Letters to Papa

We're Shifting!!

Dear Papa, 

I hope your doing fine there. It's just my second letter to you and I'm really sorry for starting it with a bad news. We are shifting! The house that we'd been living in, all these years will have noone to look after it now! Uncle wants us to live close to him and thats why we are shifting to Nagpur. All our memories are going to stay in this house when we shift there. Why did you leave Papa? Mamma hasn't slept properly for even one night! There is always a confusion amongst the family. Everything has become very strained and stressed.

Buster, our dog, has never stopped whining at nights. He keeps doing that every single night and one day he came and lay next to me. I cuddled with him, not wanting to let him go. I cried my eyes out that night. My eyes got sore and swollen. I was leaving behind our house, my school, my friends and most of all our memories in this house. 

One good thing is that I've got really great marks in my boards. Prashant called me up to tell this. Mamma and Di were in tears when they heard of it. All of us wished you could be here.

And that epic day came back to my mind. The day I came back from school. You called up and told me, "Alu! You know what, the writing contest authorities called me up today! And you know what they said?! They said that I'm a proud father now and that you've won the second place. How more happier can I be? You've given me the biggest gift of my life, my little princess! I love you for that!"

That night was a night of celebrations! We had so much fun. But now you were just..... not present. Then I thought that wherever you are, you must have got the information by now and you would've been doing the happy dance! 

Its May 24th,2014 and I am packing up. The Packers and Movers had come yesterday and took all the things away. It feels creepy now that there's nothing in this house. Only the days we spent together in here are gonna be left behind...

Yours ever Lovingly,

Alu <3