2023-02-06 16:09:11His mother loved him and that was all that mattered, nothing else, he mused. Smiling at the social worker, he said, “ there’s nothing going on here ma’am. I’m fine with my mother, really…”.
Ms. Anselm sighed, nodding her head, “ I understand Silver…well, I’m pleased to inform you that this will be the last visit from me… from henceforth, you don’t need me to come check up regularly, you’ll be fully under the guardianship of your mother. I hope you made the right choice”, she said.He felt like crying.Even as Silver laid on the bed, forcing himself to go to sleep, he could only think about how he had let himself suffer by concealing the truth from the social worker. His mother loved him, she had told him earlier.She loved him and love covered a multitude of sins right?, his teacher had said so. But why did it feel like he had just let go of the lifeline he was holding on to.A single tear fell from his eye and he wiped it off from his face. He had chosen love and that was okay, because that was all that mattered.He closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep. It was very easy. He had dreamt of a good life and was enjoying his dream when a loud bang woke him up.Silver opened his eyes immediately, looking around in shock. What was that sound for, he thought, frowning. He stood up from his bed to check as he left his room, he wasn’t shocked at what he saw.His mother was staggering into the living room. She must have broken something downstairs that caused the loud bang earlier. She was always like this whenever the social worker visited. Well, she didn’t need to bother anymore, because this was the last visit.Somehow, he felt very sad that Ms. Anselm will not be visiting anymore. He had gotten used to her visits that it had become a part of living for him. At least he had someone else other than his mother coming to see him. He would miss her visits for sure, he thought.He counted the seconds and exactly at the right time, he heard his name. “ Silver!”, she shouted.He sighed, climbing down the stairs to attend to his mother. He was approaching her when he was hit by an incoming missile, he had been so lost in his thoughts that he had failed to dodge the purse that she had thrown his way.She started laughing, “ oh Jacob!, Is that you!”, she said, thinking he was Jacob, his father. She was hallucinating.She does this every time she was drunk or high on drugs. She would call him Jacob, like she was no longer seeing him but his father. He took it all, in good faith.“ yes Mom…”, he responded, walking over to her.“ oh my baby… it’s you… I’m so sorry…I love you, I’m sorry…”, she stuttered, holding on to his arm.Silver smiled, her grip was strong and was sure going to hurt the next day but he held on nodding his head. That was all he needed to know, that she loved him. All doubts and uncertainty washed away with those words.She let him go and collapsed on the couch seconds later. He sighed, moving over to her and removing her shoes and her wig. She always wore a black wig whenever she left for work. She had told him that her boss didn’t like her silver color hair, so he understood, even though the wig made her look strange.He took them up to her room and brought out a blanket, taking it back downstairs to the living room where his mother was still sprawled on the coach. He covered her with the blanket, though it was hard at first since he had small hands and was covering an adult, but he did the best he could.When he turned to leave, satisfied with his work, his mother held his hand, stopping him.“ Silver…”, she muttered.Silver blinked, “ yes Mom…”, he answered.She stared long at him, “ I’m sorry…I should be taking care of you, but it’s the other way around…I’m sorry…”, she told him.He understood. He wanted to tell her that he knew that she was taking care of him and she didn’t need to bother. What he was doing was just a fragment of what she had done for him. But instead of saying all these, he simply nodded, saying that he understood.“ I’m sorry you have to be apart from your father. I’m only protecting you my love, you are all I have in this world and I can’t live if anything happens to you… I love you Silver…”, she whispered, dropping her hand.Yeah, she had fallen asleep. He sighed, putting her hand inside the blanket and leaving the living room.Silver’s hand hurt when he woke up the next morning, he grudgingly dragged himself over to the bathroom, to take a leak. His stomach grumbled, he was seriously hungry. He had not eaten last night after the social worker left as he had retired immediately to his room. He went downstairs to the kitchen and opened the fridge, dragging the stool over to the fridge and climbing it to get to the top layer. He pulled out the food there and closed the fridge.Silver took a bite, grumbling immediately. The food was too cold and he couldn’t warm it up because his mother was still at home, though she was up in her room since he didn’t see her on the couch when he came down. Deciding to let the food defrost, he went back to his room and started to prepare for school. When he was ready, he took his bag and left the room. The food was still cold when he checked it and so he decided to take cereals for breakfast, that was better than not having anything at all, so he made a bowl of cereal and took it to eat in the living room.Silver turned on the television and it was as if the universe was taunting him, Jacob’s face was plastered on the screen. They were talking about the game the Vikings won last night. He focused his eyes on the television and continued to watch the news about his father while he ate.He smiled when he saw the man celebrating one of the touchdowns last night but the television went off before he could see what happened next. He frowned, turning to check who had turned it off.