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13/12/2024

Worst Behavior
#7

At Ebony's Parent's...

Soon as she said that the call was dropped and Ebony checked her phone's screen shocked. Her breathing escalated she walked to her room and took out her inhaler, she ministered it then a call came through. She frowned surprised as she picked...

Ebony: Hello?
Cain: Hi, wasn't in a good place to answer your call...
Ebony: (shook her head) Seems my number isn't even saved...
Cain: Why should I save it?

There was silence as Ebony thought it through and really there wasn't a good reason for him to save the number but did he have to say it like that, it somehow made her heart sink...

Cain: Um, that came out wrong don't take it to heart.... Anyways what is it that you were calling for?

Ebony remained quiet wondering if it was even a good idea to present her issue to him, he sounded so cold...

Ebony: I might have said some disturbing words to my father and now he wants me out....everyone wants me out as a matter of fact...I tried apologizing to him but he wouldn't let me talk to him...

Cain sighed hearing her sad voice, it was as if she wanted to cry...

Cain: Ok so what's the problem ningena where exactly in this equation?
Ebony: Um....nothing, it's fine, I will see what to do...

She hung up and sat on the edge of the bed just thinking of what to do next as she used her inhaler more, her breathing seemed to not be steady after talking to him, it was as if she was making her situation worst.

Surprisingly Cain dialed her back and she picked taking a deep breath...

Cain: You called to share your issues and vent with me or is there something I can help you with?
Ebony:....
Cain: Well are you going to speak?
Ebony: I need just a place to stay temporarily as I save up some money for my own place...
Cain: And to your stepfather what are you going to say, of where you are going and who you going to stay with?
Ebony: I'll tell him I'm going to be at a work colleague's house, well that is if you're comfortable and have got no problem with me joining you?
Cain: Come, tell him you're going to be with a colleague that's it, don't mention me....when can I pick you up?
Ebony: I'm going to pack my bags I will let you know when I'm done...
Cain: Get a taxi, I will pay forward if you don't have money...
Ebony: Ok....and Cain thank you very much
Cain: I'll send the address to your WhatsApp
Ebony: Ok...
Cain: Do you have a taxi that can pick you up at home since you will have luggage?
Ebony: No I have to go by the road...
Cain: I'll send a guy I always use say in an hour's time
Ebony: Ok thank you...

He hung up and the burden somehow lifted, her frown turned into a bit of a smile there. She got up on her feet and started packing all her staff...

Ivory walked in and looked at all her clothes piled up on the bed...

Ivory: Where are you going?
Ebony: I'm going to live with my friend for some time...
Ivory: Should I pack my clothes too?
Ebony: No, um....you'll be here Ivy with Dad and-
Ivory: I want to go with you...
Ebony: (sighed) We can't go together, you can visit yes....well that is after I ask my friend if it is ok for you to do that...
Ivy: (sat on the bed) Mom is gone and you're leaving too....what am I supposed to do, who am I going to talk to?

Ebony sat beside her taking her hand...

Ebony: I'm going to leave with my friend for a short time but afterwards I'm getting my own place and you can come and live with me, if Dad permits that is...
Ivy: (face brightened up) Of course he will permit it, I would love to live with you...
Ebony: Good... (stood pulling her up) Now help me pack, all these clothes have to fit in that bag...

Ivory nodded taking the clothes from the bed...

Ivory: Still seeing you leave will make me sad...
Ebony: Don't be...

Meanwhile after hearing the whole conversation whilst standing behind the closed door Ebony's stepfather turned stepping away as his phone rang...

Stepfather: Son?
Voice: Am I?
Stepfather: (sighed) Can we not do this please
Voice: Well for the record it's good that you picked up and that's for the very first time in many years...
Stepfather: Why have you called?
Son: I heard your wife passed away...
Stepfather: Who did you hear from?
Son: Does it matter?
Stepfather: Yes it matters, who told you?
Son: (ignored his question completely) So what are you going to do now, marry another one or you're going to wife your stepdaughter...
Stepfather: (clicked his tongue) This is why I don't pick up because every time I do you always speak rubbish
Son: Better speaking rubbish than being the rubbish itself but I'm wondering if you are hurt by the death of your beloved wife or you don't feel any emotions at all? Tell me how are you feeling, heard she was murdered...
Stepfather: (agitated) What are you on about?
Son: Does it hurt...I wish you died instead but then again dying is too good for you, too easy.... you've to suffer first, lose everyone and everything you have, now that's the real torture, it's more painful than death and I'll pleasure myself in seeing you suffering.

He hung up and Ebony's stepfather's heart skipped piecing his son's words together, he swallowed sitting down defeated to what his mind was concluding.

