CH: 12 WHAT!!

We sat in the cab and during the whole journey to his house he was quiet, after the travel of 10 minutes we finally reached to a bus station. He came out of the taxi and stood up in front of the gate and said" Listen to me...." He took out a paper from his pocket and gave it to me and continued "this is my promise paper; just keep it safe with you." I looked at the paper and said "what is this?" I held the paper from his hand and opened it as it was folded and when I opened it and I got a bit shocked I read the paper "I will return every single penny to Mason he spent on the hospital bills, food and everything else." And under that, there was a signature of Jacob. "He is so childish." "Why he is so cute?" I uttered in my brain and looked back at Jacob.

He was looking towards the ground as if he was guilty of something. I held his cheeks and said, "you are so cute." And after a few seconds, I realized what I said when Jacob looked at me with his widened eyes. I removed my hand from his face which was already red as same as mine. I looked away and said "I will remember this." just to change the topic and maybe it was the success as he hummed, he then asked me to drop him there and said that he will go ahead alone but I rejected his words and we started moving towards his house. When we reached there I saw his house; it was a bit shattered or I can say broken. His house was so small and old, the walls were also broken and it was very obvious that even a small storm could break their house, we went near the broken house and he said "this is my house." I looked at him and didn't say a word. it wasn't like I created a bad image of him in my mind due to his poverty. It was just that I didn't know what to say at that moment I just smiled at him and said "let's go"

He went near the door and knocked it twice, but there was no reply he again knocked on the door, and this time a man came outside which looked like he was in his old 40's. He was rubbing his eyes and said "who the hell is here?" he probably was drunk as the way he was standing and talking it was sure that he was drunk and he smelled like alcohol too. After he finished rubbing his eyes, he looked at Jacob and at an instant shouted "YOU SON OF BITCH!!" and smirked with anger on his face "You finally came back you, bastard!" and looked at Jacob's almost tore bag. He slapped him too hard which shocked me, as it came out of nowhere. I was out of my wits, I didn't know who the man was but I knew he hit Jacob so hard as his upper lip already started bleeding. As soon as I can reach the man in front of us again slapped Jacob. The scene was so horrifying, if I was in his place I had already hit the man back but at the same point, I was so keen to know who the man was and why Jacob wasn't doing anything. He was again going to slap and I was about to hold his hand but Jacob did it before I could do that. He grasped the man's hand and shouted "I was in hospital...do you hear hospital."

The man retreated his hand and picked up a bamboo stick which was lying near the door and started hitting Jacob again. I held the stick and threw it away and the man shouted "who will pay you medical fee, you bastard. Your dead mom. I believe she would be very happy seeing me lose all my money on your hospital bills she would love to see me walking helpless without money." He punched Jacob out of the anger.

Jacob stumbled a few steps back and said" this is the last time I'm telling you don't involve my mom in this. Do you understand?" The man laughed and said "you and your mother both are snakes, you bitches" and that made Jacob lost his mind and shouted," you are a bitch you are bullshit not me and my mom do you understand." And pushed the man in front of his hands and due to the hit the man fell and again Jacob shouted "you are not worthy to be my dad." I was so shocked that the man in my front who hit Jacob so hard is his dad. I went blank at the moment. Jacob then held my hand and said" let's go from here" I was still very confused but Jacob was still dragging with him.