Chapter 40: Side Story-04
JOHN
Our summer trip to Seattle ended in an unexpected brutal way. I tried to convince Erwin that we shouldn’t hastily take any decision about this matter till the moment we boarded the jet. I said we should reconsider staying here. That we shouldn’t waste our tickets just because of such unfortunate incidents. But Erwin firmly rejected my reasoning.
He said that it would only bring bad luck and other fatal accidents if we continue to stay there. There are very few times I have seen Erwin this serious, so I had to admit my defeat.
I don’t know what he is scared of. Some ghosts and other stuff that don’t even exist? Are they idiots? Well, I can’t even blame him for that since all the blender was caused by Steve. If he didn’t disappear like that and wasn’t found in a locked up store room then I think we would still have stayed there for a few days. And over that he said something so spooking to Leo that I no longer know how to face him anymore.
What an embarrassment...
I heard Steve showed these kinds of symptoms since he was four. My mother noticed that at first but she tried to ignore the situation and then since he first started to stay at the church, my father received several phone calls from there about the matter. They reported that Steve would occasionally behave like that. Like, he would talk to himself and there would be even times when he wouldn’t be himself. He would talk in a voice that is not even his and snap at the other children.
After a few months of these kinds of complaints, my father was very annoyed and passed Steve’s custody to me. That time, I was still figuring out my life. So, I just couldn’t take in a stray child and so, I let him be there until just recently.
Basically, Steve and I are half-brothers. My mother left us when I was thirteen because she said that my father was a hypocrite and couldn’t take the mental pressure my father was causing her anymore. If not anyone but I know what kind of person my father exactly is. My father may be a bit strict, no, very strict but he isn’t a hypocrite. He would never do something like that to my mother. After all, he loved her.
But the thing is my mother was cheating on him. She no longer wanted to stay with us, so my father didn’t force her and let her go. When she left, she said that she felt really bad for me. That she has to leave me behind. Bullshit. She was rather happy to leave me behind and I know it.