Leavetaking

They were fighting very loudly. Mom and dad. Twenty two years of marriage plus two kids still hadn’t kept them together. Dad was a mechanical engineer at a factory in Chicago but he earned triple than that of his pay-check under the desk. Illegal drug trafficking. Mom was a waitress at a restaurant. Their story went through love-lust to marriage to divorce to marriage again. I am always disturbed on thinking about these facts. Right now they were fighting over who had done more for their kids. Seriously, none of them did. I and my sister had practically raised ourselves. It was a silly and stupid thing to fight over, one married couples shouldn’t fight about.
I am Michael Davids and my sister is Katrina Davids, I call her Katie. She told me to go outside for a walk with her. She never liked mom and dad fighting. They didn’t notice us leaving so they fought on.

I knew what she was trying to say. Our parents hadn’t raised us properly as I said before. I too wanted to leave Chicago.
And then it all happened that day. We quietly packed our stuff. Made a back door exit, stole dad’s bank and salary documents with identities and made our way from Chicago to Los Angeles. Before leaving, we withdrew the whole $250,000,000 from dad’s account. Black money rules the common man.

Back in Chicago mom and dad broke up once again this time never to make up. Mom moved on by marrying another guy who was her friend at work. Dad was devastated when he found out about what we had done. Be he got up on his feet again. He knew why we had done this so he forgave us. A cool thing.

Author Notes: This is not a good short story. It was horrendous even before the editing. You can find better ones on the site :)

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