Guardian angel

Mom shoots a smile at the man, is it just me, or did I just see a sparkle in his eyes, finally returning her gaze

Maybe, he might be the one I am drying to meet, unfortunately, my hopes dashed away, the second mom weaves out something contrary to what I desired to hear.

Shortly I veered back and walked over to my room, I shut the door behind hurling a tired moan, it was disappointing that the hunch I felt misled me, and to think that the man, I thought he was, ended up being a family member, my uncle.

(Back at father's room)...

Dad paced around as he had just committed a crime, he took heed of the door to his room pulled open, and veered back plastering a shunned look on his face.

"Why! Why are you here?".  He shifted away in an aching attitude.

"Awww!!! Why are asking me, best friend, didn't you miss me?" The person he sees muttered out with a devilish smile on.

"No! How can I miss the man, my wife had an illicit relationship with,  they all loved and appreciated Jason hart".

Fear wrapped around dad's face, there was more to this than meets the eyes, Jason veers close to him, whiling dad's feet back,  he couldn't find anywhere to run anymore, as Jason fills up the remaining distance between them.

He says lifting dad's scared-looking face to him,  "tell me? Why did you kill me?".

Dad's jerked off his hands from his face and veered in the opposite direction, Jason was still adamant, he kept on instigating dad with the same question, it pushed him to the wall to a point dad yells out his response to him.

"Because I was jealous! Okay! The woman I loved fell for you and surprised, got pregnant with your son, the only way was to kill you after you got married, so I could take over your business".

Dad's had no idea mom frozen the second she took heed of his confession, Jason veers, sewing dad's eyes as well, Decerning mom in the room.

He tries to gather his words but this time, nothing worked, because mom listened to everything he said, In a state of shock, she rushed out of the room, dad runs after her in an attempt to sway her down.

"Listen to my love, I can explain, Jason is trying to set me up?". He pulls the table against Jason, who turned dad's attention and slapped him.. "don't you dare, pulls this on me, after you did such a despicable thing of trying to get me murdered, did you forget?".

The situation got out of hand, Alvin walks in and saw the position Jason and dad were in, apparently being his father's son, he rushed over to meet his father, attempting to reciprocate the slap his father got, luckily I walked into the picture and pinned his hands in the air...

"Are you mad? How dare you to try to slap a man old enough to be your father, have lost your senses"...

It's disheartening to see my younger brother, act in such a manner, he swirled his hands and walked away with his father back to his room.

Although I had no idea what happened, Chris was so much in the wrong! He should at least made inquires before retaliating in such a childlike manner, too bad, I got to see such a side of him.

Jason veers and caressed my face, he wears a warm smile and watched me walk away.

"You do know, he dying to meet his father?".

Mom says the second I left the house, recouping Jason's eyes to her, he says and I quote, "I know and I cannot believe I missed so many years with him, but it's not the best time to tell him, that I am his real father, for now, I'll have to teach Leonardo a lesson he won't forget In his remaining time left in this world.".

(Back at the room).

Keith lays dad on the bed, he tucks him in and the moment he tried to walks away,  he held unto him, attaining back his attention.

"What is dad? Are you okay? Do you need anything?"..... He weaves our questions to dad, apparently father wanted something else, he signaled Chris to come nearer, he obeyed and moved further to him...

(Inaudible conversation)...

Afterward, Keith walked out of the room, as we both ran into each other, normally he smiles lovingly at me but he hissed and walks away into his room.

It was unlike him, the brother I knew and grew up with, hence I walked over and returned his attention to me.

"What's going on Keith, why are you acting in such a manner?"...  I asked and watched him hurl my hands away retorting back in a distasteful tone, "I don't know what are you talking about? And please Chris we are not brothers, so I beg you don't ever think of dragging me in such a manner, because if you do? You won't like me, I swear on the grave of grandma Stella". (He walks away, and left me speechless)...

Keith sudden change of behavior had someone's name written on it, Mr. Leonardo, the man that not only hated me but now he's trying to take the brother whom I love and cherish, not this time, he had got to explain the whole truth right now, (walked over to his room)...

I pull his door and saw him sleeping soundly,  the anger I felt made me think of despicable things to do to him because he deserves it.

When I saw he had slept, I turned back to leave, surprised he lets out to me, in a distant tone, "why are you here?"...

I recouped my eyes seeing him, idling to hear my response, So I said, "I want to talk with you father!"...

It seems that the word father, got him upset, he vents out his anger on me, "don't you dare call me that, I am not your father and will never be a father to such a boy okay?"...

As the days go by, father oops sorry, Leonardo kept repeating the same words to me, I couldn't take it anymore, I answered back pissed off about the whole situation for more than a year...

My statement got him to respond once more, his voice gradually increases, and when he tried to yell out his last words, he holds them back and asked me to leave.

Something tells me, his trying to hide a particular truth from me and I know this is not going to be the last time we get to speak in such a manner, there will be more opportunities and if mom refused to tell me the truth I needed, Leonardo can as well tell me the truth, while getting aggravated by the sight of me.