Cursed By Fate

Everything has been going well for Carl not until a fateful day when he decided to take a walk . Carl went out for a walk in the evening leaving his friends at home . His friends told him they work in a large firm in which he believed.

On his way back home , he saw people wailing and shouting at the front of his house. Carl paused for some minutes because he was confused but later summoned the courage to ask the people.

“Sorry ma’am, what is going on here ?” he asked one of the women.

” The guys who stay up there are gangsters who go out killing and destroying people’s life so the police came to raid their house today , unfortunately for them they began to exchange bullets with the police and were eventually killed by the police” The woman narrated .

Carl’s eyes widened in shock as he listened to the woman’s words. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing. His friends, the ones he had trusted and considered family, were gangsters? He felt a wave of nausea wash down him as he thought about all the times they had been together, laughing and joking.

” But they told me they all work in a large organization” Carl thought to himself but was still finding it hard to figure out what was happening . Is this a dream or what ?

He moved backwards, trying to process this new information. The police were still surrounding the house, and Carl could see them collecting evidence and taking statements from witnesses.

He felt a hand on his shoulder, and turned to see one of the police officers looking at him with a sympathetic expression. “Young man, I think you should come with us. We need to ask you some questions.”

Carl nodded numbly, still trying to wrap his head around the situation. He followed the officer to a nearby police car, his mind racing with thoughts and questions.

As they drove away from the scene, Carl couldn’t help but wonder how he had been so blind. Had he been so desperate for a sense of belonging that he had ignored all the warning signs?

That was when he remembered the day he entered. They came back in the middle of the night , smelling like blood , they did not only smell like blood, blood was obviously on their body .

He remembered asking them what happened to them and why the blood stains all over their body. They told him they saw a dying person who was shot on their way back and they had to carry the person to the hospital.

Foolish Carl believed immediately. He should’ve also suspected them when they didn’t ask him for his story and where he was coming from the day they met him at the coffee shop.

Whenever Carl ask them to get him a job , all they tell him is that they will teach him some skills in which he anticipated not knowing they accepted him to be part of them .

He thought back to all the times his friends had been evasive about their work, and how they would often leave the house at odd hours of the night. He had assumed they were working late, but now he realised they must have been out committing crimes.

The police officer’s voice brought him back to reality. “So, young man , what is your name ? If I may ask.”

” My name is Carl,” he replied out of shock .

“Your age? ” The police officer asked him .

” I will be nineteen” Carl replied

The officer noted everything he was saying and wrote them in a notepad which made Carl more scared .© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

“Can you tell us about your relationship with the men who lived in that house?”

Carl took a deep breath and began to recount his story, starting from the day he met Alex at the coffee shop. As he spoke, he realized that he had been living in a bubble, oblivious to the danger that had been lurking right in front of him.

” We should have arrested you but you are so lucky that the other neighbors testified that you are new and I partially believe your story” The police officer said .

He felt a sense of relief wash over him as he finished his statement. He was glad to be out of that situation, but he knew that this was just the beginning of a new chapter in his life. He would have to rebuild and start over, but this time, he would be wiser and more cautious.

After the police were done with him , they left, telling him they were still going to call him if they needed him . Thank God he now has a phone , the one Alex got for him.

Carl is homeless again, he doesn’t know what to do with his life anymore, he can’t go back to the pack where he came from and at the same time he doesn’t have a shelter here.

Carl began to walk hopelessly and aimlessly around the street . He sleeps anywhere at night, be it on the street, in front of the shop and all other weird places.

“Who do I even want to meet at the moment, I wish I could just die but noo!! I can’t, ” Carl said to himself .

On a Monday night , Carl was sitting on the bus station chair when a young girl who was going with her parents stopped in front of him and said ” Uncle you look homeless and hungry. Do you care for a burger?”

Carl was so ashamed and disappointed that all he could do was just watch the child talk.

Without Carl responding, she gave him the burger she was holding and walked away immediately.

” That’s good of you darling ” her mom said to her.

Carl decided to get something doing . He needed to survive. He realized he can’t survive without working so hard in the human world, unlike the pack where he was from the alpha’s family and all his needs were supplied .