“And that’s how Kaizer Chiefs won the league. Now for your breaking news just in, an explosion has occurred in Western Stallian Mall in Stallian. Police officers think that it could be a terrorist attack. It’s been confirmed that there are no survivors…”

My mother was no more.

A week later, my mother was buried in Old Stallian. She didn’t have any siblings so there weren’t a lot of people at the funeral. My best friend, Collen and Precious had come. Tears flowed out of my eyes when I saw her for the last time. I had never felt so low in my life.

Everything in my life seemed to have broken into pieces. The media kept saying that it was a terrorist attack, but I knew deep down that there was more to this than meets the eye. This explosion didn’t happen by accident. It was caused by the anonymous person that sent me that threatening message. But I couldn’t think of anyone I knew that would try to kill my mother.

“How’re you holding up bra?” Collen asked concerned. I poured the remaining ashes to the lake.

“I feel non-existent. That’s what I can say right now,” I replied. Beeep Beeep Beeeep. My phone vibrated. I took it out of my pocket. I had a message, I opened it and read it.

Sorry to disturb ur time of grieving but I’m afraid I’ve got more bad news 4 u. u c ur gf hasn’t been called back because I’ve got her n Justin. Nw dat we’re even it’s time that we faced off. Watch de news @ 6h30pm. Ul knw wer 2 find me. Bring all dos dat were behind my father’s death.

I dropped my phone to the ground.

“What’s wrong?” Collen asked confused but I didn’t respond. He picked my phone from the ground and read the message. “It’s the anonymous messenger again?” Collen asked confused. “Why would he wanna expose himself like that? It’s a trap. We need to call the police for assistance,” he added.

“No,” I disagreed. “He killed my mother because she’s the one that caused his father’s death. He did this to get even with me. He wants me to feel the pain he felt when he lost his father. He wants me to have the anger that he had about his father’s death,” I added.

“This is your girlfriend we’re talking about here. You don’t wanna lose her too. We need some back up from the police. I’m pretty sure that Mr Jacobs’ son has the E-drug too in his blood. He could be much stronger if not more powerful than his father. Plus he could also have access to the energy drugs that boosts the energy one already has from the drug. We couldn’t even beat Mr Jacobs when he had boosted his energy remember?” Collen reminded me.

“Be rational, Benard. Use your brain not your heart. Don’t let your emotions take control of you,” he added. I folded my hands into fists.

“I’ve never felt such pain in my life; so weak and so sad. And yet you want me to send him to jail unscathed, after what he’s done? I’m going to annihilate him and his crew,” I threatened.

I felt like I didn’t know myself anymore. It was like all the principles that I’d learned in life had vanished into thin air, and I couldn’t separate the difference between right and wrong.

“Are you with me or not?” I asked.

“You know that I always got your back, bra,” Collen nodded.

“Call Precious, she needs to know that Justin’s been kidnapped. Mr Jacobs’ son wants all those that were responsible for his father’s death,” I said.

Collen called Precious to meet us in middle Stallian.