Delayed Justice

Posted by Amias on Thursday, November 12, 2009 | Leave a Reply

Saul considered himself a very religious man, although he has not set foot in a synagogue since he was thirteen. On the way home from his Bar Mitzvah, his parents were killed in a freak accident. He escaped with a few bruises. With no living relatives, Saul lived in boarding schools until he was eighteen. Boarding school had a negative affect on Saul, so he isolated himself, and lived in a state of loneliness.

On his twenty-first birthday, he became very wealthy, from a trust fund his parents had set up for him. Saul traveled around the world trying to escape his loneliness. His last stop was Israel, where he’d planned to live. Being an American, Saul felt detached from their way of living and thinking, and he could not abide all the violence. So he came back to America, where, for the most part, his wealth kept him safe and secured.

Saul settled in a very nice area in Houston, but it was adjacent to a poor black community. He didn’t work, but enjoyed hanging out with the elite society. He was famous for his financial contributions to various charities. His one fault was using his wealth to entice underage black girls to have sex with him. By the age of thirty, he had paid for six abortions, and for the silence of the girls’ parents. But this had not been the case with Callie.

Callie was fourteen years old when she met Saul. She was the most beautiful black girl he had even seen. Unlike the others, he played with her for weeks before discarding her. Callie and her family took Saul’s money, but she didn’t get an abortion. Saul refused to see his namesake, but he took care of him financially. When the boy was five years old, he shipped him of to boarding school.

On Junior’s fifteenth birthday, Saul was diagnosed with an incurable cancer, and given six months to live. Having no other family he reached out to his son, whom he had never seen. When Saul finally met him, he was disappointed to see that the boy had his mother’s features; and looked very feminine. Still, he embraced the boy, and the family allowed Junior to live with Saul, since he was dying. For four months Saul was in heaven, being with his son. He no longer felt alone. Under protest from his Rabbi, he willed the bulk of his estate to his son. Under the ironclad will, his son was the sole trustee of the reminder of his estate, which Saul allocated for charities.

It was on Saul’s death bed, with the Rabbi by his side, that his world came crashing down, and even the thoughts of his dying did not stop the shock waves cascading through his very soul. The boy had leaned over and whispered to him, in a very soft voice. “My mother wanted me to tell you that I am not your son, and those little black whores you raped will enjoy your gift.” Saul's body went into spasm. He tried to get the Rabbi’s attention, but it was too late, death claimed him.

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