SIN SEEKER

The SIN SEEKER(CHAPTER ONE)

  STORY TITLE: SIN SEEKER (what it was in beginning)         
            CHAPTER ONE
He never thought he could ever for once experience such a trauma in his happy life with his family. Dharham was 11 years old at that time when life was still moving smoothly with his parents and his sister along with himself. They dwelled in a mansion building in coconut town. The town was named that for over 20 years ago for the fact it was formally a land meant for growing coconut trees. It developed with time as people began to get attracted to the arena for its enriched resources and aesthetic natural view.
      His father Marker was formally a notable and affluent engineer who built disparate vehicles and automatic electrical equipments for sale. He became wealthy at the age of 24 and got married to his wife at the age of 30. The two couples used to live together in a wide self contain rented apartment at the villain town until a contract came to him where he earned millions of naira. That was the major blessing that got to him which lured him into the plan of having his own mansion. The aspiration became  a reality and after 2 years, he decided to move into his new built mansion with his wife. It was a new year and month when they relocated with many blessings. His wife also gave birth a day to that particular moment to a young bouncing male child whose name was dharham. It was a new year with new child and new house. Everything was so fresh and smooth in an unusual manner, their whole life style transmuted into a better one right from that juncture and they became one of the best couples in their new coconut town.
          From this day began the record of their historic life together. Dharham later had a younger sister when he turned 4. He was excited to have gotten a lovely and cute sister whose name was vinicky. They attended the same school at eagle brain primary and secondary school located some where far away from their own house in coconut town. They grew up together as the only children of their parents with enormous love for each other. With money, happiness and health, their lives were lived without frustration.
         Before dharham turned 12, a hapless moment was experienced by him which ruined many blessings in his ecstatic destiny. He could not imagine such thing would happen that might even jeopardize his chance of schooling. His family ties were broken into pieces by a devilish and cruel rascal who pretended to be influencial with his immeasurable wealth of properties.
       One day, his father got extremely sick from fever. He wanted to rest at home that day to avoid problem in his health which could destroy his chance of working again. A doctor was invited to offer him a treatment with strictness indoor. He was ordered to have enough rest for like a week to enable him get hale and hearty before resuming work. But what later happened was far beyond taking the instruction. On the second day of such health care advice, some one closer to him at his place of work passed away in a car accident. He could not endure the agony and emotional blight rather than to act faster. With all pressure and admonishment from his people to make him endure and heed to the doctor's instruction, he was too resilient enough to violate that. Before a twinkle of an eye, he departed off home not in his right senses to witness the burial of his closest alter ego who just kissed the dust.
      Driving in shock, surprise and perplexity was one of the problems which could be the only source of road accidents and needed to be avoided. If any one flunks to act in line with that, life shall prepare a retched and bad fortune for him. He left in confusion and in addition sickness which made his muscles feeble and his body unrelxed. On his way, he met with a disaster. Dharham's father was so much engaged in disparate thoughts that he got hit by an automobile when striving to cross the road a stone throw from his house. What a hapless day it should be named.
      The aftermath of that accident was exactly the only step that slid their sturdy style of living to the utmost failure. He lost his memory and couldn't even remember any single person even his own children after several months of being in comma. How could it feel to have a father who had no memory of his own family. The record of all their moment together got obliterated and his personality was forgotten completely.  That culminated the mess that geared into the family which discreted their bond. It was as if daddy was the only one that hooked the ties of mother, son and daughter. His memory loss was severe that he didn't notice what was going on in his life. He had no idea of the benefit in looking into the problems of people he did not know.
        The revolution of how the matter arose started from this point of misfortune. Dharham thought his mom was too loyal to his father from the beginning that he would not leave him. But the languid he fell in, revealed the actual side of hers. She became so free to men of disparate kinds without minding his husband's quagmire. She commiserated for a month and ended up choosing her way out of his husband's abode to the man she had been flirting with. How iniquitous could she be to her own hubby even to the extent of avoiding dharham because he opposed her in the cruel act of hers.
