Prince gasped seeing her gaze. He couldn't keep eye contact, he cut eye contacts with and looked around the house . He sighed, his heartbeat increasing speedily. He calmed himself and summon the courage. He continued.
"why were you banging the door so loudly it's late in the night already" Gia looked so surprised seeing him talk to her like that for the first time. She frowned and stared at him in rage. "Oh… " he continued "you weren't the one… sorry for the wrong accusations then who was it?"
He faked a yarn and said, "Good night mum I have to be in school early tomorrow morning" he turned to leave. Before he could take a step forward she asked staring at the cold black tiles her voice dead and face flushed.
" What did I tell you about you doing artworks?"
He stopped, smiled, and slowly giggled. Gia raised her head slightly to see his back view, she got annoyed at him making jest of her. She took in a deep breath to calm herself down which she has been trying to do for months now.
He made a roundabout turn to see Gia breathing heavily and her folded fist shivering in her right-hand palm, he stared for some sec and then answered.
"very simple… you said you hate them and anything you hate I must hate which I don't give a da…" Gia raised her face to his, her balls wide open getting reddish, eyebrows furrow, deep lines appearing on her forehead. He stopped seeing her countenance and changed his tongue
"I mean which I don't and I will not. I've told you my reasons and there's nothing anyone can do or say to make me do" he didn't because of her chilling facial expressions but not wanting to disrespect his mother.
"That's what you said about art… works…" he stopped staring at her.
"calm down! calm down!! Gia calm down!!!" she said tapping her foot on the cold tile. He glanced at her feet, he knew she was pissed off at that moment. He tried to stop himself but he couldn't. He just felt like talking back at her. I hope that won't get him into trouble.
" Did I go against your rules, if yes how did I go against your rule mum?" he asked staring with his face flushed.
Gia was shocked by the words coming out of his mouth, she tapped harder with her fist held tight with her left palm. Prince knew she was using that to calm herself down, to him he was using his words to free himself from her being harsh to him but will that his childish words set him free.
The last time they had a conversation like this, he couldn't even stand her and not even finish a statement then. He was 10 but now he's 14 and will be 15 next September. Was it because of his new turn in life? What came about the courage?
"Do you still know who's in front of you, do you realize I'm your mother" she raised her head this time, her elbow resting on her knees, and her hand raising her chin.
" Yeah! Kind of, but the last time I checked, you've never acted like a mother but like a master to her slave," his voice was cold and flat as usual. He continued "if I'm asked this very moment, I will tell it to your face that I'm just one of your salves. You never showed me the positive four letter words 'LOVE' but rather you showed me the negative one 'HATE' since the very day Dad, Mr. Brian Smith left"
Gia stood, and slapped him hard on his cheek like she was ready to hear that word from him, he was also ready for the slap. She hates hearing those names 'Brian Smith', if possible she wish to erase the name from existence.
Gia said at the top of her voice immediately she slapped him "how dare you mention that man's name in my presence"
Gia tightened her fist, trying hard to control her anger but she couldn't, she kept inhaling heavily. She felt like destroying or throwing something to calm herself.
Prince's face turned to the right side, his arm in the pockets of his pajama.
"Yeah that's what I'm talking about, this man has the same right you have over me so he has a good part to play in my life. Mum I'd never had a thought to be this disrespectful to you all my life. I'm so sorry for being so insolent and sorry mum I hate you" he said to her face, she froze and couldn't say anything. She thought she wasn't in her right senses, she couldn't hold those words in her heart. Immediately she knew her mission of making him hate his dad has failed.
He turned towards his room upstairs. As Prince moved, in his mind he counted his steps. He counted up to five. He stopped to check why nothing hasn't broken, either his backbone or something else in the house or has she really changed or had she gotten a good temper. He turned back to find an answer to all this questions running through his thought.
Immediately he turned back, he heard the door squashing as it opened, and the maid and the guard came in. They stopped seeing Prince who they were about to look for. Prince turned to his mother as Julius and Clement the guard walked towards the living room.
They all froze seeing what Gia was up to. Gia screamed out and stood walking towards a set of flower vase placed on a floating shelf to get something that nobody knows.
Prince took a step back, shaking his head left and right slowly as he bid himself goodbye from planet Earth. Julius widened her eyeballs leaving her palm covering her mouth without how it got there and a clue what to do or how to save Prince, Julius looked to her left where Clement was standing to ask what to do. To her surprise Clement wasn't beside her anymore, she looked ahead only to find Clement running towards Prince.
Gia lifted a flower vase with beautiful aloe vera planted in it. She moved towards Prince. Clement hugged Prince turning his own back at Gia, Prince closed his eyes, and Clement could feel how his heart was raising uncontrollably likewise like Prince's. The vase shattered on the floor, the shard all over the place.