Boston's Desire

It was my paying day, and I was the most excited person on Earth, I had my hopes high and I knew just what I wanted to do with the money I earned in the month of working. I had graduated from the University with a first class degree in Bachelor of Arts and was immediately hired at the publishing company after my service. I dressed up in my only working shirt which was white and black trousers, I had my hair cut low so I only need to brush in it. And made my way to the hospital first to see my mother, she was suffering from cancer and it had been managed till now.

I was going for my pay and it was enough to pay for her operation and the loan on our house.

I walked into the ward she was laid and saw her sleeping soundly with the oxygen pipe on her face. I walked slowly towards her and images of my energetic and smiling mother and felt years cropping up in my eyes. I hurriedly cleaned them up, she wouldn't like to see the tears in my eyes. Her whole body looked pale and a little lifeless but I had hopes that it would be the last time I would be seeing her like that. I walked towards her and took her hand in my mind and sat down beside her.

She opened her eyes slightly and looked in my way, a smile cropped on her face after recognizing me. She removed her hand from mine and I stared at her in surprise but she then took mine in hers and stared straight into my eyes. Tears cropped up in her eyes and I stood up and cleaned them, she removed the oxygen cap slightly and spoke in an exasperated voice,

"You all will be okay, don't worry about me and live your life in peace. If I don't make ..."

I shook my head towards her and she only smiled and continued,

"I don't want you to pay for the operation, use that money to pay the loan on the house and pay your sisters fees. I won't make it even if you go ahead with the operation, I know it in my heart. I... dream about ... your father ... every night... it's my time to leave... and I know it."

She breathed slowly so I kept the cap in its place. I had wet my shirt with tears even though I knew it wasn't right for a man to cry that much but I couldn't control the emotions that were running through my body. I got up and gave her a peg on her forehead and let out to her.

"I am not giving up on you. I have hopes and I trust in our creator, he will help us. I will be back, I am going for the money, as soon as I get the alert, I will be coming here for you. So, please get prepared to be Hale and hearty."

She shook her head but I wasn't ready to listen to whatever she had to say any longer, she had to get healed and I wasn't having anything else. I walked out of the hospital and a few steps from there, I received the alert of my payment. And so, I decided to go to the bank and come back to the hospital before coming to the hospital. I got there and transferred the operation money to the hospital and transferred some to my friend Amos, whom I owed a lot of money.

As I was on my way back to the hospital, I heard my phone ringing right at the entrance. I removed the phone from my pocket and saw that it was my manager at the workplace calls, I picked up the call and he asked me to get to work as early as possible. I had not added a certain part to a script I was working on the day before and I had to add it up in thirty minutes before it would be submitted.

I looked at the hospital and the time and thought of what could happen if I didn't go to work. But then, my mother needed to survive after the surgery but without work, I couldn't make that happen so I chose to rush to the workplace and back to the hospital as early as I could. But I had to take the bus if I wanted to achieve my aim of rushing to and back. I rushed to the bus stop and an angel stood right in front of me, she had her dark shiny hair let down flowing like a wavy storm on the sea.

A scarf was wrapped around her neck and she wore a simple casual big dress showing no skin but her face, but it couldn't hide her curves. I couldn't see her face but my heart couldn't stop beating at the sight of her in my presence, I got a strong will to see her face. I took a step forward but suddenly a small boy stood up from the waiting chair at the stop and came to her side and held her hand. And his words took me by surprise,

"Mom, when is the bus coming, my sister seems to be tired.

"Mommy is sorry, but you will have to wait for a few sec..." she looks down and replies

"Ahh, here it comes." She says in an amused voice as she hears the sound of the approaching bus.

This breaks me out of my thoughts of her and brings me to reality, I rush to the bus as soon as it stops and enter without looking back at her. I looked in her way as soon as I sit down on one of the seats at the back of the bus but then, unfortunately, she was already walking away. Beside her is another child and a school bag on her shoulder.

'Are those two children her children? And why am I even concerned about her having children when I didn't even see her face? What if I did? What will I do then? Chase after her?'

She senses someone pass by her and hurriedly enter the bus, her sight follows him until he sits down and just as she is about to see his face, the child beside her pulls her hand. She looks down at him and they turn away from the bus and walk away, she pushes her straying hair from her face and sighs,

'who was that guy? No man has ever caught my attention apart from my husband. Unfortunately, I only got to see the sideline of his face. What a perfect looking man, no wonder the girls around him in the bus were ogling at him. Wow, wow, Mira, what am I even thinking? I should hurry away from I miss the next bus and get burnt alive by him.'

Before I knew it, we were already at my works stop, I rushed down and made my way to the building. As usual, the place boomed with various people both ladies and gentlemen and various computers. They were busy typing away to meet their deadline, I looked up and just like that, my eyes met hers. As kick as seconds, she looked away and touched her cheeks, if I didn't know better, I would have thought she was blushing. But then she was my boss, Linda Meyers, of the Meyers Group of Publishing Companies.

