WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 1 – 20
Mum picked the TV remote and kept flipping through channels, I waited for impatiently to settle for one before we eat. We were actually sitting in the sitting room and our deliciously made macaroni and cheese with chocolate cake for dessert sat on the glass centre table waiting to be munched on. I sighed with frustration as mum kept flipping through the channels.
“mum, can we please eat now, you can flip the channels all you want when I feed my angry stomach”. I pleaded and she chuckled, it’s not funny!
“you can eat baby; I’m checking something important” she said and I sighed gratefully and dished out my food and started munching on it.
WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 1 – 20
Few minutes later she finally sat beside me and I guess she has finally seen what she was looking for. I needed to know what was so important to her at that time, was it news? I looked up at the TV, it wasn’t news, in fact I didn’t even understand what it was, just some crazily beautiful looking lady talking about how you would know if you have been jinxed, weird.
“what is this mum” I asked her.
“it’s written there baby, how you know if you have been jinxed” she replied pointing at the TV.
“yea, I can see that, but why are you watching it and why was it so important” I asked and picked up my glass of juice.
“I just wanna watch it, it’s really funny” she answered and bit through her chicken.
WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 1 – 20
After dinner, I went to wash the dishes.
“How was school today?” I Heard my mum ask as I was rinsing a small plate.
“The Usual” I replied and gave her a little look but then I realized she was staring keenly at my hands as they move around the plate.
“Mum is everything OK, why are you staring?” I asked her in confusion.
“M please hold the plate well, you are scaring me” she complained and I chuckled a little.
“What? Mum are you sure you are OK, how am I scaring you, I’m just washing the dishes” I asked.
“Just be careful, that’s all I’m saying” she stated.
“I’m fine m…….” I didn’t finish when the Plate cracked on my hand and its pieces littered on the floor. “What!?” I exclaimed as I stared at the broken plate and then at my bleeding hand.
“Oh my g$h, M stay right there, don’t move, let me get the first aid kit” my mum instructed, she rushed out to her room and rushed back in with first aid box.
“OK, now, slowly walk to me” I did as she said, she sat me on the breakfast table and started treating my wound.
“I don’t understand, a plate cracked in my hand? I fell on a double wing fridge and it broke, I don’t have super powers, what is wrong with me mum?” I asked as tears threatened to fall due to the pain from whatever she was applying on my finger.
“Probably the plate has expired” she shrugged.
“And the fridge?” I asked.
“I don’t know M, I’m still trying to figure it out” she replied as she tried to stop her fingers from shaking, she was literally fidgeting.
“Mum, calm down, I’m the one who got hurt not you” I tried to calm her nerves but instead she asked out of the blue.
“M, those things i asked you to keep for me, where are they?”
I hesitate a bit before answering “they are in my wardrobe”.
She tied a little bandage on my finger and looked up at me, she looked intensely into my eyes.
“Did you open them” she asked coldly, I kept quiet. “Did you open them?” She barked at me like she has never done before, I shivered and leaned back a little.
I was expecting an apology like ‘M baby I’m sorry for yelling at you, I didn’t know what came over me’ but instead i got a blinding glare from her, I shivered.
“Just the box” I answered quietly wondering what has gotten into my mum.
“You did…. A ahh…. You did what!? She screamed at me. “I specifically warned you not to open them, why are you so stubborn” she fired.
“I’m not stubborn, I was just curious” I cried out.
“Well look where your curiosity has gotten us to, congratulations you have just successful destroyed your life” she barked.
“What?! What are you talking about” I asked her in tears.
“When I gave that instruction, I expected you to stick to it but no, you prefer your curiosity over your mother’s warning, look what you did to yourself”
“What the he.ll are you talking about mum”
“That is a sacred box from a dragon temple, I told you to keep it for me while I figure out how to take it back to where it belong, and I warned you not to open it but you chose to disobey” she fired and I sprang up.
“Sacred what, from a temple of what?” I asked her but she didn’t reply.
“Mum, am I gonna die, what will happen to me” I asked as I slumped on the chair. I heard her sigh, she bent to me and cupped my face.
“No baby, you won’t die, and I’m sorry for being too harsh” she apologized.
I nodded and looked up at her. “What’s going on?” I asked her.
“The thing is, you’ve been cursed by that thing”
“What?” I exclaimed in shock.
“A lot of bad things will start happening to you but I promise baby, i will find a way to sort this out” she assured me.
“But how did you get it mum, those things and why?” I asked her.
“It’s a long story M, but I promise I’ll fix this OK” she assured me. I nodded.
“Now, go to sleep, tomorrow is school” she patted me, I got up and walked to the stairs, immediately i climbed the first step, the light went off, we both gasped.
“Is it the ¢urse mum?” I asked her.
“I think so dear, let me get a flash light from the drawer” she said.
I heard her footsteps for sometime and then it stopped, I heard the sound of drawer opening, she flipped the switch and the flash light illuminated the sitting room.
“There’s one other flash light in my room, let’s go get it.” She stated and we both went upstairs.
WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 1 – 20
Few months later, things became very difficult and unbearable, mum lost her job and had to pay a lot of damages cause everywhere I go, I spoil things, and I don’t even know how they get into my hand in the first place. Mum had to pay for everything.
Then One fateful morning, I woke up, went down stairs to prepare for school.
“Mum” I called for like the hundredth time but she didn’t answer. I’ve already been to her room twice but didn’t see her.
I shrugged and concluded that she must have gone out.
I went to the kitchen to know if she prepared breakfast. I saw a written note on the breakfast table and an envelope beside it. I picked up the note and read it. ‘Gone to work baby, we will get through this M, I promise, I kept some money for you, take care of yourself. I prepared bacon for breakfast for you” that’s weird. I shrugged and opened the envelope. I counted the money and jeez $5,000, what! We don’t have to much money to spend, why will she give me such huge amount of money for just lunch.
I took only $100 and put the rest back into the envelope and hoped to give it to her when she gets back home.
I went to school after eating my breakfast.
WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 1 – 20
After school, Bathny came to my house and we studied together, chatted a little and then she left around six. I made vegetable noodles and chicken salad for dinner and then waited for mum to come back so that we can have dinner.
I dozed off as I was waiting, when I finally woke up, it was around 4:am. I gasped, I jumped up and ran to my mum’s room but she wasn’t there, I checked her bathroom, and every other place in the house but no sign of her, why didn’t she tell me she won’t come home tonight.
I went to my room and picked my phone. I called her a thousand times but her number wasn’t going through, I began to panic, could something have happened to her. I shrugged the thought off.
I dialed the hospital and they picked up at first ring.
“Hello” I heard a female voice say. “This is Grace hospital Beverly Hills, how may we help you?” The voice asked.
“Umh, hi…” I replied with cracked voice, I didn’t even notice I was crying. “My name is Marichuiy Heverna, my mum is Clara Heverna and she works in your hospital” I stated.
“Oh, yea, Miss Clara, you are her daughter, how many we help you dear?” She asked.
“Please I just want to speak to my mum, or you can ask her to call me” I pleaded.
“Oh, I’m so sorry baby but your mum didn’t signing today” she stated and I crashed on the floor. “Hello, hello” I heard her voice but it faded away as I heard my phone crash to the floor.
I cried and kept shouting mum until day break.
Days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months and it’s now three years, I’m gonna clock 17 in few weeks and mum hasn’t walked through that door to tell me that it was all a prank.
WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 1 – 20
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