HIGH SCHOOL: Chapter 21 – 30
Chapter 28
By : kebby NG Media Services
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MAX POV
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It took me a while before I walked out of the club.
I was a bit drunk and I managed to get to my car only for a familiar car to stop beside mine
Nick got out and when he saw me, he head towards me
“Max we need to talk”he said
“I don’t want to talk to you”I said as I opened the car door
Nick pushed it back in and that got me angry
“I said I don’t want to talk to you” i yelled at him
“You would have to listen to me, it’s not what you think Max,I didn’t mean to “he said and feeling angry I pushed him away
“You didn’t mean to,is that your darn excuse”i asked
“It is the only one I can think off, I should have be strong, I should have refused her offer, I shouldn’t have gotten close to her but I was unable to stop myself”
“You know! Have always liked Rose too but it turns out that she went for you, it’s always been you, you with the good looks, the top student, the one girls wish for, for once I wanted some thing for myself and when Rose came along, I took it”he said
“You could have chosen some one else, you could have taken some thing else from me, yet you chose to take Rose knowing how I feel about her,you really sicken me”I yelled wanting to punch his face but Jack got there on time to stop me
“Oh you are here! To watch my demise right!”I asked
“Get a grip of yourself Max and let’s talk about this in a more better way “Jack said
“We have nothing to talk about, you should be happy, after all I now know that Rose is nothing but a wh©re and my brother is nothing but a ba$tard”I said starring at Nick who had tears in his eyes.
“Tears wouldn’t rid you of what you did to me, have always been a loving brother to you, I gave you every thing you need, I did every thing you want just to please you and in stead what did you give me? “I asked feeling so sad that my brother could betray me in such a way
“Max I………….”
“Stay out of this you je.rk, you are the one at fault, if you hadn’t given me that address and told me that that whore was having an affair, I would never have known”I yelled at Jack
Nick used that opportunity to kneel in front me,holding my leg.
He always did that if he wanted some thing from me or if he wanted my forgiveness and I always gave him whatever he want as long as he let me go but not this time.
“Please Max forgive me”he begged softly
“Get away from me you bastard!”i yelled as I kicked him off
“Forgive you? You will never get that Nick, what you did today have completely make me hate you”I said not meaning my words.
It was only said in a fit of rage and I know that with time I will regret what I said but as of now, I don’t care if am hurting him, he had hurt me In the same way, so he must suffer too.
“I don’t want your hatred Max , what can I do to get you to forgive me”I said
“You really want to know right? Well what I want you to do is to disappear from my sight and from my life, I never want to see you Again”I said angrily
He stayed quiet for a while and when he finally looked at me, he had a determined look on his face, I should have known then and I should have stopped him but I was too angry to do a thing
“Okay then, I will disappear from your life,that’s what you want after all, am really sorry Max, for every thing”he said as he turned to leave
“Where are you going to Nick?”Jack called him but he didn’t answer him,he got into his car and drove off
“Stop him Max ,stop Nick before it’s too late” Jack said as he came back to me
“I don’t care about him anymore”I said as I went to my car
“You will regret this Max, you really will”Jack said as I started my car
“I won’t and thanks for the tip about that wh©re,I owe you one”I said as I drove off.
HIGH SCHOOL: Chapter 21 – 30
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The fight with Nick got me a bit sobered up, slowly I walked into our house, no one in would have heard my arrival.
My mom sat by the chair talking to some one on the phone.
I wanted to go to bed room with out having to talk to her but I stopped when I heard what she said
“Nick is nothing compared to Max, He is dull and hardly get good grades, the only thing he is good for is to get money from me “She said while she laughed with her friend over the phone.
“Well Max, he took after his father and I, he has got the brains, the looks and he is far more better than Nick, I prefer Max than Nick”She said again
“Don’t worry am sure that when She meets Max ,She will be head over heels for him”
“It’s not that I don’t like Nick , he is also my son but there are times that I wish I never gave birth to him, you know he was some sort of mistake for my husband and I , a late pregnancy, if I had an option back then, I would have chosen Max to stay while I send Nick to the orphanage home”She said
I stood listening to her callous words, how can she be talking about her own son like that, I turned Wanting to go to her to tell her to stop but instead I saw Nick standing by the door, from the look on his face, he had heard every thing too.
Seeing him got my anger back and so I stood back not bothering to defend him as have always done.
“Am sure that Max is some where studying right now and as for Nick, he might be slumbering off with his friends,he only comes back home to ask for money , that’s all he ever does “she continued and laughed over what her friend said.
I watched Nick hit the door to announce his presence to our mom.
He had worn a smile on his face and had gone to her .
On seeing him she had cut the call and was now giving him her full attention
“I need money mom”he said softly
“What for this time?”she asked
“I just need it for some thing, you see I have to disappear from some one life and that’s what am planning to do”he said
“What rubbish are you spluttering now”she said as wrote him a cheque.
“Will this do?”she asked
“It will,thanks “Nick said and from where I stood I watched him walk out of the house.
If I had known that that would be the last time I would see him, I would have stopped him at all cost but I was still too angry to care.
The call of his death was the first thing that woke me up the next day.
I was still reeling from the shock when I got to the hospital with my parents.
He had died from an overdose of cocaine, the doctor had said and some how I knew that that was my fault.
While my parents prepared his funeral,I sat in the hospital waiting room and just then a nurse approached me
“We found this in your brother hands when he was brought here, he was clutching it very tight”she said
I took the white envelope from her and read what was in it.
‘ Hey Max, it’s me, by the time you will
Be reading this,I might have been gone,
I didn’t get to apologise to you properly
So I will do it here on this piece of paper
Am sorry Max,for every thing, you have
been nothing but a good brother to me
But I have been nothing but a useless
One, I know that I don’t deserve your
Forgiveness but I do hope that you
Forgive me some day, you told me to
Disappear and that is what I did,
Once again am sorry for being a burden
you have always defended me from our
Parents but seeing how you lurked in the
Shadows with out doing a thing have
Made me realise that what I did to you
Hurt you so much and so if by giving up
My life I can repay you back for what I did
Then I will gladly do it, I love you max and
I will forever love you even after my death’
Love Nick
On reading his letter I broke into tears not caring if the passerby were starring at me, all I wanted was for my brother to come back to me.
HIGH SCHOOL: Chapter 21 – 30
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