At Cain's House...

Shirtless Cain walked in the kitchen pushing his phone in the pocket whilst Zoey turned to him in bum shorts and a string top as she mixed a drink for him...

Zoey: Who were you calling that you had to step out?
Cain: None of your business...

Zoey chuckled dragging the smoke of w**d in and exhaled it on Cain's face, he waved it off and got the w**d pressing it in between his lips instead and had a deep drag too.

Cain: You should go...
Zoey: I'm making negroni, your favorite...
Cain: Afterwards you have to go...
Zoey: Who is it that you were talking to?
Cain: My sneaky link so you should go
Zoey: Sneaky link? I thought that I-
Cain: Zoey no more stories please you should go, I'm expecting someone...
Zoey: Who are you expecting?
Cain: Just someone
Zoey: (poured the cocktail in a glass) Ok but you've to say it nicely, now it's as if you're chasing me out of your house...
Cain: I'm not but I'm working with time here...

She looked at him then passed the drink, he took a sip and nodded...

Cain: That hit the right spot...
Zoey: Your nickname should've been Negroni instead of Virus...
Cain: Yeah, leave please

She rolled her eyes walking out and ran up the stairs and gathered all of her staff before coming down. Cain was now sitting in the living room drinking whilst pressing his phone, something that got her worried...

Zoey: Seriously if you meet someone you'll let me know right? I told you about Zone when I first met him...
Cain: I know...
Zoey: And there's something I want to ask about Zone?
Cain: What?
Zoey: He used to work at my workplace and then what happened?
Cain: Don't you know Zo more than I do? I mean you've known him for years more than me
Zoey: Of course but you're guys and it's not everything that he shares with me
Cain: Ok....he used to work there, started as a bartender himself and then became the manager, on the side he was doing part time IT, he learned more about computers and hacking then he wiped your boss's accounts, he was arrested but got out quickly because it wasn't proved that his boss didn't send him that money voluntarily, Zo made sure the transactions was done in partnership. Everything pointed to your boss agreeing with him to open a second bar but solely in Zone's name.... that's how Zone rose to money till he started doing other things to make more money...

Zoey just pouted her lips...

Cain: (sipped his drink) Business is all about taking risks and I guess Zone's risk was stealing then getting away with it...
Zoey: That's one thing I like about my man, he's strategic...

She smiled proudly as Cain glared her in the eyes and she stopped smiling....

Cain: Give me back my spare keys...
Zoey: (frowned) Why?
Cain: Just give them back and don't come here unannounced and uninvited...
Zoey: Did I do something wrong?
Cain: No you've to focus on your man....give me the keys...
Zoey: I left them at home...
Cain: Don't fu.ck with me Zoey I'm dead serious
Zoey: So am I Cain...

Cain got up at his feet but Zoey quickly ran out, he sighed not feeling the energy to chase after her.

He walked to the curtain as she honked....he pushed it aside and looked at her sticking her tongue out waving the key to him over the windscreen. She raised her middle finger but he shook his head ignoring then walked back to the couch calling a locksmith...

Cain: Hi I would like to change my padlocks please....can you do it today?

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Later on at dusk Ebony looked at the yard which the car drove into as her heart pounded with uncertainty.

She got out as the driver opened the boot taking her bags out whilst she stood there looking, the exterior of the house was very modern and she got wondering what this guy did for a living.

She turned to the driver as he talked on the phone...

Driver: I have just dropped her off...
Cain: I have e-walleted your payment thanks...
Driver: Thanks man...

He hung up and faced her...

Driver: I'm going you've got all your staff right?

She nodded as he got back in his car and drove out....Ebony looked at her heavy bag and the small one besides that, she sighed and rolled it across the yard to the front door and knocked but wasn't sure if she should do that...

Cain: (from inside) Enter it's not locked...

She held the handle and opened the door wheeling her luggage in and she was in a small passageway which had paintings on the walls. She stopped admiring every one of them and how a guy had taste like that with decorating the wall nicely. She looked at another framed picture and it was Cain in his graduation clothes whilst holding a certificate....he looked so handsome on that picture.

She carried on with her bags till her eyes met with Cain's as he was lying on the couch on his back with his legs rested on the armrest whilst crossed over the other.

He sat up properly as she stood there with her bags not knowing where to go but instead her eyes took a tour on his broad shoulders and chest muscle...Last time she didn't quite take a good look at him as she was in her own world and when he walked to the stairs she noticed huge wing tattoos on his back on each side it made her skin crawl. How did she miss that the last time...

Cain: Are you going to stand there looking at me all day or what?