I was walking to my seat when I heard someone call me,

"Hey, Errr... Boston right? Come up here, I have something I need you to do for me."

I turned around and sees that it was my boss that was speaking to me and she knew my name. I looked around and sees that I am not the only one surprised but my coworkers were looking at me as if I had used some voodoo on my boss.

Chapter 2- I am so sorry

I looked up at her distinguished self and felt lowly, some of my colleagues watched me with worry and others envy. It was a big achievement to be known by name by the big boss among the almost five hundred workers in the company

I slowly made my way to the stairs leading to the next floor which was where the elevator was situated and it was used when one wanted to see the main boss in the six floors building. I reached the floor and the managers looked at me questionably but I only nodded and looked in at the place I saw her before ascending the stairs. But she was nowhere to be found which concluded that, she had already gone to her office. Numerous thoughts rushed through my head and yet I couldn't figure why my boss will call me and that too by herself and not using another medium.

I took the stairs and tried all I could to calm down my rapid beating heart, I was too nervous for my good but what could be done? I arrived at the place and saw her magnificent office. The place had only glass as its walls that one could see outside from inside but couldn't see inside from outside. Half of the floor was her office and the other part was the conference room where the directors met. And a tiny corridor led in front of the elevator, her office was the first so I walked to it and knocked on the door.

A sexy and low voice then answered,

"Come in Boston."

I looked around and thought I was hearing things so I knocked on the door once again. And this time, I heard my boss's voice,

"I said come in Boston, it's open."

I stood in front of her desk and looked down at her as she typed on her laptop vigorously. I was looking at the laptop she was working on and thought to look somewhere else, then my eyes fell on her huge bosom. A few of the bottoms of her shirt were loose so I could see her white glowing skin on her breast. It was a first, that I had seen her not in a coat and her bottoms opened, it wasn't something that I was expecting. I felt awkward so I looked away, cleared my throat and looked away from her.

She looked up and sighed

"Ooh Boston, how long have you been here?

I shook my head and answered,

"I just got here mum"

She smiled slightly and then got up from her seat,

"Boston, why do you think I called you here? You are an employee in my company just like the others but I noticed you, why do think this was possible? What do you and your colleagues do in this company?"

I looked in her eyes and for the first time, saw how dazzling her eyes were, I noticed she had long wavy hair cascading on her shoulders down to her back and the body that stood in front of me. Was, mind-blowing, then I understood why all the guys in the company couldn't look in her way twice. It was her turn to clear her throat, she looked away from my gazing eyes. I realized I was checking her out but I felt nothing towards her even though she was gorgeous. So I replied,

"I am just a typist and a writer of the short stories in the newspapers and on the company's blog and I am not the only one doing that. After we have written our stories, we submit them to our managers and they meet to select the befitting one for the papers. My story thankfully has been selected five times in my one month of working here. As much as I think about it, I believe that should be the only reason you called me here."

She shook her head and I deliberated about it, if it wasn't the reason she called me, what else could be it? She saw my confusion and came closer to me, she put her hand on my shoulder but she removed it in seconds. She sighed and walked past me saying?

"Boston, from today, you will be working as my secretary. What do you have to say about this?"

I took a step back and bumped right into her chest. The softness of her breast registered on my back and she gasped slightly. So I turned swiftly and before I knew it, the space between us was only an inch or shorter. She looked right in my eyes and breathed in and out before taking a step back, I swallowed hard and spoke,

"Mum, my mom is on the hospital bed as we are speaking, awaiting surgery so if you don't mind shall we continue this conversation tomorrow?"

And as if she had been broken from a spell, she collected herself and nodded vigorously and walked hurriedly to her chair. She sat down and sighed before answering without looking up at me,

"You can go, but come to my office as soon as you are free. I mean, you will have to take care of your sick mom after the surgery for a while right? So take a few days off."

I thanked her and rushed out of the as if been chased, it wasn't the first time a woman was flirting with me. But this time, it was my boss, I could lose my job at a little mistake.

I got out of the elevator and down the stairs and felt the stares following me but I wasn't bothered about that. I had my sick mother to think about and so I rushed out of the company and in thirty minutes I was standing right in front of my mother's room. Yet she was nowhere to be found, I checked my time and gathered that, I had been one hour and thirty minutes away.

The only reason that came to mind was that they had started the surgery before I had arrived. 'If they started just the time I sent in the money, they should have finished then, so why was she still not in her room?' I wondered.

As I stood there in wonder, I saw the doctor coming my way. I sighed alleviating my beating heart, he came in in front of me and gazed on the floor instead of my face. I was getting worried about his look but I couldn't bring myself the reason he was down-spirited so I waited for him to speak. He finally sighed and the words flew from his mouth as if he didn't hurry, he couldn't even if he was given a lifetime.

