BATTLING FEARS

Trying an effort

I hadn't looked back when I left. I had just gone without saying goodbye. I couldn't imagine how much I must have upset the poor dude. He tried calling me once and never called again that day. Laying on my bed I thought of the challenge I was facing at that moment choosing between saving Vixen's sister and facing an old nemesis. I wasn't ready to face that i***t, i also wasn't ready to let the poor lady go to jail. She was just under the bad influence and needed help. How would jail help her? That area could harden her or make her worse. No! I can't let my selfish reasons ruin a young girl's life like that. I thought about sitting up and picking my phone up. She was like a sister to me too, a sister i don't have and didn't know. If i were in her shoes i am sure i would have really needed help as well. So badly! I opened up my phone contact and typed in Drake. How was he still in my phone contact anyway?

"Hello Maureen" He had greeted as soon as he picked. I took a deep breath and sighed. 

"We need to talk" 

"About what? It's been so long. What could we possibly talk about?" 

"Don't worry. Let's just meet tomorrow at 2. I will send you the address" 

"Alright baby. Whatever you say"

I hung up immediately. Baby? Who was his baby?

***

We met in front of the Taco Bell restaurant but didn't go in because i had no intention of staying with him for too long. My intention however was to find a way to convince him to withdraw the blackmail he used against Vixen's family and allow them be in peace. It seemed simple in my head though but with the crafty smile he gave me and the cruel unfriendly stare he gave me, i realized it can never be that easy.

"What do you want to talk about?" He asked sharply. 

"What do you have against Vixen's family? I want you to leave his sister alone" I began sounding very confident. 

"Excuse me? How do you know who Vixen is? Is he going around telling the entire school what i am doing to his family?" Drake asked amaze.

"I am his close friend and i will like to know what's going on"

"Oooo...i see. No wonder you were so dumb. The guy is always surrounded by stupid, hypocrites...you know dramatic people..."

"You don't have to insult me" 

"Why won't i insult you? Tell me why i should not insult you? You keep using anxiety to cover up and avoid important occasions and fun you could possibly have. Don't you think i have anxiety too? You actually think i don't have anxiety right? You think i don't face situations as well? You think i don't face and battle fears just like you"

"Don't you dare compare me with me! This is the reason why i broke up with you. You never understood me. You underestimated everything i could do and saw me as a coward. You never recognized the talent in me. You thought i was a pretender because i never agreed to mingle around with strangers. Why do you always see me like this? We were doing so good together until you began trying to changed me. This messed me up so bad. You almost traumatized me Drake! Can't you see?! You think you are helping matters but you are not. You never help matters. You only make things worse" 

"Great Maureen. Just great. You haven't been in any relationship after that i am sure. No one will want to date a weirdo like you lady. What you to think you can come here and convince me to leave that Vixen just makes you look more dumb. You have made a mistake. You are only wasting your time here"

I tried so hard to blink back my tears. My conscience was right all along. It was a really terrible idea coming here to convince the guy. He was never going to listen to me anyway. He was heaping insults on me instead making situations worse. I was fed up of this. I didn't want to talk about this anymore but i knew i couldn't give up. I had to try. I had to stop bringing back our past relationship and focus on what this discussion was suppose to be all about. 

"Okay...Okay Drake. It's fine. I am sorry if i made you upset in anyway but please let go of Vixen's sister. They are trying to send her to rehab. They are trying so hard to help her out of her addiction. Could you have a little humanity and save this young adult?" I asked as calmly as i could. He wasn't bothered. 

"It takes more than just begging Maureen. Things don't come easy. All those while i tried convincing the so called Vixen to get his sister help as soon as possible because she was getting out of control, what did he do? This i***t shunned me, he ghosted me, he hated me. He had so much blind love for his so called sister that he never realized she was playing him all along. She knew his weakness was love and she had used it against him. Now he realizes i was right all along and wants to help herm No way! Not me. Get your help from somewhere else" 

"Drake, i understand your pain. I know why you are doing this. It battles me too when no one listens to me. Try and understand him too. If you had a sister, you wouldn't an outsider terrible claims concerning her without proof. He believes because he has seen the proof and realized his sister had been using him all along. It hurts him so much. Driving his family business and dad's effort into bankruptcy due to this does not help matters. You are only making things worse" 

"About his father, the man is beginning to do better than my father. I don't like that. He is stealing my dad's fund or starting up a secret business somewhere. It makes no sense how my dad who owns the business get 10 million revenue and his dad gets 50 million. Do you see the distance there?"

"They both own this business" 

"What do you know about them? I know they both own the business but there is no way his dad has to do better than mine. My dad isn't happy about this. He throws his dad a fake smile but behind close doors he is raging. He argues with my mum over this issue all day. He wants Vixen's family out of our lives. Just as much as i want this."

"So your dad knows about this blackmail?"

"It was all our plan. We want them out. I mean out of our lives so if you want to help that hypocrite drug addict, tell Vixen to stay out of my family business for good. I don't know how but they have to return every single bit of thing that belongs to my father" 

"Can't you just forgive them? I don't even know they did something wrong but there has to be another way. Your father is the foundation of all this. If they give up the foundation, they will crash"

"And you think i won't love to watch that..." Drake said with a smirk. He laughed in a maniac way and poked her nose. 

"I love your nose Maureen. They are so pointed..."

"Stay off me!" I slapped his hand off. 

"You have tried for him Maureen that's why i will elevate some of the tasks. Fine, he doesn't have to return everything then. Staying out of my family affairs is enough for me. I don't want to ever see in dad in that company again. Adieus" At these words he walked off leaving me in front of the building under the sun.

#Sorry! Could not continue the story because i wasn't sure anyone liked it. Encouragement will really help. Thank you