Once Upon A Time

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Once upon a time in a kingdom far near the blue waters that shined into the sunlight, there lived a happy family named the Jeagers; Grisha a doctor, Carla a housewife, and their little five year old son Eren. Grisha was always on the job when one of the village people got sick or even injured half the time, but every patient is worth the treating in order to feed his family as he could, sometimes he even works when the rooster crows till the clock hits midnight for him to come home. Feeling tired everyday is killing him but he's doing this for his two loved ones. A smile on their faces brightens his tough days.

Carla his wife often keeps the house as nice and clean as possible, sometimes she has help from her son. Carla is not your average housewife, when she's done with her house work at home she often helps out other families in the village that can't do as much or have very little stuff to get them through the week. She often helped with cooking for the elderly, helped clean up other people's houses when they were ill, and helped sell her finest fresh cherry pies from the oven...yummy. "Extra money for my family." she said, "But I always get the first slice of my pie."

And for the last we have the adorable little five year old son Eren. Eren was a fascinating little child with big dreams and adventures. One of Eren's favorite things to do is to paint and draw. He has a gift that his parents had ever seen, they know one day their little Eren would amaze everyone he will ever come across to in the future. He loves playing outside with the village kids and with his best friend Armin Arlert. He and Armin were tight when his father died three years ago from Diphtheria and his mother need all the help she could from recovering from her husband's death and trying to take care of Armin on the side. As years went on they became best friends and his mother was able to get back on her feet, thanks to the Jeager family and work as much and push as much as she could in order to feed Armin and herself.

Hard work gets you there in the best of times and in the worst of times through the years, but time can't stop for what is about to happen to a very special person of the Jeager family, and that was Eren's mother Carla being diagnosed with Coronary Artery Disease or for short CAD. This left Grisha and Eren heartbroken knowing that there's nothing that Grisha can do or treat to cure it and there's nothing that little Eren can do but cry his little heart out as he watched his mother's life slowly vanished everytime she coughed and clutched her heart from the pain.

"Mommy...mommy you can't leave me and daddy, we need you to s-s-stay...alive." Eren cried sadly. "My dear Carla I have failed you." Touching her left cheek. "No my dear Grisha, you didn't fail me." Carla said. "You did all you could in order to keep our family together well and fed plus, I did a little helping in return to have money for you and Eren." Grisha said sadly, "But my dear you're dying and I hate having to lose the one and only one who holds my heart together."

Sadness and tears was in the air and Carla's life was almost about to reach its end as she gets paler and paler by the second. "Mommy please...please don't leave me." Cried Eren. "I will always be with you even in death my sweet and for you as well my dear husband." Carla said breathlessly. "I know my dear wife...I know you will. I-I-I'm truly...truly sorry. I love you so much Carla." He holds her hand tightly with tears falling from his cheeks and sorrow on his face. "I love you too Grisha, always and forever my love."

Within three minutes Carla was lifeless on her death bed while Grisha and Eren embraced in a father and son hug with heavy tears falling from cheek to cheek leaving two heartbroken hearts that Carla left behind in the world, but mostly in her life that she really loved and cared for. The years rolled by like an hourglass and Eren was now twelve years old now with the memories of his late mother Carla. His father managed to cope with his wife's death and is now to move on with his life to find another to make his life filled complete, and he knows that Carla really wanted him to be happy again.

By the next month Grisha married a very complexed woman named Annie Leonhart and she had her two sons from a previous marriage named Reiner and Jean. Maybe with a new mother and two new brothers, Eren can have that family love again. Days and days went by and the patients kept calling and coming and it was really wearing Grisha out, he's not as young as he used to be; he's now forty-eight years old and his age is catching up with him and he's almost fifty. As he finished up with his last patient of the day Grisha felt uneasy. He was coughing hard and vomiting once or twice each night and it scared Eren knowing that he can lose his father just like his mother.

As the weeks passed Eren's father was getting worse with a high fever and his blood pressure was as sky high as the heavens above. All Eren can do was to treat his father himself and by himself without the help of his stepmother and stepbrothers. In about four weeks Grisha died from his illness which left Eren feeling alone and mortified now that he has lost both of his parents and all he had left was his stepfamily Annie, Reiner, and Jean the most awful human beings the world ever created. Not even Dracula himself won't bother of drinking their blood because of their evilness.

And this is when Eren's life is turned upside down from happy to downright miserable.


See you in the next chapter. 

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