Eighty

"I now understand why Nevil, Gilbert and Aaliyah is how they are, they think just like you. Caleb is like dad, I am so glad he is not here to hear the evil words you have spoken about Sarah. I am glad he is going to return the dowry, and another thing, he loved her, and I am happy for him. It is not what you wants mom, it is who he has chosen, and as you can see, he has chosen Sarah, and you could gripe thinking he will marry that young lady, or you could just accept Sarah. You may not have known this, but from the time we returned from our vacation, and you go to the store, not once have anyone of you considered that I am doing the chores in the house, and gave me a dollar, but every week Sarah have given me three hundred dollars, and I don't even clean her room, nor her office. I have been doing it for my family and no one have seen it."

"You better shut your mouth before I throw you out."

"This is dad's house, and if he leaves, I am leaving with him."

"Do that, because you are all a set of losers."

Petal went to his room, "Dad are you alright?" seeing his body shaking, "Dad speak to me." She went to the other side, his eyes were white. Petal ran out the door screaming and calling out to her mom, but she never came. She called the ambulance, then Caleb. When her mom did come she said, "I hope you are satisfied, he is leaving the house too."

"I will teach Caleb a lessen, I will sell the van and take the stores from him."

"You are evil and wicked, you know he sold his car and took all his savings and put it into the stores, and now you will do this to him?"

"Go to hell."

Petal rushed to her dad's room when the ambulance drove up, she thought it was the hospital ambulance, but it was not, it was the Police Ambulance. "See for yourself, it is her family who is helping us," she said grabbing the bag she had packed for him, then hurried with them to the hospital.

...

Caleb sat by her bedside, she was still under the anesthetic, Darius and Joshua had to report to work, but Jerod and Matt remained. Matt had only heard him speaking to Petal and called the Police Ambulance to get his dad, and cancelled the hospital ambulance. Caleb just sat there thinking what a fool I have been when he thought that he have invested his savings into the business, it would save one of the stores.

Recalling when his mom and dad saying they had given him the family business to manage, so he neglected every other thing to try and save the store, now he saw and heard his mom's behaviour, 'I am glad I follow Sarahiah's method of saving, not depositing every cent into the bank. Seeing how she saves her money home and only deposit sufficient to offset her cheque, I start to do the same. I haven't accumulated all my savings that I invested into the business, but almost half of my savings and some of my salary. Now I will withdraw what's in the account and whatever I have home, and start afresh.'