“Aunt Arya! Washroom.”, Calvin said, pointing his little finger at her.
“Okay!”, She agreed to take him to the washroom when Colton started his drama.
“But Aunt Eden! I don’t want to go there. Let’s go there and order something to eat.”, he said, pointing toward the food court. “Both Aunt Arya and Calvin can join us over there.”
“Fine with me.”, Arya played along.
The moment, Eden walked toward the counter to order pizza for everyone. Colton sneaked out from there and ran with his tiny little legs as fast as he could toward the toy shop which he had seen on the second floor.
‘Please, god! Help me. It’s now or never.’ Colton prayed in his mind and kept running as fast as he could, trying his best not to get caught, but Eden was keeping an eye on him without his knowledge. First, to make sure that he would land in any problem, and second, to keep him safe from all the evil eyes because Colton was an adorable and good-looking kid, there could be a chance that someone might think of kidnapping him, seeing him alone.
Colton sighed in relief when he finally reached his destination. Seeing him alone, the shopkeeper watched him and looked around, waiting for someone to accompany him, but no one came with him. Colton gave a small smile to him before speaking, “Happy New Year, Uncle.”
“Happy New Year too, dear. No one is with you?” he asked, wondering who left this kid alone.
“My aunts and my brother are in another shop.”, he lied before running toward the collection of toys. He already knew the taste of his younger brother, so he picked up a couple of the things, and then his eyes landed on a big panda.
He knew that Calvin would love that Panda.
With his tiny little hands, he took all the things in three rounds. Since his height was not enough to look at the shopkeeper directly. The shop owner stood up on his feet and looked at him.
“I have to purchase all these things and that big Panda.”, Colton said, pointing his finger toward the big Panda, the was bigger than 6’feets.
“Are you purchasing this for yourself?”
Colton shook his head, “No. It’s for my brother because it’s his Birthday today.”
The shop owner’s heart melted hearing him. “That’s so sweet. You’re such an amazing brother. And sweetheart, how you’re going to pay for all this?” he asked curiously, thinking there would be no chance he would have the cash to pay for all of these things.
“Here.” Colton gave him a black card of Brandon to him. “With this card.”
The shop owner held that card in his hand and then looked at Colton, who was a little bit nervous.
“Whose card is this, Kid?”, The shop owner said when he saw the black card. Not everyone could afford it; this card was issued to a limited number of customers.
“It belongs to my dad.”, Colton replied even though he was not sure about it YET.
The shop owner didn’t believe him, on the top the pin of the card was written on the card, what if this kid would have been found this dropped somewhere? “Can you bring some elder with you to confirm the same?”
Colton gulped his saliva nervously, “If you don’t want to sell me anything, then it’s fine. Give dad’s card to me.”, he said, to escape out of the trouble he landed accidentally. He raised his hand to take a card from him, but the shop owner didn’t return the card to him.
“You’re not getting the card until you call your Aunts here, or I will call the police.”
“Police?” Colton’s eyes widened in shock. He had never thought that in search of finding his father, he would end up going to jail? Or worst, instead of him, his mom would suffer in jail.
#TBC
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Third Person’s POV
Colton had now one option in with him to leave both card and the toys and run quickly out of there before the shop owner called the Police.
He was praying to God to do some miracle because he could get a chance to meet his father, but instead, he punished him for stealing the card and for lying to his elders. And now, because of all these things, his mother could land in a problem or he himself. He started to regret all the things he had done. He shouldn’t have stolen the card in the first place.
“Is something wrong, Colton?”, He heard Aunt Eden’s voice and looked at her in fear.
What more could be worst than this.
‘Now even she will get to know about everything and then scold me and worst tell everything to Mom.’, he thought.
“Is something wrong with the card?”, She asked, looking at him on which the shop owner spoke.
“Is this kid with you?”
“Yes! I’m his aunt.”, Eden answered, picking Colton in his arms. “What happened? Is there any problem?”
“Yes! He had this black card with him, and also, the PIN number was written on the top. That’s why I felt something was fishy.”
“Oh! This is his dad’s card.”, She replied. “And you know kids these days, they want to keep everything in their little pocket. Sometimes, he runs away carrying phones in his pocket and sometimes cards. There’s nothing fishy. If you can cross-check whether ‘Brandon Dennis Haybert’ had given this card to his wife or not.”, Eden pointed out.
While Colton looked at her in shock, ‘Brandon Dennis Haybert,’ so, this was his father’s name. Is that why when he searched about him without using his middle name, a lot of options popped out.
“No, Ma’am. That’s not required. I’m sorry for the inconvenience caused. You see, I didn’t have any bad intention.”, he apologized. “And, I’m sorry too, Kid.”
“It’s okay.”, Colton responded with a smile. “Here, One for you and the other is your brother.”, The shop owner gave two chocolate bars to him. Colton first looked at Eden, and when she signaled him to take him, he forwarded his hand and took both the chocolate bars.
After that, the shop owner billed all the toys that Colton wanted to buy and then swiped the card. Colton was not sure whether it would work or not until the shop owner gave him a smile and started packing all the toys in a bag.
“How would you like you to take this Panda?”, He asked Eden, on which her eyes widened.
“You bought also bought this giant Panda?”, She stated more like she asked Colton, to which he nodded his head.
“Calvin will love it.”, he replied in a low tone.
Eden shook her head before looking at the shop owner, “Can you please arrange home delivery? I will pay you for that.”
“Sure. Please note down your address.”, With this, Eden noted down the address on the diary that he had passed toward it, along with the contact number.
“Here.”
“Please, Uncle, do deliver this today itself because it’s my brother’s birthday.”, Colton requested.
“Sure. Dear.”, Agreeing to him, he pinched his plump cheeks softly.
Eden smiled and picked up the bag in the other hand in which she wasn’t carrying Colton and walked out of the shop. Colton now knew that he was in danger because Eden was glaring at me. He just wrapped his hands around her shoulder and started looking everywhere but her.
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