“ I think it’s time for you to go to school.” His mother said standing there. Silver pouted, taking in her appearance, she looked tattered, especially with her hair sticking out in different directions.“ okay Mom…”, he said standing up and carrying his bag. He walked the long way to the bus station where his school bus would pick him up. He didn’t need to wait that long Because the bus came minutes later.“ hey silver hair!”, someone shouted from the back, causing him to roll his eyes.Jimmy, popularly called Big Jim was one of his many tormentors at school. The boy was on the football team and always picked on him because of his hair.Silver sighed, sitting at a seat in front of the bus. He ignored big Jim throughout the ride, even when the boy threw jabs at him. That was all he could do, he couldn’t lay a hand on him, that is if he wanted to still remain on the team.The bell rang after he stepped into the school and he rushed to his first class, tripping on his feet and smacking his face on the cold floor.“ Ouch!” , he yelled out in pain, touching his nose. He probably broke his nose, he winced at the pain. He heard them laughing before he saw big Jim and his gang of misfits. He knew that they probably had planned and caused him to trip.“ I expect you boys to be in your class now Jimmy…”, his homeroom teacher muttered from behind him.He sighed, rising to his feet.“ You need to go check that out Silver. Go to the nurse’s office and have her look at your nose”, the man instructed.Silver nodded and went straight to the nurse’s office.“ it sure is broken…”, the nurse told him, fixing it and putting a plaster on his nose. His mother wouldn’t like him coming home with an injury, he sighed. The school nurse asked him to rest up and only let him go during lunch and after school, giving him some pain killer pills for his nose.Instead of going home, Silver took the familiar path down the hall that led to the football field. He had taken this path for years, so he wasn’t shocked when he opened the wide doors that opened to the football field.The team was already practicing, so he went over to the coach.“ you’re late Silver!”, the coach told him.He smirked, shaking the paper he was holding in front of the man. It was a permission letter from the nurse to be exempted from playing at practice that day.Coach sighed, “ take a sit and watch. I want you telling me the faults you see on the field!”, he told Silver running off as he blew the whistle.Silver smiled, yes, this was home for him, the field, football.
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37. Gabriel's POV
Breakfast at the shepherds household was chaotic, with Lennon walking around the kitchen doing only God knows what and his mother, Mira, trying to salvage what was left of the breakfast she was preparing that ended up burning. Uncle Jacob is just sitting there and arguing with his wife to let him cook, while she bluntly refuses. Yeah, breakfast was chaotic.Gabriel sighed for the umpteenth time that morning, and it wasn’t even eight in the morning yet. He saw Lennon leave the kitchen after trying to get both of his parents' attention and failing. He contemplated joining the guy, but he was damn hungry.He looked at the tray of burnt pancakes on the counter and shook his head."Can you just let me cook?" Uncle Jacob said"No! You’re injured, and I can do this." Aunt Mira muttered.He scoffed. "You've been trying to do this since morning, Aunt Mira, and you’ve been failing... I’m hungry…” he whined.The glares from both couples made him zip up his lips, especially with Uncle Jaco
36. Gabriel's POV
The stress of the long flight and then the photoshoot was weighing down on him now that he was relaxed. He knew that they still had about ten minutes on the road before they got to Uncle Jacob’s place, so he decided to catch a little sleep.He closed his eyes moments later.Gabriel felt someone shaking his shoulder, so he snapped his eyes open, wondering where he was briefly, until he remembered that he was in Danny’s car. He sat up straighter, looking around the area. He saw Danny by his side, looking at him."Just how tired are you?" Danny asked him.He exhaled, yawning and stretching in the car. "I'm very tired; I haven’t gotten a rest since I got here," he said.Danny gave him a pitiful look—a look that didn’t suit the guy’s beautiful face at all. Sometimes he wondered how a guy would look this beautiful and handsome at the same time. It amazes him how Danny had what every model was looking for but wasn’t using it."We're here... good thing because you’ll eat too. I assume y
35. Gabriel's POV
"Can you not lean too close to me?”, Gabriel Estellio asked the lady standing in front of him who was doing his make-up. She was so close to him that he could perceive her perfume, which was irritating to his nose. It was cheap and unpopular, so he couldn’t place the scent."Sorry,” she muttered, moving her body away. He sighed, looking down at his screen again. He smiled. Danny was coming to his photoshoot after school when he received the text. Sometimes, Danny would join for a photoshoot, but recently, the guy had stopped doing photoshoots, and he couldn’t wait to see him.Staying in Italy and having friends in New York was not easy at all. He had pleaded with his father to let him attend high school here in New York, but the man had bluntly refused. Emmett Estellio wanted his children close to him during their early years. He was ready to give in for college, as his father had told them, but not high school.So he would always make sure he met up with the guys whenever he w
34. Lennon's POV
