Chapter 02

"Oliver," my mum called my name and I answered back with a yeah.

"Oliver!" She screams like she is in trouble and I jumped up from the bed with my blind eyes searching for where the door was, just for something to cut me.

I quickly Withdraw just for me to fall back to my bed and then from the bed again to the ground with the pillows falling over my head.

I hit myself hard to the thick floor with pain rushing through my body and I cried out with a painful sound as I struggled to stand up from the floor and finally I stood up knowing that surely I had injured myself.

I crawled till I found the door! Opening it as I screamed my mums' name afraid of what she was going through at this point.

I knew the stairs down to the house was my next challenge before I reached where she was.

So slowly, I used the wall to search for the stairs handle.

I felt the touch to my hand as stretched holding the stairs handle using it to walk down the stairs as gently and slowly as possible to avoid falling down.

"Mum! What is going on?" I said and continued "Should I call the police?" Since I was still in the atmosphere of fear.

"Oliver! They took it away! Oliver!" I heard her cry as I already knew that she was in trouble.

I quickly left the stair handle using the wall to rush downstairs just for me to skip a staircase and it was me falling down from the stairs with my shoulders receiving harsh pains as I tumbled till I finally stopped.

At this point, I wish I could see but it turns out that even those that can't see also do care.

I struggled through the ground as I searched for the main door opening it quickly.

"Mummy! Where are you? I'm calling the police if you don't answer me" I said out loud but getting no answers but sob sounds.

"What's happening, mum! Please tell me already" I said to her even so I did not know the exact place that she was.

"They stole my purse," she says weeping.

"Mum, you can buy a new one, please stop crying already," I said to her crying as well.

"That purse contained your last medication that I just bought and the last money I had was in that purse too," she says out and it was then I knew why she was crying.

I heard her footsteps come over towards my direction and I waited for her.

It was the exact vibrations that made me know that it was my mum... Kind of a weird ability I have since that mysterious day.

I stretched my hand over to her and she hugged me instead and I hugged her back as we both cried on each other's shoulders.

"Don't cry together with me Oliver! We have to live through this... We have to survive okay?" She says like it's a question and I nod trying to clean off my tears just for her to do it for me.

"I wonder how I would get money to buy your medicines," she says releasing the hug,

"By the way... Why do you look so messy?" She asked and to reduce the stress that was already on her I told her that it was nothing.

"Oliver please you have to take good care of yourself when I am not around because I can't always have my eyes on you even so that is all I do all the time alright" she purrs signing as she must have seen how messy my hair must have looked… I guessed.

If only she knew that I had cut my finger and had fallen down from the stairs... I wonder what she'd do or say concerning it.

"Your home teacher is on his way," she says and I am annoyed at the fact that she employed my age mate to give me English lessons aside from the official one she works day and night for me to gain education like every other kid.

"Don't put on that face my baby, I know you don't like him because he is your age mate but if you listen carefully, you would understand that he is passing a message which is what you must concentrate on learning... Like common he's an award-winning nerd" she bluffs cause I won't want to believe that statement.

"The award-winning nerd you pay so much to teach me, mum?" I said and I heard her exhale.

"Don't worry mum! I'd concentrate on his words instead of the melody of his voice" I said as she helped me sit down on the parlor chair gently.

"What is that now? Don't tell me that you are crushing on him?" She says and I smile and she starts crying all over again.

"Mum No! His voice just sounds nice, please get over it already, I know I am a blind eighteen years old girl who should maybe have a boy I will call a friend but it's alright to have none mum" I said as sadness filled my heart but I can't show it or it would hurt her the more.

"I wish you could see Oliver, I wish so bad that you could see your mother's face or that of David who has been buying you things because he loves you," she says to me and I paused.

"Oh god Mum! David doesn't love me, he just pities how the situation turned out for me" I said trying to correct her and it seemed like it worked just for a knock to be heard on the door.

My mum stands up and walks away from the door whilst I connected myself to the environment, feeling the vibrations of the person that was on the door.

I knew who it was.

"Oh, David! Welcome" she welcomes him in and he walks straight towards where I sat.

"I'd excuse you both" my mum says and leaves and I felt like catching her even so I knew that I couldn't see her.

"I bought you milkshakes and some clothes," David says to me as he takes my hands in his and I withdraw my hands from his.

"Oliver" he called my name softly and I felt him so close to my face for a moment there.

His hot breath was pouring over my cold skin, truth be told... I love him but he can't possibly love a blind girl right? So I better remain mute.

Yet still, I seriously can't judge.