moment where my heart wasn't at the pit of my stomach. I still felt so numb,so flimsy. I felt like a paper,one spark and I'd easily burn. I had just got a call informing me that my dad was in the hospital,he had been involved in a fatal accident as I was told.
It was only few moments before I was in the hospital. Curiosity and intrusion deep in my own intuition. The lady at the first desk told me that I needed to stay in the waiting room and wait for the doctor's feedback.
I wasn't even sure of the events after that because it all seemed like a blur. All I knew was that my body had rested in this same chair for four whole hours. Next to me was a blonde boy slouching himself on the chair next to mine. He look agitated too but at the moment he was not my concern. What I needed was to just know my dad was okay and out of danger. He was the only family I had. My mum too had died in a tragic accident four years earlier. The wounds of loosing her were still fresh in my soul and heart and the thought of loosing my dad too was unbearable.
Though I was his adopted child and we were not that close,I still owed him big time for his love and patience with me. Though we both never showed it,deep down we both loved and cared about each other.
I blanked my mind as I tried focusing on a dull spot on the wall.
I tried blocking out any thoughts any emotions, I knew that if I let myself cry now,then I wouldn't stop crying. I couldn't stop thinking about the endless scenarios we both passed through when mum died,the endless suffering repeated in my mind and head and I couldn't bear them any longer without having a panic attack.
He was the same person who comforted me every night when I woke up and endlessly cried. He was there in thick and thin and we both finally got rid of the voids she left in us though not completely. If I lost him too,I don't know where the hell and how the hell I would cope with the situation. Truly to be numb was to remain strong. I could feel the blonde boy's stare on my left,but I didn't look back at him.
I didn't want to see anything but that stupid patch of a wall. Some of my,ohhw sorry his family started shuffling in as the hours went by. I knew soon enough hell would break loose in this place. None of them approved of it when my foster dad adopted me.
Even as the years went by they still never accepted me and took me as their own. His elder brother was the worst of them all. And how I prayed for him not show up anytime soon.
Before the doctor came in they all started holding a small conversation on what would happen when and if my dad died. Some even started asking themselves what would happen to all the wealth he would leave behind. There was nothing I could register in all honesty. My focus was still on the damn wall. It was after hearing the things they were talking about I realized that they were not here for my dad but for the money,which was tots unbelievable.
I knew any moment,I would crack up let's be real a man that is my dad and one of their own was on his deathbed and all they could think of was inheriting his wealth,that was so f***ing inhuman. I was burning with fury and wanted to slap sense into each of their heads but since I didn't want to open the floodgates to drama in a hospital, I simply put my act together and breathed in and out.
Just then, "Luka Gray," a woman in scrubs spoke,holding a clip board.
I didn't mutter a word but simply walked closer towards her.
"He's in room B\23." The woman wasn't quite finished talking, but it didn't matter any longer. I just ran through the hospital wards. People were muttering words for me to slow down,but I didn't. Truth is I didn't care! I just wanted to see my dad, I needed to see his face, hear his voice for me to be at least okay,but once I reached his room and opened the door,I knew that the wait wasn't over. The elder brother ,Agreste was there with his wife.
Damn it!! What the hell were this two doing here. Ignoring them I went straight to where he laid and gripped his hand as if he had the power to let go any moment. The view of him lying on a hospital bed really broke and tore my heart into tiny pieces bit by bit. He was pale and tubes were lining all through his body. There was a tube even from his own head that made me gag a bit. not because I was disgusted but because, I was mortified.
Forget the tubes,the bandages that covered him from head to toe terrified me the most. He didn't look like himself.
"Dad," my breathy voice cracked a bit.
Mr and Mrs Agreste looked in my direction stunned at my appearance. Tears streamed down my face and I felt my breathing become suddenly heavy. "Will he be okay?" My words were merely a whisper but directed to Mrs.Agreste as she was the only one who seemed to care about me in that whole family. A tear drenched her face. "I- I'm not sure anymore."
Mr. Agreste seemed not to be pleased by my presence in there,he just shot his eyes at me.
The glance was full of hatred,disgust,anger mixed all together. I ignored him and asked my aunt who explained everything about what had happened.
At the mention of my dad being in a coma for the rest of his life,my sobs grew as my arms gripped around my dad's torso. My sobs were now more audible. I could feel my chest tighten up, trying to grip his body closer to mine not wanting to loose him. it was then that two hands gripped my side and I was fighting them. From the corner of the room,I could hear the doctors voice asking all of us to leave for him to carry out some tests. But I didn't want to leave, I knew my behaviour was nothing but appropriate.
