ALL THAT I EVER WANTED

Eight : UNFOLDING TRUTH

Tristan Yilmaz

The holidays are just about to get over. I don't know how but the time here at home passed too soon . I studied well but still I've a lot to cover and my exams starts the preceeding monday. And it's almost the end of the year. Christmas went by just me and mom having turkey , red wine and cheese cakes. Its always just two of us. And we are enough. I gifted mom a photo frame carrying my and mum's beachside photo. Mom is all that I have and I wish her to be happy all the times.

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It's thursday and as usual my mom's been called to ER for emergency case and I am left alone which I am used to now. I came out of the house to pick up the daily mails from the mailbox . Ohh! They were the usuals the electricity bill , the paper bill , food bill and a letter from the initial "M" ? I have seen this letter plenty of times. But Mom told that it stopped coming by from past few months. Then why it is back now!? Even I never knew what it was about . She always told me that it was from her side. But she never let me read it or even open it.

I sat on the table staring at the letter and recalling if mom said anything about initial M or mentioned someone with initial M ! She did mention Dr.May Gates who works with her but why would she send us letters? Curiosity grew deeper in me. I never opened the letters posted to my mom because I didn't want to interrupt in her life . One second I was thinking about whether to open it or not and another second I was there opening it. I opened and started reading . "Dear Lucia......" Who would address my mom like this?!

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What the hell was going on. Who is this person who has been sending money to my mom and why ever she has not mentioned him or her? And most importantly who is that person to care so much about us! I think mom hasn't been replying to these letter anytime. And everytime she read those letters she had a gloomy face on.

I don't know what does all these means but I do know that it has something to do with me. And the sender seems to be in trouble that he is not able to send money. God ! This all is so confusing. All I could do is wait for mom to come and explain me all of this.

Suddenly there was a thud on the door . I don't think I was expecting someone today. I stood by the door and peeked through the hole to see who it was. And it happened to be my bestfriend David Stevens . I opened the door and he immediately hugged me tight. We haven't met since last summer . David and I have been best schoolmates . We even rocked our Sophomore year by winning Interschool football match. David took up the job at the subways after having family crisis . But yea we do atleast meet once a year . After then we caught up a little and had some snacks, unfortunately David had to leave for his shift.

At night when Mom came back , I was all ready with the letter . As soon as she entered the room , she saw the letter in my hand and got the idea of me having a little gesture about the ongoing suspense. "Before you ask anything, I would like to show you something " She said. Tension grew in the environment. She went to her bedroom and I followed. Opening her side drawer she took out a bunch of letters and handed over them to me. All of them were from same sender with initial M.

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I opened some of them and found lots of money. "What does this mean Mom? Who is this unknown sender ? And how are we related? And why is that person sending us money?" I exclaimed. She sadly moved towards me and said ," They all are from Mr.Morelli your father. We separated along time ago before your birth and some how he happened to know that he has a child. So he forced me to let him atleast help financially." My father? How? "He was not the part of your childhood because I never wanted him to be around you to give you that bad environment that he lives in. All I ever wanted was good for you and to give you a better life. That's why I never used those money or never sent a reply back." Said Mom wipping her tears. This was too much to digest at a time. I came out of the room and sat on sofa thinking all that happened just now. But wasn't able to take everything up and slept with all those musing taking over my brain.

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