The seemingly endless, exhausting and alarming day finally came to an end as Kaylee hurried home just as the bell rang. No goodbyes, no see you tomorrow, nothing, Just her rushing out with her face on the ground trying to avoid people on the school grounds. She walked as quickly as her tiny little legs could and finally reached her bike. She took her black helmet on the back of the old bike and wore it as she fixed herself on the bike and took off. She rushed home, paddling as fast as a duck. Her mind was someplace else, Not wandering about anything, but just idle and numb.
She could not notice the beautiful coloured birds flying about and chirping, the amazing hues of the green lands and trees together with the evening sun. The tarmac road which was straight and smooth, the different cars and passengers she passed through, she noticed nothing at all. When she finally reached outside her home she had an episode.
The episode was about a guy, who was talking with his grandmother about something regarding loans and interest. He seemed familiar to Kaylee as he wore a suit. He was smiling brightly with a lot of teeth showing but had a really dark aura behind him. He seemed to be interested in the house as he stood up and started walking around it asking about how many people even lived in the house.
After the episode stopped, she realised who it was. The peculiar-looking guy who was at her school that morning and was staring at Kaylee as they passed each other in the hallway. What was he doing in her house? Did he want something? Was he sent? Kaylee felt worried but hesitated to go to the front door. After a few seconds of thinking and rethinking, she walked to the door and rang the doorbell. Her grandmother opened the door for her and informed her that a guest had visited their house and he was from a bank.
Kaylee had no reason to trust the guy so she just nodded her head and went upstairs to her room. No words spoken between the two as her grandmother tried to cover up for her granddaughters' mistake. She walked to the blue couch and sat down near it a few inches from the guest.
"Umm. Am sorry. She's an introvert. She never speaks to people."
"Oh, don't worry. I understand."
"Really? You look very young to have children."
"No, no I don't have children" he answered while throwing his hands from side to side to show his extreme denial in that topic.
"Why are denying it so strongly?" Kaylee's grandmother asked with her face puzzled with his behaviour."You have to get used to it... you don't expect yourself to not have kids all your life do you?"
"Well...."
"Its a must for people....."
"Okay then. Mrs Willard. It was nice to meet you. Am going to be taking my leave now. Goodbye," the guest said as he stood up from his position grabbed his briefcase beside the table and walked away to the door.
"Okay, goodbye...." Mrs Willard said as she stood from her chair and went to the door to escort the guest out.
They bid each other goodbye and Kaylee's grandmother closed the door. The guest came out of the house and walked to the porch and then took out his phone from his jacket and dialled some numbers then put the phone on his ear.
"Hello, sir. Yes sir. I have found out about Kaylee. Yes sir. I will deliver it to the hospital tonight. Yes, Mr Tyler." and he hangs up the phone.
He had been ordered by Justuss' father to find out everything about Kyalee so he could destroy it. And the secretary did what he was told as he afraid of losing his life.
He knew about Tyler's drug business and knew about the danger he was in if he ever betrayed his boss. He remembered the time he was a teenager and had finished high school as he delivered drugs to groups of boys. He couldn't continue with studies since he was poor and his mother had stage three of cancer.
Once he went to take a few packets from the house and saw him. The boss. Stomping brutally on a guy who coiled up on the ground filled with mud. Tyler aggressively walked on him as he left marks on him. Bruises, blood, shoeprints on a guys face did not seem to move Tyler at all. He then ordered a bat and that was when he witnessed it a first-degree murder.
No one did anything, or even said anything. It wasn't a huge house but just amongst houses in a rural area. There were neighbours on their windows watching, while other people from his gang were outside reducing the crows that had started to build up.
There was a gate near the front door but no one seemed to notice it as it was rusty and old. And that was the day Lucas got into the gang. The day he witnessed a murder of someone getting his head smashed for betraying the gang. He wanted to leave before he could even be killed too for witnessing. But he was initiated into the gang to buy his silence.
His mother's bills were paid a few later, and although he was scared he decided to persevere and see it through. Seventeen years later and he still worked for the gang and Tyler directly.
He took a deep breath back to reality and turned his face towards Kaylee's house as he pitied the poor girl. She was being bullied at school and did not even talk much but she was gonna die soon. He then walked away to his car and went to the hospital to deliver the documents he had.
On the other hand, Kaylee who had been in her room started reading chemistry and did her best revising as always. She wanted to keep the magical side away for a minute. She sat on her table with a few books on it and studied hard, for about two hours before falling asleep on the table with the books right underneath her.
She then woke up and it was about 8 Pm. The sun had already set, no noises could be heard clearly, everything seemed to be in a blur. She felt her cheek and massaged it with her fingers as it was too numb. She then went downstairs and saw that her grandmother was already asleep. She slowly tiptoed to the kitchen where she started looking for food but found some ramen noodles in a drawer. She took some and made the best ramen noodles and had them with some orange juice with extra ice in her room. She made her way to the stairs trying not to make a sound but it was too hard for her not to as the stairs creaked at their loudest as if Kaylee offended it somehow (the stairs). She gobbled up her minor dinner and went back to revising.
She read until 10 Pm then took a cold bath with her body infused in fragrance and a bath bombs. And afterwards lied down on her comfortable fluffy bed. She felt unnerved, discouraged, weakened and decided to name it the worst day in her life. But she remembered they were worse days, worse than bullying, and been looked down upon, worse than most people thought. She sighed heavily and turned around to sleep.