(Hey readers,
Shattering, yup, that's my heart when I am writing these chapters now a day which brings up a cult inside me, hopeful for the best
I guess...
Yours,
Author)
Peace and silence befall and continued...for the next a month or so in mourning-
Someone lost their father, someone lost her husband, and many children lost their grandfather... And most importantly society lost an angel- tough but still calming who died naturally-but inevitably it was murder-a treachery by his son!
That was heartbreaking... Even for my grandfather who wasn't there to hold his hand for one last time and yes, it was heartbreaking thinking that the last moments of great grandpa were with that traitor only who was now shedding the tears of the crocodile wailing -
"Papa, where did you go?!"
That stabber was deemed to be punished but... Great-grandpa wouldn't have ever desired for and would have laughed-
"He is your brother, he's family and family is everything...Remember this, Chandi... "
And that seems to be his last words even in the subconscious of his son but still, grandpa remembered this- in fact treasured that!
And forgave a culprit, and even offered him with some money, if to get out of debt...
With advice-
"Anand, I know this world is a cruel place but you have to survive on your own, not on someone's thrown piece... "
I don't know if that advice would have got some contrast among so many wise people but yet...
Younger grandpa ran away from his house, goes into the army with his honesty, and becomes a designated army official who never goes on... Continuing his mistake any further! And after getting retired, living and treasuring the old house of great grandpa on his shoulder!
However, great-grandma wouldn't either stay to see her son succeed and come back -
Her body was discovered which was predicted to be three after her initial death lying on the edge of the home which was isolated, even if she was a mother to 8, no one was there to hold her there in that final time!
How dreadful her death must be!
That she must have thought -
What was her point in living here in isolation without her husband?!
But it wasn't that she wasn't offered a home,
Grandpa was rapidly ready to take her with him but it was her own choice, to stay and perished where her husband still was with her!
In the memories that they treasure!
And soon grandpa was an orphan...filled with guilt, that this bloody job didn't let him serve his parents who brought him loved him taught him how to live!
And now, he will not be seeing them-and their home of that mud will now truly be of mud!
Shattered, yeah that must have been him!