A STREET KID

ROGER

“Boss, Bullet was spotted in a bank earlier this morning.”

Zain said, showing Roger a photo of the man, who wore a black hooded jacket, which covered his face from hidden cameras.

“That fucking piece of shit!p I want you to send some men to find him and bring him to me as soon as you can!” Roger growled at his personal bodyguard.

“I'm on it, boss." Zain said as he bolted out of Roger's office, immediately.

Roger sat in his personal study office, he shook his legs which was very well rested on his desk.

He was so furious now, he did not understand why these men never listen, he gave them rules to abide to, but they keep doing that which he hated the most.

He owned the largest opium in warehouse in the whole of Southampton, he walked and toiled hard to get to where he was today.

Furthermore, he never once stole from his bosses as at that time, he did his job diligently and waited to be given his share as usual.

He was a good boy in the mafia world, but that his niceness went into flames when he was betrayed by his very best friend, Ryan.

Ryan was an orphan in the street just like he was, when he was recruited into the mafia world at 13. Living in the streets as an orphan was something he would never wish for anyone.

It was damn hard being a homeless orphan. He had always been on the street from when he could remember, they were used in doing the dirty jobs as from a young age.

Then they found it hard to get a good meal for a day. He was given a home the day his late boss, Andre Kennedy met him. Back then, if someone was kind enough to keep a leftover in the trash, the street kids, including himself, struggle for it.

While everyone was throwing punches at each other for the leftover, he quietly aimed for the leftover.

When they saw that he was in possession of it, they gave him a chase, and so took on his heels, just then he accidentally hit Mr. Andre who had been watching him all these while. Unfortunately, the leftover everyone fought for became wasted.

“How about I buy you and your friends each a plate of that same meal, you all fought for?”

He raised his head up to meet the gaze of Mr. Andre, who peered down at him, with  some men by his side, with big muscles.

“What say you, lad?” He asked, waiting for an answer.

He nodded his head in agreement, and so did the other kids.

“What's your name, lad?” He asked.

“I don't have a name.” He replied.

“Hmm, how about I call you, Roger."

The moment he heard the name, his face lit, for many reasons, first because it was the first, it was the first time someone called him by a name secondly, he liked the sound of the name.

“So Roger, I have another condition in other for me to buy you and your friends a meal."

He stated at the man in concision, wondering what condition he was talking about.

“I will not only buy you a meal today but every day of your life if you are willing to be my adopted son”.

His joy knew no bound when Mr. Andre gave him such offer, his friends all screamed for him to accept Mr. Andre's offer, who wouldn't when you're being promised a good meal, which meant you don't have to wait for someone to place unfinished food in the waste bin and to worsen it, while struggling, some kids gets injured and a few died in the process.

They lived the life of survival of the fittest as street orphans, most times when they gathered, fighting for a meal, the police came to whisk them away, but those who do not wish to be caught ran away. This was because those caught are taken to the orphanage. 

I bet you no street kid wish to live in an orphanage, specially when they are used to the freedom from living in the street, to them the orphanage was no words than a prison yard.

It didn't take long before he became highly recognized by me Andre's business associates.

He later found out the truth about Mr. Andre's family, which was that he had a wife and a son named Roger.

Unfortunately, he lost his family during an attack on his country home. There was a heavy shoot out between, Andre's men and the enemies men, his wife and son was said to have been killed by a well-trained sniper, while they were hiding inside the mansion

Ever since that time, he had been lonely and refuse to take on another wife, for he loved his late wife so much.

He was lucky to have been picked and adopted by Mr. Andre that day because his foster father and boss treated him like a real son, which made him the envy of others.

He was trained to handle a gun at his young age, by Mr. Andre's men, also, he was trained to fight in combat too.

This was so that he could defend himself at every point in time. He knew that being Mr. Andre's adopted son wasn't going to be easy, since his foster father was known to own the largest opium company.

For this reason, they tried many ways to pull him down. There was a time when he was kidnapped when he was just 15 years old, by the enemies, but since he was excellent at combat and also good at making an escape, he made his way out of the dungeon in which he was locked in even before his rescuers came.

This made his foster father proud of him, and according to him, he said when he saw him for the first time fighting for that meal, he knew that he was going to dominate the mafia world if given a chance.

Every year, young homeless kids were recruited into their group and thought on how to carry out business. It was through one of the recruitments that he found Ryan, and they became best friends since they were of the same age, and they had so many things in common.

They were so close to the point where Rocky took a bullet for him during one of their operations, and for this reason, he trusted him greatly.

He had never thought that the greed and power to dominate the world will make his best friend lose his mind.

This happened when they were twenty years old, Mr. Andre gave them a dangerous task which he also embarked on, together with his friend Ryan.

They never expected that things could go wrong as the mission ended in a bloody battle of shooting, and it was during the battle that his friend for kidnapped by the enemies.

They searched for Ryan for days but never found him, at some point, he thought his friend was dead which made him really sad. It wasn't up to a month that Ryan came back to the camp looking all dirty with an overgrown beard and hair.

He explained how he had been captured by the enemies and made to do hard labored jobs, and it was during a battle with a rival groups that he could manage to escape

They all believed what he told them, specially when they found scars, which he told them was as a result of being tortured.

Little did they know that, Ryan had sided with the enemy, and he had been leaking information about their business deals to the rival group who kidnapped him.

When thy attacked, since they trusted Ryan, he was told to keep their boss safe, together with other guards.

It turned out that when the battle began, Ryan killed the other guards that were keeping watch over Mr. Andre and then he shot him on the head.

Meanwhile, Roger was coming to transfer his foster father to a safe haven when he saw his very own best friend pull the trigger on his father.

Roger screamed and in anger he shot at his friend, who missed the bullet by a hair's breath.

 

The battled lasted for hours, with almost every member of The Hawk killed by their rival group.

It was Mr. Andre's personal body guard who forced him out for an escape, snce he refused to leave his father behind.

It was through great efforts that he was able to rebuild his father's opium company.