She clutched the luggage's handle, her palm a little sweaty with nervousness...

Ebony: How are you?
Cain: Alive...

Such an answer, she pushed her bag wondering how she was going to get it up the stairs because Cain didn't look like he was going to help out...

She picked it up carrying it as she took a ragged breath and strapped the other small bag on her shoulder. She followed him up the stairs as she didn't even have time to consume the beauty of this place, all she wanted was to put this bag down.

In the hallway she exhaled placing the bag down as she looked at the doors, probably these were the bedrooms...

She took a deep breath following his lead. Ok, clearly this guy was bad news and she literally didn't know anything about him, he was as good as a stranger and here she was coming to live with him. She wondered if she would be fine, she'd be fine right? Her mind splitted in confusion as she followed him...

They walked into the one of the bedrooms where there was a single bed and a chest of drawers that's it, simple as that but beautiful...

Cain: This will be your room...
Ebony: Alright...thank you...
Cain: You look kinda disappointed, did you think we were going to share a bedroom or something?
Ebony: (scratched her nose looking down) No... I'm actually grateful, thank you.
Cain: You say thank you too much
Ebony: I'm showing gratitude...
Cain: Of course...

He looked at her using her inhaler...

Cain: How long do you think you will need to find your own place?
Ebony: Um I'm not so sure maybe I'll need just a month or two to save then leave...

He nodded...

Cain: Well while living here the rules are quite simple, you don't ask me about my business, I like my privacy and neither will I interfere with yours but strictly no visitors....well that is on your part actually

She nodded and clearly he could tell she had daddy issues, or was it abandonment issues and maybe he could make it worse by telling her to quit her job. Could he really go all that way and be heartless?

Ebony looked at him wondering what he was thinking about as he sternly stared at her unwaveringly. He just smiled coyly as he stepped out of the room deciding to go easy on her, I mean if he really want to harm her he can start with her inhaler, she might just run out of breath and die...

He closed the door still smiling at her whilst eyeing that inhaler she was holding as everything seemed to be falling in the right place....
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10/12/2024

Worst Behavior
#6

At Ebony's Parent's...

Ebony sobbed as she picked up her clothes from the road whilst her grandmother reprimanded her son...

Grandma: What is this display you're putting up in public huh?
Stepfather: She's so disrespectful after all that I did for this child, I singlehandedly raised her without any complains, schooled and fed her and today she's telling me I'm not her real father, she should leave I don't want to see her
Grandma: Even though she showed whatever behavior she showed this isn't the right time to do it son....your wife just died and you're now displaying this drama with Ebony as everyone is watching, what picture are you giving to the people?
Stepfather: Do I care at this point, she should find her Dad's relatives and go to them, I'm done with her
Grandma: Ah ah, hazvinzwaro {you will not do it like that} She's grieving just as you are and sometimes grieve can make us do or say things that you won't even mean she_
Stepfather: She meant every word this one...
Grandma: I don't this so, aren't you angry now and when in anger someone can say whatever they say but regret those words after they've calmed down....don't hold it against her and allow her to grieve her Mom, where do you think she will go now when the funeral isn't even done with?
Stepfather: Do I look like I care? I will care for my child only, her she should go since she is no longer a teenager and makes her own money, she is independent now
Grandma: You being stubborn is what is pi***ng me off right now, this child is not going anywhere during her Mom's funeral, you will settle your differences afterwards and do you know that you as a stepdaughter when you're showing this to the public they'll not blame Ebony despite whatever she did or say, they will say the stepfather is wicked...(showed him around) Look at people gathering and their faces, do they seem like they're judging Ebony? (he looked around) exactly they're giving you the judgemental eye and are probably labelling you as a wicked stepfather....you won't be surprised to hear stories on social media saying a stepfather threw his stepchild out as soon as the mother died....so wise up and act like a grown man here...

He sighed and looked at the people, truthfully they all looked at Ebony pitifully and his Mom was right, they were probably hating him even without hearing what happened and even if they did hear society will always judge the step parents more than the stepchildren...

He swallowed and walked back inside whilst his Mom walked to Ebony helping her pick up her clothes that had scattered all over the place.

Ebony lifted her face up and she caught sight of Zoey, her manager and other colleagues in the midst of the crowd. She quickly looked away just thinking how embarrassing this situation was as she wiped her tears and nose...

Zoey approached her as she picked the last of her clothes....

Zoey: Hey my deepest condolences...
Ebony: (tearfully) Um, thanks....who did you hear from?
Zoey: Of course the manager he told us and we had to come and pay respects to your Mom but what was your Dad on about? You didn't sleep at home when it's your Mom's funeral?

