Chapter 9

In the middle of the night, I heard noises a deep voice that was shouting at Aunt Maggie.

"You stupid woman! What did I tell you? Didn't I tell you to go to that filthy rich house of your sisters and to come back with money? Now, where is my money?’’

*Slap*

"ANSWER ME!" I heard the voice bellow out loud causing me to quickly put on my clothes and go see what was going on.

I entered the kitchen to find this giant huge man, assaulting aunt Maggie who looked scared shitless as the man started complaining about the nasty food with aunt Maggie replying that it was the only food in the house and to my horror him throwing the bowl of hot noodle at her.

"Hey stop it!" I quickly said stepping in front of Aunt Maggie to protect her as he was about to slap her again.

"Who the hell are you, oh please don't tell me you brought that little piece of shit of a boy here into my house without any money!" the huge man said shouting at Aunt Maggie ignoring me.

"Hey, stop it or I'm calling the police for domestic abuse!" I shouted at him again realizing this monster was Aunt Maggie’s husband.

"Oh, you want to call the police on me, try it boy and I will teach you a lesson you will never forget as soon I get out of that jail after bribing the police," he said to me up close threateningly then pushed me away roughly causing me to hit the kitchen cabinet.

I then saw him continue assaulting aunt Maggie who looked so helpless, I then rushed to my room, took my phone, and called the police before he killed her.

After a while, I looked out the window and saw the police sirens. They came in and saw the state Aunt Maggie was in and handcuffed the large man and went away with him, but not before he looked at me with so much hate and said to me, "You will pay for this."

I then rushed to Aunt Maggie and helped her clean up the broken things. She was just silent not saying anything. I then took a towel and wiped away the noodles soup on her face and attended to her wounds. I then sat on the sofa with her.

"Aunt Maggie, what just happened?" I said to her still shocked by that violent man's behavior.

Instead of answering she started sobbing with me comforting her. I then led her to her bedroom and tucked her to sleep. And went to sleep myself.

The next day I woke up and went to check on Aunt Maggie and she was already up, tidying up the house and cleaning it up until spotless. She was acting weirdly cheerful humming cheerful songs. But we both knew it was all but an act, her way of coping by pretending like nothing happened.

"Morning Nathan, I hope you’re ready for the new school today it is some low fee public school as I can't afford your previous school. You better get ready, so you won't be late for school on your first day. "She said to me, I greeted her back and got ready for school. I also packed my tablet just in case I got bored there.

As I came to the kitchen to eat my breakfast which was those cheap noodles again, I then saw Aunt Maggie now sitting on the chair with a sad look on her face.

"Why do you stay with that evil bastard who treats you like a punching bag?" I said to her sitting in the chair next to her trying to understand.

"It's complicated alright," she said to me.

"Please tell me how complicated is it to remove a person who treats you like rubbish out of your life and about that have you filed a restraining order again instead of that monster?" I said to her.

"He is the one who provides the food shelter and everything for me. Without him, I will be homeless as this house everything is his. What am I to do? I don't have an education so I can't get any good job out there. So, no I have not filed a restraining order against him, and he is coming back tonight or tomorrow. So please behave and do whatever he says. Even if he hits me, stay out of it!" Aunt Maggie replied in anger to me.

"Is money really more important than your life, if so, why did you not come to my mother your sister to ask for money instead of living a life of poverty like this with that evil bastard!" I said back.

"Young man, your mother never wanted to even be seen with me. Because I'm poor, she treated me her own blood sister like trash instead of helping me. So why the heck would I have gone to someone like that to ask for money, she would just have laughed at my face. Even though I'm poor I also have some dignity. "She said to me.

"So why then did you take me into your home?" I said to her with wide eyes and then saw her looking down embarrassed to answer.

It then hit me the exact reason why.

"And here I was actually thinking I now had an aunt who actually loved and cared for me when you are just like bloody everyone else! All you see and want from me is my money, is that all I am to you people! So that it's then, you took me because you wanted to have a share in the leftover change after my mother's debt is paid.’’ I shouted with wide eyes, but she remained silent.

‘’Well don't worry, aunty as I will give you your bloody freaking share. But I will stay out of your business as long as you also stay out of mine. "I said looking at her with my heart now having turned extremely stone cold.

Nobody loved or cared for me therefore I was also going to do the same. From now on I would never ever care for anyone ever again. This time it was now me Nathan Curtis Silverman against this whole bloody world.