Chapter 07

‘Hey wake up!’Marco says slapping Mr. Joshua face numerous times.

‘Stop’ Mr. Joshua says drowsily forgetting where he was. He stood up and staggered for some minutes before he remembered where he was.

‘Holy shit’ he mumbled looking at his surroundings, he was on a roof top of a building …and oh hey look that’s his building over there.

‘Are you done analyzing?’ Lisa asks sipping her red wine.

‘what do you want Monalisa’ he asks her turning to face her only to see her sitting and sipping wine and marco standing.

‘To make your life a living hell’ she replied smirking.

‘I WILL…’

A loud explosion interrupted Mr. Joshua which made him look back and he had a shocked expression, he didn’t move for a few seconds before what had happened registered in his brain.

‘MY BUILDING, MY FAMILY’ he yelled kneeling down as he looks at his building which was in ruins.

He stands up and run towards Lisa and kneels down.

‘Please Lisa tell me my family were not inside during the time of the explosion, you took them as hostages, right?’ he asks as tears flooded his eyes.

Lisa scoffs while looking at him ‘do you think I’ll save your wife and daughter, if you think that then it’s either you are stupid or insane’.

‘He stops crying and stumbles on the floor he looks at her in anger evident in his eyes ‘Monalisa Del-A-Cruz I swear you pay for this’.

‘How dare you call her full name you piece of trash’ Marco says going near him and pulls his hair.

‘Marco, leave him alone’ Lisa said as Marco looks at him one last time before he hits Mr. Joshua’s head on the floor and leaves him alone and walks back to Monalisa.

‘Well Mr., how will you get your revenge ‘cause you’re now a powerless man and in an hour time you will be wanted by the police.

‘What do you mean?’ he asked.

‘Well some minutes before I arrived into your company, I sold your all your buildings, exposed where your cocaine plantation is to the government and transferred all the money in your account to mine and you are rich, you have four billion dollars in your account and you can’t even pay three million…you are selfish’.

‘What!’ Mr. Joshua mumbled, terrified placing his hand on his chest and breathing unevenly.

‘To cut the long story short, you’re officially a lonely poor criminal’ Lisa said laughing.

‘You’re lying, it is not possible’ he replied ‘it’s not possible.

‘Marco please give the bastard his phone’ Lisa ordered as Marco removed the man’s phone and threw it to Mr. Joshua who barely caught it. He dialed his accountant number and the man answered on the first ring.

‘Mr. Fahd, how much is in my account, and I need you to collect some money’ he said looking at Monalisa.

‘Sir, your account is empty, you have no money sir’ Mr. Fahd replied pausing briefly ‘I called you some minutes ago about this and you said you’ve heard and you’re the one’

‘Ok thank you Mr. Fahd, bye’ he said as his brain registered what he had heard, Mr. Fahd did call him but he didn’t concentrate because of the dead slut in his office, he wanted to have his way with the vagrant before his wife and daughter visited him… in the end he lead to his own destruction.

‘I guess you’ve heard it from your accountant, so have a happy life… in jail’ she said as she laughed standing up and going while Marco follows her but Mr. Joshua stands up glaring at her figure he carries the chair she had sat on and runs to hit her with it but Lisa simply dodges him and puts her leg in the way making him trip.

‘Ouch’ Lisa mocks and her eyes trails to the gold wrist watch on his hand. Immediately she sees the wrist watch, her eye glints ‘Uuuu what a fancy watch you got there’

‘Marco take all the things on his body and leave him in his underwear’.

‘What?’ he yells as Marco drags him and starts to remove his cloths ‘You pay for this Monalisa’.

‘Pffftt, what an idiot’ she mumbles as she exits the rooftop’.

Jeremy sat beside his sister in the living room who was so engrossed in the music she was listening to, he ignores her and concentrates on the television and wow it was on some boring news channel,  he looks for the remote to change the channel but what the woman was saying in the television caught his attention.

‘Mr. Joshua the popular billionaire suddenly moved from grace to grass…

‘What the fuck are kids listening to at this time’ a drunken man asks as he enters the house.  Jeremy mumbled incoherently tapping his sister who didn’t notice their drunk father.

‘What?’ she asks removing her headset while glaring at him.

‘Dad is home’ he simply replied while Ella rushes to check him in the kitchen.

‘Deaton, why the hell are you drunk at this time of the day’ Jeremy’s mom says angrily as she comes down stairs to the living room.

‘What is your business you wench’ Deaton replied sitting on the couch

‘Let’s go before they cut each other throat’ Ella advised pulling her brother up. They both went to Jeremy’s room. When Ella reaches his room she lies on his bed and puts her headphone back on ear while Jeremy sits on his chair facing his table and reading a biology textbook while jotting down some useful things.

He couldn’t concentrate due to the argument between his parents. He broke his pencil into halves with his right hand due to anger, he could move out and live alone since he was eighteen but he couldn’t leave his sister behind to those people he called parents.