Did mum save your life?

Chapter 2: Mum, my life savior

However, a blizzard started to fall and I stood still and held my breath in, in this breezing cold night. It was then I started to shiver and became frightened. I saw my cruel and dreadful mum running away from me. She went far, far away from me. Leaving me alone at the side streets, My vision was blurred by then, as I was sleeping. I could not believe that I was thrown out by my own mother. I asked myself, “Why is my mum so cruel to me?”. I felt that it is time I gave up my hope for having a good family, the good spirit was then ruined inside my heart. It was swept away just like dusts and sand. I felt the pressure and how losing a mum felt like. It was terrible and awful, it was never once a happy thing. Looking at how my mum treated me gave me somewhat the courage the give up my past times. My wonderful imagination of having a joyful family was all smashed into pieces or broken glasses. I thought for myself, “I will rise and achieve success.”. So, for the very first time, I stood up for myself, with the knowledge and spirit gathered to succeed for so long.

I came out of the corner and started to walk around the main road and got delighted by a smell that was coming out of no where. My tummy started to groan and I got hungry. The road was filled with people covered with furry jackets. The day was quite dark and the street lights were on while the shops are almost closed. The night bar was one main attraction to most people, since it has warm beer that could keep the temperature in our body at a good level. Many were walking in and out everywhere, out the side streets and into the bars and the shops. Some eventually walked away. I was walking as if I am an abandoned child, the people looked at me with full of sympathy in their eyes. Soon, I saw a passerby walking near me, I approached him and asked for his help, but he ignored me and left. I started to think that the world was getting more cruel. I continued walking along the road trying to search for food as I was desperate for food. As I was walking, the snow blew harder and stronger. It was getting colder and my legs started to freeze as I was not wearing any shoes. All that is left was a jacket and a pair of long torn pants. I saw a garbage can nearby and decided to get some food from it. I felt very unpleasant and disgusted when I had to search a garbage can for food. It was the only way I could find temporary supply to survive because I had neither money nor cheque. I started to search for food inside the can and eventually found a piece of chicken. Suddenly, a beggar came and snatched my chicken. I started to quarrel with him, I became insane and started to hit the beggar with a tin found inside the can. I smashed his head so hard with a tin till his head was bleeding, he ran away by then. He dropped the chicken that I found a while ago on the floor. I had no other choice but to eat it, I picked it up and ate it. It was delicious and I felt delighted since I didn’t have anything else to eat. While I was eating, the people who saw me eating laughed and calling me a poor abandoned child. I couldn’t be bothered because I was desperate and there was no second chance. I was in need of a job to get some money so I could continue living. I finished munching my chicken and threw the bone into the bin. Moments later, I saw a paper sticking on the notice board of the bar I saw moments ago. I went near the notice board and saw the paper writing “Looking for workers” I started to get excited and rushed towards the front door of the bar. I opened the door of the bar and saw a lot of people sitting down and having a glass of beer, some were relaxing and some were talking with their friends, some even fooled around by pouring beer on each other’s head. I started to feel jealous and rushed to the front of the recipient’s desk. I banged my hands on the desk and yelled at the recipient saying “Where is your boss?”. The bang made a loud noise and everyone looked at me. I started to tell myself “Ignore the situation..”. She was shocked as the crowd was and started approaching me with a small grin on her face. I started to think that she wanted to talk nicely, I imagined, “Wow, she’s going to tell me something good”. Surprisingly, she came near me and pulled my jacket. She dragged me to the boss’s room and whispered saying, “Don’t ever play with the boss, he will make you sad.” with a wicked voice and a soft sound. It proved that she was cruel enough, things started to get worse.

