Eden was sleeping in a desolate place.
Eden opened his eyes and stood up while looking around. It was a spot of utter darkness.
He was gripping a toy robot in his hands.
Eden was looking around while loudly saying, hello? Is there anyone? Mom? Dad? Nick?"
Eden: "Where are you all?"
[Eden's voice was echoing loudly.]
A cool and enormous voice appeared. "Eden, I'm here!"
Eden turned behind and glanced at a bit dim flash. A bald man was standing and looking at Eden. His (a bald man's) face was blurred.
Eden: "Who are you?"
A man was standing approximately seventeen feet far from Eden.
That person: "You know me very well."
Eden: "No I don't know you."
Eden: "Hello? Who are you? Are you lost here like me?"
A man disappeared like twilight smoke.
Eden took a step forward to search for that person but knocked over a box.
He looked at the box.
It was a wooden box. Eden dramatically sat on his knees in front of that box.
But that man again appeared and said, "Eden, Open this box, you'll get to know me."
Eden opened that box and looked at the pages.
If he saw that man in an instant, he would take out all the pages from that box in another instant.
Eden was confused. But he didn't lose the grip of holding a toy robot in his left hand.
Unexpectedly, a speeding truck came and blew him away.
Eden stood up while looking at the scene of the truck and man.
Eden shrieked, "No."
Eden woke up.
Eden was sweating. It was a dream.
Eden started breathing heavily and the tears popped out of his eyes.
He looked at the clock that was settled on the side table, it was 03:27 am.
Eden said to himself: "What just happened?"
Eden stepped near to the couch.
{Author's note => Whenever Eden saw such kind of dream or a vision, then he always started to read the book.}
The book was lying on the table.
He started to read that book.
Eden slept back while reading the book.
Brooklynn (In the rhyming tone): "Get up, the sun is shining as a start of a very new day. Your bright future is waiting for you, your father is waiting for you, and your mother is waiting for you!"
Eden: "Mom, why are you rhyming like a kindergarten child?"
Brooklynn: "Which book did my son read last night?"
Eden woke up and said, "It's a science fiction novel about Robotics."
Brooklynn: "I am tired of telling you that please change this habit of yours. I don't know why you read books at night. When would you understand that the night is the time which is generally qualified to make people sleep? Are you an owner?"
Eden: "I am sorry. I'll try to change this habit."
Brooklynn: "Get ready and come out otherwise you will be late for your school. Did you have my words?"
Eden: "I am coming. Give me some time."
After freshening up and getting ready for school, Eden stepped out of his room.
Brooklynn and Erwin were waiting for him.
They did breakfast together.
Eden was confused about his dream last night.
Brooklynn: "Why aren't you eating properly?"
Eden looked at his plate. The spoon was out of his plate.
Eden: "Oh I am sorry."
Erwin: "Are you worried about anything?"
Eden: "I want to stay at Nick's place for one day. I want to see the place where I spent half of my childhood."
Brooklynn: "Is anything bothering you?"
Eden: "No, it's not like you think I just want to see that place and spent a night in Mark's room."
Brooklynn and Erwin looked at each other.
Eden: "I will go only if you allow me to go, otherwise I will not go."
Erwin: "Okay you can go."
Brooklynn: "When do you want to go?"
Eden: "This upcoming Saturday."
Brooklynn: "Hmm so you better take some gifts for Nick."
Erwin: "Yes your mother is right."
Eden: "Thank you, mom and dad."
On the upcoming Saturday,
Brooklynn called Nick and told him about Eden's plan.
Eden wanted to surprise Nick, but Brooklynn revealed the surprise. Nick closed his salon.
Eden went to Nick's home with Erwin.
Erwin took Eden in his car.
When Eden and Erwin reached Nick's home, they rang the bell that was located on the doorstep of Nick's home.
Nick opened the door and looked at Eden and Erwin with cheerful expressions.
Nick: "You both are here finally I waited for you so long."
