My favourite song, started playing at the background, It was so clear that Terrance was once again, looking out for me, trying to soothe my mood after we had a terrible fight. It was the unnecessary fight really but to him–it sure was. The way he got so worked up earlier on, poor Terry, Terry. I guess it is now paying off Indeed to bud heads with you. I smiled alone, "Oh Excell you are a bad boy, you are a bad boy my tiger" I enjoy causing fights, even my entire family knows that; I do believe a life without a fight is lifeless.
"Oh, I need you! Oh I want you!" I sang loud and off pitch, with my maturing bass voice that damn sounded like a strangled chicken. I'm now questioning if I should continue to sing or not, but either way I'll keep on following the song's lyrics, I do not care! Tonight is just a wonderful day, I pinned my arm on the soft, small inch grass while my head have rested on top of it's elbow. Slowly darting my light brown eyes that has darkened but yet they elevated into a colour of a sparkle, every shiny orb from the above, they were marvelously reflecting like the dippled lights above my pupils. I'm silent, deeply lost into the sky, if only the moon cup can just swallow me up and keep me inside it romantic belly.
I have lay flat with my masculine back, the blue topper of mine has almost revealed my maturing six pack and it has only been few months, ever since I've been under a serious diet and working out, trying to create these abs. I smirked, still fascinated by the sky, my eyes scanning the details of the mesmerising, radiation of each galaxy, grouped from the above.
This is my favourite place to be, resting my back at the top of the molehill, just alittle far away from the cabin house. The house that my brother and I built with our own bare hands. A little far away from our city and our very home city is Cape Town, it is one of the coolest province in our South Africa, pretty much everything here is the coolest, the market, the city, the neighbours and oh...the girls. I softly chuckled on my own, as I carried on thinking that despite it all, our handmade cabin was the one that was too good to be true.
"It's away from my school, away from our demanding parents, annoying Ex girlfriend and especially it away from that famous, appalling harlot...."
A terrible smack landed right between my face as my upper lip recieved a bad slap by a very hard object that has just fallen from the sky. I couldn't even have a chance to hover my arms around my face, as this thing attacked me too swiftly and I'm so confused, at not knowing at what is going on. My head has turned sideway, curling myself on the grass, while I cover my lip, still inflicted from a deep pain. it's all I could have done, touching my bleeding lip.
"Get up! You moron!! Uuuup!!!"
I jumped on the grass, darting my head to take a look at who was shouting at me and only to find Autumn hovering above my face. My eyebrows tightly furrowed, wondering at what the hell is this.
"How dare you?! How dare you test my patience like this?!!"
"Autumn?" Wha–What?...."
"Yes it's Autumn in the flesh, now get up!!!"
I squirmed even more, quickly seating up, my mind is still registering at what really happened just now. Did she just hit me with a pile of gigantic science, crappy books that she always reads? And what is she doing here?!
"What the hell? Are you insane?! do you...."
"Oh yes damn straight I am!"
"Do you realise what you've just done? Dammit! I'm bleeding!!" I shouted,
Quickly I rose from the ground, really my lips were not just slightly bleeding any longer but deadly bleeding. I looked down at my blue shirt, stained by the pool of blood and my temper just escalated beyond my composure.
"So this is suddenly about you?! What about what you've done!!? "
I quickly scanned at Autumn's dressing, noticing she was wearing a blue ripped skinny jeans, a white takkies that were marked in a bold tick sideways on her Nikey and a white Nikey t-shirt, that had a bold dark tick, designed between her chest.
"Hey! Slow down high horse! And what the...Geez! how the heck did you get here? are you stalking me now?!!"
Autumn suddenly reaches out at the back of her blue jeans and a strange weapon showed up right in front of my sight. Intently my eyes gazed, staring in the dark, if it's really what I think it is. It was around 6 pm, after I came back from the mountain, right where I was fishing and so it wasn't that dark yet since it was a blazing summer. My eyes slightly widened as I was now hundred percent sure it wasn't just any weapon in her hand but an actual gun. "What?" I first questioned myself, silently shocked. So confused at how is this possible....is this even real? Wait, is she playing? Am I dreaming?
