Bad turn

Brandon walked inside the house, it was full of people, his in-laws and Aliana’s friends. “This was all planned without me?” Brandon said to himself.

Alianna is of average height, thick long black hair, dashing sexy red lips; her body is an art to be studied.

She sat down right next to her father, Sir Alvarez, who ran a multimillionaire company.

‘That dumb, wretched, poor man. I still wonder what you saw in him to have married him”, Grandpa Alvarez said.

“YOU should let the pauper go his way, he doesn’t deserve you” one of Aliana's friends said.

Brandon watched as they rained words and demeaning utterance right in Brandon’s presence.

“Good evening Sir Alvarez”, Brandon breaks the ice. They ignored him and kept talking.

“Aliana, there is someone I want you to meet” her father said to her.

Brandon had had enough of their humiliation. He left the place before the visitor came in. “Here, junior, this is the gift I got for you”. Brandon handed the gift to Junior.

Filled with a grin, he collected the gift and opened it. “Wow! Dad, this is just what I want”, junior hugged his father.

“Good evening sir, there is a delivery for you! The gatekeeper said to Brandon.

“I don’t have any delivery. It must be a mistake or is it meant for Aliana?”

“They’re for me. Come out everyone, come see what I got for Junior”, the strange man called them all out.

“it was a truck full of toys, video games and lots of chocolate”

“Thank you Mr Silverio” junior said as he dumped the gift his father gave him, running into the van.

“That’s from our company”, Brandon said as he questioned the driver.

“That man/s name also rings a bell! Yes, that was the name of the person who had a brawl with a customer a few minutes ago.”

Aliana slipped on the steps, all of a sudden Mr. Siliverio was there to catch her.

“She’s so hot and ravishing, I wouldn’t mind a small price to pay for the night”, Sillverio said.

“Stay away from my wife and stop flirting with her! He demanded, pushing Sillverio off his wife's body.

Everyone’s attention was drawn to him. Seeing it as a good advantage, Silverio pulled a stunt against Brandon, tossing himself deliberately to the other side. That didn’t stop branding from throwing a punch aimed directly at Mr. Silverio’s face.

“Stop that now, the both of you” Alianna cautioned as she stood up to separate them.

“Let Silverio teach this arrogant fool a lesson!” Sir Alvares told her.

“What kind of a man has to beg to make ends meet? Moreover, she has a good and stable family”, he added.

Physically, there wasn’t much difference between Brandon and Mr. Sillverio.

Mr. SIllverio was dressed up for the party, wearing a burgundy colored tuxedo with a matching Santoni Leather shoe.

He had a baleful awkward smile on his face. His black hair was all perfectly swayed to the back with gel, and a sharp faded off. Making him look like a French man. He topped it all with a dashing accessory,

Brandon, on the other hand, was in a simple shirt and long blue trousers, giving him the appearance of a loser as defined by Alianna’s father, Sir Alvarez.

Brandon still had the best look any woman would go for. His muscular body and his height were an added advantage, but, The Alvarez’s were not, after all, those. They cared only about money.

“The company needs help at this moment! In what way can you offer help to us?” Alianna’s brother taunted Brandon.

He walked past him spilling drinks over Brandon’s body and acted sarcastically as if it was a mistake.

Brandon ignored them all. “All I want is my FAMILY!” he retorted.

“All I need is a little time so I can, make it up to you. If that’s what you want instead>” Brandon said to them.

“We need a useful son-in-law, not a useless one! How hard is it for you to understand?”

“We don’t need an old poor fool with no connection or power!” another slammed him. The mockery continued.

Brandon had a flashback to his conversation with Alianna that same morning. Everything was fine and perfect. What went wrong?

“I will work hard and get everything I have always wanted or dreamed of! “Brandon screamed at them.

They all laughed again, making him an object of ridicule.

“What else do you want me to go and steal?” he questioned Alianna.

“Come with me” he said to her, “Let’s talk in private”, he added.

“Let her be, this moment her mind is made up. you sore loser!” her brother said to Brandon.

“I will fuck your wife and give her back to you!” Mr.SIlverio whispered into Brandon’s hearing.

He was furious again. “Over my dead body will I let you do that!”

They all laughed as he said so, even though they had no idea what warranted that loud reply from Brandon’s mouth.

“You're dead, Brandon! Don’t you get it?” Mr. Silverio asked him.

“There is no difference between a poor man and a dead man, they both can’t do what they want!” Mr.Sillverio said.

“Look at your in-laws and your wife’s friend throwing insults at you and all you can do is sit and watch them”, Mr Silverio started, laughing.

It annoyed Brandon. He picked up another fight with Mr.SIlverio. This time Alianna’s brother joined hands with Mr.SIlverio to beat him up.

“That’s enough” Sir Alvarez cautioned.

“What can you say you have? A job as a Manager?!” they burst into laughter as Mr. SIllverio licked the blood stain off his lips from the wound he sustained from fighting Brandon.

“You can come for a vacancy at my place though, even my gateman earns far more than you do".

"I don’t want to fight any of you!” Brandon threatened them.

Brandon was stuck. He tried leaving their midst but they stopped him. ”Just step away from the road, I don’t want to fight with any of you. But don’t push me”. Brandon said to them.

Alianna wouldn’t look at Brandon in the face. He went inside to take a leak. Staring at himself wide open in the mirror, Brandon smashed his hands on the mirror, letting the broken glasses crash to the floor like his ego that was trampled on by The sillverio’s and the Alvareze’s.

“I won’t back down now! I'm not a coward. I can still win my family over” Brandon assured himself.

"Who will stop me!?"