I cried so much! Oh my Godddd.
Also, please listen to this song while reading. This song is so beautiful!
Anyway, keep reading!
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"Mom, I don't feel so good." Kiara said to Vrinda a few evenings later, after Vrinda returned from the hospital.
"What is it, honey? Are you getting a fever?" Vrinda asked, touching Kiara's forehead with the back of her hand to check if it's warm or was it just a stomach infection.
"Here, put this thermometer below your tongue." Vrinda said, and gave Kiara the instrument to measure her temperature. After two minutes, she took it out and checked and it read,
"103.4 degree Celsius!" Vrinda exclaimed and continued, "Well, looks like you are coming with me to the hospital tomorrow."
"Really? So I'll get to meet Grandpa?" Kiara asked with eyes full of hope.
"No, you cannot. You'll just go see a doctor and then wait for me in the cafeteria." Her mother replied and handed Kiara a tablet to have and then sent her to have an early night so that she could rest and be fresh tomorrow.
Next day, she went with Vrinda to the hospital and went to see the child specialist doctor. He examined her and gave Vrinda the prescription and asked her to rest as much as she could. When she heard this, she spoke,
"This is a little difficult for me, doctor. Actually my grandpa is here in this hospital and I have to make a get well soon card for him because I can't come to the hospital to meet him, so I need a few hours to make it..."
The doctor smiled at her mother but threatened her and said in a fake angry manner,
"If you don't rest, I will have to make you stay here for today and make you rest. You'll have to eat dirty food and get painful injections. Do you want that?"
Kiara smiled at his comment and replied, "I am okay with it doctor, at least my grandpa will have company now. Please can I stay with him? He must be feeling so alone right now. The dirty food and the painful injections are no price when it comes to spending some time with him. "
The doctor was stunned to hear such an answer from a small gullible girl. He looked at Vrinda and told her that her daughter was a precious girl and that it was the first time that he had heard that from a child as young as her.
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Kiara reached home, all exhausted from the journey back and slept on the way only. When she got up, it was already the next day, around nine o'clock in the morning. She was laying comfortably on her bed and her blanket was wrapped around her. The sun was shining brightly upon her from the window on the opposite wall of her bed. She realised that she hadn't made a card for her grandpa for today. All day she felt guilty of what she did.
Finally, she had an idea of how to make up for her mistake. When her mother came back home in the evening, she saw a huge card ready to be given the next day to Kiara's grandpa.
When she saw her mother, she said, "Mom, I want you to give this card to grandpa and tell him that I am sorry that I couldn't give him a card today..."
Her mother nodded, and said, "Come here baby, let me see how is your fever now."
"It is much better now, Mom. But I think you are not well. You look tired." Kiara spoke softly.
"Yeah, I am. I'm going to go and have an early night, okay? You sleep soon too." Vrinda said and saw Kiara nodding her head and going into her room.
Vrinda kept the card on her side table before she went to sleep that night, so that she doesn't forget it in the morning.
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The next day, while Vrinda, Arjun and the rest of the family were at the hospital, they again heard the ECG machine beeping rapidly. The next thing they knew, it was all happening again. The medical cart, the nurses, the doctors checking on him, everything. This time, when he spoke, he said, "He had a cardiac arrest but unlike the last one this was more serious and dangerous."
They all sat down beside him and prayed for his health. Vrinda saw her eldest sister going and sitting in the small shrine they had made in the hospital for the Gods. She saw tears flowing freely from her and her sister's eyes but she couldn't decipher if she was asking for him to get better or go peacefully.
Vrinda's mother, on the other hand, refused to leave her husband's side She just sat there and did not move at all. She just kept talking to him, hoping he would be able to listen. After a couple of hours, he opened his eyes slightly and asked his wife to call everyone to him. Once he saw that the whole family gathered around he spoke,
"Listen to me very carefully. No matter what happens, life will not stop. You all will continue to live the way you always have been. Celebrate. Don't waste too much time mourning for me. I want you all to remember me with fondness in your heart, not sadness. Do not waste a lot of money on my funeral either. Keep it simple, limited to just close family. I'm going very peacefully, without pain. I am absolutely content with the way that my life has turned out. Please don't cry too much. I love you all and I will always be with you, every step of the way."
He smiled sadly at them, caressed all his daughters' cheeks, kissed his wife and the they all saw the light leave his eyes. And just like that, he was gone. A beautiful soul, left the world to join another. A better world. Free of worry and negative emotions. Where there was only happiness, nothing else. He had gone to heaven, happily, knowing he was loved deeply and there was no more a perfect way to go that the way he did.
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Kiara, on the other hand, waited the whole day to get an update on her grandpa and his health. In the evening, as soon as she heard the door bell rang, she immediately ran up to the door and opened it only to find that all the cards that she had given to her grandpa till now, had been brought back.
Her mother was also crying bitterly so Kiara got worried as fear crept into her heart, and she nervously asked Vrinda,
"Mom, what's wrong? Why are you crying? What is the matter? And why have you brought all my cards back? Did grandpa not like them?"
Vrinda kept crying and in between her crying with a cracking voice she spoke,
"Y-your grandpa has gone to meet God. He said that God wanted his help in some of his work. He might take some time to come back because God lives too far away from here, so he gave these cards to me and told me to tell you that he loved these cards and that you keep them safely so that he can take it when he comes back. Can you do that?"
Kiara was confused at first but then understood what her mother was wanting to say. She was absolutely shattered into pieces when she came face to face with the reality.
Picking up all the shattered pieces of her little heart, she faked a smile, nodded her head and said,
"Okay mom, I will take care of them till he comes personally to take them back..." She traced her steps back, slowly, to her room and shut the door behind her.
As soon as she turned her back towards the photograph, she silently cried and stood in front of her grandpa's photograph that she had and said, "You were not supposed to leave like this, y-yo-ou can't... you just can't!" Nothing else could come out of her mouth except small sobs...
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