The boss started questioning me asking, “Yes?”. “Si..r…, I want to do what you were advertising on the notice board in front of the bar, being a worker.” I said nervously. He replied in a louder tone saying, “Do you have the guts to do it?”. I replied, “Yes, sir.”. He then agreed to let me be a worker. He told me that I could start work now, so I started to get to work. I left his room and walked towards the changing room where staff changed their uniform. As I was walking to the changing room, I saw some workers running out to the back of the bar through the back door. I approached one of them and questioned him with a loud tone, “Why are you running away from work?”. His face expression was a little weird as if someone was murdered. It became a mystery and made me want to know more about it. He then punched me in the face and ran away with some other workers. There were a lot of workers inside the bar serving the people because the bar was big enough to fill in more than 200 people. I went in the changing room and started to change, and I saw another worker changing with me. I asked him, “What is up with those workers?”, He never replied and turned away. I started to get more curious. As soon as I finished changing, I came out of the changing room and took a piece of cloth and soaked it with water. I took the piece of cloth out to the bar with me and went to check on unclean tables. Just when I was walking, I started to think about the weird incident that occurred earlier that made me so curious. I walked around without realizing what was happening, I accidentally banged into a waiter and the large glass of beer then fell from the waiter’s hand splashed on the customer. The glass fell down and smashed on the floor, it broke and became pieces of glasses. It was then I realized I wasn’t focusing. I apologized to the customer, because he got angry and scolded the both of us. I wiped the table with the cloth on my hand and said sorry to the customer. The waiter got angry and I could tell by the way he showed me his grumpy, angry face, and dragged me to the boss’s room. He complained to the boss about what happened and gave the boss a wrong idea of the type of worker I was. I felt humiliated while the boss scolded me. He shouted, “Can’t you even do your job well?”. My head looked down and was too afraid to look into the boss’s eyes. He started to get pissed and said softly “I should not bring in these kind of new workers next time, it’s such a disgrace to the bar.”. He fired me, and I started to think “That’s the end.”. I then left the room full of disappointments, I felt it was pointless after all. I went back to the changing room and changed. Just when I finished changing, I left the room and saw a few more worker running towards the exit of the bar. I tried following one of them and eventually succeeded. They ran so fast, I almost failed to keep up.

As soon as I arrived, I saw a bunch of workers and staff gathering at the back of the bar. It was a lonely road, but the workers and waiters gathered as if they were about to fight someone. I sat back behind a barrel and watched what they were doing. Apparently, the workers were blocking because there was about 20 of them. Suddenly, I saw a woman inside the crowd and was struggling to escape from some sort of force. It was a very cold night as the snow never stopped, I couldn’t see everything properly. Then the staff started to rage forward with their fists as if they were going to beat up someone. Soon I saw 5 gangsters in black shirts, with furry coats walking near to the staff. I stood up to see what exactly was happening, I saw the 5 approaching gangsters holding up their fist and prepared to fight. The situation turned intense, and I started to feel nervous. I saw a gangster that was holding a knife near with a woman he was holding. It was as if he was ready to kill the woman. The woman shouted for help as the staff approaches the gangster. I was thinking, “No good, he is threatening the woman.”. When I saw the woman, I felt familiar with that face and voice. I started to flashback and suddenly found something, “My mum!!”. I shouted, “Mum!! No..!!”. The staff stopped moving as they saw me coming through. I ran towards the crowd as the 5 gangsters came faster and was about hit me. I had the urge to hit the gangster that was holding my mum. As I was about to hit the gangster, I jumped to build up my speed as I approached the gangster. I grabbed my mum and held her hard in my chest, and I fell to the ground. My back hurt so much that I couldn’t get up and the gangsters stomped me so hard that I almost went unconscious, but I made sure I was still holding my mum so she would not get hurt. My mum managed to escape and the few gangsters were handled by the staff. They were outnumbered and was unable to fight against the big crowd. They gave up and surrendered, the 6 gangsters were brought to the police station and I started to faint. The cold snow sure made me weak. My vision was blur and I blacked out, when I woke up I found myself lying down on the bed in the hospital with mum sitting by my side, I asked her what happened, mum then told me what she did and told me that she was sorry for what happened. I started to cry when she told me what happened. It wasn’t her fault leaving me, she did that because there were gangsters wanting money from her or not they want my life instead. She did that for saving my life because she did not have the money to pay the gangster and did not want me to die. I regretted hating her for throwing me on the street corner. I cried and went into mum’s lap. Now, I realized how great mum could be. All of a sudden, I thought of something and I asked mum, “Why can’t dad pay the money?”. She answered, “Your dad is dead..”. I thought in my mind in a shouting voice with echo “What..? what..?....”

Apparently, I fell asleep and was dreaming on my desk. I almost fell down through the chair. Thinking that story was quite a true one, but it was just a dream. I looked out the window and saw the sun coming out.

To be continued…