Angela✓

Chapter 2 : The Loss

Every afternoon, he watched the same old video of his grand-daughter, Angela. He sat on the couch looking fixedly at the screen, staring at his beautiful little girl in her pretty floral dress with her favourite grey beanie on her head and a teady bear in her hand giggling in the arms of his grandpa. Angela looked exactly like a pretty doll with beautiful innocent chocolate eyes with a fair complexion and chubby cheeks of a mid-shoulder length straight dark hairs. A smile came from his face as he watched the little girl from the screen. He was happy as such that it was undecipherable whether those tears in his eyes were happiness or sadness. John has been so broken since the loss of angela that he can't live without listening of her soothing voice. He missed her a lot.

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They carried the coffin on their shoulders in the graveyard with sad and dull faces. They all felt their heart breaking into pieces realising the fact that their little angel was gone forever. The father was in front carrying the coffin on his shoulder following the inspector behind and John besides. The atmosphere was sombre and depressive. They gently placed the coffin into the grave and surrounded themselves to start praying.

The siren of the police was heard when John turned his back and swiftly rushed to them.

"We don't want the police here, you can go",he said by waving his palm to stop them. The police took off his hat showing a sign of respect and was about to utter a word when the dad of angela came by saying:

"Please come with me",the police obliged the son and walked with his colleagues to attend the prayer.

"All this....All this is their fault!", shouted John. The Father turned his back and came in front of John when he accused:

"All this is your fault! Stop this charade! if you loved her so much, then you should've taken care of her well!",he replied by clenching his teeth.

"The reason my daughter is dead is only because of you John, Only your fault!",he said by pointing it's finger at the grand-father and then left. John was left speechless and was staring shockingly with watery eyes as the dad walked away. He noticed the inspector who had his right hand around a sling and the bruise in his forehead, staring at him. The words of his son-in-law reached straight to his heart and it felt so heart-breaking and unexpected.

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The next morning, John came alone to visit his beloving grandchild at the graveyard. He kneeled down in his knees and stared at the small picture of angela.

A single tear fell from his eyes as he realised how he had lost his precious diamond. He placed his hand in his pocket and took off a small red beanie and gently rubbed his fingers on it.

"I was going to bring this earlier" he said by looking at the picture.

"I troubled your grandma a lot to finish this quickly. Our Angela is growing pretty fast" ,he said with a sad tone and then placed the red beanie next to a grey one. He then grapped the grey one by saying:

"I'll...I'll take this old one"

Just after that, he stared at the picture for a few seconds when he declared: "We love you sweetheart.. and we miss you",he said with a cracking voice. He removed his glasses and wipe up his eyes and then left sadly.
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He rode his scooter to the nearby church when he noticed a priest outside.

"Hello",he greeted.

"Hello",the priest greeted back.

"Can you please call him?",asked John.

"Who? Martin? Sure",replied the priest.

"Thank you",said John.
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