     Dharham was the only one who took the side of his father, thinking that he might recover very soon. He took his time to care for him as a company despite the fact he couldn't still recognize him. He was too young to know how business was being run to fend the family, for that his father's wealth went down the drain. What also made him appalled was that his own sister sanctioned the idea of her mom because she was too young to differentiate between wrong and right. That made him lonely in this that he unconsciously dropped out of school.
       His own biological mother abandoned him because he was not supportive to her hook up business. She became immersed in the pleasure of life and forgot her own blood all for no cogent reason. She went too far to deplete their wealth by selling them off to outsiders to earn money leaving only the house and the assets in it. That also affected dharham and his father. She was so free to extort her husband's property because he wasn't healthy in memory and also by falsifying a mendacious claim about her ownership of the assets. She made him believe they were not related in any way and that he was a mere street man.
         With all efforts by dharham to ensure his father regained his memory, it was impossible. He moved heaven and earth, creating opportunities to make him recall. Still, all endevour was wastage. But one thing he earned from his father was trust. Despite the fact he could not identify him as his own son, he became so altruistic to him even more than the way he used to be before. The two of them lived together in average wealth status, survivng from hard labour and the sale of some of their assets in the house. They lived happily together, forgetting the existence of their other two family members who thought they were nothing but useless species.
      Haven't gone through a lot in difficulties of life, dharham was still able to acquire so many things from his father. He did not proceed in education but was granted the liberty to learn through his father. It was even surprising to him too that a person who lost his memory could still remember his skills. He taught them seriously to his son for their whole time together, making him a professional in that aspect.
          A Decade after, he grew up in such experience he had from his childhood and found it hard to trust people again. The real story of his life began from this point after his dad lost his life. He was poisoned by the same man who turned his mom into a slot when darham went out one day to work for someone on his defaulted car. He came back to meet his dad struggling with his breath and all he could get from him was the picture of the man who poisoned him and how he managed to do it. He neither  knew the reason behind the insurgent attack and who had made him do so. But all was that he recognized him as the same man who was flirting with his mom after his father's memory loss. He was affluent and influential, having a natural stature of a hoodlum with bright eyesight and huge shoulders. Dharham had not seen either his mom, sister nor the man for many years. But why was it that his visit doomed more into his life.
       After sobering for days, he decided to force him self into death. He went too far into the top of a cliff to commit suicide, tried to get hit by a car, ate poison etc, but all never worked for him. He was so depressed and emotionally strangled by ruminations of disparate kind which later ended up in another plan. Within that period of time he noticed that his mom was responsible for the death of his ex husband. Even the way things turned out to be was as if he would also have been massacred along with his father if found near the scene's venue. Her purpose for killing him was to earn the mansion at coconut town which they were living in. But that wasn't enough to convince dharham in believing it. He thought his father's death was much more than just that in reason. She must have wanted him dead and that was all. This was because her present husband who was the same person in the picture his father gave him had excess money beyond the house. There could not be a reason he would exchange life for a mere mansion when he had more than that. But dharham was left in confusion with out still learning about the real mystery behind his father's death.
          But he was able to insinuate a reason for it. Two days to his father's death, he was able to remember many things about his family. He recalled about his wife and children and even went behind dharhams notice in asking after them from the hands of people simply because his son failed to tell him what happened to them after his memory loss. He pretended that there were no people of such kind, trying to make him believe that his other family members had died. All these lies were meant to protect their lives because he suspected that his mom could do something worse if she got to know about the gradual recovery of his husband. She must have garnered an information from someone who knew about this and for that decided to terminate further problems through his death. Her present hubby supported him and they both succeeded in taking away the life of a naive dude just to settle their own guilty super egos.
        Dharham was 22 years when his father died. He was left as a man with knowledge, wisdom and experience from life happenings and his father as well. He did not die from his attempts and that was a sign he had a quest to complete either a revenge or any thing related. He endured the agony of his losses and went on with life, holding onto the assertion that hope lived as far as there was life and good health with him. He began to live in the street with some of the beggars that found their homes at that venue, living like them in his 20s. He began to hope for goodness from that point, moving to varieties of places to earn a living with his engineering skills and persuasive tongues which he also learnt from his father without minding any action on the vengeance he planned to take on his mother and her husband for destroying his total happiness.