"Your mom, she couldn't make it through the surgery. I am so sorry..."

Mommy's Boy.

He is dressed in a black shirt and black trousers, his hair in a mess and his body looked tired, his shoes dirty and appeared tired as well. He continues walking into the wind even though others were running for shelter. The was getting dark and the sky spread with dark clouds, lightening stroked in every two seconds and teardrops of rain started falling but he didn't seem to notice his surrounding and if he did, he didn't seem to care.

One step at a time, with heavy steps, he moved on and messed his hair with a groan every now and then. Then the clouds couldn't wait any longer, the teardrops turned water drops and it started raining heavily. Another few steps forward and he stopped walking then suddenly, he dropped on his knees and as the thunder roared, he roared along with it as his tears along with the rain drops, he shouted with all his remaining strength,

"Argh!! Mom!!! How do I get to you?!! I am exhausted. I have walked a long journey yet the one before me seems longer!!"

Desperation and anxiety filled his lungs and heart so he started having difficulty in breathing, so he clutches his chest and breathed as fast as he could. One hand on his chest and the other on his knee, his bends over with his hair in the muddy water from the rain. It continued raining heavily but he cared less, the heavens seemed to be sympathizing with the man. A few minutes later in the same spot, it appeared as if he wasn't moving anymore. His rising and falling back had stopped moving but he gave the impression that he was steady.

The people who managed to make it to the shelter kept watching and wondering as to why a young man would be smearing in so much sorrow. So they kept whispering among each other but none of them had it in him to go and ask why. Seconds passed and minutes later, two young women drenched in rain were seen asking around among the people of a person. But they weren't getting the right answer so kept on desperately until finally, someone pointed to the man in the muddy water. They turned his way and as soon as they noticed him, hurriedly rushed to him.

One of the ladies stopped moving and the other went ahead to him to help him stand up, but he wasn't helping it seemed he wanted to stay there forever. The other standing by saw this and stomped her feet dejectedly and then shouted,

"Boston!! You better get up from there or you are going to be crying over me. I'm going to leave you alone with Chris when I leave from here without you."

When she gets no results after her speech, she looked away from him and grunted,

"Let's leave this coward here Chris, he's one weak specie that I have ever set my eyes on. Mommy's boy will always be mommy's boy."

The sooner the words left her lips, she turned to look at him to see his glowing and flaming eyes looking at her. She glares back at him then expressed,

It seems this one got to you, stop being a fool and let's go home. We can't afford all of us in the hospital because we grew sick been in the rain for too long.

Boston glared at the lady for awhile with stormy, teary red eyes and shaking body and couldn't help but threaten through gritting teeth,

"The next time I hear you call me a coward or a mommy's boy again; I will kill you myself."

The momentum at which he spoke made her take a step back, she wasn't someone who was easily threatened but this time she felt threatened and that too it was from her own brother.

The people gawked at the two girls as the support their now weak brother and make their way to their home. Unknowingly to them, there was one female dressed in beautiful expensive cloths watching the scene from a coffee shop nearby. She watched the man with pure admiration and lust lazed eyes, she looked at the man seductively and was thinking about something else far from the pity the others were having for the young man.

They arrived at their three-bedroom house and pushed their brother in the washroom to take a warm shower. And they also went to their room to change into a warm dress since the other clothes were soaked with the rain and returned to another room in the house. Pictures of the family could be seen on the wall of the room that; they had turned into a hall even though it looked like a single bedroom.

They sat on the only sofa in the room and gazed at the picture of an older woman with tears in their eyes and the younger looking girl laid her head on the shoulder of the other as tears rolled down her face. Minutes later, they realized their brother had been in his room for far too long. Different thoughts passed through their minds so they rushed to his door and we're ready to pounce into the room but just as their hands reached out to open the door, it opened by itself.

The young man opened the door now dressed in comfy home cloths and stared at his sisters and saw the worry in their eyes and finally, he forces a smile on his face. They see his smile and refreshed body and gave out a sigh of relief. He reaches out to them and gives them a big hug and leaves a peg on their heads with a smile on his face and then whispered,

"You are my world now, and I promise you, I will do all I can to take care of you so you won't have to miss her too much. Remember, your older brother loves you from the moon and back. Don't be too sad, you won't have to stay home anymore go back to your hostels."

The older one emerges from his embrace and look at him angrily and states as a matter of fact,

"I am not going back to school rather I am going to help cater for Christine."

He sighs and glances at Christine in his arms, she snuggles more closely and pouts her lips cutely, and then a proper smile appeared on his face. He pulled the other closer and proclaimed seriously,

"Gloria, you both are going back on campus and that too tomorrow. It's my decision as to your brother and you must respect it"