Ebony passed her grandmother her clothes and faced Zoey....the audacity of this girl.

Zoey: I picked partly his conversation and he said you slept out after getting in some man's car....tell me it's not who I think it is Ebony?
Ebony: That's none of your business Zodwa truthfully speaking, when has my affairs concern you?
Zoey: (chuckled) No wonder your Dad was pi**ed off, you have a rotten mouth....your business has become my business the moment you decided to show your teeth to Cain wazvinzwa {do you hear me}?
Ebony: Are you his sister? Why are you after-
Zoey: Just stay away from him Ebony if you want me and you to get along
Ebony: Tell him to stay away from me instead...

The manager noticed something was going on and he approached the ladies...

Manager: Is everything ok? You seem to be having misunderstandings too?
Ebony: Just tell Zoey to mind what she came here for otherwise she should leave...

Ebony walked back into the gate whilst Zoey shook her head looking at her going...

Manager: What the heck is going on?
Zoey: I never knew this girl was a bi+ch....an ungrateful one at that matter....all this time I gave her rides dropping her off whenever we finished late but I didn't know she was a backbiter
Manager: What did she do now?
Zoey: (clicked her tongue) Nxii we all know which side you're going to take so please spare me the drama...

She walked past him...

Manager: Where are you going now when we just arrived?
Zoey: I have passed my condolences that's it, there's no need for me to be here...

She got in her car and started the engine before driving off whilst Ebony clenched her jaws watching her from a distance....she sighed, angering Zoey was like angering the boss himself, if she wants she can create a non-existing story and get her fired and that was the last thing she needed, now that the world seemed to be against her...

She sighed turning in the house whilst taking out her phone and messaged Zoey...

Ebony: Hey I'm really sorry for that, grief is turning me into someone I don't know and I hate myself right now, forgive me and for what is worth it I didn't sleep with Cain it was someone else, my boyfriend actually...

She walked in the living room sending the message and her eyes met with her stepfather's...his were now full of hate. She just sat down quietly staring at her phone wishing her Mom was here to tell her that it was ok to get angry sometimes, that it was ok to answer back sometimes and stand your ground but she was gone. She immediately left the room as tears flooded her eyes and rolled down her cheeks...

In Zoey's car...

Meanwhile Zoey stopped her yellow mini Cooper by the filling station to fill her tank whilst she talked on the phone...

Zoey: Did you or did you not that's the question? Yes or no that's the answer I'm expecting not you going round asking me why I think it's you, all that just answer the damn question and beat around the bushes...
Cain: I didn't...the answer is NO in capital letters, I'm asking you why you think I was with her?
Zoey: Forget it.... it's none of my business anyways Zone is whom I should mind, not you...
Cain: Exactly you got that right and it'll be my greatest joy if you stop poking your nose in my issues, what would Zone say or think if you're all over me like that? We grew up together yes but we are just friends, we agreed to be just friends...
Zoey: That is when you went to China and felt that the Chinese were fo you...
Cain: (chuckled) I would never date a Chinese girl, even a white girl, I love them dark...
Zoey: I'm light skinned
Cain: (chuckled) Of black ethnicity still
Zoey: Yeah... anyways you're always busy these days...
Cain: Yes work girl, a man's gotta work
Zoey: Of course, let me go to my man, I miss him the more I talk with you...
Cain: (laughed) Sure...enjoy yourselves, it pleasures me to see you guys happy
Zoey: Wow... anyways you found someone, to be in a serious relationship with?
Cain: I don't do serious relationships
Zoey: Of course that's the Cain we all know
Cain: Gotta go...
Zoey: Bye n***a...

He hung up laughing whilst she smiled, she looked at her goofy smile on the mirror and dropped it as she drove close to the pumps for fueling.

Zoey: Full tank please...

The fuel attendant nodded whilst she checked her messages, she read one from Ebony and just clicked her tongue exiting the chat without replying. She read Zone's message instead...

Zone: Flying out of the country tonight come over...

Zoey frowned and immediately dialed his number...

Zone: Hey babe?
Zoey: Don't hey babe me, you're flying out and you thought the day you're leaving is the best time to tell me that huh?
Zone: Sorry it just came up and_
Zoey: There's no such thing Zone, you must've known all this time I can ask around and if I find out that you are lying to me_
Zone: Ok I've known a couple of days ago but I got way too drunk each time I wanted to tell you and I would end up forgetting...
Zoey: Well enjoy your trip then...

She dropped the call as the fuel attendant knocked on her window...

Fuel attendant: Cash or card?
Zoey: Card...

He handed over the card machine and she swiped whilst pi**ed off at Zone, she looked at him calling her endlessly as she ignored the calls letting each one going missed.

