Chapter 20

Ben's P.O.V

Oh.. my.. god.. I just.. shot someone! I can't believe this is happening. I'm not dumb I knew the day would come because of where I am but.. but. I could have killed her! And OMG it's Kai's girlfriend and. And she's pregnant! Omg I just shot a pregnant woman who's dating my boss, my mafia boss! I'm dead he's going to kill me.

Shit shit shit. This is bad this is very very bad. Ellie was right what am I doing here? This was a dumb mistake and now I have to live with it for the rest of my life.... my short life because Kai will come in here and shoot me for what I've done.

I think whilst sitting in my bed, I jug my knees close to my chest and let out a heavy sigh. And then the waterworks turn on and before I know it I'm full on hyperventilating. I don't want to die. I don't want to be here anymore. I want to go home. I don't have any home to go to. I hope Ellie and the baby are okay.

I stand frozen in place, my mind screaming at me to go and help whilst my body won't move. My eyes are widen open in shock and horror and my jaw almost hit the ground. I watch at the men drag my mum into the living room, out of my sight. Finally my legs start working again and I sprint down the stairs, just in time to watch as the large man punches my mum in the face. Her head snaps to the side and her body slumps to the floor. The men keep shouting at her asking where their money is. This is bad. This is very bad. Mum cries out in pain and asks more mercy. "Pl-please! I don't know anything! Please don't kill me I have a child" she begs. Then she snaps her head up and catches my teary, horrified eyes watching her. I don't know what to do. These men are 10 times bigger than me and there's no way I can stop them just on my own. My mum screams at me to run but I can't. I can't just leave her.

That's when the man turns around and glares at me. I jump and run away as fast as I can. I grab my scooter and go down the street and across the road to my aunties house. She'll know what to do!

"What's wrong? Are you hurt? What happened why are you crying and out of breath?" My auntie asks when I run through her door. I tell her what happens and she freezes. Her eyes go wide and her face shows nothing but horror for a split second until she snaps out of it and grabs her phone and phones the police. The police drive past the house 5 minutes later.

"Come on" I shout and run out of her house.

"No wait!" She shouts after me

But it was too late. I ran into my house and dodged past the police man. Nothing could have prepared me for the sight I saw. Both my parents, laying there dead on the ground their blood spilt out around them.

"No!" I screamed. I dropped done beside them. And took my mums hand "no mummy please don't leave me! Don't go!" I cried and cried

"Daddy please wake up" I said as I shook his body. One of he police men grabbed me gently and pulled me away. My auntie was being held back at the door screaming.

"Please, god no! This can't be happening" she cried

"I'm so sorry for your loss Mam" the police officer beside me said

"This is no loss, they didn't just die! Someone murdered my little sister, I want to know why!"

"We will find who done this" the police man said

Two police officers drove me and my auntie back to her house. I sat down on the sofa in the living room whilst the police officers spoke with my auntie in the kitchen. I looked over at the fireplace. There was a picture of my mum, my dad and my auntie. I started crying. I couldn't stop staring at the picture and it only made me more sad. So I did the only thing I could think of and I stood up, walked over to the fireplace, picked up the picture and then smashed it down on the ground.

Seconds passed before the two police men and my auntie ran into the room to see what had happened. They saw the broken glass shards on the floor. My auntie walked over picked up the picture and let out a sob whilst pulling me in for a hug. I cried hard into her chest. "Why did those men do this?" I cried

"I don't know but don't worry they will get what they deserve" she says and we both go and sit done on the sofa again.

"Son, I know this is hard but can you tell me what happened?" One of the police men asked me after a few minutes

So I told them what happened. I told them about the heavy knocking on the door, the shouting, what the men said about the money, my mum crying, them beating her up and her shouting at me to run. The police men wrote down what I said on their notepad.

"Thank you, we will be in touch" they said and left the house. Me and my auntie sat in the living room and cried ourselves to sleep.

A week later

I was sitting in the living room at my aunties, my dinner sitting in front of me, not one bit of it had been touched. The tv was on but I wasn't paying no mind to it. Just then my auntie walked into the room. "Ben I know it's hard but you have to eat, you've barley ate anything the past week" she says sadly

I shrug my shoulders "I'm not hungry" I say.