Eden and Erwin look at each other.
Eden: "Did you know my plan to come here."
Nick: "OH, my 6 senses told me that you would come here."
Eden: "Well, hats off to your sixth sense."
Erwin: "Now that we are here, will you let us in?"
Nick: "Oh I see, yes, of course, please come in."
Eden and Erwin got into the home.
Eden looked around and said, "I thought you changed this place but nothing is changed I am happy to see this."
Nick: "After Mark left, I didn't like the idea of redecorating the house or reshaping it. I wanted Mark to keep the house the way it was."
Eden: "I like it."
They chatted a bit.
Erwin left, Eden and Nick were at home.
Nick and Eden both enjoyed watching a movie, baking the cookies that Mark often baked for Eden. Because Eden liked that.
When Eden was sitting in the lounge.
Nick sat beside Eden while holding the tray of cookies.
"They are super fresh and it tastes so good," Nick mumbled.
Nick looks at Eden and then the TV.
The TV was switched off and Eden was still looking at the TV.
Nick: "What happened kid?"
Eden: "I was thinking something."
Nick: "What thing?"
Eden: "Times have changed, but nothing has changed in this house. The TV on which you Mark and I were used to watching movies together and watch the family serial together. The sofa where we sat together. The dining table where we dined together. The kitchen where Mark made food for us. Nothing has changed. It's all the same. Seeing all this, I miss Mark a lot."
Nick: "Now that you've seen it all, you're remembering Mark. Think about it, I've lived and I am living in this house without Mark and you."
Why did you lie to me that you are going somewhere else while you were here? Did you never think of meeting me? You must have remembered me, but you never thought of meeting me. You left me with good people. People who support me love me every moment."
Nick: "You were only six years old at that time. If I had kept you away from me saying that I would stay in this house and you have to go out and left this house, then you would not have gone at all and you would have started hating me instead of loving me. That is the only reason why I lied to you that I am going out of the house while you were going out and I was staying home."
Eden: "Can I see the room?"
Nick: "Of course my dear, you can see the room."
Eden stepped into the room and looked around: "This room is still the same today. Mark and I were used to sleeping in the same room."
Nick: "I started sleeping in this room and using Mark's stuff."
Eden looked at the box that he had seen in his dream some days ago.
Eden: "How did Mark die?"
Nick: "In the last days of his life, his memory and his brain began to be affected. I don't know why, but one night he went out on such a road and I was asleep. I didn't know anything but suddenly when I woke up in the morning I didn't find Mark. I was worried about where he had gone. I found out at the police station. I found out at the hospital. But after some hours, there was a stranger corpse arrived at the hospital's mortuary. When I looked at the face of the corpse, it was Mark. I found out that he had an accident with a speeding truck and he died in that accident."
Eden stepped near to the box and asked while looking at the box suspiciously, "What is inside the box."
Nick: "I don't know."
Eden looked at Nick and asked, "What do you mean by you don't know?"
Nick: "I never got a chance to open this box."
Eden: "Shall we open this box?"
Nick: "Okay."
Eden carried the box and put it on the bed.
Nick and Eden sat on the bed.
Nick opened the box.
First of all, there were some pictures in that box.
In the first picture, a child was running ahead in the mustard fields. He had a paper plane in his left hand and behind this child was a bald man. The man was laughing when he saw that child.
That kid was Eden and that man was Mark.
Eden: "I saw that man in my dream."
Nick: "Yes you might have seen him, he is Mark."
Eden put his index finger on the kid: "It must be me, right?"
Nick: "Yes, I captured this picture. It was your last picture together."
[On the back of this picture he (Mark) wrote the date, November 17, and he wrote that it was the four-year-old Eden when we took Eden to the mustard field.]
In the second picture, a long-haired lady took a selfie, with both of that kid (Eden) and that bald man (Mark).
Eden looked at Nick and mumbled, "Man, you have changed a lot."
Nick took a deep breath and replied, "Sometimes, transforming is the best strategy to be good."
