Chapter 31: Chapter 31

Chapter 31.

‘’This had to be you, Harry.’’ She says in a disgusted voice. She seems to hate me, well I already knew that. I know that she doesn’t like me, not as a person and not for his son either.

‘’Mrs.….’’ I am about to call her when I realize that I totally don’t remember the name his dad told me. I have been focusing on all things but that.

She lifts her hand with a sneer on her face. ‘’Don’t you dare Mrs. me! But just so you know, I am a Mrs. Williams. You are totally not allowed to call that name because you are completely a bad omen. Not worthy to mention the name, Williams.’’ She smirks a bit before she speaks again. ‘’You might make the name dirty.’’

I eye her innocently as she says that. The hatred, the revulsion, loathe, and abhor that this woman has for me is on another level. She hates me so much and for reasons only known to her. I wish one day, I could solve the puzzle. Everything is possible though and I hope for all the best.

I knew, the moment I saw this woman that she was going to be mean. That she would spit words that were bound to heart me. But I never expected her to look down upon me this much.

Her eyes fleet to the hand holding the spray of flowers I have just been given by her own son. She looks at them for a few seconds disgust filling her face.

‘’Is this where your money goes to these days?’’ he doesn’t respond. He hasn’t said a word since his mum came here. I don’t want to pity him in any way, but I am sure this is a test for him. She is trying to know how much he is manipulated by her.

I want to say a word but I realize that I cannot. I hate it that she had to come and interfere with the little sweet moment I was savouring and relishing.

‘’I am talking to you, Harry!’’ she says angrily when Harry stays quiet without responding to her stupid questions.

‘’So, talk!’’ he says daringly.

‘’What are you doing here?’’ she asks rudely.

‘’I would wish to ask you the same question. What are you doing here?’’ he asks audaciously ad I smile inwardly. If he shows me that he is man enough, then I can give him a chance. Not guaranteed obviously.

‘’Listen here, Harry ….’’ He stops her before she says much.

‘’No, you listen here, mum. I have listened to you all my life, I have had you confuse me here and here. You have done all sorts of bad things to me without me being able to stand on my feet and telling you exactly what I want. This one, mum! You will never interfere with her! Never, mum!’’ he shouts and I tense. He senses that and moves closer to me his long arms encircling my waist making me feel stronger.

‘’Are you going to defy me before a girl? Are you going to stand with her and not me, your mother?’’

‘’Proudly, mum. I want that to be the last time you are going to insult Clarita. Make that the last time you say things to her and if you dare lift your hand at her ever! Then, you will deal with me and not her.’’

This must be the newest face ever in my life. I never expected Harry to tell his mum off like he just did. I think things gonna change between them, because of me.

‘’You have decided to pick this bitch …’’

‘’Stop it, mum! You know this bitch as you wanna call her has a name. She is called Clarita! She is a very beautiful soul and whatever you say, she will end up as my wife. So long as the feeling between us is mutual.’’

‘’What have you turned into, son?’’

‘’Exactly what you have turned me into. You have taught me to be the bad boy that I am today, mum. If I didn’t listen to you, I would be happy today. You never reprimanded me, you never asked me to stop making mistakes and you always rubbed my back and covered my mistakes like they never happened, mum. Thank you for raising me to be an asshole.’’

‘’You don’t have a right …’’ he cuts her off

''To tell you that? You don’t want to hear the truth? You don’t want me to explain to the world how my own mum instead of raising me to be a good boy, covered my ass half the time? You made sure that someone else was punished when I made mistakes? Don’t you think that’s way too gross?’’

‘’Are you trying to accuse me of your misfortune?’’

‘’Sorry, mum! I am not trying to tell you. I am literally telling you that that you have made me what I am today. An arrogant human being. Who doesn’t care about anyone or anything! You made me shout at Clarita earlier when you were the one on the wrong. She is a nice girl, mum. She is more decent than any of those many girls I have met before.’’

‘’What has she fed you, my son? What has this little bitch …’’

‘’I told you not to call her that. She hasn’t fed me anything. I love her genuinely and you will not do anything to come between me and my love for Clarita. All those superstitions that you have can go to hell for all I care! You and your stupid thoughts of her coming back for God knows what will never work. I love her!’’

‘’Harry please, don’t talk to her like that. She is your mum.’’

‘’My mum indeed.’’ She has gotten a taste of her own medicine. She has tried so much to make me look like the bad one here. I cannot deny the fact that my heart is bounding up and down because she has been put into her rightful place.

I smile inwardly when I steal a glance at Mrs. Williams and she is throwing switchblades at me. She has never been nice to me ever since I came here. I don’t know what plans she has but I am sure that they will fail.

Totally and completely.

Is harry putting up a show? Is he truly in love with me? Is he doing this to despise his mum? Is everything okay with him? All these questions are lingering through my mind. I wish I could know what exactly his mum is hating me for.

