⚠️This chapter is all focused on Malachi on his POV to get to know more about him ⚠️
Ok let's begin
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Malachi Williams
14 year old Malachi looked at the evergreens trees, it was winter time in New York City and the city was flooded with snow
All the trees were stripped and naked, bare, gnarled and ugly looking, some of them were leaning and tore off from their stumps and layed effortlessly on the brown grass
But not the evergreens, they were bright and bursting with green the little bit of sunlight shined down on the evergreens giving them life once more, they stood tall and green all year never falling never becoming,naked, bare,gnarled and ugly looking
Malachi was like the other trees, while they changed colors throughout the seasons, a pumpkin orange color varied with a cocoa bean brown color and only tiny bit of green in the fall, green in summer, bright blooming flowers that came in assorted colors each different then the rest almost like a box a chocolates you never know what you get until you take the wrapper off, but in the winter the trees were hideous
Naked
Bare
Gnarled
Ugly looking
Malachi was in fact just like these trees, he changed like them but he changed every week or so, one day he was happy another day the voices in his head were making him go crazy, he was going off on people, talking to himself, drinking
But not the evergreens they stayed happy all year and Malachi envied that, he envied people who shared a strong connections with the evergreens...who were just like them...happy all year
But it seemed he couldn't stay happy for long he started to ponder if happiness was for him it was like this dark tornado bringing him in every time he found something that made him happy, it turned him evil, made him crazy
At this point nothing could help Malachi no matter how many pills he was described the voices they never left, they made him do things he didn't want to do, things you couldn't even imagine, he wanted to stay away from the ones he loved so he locked himself in his room, banging on his head telling them to go away but they got louder they were no longer the quiet whispers Malachi could ignore they were screaming at him
He had to do whatever they were telling him to do to shut them up. So he did, he did what they told him to do
And now he was paying for it, paying for what they told him to do 9 years ago,
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Malachi's alarm went off waking him from his sleep, he looked around his room, that was the first thing he saw when we woke up every morning
The same blue walls and worn out basketball stickers on his walls, and posters of players dunking
He chuckled to himself remembering those days, when he actually thought he was going to the NBA he had a thing for basketball it was his life when he was younger, he didn't miss one practice or one game and always scored the most points he was also top student out of all his classmates he had it going good himself
He had a scholarship coming his way, but all that went away when lisette passed, Malachi started to miss more and more practices, stopped coming to games, and skipping school, his grades were becoming low and he had officially given up on basketball
He drank more to cope and started smoking cigarettes, he would come home drunk yelling things at his aunt about lisette, everyone that supported him was now gone. they didn't want to be around Malachi, they abandoned him and left him for dead they left him and his disorder to be alone but he wasn't alone not with the whispering voices talking to him, they came after everyone left him, taunting him keeping him from falling asleep from acting normal
His senior year of high school wasn't normal for him though, he stopped talking to his friends and going to parties he distant himself away from everyone, even his aunt she began to get worried and that's when the therapy started, he switched therapist a lot because nobody wanted to be with him the voices they told him to do things to the people that were trying to help him and that hurt him the most
He finally graduated and was happy to get out that shit hole, leaving with no diploma or any friends
The teacher saw potential in Malachi and knew it was only because of his mother dying so she suggested him to come back and try again but Malachi didn't see the point everyone was telling him he wasn't shit and wasn't going to be shit in life and now he was starting to believe it
His uncle hated him, but his aunt didn't so she took Malachi in and cared for him if as he was his own, his uncle moved out as soon as he found out Malachi was coming to live with them
She did everything his mother should've done, she tried to make him better he went off on her sometimes but she didn't care she loved him deeply and only wanted to love him and that's what he needed someone to be there for him forever and never leave him when he got in what he called his dark times
Malachi never really experienced the whole high school love thing, every girl he came encounter with feared him, they only wanted him and wanted to be with him when he was "happy"
But never wanted to consule him or be around him when the darkness came, they only were there when it was beneficial
When he showed who he was at his worst times they couldn't take it so they left him, left him like everyone else but it wasn't nothing new, people came and went all his life it was becoming a routine for him
Buckling his belt up he tucked his blue shirt in and slid on his Stan Smith adidas
He fixed his hair not that there was much to fix; he slapped on his watch and went downstairs
"Good morning Malachi" his aunt Sherice said sending him a welcoming smile