She clicked her tongue and called someone else instead...

Zoey: I'm buying takeaways for us and coming over...

At the police station....

Meanwhile a detective got back in his office and locked the door, he looked out in the hallway through the blinds before closing them. He walked behind his desk and breathed out logging in the security system of the station. He entered a certain password then quickly looked at the number plate submitted earlier on and quickly deleted the file and registered name under that plate number....

He sighed out nervously and deleted entry of him logging in the system using someone's else usernames and passwords....As he switched off the computer his gaze stumbled on a picture of his wife and kid in a frame on top of his desk. He convinced himself he did the good thing, I mean if it weren't for bribes am dealing with guys that are being wanted he wouldn't have made it this far, he wouldn't have kept his family together, he wouldn't have bought that house or even the car his wife drives. This job was now uniform only, the salary was sh*tty for a family guy so this was for the best even though another family was grieving out there...

He stood opening the blinds and unlocked the door before relaxing on his chair, waiting for the next meeting to be called...

At the graveyard...

The following week Ebony held Ivory's hand as they walked behind other relatives who followed the funeral parlour people carrying her mother's coffin. She and Ivory kept sniffing and rubbing their tears away with tissues, their eyes were swollen and for Ivory it was much worse as she hadn't spoken a single word since she was discharged from the hospital. The social workers tried put effort into helping her but to no avail, she went mute on everyone.

The coffin was lowered into the earth and the people bowed their heads as the pastor led a prayer. Ebony tried as much as she could to avoid relatives eyes who spent the whole week lecturing her on how to behave, what not to say and what to say to her stepfather and how disrespectful she had been. That was an opportunity for them to show their true colors now that her Mom was gone she didn't have a person on her side....this feeling didn't start now, even when her Mom was alive she always felt lonely and alone, like she didn't have anyone on her side but lately she found herself caught up with the thoughts of Cain and he crossed her mind more than necessary in a day that she found herself missing him..

The people started walking back to the cars once everything was done and drove back home were the crowd dismissed going back to their homes...

Ebony took a plate of food trying to get Ivory to eat but she refused, she heaved, it's not like she was eating herself so she just gave up.

On her way to the kitchen with the plate her Mom's twins brother called her over...

Uncle: Ebony? Come here....

She greeted him and his wife before joining them in the living room where her stepfather's relatives were all gathered throwing words at one another across the room arguing...

Aunt: Ebony is an adult now and we can't allow her to live here with my brother least she becomes his wife
Uncle: Who thinks like that really? Ebony has always been a daughter to him so how does her Mom passing away suddenly change that for him to see her as a wife?
Aunt: You're not getting my point, Ebony is unlike Ivory who is a blood child to my_
Uncle: No you're not getting my point too, Ivory and Ebony can't be separated they need to be together and this is their home
Aunt: Not their home but my brother's house
Uncle: How are you so entitled on property that is not even yours?
Aunt: I'm looking out for my brother's best interest here and if you're that bothered with what I'm saying then take her and live with her then

Ebony looked at her Mom's twin brother who looked at his wife, they both changed their face's expressions

Uncle: I can't do that for now because things aren't going so well for me at the moment, we have 4 kids to look after and-
Aunt: So you don't have a say in this matter because you're refusing your relatives giving silly excuses
Uncle: (angrily) Silly excuses?
Grandma: Everyone calm down....I'm going to take Ebony in myself and live with her, well that is if she wants and comfortable to do that...

Everyone looked at Ebony who frowned wondering how that will work out, she couldn't possibly go and live in the rural areas whilst she had a job to go to...

Ebony: I can't go live in the rural areas because of work...
Grandma: Oh ok....ko baba vemunhu ngavataure kaa hatinga rambe tichingovataurira {Let the father say his mind too, we can't keep on speaking on his behalf}...

Everyone turned to Ebony's stepfather...

Stepfather: I would have loved to keep on staying with Ebony but since she isn't my blood it's going to be a problem... I mean with the behavior she has started showing if anything is to happen to her I'll be held accountable for it, people will always blame the stepparent so it's better we head our separate ways and she can always visit her little sister...

Ebony looked at him and shook her head, everyone was now showing their true colors now that her Mom was no more, they must've pretended to like her all this while and were waiting for this specific time to get rid of her.

She stood and walked out just thinking she didn't even have any savings because she was helping out at home always every month. She would buy groceries and sometimes pay bills whenever her Dad's money was not adding up, she did it gladly knowing he raised her up and took her to school without any complains and she felt that now it was her turn to take care of him, of everyone....as a matter of fact she used up all her money every month in the house and would only keep for transport aside.

