After dinner I was making laundry with my bestie 'Masko', dicussing about the story of all that happened .He is the only person who can make me feel like I'm a man alive with full of dreams so , all I can do was to share with him everything about anything else! .In the meantime he pose a question, " Who is that man.. Mr. Ice? ..." "Oh it's an imaginary friend to me who threatened me and mess up my life when you weren't around." I can't act that much so I chuckle and continue.. "kinda kidding you buddy, half lying... he is that... man." I uttered.
" Last Christmas you ordered two cakes from me to bring it, that's your reason huh!? he asked again.... " Areh! this boy become an interviewer in no time so many question mark?? I thought.
" Yeah ! you know very well bro, that's awesome. " I said to stop him at the moment . 'Masko ' and 'I' were the only two kids who got no phone among our friends but, we don't feel lonely ,we rock it out there ( a place where we are together most of the time) .
Soon, after he left ..I was starled to see Mr. Ice standing just near the door in my bedroom with zeal and in a dulcet tones he smirked half smiling and said
"Would you please come with me tonight ? "
" What, where, and why at this time today huh! ???" I asked him .
"Party, in my hometown ,I want you to accompany with me tonight please I'll let you enjoy! " he said calmly . He was wanting to go to his own place as he moved on here. She ( step mom of Mr. Ice) said to me once, " He was in third grade when he settled here ,missing his parents so much that when he got any spare time he oftenly visits them until we sent him to a boarding." Lovely boy , I thought he doesn't have emotions and feelings for others but... parents.
"Sure! wait a minute, let me dressed up a little better ,then" I scoffed. The place where we are about to go is under developed as compared to our hometown where we live together now ,the shortage of water is the biggest deal for them ."Where there is water, there is life." It's true. Yet, I've never been there before and I don't want to go out there too.. but you know I can't let him go alone at night as it's a mile away from here.
Let's go ...! I dressed up finishing when I come over to the road I remember that I forgot my black cap so, I went back again for that matter. To reach the place where we gonna go, there's two ways we can get there.
One~ the main road, it's dusty, up and down since it didn't work out with black top (bitumen)over it.
Second ~ we have to pass through a dense forest. We choose the second one which lead us to a dense dark woods which have only one straight path to reach the destination.
He torch up with his phone and there we go... When we reach the middle part of the forest , the wind blows, my body hair rise up. I get Deja Vu with the other night ,I thought. 'It's okay, I can do it! Someone is still besides me'. RRRHH!! I could hear that.. from my back, the sound of footsteps behind me like trodding on a dry leave that have fallen . I moved nearer to him and hold his hand firmly. "Scared?....." he shocked. I chimed "Nope, put some music 🎶 " I requested. The sound was still behind me following... feel like my face is burning up and my body is freezing as if I'm gonna get paralyzed out of fear haha! Coward boy ! You'll be killed by yourself.. I said to myself. I asked "How long do we have to go still?" He said that "The sound is make by reptile that they were going out in search of food." Great! let it be I'm asking about how long we have to... not really interested about that scary noises I thought.
After we reach ..looking at his phone "See ! it takes only about 15 minutes ." 'Whuff! Hey,hey it was like we walk around an hour .' I said out of happiness since I was alive again. We took a short walk down the street ,he took me to a party house , all what I noticed was ~some men in around eight number round the table as if in the bar.
~A table full of delicious food perfect for drinks like chicken, fry fish, pork and beef in a different bowl along with a cup filled up half. ~The color of the drink was red little mix with black for I could see through it as it was a transparent disposal plastic cups.
A man wearing a glass in an oval shaped appeal us to take a seat. We took it then the same man offer us a drink .First with coke and then he mix it with a alcoholic beverages I smell it . " He(reffering to me) don't drink alcohol, just coke enough." Mr. Ice requested the man serving . "Not everyday, party! just try it." And he pours to my cup a one of fourth with alcohol and coke the left portion .For others the opposite except me. When he finally finished serving he kept the glass bottle in the table where I took it and see over ,it imprinted (1965 Old Monk ,Rare Aged Whisky..for military personnel only. On the other side 75 degrees proof 42.8%v/v. With a caution : (Consumption of alcohol is injurious to health. Be safe - don't drink and drive.)) In a meanwhile Mr. Ice take a time for peeing ..out in the lavatory ,there I take a chance of exchanging our cups where no one noticed for that, after I take one shot of mouthful drinks it kick up my mind off at a short time after he was back to his seat hope he noticed, the way that I was going crazy so he come over to my ear and whispers "Did you drink my cup?" "Ummnn!..Nop why should I? " I said with little mixs of lies. After all ,what I remember was ? I was on his back ,he is carrying me till to his room , lay me down and cover up with blankets for the night.