He sent a her a head nod and saw the pills and water waiting on a tray, he looked at them and back at her "your doctor prescribed some new-"
" I don't need them" he fussed pouring himself a glass of orange watching it flow into the cup
"Malachi they really do help please for me atleast" sherice practically begged
Malachi rolled his eyes and took 3 of the pills and swallowed them down without the water
"Thank you"
"Whatever"
Malachi had woke up cranky today and every little thing was pissing him off from the way the plant sat crooked on the counter to the way one of the tiles was coming up from the kitchen floor
He downed the orange juiced and proceeded out the door "love you!" Sherice called out
Malachi closed the door and walked to his car, his days were usually like this, he got ready came downdtairs took his medicine and then left out
Malachi didn't really have any friends and he didn't go to school so he found himself getting in trouble throughout the day he had nothing to do
He got inside his car and looked in his glove department for a pack of Newport's but he was out "fuck" he cursed to himself
There was a cvs down the street so he started up his car and took off
Something about cars intrigued Malachi, from the different colors they come in and most importantly the speed Malachi had a stack of speeding tickets he still never paid for from speeding down the street with a blunt in his mouth letting the cool breeze caress his face
Malachi speeded up the car and drove a little reckless then usual only because he was pissed but it was for no reason
He took a sharp turn around the corner before speeding in the parking lot, aggressively swerving into a empty parking space, he cut the car off and opened the door wide hitting the car next to him leaving a dent in the car
He didn't care so he kept walking and went in the cvs going up the counter and pulling out some cash " 2 packs of Newport's" he threw the money and his ID on the counter
The man retrieved to the back and grabbed two packs
"Malachi?" He heard someone call his name and it was a female voice, he turned around to see Jhene standing there with a pregnancy test in her hand
Malachi's stared at the test "oh it's not for me it's for my friend honeymoon problems" jhene chuckled
Malachi rolled his eyes and grabbed his pack of cigarettes, he walked out the store and jhene paid for her stuff and came right behind him
"Malachi!" He turned around and frowned up
"Fuck you want damn get away shit" he sent her the bird
Jhene was taken back by his choice of words towards her Malachi had never talked to her like that
"Malachi you cant speak to me like that!" jhene furrowed her brows, making him laugh hysterically he was almost in tears
But his face went straight and his jaw clenched, his eyes turned black and he was serious
"Were not in the fucking office anymore jhene so I can talk to how the fuck ever i want to". He held a hand on her neck and she could barely breathe
Malachi could see people watching so he let go leaving jhene gasping for air, before she scurried away
Once he got in the car he lit up a cigarette and blew smoke from his mouth before backing up out the driveway and pulled off recklessly
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When Malachi got home he heard talking and saw his aunt sitting there with his uncle and his grandmother
Malachi gave his uncle a look, his uncle despised him ,hated him
"Fuck is he here for" Malachi said sending me the meanest mug ever
"Malachi please come sit down" his aunt said smiling
"I'm good I don't need no damn family reunion y'all wasn't here for me then so why the fuck you here now" he growled
"Fuck you malachi" his uncle got up
Malachi was suprised his uncle was still taunting him after there last encounter
"Malachi get off him your going to kill him!" His aunt cried looking at her brother laying on the ground
"What was that?" Malachi turned around "yea FUCK YOU MALACHI you ruined this family believe it or not!" His uncle said getting up in his face
"Hey stop!" His grandma said, the two stood there looking each other in the face
"You mad pretty boy? Lisette would still be here if it wasn't for your fucked up ass! Y'all know it too! stop babying his ass and put him in a asylum" Simone yelled
Malachi eyes became glossy and he kept a clenched fist he was tired of his uncle always saying something everytime he came around and the worst thing about it was he knew how to cut deep into him with his words he knew just how to shatter Malachi just then and there
"Simone stop!" Sherice ran over to Malachi and stood infront of him saying words to calm him down
"Simone get your disrespectful ass out this house and leave my grand baby alone at once! You know it wasn't his fault" his grandmother Jeretta said
"Oh really who's was it? The vOiCeS fuck all that" Simone snapped "fuck you You was never there for me you hated when since I was born you never liked me!" Malachi growled
His veins were visible and he was becoming angry
"Your a damn curse boy and you know it you always talk about how everyone leaves you you force them to you sick fuck nobody wants to be around a murderer!"
"Hey hey hey stop!"
"That's enough"
"Get out"
Malachi couldn't hear anything else everyone voice was muffled
"I'm not a murderer" Malachi said low as a tear fell from his eye
"Yes you are"
"No I'm not! You are! You made me"
His mind drifted off to that night
"Let her go Malachi! Everything she done to you let her suffer"
"Shut up shut shut up" Malachi banged against his head
"Do it let go let go let go"
"SHUT UP" he cried, they wouldn't leave they wouldn't leave him alone so he let her go
He watched her fall
And he was at fault
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