Eden: "You are right."
[That was a colored paper print in the picture because Nick captured that picture in his phone. Mark wrote, "That silly Nick loves to love you so much you should love and respect him as much as you do to me."]
Eden read all the notes (that were written by Mark) loudly.
In the next picture, Eden was hugging Mark and Mark was sitting on the couch that is located in the lounge. Mark dressed up as a Santa clause.
["A three years old Eden was acting innocent to get a new toy. It was a Christmas Eve."]
That's how so many pictures were captured. Eden and Nick saw all of them and read all the notes and messages that were on the back of all those pictures.
But,
Then they found some colorful envelopes, on which Eden wrote,
"Happy Birthday Mark."
"Happy Birthday Mark, I love you."
"Happy birthday Mark, You have grown up."
"Happy father's day, I love you, Mark."
"Mark, I love you."
"Mark, I will make you happy and proud."
And so on...
Then, they found a covered gift.
Eden opened that gift.
It was a toy robot.
Eden and Nick both looked at each other.
Nick: "I memorize those days when he was creating this robot just for you."
Eden: "When did he make that and why didn't he gave me that."
Nick: "I don't know, but I do know that when he was making this robot, he was not feeling well in those days, he often felt dizzy. I forbade him to take care of himself, but he didn't listen to me and made this robot for you but I do not know why he didn't give this robot to you."
Eden: "Here is the button."
Robot: "Hello little angel, hope you had a good day yesterday and you will get the best day tomorrow. I hope you will be happy to hear. Please accept my greetings, I am Mark. I am your Robot. You can easily talk to me."
Eden started crying and switched off that robot while putting that with him.
There was a letter, Eden opened that and started to read that letter loudly.
"Hello Eden, I hope you are living your best. I love you so much I want to see you become a good person. I want to dedicate my whole life to you. I want to see you succeed. I wish you never miss a thing. Forgive me, I am angry with you for no reason. But I do not know how my nature is changing. I forget you often that you are too. My brain is having a very bad effect. My disease is getting worse day by day. I don't want to bother Nick or you. I don't want to be a burden to anyone. That is why I have hidden my trouble from you people. I cannot tell anyone. Nick is such a caring loving person, He cares for me the way you care for me. I don't want to be angry with you, I don't want to do what I do. Nowadays I don't know what's going on. I feel angry without talking, I feel very strange. I don't think that's the purpose of my life. My illness will take my life, but you promise me you will not be sad. You will never leave Nick with me and show him to be a good person. If my life is gone then I must fulfill my wish that I always wanted to see you become a doctor. I want you to be a neurosurgeon because I have a brain disease and Nick is in debt today because of me. And you will treat the poor people for free. I hope you will accept this little wish of mine and you will work hard keeping all this in mind. The only thing you have to do is work hard and nothing else. It doesn't matter that you are transgender Always keep one piece of advice with you, never curse yourself for being transgender. Never hate your personality and try to be a person so that the world that hates such people will know that they will not look at such people with hatred. Eden my dear, you have to be an example by which people stop saying bad things to people like us and consider us as part of a society that says no matter how much we are despised and harassed. I love you. Please give your whole attention and affection to Nick after me."
He closed the letter, looked at Nick, hugged him, and wept bitterly, saying, "I promise, I promise, I will show you all becoming a good doctor." I will fulfill his wish."
Nick consoled Eden by tapping his hand on Eden's back.
Nick was also crying.
Eden and Nick released the hug, Eden continued to look inside the box.
Suddenly Eden's phone rang. It was Brooklynn.
Eden received the call, Nick stood up while putting the box back to its pot.
Brooklynn: "How is your time going with Nick?"
Eden: "We were memorizing Mark."
Brooklynn: "Oh! Did I disturbed you both?"
Eden: "No mom."
After that Eden didn't saw another closed envelope and that envelope was ignored.
On the next day, When Eden was going back to his home he (Eden) requested Nick to take that box with him.
