Chapter 1: So This Is Death?
The darkness of night was like a thick veil, only the luminescent bulbs of the street lights and houses shone. A taxi sped through the road as though chased by something.
Inside the taxi, a young man with blonde hair, and a face covered in speckles urged the middle aged taxi driver to go faster, he was Oliver. The taxi driver heeded his plea and floored the pedal, the car roared as it’s speed increased.
Oliver put his hand into the pocket of his black leather jacket, he pulled out a worn out phone. Unlocking the phone, he opened his tracker app, the app was tracking another phone; the other phone was his brother’s.
He had just closed from another day of devaluating work at the MC Hoptons Company were he worked as an Part time employee. He received a call from his younger brother who was in college, but instead of words, all he heard was pained groans, before he could talk, the call had been cut.
His heart raced, as his imagination went wild like a kid in the park, all sort of thoughts on what could have happened came to his mind.
His brother was the last bit of good that remained for him in this wretched world. He was the reason he pushed himself to do what he did, his motivation. He had no one else in this world. His father was a drunk and gambler, who would beat them up because he lost all his money in gambling. His mother was a god tier crack-head who could leave her kid in the middle of no where to get crack.
Call it divine intervention that both kids had not fallen into the well of destruction like their parents. His mother had disappeared two years ago for an unknown reason, his father followed suit and disappeared six months ago because he took a loan from a loan shark and couldn’t pay back.
The loan shark was an unforgiving asshole, he placed the repayment on the shoulder of Oliver. He had payed the loan shark monthly while providing for his brother and himself.
As the car rode through the night at top speed, his eyes stayed glued to the screen of his phone, as though the tracker would stop if he looked away for a second.