Promised 37

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Chapter 37

I turned myself a little towards Blake and leaned my head against the headrest.

“For as long as I can remember, mum would get visits from random guys. During the day, during the night and sometimes even early in the morning, 1 had this one guy that would come every Friday to do “collections“. I found out very later in life what this was all about. You know that apartment besiding next to the club” Blake hodded “well that’s where we lived. Mum still lives there. There use to be a little hidden storage space under the floorboards in one of the closets. A druggie use to live in there before us and he had made the space with a trapdoor to hid his stash. Mum would give me a blanket, * pillow and my favourite teddy and she would make me sit in that space while her random man turned up. Once they were gone, she would call out “Choo Choo That was my signal that it was all clear and I could come out now. I had spend so much time in there that I had stashed more things in there to make of comfy and keep me entertained” I smiled a little. That memory wasn’t as bad.

“I never knew who my dad was because mum didn’t know. She was 16 when she got into this business and fell pregnant on like the second day of the job. She had me and went back to work. Our neighbour aunty Sue basically raised me. Mum said she tried to figure out who my father was but what was the point? What guy would want to know if they had a child with a hooker. If it wasn’t screwing random man for money, then it was snorting a white line on our coffee table or drowning herself with bottles of cheap whisky. Sometimes it was screwing random man for drugs and alcohol. She would get drunk or high and beat me up because she called me the biggest mistake she made. She said she was lucky that her pregnancy didn’t ruin her body and her chance at her new career. There were a few nights when she would make me serve her clients booze and food because she would have like 4 or 5 of them over. Those nights were the worst because she would let them torture me–too. One even tried to…… but Aunty Sue walked in and threatened to call the cops since I was a minor. I have little cigarette marks on my back from where she and her clients used me as an ashtray.” I sighed and carried on.

“Growing up was hard… Most of the the kids in my class knew who my mother was. It was never a secret that some of the kids dads had fucked my mother at some point in their life time and they use to love reminding me this. I put my head down and focused on studies. I didn’t want that life, I wanted to be someone and have a much better life” I had tears forming in my eyes that I quickly wiped away.

“I was 13 when mum shipped me off to Mariners Bay Boarding School. She had told me this the week before my 13th birthday. She said she had organised everything including money and that I would have a much better life in boarding school away from her then I would here in Greenwoods. That’s where I met Taylor and Rocky. They have known my story since we became friends 15 years ago. On my 16th birthday I went home to see mum. She had organised a birthday party for me. But when I got home, mum had to work. She had signed a contract with the club to be a stripper by then and it stated she had to work when they needed her too. It turned out that guy that came every Friday for “collections“, was the new boss at the club, Nova Grim. His a small town gangster that likes to walk around like he owns the trashy side of Greenwoods. Mum later told me that Nova had his eyes on me and wanted mum to get me involved in the “business“. He said a little virgin like me would fetch a lot of money. Mum didn’t want me being part of that world, so she saved every single cent she had. She saved until she knew she could afford to send me to Mariners Bay Boarding. I knew mum was busting her ass, literally, so she could keep me enrolled. So at 16, I applied for a scholarship and was granted a all expense paid one. Do you know who the scholarship was donated by?” I asked Blake and he shrugged.