Chapter Three; Useless, Good For Nothing Lowlife
Santos smiled at his victor and swore to make him pay for humiliating him at his celebratory party.But Lucas was not even worried about that, his biggest problem was that he had probably lost his job as the bar tender.He constantly cursed himself for loosing his temper during the ride to the police station.By the time they reached the police station, it was already twelve noon so no one attended to him, he was just dumped in the cold cell to spend the night.Through out the night, he could not sleep, he was thinking of what would become of his fate.What would Santos do to him this time? Would theSo what if he was released on bail? He did not have too much money to squander, he only had two thousand dollars from selling all their furniture and three hundred dollars that was remaining from the money his aunt left for him.He wondered if the money would be enough for him to posts a bail for himself, if not there was nothing he could really do.Consumed by these baffling thoughts, Lucas did not know that time has passed and it was already morning until a police officer came and banged at the burglaries of the cell.“Hey you come out here”The police dragged him out of the cell and took him to another dark room with only one chair and one dim light bulb.He spent almost an hour there before a elderly man came in and practically forced him to answer a lot of questions.Useless questions if you asked him.Who would ever thought he’d be asked questions like;“What is the name of your father?”“How old are you?”“Which hospital were you born?”“Do you have any relative?”“Do you know Baron family personally?”“Do you have any birthmark?”“Do you know who your parents are?”It wasn’t really the typical question that he was expecting to be asked by the police officer.But then again when he thought that he had never been to cell before, he didn’t give it much thoughts and answered all their questions truthfully.He had hoped that they would at least find him sincere and secretly let him go before Santos goes there to personally look for him, he knew it would not be good for him.Finally, they asked him the most puzzling question;“Do you have a baby picture?” Luckily he had one with his aunty carrying him in his wallet. it was the best picture of her and him.He showed it to the man asking him the absurd questions.The man collected the picture, patted his head and left out without saying another word.The police officer from earlier came back and brought him out of the dark room, he took back to the cell and locked the door.Lucas was really confused about the proceeding of things.For a whole day, he was locked up in that cell, no matter how much he called for help, the officers did not pay any attention to him.Only occasionally when the police officer was tired of hearing his shouts, they’d come and try to shut him down.But they never gave him a detailed explanation of what was happening.He was already thinking of the worse, could it be that Santos had discovered the police station he was sent to and deliberately has them retain him, he really regretted his actions.“Please officers, it’s not my fault, you can just let me go on bail, I promise I will not provoke any big shit again.”“Sir please what is my fault?”He was still shouting when suddenly two policemen came to front of his cell. One of them he remembered was the man who kept asking him numerous questions.“Sir what is going to happen to me now? I swear ai am innocent”. He was already pleading like a a body, he hated it but he doesn’t want to spend another night in the cold cell.“Don’t worry kid, this time you’ll be set free”Huh?Lucas was surprised? He looked at them with wide eye, they brought him out and returned his belongings to him, then they said he was free to go.“Am I really free? Are you not going to ask for a bail money at least?”He asked in bewilderment, but the man only smiled and sent him away.“Leave this place before I change my mind and luck you back, would you rather the Santos kid deal with you?”Hearing that, Lucas shook his head and hurriedly left the police station.It was really suspicious that he’d be set free like that, but he tried to think positively, maybe my boss Mr. Boma had helped him this time.He immediately took out his phone that was already cracked when one of Santos’ friend hit him from the back the other night.He struggled to read the contact list from the cracked screen until he found Mister Boma’s number and dialed it.“Hello boss, thank you very much for your help, I just got released and I will soon reach the bar and thank you personally, I also have to say sorry, I know that the fight must have affected your …”“You are damn right you useless good for nothing lowly person, someone pities you and give you a job and shelter but what did you do? I just left for five minute and you had to pick a fight with Santos for goodness sake, couldn't you even find someone who was not so influential?I don’t blame you, people like you are just a problem to the society, no matter how someone helps you, it’s useless because you’ll always be surrounded by misfortune.”Chapter Four; Saved From jail But Still Kidnapped.Lucas was really taken aback by the words that were coming out of Boma’s mouth. He couldn’t believe it was the same person that had been kind him when no one else was.He gave him a job and let him sleep in the shop, he had trusted him so much to even leave him alone there, then what happened? Why the sudden change?“Mister Boma, I know you don’t mean your words, I’ll personally apologize to you when I reach there, such thing would never happen again”. He actually felt bad because he had a feeling something terrible had happened after he was taken to custody and he would soon find out.“Don’t Even Bother coming anywhere near my bar, I have already threw away your things, you can find them at the front of the mall that is if it has not already been swept by the cleaners. You hear me, stay away from me!”Mr. Boma’s voice was very loud and full of aggression, and Lucas actually felt bad that another person was yet being deleted away fro
