MOMMY'S BOY

Tom felt quite satisfied, he laughed so bad his lungs hurt from too much laughing, he took another break, had some food and was about to continue his mischief but as he approached his late father's study, he changed his mind, for he saw, seated on his father's chair, Jerry the boring virus( that's how tom called him), jerry was his younger brother but was so different from him, in every way one could think of, "hey there mommy's boy!", Tom called out as he entered the study, "Hey" Jerry responded and continued doing what he was doing. Tom stood there for a while and then started speaking "Do you have a virus of boredom? Jerry, I wonder why you never take time to have some fun, you're still a kid, I don't envy you at all" " And I don't envy you either Tom, do you think going around and doing dangerous tricks and pranks on people is a way to have fun? if you still want to be the king of this kingdom and a good leader to your people, I'll advise you to change and become more responsible and you don't need to worry about me, I always have fun here in Dad's study, I love reading and I have fun while studying" Tom wasn't convinced and instead pitied Jerry, his lips curved up as he thought of something impish, " Jerry I came here to find you because I needed you to accompany me somewhere" Tom said puckishly " No thanks Thomas, I am very busy now, maybe some other time", Jerry responded, he knew that Tom was full of pranks and mischief, he will always end up hurting people and that was exactly what Jerry stood against so he strove hard to find ways or anything that could stop Tom and also tried as hard as he could avoid Tom because he was always bugging him to join in the fun, but Jerry found his lousy attitude rather offensive. Tom had already seen the rejection coming but he had come up with something he knew would interest Jerry "You've always wanted me to join those workers and start sharing gifts with the needy and orphans haven't you? I wish to go but only if you accompany me" Tom said persuasively he watched as Jerry looked up in shock, his younger brother had always tried to get him do this but all attempts to convince him failed, and now he was bringing it up on his own, tom didn't care for the widows or orphans he just wanted to get Jerry into trouble and that was the only convincible thing he could think of that would make Jerry follow him with no hesitation, Jerry cared for the people, even though it was Tom's duty to assist and share food in his kingdom, he didn't mind, Jerry did it out of a pure heart and that was always an opportunity for him to observe the situation of the kingdom and see how the people were doing, he loved seeing his people happy and giving them food always made them merry, Jerry thought for some time but couldn't find anything wrong with following Tom, he couldn't possibly pull any prank there could he? "alright, I hope you'll respect yourself and be good, if you play any prank on the people, they won't hesitate to turn their backs on the royal family" Jerry said as he got up, " and why would I be so insensitive and petty, hurting my own people, come on little brother, I'm their future king, who would protect them most if not me?" Tom said as he led the way out of the royal study. they changed out of their royal clothes and went to meet the people in charge of carrying out and distributing the food and gifts.

Jerry immediately informed the workers that they would be joining them for that day, the men were a little surprised because it was rare to see the two little princes willingly decide to help, especially Tom, some of them heard about Prince Jerry helping out from time to time but the only thing Tom was known for, was his misconduct. The workers who were assigned to distribute the foodstuff and gifts today had never worked with Jerry so they didn't know he was the one that mostly carried the gifs himself anytime he decided to join the people sharing.

But still, they would have been more cautious if they knew the young princes will be joining them today too bad they had already started executing the plans and if they weren't careful, they might get caught because they had sent some carriages ahead. while the guards were preparing the royal carriage for the princes, the workers quickly gathered the rest of the gifts and Tom went away to prepare his things, Jerry was left alone for a while and he started analyzing the foodstuff and gifts, he was quite familiar with these because he sometimes shared the gifts himself while looking into the records of today, he noticed something was off but couldn't fully place his hands on it, he was about to investigate further but Tom suddenly came back and their carriage was ready, most of the gifts had been sent ahead and the rest followed them closely from behind, they needed to reach the center of hubby hills, for that is where the distribution took place.

"relax you all, they wouldn't notice a thing" stop trembling like leaves, when the wind hasn't even started blowing," one of the workers, called Jones said, "you can't be too sure, I told you to stop, if we're caught we might not be spared, just look for a way to get back the rest of the things" Samson, another worker told Noah. "we can't stop it, Noah, why are you talking like you don't gain a lot from our transactions, we just need to be more careful," Dan said and everyone agreed with him.

The worker's carriages were separate and the carriage that was meant for royalty was right behind them.

Tom hadn't pulled a prank till now and Jerry sighed in relief, he was truly thankful to God that his brother was finally growing up, he wasn't ready to take responsibility and do his work in the future if their people rejected him.

After a long journey, they finally got to their destination and a lot of people from their kingdom were already waiting for them.

They all came down and Jerry pretended to be unaware of what was happening as he went to join other workers to carry and distribute the food first, according to the families. "please my prince you can't carry that, you can just stand here and watch while we distribute them for you" Jones told the prince who was struggling to carry a big bag of flour, " don't worry about me sir, just do your work, this isn't my first time and I love giving some people, myself" Jerry responded without looking up. "Forgive me my prince but.." Jones was about to tell him the queen's instruction but Jerry immediately interrupted him, " I'm your prince, not your child sir, I find this as a privilege, please don't take it away from me".the guard couldn't argue anymore, Jerry was still a child, young enough to be his grandson but he was the prince and he would never go against the prince. Jerry continued to carry the food and distribute but the process felt unending as they were more than two hundred carriages that carried food for thousands of people, the workers were many, but it still took some time, he got tired and decided to rest but that was after he took note of all the carriages.

He sat down inside their carriage and that was when he remembered Tom, Where was he? Jerry hadn't seen him all this while and he started to get worried.

"He can't be around here, I haven't spotted him since I started sharing food. Jerry decided to search for Tom after he rested and regained some strength, he didn't want him to do anything stupid here or his people might not like him.

Meanwhile, Tom, who had sneaked out the very moment they arrived here was wandering around with nothing in mind, he had no particular plan but he still wanted to trick Jerry. " Jemia what do you think you are doing? bring that back!" Tom heard a woman screaming and when he followed her line of sight, he saw a girl who looked just a little bit younger than him running off with something in her hand, he didn't know when his left moved on their own and started following the young girl who looked like a rough person that loved inflicting pain on people, the girl noticed a boy following her and started running even faster, she ran through the people who were still to collect their food and tried to confuse the boy following her but Tom was bent on getting to her, "hey there stop running" Tom said as he ran ask quick as possible and Caught up with Jemia who had just gone through the people and was about to climb a tall tree.

Thomas was running at great speed, he tried to hold himself back as he reached the girl but lost his balance and took Jemia down with him as the two of them crashed to the ground. Jemia was caught unaware and the paper bag she was carrying got destroyed as they fell, flour was inside the bag and it got scattered all over the floor and the wind blew some in the air.