She felt tears filling her eyes and dialed Cain's number...

Cain: Who is this?
Ebony: Didn't you save my number it's Ebony...

Soon as she said that the call was dropped and Ebony checked her phone's screen shocked....
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08/12/2024

Worst Behavior
#5

At Ebony's parents...

The next morning Bonnie's stepfather walked in the house and knocked on the girls room...

Stepfather: Ebbie, Ivy....are you awake and dressed, I'm coming in...

He waited for a few seconds for a response but none came...

Stepfather: Ebbie...

He slowly pushed the door open figuring they were still sleeping and walked inside, he looked at Ebony's work shirt on the floor and he picked it up shaking his head throwing it in the laundry basket then looked to the bed. He frowned noticing only Ivory lying in bed and wondered where Ebony was because he hadn't seen her anywhere else, she wasn't outside or in any other room of the house...

Stepfather: Ivory where is your sister?

Ivory didn't respond back and she looked to be in a deep slumber, he sighed, his poor kid....her Mom was gone and she had to witness that happening. He remembered the confusion that amassed on her the day before, despite having a phone she ran all the way home knowingly that he won't be there during the day. She instead told the neighbor who didn't believe her and she told the other one who then called him letting him know of what she was saying. At first he too thought the neighbor telling him what she said was pranking him or was perhaps slowly losing his mind but then the unsettling gut wrenching cry he heard from Ivory definitely warned him that something was very wrong, he had to get off work and rush over.

He sat by the bedside wondering why his wife was murdered, well probably the person was a robber who wanted money and when he realized she didn't have any on her he stabbed her to death, this was the only logical explanation that at least made sense and it happens all the time, people get murdered for simple if not silly staff.

He je**ed from his wandering thoughts as the door creaked open and his sister walked right in...

Her: Where is Ebbie?
Stepfather: She is not in here so I don't know...you need her for?
Her: Are you losing your mind? I asked you to fetch them, the police officers are here and they want to talk to both of them...
Stepfather: Oh, yes...um, but I strongly don't think Ivory will be able to speak with the police, she's still way too traumatized to relive what happened and put it in words, That's more torture on her...
Her: That's what we need Ebbie for, she'll help her talk....they're half sisters_
Stepfather: (quickly cut her short) I don't look at my children like that, Ivy doesn't even know I'm not Ebony's biological father and that they only share a mother but with different fathers
Her: Is that all she is to you?
Stepfather: (frowned) Who?
Her: Ebbie? (sighed) Keep it that way or else Ivy might hear you...but my point is the girls have an understanding with each other as sisters and only Ebony will make Ivory speak...
Stepfather: Well you're right on that...

He stood off the bed dialing Ebony's number...

Stepfather: Her phone is not available... (worriedly) She was crying too much last night, she must've gone out...
Her: Gone out where leaving her little sister all alone here?
Stepfather: I don't know I'm not in support of that kind of behavior too...
Her: Keep trying her number I'll wake Ivy up...

He nodded redialing Ebony's number as his sister walked over to the bed shaking Ivory...

Her: Ivy....Ivory!

She tapped her and shook her but she was unresponsive....

Her: Ivory!

Her Dad turned back looking at his sister looking at him too, she pulled off the duvet and Ivory was drenched in sweat. She put a hand over her forehead and another one on her wrist feeling her pulse...

Her: I've got a weak pulse rate, she's alive but her body's temperature is too high, she is burning up... I think she's sick and we need to get her to the hospital ASAP...

At the hotel....

Meanwhile Cain's Bonnie stepped out of the shower and wrapped herself with a towel, she opened her bag and took out a toothbrush and paste then she leaned over brushing her teeth. She spat and rinsed her mouth parting her legs slowly as she felt her pusi burning and aching, she frowned to the pain and then walked out. Her walking had changed due to the pain and she needed some sort of relief....

She looked at Cain with a towel around his waist as she stepped in the room, their eyes momentarily locked while he talked on the phone. He smiled cutely and continued talking in a Ndebele dialect, she didn't even understand a word no matter how hard she tried to grasp from his conversation.

She bent over to moisturize her body and Cain walked over, she felt him hugging her from behind. She stood up tall as they both smiled at one another. He held her dearly and kissed the crook of her neck...

Ebony: (closed her eyes feeling those soft little teasing kisses) I stayed out all night... something which I've never done that before.
Cain: Well you are not underaged Bonnie so why does it matter?
Ebony: It's something I have never done before and reality is sinking in, nothing has changed
Cain: Whoever said distractions changes things lied to you, they're there to make you feel good that's all, just like alcohol, I thought you knew this since you work in a bar...