Chapter Five; A Devastated Looking Woman Came to Me.Outside his room, he was welcomed by a row of eight other men in black and three different ladies, two wearing aprons and the nurse that was in his room just now.He was really stunned. For two days, he stayed in the house, he was not aloud to step out of the house.Apart from that, he enjoyed a lot of privileges of eating any thing he wanted, going to any room of the house he wanted and swimming as much as he wanted.His body was never used to this luxury that he had to get checked by the nurse in other to make sure he doesn’t hyperventilate due to over excitement.This was the life he never thought he would be able to live, just like that he was living the life, like one of those young masters in the high society.“This life wasn’t bad he thought”But after a week, he started becoming bored and anxious, he didn’t know why he was here up until now.“Tell your madam to come as fast as possible or I will not take care of myself agai
Chapter Six; You Are My Son“What are you trying to say?” Lucas looked at her expression, he heard what she said quite alright, but he was unwilling to believe him.Melos’s saw the confusion in his eyes and smiled, “perhaps he hasn’t found out yet she said”She dipped her hand into her purse and brought out a wrinkled paper.“Take a look at this by yourself, I hired a detective to look for you all these while, you don’t know how happy I was when I heard that there was someone who looked like me in jail.I immediately had them take your blood sample and compared it with mine at the genetic department, it proves he was right, you are my son.”She paused for a little while as if giving him time to adjust to the information.“I am sorry you had to go through all you did because I didn’t find you soon enough, now that I did, I will not let you leave my sight”. As opposed to earlier, she had a more serious and determined look.There was total silence in the room.Lucas observed the paper fo
Chapter Seven; Nothing Money Can’t Do“Tell her that I’m ready to be her son” he suffered today because people think he didn’t have money, but now, he’s from a wealthy family, so why not take advantage before he’s taken advantage of.He expected that she’ll come the next day and take him back home.Then she’ll take him home and they’ll have a big welcoming party for him.He was already thinking about how grand it would be and couldn’t wait for the next day so that it would happen first and he’ll be able to show everyone who he really it.But to his disappointment, she did come the next day until after a week.And when she came, she was not willing to take him with her.“Why will you not take me to see my father?” Lucas roared in the sitting room.He’s been waiting for her only to give him some cock and bull story, he wouldn’t accept it.“You have to listen son, it’s not easy for your father, when I was pregnant with you, he didn’t want you and had me abort you several times. But I wa
Chapter Eight; It Not Easy For The Church Rat In other not to raise suspicion or to make it obvious that he has someone backing him, Lucas did not get an apartment off campus like the other rich students did. Instead, he stayed in the campus, not just anywhere, but at the hostel made for those people under a scholarship. At first he didn’t mind because he thought he’d be staying with commoners who could only afford to attend the school because of their brains instead of their pocket. If he also stayed with them he’d be forced to concentrate only in his book and have a peaceful life in school. But he didn’t know faith was cruel, things didn’t always go as plan, never has and probably never will. He soon found out that the school also held another doom for him when he met Santos the very first day of school resumption. “Bang!” He collided with a hard body throwing him off balance so that file he was holding fell down and the papers flew away with the wind. Lucas hurried to foll
Chapter Nine.; He Didn’t Want Me As soon as he entered the hotel, he was expecting a big celebration to welcome him, but he was wrong yet again, the place was very quiet and nothing glamours was being planned, there’s also no one else around.So he walked up to the penthouse that his mother had told him about holding unto some papers he believed his father would want to see. As soon as he reached the door, he nocked on the door twice but no one was answering him. He was serious Abd heard a faint noice coming from inside as well, so he knew there was someone inside.After a little tug, he found out the door was already opened so he entered bracing himself for a surprise celebratory party.“Otherwise, why would they leave the door open” he thought.He did got it quite alright; the surprise, but not the one he expected. In the big spacious luxurious living room of the penthouse, a woman could be seen on her knees, her hands pulled together in front of her as she rubbed them a
Chapter Ten; Cursed The Day He Was Born Lucas knew that he had went overboard by pushing the old man, but he couldn’t help it. He was provoked by the man who should be his father. He clenched his fists so tight as if he was going to fight someone. He looked around and saw that the hotel staff were all rushing to the penthouse which meant that Melissa had already called for help. Lucas didn’t go very far, he stood by a corner and watched from afar when an ambulance came and took him away. His mother’s troubled face didn’t escape his view. She had make up smeared on her face which meant that she had been crying. He felt a ping of pain in his heart and regretted putting her in such a situation. “Is it true that I’m just a bad luck?” He asked himself recalling the way Patrick pushed his mother mercilessly and slapped her several times all because she mentioned him to the man. He wanted to follow her and apologize but the bush had already left. He looked at the inscription on the b
Chapter Eleven; A Commotion In The Hospital “Yes that right but how come? Don’t you think he looks like the Baron’s?”“You’re right, maybe he is an illegitimate child”“I wouldn’t doubt that, all these rich men like keeping mistresses, this man must be one of the sons of Mr. Baron’s mistress”“Shii! Keep quiet, he has not gone very far, he might still hear you.” The other attendant tried to counsel the second one, but it was too late.Lucas actually heard them, and his bloodshot eyes became even more red from anger.He no longer behaved like a gentleman and went straight ahead to the emergency room.But before he entered, he saw his mother sitting on a bench looking very tense, her attention was fixed on the emergency room as she stared without blinking. Her elbow was on her knees while hands were on both her face as if to support her head from falling off.“Mom?” His voice sounded very hoarse and low but she felt the instincts of a mother and looked up directly to the end of the hal