"Your mum wouldn't have wanted this, she would want you to eat" she says

"Yeah? Well she's not here! She's dead so just leave me alone if I don't want to eat the food than I don't have to!" I shout at her, my eyes begin to tear up. I look at her and she looks back at me holding back her tears. That only makes me feel worse. "I'm sorry" I say trying not to let my tears fall. I look back done at the plate of chicken nuggets and chips. I hold back and ignore the sickly feeling I get when I think about eating and I pick up a chicken nugget.

Just as I was about to eat the nugget something I heard on the tv caught my attention. My parents names. I watched as the news lady talked about my parents case. The day after they had died the police had said that they were money smugglers for some hand and they didn't pay up which resulted in them being killed by those men. But now, the lady on the screen is saying that the men had got the wrong person, that not only did my parents get murdered, they got killed because someone made a mistake got the wrong people. They killed the wrong people. My parents were innocent. I knew it!

2 people showed on the screen, they looked similar to my mum and dad but it wasn't them. The lady said that the two had been found dead with a note saying 'oops, we got the wrong people. Our bad' As if this was a game to them! They killed my parents for nothing! My parents, I knew it the whole time, they were innocent victims. They had nothing to do with the gang or the stolen money.

I was filled with relief, but that lasted only for a short moment before the rage and anger kicked in. Just last week the police had made it,  that my parents were involved in gangs and basically said that they had it coming for what they did. He knew deep down that that was not true. His parents would never do that because they were so nice and good. Now he knew the truth. His parents died for no reason.

Back to the Present

Just then a loud banging at the door knocks me out of my thoughts. The door bursts open and Kai storms over to the bed.

"You stupid little boy! Your lucky Ellie and the baby are both okay! What were you thinking shooting her? Are you that dumb?" He shouted in my face. I shrunk back in fear.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to" I cried out

"You didn't mean too? You can't just accidentally shoot someone Ben unless you have shit aim and you miss, but in this case you shouldn't have even had your gun out. Hell you shouldn't even have the gun in the first place! Your a child, you don't know how to work it yet. Who forgot to take it off you?" He asks me

I hesitate, not wanting to get anyone in trouble.

"I'll find out either way so you may as well tell me before you get yourself into more shit for not answering me and telling me what I want to know" he threatens

"Joel" I say

He simply nods and doesn't say anything else.

Why is he acting so calm? I just shot his pregnant girlfriend, I'm surprised I'm even alive right now. Just then he punches me, hard, in the face. I'm snapped out of my thoughts and bring my hand to my bloody nose.

"Don't. Ever. Be. So. Fucking. Careless. Again" he shouts sternly at me

Kai's P.O.V

I don't know what happened to me, maybe it was Ellie getting into my head but I just couldn't bring myself to hurt the kid. I sorta feel bad for him? I mean with all that has happened to him at such a young age. His story was all over the news. I may be a Mafia leader but I'm not completely heartless. And I don't kill children. Especially children who have no one to look after them. His Parents got beat up and killed and then two weeks later his only other living relative died in a car crash. The poor kid hasn't gotten a break. He has so much anger and rage in him. He just needs help.

"If you ever do anything like this again and by that I mean shooting or hurting anyone in this house who's part of our family I will kill you. Understood?" I ask Him

Ben nods "yes sir, sorry" he says and looks down at his lap

"Keep your head held high and don't show signs of weakness" I tell him

He snaps his head up and gives me a stern nod

"Good. Now if you excuse me I have to go have a chat with our good pal Joel" I say and walk out of Bens room.

Joel is the guy in charge of training the newbies. It was his responsibility to ensure that he collected all of the guns of the trainees after practice and he didn't. I find Joel, he smiles and waves at me but I just walk right up to him and punch him in the face.

"What the hell man. What was that for?" He asks holding his now swollen cheek

"Watch who your speaking to in that tone" I say angrily and punch him again

"You fucking idiot. Ben, one of the guys you were training today, shot Ellie because you were too careless to take the guns off of them after training. Don't let it happen again or your dead" I warn before punching him again and walking away.

End of chapter

Ohh looks like Kai's going a bit soft what do u guys think?

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