Lennon had not meant to slam the breaks; it had been an unconscious action in reaction to what he had just discovered at that time: that the guy he had stumbled on in the hallway, the one with silver hair, who happens to be the QB of the Tigers and plays just like him, was the same guy he had bumped into about ten years ago in a hallway in a stadium here in Newark.He scoffed. Life and fate were funny; they had a way of reuniting even the best of enemies. He could still remember the silver-haired boy, even though he had tried to forget him at some point after that incident.There was something eerily familiar about the boy, even now, that he couldn’t seem to place his hands on. It was as if he should know what it was, yet he didn't, and that didn’t sit well with him.In all his life, this was probably the first time he felt threatened in football. Pardon his arrogance, but he had not met a high school student who could play like him or as good as him. As early as three years old,
33. Danny's POV
Danny could not remember the last time he felt this good; it sure had been a long time. After slamming the idiot in the car, his excitement level had risen to a level that was temporary, he knew. Of course, he is aware of the long stares that the guy gave him during the game. At a point, the way the guy would bite his lips became so funny that he didn’t even know how to flirt.Lennon climbed into the car, chuckling. He was half expecting the guy to scold him or lecture him on how he needed to be more careful in the future, blah, blah, blah, but Lennon had simply shook his head and started the car.Lennon typed in the GPS of the hotel they were going to stay at and started the car."I can’t wait to sleep." Danny muttered beside him, resting his head on his seat.He heard Lennon scoff, but ignored him and still rested his head on the window. They were still maneuvering their way out of the school’s parking lot when Lennon slammed the car's brakes, bringing the car to a sudden halt
32. Silver's POV
"We need to talk, young man," she told him.He groaned, taking in her appearance; she looked like she was going out that night because those were not the clothes she wore earlier to the game."Can't I just rest, mom?" he muttered."No, sit!” , she ordered.He took a seat on the couch with a sigh."What the hell was that on the field today? Since when did you start playing wide receiver?", she asked, her voice a bit on the high side.Yeah, he forgot; his mother didn’t know that he could play in that position."It was a backup plan with the team, in case the playbook didn’t work, mom, and it won us the game... I can run, I can catch, I can throw, hell, I play ball! “, he muttered."There was a wide receiver playing already... Don’t talk to me like I don’t know football; I’ve been watching the game for years," she snapped at him."And if you noticed, I ran faster than him when I took the position," he told her. He didn’t know why he was telling her all this; it’s not like she to
31. Silver's POV
"Okay, mind sharing, we have barely five minutes to get back into the field." Pete said, filing his arms in front of him.He had summoned all the courage and, out of excitement, rushed back here to tell them about how they could change the game plan. But somehow, seeing them all looking at him and expecting him to talk was frightening.This was the first time they were all waiting for him to say something, and truly, it was both frightening and amazing.Silver grinned, "Make me play the wide receiver’s position." He answered, staring at his teammates who were yet to say something.They obviously didn’t like the idea.A guy wanted to say something, but Pete held up his hands, stopping the guy from talking."And why should we do that?" Pete asked, staring at him with sharp eyes.Silver sighed; he didn’t know how to explain it. In the past, he could have said that it was because he was faster than Tony, who was playing the wide receiver position and could run well with a ball, avo
30. Silver's POV
Silver nodded, but as he moved closer to Pete and the guys in the middle, his phone that he was holding buzzed in his hand. He checked it, and it was a text from his mother.'I'm outside your locker room, it reads.He sighed. She probably was here to start nagging him about how badly he had played, how he was a disappointment to his father, and how he was ruining his father’s legacy.Silver excused himself from the locker room and found his mother standing at the end of the corridor before the turn. He sighed, walking over to where she was.She apparently heard him approaching because she turned to him.Oh, oh, someone is pissed.The look on her face said it all; he had seen it countless times whenever he wasn’t playing well on the field. It wasn’t like she was concerned about whether their team won or not; she was solely interested in whether he threw balls like his father."Your father would be disappointed in the way you played earlier," she told him immediately, as he got t
29. Silver's POV
Silver sighed; he actually liked that Danny was staring at him earlier. He saw Danny move closer to the other guy, hook their arms together, and rest his head on the other guy’s shoulder.A pang of jealousy hit his chest upon seeing them together. Maybe they were together, like a couple, and had come to see the game as a fun activity that they did.He scoffed. Who comes to see a football match as a couple activity? He sighed. He was closer to the front line, but now he just couldn’t bear seeing them together in front of him. It was as if they were washing their relationship in front of his face, especially when Danny had stared at him earlier.Silver sighed. Food would have to wait for now, he thought, leaving the queue towards the school entrance. He jogged all the way to the locker rooms, entering quietly. He was half expecting the place to be empty since he had come a little bit early.He was among the two first people to come for the game. He nodded at the other guy who was li
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