" Dad.....
Dad... Please look at me....
Dad... "
Jaine kept calling again and again like a fool trying to revive a stone statue.
"Dad..... I am afraid.. Please don't do this. "
The frequency of Jaine's voice decreased.
The tears in his eyes formed like a pebble. He touched his father's cheek with trembling lips and fingers. He called again as if it were the last hope of a fish falling to the shore and dying.
"Dad... "
His hands covered his father's cheeks fell down like fallen leaves. His father was sitting like a statue. His eyes were protruding as far as possible. And his Greaviard silence was terrifying .
Tired of crying, Jaine finally lay down his head on his father's lap. But even before he knew he was asleep or not, the sunlight was penetrating through the window and knocking on his eyelids.He looked at his father with a look of concern on his face. His eyes were looking in the same direction which were red and the eyelids were dark.His voice did not have the strength to call his dad again. He slowly got up as if someone had helped him to get up. He picked up the phone and dialed the number of uncle David. He spoke with a sore throat with great difficulty.
"Uncle, please come...Please help.....I am alone. Dad scares me. "
"Jaine,what happened to Mathew? "
Jaine replied nothing and Mr. David said;
"Ok! you don't worry . you don't have to say anything now ...I am coming, just half an hour, I'm there. "
Sitting in a chair next to him, Jain leaned his head on the table and looked at his father.After a while Uncle David ran there. He reached over Matthew, who was sitting motionless in his chair. David touched and called Matthew for a while, but he did not even move. He looked at Jain's face sadly without understanding anything.But Jaine also looked like a man with schizophrenia. For a moment David felt as if he was trapped inside a graveyard. He asked Jaine with a shaky voice;
"What happened to him? Jaine, what exactly happened last night? "
"I do not know uncle. Dad was still asleep after came out of the hospital yesterday evening. I was next to him. I was so tired that I fell asleep, but when I woke up I saw that he was standing up. In fact, I was so glad to see him standing up at that time .I thought he was concious and so I hugged him .But he was standing like a statue.But suddenly he moved on. You see! His eyes are open but he sees and hears nothing. Like that, yesterday ,while he was walking, he blocked his legs and fell to the floor. I helped him to sat in this chair, but he has been sitting like this ever since. Uncle, those eyes never even closed after that. I'm so scared.....
you took him to the hospital yesterday. You told me that he loss his consciousness due to over strain .Is it really true? Please tell me... "
"That's all I know. He came to see me before he left to Lomekwi.
He said he was going for two weeks as part of a new contract archeology, with four others.As usual he told me to do take care of you. Three days later he called me from there. He said he was busy. He described the situation there.
A week later Mr. Sebastian, who works with Matthew, called me.He said he could not contact you and that Matthew was lying unconscious in his room. They called me after they took him to the nearest hospital there.I immediately went there .The doctor said that he was fine.He said that it was due to the overstrain at his age and he would feel better if he take proper rest. After that I brought him here. I brought back everything in his room, including the papers. "
"But something else had happened to him. Because he had never behaved like this before. "
"Do not be afraid.
I know him before you do..He has a strong mind and it does not break down quickly."
But the situation was getting worse. He kept his eyes open all the time. He was given an injection to sleep .Sometimes he tries to walk somewhere like a blind man .Sometimes he cries loudly .Sometimes he explodes.He was ready to eat but behaved like an insane person.He was not looking at anyone's face or object. Sometimes he keeps saying something unrelated like this;
"Yellow is falling black.....
Snakes are on the neck and legs
I have to go back and I must go back.... "
The doctor said that his physical condition is normal, but he was suffering from some mental disorder.He was then treated by the best psychiatrist in California.
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A month later
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one evening
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Alice asked Jaine sadly;
"Jaine, you were not like this.
No matter how great the grief, you are not tired.
It's you who motivates me, but now.... "
"I need help. I need to get my dad back.
You know everything.
I can never be happy when he is in this situation . I love him more than my life. "
"I know ....Jaine,You have to be patient. This too will pass. He wants you to be happy, so you should always be happy. Believe me this doctor is very efficient so he will help us to bring your father back. "
Jain looked into her eyes and shook his head and she pulled his hair back with her hands. And kissed on his forehead lightly.