Unlike most people who Gabe had seen that had people waiting for them at home, Gabriel grew up fending for himself, He had a house but he never had a home.
He is the perfect definition of a hustler because when he was just 11 years old, his uncle James, (never married and a terrible drunk), passed on. Gabe felt bad, but he didn't feel broken because he didn't ever know what love was.
He wasn't lucky enough to meet his parents. His dad died before he was born and his mum died few days after his delivery. His uncle who was generous enough to take him in always reminded him of that and didn't make Gabe's childhood dream of going to school come true because he wasn't much of a to do person himself, the only greatness he managed to achieve like he always called it, was the little bus he lived in with Gabe.
After his death, Gabe became a 'proud landlord' like his uncle assured him on the hospital death bed before he passed. Gabe could now finally sleep on the tiny bed by the window side and not the hard iron floor in the bus.
That's pretty much all there is to Gabe's childhood. He spent the next 12 years striving to be the best he could and to survive until 5 days ago when he received a call from an anonymous number offering him a job, Gabe was reluctant about it at first but gave in when he heard how much they were willing to pay.
The job deal involved going after certain people and getting certain details and he was going to be paid such a huge amount if the deal was successful.
In three days Gabe had taken down 5 men, and gotten all the details he needed from them without having to kill them. He was taking down the 6th one 3 days ago when something strange happened and he hasn't been able to get the scene off his mind.
He spent the last three days thinking intensely about what happened, after few trials of flipping his hands forward and backward, trying to get things to fly over and seeing nothing happen, he finally assumed it must have been the woman with a baby who had such powers.
His anonymous boss had asked him what happened and why he knocked the old man out, as that was the last thing he wanted, he didn't want Gabe taking a life there by creating unnecessary attention for the Him and his company which Gabe still had no idea who they were, or what they did with the information they gathered.
Gabe explained how the woman had some strange powers and sent the man flying over on some metal. His boss didn't seem amused but surprisingly interested in the woman.
Gabe thought it was weird but didn't think anything was wrong at first till he heard his boss silently whisper to someone "seems like the answer we seek is closer than we think".
Gabe really didn't think much about what he heard, as far as he was concerned he would be able to live the life he always dreamed of if he continued the job.
He already made over 5 thousand dollars and was expecting a pay for the last job he carried out. His boss didn't give him a new instruction yet and asked him to stay with his phone and watch out for his call.
"Sir, your card was declined" the waitress said to Gabe
"What, how's that possible?" Gabe questioned. Right after the words came out he realized he had given her the card for his personal bank and not for his business.
His boss had asked him to open a new account for payment.
"Oh, sorry, here" he stretched the card over the counter. He had gone to a restaurant to get himself some takeouts that could last him for lunch and dinner.
He was heading out of the restaurant when he felt his phone vibrate. He held the paper bags in one hand and brought out his phone from his trouser pocket to see "incoming call Boss" displayed on the screen
He swiped over to answer but remained silent and waited for his boss to speak. This is how it has always been. He always had to wait for orders and not say a thing till he was asked.
"Find the woman and her baby, 2 thousand dollars will be transferred to your account, do it as soon as possible"
Before Gabe could reply, the phone beeped that the call had ended.
Gabe let out a deep sigh and looked at the takeouts in the paper bag he had gotten. For a second he thought about getting rid of it if he was going to be travelling immediately, but then he a gave it a second thought and decided to go to his condo and eat and then go get some info about where the bus he saw the other day was headed, then he would start the journey the next day.
Gabe stood by a corner at a shop and watched Marie carefully so he could trail her home. He had to find the woman and her baby as soon as possible and thankfully heavens made it easy for him by letting him bump into Marie. He could remember vividly that Marie called the woman her friend so she was the best option to finding the woman and her baby.
He adjusted his face cap making it hard for anyone to see his face clearly as he walked past Marie to a back sit in the huge coaster bus. He didn't take his gaze off Marie, only at instances when she turned her gaze towards his side. For a second he stared admiring Marie's beauty, now his facial expression had changed from blank to something intense, like he had seen some sort of creature that didn't exist.
What got all of his attention was when Marie stood up for some old woman to sit. Gabe was tough and strong and sometimes nonchalant but Kindness was his love language and seeing a girl as pretty as Marie speak that Language made his heart explode
After few minutes the bus dropped Marie off at the junction to her house and Gabe also made his way out.
He stood by a tree opposite Marie's house and watched, hoping he would see the woman and her baby somewhere around but after an hour he didn't see any one except Marie, when she stepped out of the house with her Grandma.
Gabe waited till there wasn't any sign of Marie and made his way to her house, he turned the door knob to see it was locked and reached for the window.
After a successful entry he started to round sack each room. It was just two little rooms, a kitchen and one tiny parlor.
He thought Marie was good friends with the woman he was looking for but to his surprise after searching through everything in the house he didn't find anything about the woman. He thought the whole thing was weird so after searching through her things and not seeing any clue, not even a picture of them, he assumed Marie knew something and was keeping it a secret or Maybe the woman wasn't her friend.
Gabe decided to head out but had a sudden urge to drink water. He went over to the kitchen and found a pack of bottled water. He opened the bottle cap and was gulping down the water when he heard a voice cuss at him and almost choked.
"Who the hell are you and how did you get in here?" Marie questioned him as she reached for a turning stick from the tray set