He left a trail of kisses here and there making her shiver...

Ebony: I know that but I just don't know what I'm going to say when my Dad asks of where i was?
Cain: Jeez...Come up with something convincing...you know you can just tell him that you went to a friend's house and binged on Netflix movies all night. You're not even a young girl Bonnie and you don't owe anyone any explanation frankly speaking...and you working gives you the freedom and independence to do whatever you want
Ebony: Alright I get you...(exhaled) Although I don't feel like going home yet, if you wanna go then-
Cain: Funny...me either... I'm not going yet

They looked at each other as he stepped much closer tousling her hair...

Cain: Your hair is so beautiful and soft...
Ebony: My Dad was colored... I take after him with the hair only...
Cain: I see you have an English nose going on here too...
Ebony: (smiled as he rubbed his nose on hers) Yes but the skin is so my Mom....I'm dark
Cain: I figured but you're brown, though one can't even tell that you are colored...
Ebony: Well a white and a black person produce a colored but a black and a colored produce...um an in-between I think.

He chuckled playing with her beautiful brownish afro, from afar you'd just think it's bleached hair but it was naturally like that setting her apart and made her extremely beautiful....

Cain leaned down kissing her and she closed her eyes responding back to the passionate kisses.

Cain: (in between kisses) You're a fascinating being...
Ebony: (smiling in his mouth still kissing) You too, I like your swag...

He smiled as they kissed each other some more then he picked her up and walked to the high tv stand where he pushed the remote away and sat her down.

Ebony: I'm sore down there....
Cain: The more you do it, the more you get used...

He kissed her spreading her legs apart then gently peeled the towel off her throwing it on the floor and leaned down splitting her pusi lips. Ebony's face flashed with embarrassment.

Cain: You'd be alright...

She nodded as he moved his hand over and softly rubbed her c**t making her swallow...

Ebony: (gasped softly) Aaaah....

Cain captured her lips once again as he stroked himself, he pulled her to the edge of the stand aiming her swollen wet folds on his D and ...

At the school...

Later that morning Silo parked his car and walked Treynor to class...

Trey: Daddy?
Silo: Hmmm boy...
Trey: Doesn't my Mom want me?

Shocked Silo stopped on his tracks and squatted looking at him....

Silo: What are you talking about Trey, I told you that mommy died when she was giving birth to you and that was a very long time ago
Trey: I don't think so...
Silo: (frowned) What?
Trey: I overheard you speaking to her on the phone last night and you were talking about me
Silo: Trey_
Trey: I know you said adults don't lie but I think you're lying to me Dad..

Silo furrowed his brows, he was such a young kid to be confronting him about this and his little brain was still too immature to understand anything....or maybe he was actually matured for his age, I mean what gave him the guts to even confront his Dad.

Silo: Now we are late boy let's talk some other time when you're done with school ok?
Trey: (nodded) Ok....can you give my friend a ride sometimes when we are going back home
Silo: Which friend?
Trey: Ivory...

Silo tried to think of an Ivory as that name struck as familiar...

Silo: The grade 3 girl who walks home with the twins?
Trey: Yes, she lives in Arcadia...
Silo: How can you be playing with girls, and she's in grade 3 for that matter, she's way too older than you...
Trey: She's my friend...
Silo: You can't have a girlfriend..

He sighed letting go of this issue, he probably didn't understand the difference between a girlfriend and just a friend anyways...

Silo walked him in class and there was another teacher in attendance...

Her: Trey is late today...
Silo: I'm sorry about that, there was heavy traffic
Her: Oh alright...
Silo: I'll see you at closing time
Her: Yes and don't be late...
Silo: I won't...

He waved goodbye to Trey and stepped out of the classroom taking his phone out then typed a message...

Silo: Where is Ms Malaika today? Didn't see her in school...
Ms Malaika: (came online) Well she went to attend a funeral, one of her grade 3 student lost her Mom
Silo: (typing back) Oh that's very sad, you said your first name was?
Ms Malaika: Yemurai
Silo: Alright Yemurai I remember now
Ms Malaika: You remember after I told you
Silo: Basically yeah...
Ms Malaika: (laughed) Very funny... anyways were you expecting to see me at school?
Silo: My son was looking forward to seeing you, he loves his teacher
Ms Malaika: Oh ok tell him I will see him tomorrow...

He typed another message but deleted it thinking to take it slow. He then went offline much to Ms Malaika's disappointment...

He started the car and drove out of the school's premises as he switched on the radio putting on a FM station...

Radio: Here is the breaking news....a woman was murdered mysteriously yesterday in the afternoon by the_

Silo pressed on the emergency brakes stopping the car as he listened to whole of the news and he cupped his face shaking his head...

