Matthew headed home sobbing that day.He began to wonder how he was gonna fend for he and sister,how was he gonna pay for his sisters admission.
"Useless!I'm such a useless brother."Matthew kept on telling himself.
He eventually arrived at his home (a small rented house which had just one floor. )
His house wasn't the most pretty,a lot more work could be put in to make it more accommodating,but Matthew didn't have the spare cash on him.
Matthew wiped the tears off his eyes and tried to fake a smiley face before opening the doorBe was attempting to prevent his sister from finding out that something was wrong.
He took out his key and opened up the door.All the lights were turned off and he couldn't hear any noise at all.
He assumed that his sister was asleep as it was pretty late(3am).Matthew went to the kitchen and opened up the fridge.He grabbed two slices of bread and spread butter in between them.He then began to eat it like a sandwich.
After eating he got out of the kitchen and turn the lights back off.
Matthew then decided he wanted to take a rest in the sitting room,he turned on the lights to allow him the ability to see.
He was about to seat on a couch when he was jumped by someone.
"What're you doing in my house you thief?"
"I'm sorry what?"Matthew couldn't help but scream a question at the person in wonder.
Matthew turned around to get a view of who this person was,but just before he could he recieved a huge smack from a frying pan,this knocking him out.
An hour later,Matthew woke up with an ice bag on his head.
"What the heck just happened?"asked Matthew unintentionally out loud.
"I'm sorry,I thought you were a thief."replied a girl who strutted out of the kitchen with a plate of rice.
The girl was Matthea;Matthew's sister and she had attacked Matthew thinking he was a burglar.
"God my head hurts."
"It's your fault for not telling me you'd be home early.Wait a second,Why are you home early?"
Though 3am sounds late,it's actually quite early for Matthew to be around on a Tuesday.
During Tuesdays,Matthew was assigned to the night shift,which went on from around 12am to 6am.
"The boss decided to close early that's all."
"Really?why's that?"
"I should be the one asking questions,why are you awake?" Said Matthew attempting to diverge the attention to her.
"I was reading,I have to prepare for College,and uhm about that … how is my tuition fee coming alone?"
"Uhmmm just fine,t-they just fine."
"So you'll be able to get them before the deadline next week?"
"O-Ofcourse I will."Matthew said tryna fake his calmness but wasn't do such a great job,but he was able to fool Matthea.
Matthew rushed into her big brother's arm filled with joy and excitement.Her embrace melted Matthew's heart and made him feel terrible for lying to her.
"I love you big bro,I love you so much!"
"I love you too sis."replied Matthew in a depressed tone.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah I'm sure,everything's just fine."
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Ring! Ring! Ring!
It was a few days after Matthew had been sacked.The sound of a doorbell ring reverberated.The sound was loud enough to abruptly wake up Matthew.
Matthew was so comfortable in his bed that he was too lazy to get up from it.He decided to tune out the sound and hope Matthea would answer the door.
Matthew tried hard to achieve his goal but the sound wasn't getting tuned out easily.
"Damn this door!"
Matthew decide to call out for Matthea instead,he began screaming her name.
"Matthea! Matthea! Matthea!"
He screamed loudly but no one answered,so instead he decided to try something else.
"Matthea open up the door!"
"Matthea open up the door!"
"Matthea open up the door!"
Matthew soon realised that she wasn't gonna answer his calls anytime soon,so he decided to answer the doors by himself.
He got up from his bed,wearing blue pyjamas with white stripes and began his trip to the door.
On his way to the door,he passed through his sister's room and so her lying on her reading desk.
She was drooling all over her books and was still firmly holding her pen in her hand.
"She works so hard,I have to ensure that I get her into her dream university,two days to gather 18000$,that can be that hard."
Matthew's trade of thought was interrupted by the doorbell ringing again.
"Cheese and rice!Can't you be patient?!"
Matthew went towards the door and opened it.He saw a lady, she was an skinny fair-skinned redhead .The lady was also his landlord and she came to collect what she was owed.
"Alright Matthew pay up."
"Hey Cecila,what brings you here?"
"Don't play with me!I already told you why I'm here.Where is my cash?"
"Listen Cecila I don't have it right now.All the money I've got is going into Matthea's tuition."
"That's what you're always saying.You've been owing me rent for six months."
"I know and I'm gratefully to you."
"Great!You can show me how grateful you are by GIVING ME MY F-FUCKING MONEY!."said Cecilia screaming the final words in her statement.
She was evidently furious at Matthew.Her anger had been piling up nonstop for the past six months.She had been kind to Matthew but now she decided that she had enough.
"Listen Matthew!If you don't provide me my money in the next two days … then pack out of my house."
"Come on if you do that,then you wouldn't get anything for the past six months we resided here,just give me some more time."
Cecila hadn't thought about what Matthew told her.She didn't want to lose six months worth of rent but she had no choice.
"I've made up my mind,Give me my money or leave."her words came out hot like fire as she began to stomp away."
"Come on Cecilia,we can work this out."
"No we can't,….oh and Matthew."
"Yeah?"
"I don't want you getting things mixed up.We are and will never be friends,I can't call a broke man like you a friend of mine.The only reason I pitied you this long was because of Matthea."
"Yayyy another debt's in the bank."Matthew muttered sarcastically before shutting the door.
He began to reason about heading back to his bed but the doorbell rang once more.
"What!Is Cecilia back?"
Matthew once again answered the door but instead of Ceciia,he saw two people(a male and female) wearing black suits accompanied with a black tie and white inner suits.
"We're from the OCSS;the office of child support services."said the female while pointing her badge to show proof of what she said.
"Oh h-hey did I do s-something wrong."said Matthew whilst stuttering in fear.
"Yes but nothing illegal."
"Oh that's good."
Matthew took a sigh of relief,gladdened to hear that he wasn't in any major trouble but he knew he still had to hear what they had to say.
"Would you like to come in."
"No we'll be quick,we just want to take custody of Matthea."
"I'm sorry what!"Matthew screamed at the female representative,she seemed to be the one actually representing while the male was merely a tag along.
"I'm sorry did I stutter in what I said."said the lady.
"No you were quite clear but your motives sure aren't!"
Matthew was screaming at the top of his voice.He was shouting so loud that the house started to feel like it would be brought down at any second.
The female representative that he had been speaking too had dark-hair and was quite elegant and tall,plus she was very good at keeping her cool.
"Sir,I think you should reduce the volume of your voice,we don't wanna cause a scene."
"I'm not reducing anything!Not until you explain what your motives are?!"
Matthew's screams had woken up Matthea and made her curious to know what was going on downstairs.
Matthea's curiosity got the best of her and so she had decided to take the trip to the front door.
As she got to the entrance,she saw her brother battling two fancy dresses people and got even more curious on what was happening.
"What's going on here?"
"Hey sis,these two wanna take you away from me."
"Why do they wanna do that?"
"Maybe cuz they're cannibals or something."
Matthew then continued screaming at the lads while his sister just watched.
Matthew seemed to be wining the confrontation until the lady decided to speak up.
"Mr Urbanshade! I do not enjoy being screamed at."
Matthew was shocked at how the lady was able to scream so loudly whilst still not actually being angry.He had screamed like that mostly because he had assumed that this lady was a pushover,but clearly she wasn't.
"Mr Urbanshade,we are here to claim custody of Matthea Urbanshade as you have failed to provide for her needs."