He then wakes up in a frantic and quickly checks his watch and is relieved to see its still 11pm, so as he gets up, he’s shocked to find dried tears on his cheek, he must’ve cried in his sleep and didn’t even notice, but not a second goes by as he wipes them off and proceeds to go home.

Walking through his gate home his sees all three of his brothers cars in the driveway, walks inside the house and heads straight to his room. Laying on his bed its almost like he could feel his heart about to pump out of his chest, since his role was being a glorified accountant for the gang, he never had to involve himself in the ugly side of things, so his first planned hit in his life is going to be a hit on his own brothers, he was way too smart to not know that that was crazy even for him, but nonetheless he felt as if it was something that needed to be done.

On the day of the funeral he’s the first one to wake up and for an hour he just laid on his bed thinking about all the different outcomes that can come from tonight, then as time went by he’s startled by Isaac yelling out,”Anthony, get up and ready we are going to leave in 30 minutes, so you better make quick or we are leaving without you.”

Without a word Anthony gets up, showers and puts on his tuxedo, every morning that Anthony wakes he usually kneels beside his bed and prays, but didn’t on this day, he might of thought that God wouldn’t want to hear him after what he had planned for his last remaining family.

“Alright, Ty and Deli did you guys see Anthony I told him we’re gonna leave like 30 minutes.”, Isaac asks his two other brothers and just before they can respond Anthony steps down the stairs, not even trying to look any of his brothers in the eyes.

“Where the hell were you, lets go we about to be late.” Isaac says with slight frustration and again Anthony doesn’t say anything to any of them and heads straight for the car that they’ll be leaving in.

As soon as he gets in the car he finds Isaacs boys waiting in there, it seemed that they were going to be driving and acting as security, so Anthony waits for all his brothers to get in the car and when he makes sure all three of them are in he quickly shouts,” Dammit I forgot my phone in my room, just give me two seconds and I’ll be back.” 

As everyone in the car explodes in frustration, Anthony jumps out and races in the house, where he grabs a stack of money he had placed near his bedside drawer and makes sure to leave with the door unlocked. He jumps back in the car where he’s cussed out by Isaac until they finally drive off.

As they’re driving to the funeral and everyone is conversing with each other Anthony asks,” Hey haven’t any of y’all seen the four kids I usually work with?”.

“What no, you should have a leash on your dogs Anthony.” Isaac responds arrogantly.

Anthony then says,” They’ve just been acting weird lately, I feel like they’re hiding something from me, but I don’t know what.”

Isaac then turns back and looks at Anthony and asks, “ Are you sure?”

“Yes, thought I might have been overreacting earlier, but now I am really getting worried.”, Anthony replies.

Isaac clearly frustrated yells,” Those bastards, they must be stealing money from us, those greedy rats, don’t worry I’ll see to them, today we mourn and tomorrow I’ll see to them.”.

“Thank you Isaac, I owe you one.” Anthony then responds.

They finally get to the funeral and before they enter the cemetery they are patted down and then allowed entry, as everyone mourns and sheds tears, Anthony wears a stone face, anyone who wasn’t scarred of looking at Isaacs little brother in the eyes would clearly be able to see his mind was else where.

As the funeral draws to a close, friends and relatives who haven’t seen each other in forever greet and catch up with each other, as Anthony approaches Isaac boys, he sits down with them near the gate bench, where they kept watch and asks , “How does my brother do it?”.

“Huh?”, one of Isaac’s boys responds in confusion, Anthony then clarifies and says,”How does he make you all so loyal to him, because obviously what I am doing with my guys is not working.”

“Oh, I see you’re still hung up about what you were telling us in the car about your guys, don’t worry as Isaac said he is going to deal with them, we’ll find out what they’re up too, don’t worry yourself with such trash.”, one of them responds. 

Anthony then smirks and says,”Thank you, Isaac is lucky to have you guys.”

“Hey you’re Isaacs little brother, that means we are your guys too, don’t forget that.”, One of them responds.

“I never will and I appreciate that, in fact here’s something for you guys, unfortunately this is the only way I know how to show my appreciation.” Anthony says with a chuckle as he hands them a chunk of money that must have been worth over R10 000.

“Woah Anthony you don’t have do this, but hey thanks for the solid”, One of Isaacs boys responds with a chuckle himself, while taking the money.

Anthony then humorously responds and says, “ Hey do yourself a solid and double that at poker at Gina’s hut tonight.”

“Oh you’re right it is poker night tonight at Gina’s, oh man we are about to go crazy over there, you said double it, nah we not leaving until we triple it.” One of Isaacs boys responds and they all share a laugh.