"Hey, wait...is that a gun? Wha....what the heck Autumn? Where–where do you get the gun?" I questioned, staring at the design of it, if really is an actual gun. But the way she's gazing at me, I doubt she even hears me. I first swallowed saliva, of which was a real struggle to do so. We are only eighteen, what the hell is doing she with the gun? The questions weren't helping, I started choosing my words wisely.
"Look....I don't know, I don't know what you heard and I won't even ask where you got that...."
"You don't know what you heard?" Autumn smirked, backing off while she shook her head, as if I just mocked her. I can really see she thinks I am mocking her.
"Autumn....put the gun...."
"No" She made it clear, stepping forth to me. I scaringly watched an innocent, 18 year old Autumn that I think I know, cocking the gun in front of me and pointed it straight in my chest without even a single explaination of what I've done. I'm trying to find our connection that usually works between us, when we fight but this time. I see no fear creeping in her. I could see there was no life, reflecting in her eyes. Her curly blonde afro is very messed up and I don't know, where she has been.
"After everything....you go ahead and release a video of me in social media?"
My head slightly shook, closing my eyes several times as if a dust just blew in my way. Did she just said a video...What video?
"What? What vid...."
"Stop lying !!!" She lashed out fire in her mouth, her body even shook from such lividness.
My nerves startled so big, in my head, her shouting, almost sounded like a gunshot, I thought it was it, setting straight to me and the way she is holding it....She can pull the trigger at anytime.
"Okay, okay! Calm down, I just wanna know, what video? Who's video?...."
"Whats going on?"
Immediately I averted my head aside to my right and caught Terrance already in the middle of the scene. "Excell?" He said this in nervousness, in his in his grey pijamas, it's looking like he was getting ready to have an early night and that made a perfect sense since he really had a long today, helping out our dad at home and we both in here, just to reflect and renew ourselves. I'm looking all that, while his standing a little further apart from us, his feet looked like it was pursuing to climb the molehill we have stepped on.
"Autumn put the gun...."
"Down? So it'll be easier for you? Have you've been made out of a fool? Have you ever been humiliated?...."
"I'm sure whatever he did, has hurt you...."
"I've hurt her? Hurt her how? I don't even know what video she's talking about!...."
"Shut up!!!"
"Dammit!! Listen!...." I cut verbally, looking upward the sky, taking a deep exhale before I even demage things any further. My masculine uppered chest that was agitated, lied so quickly flat, bringing myself back to my senses. What frustrates me the most is that I haven't seen her in a month, not even carrying to inform me and now she's coming with this?! My knuckles clutched tightly, I desperately feel like I want to take out my frustractions on a wall.
"Listen, you not going to shout at me, do you hear?" I firmly summoned her, pointing out my forefinger at her.
"Why not? What makes you special?!" Her teeth clenched together, wide opened, staring deadly angry at me.
"Excell?!" My brother rushed straight on my way, to block me from getting to her.
I was so eager to get her, I wanted to get nearer so bad. "You know I wish to see that video! And applaud whoever posted you!! What were you doing? You're having sex with that ugly foreigner!?"
"Excell!"
"No I'm so tired of her!! What were you doing? Were you naked?!! Huh? Were your genetics out in the open?"
Right in that moment I murmured that, her eyes started shutting so tight and her full lips started quivering so uncontrollably and I realised her shaky fingers were at the risk into pulling a trigger. My brother keeps blocking as I kept nudging to go forth in strength but slowly my force slowed in pushing him. It's concluding to me that, this might be it. This is why she is here. Did someone broadcasted a video of her naked across the whole world? Why is she shivering now?
Just when my conscience was starting to soften up, instead my eyes widened, my mouth gaping as I'm seeing Autumn pointing a gun toward herself now, I'm now pushing my brother all over again as he wasn't aware at what I was seeing.
"No Autumn, no" I forcefully tried to break in my elder brother's arms but he still wasn't seeing what I was.
"It's not my fault that we have money....why can't you see, it's not my fault" She sadly spoke the words, while I was still captivated in my brother's arms. He still thinks, I'm only approaching to hurt her but not knowing I wanted to save her.
"No please!! Brother, step back please! Autumn no!"
His clutches were too strong and the only last word I screamed was, "Autumn!!"
[The gunshot went off]