Time Stands Still
Time can stand still. Despite what people say you can hear a heart breaking and time can stand still. The believers say that time stands when you find your true love, but not for me. Time stood still when he pulled the trigger that killed my aunt.
I was there the night it happened. He was trying to leave without telling me or my aunt. Then Aunty confronted him and tried to make him stay by saying that she loved him. He simply told her the truth and it stunned her. He had grown up in the mob and was the infamous Jet. Aunty couldn't take it so he shot her. It was then, for the first time in my life that time stood still. Time moved so slowly that I watched as the bullet came out of the barrel and put a hole in my aunt's head.
Then he felt and I followed him. I followed him to the old bar that my uncle used as a front for his whorehouse. I saw him kill my uncle who was very calm before Jet shot him.
I watched Jet kill my other uncle and my biological mother. I felt no remorse for any of them. Especially mother who had abused me for too long. After Jet left I stole my mother's lighter and set her body aflame. The act burned down the old warehouse but that place harbored so many bad memories that I was relieved to watch it burn.
After all that Jet disappeared and apparently died a few years later in Iraq. I was given his few things and took over the reigns of the family business with the help of Uncle Mikey.
Years past and I grew into a young woman. It was during my early 20's when a rival gang threatened my power. I personally saw it crushed beneath my feet by putting the last bullets into the leader's head.
The man was brave and fought valiantly but age proved to be his downfall. I shot him and it was then that time stood still once again. The man whipped off his mask as I shot him and it was that night so long ago when I first mourned for the aunt who was my mother, and the rival that was my father.
Creepy, isn't it?
LockDown over and out