Silo: Could it be? No it can't be...

He tapped the steering wheel thinking it over and then made a U turn, he now knew to never ignore one's intuition when it alarms you of something, if he had not ignored a life could have been spared, well that is if he wasn't wrong about all of this...

At the police station...

Just a few minutes in Silo parked his car and stepped in the police station wondering if he was doing the right thing...

Silo: Excuse me?

A police officer who was passing holding a cup of tea and a big piece of bread stopped looking at him...

Silo: I want to make a statement....um to make a report actually where should I go?
Officer: What is it about?
Silo: Something I heard on the news, about a murder I may have some info...
Officer: (furrowed) Ok follow me...

He followed him to his office where they drew chairs and sat down...

Officer: So what were you saying?
Silo: A murder that happened by the woods yesterday I might have seen something
Officer: Mmh ok (pushed the mug and bread away) Are you a witness? If so what did you witness and what evidence do you have to go with your statement that you're about to make?
Silo: I saw a guy but didn't quite see his face because_
Officer: (sighed) So how is that going to help me or this case?
Silo: He looked too suspicious, his boots were dirty and if you checked for footsteps or shoe prints I believe you might be able to nail the guy...
Officer: We need solid evidence, that one is like chasing the wind...how many people can we assume wear the same shoe size and we don't even know what the shoe really look like, where do we even begin looking?

He drew back his mug and his bread then begun eating...

Officer: Thanks for your little effort anyways but the case seems to hit a brick wall before we even investigate...

Silo stood up disappointed while the officer somehow looked at his shoes...

Silo: (turned back) I just remembered something...the number plate, I got his number plate...

At Ebony's Parent's...

Later on Ebony stepped out of the car and smiled at Cain who had opened the door for her. He embraced her in his arms and looked at the woman across the street glaring at them. He recognized her and gave her a smirk before releasing Ebony from his arms...

Cain: Go in and rest...
Ebony: Ok when am I seeing you again?

She looked at his brows creasing almost as if he was surprised with her question but then again he should be, she was being too forward.

Ebony: Enjoy your day hey...

He nodded and got back in his car, he waved his urging her to go in first as he watched. She smiled turning back holding her overnight bag as she walked to the backyard gate and could feel him still watching her....and as soon as she got in she saw his car driving away.

For a moment there she had forgotten about the situation at hand and the funeral songs being sung pulled her back to reality. Sadness rushed settled in on every part of her being that she felt weak, not only from the long night she had with her s*x escapades that carried on and prolonged to during the day but this weakness was different, it was heavy she dragged her feet to her room.

Stepfather: Where are you coming from?

Startled with her hand on her door handle she turned back and looked at her Dad...

Ebony: Morning....I mean good afternoon Dad
Stepfather: (checked time and shook his head) Do you know where your little sister is?
Ebony: (frowned) Where is she?
Stepfather: Are you even mourning or you're just glad that your Mom is gone and now you're at freedom to do whatever you like?
Ebony: (swallowed) What?
Stepfather: Someone saw you entering a man's car last night and you left....the bag explains it, you're sleeping around and you're doing it on the day your Mom passed on and your sister has been admitted in the ER....your Mom's body is not even cold in the mortuary yet you're acting wild already

Ebony just looked at him clutching her bag tightly with nothing to say whatsoever. She turned back and opened the door stepping inside her room....feeling disrespected her father marched behind her.

Stepfather: Did you hear what I just said Ebony?
Ebony: I heard...
Stepfather: And you are not going to respond or at least ask how your sister is feeling and if she's ok?
Ebony: How's she?
Stepfather: (laughed sarcastically) I don't like this behavior and you're failing to respect me...
Ebony: How have I disrespected you and Ivory being in the ER is not my fault.... obviously she was traumatized but there's nothing I could've done had I been here, she was still going to_

A slap landed on her cheek and she surprisingly looked at her Dad holding her cheek....

Stepfather: How are you unfeeling towards your sister? You should have stayed with her and comforted her but-
Ebony: And who was going to comfort me? She has you... You're not even my real Dad

Her Dad's mouth gapped in shock, he walked to the wardrobe and begun taking her clothes out throwing them on the floor....

Stepfather: That was the final straw, get out....(shouted) GET OUT OF MY HOUSE RIGHT NOW!!

He shoved the clothes on her arms and pushed her out of the house as a few people watched in awe...

Stepfather: Raised you like my own but you're a snake...an ungrateful bastard...

He pushed her out of the gate and threw the rest of her clothes to her as Ebony's eyes teared up....
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