‘’Harry I carried you for a whole ...’’

He laughs humourlessly. ‘’Nine months? That’s a dreary and uninteresting slogan. You have told me that idiom like a million times but you never have ever known its meaning. If you did that and felt the pain or the joy that it comes with, I swear to God you wouldn’t have raised me the way you did.’’

She looks at me with bloodshot eyes. I don’t know what to do with this woman. I am not trying to make her son do this to him, she is earning it by herself.

I don’t pull away from her gaze. I want her to know that I am clean and that her son is learning a lesson that’s being taught by his own mother.

It doesn’t take two seconds before I remember what my beautiful mum keeps saying. She always tells us that it is not the best thing to look at elders straight in the eye. She has her own reasons for that but I pull my gaze away, anyway.

Mrs. Williams charges towards me with speed. She is about to hit me in the face when her own son captures her hand midair.

‘’You will not do that to her, mum! You will never! And I mean never hit her in my presence. Don’t even dare do it in my absence because that only means I will teach you a lesson, mum!’’ Harrison says angrily.

Right about now, Harry is my favourite person I feel protected by him but at the same time, I feel threatened by his mum. I don’t see her give up on her mission. I also wanna know badly what she knows about me that everyone else seems not to have an idea about.

Not even me.

She pulls her hand away from his grip. ‘’You Harry are whirling away from me just because of this bitch? You are trading your own mother just because she is here? Do you think you are in love with some village animals like her? What will happen once your father hears about this? Don’t you think we could

…’’

‘’Leave me out of your will?’’ He pauses and laughs angrily and without humour. ‘’Mum,’’ he calls her quietly. ‘’You can do whatever shit! I don’t give a single damn! You can put everyone else in your will and leave me out, believe me, or not, I care about serious things. Not your money and property and if that’s what you think can separate me from the woman am growing to love so much, then you are mistaken. Believe me, mummy dear, I DON’T CARE!’’ he shouts the last few words.

‘’You should, Harry. You should care. This will be a very interesting story for the press. Knowing that the great Williams’ son is dating a girl as poor as a church rat. Do you know who is going to be interested in this?’’ He doesn’t respond one bit. ‘’Your father. He will want to shoot you dead before his reputation goes flying everywhere in a bad picture.’’

I cower when she says that. I steal a glance and I can see very well an evil smirk on her face. This woman is one of those women who will never give you peace. I don’t mean bad with her son, we are not even together. He hasn’t proposed anything to me yet, so I know all these yapping and yammering are just to make the woman feel bad. She is so resentful.

‘’Do your worse, mum. You and I both know that your reputation is at stake here as well. I don’t care what you do. You care so much about some things but you don’t care about my happiness.’’ ‘’You will Harry, you know you must care.’’ She says with confidence.

I don’t mean to be nosy but this family is full of shit. I don’t even think this is my doing. Harry seems to be very angry with his mum, he seems to have been holding something against her or maybe the mum seems to be holding something against her. I thought she was mama’s son but it seems like it was just for convenience.

Life can be messy sometimes. A few weeks ago, I didn’t even know of the existence of this family. Today I am in the midst of a mother and son fight. Just in the morning, Harry was in support of his mother, so this is confusing.

I think if we walk out of here without this flamboyant and glitzy woman with a queen bee demeanor calling the cops on us, ooh! Scratch the ‘us’ part, on me, then this will be my lucky day.

Trust me on that.

Without thinking, Harry takes my hand and gently pulls me towards his car. He opens the door quickly and I am about to go right inside when she calls him out.

‘’Harry,’’ I stop on my truck as Harry tenses beside me but doesn’t even turn to look at her. I know that because believe it or not he is literally shaking and I wonder what is going to happen next.

‘’What?’’ he asks rudely.

‘’Have you told her about Ellen? Does she know? Are you going to keep it a secret to her just like you have to the whole world?’’ she pauses and laughs as she’ll never laugh again. A peal of dry laughter that doesn’t reach her face. ‘’She will end up dead just like …’’

‘’Mum!’’

‘’Don’t mum me!’’

‘’You have no right to …’’

‘’Talk about her like that? Watch me do it!’’ she says then walks away fluctuating and swaying her big hips as she’ll never do it again.

I am officially weakening and I know I was acting strong a few minutes ago but not anymore. I feel threatened, and I swear I want to ask a million questions but I feel like now, isn’t the right time.

I take a quick look at him. He waits until his mum disappears in her posh car then asks me to go inside the car.

He goes to his side once I am settled and steps on the gas like he will be paid for doing the same. I have no tiniest idea as to where he is driving me to but I think my fate is with him.

His jaw is set and his focus is squarely placed on the road ahead. He doesn’t seem like he wants to be disturbed.