Nick: "Okay dear, you can take that box."
When Eden arrived home, he quietly hid that box in his room under his bed."
Eden completed the examination, it was his school graduation, and every student's parents were there.
Brooklynn and Erwin met Mia, Jing, and Scarlett.
All of them attended the meeting of parents with the principal and other teachers.
Every student was wearing scholarship caps and gowns.
Eden topped in his whole School. Zhi and Larry completely ignore Eden, (Eden) I was noticing that they were ignoring him, but he didn't speak to them.
Brooklynn, Nick, and Erwin were happy for Eden, they did lunch in the best restaurant.
Erwin: "Have you decided on the subject?"
Eden: "Yes."
Erwin: "What do you intend to study next?"
Brooklynn: "It might be a scientist."
Eden looked at Nick and said, "I decided to become a neurosurgeon."
Brooklynn and Erwin stopped eating and looked at Eden with shocking expressions."
Nick: "Good!"
Erwin: "May I ask you the reason."
Eden: "I want to fulfill Mark's wish."
Eden: "Don't you guys want me to be a doctor."
Brooklynn: " no this is not like that you think I mean your dad and I just decided to suggest you become a doctor because they give or intelligent and I know you have the guts to become a doctor or a neurosurgeon. I like your decision and we both respect your decision."
Nick: "Thank you so much."
Brooklynn: "Come on Nick."
Erwin: "Do you want to go to study abroad and complete your MBBs there?"
Eden: "Will you let me go?"
Erwin: "I want you to see the world and know more about people by experiencing the adventure."
Eden: "What about Germany?"
Brooklynn: "there are so many good universities for medical students in Germany."
Eden: "Thank you so much, mom and Dad."
Erwin: "By seeing your result, you can easily get a scholarship offer from everywhere."
Eden applied to the best three universities.
He received offers of scholarships from two universities.
Brooklynn and Erwin started the preparation of preparing some documents to study abroad.
On an urgent basis, Eden enrolled in the best German medical college.
He enrolled himself as a transgender.
The day before he left, he was sitting in his room.
Suddenly, Brooklynn and Erwin entered the room.
Brooklynn: "You are going away from us for 5 years, will you not sit with us and spent this day with us."
Eden rashly hugged Brooklynn and said: "I'll miss you so much, mum."
Erwin: "Will you just miss your mum, not me?"
Eden hugged Erwin while replying: "I'll miss you too dad."
Eden: "I am very grateful to both of you. You both supported me a lot. It was Mark's wish for me to become a neurosurgeon. Thank you so much for respecting his wish and making me able to fulfill his wish."
The tears came out of Brooklynn's eyes.
Eden looked at Brooklynn and wiped her teary eyes with his hands.
Eden: "Both of you have given me so much support in my life that today I am going to do what I might not be able to do without your support and I am very lucky to have met people like you who have made me their own. Made me his son. I will show you how to be a good person and a successful person."
Erwin: "Please don't forget to call us every day. Even I don't know what is the schedule there but you have to call us every day every single day we will wait for your call."
Brooklynn: "Yes, if you don't call us or don't receive our call, I am warning you then I will head to you in Germany, and take you back here with me. You have to note my words, okay?"
Eden: "Hmmm, okay my dear mother."
Erwin: "She is right, you know you have to be more careful then, I hope you would understand what am I trying to say."
Eden: "Okay dad, Don't worry."
Brooklynn and Erwin looked at each other.
Eden: "You guys need a coffee to think better."
Eden made coffee for them (Brooklynn, Erwin, and himself).
They (Brooklynn, Erwin, and Eden) chatted and watched the TV together.
Brooklynn: "I hope you would be safe there."
Eden: "Mom, you are overthinking, let's enjoy the day and you both are spoiling my mood."
Brooklynn, Erwin, and Nick went to the airport to see off him (Eden).
Eden hugged Nick, Brooklynn, and Erwin and all of them were crying.
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To be continued!!!