I was throwing in a fit,but I didn't care how I looked anymore. I didn't care if people looked at me, I didn't care about anything except my dad and the crimson tubes that patterned his body. The large hands had a much stronger grip and force than my own,and I was quickly out of the room before I even knew it. My sobs and shouts became a mixture in the grossly quiet room. When I looked behind me,it was my uncle's arms. And I now felt more willing to fight. "Get off me! Let me go you stupid rascal! Let go of me!" My voice was so loud and had rage in it. All the people in the lobby stopped what they were doing and looked towards my direction.
"Shut up you brat! What even the fucking hell are you doing here! Trash like you don't belong here stupid child!" He shouted as he threw me down the floor where I hit my head next to the chair where the cute blonde boy with the baby blue eyes was sitting. He offered his hand out to me for help but I shoved it and get up on my own.
"That man in there is my dad!" I shouted back at him as tears trickled down my face. "The fact that am adopted doesn't mean I cannot see him," I continued without worrying about the crowd that was slowly gathering around us to witness the drama that was happening.
His wife began crying begging for us to stop fighting for once and consider the fact that we were in a hospital. I was willing to shut up but if this shoddy man she saw fit to be her husband was going to keep on insulting me, I would simply not let him have his way with me. The other family members came rushing to his side. I could hear them mutter some hateful insulting words directed to me as if I really cared.
Before any more ridiculous words could be uttered, the doctor showed up and asked to talk to the family of Luka Gray and Agreste signalled him to show that they were the ones.
"I'm sorry but he is not going to make it, his brain is completely damaged,though his heart is still beating,he might never wake up. If you wish to pull the plugs of the machinery keeping him alive then inform us and we will do exactly that. I'm sorry again," he said and stepped aside to leave us to decide.
As soon as he was finished talking,my heart was completely broken, it felt like I was in an ocean and drowning. The person I loved the most was watching from the surface, I was unfazed by my own pain, but I didn't drown..it just felt like I was.
The suffering didn't go away. I was completely dumbfounded, no words came out of my mother as they all discussed what was true be done. I was completely lost in my thoughts not that I was thinking of anything but it felt like I was in another world,I was frozen and I stood still on the ground.
"Pull out the plugs doc," Those words jolted me back to my senses.
" what!? No!no!no!,you're not going to kill my father!" I shouted back at Agreste.
Everyone stopped doing what they were doing and their attention turned back at me and they all looked at me with shocked faces.
"He is not your father! He has never been your father and you have no say in this matter so shut the hell up!" Agreste said his stun face still on mine.
The doctor seemed confused with what was happening and all he could say was, "you have to all come into an agreement and it has to be the same agreement," The others joined in to say the plugs should be pulled out for the best. Some even pretended to be crying and hurt by the decision but I could tell it was just a simple act. I could see right through them.
"All you care about is money!you might act hurt and all but you can never fool me!" I found myself shouting. "You want to kill him so you can have all his money right!?I kept on shouting.
A hot slap landed on my face. "Shut up! You brat, " Doc,do what you have to do, he is my son and am sure that pulling the plugs is the best for us and for him." His mother said. I was simply getting weaker and weaker as I had no strength to fight back. I wanted to stop the doctor but I couldn't. I felt so numb. In the next few minutes he was declared dead. I had lost my dad,he was gone now, I was all alone. It was simply just me and the world and how I prayed it treated me right. The body passed through the lobby going to the mortuary and I could even look at his lifeless body and say goodbye. All I could feel was a swollen lump in my throat over and over again. The feeling of being all alone in this world was simply going to strip me off my humanity and I'd be left with insanity. I started throwing a tantrum all around and before I even knew it, Agreste called the security guards to throw me out which was not necessary as I was already walking out of the building. Memories slowly started flowing into my mind as the cold air of the night kissed my cheeks. I went home just to be kicked out few days prior my dad's burial. I tried pleading with them to keep me but my pleas landed on deaf ears.
Worst of all they took everything from me, my jewelry,clothes, savings,shoes they claimed that none of those belonged to me. Putting up no fight I simply had to just let go and that's what I did.
I walked away,not knowing where the road would take me. I never even attended his burial. I considered it to be in the past now,he was in my past and the past needed to remain in the past.

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