Brother's End Emeka 2

Emeka woke up, staring blankly at the white ceiling.

“BIG BROTHER!”

Tears streamed down Jelani's face at his brother’s bedside. “I thought you were dead!!” He Jumped into Emeka’s arms.

“I’m still alive. There's no need to cry over it.”

“But they beat you up so bad”. I thought-.”

“Those men! Where are they and where’s Chima!?”

The room was gold brown, furnished with pretty desks, chairs, and lamps that should be in a white man’s house. The bed he was in was big enough to fit his whole family. Next to them was a man in a long black suit coat, dark red shirt, and a wooden zebra mask. Its left eye was scarred, and a broken ear.

Emeka got out of bed, pulling Jelani towards the window.

“It’s okay, Emeka. Abb helped us.”

Emeka stared between the masked man and his little brother.

Jelani showed him a doll with a lion's head cracked in the middle. It was the first present his parents gave him.

“How did it break?” He snatched it out of Jelani's hand.